The mission of the KTS Success Factor® Podcast for Women is to bring proven ideas female business leaders can use to increase their ability to achieve big goals and become happy, successful, and understood at work. All this in 25 minutes or less. Sarah E. Brown, Ph.D. is an expert on personalizing work to the unique interests, strengths, and needs of the workforce. A former Managing Director at Accenture, she is now on a mission to reach 250,000 women with knowledge of their unique gifts and the tools to be happy, successful and understood at work.
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What Are Your Hidden Communication Challenges with Michelle Gladieux
Could your communication habits and preferences be holding you back from achieving personal growth, forming better relationships, or becoming an effective leader?
Michelle Gladieux, author of Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges, and is President of Gladieux Consulting. She facilitates seminars and does executive coaching to help diverse industries, governments, non-profits, and academia on communication and leadership topics around the United States. With 18 years of collegiate teaching experience in her home state of Indiana, Michelle's expertise and insight are invaluable in helping you reach your goals and live an empowered life.
In this episode, Michelle dives deep into understanding our hidden communication challenges and equips us with the tools needed to overcome them and become better leaders. She stresses the importance of striking a healthy balance between giving ourselves 'self-affirming' and 'others-affirming' feedback in order to grow and develop.
What you will learn from this episode:
● Discover the four hidden communication challenges and learn how to overcome them to become a better leader.
● Uncover the keys to success in communication and understand how to strike the right balance between 'self-affirming' and 'others affirming' feedback.
● Equip yourself with the tools to navigate the complexities of communication and grow as a leader.
"It's small changes, net big results in communication." - Michelle Gladieux
Valuable Free Resource:
● Get your one-page FREE downloadable form called the Feedback Challenge: https://gladieuxconsulting.com/resdl/GC_Feedback_Challenge_
Topics Covered:
02:26 - Who Michelle serves and the problem she helps them solve:
04:18 - One conversation with her mom before she died that became a big influence for writing the book 'Communicate with Courage'
05:43 - Mistakes her client makes before consulting with her: They think big communication improvements require big change. And that's not true.
07:39 - Understanding the four obstacles we face in communication
12:23 - How do you work on the communication challenge you're facing?
13:14 - Why are these communication struggles we face are said to be hidden?
14:42 - Michelle suggests another best way to work on your communication challenges
19:34 - Why you need to have a good balance of being 'self-affirmed' and 'others affirmed' when getting feedback
21:1 9 - What does it mean to show up and be a good communicator with 'full body, full mind, and full heart effort'
23:04 - What do we say to ourselves versus a friend when we mess up?
24:38 - More differences in human personality than there are in gender with regard to communication 26:31 - Michelle's Valuable Free Resource: http://www.gladieuxconsulting.com/
27:50 - Inspiring words from Michelle
Key Takeaways:
"It's that internal voice, that self-talk that sometimes creates a pessimistic mindset around communication." - Michelle Gladieux
"For folks who have more challenges with communication, they could be facing all four at once, the best thing to do is pick one to work on and take baby steps. Try to do something just a little different each day as a communicator." - Michelle Gladieux
"We might not want to see some of these hidden challenges because it can be hard to accept the weaker parts of ourselves and really look at them and work on them. And it can be hard to get feedback." - Michelle Gladieux
"We summon our courage when we feel afraid of something that's going to hurt. Only we can summon our courage, and we look for one little thing to take away from it." - Michelle Gladieux
Ways to Connect with Michelle Gladieux:
● Website: https://gladieuxconsulting.com/
Ways to Connect with Sarah E. Brown:
● Website: https://www.sarahebrown.com
● Twitter: https://twitter.com/knowguides
● LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahebrownphd
● To speak with her: bookachatwithsarahebrown.com