Tag: coaching

Don’t make them ask

handwritten postcard
2014…one of my final days during a 32-year Disney career. Sent this to my boss (in 2014). He frequently received postcards from me, for years.

Never let your boss feel compelled, especially out of habit, to ask you, “How’d things go?”

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What are you doing now that you weren’t six months ago?

How does it feel?

What caused the change?

What are the benefits?

What was missing previously?

Can you teach/inspire others similarly?

What will cause others to change?

What will be the benefits?

What is missing now?

Can they teach/inspire others similarly?

How far down the org chart can this travel?

What will happen if this goes all the way to the ‘bottom’?

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Got knowledge and theory?

You are the CDO (chief development officer) of You, Inc.

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After consuming that video/quote/story, it…

Makes you think of?

Makes you want to do?

You’re gonna start doing?

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Show and tell?

Disney keynote speaker Jeff Noel on stage with two audience members
You can talk the insight or you can show them the insight. Here i am showing the 400-person audience the insight about ‘displaying appropriate body language’. Invited two audience volunteers onstage to help.

Chief of Staff (Walt & Roy vibe)…CTO (Chief Thinking Officer)

Assumptions:

  1. Finally feel like CEO (congrats)
  2. Enormous growth (personal ambition)
  3. Cabinet rebuild (bench health?)

Critical, timeless truths:

  1. Vision-less CEO’s are unheard of
  2. Growth dilutes culture
  3. Culture = organizational health-grade

Your coaching priorities:

  1. Push you to .think .differently
  2. Be a sounding board
  3. Be a better leader

Tactics:

  • Monthly onsite
  • Weekly calls
  • CIP Fanatics

SWOT:

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (to be determined)

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Action required

25-second video: Keepin it real.

To know is to do. To know and not do is to not yet know.

dad

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Best, average, worst days

list of things that make up a typical day for an executive
A simple question: “Describe consistent elements during a typical workday.”
list of things that make up the best days for an executive
“Describe consistent elements when you have your best days.”
list of things that make up the worst days for an executive
“Describe consistent elements when you have your worst days.”

Everyone has average days, great days, and bad days.

Is it possible to identify and list the elements, the ingredients, the events, that lead to a day’s label?

Assuming we can, then is it possible to architect our days in such a way as to increase best days and reduce (or eliminate) bad days?

Note: When reviewing your “get-to-do’s” and your “have-to-do’s”, do you see the predictable alignments?

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