Louis CarterFounder and Chief Executive Officer, Best Practice Institute · Founder and CEO, Best Practice Institute - Most Loved Workplace® | Organizational Psychologist | Creator of AI Workplace Intelligence and Employer Branding Platform

Become a Coach to Yourself and Others: Louis Carter leadership development videos/AMA

27 Dec 2017 · 2 min

Watch on YouTube

1:54

In this leadership development segment, Louis Carter emphasizes that effective team leadership begins with fostering a culture of emotional connectedness. He advises leaders to shift focus from what the company can provide for individuals to what each person can contribute to the organization. Carter outlines a three‑step approach: (1) create structures and processes that promote psychological safety within the team; (2) encourage peer coaching, where team members regularly ask each other reflective questions such as “What did I do well today?” and “What can I improve?”; and (3) adopt a personal daily reflection regimen that evaluates collaboration, positivity, ethical alignment, and overall contribution to both self and company. By internalizing these practices, individuals move from a mindset of past failures to a proactive, collaborative, and ethically aligned performance each day.

Chapters

Louis Carter. It's not about you. The first thing you should do within your team is create a culture of emotional connectedness. How do you do that? You enable those people inside of your team to think about not what their company can do for them, but what they can do for the company. How do they do that? They begin by creating their own structures, processes, psychological safety inside of their teams, inside of their interactions, of their coaching. They become coaches to each other. They ask themselves questions. What did I do well today? What can I do better? And they go on a regimen themselves to get better at the practices. So instead of saying, "Oh, I did horrible things the last 10 days, last 10 years. I am so horribly upset about all these things I've done." You think to yourself, "Did I do my best today at being collaborative, being happy, being aligned ethically with my company and myself?" Did I do well with enabling positivity for myself and others? Was I being positive? Did I have a chance today to bring myself to a part of the team and myself that I could do not just the best I can, but the best for my company and the best for myself?