Insights Archives - Scott Patchin

Empathy – How I experienced it with a dog and 3 ways to build it with humans

Empathy is critical if you are a leader that wants to build their relational capacity with peers and teams. It has to matter for you, and here are three ways to begin to build it. My reminder was reading a great book called The Art of Racing in the Rain. I will never look at Harper the same, and it is a daily reminder that I have to listen differently. Talent management / great relationships are about great conversations.

Words and Presence

Talent management is about great conversations. When we ask great questions the answers can tell us a lot, if we listen. Leadership development is often about empathy and building relationships. Here is a tip on how to do it better – compliments of a retired kindergarten teacher. My Mom.

3 Tips For Making Any Personal Journey A Success

Talent management is about great conversations. Getting to those conversations takes some habits/steps to help keep us focused over time. Here is something I learned yesterday as I went to support a friend who was sharing is expertise. I also learned a lot, which was my secondary goal.

Behind Performance Adjectives Series: Narcissistic

How do we get past labels and deal with the root causes of performance issues? When a label like narcissistic is applied, too often that is the end of it. I think it is the potential for a much richer conversation that could shift and individual and a team to a different place in terms of trust and performance. The Birkman Method can help with that conversation. Here are a few tips for moving from a label to a conversation.

Behind Performance Adjectives Series: Self-Centered

Adjectives are powerful words, and understanding them is critical to managing ourselves and building positive relationships with others. Here are some tips for seeing self-centered differently using the Birkman Method. If we understand things we can fix things. Talent management is about great conversations, and having an understand the adjective conversation is important.

Safety and Leadership – 2 Tips for Seeing It and 1 Tip for Creating It

A key part of effective leadership is about having great conversations. Great conversations happen when people feel safe. They feel safe when there is trust and they feel safe enough to share the truth, even if it is a difficult truth. Here is a tip for creating safety for leaders.

Knowing our roles: One Thing A Leader Does

Living into the roles in our lives often requires us to take a second look at our priorities. Being a great Dad, Mom, Friend, or Leader means naming the priorities and making time for them. Talent management is about great conversations. Living into the roles in our lives means having some of these conversations.

Truth unsaid

What is the impact of not saying what you are feeling? For your job, it is letting what has been said and what others feel drive the conversation. Is that okay? Talent management is about great conversations. Having them is not always easy, but when it happens it is beautiful. Here are some tips for having them.

Forget your brand. What is your art?

Talent management is about great conversations. For an individual to participate in these conversations, it is critical for them to bring a self awareness of what gifts and talents they have. Creating this self awareness as part of helping people find their place is critical. One key is how we talk about it, and Seth Godin uses the term Artist vs the traditional approach of talking about Brand.

Employee Survey 101

Talent management is about great conversations. Doing an employee survey correctly requires the courage to step back and answer some fundamental questions about why you want to do it and what commitment you are willing to make as a leadership team. Here are some tips for having a conversation in the beginning that will build a foundation for success.

Leadership Journey – Strengths to overused Strengths

Talent management is about having great conversations. For leadership development, those great conversations are critical to have when transitions happen. Not sure if you believe this? Then read this post. Believe it? Then read this post where I give you some resources to become better at handling these situations so they don’t happen again.

Listen: If you hear any of these 3 things you/we have a problem

Talent management is about great conversations. If you hear any of these statements coming from your own mouth or someone else’s, then there is a problem. Listen for these, figure out where it is coming from, and fix it. It is natural to have these barriers as leaders seek to have greater conversations with their people, but if we get stuck on one of these then things will get messy.