Talent Whisperers
blog to evoke
Human Transformation
This Talent Whisperers’ blog aims to provider leaders with alternate perspectives and insights that help evoke Human Transformation in themselves and those they lead. The perspectives were arrived at through years of experience, observation and learning. That learning is kept current through ongoing experience, observation and through researched books on relevant topics.
Acknowledgement
Telling someone that they are amazing, naturally creative, resourceful and whole with unbounded potential is NOT an acknowledgement.
Vectors of Influence
Vectors of Influence come from all sides in a changing world and tension easily arises that hinder effective Human Transformation.
Lean Out “Down” / Lean in “Up”
The WEF estimates that it will take the U.S. another 208 years to reach gender equality. So, women and minorities may need to lean in…
Confidence Villains
Leaders inspire people to persevere in the face of adversity and ultimately derive energy from the challenge of confronting their villains.
Radical Candor, Meaningful Conversations
Radical Candor is an overlooked asset in creating high-performance teams when that candor is built upon a foundation of trust. I’ve discovered that evoking transformation…
The Root Cause of a 10x Engineer
The “10x Engineer” has been discussed as to whether they are illusive creatures of our imagination or simply elusive. If elusive, how do we find…
Start with Trust
Start with trust to set the foundations of a relationships when a new person joins your team. The first impression you make on them sets…
Unconscious Bias / Privilege
Unconscious Bias and Privilege are things that are easy to claim we don’t have. The City Bus metaphors may help us wake up.
Talent Code Applied
In Talent Code, Daniel Coyle describes deep learning via short repetitions, feedback loops. I have applied this approach in coaching sports and in business.
Developing new managers
In developing talent within an organization, there are times where an individual contributor , often one that has excelled as an engineer, may be interested…
The Room Where it Happens
As leaders, much of the magic happens in the one-on-one conversations either in the privacy of a physical of virtual room (think Skype or Zoom)…
Perspectives
Perspectives are helpful when facing a big, life decision with multiple aspects at play.
Handling Interrupts
For any team that is responsible for existing systems that are already in use while also iterating on those systems to enhance and/or improve them…
Building Bridges Between Product and Engineering
This “Build a Bridge“ question is from my list of interview questions I like to ask. It works for both a Product Manager role and…
The Dark Side of Agile
Along with the virtues of Agile Software Development also can come some destructive downsides that can erode trust and effectiveness within your company culture. I…
Embrace the Challenge
My first teaching assignment was to help a teacher with a class of students with learning issues. On the day I showed up, the principal…
Lean Staffing – It’s about the People
In his insightful book The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries speaks of his startup lessons…
Organic Orange Observations
In my efforts to inspire my students to find and describe things they didn’t see at first. I had a fun exercise I used in…
Heart Rate Meditation
There can many advantages for mind, body and soul to being able to calm oneself to be more present and aware when trying to notice…
Building Collaborative Groups with Broken Squares
In his book The Culture Code – The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, Daniel Coyle refers to a competition at Stanford where business students in…
Different Stokes for Different Folks
My high school history teacher Mr. Hupert always used to say “different strokes fo different folks” in explaining how under different circumstances in different times…
Data: Trust but Verify
In his book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries writes about the processes we used at IMVU to get Minimal Viable Products out there as experiments…
Teach Someone to Teach
Give someone a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach someone to fish, and you feed them for as long as fish are…
Level 5 Leading
I like to framing styles of leadership as I see them in the fish story. I’m adding a level 5 here that is not as…
Radiant Energy
The radiant energy that filled on a chance encounter with the Dalai Lama 40+ years remains with me to this day.
Making Rules
My first early childhood education exercise was to go to a pre-school where a teacher was having particular trouble with three very disruptive boys she…
Bird’s-Eye View
The bird’s-eye view of myself came early for me leading to more Out-of-Body experiences and living and coaching from an elevated perspective.
The Path to Enlightenment
The path to enlightenment lies not in the footsteps of another. – CD In developing talent, it is important to help them learn to find…
Relentless
In Relentless – From Good to Great to Unstoppable, personal trainer Tim Grover explains what he has learned from coaching athletes like Michael Jordan, Kobe…
Content Strategy – Content Types
Content Strategy seems to revolve around at least nine types or concepts of content that I’ve come up with in the purposes they serve as…
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