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In February, 2012, 24 energy industry leaders responded to a short survey.
Here are their responses to item #3: What are the top 3 competencies of the top leaders at your company?
What do you think of these responses?
1. For the complete 21012 Energy Leadership Survey results, reply here
2. To be included in the 2013 Energy Leadership Survey, click here.
Hello Ric,
So nice to see you yesterday. (I’m excited about the volunteer work we are doing for …)
Yesterday we talked about the possibility of providing assessments for senior leaders at Company ABC.
We have never discussed your need for multi-method, multi rater assessments that have tremendous predictive validity. This methodology is much better than any assessments I have found, in 30+ years of assessment work. If interested, I encourage you to forward the attached information to your colleagues for review.
How much would you be willing to invest in information that predicted your senior leadership talent and bench strength and succession needs? I would like to meet with you or your colleagues who might need such predictive assessments.
I have partnered with Adam Ortiz, at Executive Development Consulting, to do this work for other clients. We would love to provide these assessments for Company ABC, at any location.
Your benefits include:
If you have any interest in discussing any coaching or assessment work, please let me know.
I am confident that we can provide tremendous value to your firm.
Respectfully, Doug Gray, PCC
704.895.6479 office, 704.995.6647 cell
Recently I watched a Netflix video on the Dalai Lama…
And he stated that poor people smile more often.
If the reincarnated Buddha, a fountain of wisdom and mystery for hundreds of thousands of people, were to hit me with a hammer, then perhaps I should listen. Is that true? Do poor people smile more often? He certainly made me think…
The Dalai Lama explained that westerners, and wealthy people in particular, do not smile as often.
With higher net worth comes fear of protection. He called it “excessive greed.” Hmmm….
Is that true?
So I did a quick “Thought Experiment.” Just like years ago in graduate school. I imagined two isolated control groups and tested this thesis.
Group 1: A recent gathering of parents and independent school students. Dressed to kill for Prom. At a private backyard. With a photographer. Spectacular flowers and layers of gardens. Private waterfall. Limos waiting outside. Dozens of spectacularly dressed young people. Casually dressed parents. Gnoshing on appetizers, wine, beer, cake pops on a stick. Casual conversations. Smile factor among the higher net worth crowd: 4 out of 10.
Group 2: A recent gathering of college students at an independent coffee shop. Gatherings of 1-3 people. Macbooks and ear buds. Light music. Sunlight cascading through the hexagonal shaped room. Windows retrieved from some ancient church. Plants overflowing from colorful ceramic pots. Ripped jeans and tatoos. Black grunge tee shirts sitting next to red flannel shirts. Occasional outbursts of laughter. Smile factor among the lower net worth crowd: 6 out of town.
These results are inconclusive.
What do you think?
Do poor people smile more often?
Call me with your story and examples… at 704.895.6479
… maybe.
Consider your antecedents.
“Antecedents” refers to your family or origin, parents, and grandparents. These are “your people.” They left you with strong messages about your probability of success.
If in doubt, read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
If still in doubt, reflect on the messages passed on by your antecedents.
Here are two examples:
My running partner, George, has parents who met in the second grade, as school children in the midwest. One grandfather took him for ice cream almost every day. The other grandfather took him on weeklong trips every summer. His extended family lived within blocks of one another. They slept at each other’s homes. Some family members disliked each other. But they traveled together and kept their differences to themselves. And in the depression, one patriarch left the banking world to sell life insurance. He made money for over 50 years… In a similar way, George does the same work that he started at age 17 when he joined the Air Force. Executive assessments and coaching and consulting. His antecedents taught him something about independent judgement, business, and long term focus.
My former client, Harry, has family roots from Ontario and Buffalo, NY. Everyone in his family skates backwards. His grandfather was the personnel manager at the largest local business. As such, he hired hundreds of people, including all the sisters at Harry’s grandmother’s side of the family. All of them were employees, workers. They measured success by hours endured at work. During the depression Harrys’ grandfather on his mother’s side was given enough wood to build a cottage on Lake Erie. For generations thereafter, hundreds of his descendants gathered there for summer picnics and volleyball games. Then they returned to work early Monday morning… In contrast, Harry rebelled against that life style. He travelled the world. He became a masterful salesman. Then he started his small business. He became very successful. His passion? Harry refused to life the same life as his antecedents.
So, take a minute to do the following:
1. Make a list of “who” and “what.” Who were you antecedents and what did they teach you?
2. Share that list with 6 people in your Inner Circle. If you do not have 6 people, then you need to invite them. Or hire me.
Success is largely shaped by our antecedents.
For details on how to be more successful, then call me at 704.895.6479
You probably know the phrase “circadian rhythm.” The patterns that occur in time and space as a result of the sun’s orbital pull upon the earth. Circadian rhythms lead to the seasons, day/night, and lunar rhythms. Lunar rhythms affect human behavior, with well documented patterns from suicides and violence to marriage proposals. All based on the planets.
Ultradian rhythm is no less significant. Read Tony Schwartz.
Ultradian Rhythms are the 90-minute periods of intense, focused activity that sustain us. These are the bursts of intellectual and emotional energy we bring to tasks. As the American work force becomes more outsourced, and self-driven, talented people like you need to focus on the following:
1. What are the conditions that make me most productive? (time of day, setting, food, drink, noise, smell, interruptions…)
2. What are the most important tasks that will lead to money? (client requests, proven value, most demanding tasks…)
3. What can I do to create the most value? (for buying agents, for prospects, for clients…)
You can be 100% focused for up to 90 minutes. And then you can take a break. All muscles expand and contract. All mammals exhale and inhale. You can take a cosmic inhale. You can work without interruption in your preferred conditions. You can re-design your working conditions. You can manage your self-energy.
So, what is holding you back? Those old patterns are rubbish. Call me.
You can adopt ultradian rhythm into your work day. I have done so for years.
I just got off a peer coaching call with a man I have never met.
Yet for 3 years we have held each other accountable to our dreams, goals, and visions. He is my peer coach.
We agreed that coaching can never be a commodity because:
1. Coaching is an interactive process. We exchange all that is human. We interrupt. We rant. We share evidence-based wisdom. We guarantee results.
2. Commodities have no emotions. And people do. You can buy consultative video coaching snippets. You can buy self coaching units. And you can buy junk food. Those commodities are worthless.
One goal of coaching is to enable people to garner their emotional strength into constructive action.
We KNOW that emotions drive thoughts. And thoughts drive actions. We even know what portions of the brain, and what neuro-chemical triggers are involved. So why would anyone even consider that coaching can be a commodity?
I am not threatened by the commoditization of coaching services.
However, I am disappointed by the distrust and fear that some people have that prevents them from asking for help.
Give me a call. Let’s talk about what you are feeling and thinking and doing.
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