Advice for transforming leadership, culture, Curiosity, and communication from Beth Wonson
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The same curiosity that motivated child-you to develop new skills and learn about the world is deeply beneficial in your adult life. But too often in life, expertise is valued over curiosity. In the traditional workplace, often those who get rewarded are those who demonstrate knowledge instead of those who practice curiosity.
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Setting Clear Communication Boundaries
Here’s what we can do when we want to remain connected with someone but their venting is just wearing us down. Especially if the person chronically vents and never takes action to remedy the situation.
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Communication Improves Leadership
When we attempt to remain silent in situations like this, eventually our frustration and fear turns into anger and resentment, and comes out when we least expect, or want, it to. Some event or conversation is going to spark emotions to take over and you will react or respond in a way that you didn’t intend. Communication coaching teaches you new skills, so you can effectively speak up even in charged situations.
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Is your communication style secretly holding you back?
For a long time, it was commonly believed that communication style is something a person “has” or “doesn’t have”. Companies weren’t interested in helping people develop these skills. I am here to tell you that with the right coach and mentor, you can absolutely build on your communication strengths and close your communication gaps.
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Are You and Your Team *Really* Coaching?
For the majority of us who work with and on teams, authentic coaching skills are a necessity. More businesses than ever realize how critical coaching is to success. Yet the number of professionals who understand what authentic coaching truly is, remains quite low.
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Framework for Answering Unanswerable Questions
There are going to be times when you are faced with answering an unanswerable question. Maybe it is from one of your children, or a friend, a co-worker, a boss, or a direct report. This Navigating Challenging Dialogue® tool applies to any situation where you are faced with providing answers to a situation or question that you aren’t ready or equipped to answer.
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Get People To Speak Up And Contribute in Meetings
My top tip for getting people to speak up in meetings is to increase your skillfulness as a facilitator who builds an emotionally safe and trustworthy environment for engagement. There are 5 important components that assist team members to participate in group dialogue.
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Coaching Your Team
Coaching doesn’t always happen one to one. As a team leader, you can deploy group coaching to enhance and improve team outcomes. When you use coaching questions with a group, you are modeling the behavior you desire in others. Getting comfortable with using coaching takes nothing more than learning authentic coaching skills, self-awareness, practice, and self-reflection on which questions were generative and inspiring.
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Coaching as a Tool for Managing Up
The term “managing up” has different meanings to many people. Most leaders tell me that they wish their staff were more skillful at managing up. Almost every leader tells their team that the skill of managing up is desirable. But in my experience, almost no one knows what exactly they are being asked to do. Many leaders don’t have the focus, time, or even skillfulness to communicate how you can best be helpful to them when it comes to managing up.
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Coaching Peer to Peer
When you hear a peer struggling to solve a problem or make a decision, you can simply ask, “Hey, I hear you are struggling with this. Would you like a little coaching to help uncover a path forward?” And then accept the answer. In a coach:coachee relationship, both participants are equal. You don’t have to be the guru or know all the answers. In coaching, the person receiving the coaching is the expert on themselves. They know what risks they are willing to take, what consequences they are open to (positive and negative), and what actions they are willing to…
Leveling up Leadership and Culture Through Healthy and Candid Communication
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