I’ve had an exhilarating five weeks. Delivering live online training has proved to be thrilling, for me, for my team, for everyone attending. What people are writing on their evaluations is profound, some of it even makes me cry, and I wake up each morning to an inbox flooded with wins and successes from all over the country, and even the world.
We’ve trained hundreds of people, WAY more than we would’ve ever reached in person in five weeks. The live online training has been so successful, we have corporate clients now booking them for their organizations into October already.
Just as an example, this was from a 6-hour coaching summit with 5 leaders. This is after the first day, applying their “homework” and what they reported back the morning of the second day after only three hours of coaching:
After a virtual meeting with senior executives, a number of them texted this VP that she was highly effective, straightforward and sincere – they were blown away. She said she was comfortable presenting to them for the first time.
A VP has a direct report who, for the past year and a half, didn’t respect her the way she’d respected the VP’s predecessor that she’d worked for for many years. The afternoon of the Summit they had an hour-long conversation. It was the first time the VP felt she received the same high level of respect this person had given her predecessor, and it felt great.
A Director scheduled a virtual meeting with a person she was struggling with. She had talked with her the day previous to the Summit. The conversation ended badly after going around in circles for 2 hours. The afternoon after the coaching she created a completely different virtual conversation and said the relationship “completely changed for the better. We built solid trust for the first time.” It happened in less than 5 minutes.
Our large group live webinars have also resulted in tremendous wins, but what I want to talk about today a particular observation I’ve made coaching leaders. What do they run into after they gain the skills?
It’s the communication skills of the people around you.
You don’t want to be alone in the room.
Communication skills are not something that only one leader should have. For an organization to do well, every leader needs them.
But even that is not good enough. It’s not good enough for only the leaders to have outstanding communication skills.
If only the leaders have outstanding communication skills, they will be continuously frustrated. I know because I’ve been contacted by MANY continuously frustrated leaders wanting help.
It’s when everyone in the organization has outstanding communication skills that frustration with each other ceases and a high-performance team goes to work.
It doesn’t matter if the team is 10 people, 10,000 or more. Here’s an example from a VP talking about what happened when all the senior leaders in his organization gained real communication skills:
“The following Monday I saw a change. The tone of our meetings changed. For the first time it was a meeting where respect for each other enabled us to make terrific progress on the task.”
Causative communication skills are crazy powerful on an individual level. You can see that from the wins above.
When it’s on a team level, it’s the best team you’ve ever worked on.
When it’s on an organizational level, you, your team, and your organization are invincible.
So, if you’re a leader reading this…
The question is:
Are you alone in the room?
How great do you want your team to be? Because while greatness is directed by leaders, it is executed by everyone below them.
Here’s the good news about building up everyone around you:
As people learn how to communicate and see they can achieve great results, they start taking more and more responsibility for helping others win. They stop being so threatened about their own survival and they start really assisting the world around them.
You can be the cause of your own success. You can be the cause of your team’s success. You can even be the cause of your organization success.
Ensure your communication skills are up to the job. And then ensure everyone else’s are also.
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Be the cause!