Dr. Dan Docherty explains how leaders hide behind busyness and need intentional conversations instead. He uses directing children's theatre as an example of creating vision, safety, and growth opportunities without trying to do everything at once.
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I think honestly, and I don't want to offend anybody listening to us, but I think as leaders and coaches, we get so busy or the mask of busyness that we get lazy and we don't have a structured way of thinking about how do we navigate conversations. But in athletics or in the arts, I direct children's theater. So to get little people to be able to do amazing things, you have to have the right vision, you have to have great conversations. You have to create a climate where they feel like they can flourish because they're scared to death and you get on a stage. So that is really neuro coaching. We didn't want to boil the ocean. What we did want to do is say, you know what, our little slice of the world, to get into the stream of other people that do amazing work in this field, is help leaders have situational conversations with more consistency, more intentionality, with an approach that might add fuel to their race car in order to create a flourishing coaching climate.