Situation"This could have been an email" - Your Team
Socially, we are being asked to innovate, deliver quickly, and challenge the status quo. As leaders, we can't demand more innovative and faster results without acknowledging that we are bound to encounter challenges along the way. The old paradigm of pretending to always have everything under control, where the team makes zero mistakes, is dead.
Organizations and individuals are optimized for the results they currently achieve. To attain different outcomes, we need the people in our organization to behave and perform their jobs differently. Effective coaching becomes crucial in this context, as leaders collaborate with and guide their team members to architect their own roadmap towards a shared goal. Through effective coaching, we can help team members optimize their outcomes.
However, there is a dark side to coaching. Expecting team members to graciously receive coaching, immediately comprehend, and flawlessly achieve improved outcomes sets us and our teams up for failure. Such coaching can be perceived as criticism, eroding trust and causing reluctance to accept guidance and experiment towards mastery. Without trust, most feedback will be rejected, leading to worse results.
About the Talk
Join J. Scott Founder @ 120VC, "The GSD Company," and learn how to channel your inner Ted Lasso to build trust, develop a coaching mindset and deliver feedback that builds trust and drives the "Status Go." Learn practical strategies for fostering a culture of continual improvement and driving success in the face of constant change.
Who Should AttendNew leaders or seasoned C-Suite executives. This talk is for anyone seeking to transform a group of high performing individuals into a single, unified, high-performing team of Tranaformational leaders. Becuase Transformational Leaders change things, they push the human race forward.
Learning OutcomesDitch the “Status Quo.” Understand the pivotal role leaders play in guiding organizations through transformative journeys.
Recognize that organizations are their people and learn how to inspire individuals to adopt new ways of working for organizational success.
Develop practical skills in giving and receiving feedback, separating appreciation, coaching, and evaluation for improved lifelong learning, relationship-building, and stress reduction.
Embrace your inner “Ted Lasso” with a coach mindset inspired by curiosity rather than judgment, overcoming biases, and fostering open dialogue.
Navigate obstacles to effective coaching conversations, such as confirmation bias, and differentiate between observations (facts) and assessments (judgments).
Learn practical strategies like taking a time-out, checking assumptions, and using active listening for more constructive coaching conversations.
Understand leadership as a human pursuit, emphasizing radical empathy and candor to care personally and challenge directly.
Appreciate the multidimensional nature of individuals, breaking the binary of connector and challenger in leadership.
Choose to live in the leadership zone, balancing connection and challenge for more effective leadership.
Recognize the power of coaching conversations rooted in empathy and candor in achieving individual and organizational goals, ultimately to Get Sh*t Done #GSD.