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An ongoing series of Executive Coaching Tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.

The Look & Sound of Leadership Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

    • Business
    • 4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

An ongoing series of Executive Coaching Tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.

    Conquering People Pleasing

    Conquering People Pleasing

    Angry at himself for continually putting others’ needs before his own, a leader turns to his coach for tools. He learns a new way to think and a behavior to try. 

    Be in touch with Tom here.

    Listen to Tom’s conversations with Neha on “Bridge to Leadership” podcast here and here.

    Our Essential Tools bin has free resources to help you build your look and sound of leadership.
     
    G.W. Bailey’s imdb page is here.


    This episode lives in the podcast archive in these three categories:
    For Women
    Managing Yourself
    Self-Talk

    Five episodes to help conquer your people pleasing tendencies: 
    188 Boundaries
    165 The Conflict Conversation
    220 Holding Boundaries
    219 How to Set Boundaries
    116 Speaking Your Truth 

    Grab a free transcript of the show here. 

    Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.

    From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!

    • 26 min
    Finding Management Courage

    Finding Management Courage

    A vice president, struggling to control his team of artists, learns a technique for managing bad behavior from his coach. He likes it so much, he uses it with his high performers, too.
    The tool described in this episode is simple to understand but may take a bit of courage to implement.

    Courage can be taught. Brené Brown created her Dare to Lead course for exactly that purpose. Ready to build your courage? Reach out to us here.

    Find more resources to build your skills in the podcast archive. Search these categories:

    Assertiveness
    Feedback
    Management Skills


    Five episodes you might listen to are:
    #47 Discussing Difficult Behaviors
    #18 Holding People Accountable
    #138 Managing Disruptive Executives
    #127 Managing Performance: Up or Out
    #65 Sorting & Labeling


    A free infographic for Sorting & Labeling is in our Essential Tools bin. Help yourself to that and all the others.

    Thinking about developing someone in your organization, or yourself? Reach out to Tom here.

    Grab a free transcript of the show here.


    Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.


    From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!

    #podcast #managingbadbehavior #leadershippodcast #leadershipchallenges  #behaviormanagement  #leadershiptips   #leadershipdevelopment  

    • 18 min
    5 Strategies for Dealing with Narcissists

    5 Strategies for Dealing with Narcissists

    A leader is so furious with his self-absorbed boss, he considers quitting the company. He asks his coach to help him manage himself and defuse his triggers.
    In addition to the five strategies Tom talks about in this episode, there are lots more strategies in his conversation with Dave Stachowiak on Coaching For Leaders “How to Deal with a Boss Who’s a Jerk.” 

    Tom’s wide-ranging conversation with Josh Dittmer can be found here.

    Free tools to support your professional development are in our Essential Tools bin. Please help yourself.

    Ready to explore coaching? Reach out to Tom here.


    Other episodes to help you manage yourself in difficult workplace relationshipsare:
    The Disruptive Executive – Part OneThe Disruptive Executive – Part TwoDon’t Take It PersonallyHandling Defensive BehaviorsThe High-Maintenance Executive

    Looking for a transcript of the show? Download it here.
    Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.

    Thanks to all of you, from Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership. 
    Happy, healthy, safe new year!

    • 18 min
    Leading with Political Savvy – Part 2

    Leading with Political Savvy – Part 2

    Tired of losing to more savvy players, a leader seeks to decode the secrets of playing politics, focusing particularly on company culture.

    Download our free Political Style Chart here.

    “The Secret Handshake” is a great tool for mastering workplace politics.



    Looking for a transcript of the show?  Read it here.


    More tools are in our podcast library. This episode is in three categories:

    For Women
    Perception – how you perceive others
    Relationship Building

    Here are five episodes to help develop your political savvy:

    188 - Boundaries
    210 - How to grow your self-management
    67 - “I hate politics”
    142 - The Mindful Executive
    121 - Your Goodwill Bank Account

    Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.

    Let us know how we can support you.

    Happy, healthy, safe new year. I look forward to being with you all in 2024.

    From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, Happy New Year! And thanks!

    • 21 min
    Leading with Political Savvy – Part 1

    Leading with Political Savvy – Part 1

    A leader feels stuck. She sees others winning resources she felt should have been hers, but she hates playing politics. What to do?

    Download our free Political Style Chart here.

    “The Secret Handshake” is a great tool for mastering workplace politics. 

    Many more tools are in our podcast library. This episode is in three categories:


    Self-Talk
    Leadership
    For Women


    Here are five episodes to help develop your political savvy:

    187 - Agreeable Disagreement
    215 - How to Stay Calm Under Fire
    192 - Pursuing a Promotion
    207 - Tough Conversations
    67 - “I Hate Politics”


    Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.

    JAPAN!
    Email me with your suggestions for what we should not miss in Japan this December! tom@essentialcomm.com

    Let us know how we can support you.

    Be kind to yourself. Things are rough out there! From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership,  be well! And thanks!


     

    • 27 min
    Building Consensus – Savvy or Sin?

    Building Consensus – Savvy or Sin?

    A leader, surrounded by people she knows and trusts, can’t seem to get traction with them. In conversation with her coach, she discovers an unexpected cause.

    Tools for teams abound in this episode. 


    The four tools Tom suggests as first steps for helping your team openly discuss ideas are:
    Say ‘thank you’ when people offer an idea;Be curious; don’t dismiss ideas or people;Don’t take differences personally; it’s not about you;Develop your comfort with disagreement.

    The Gradients of Agreement tool supports the ideas in this episode. Download it for free from our Essential Tools bin along with other communication tools like Sorting & Labeling.
    Additional tools for team growth mentioned in this episode are the classic Crucial Conversations and Tom’s conversation on The cATalyzing Podcast.


    This episode is in our podcast library in three categories:
    Communication Skills
    Leading Teams
    Management Skills


    Specific episodes that will help you develop your team are:
    Facilitating Open Dialogue
    How Teams Fight
    Leadership Behavior in Meetings
    Power Tools for Teams: Plus/Delta
    Questions as Leadership
    Taming Meetings 


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    To those of you who post reviews, thank you so much for supporting the show.

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    Until next month, from Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, be well! And thanks!

    #podcast #TeamDecisionMaking #Teamwork #Leadership #ConsensusBuilding    #EffectiveTeams  #TeamCommunication #TeamLeadership   

    • 27 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1.1K Ratings

1.1K Ratings

Dogeboi765 ,

A real corporate survival guide

This is, hands down, my favorite work-related podcast. In it, Tom Henschel provides listeners with what is basically an essential “corporate survival guide”. Tom, if you read this, you are such an inspiration.

brownsfan421 ,

Great Podcast

I’ve been listening to this podcast over the last month or so and it’s been extremely helpful. The concepts discussed in each episode have practical application you can start to incorporate immediately! Would love to get the list of the book recommendations!!!

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Favorite Podcast

I have listened to all of your podcasts and now I am relistening to them, they are that good! So much wisdom shared in such an entertaining way.I highly recommend this podcast!

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