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What are the 7 reasons you should have a leadership roadmap? What are you missing out on if you don’t? Why does having one early in your career matter?

In 8 ways to take back control in conversations, I explore two scenarios: one with a colleague and one with our boss. What’s happening is important to understand. From there we can determine the best approach to regaining control in the conversation.

What is a coach-leader? Do you have a strong coaching culture? I explain the 7 signatures of coaching cultures, and the options for leaders and organisations to strengthen those skills and transform.

Why does a direct report not follow through on what we’ve agreed? The Who Energy Model™ reminds Leaders Who Coach™ to explore ’who’ their direct report is being, and less on what or how.

Can you use coaching conversation skills to get your direct report unstuck in as little as 5 minutes? Yes, you can. Join me to find out when you can do this and 5 questions you can use with team members.

Even the most successful leaders struggle to ask for help at work. Why is this? And is there a good way to ask for help? 100%. And is there a reputation-damaging way to ask for help? Oh yes. Join me to find out what you could do better and what you should avoid.

On Better Conversations, Sehaam Cyrene shares how healing can start in the same conversation as being told your job is redundant and you’re being let go. There are 2 functions for leaders to fulfill — delivering the bad news and helping to heal.

Are you tolerating underperformance from a team member? I share how you can hold an empowering conversation and recontract with them to shift them into ownership and commitment. ✦ 🔎 Explore Coach-Leadership & Coaching Cultures in Blog+. 🎓 Enrol in our next Leaders Who Coach™ cohort 5★ CPD Certified 🛍️ Buy my book, The Better Conversations Rulebook — Questions & Phrases Practised Daily by Leaders Who Coach™ ⭐️ #1 Amazon Best Seller | Business Management & Leadership (Top 100 Free) ⭐️ 🌳 Take our FREE Companion Rulebook Mini-Course: Personal Values & Blind Spots. 🏞️ For virtual team building, strategy reset and project kick-offs, schedule your LWC™ Leadership Canvas Programme.  📞 Got questions? Book a Discovery Call for yourself or your team. ✅ Subscribe to our YouTube Playlist, Coach-Leadership & Coaching Cultures. 🎙 Follow the PODCAST on Apple | Audible | Google | Podbean | Spotify and other fine places. More at BetterConversations.co   #coachleadership #coachingcultures #leaderswhocoach#betterconversations #rulebook #leadershipdevelopment#leadership #managerascoach #coachingskills #leadershipcanvas #course #enrolment #teambuilding #projectkickoff #ebook

How do you deliver bad news to a direct report with compassion? And how can you respond when they get angry or upset? Plus details of free Leaders Who Coach™ spots for job hunters.

As a leader, when we feel the urge to jump in with advice or offer a solution, we could be disempowering the other person. Instead, we can use questions to help us listen better and give our direct report a chance to come up with their own solution. This is a conversation skill of Leaders Who Coach™ that improves productivity and accountability.

Working from home or remote working in some shape or form is going to continue and depending on which report you read, it’s a good thing for work life balance (flexibility and productivity are up) or a bad thing for our mental health (stress levels and feeling isolated are also up). The reality is managing our people remotely is harder and leaders may be underestimating how poor their emotional connections really are. While the increased use of digital tools has meant we can continue with our jobs, we have found ourselves overwhelmed by those tools, feeling unproductive and inadequately supported by our bosses. So much so that 1 in 3 of us will be looking for a new job as soon as we can. And there’s also the fact that your remote work culture may be harbouring toxic behaviours which are harder to locate when it’s distributed electronically rather than physically experienced or observed.  Better spec kit and strong internet connection fit for home working, working time flexibility and maybe a pay rise might fix the mechanical aspects of work but what about feeling that our boss cares and knows how to be remotely supportive? If we agree that the quality of our relationships is directly related to the quality of our conversations and time together, then our emotional connections could be the powerhouse of managing our people remotely. So, how can we earn that emotional credit with our direct reports and people generally? ✦ 🔎 Explore Coach-Leadership & Coaching Cultures in Blog+. 🎓 Enrol in our next Leaders Who Coach™ cohort 5★ CPD Certified 🛍️ Buy my book, The Better Conversations Rulebook — Questions & Phrases Practised Daily by Leaders Who Coach™ ⭐️ #1 Amazon Best Seller | Business Management & Leadership (Top 100 Free) ⭐️ 🌳 Take our FREE Companion Rulebook Mini-Course: Personal Values & Blind Spots. 🏞️ For virtual team building, strategy reset and project kick-offs, schedule your LWC™ Leadership Canvas Programme.  📞 Got questions? Book a Discovery Call for yourself or your team. ✅ Subscribe to our YouTube Playlist, Coach-Leadership & Coaching Cultures. 🎙 Follow the PODCAST on Apple | Audible | Google | Podbean | Spotify and other fine places. More at BetterConversations.co   #coachleadership #coachingcultures #leaderswhocoach#betterconversations #rulebook #leadershipdevelopment#leadership #managerascoach #coachingskills #leadershipcanvas #course #enrolment #teambuilding #projectkickoff #ebook

My guest today is Bettina Palazzo. She is an expert in business ethics and advises companies and non-profits on how to look after the leadership and cultural dimension of compliance. She is a big proponent of speak-up cultures and ethical leadership. Living in Switzerland, Bettina also teaches ethics in business at various Swiss universities and, from what I know about her, she’s always bridging the gap between theory and practice.I’m really looking forward to this conversation and hearing Bettina’s point of view, certainly one of things I’ve picked up in conversation with her is her capacity to hold opposing thoughts in conversations… I will also be asking her about her best and worst conversation, do stick around for that, I promise you, it will be worth it.Click here for full show notes and more episodes of Better Conversations with Sehaam Cyrene.