Enhance Work Relationships
Enhance Work Relationships
Episode 16: Try remote coworking to decrease loneliness & increase productivity – Kelly Beischel
Coworking virtually: Ways to achieve community, connection, and getting off the couch. Kelly describes a few different approaches that include: 1. Getting on zoom together for extended periods of time 2. Coming with an intention: What do I want to achieve? 3. Setting up a check-in structure at predictable times. E.g., Pomodoro: 25 minutes work, then check in It can be like working together in a coffee shop, only online, either as pairs or in group masterminds. View Kelly’s bio at svchange.com/kelly
Episode 24: All My Questions Answered: Brian Branagan and Doug Turner
Questions and answers with three coaches. Sample questions: 1. What if your manager is asking you to do even more than before when your home demands are also increasing? Now it feels like you’re being asked to do way more than 100% (Scrum boards on Trello, Eisenhower matrix — use at work AND at home) 2. How can people keep connecting with others without connecting feeling like yet another to-do? (View as opportunity to revitalize, do it in a way that feels fun, frame it as recess; Map out the people who are important and reminisce about why those people are in your life.) View Doug’s bio at svchange.com/Doug View Brian’s bio at svchange.com/Brian
Episode 26: How to Grow Your Business during the Pandemic – Margaret Greenberg
1) My 80/20 rule: 80% of time checking in with existing clients, 20% reaching out to potential new clients. 2) When COVID-19 ends, your clients are going to remember: How did you interact with them during this time? 3) It’s all about relationships, relationships, relationships. 4) Help your clients go beyond problems to aspirations 5) Use double-tapping. For an article based on this interview, see www.linkedin.com/pulse/growing-business-during-pandemic-margaret-greenberg-senia-maymin/ Visit Margaret’s bio at www.thegreenberggroup.org/about-us/founder/
Episode 28: AMA about Strategies for Working Remotely – Silicon Valley Change coaches
1) 02:53 Everybody’s complaining about social distancing. Is it bad that I enjoy it? 2) 05:30 I wake up in the morning either feeling “Hey, I got this,” or “Oh no! I’m so far behind.” How should I handle this? 3) 14:30 People need me too much. I have too many meetings, too many people calling on me. What should I do? Visit the coach bios: Sandy Lewis at svchange.com/Sandy David Pollay at svchange.com/david Ilene Schaffer at svchange.com/ilene Giselle Timmerman at svchange.com/giselle
Episode 39: AMA about Strategies for Working Remotely – SVC coaches
Coaches Giselle Timmerman and Kathryn Britton addressed the following questions: 1. How do I get myself to start that activity that I have been wanting to start? How do I choose a hobby or interest to pursue? 2. At what point does something that has been bothering you turn into something that you should have a conversation about? 3. What is something that we have seen a client do really well during these pandemic times? 4. What is one thing that you would suggest to our listeners as our ending thought? To view more Work Remote Strategy videos, visit mycoach.zone/WorkRemote Visit Kathryn’s Bio: svchange.com/Kathryn Visit Giselle’s Bio: svchange.com/Giselle
Episode 55: How to Have a Check-In with Your Team Member (or Spouse or Manager) – Stella Grizont
How do we have a real check-ins with team members to make sure they are okay in this time of pandemic and social change? DURING THE CONVERSATION: 1) Anything can happen… Listen and mirror language the other person uses. Be curious! 2) Know what resources you can muster to help. Ask what you can do to help. 3) Make the person you’re speaking with FEEL SAFE 4) Help people give themselves permission to say, “No.” Visit Stella’s bio at svchange.com/stella This series is sponsored by MyCoach at mycoach.zone
Episode 82: Building Your Support Network with Brian Branagan and Giselle Timmerman
Takeaways: * We need to be intentional about curating our networks. * A network needs to be diverse but select. It doesn’t have to be big. * Your network is already around you. Pay attention to how you share and cultivate strengths with the people already in your network. Visit Giselle Timmerman’s bio at svchange.com/Giselle Visit Brian Branagan’s bio at svchange.com/Brian View the entire webinar series at mycoach.zone/workremote
Episode 100: The Not Prickly, Not Rotten Way to Network with Nancy Ancowitz
