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Feb 2024
18m 46s

Finding Management Courage

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel
About this episode

A vice president, struggling to control his team of artists, learns a technique for managing bad behavior from his coach. He likes it so much, he uses it with his high performers, too.

The tool described in this episode is simple to understand but may take a bit of courage to implement.

Courage can be taught. Brené Brown created her Dare to Lead course for exactly that purpose. Ready to build your courage? Reach out to us here.

Find more resources to build your skills in the podcast archive. Search these categories:

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Five episodes you might listen to are:

#47 Discussing Difficult Behaviors

#18 Holding People Accountable

#138 Managing Disruptive Executives

#127 Managing Performance: Up or Out

#65 Sorting & Labeling


A free infographic for Sorting & Labeling is in our Essential Tools bin. Help yourself to that and all the others.

Thinking about developing someone in your organization, or yourself? Reach out to Tom here.

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From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!

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