With the uncertainty that still exists around, “what’s next”, COVID, flu season, war, threats, politics, and how we work, leaders are looking, more and more, to coaches for a dependable, reliable, impartial, skill enhancing, confidential relationship that can form part of their personal Board of Directors.
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. Pentagon spokesman Robert McCluskey.
How do you listen? It may seem like a funny question. Some people might say, “With my ears”. Listening, and I know most of us have heard a lot about this, is way more than just using our ears.
At Bearing we work with our clients to create strong, connected teams. More and more work is being done in teams and through work groups (1). Teams work face-to-face and remotely, and each modality has its own challenges – in this post I consider face-to-face settings. Team performance, in this case, is strongly tied to three components, average social sensitivity of the group, conversational turn taking and the proportion of females in the group.
I recently underwent an in-depth brand discovery process with Lab Creative and it helped to clarify so much about what I do best. It also helped how to leverage my skills, capture my “why” and incorporate my personality into a brand that would resonate with my coaching and leadership clients.