Episode 100! Nancy suggests a little bit of work on networking every day using the 4 I’s to pick actions: * Information: What information can I share? * Introduction: Who can I introduce to whom? * Insights: Helping people process their own concerns * Invitations: Who can I invite to talk? Nancy’s book, Self-Promotion for Introverts is here: amzn.to/3kBMi3U For the LinkedIn article based on this video, visit www.linkedin.com/pulse/prickly-rotten-way-network-nancy-ancowitz-senia-maymin For more videos in this series, check out the Tools menu at mycoach.zone
Episode 104: Growing by Connecting with Others! with Katherina Capra
* You grow best personally when you connect with others. (0:35) * Businesses need more than performance skills. They need human skills. * The best connection is with the heart: we really want the best for the other. * Learn to know yourself. What you love to do and why. * Be open, curious, creative, non-judgmental
Episode 105: 5-Minute Selling according to Alex Goldfayn
Alex Goldfayn just launched his new book, 5-Minute Selling – amzn.to/35aPT4Q Intro (00:00) Alex’s counter-intuitive belief (01:07) Making a Believer (02:50) Doing the Book: 1) Did-you-know question (13:31) 2) Reverse did-you-know question (13:48) 3) How do you ask for a referral (14:25) 4) The percentage of business question (16:04) 5) Handwritten notes (17:40) 6) What about voicemail? (19:58) For the LinkedIn article based on this video, visit www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-minute-selling-alex-goldfayn-senia-maymin/ For more of these webinars, visit mycoach.zone/workremote
Episode 106: About YOU with Senia Maymin
What if you were to use the sentence today, “I was thinking about you, and.” What might that look like? It could be, “I was thinking about you, and I texted.” “I was thinking about you, and I’m leaving you this message.” “I was thinking about you, wanting to catch up.” View Senia’s bio at svchange.com/Senia Watch other videos in this series at mycoach.zone/workremote
Episode 119: Deep Discussion Groups with Senia Maymin
Introduction (0:0) What is a deep discussion group? (1:48) Three ways to pick themes 1) Rotate a question around (5:00) 2) Send out quotes and ask for response (5:42) 3) “What’s on your mind?” (6:25) How to set it up? (6:36) “I never realized how much this was missing in my life.” For more videos in this series, visit mycoach.zone/workremote
Episode 121: Go Slow to Speed Up with Kelly Beischel
* Use mindfulness to slow our brains and bodies so we can do our best work. * Set up cues to practice awareness of where you are, what you are feeling. * Breath work increases the ability to focus. * Loving kindness towards ourselves leads to loving kindness toward others. * Remember the words, “Just like me… ” when you find yourself judging others. For more about Kelly, visit mycoach.zone/coach/Kelly Other videos in this series can be found at mycoach.zone/workremote
Episode 130: How to Make 360 Feedback Incredibly Palatable with Senia Maymin
To start out, do it slowly with lots of context. * Talk about having a growth mindset. * Invite the receiver to just be aware of the feedback they’re hearing, without judging. * Help them find a mirror person to reflect back their behavior in future situations. For more videos in this series, visit mycoach.zone
Episode 155: Giving each other slack
* When you get triggered, ask yourself, “What might be going on with that person?” * Watch the Cleveland clinic on empathy: youtu.be/cDDWvj_q-o8 * We can imagine another perspective. Could that person have had a terrible morning? * Curiosity makes you open to what’s important to them. * Performer Rob: “Call your dad.” For more videos in this series, visit mycoach.zone
Episode 166: Three Powerful Question to Boost Year-end Motivation with Ilene Schaffer
Many managers are seeing low motivation in themselves and the team as this strange year ends. * What can I (we) do now? (05:10) * How can we mix it up? (07:40) * How can we connect with others to spice it up? (09:50) To learn more about Ilene Schaffer, visit mycoach.zone/Ilene To view more videos in this series, visit mycoach.zone
Episode 198: If You Haven’t Connected with Your Most Important Contacts Lately, Try This
Tips for Managing the Next Generation
Sherri Fisher has been helping young people launch in school and work for many years. Here are just a few of many tips that Sherri presents for managing Gen-Z and Millennial workers effectively: * Don’t just ask people to work harder; help them work more effectively. * Establish safety, especially psychological safety. It is very important to them. * Be curious about ways young people demonstrate strengths on and off the job. Ask! * Top Tip: Ask, don’t tell. Listen as Sherri demonstrates. For more about Sherri’s wisdom, consult her recent bestseller, The Effort Myth amzn.to/3yHXoy8
