A Full Calendar Is Not Always a Full Contribution
A full calendar can look impressive, but it may not reflect your best leadership contribution. Brent Roy, MCC, reflects on summer, space, and discernment.
I coach accomplished leaders through the first year of a bigger role: being heard at the top, managing up, and the conversations that are easy to put off. ICF Master Certified Coach. 30 years advising senior executives.
The move up is rarely undone by a lack of talent. It’s the communication that trips people: talking too long in the room that matters, not managing up to the executives above you, putting off the conversation with the person who isn’t performing.
Left alone, those cost you standing in the first few months, and by month four it’s already set.
That’s the stretch I coach you through, so you solidify the role instead of spending 18 months fighting for it.
“Connecting with Brent has been life changing. With his help I have been able to undo decades of bad communication habits and replace them with a positive and assertive communication style that has improved my relationships at home and at work.”
Mike, Owner, Maritime General Contractors
One client came to me over-explaining in every executive meeting and going easy on the people who weren’t performing. Within the year, his operating model was being presented to the whole company in his own words, and he told me he was a materially better executive for it.
I hand you a framework you’ll use the same week, practised on the meeting you’re dreading. Thirty years inside executive rooms means I’ve seen the politics you’re walking into up close.
Book a call and tell me where you’re at. We’ll talk through your first 90 days and you’ll leave with something useful either way.
A full calendar can look impressive, but it may not reflect your best leadership contribution. Brent Roy, MCC, reflects on summer, space, and discernment.
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