Reality provides all of us with the unique opportunity to derive personal benefit from one of the most knowledgeable and dedicated thought leaders our industry has ever seen. Marshall Goldsmith has a well-honed gift for taking complicated things and making them simple. His mentors, Dr. Paul Hersey, Peter Drucker and several others, possessed similar skills. However, Marshall does so much more than simply translate the sophisticated nuances of human behavior for intellectual consumption by the masses. He repeatedly connects all of us with practitioner role models like Frances Hesselbein and Alan Mulally to firmly establish that understanding leadership and human behavior is one thing, putting that understanding into practice is something altogether different.
Common sense isn’t always common practice!
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Beyond that, he provides us with lists! Lists that are the product of significant thought that place influence-related effectiveness squarely in front of each of us. Consider the following list from his best-selling book “Triggers” (Six-Question Coaching). It is one of many he makes readily available to all of us and it serves as a discussion guide of sorts for “base touching” with key employees throughout the year. Imagine yourself coming across as anything other than brilliant if you posed the following questions during a scheduled performance discussion with a member of your team:
It’s truly difficult to imagine a coach at any level of an organization asking some version of these questions on a periodic basis and not improving their coaching proficiency by at least 37%!
Interested in learning more about Marshall Goldsmith? Check out our interview with him!