Tag: coaching

Five easily turned into seven

Post-it note with handwritten notes
Ideas pop out of nowhere. So i either video the idea out loud, or scribble it in a post-it note. And then there are times when i use voice dictation to text or email myself.

Ideas pop out of nowhere. So i either video the idea out loud, or scribble it in a post-it note (above). And then there are times when i use voice dictation to text or email myself.

The photo is me writing on a post-it note.

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What an executive resource always does

.think .differently keynote slide
The answer when i’m asked, “What’s my superpower?”

What an executive resource always does:

Always asks why is your vision important.

Always asks how bad do you want it, and why.

Always asks what are you willing to do to achieve it.

Always uses questions, common sense, and paradox.

Always uses personal stories, activities, and discussion.

Always has fun.

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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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