A short YouTube monologue by Louis Massaro advising leaders to replace an internal critic with an internal coach. The speaker argues that feeding the critic (negativity, blame, regret) amplifies self-judgment, whereas deliberately cultivating a coaching mindset (positive outlook, options, next right actions) enables leaders to coach themselves and therefore better coach their teams.
Turn your inner critic into your inner coach. There's no room for critic. There's no room for looking at mistakes or failures or problems that you've had in the past and criticizing yourself for that or criticizing your team for that. In order for you to be able to coach your team, which is a major part of leadership, you've got to be able to coach yourself. Right? If you continue to feed the critic with negativity and blame and regret. Regret, that's what's going to grow. That's the voice that's going to become louder. But if you start to feed the coach with positive outlook, with opportunities and options and ways to overcome obstacles and the next right action that you need to take, it's powerful. So you want to develop that inner coach within you.
