In the Right Direction with Deb Elbaum Deb Elbaum

Relationships need trust to thrive. When there’s trust, relationships are easier, lighter, and more collaborative. When there’s a lack of trust, misperceptions and misunderstandings can take root.
Building trust takes clarity around expectations and perceived roles and responsibilities. While this often comes with time, there’s also a way to accelerate this clarity in a relationship – and that’s through communicating exactly what we want others to count on us for.
In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares a phrase that, when asked and answered in “designing the alliance” conversations, can help more quickly bridge relationship gaps and build trust. If you’re ready to build or rebuild some key relationships in your life and work, press the play button now.
Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/

Innovating, taking on challenges, and partnering effectively with others requires a growth mindset – a perspective of resilience and seeing “failures” as learning opportunities. Yet, too often, stress and frustration can send us into a fixed mindset.
What if you had an easy brain-focusing tool to help you and others shift seamlessly from fixed mindset to growth mindset? You’d probably give yourself permission to try new ideas and strategies, think more creatively, and navigate challenges with more ease.
In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares a key coaching question to capture insights and realizations and shift into more productive and forward-looking thinking, both for yourself and those you work. If you’re ready to see life and work more through a growth mindset, press the play button now.
Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/

Most leaders are committed to their personal and professional development. We get in our own way, however, when we operate from a fixed mindset and continue to hold and perpetuate old “stories” and negative limiting beliefs we have about ourselves.
Growth and learning require a growth mindset, especially around how we talk to and see ourselves. The good news is that there’s a powerful and easy strategy to help shift a limiting self-narrative to one that’s more positive, generous, and forward-looking.
In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares and explains the easy-to-use two-phrase strategy that can help shift negative and fixed self-beliefs into more malleable, accurate, and actionable self-beliefs. If you’re ready to see more easily what you might be capable of, press the play button now.
Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/

What are the most helpful things people have said to you during your life that you still carry with you and recall when you need that wisdom? Taking the time to reflect helps us better understand the beliefs and ideas that guide us and help us make sense of the world.
What if we made sure to take the time to reflect, think about those who have helped us, and share our appreciation? We’d be spreading a bit more kindness and gratitude in the world.
In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum extends an invitation to pause and reflect about the power of words: both the words others have shared with you and the words you have shared with others. She shares personal examples to help us think about what's in and not in our control. If you’d like an opportunity to think about how to be more intentional in conversations, press the play button now.
Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/

We have a fundamental need to be understood by others. We also want to understand those around us, and how they truly feel or think about something. Yet, too often, there’s a lack of clarity all around.
If we want to more deeply understand how others are thinking and feeling, we need a coaching tool. The good news is that there’s an easy-to-remember tool to help drive conversations that are clearer, more action-oriented, and create more alignment.
In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares this question, explains how it’s a brain-helpful question, and gives examples about using it in conversation. If you’re ready to add a tool to create more understanding and alignment to your toolkit of leadership coaching questions, press the play button now.
Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast
 

Most of us are goal-driven people. There are things we want to achieve at work, and there are things we want for our lives. Sometimes, we know what to do to achieve these, and sometimes we don’t. We feel stuck and unsure about what next step to take.
The good news is that there’s a strategy that can make it easier to feel excited and confident about what you can do next to create a path to achieving your goals. That strategy is called visioning. Visioning is a way for our brain to time travel to a future, and then tell us what we need to do to make that future happen.
In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum describes the brain-friendly thinking-about-the-future tool called visioning and shares some examples of how to vision with a team and by yourself. If you’re ready to give yourself permission to dream and imagine the future you truly want, press the play button now.
Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/