Excellent Executive Coaching: Growing Your Business and Enhancing Your Craft. - EEC 204: Grow Stronger Leaders and Teams with Effective Communication Skills by Meredith Bell

EEC 204: Grow Stronger Leaders and Teams with Effective Communication Skills by Meredith Bell

11/29/21 • 22 min

Excellent Executive Coaching: Growing Your Business and Enhancing Your Craft.

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC interviews Meredith Bell about the importance of sharpening your communication so that your leadership skills improve as well as the cohesiveness of your team.

I’ve noticed that the name of your company is Performance Support Systems. What is the No. 1 thing organizations should be focused on improving to boost their performance?
Which communication skills are most essential for effective leader-team interactions?
Why is it that most learning and development programs don't produce lasting improvement in performance, and what's the solution?
Frustrations are inevitable while learning a new skill, so what will motivate people to stick with it?
What do you mean by “peer coach” and what does it take to be effective in that role?

Meredith Bell

Meredith Bell is co-founder and President of Performance Support Systems, a global software company providing assessment and development tools for the workplace. Their award-winning software and books guide leaders and team members to make the shift from KNOWING to DOING. The result is permanent improvements in the way people interact with each other. Meredith is an expert in leader and team communications, the author of two books, and the host of the Strong for Performance podcast. She has worked with thousands of consultants and coaches, business leaders, Human Resources professionals, and Learning & Development executives to successfully implement their tools. Meredith co-authored her latest book, Connect with Your Team: Mastering the Top 10 Communication Skills, with her business partner, Dr. Dennis Coates. In it, Meredith and Denny provide an unprecedented, step-by-step how-to guide for improving communication.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of www.mkbconseil.ch a company specialized in leadership development and executive coaching.

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC interviews Meredith Bell about the importance of sharpening your communication so that your leadership skills improve as well as the cohesiveness of your team.

I’ve noticed that the name of your company is Performance Support Systems. What is the No. 1 thing organizations should be focused on improving to boost their performance?
Which communication skills are most essential for effective leader-team interactions?
Why is it that most learning and development programs don't produce lasting improvement in performance, and what's the solution?
Frustrations are inevitable while learning a new skill, so what will motivate people to stick with it?
What do you mean by “peer coach” and what does it take to be effective in that role?

Meredith Bell

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If you have enjoyed this episode, subscribe to iTunes. We would love a review on iTunes or other platform.

Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of www.mkbconseil.ch a company specialized in leadership development and executive coaching.

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EEC 203: How to Write A Best-Selling Book with Vikrant Shaurya

Vikrant Shaurya shares his expertise in how to get a book published as he answers the following question during his interview with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC.

Why should anyone write a book?
How do you build authority in your area of expertise?
What do you need to do to create a best-selling book from scratch?
How do you go from writing a book to winning high-value clients?
What can your business do to help my listeners to get a best selling book?

Vikrant Shaurya

Vikrant Shaurya is the CEO and founder of BestsellingBook.com and is also a bestselling author. Back in 2017, Vikrant wrote P.O.W.E.R: The Success Mantra, which became a number one bestseller in one of the most competitive categories on Amazon, the Entrepreneurship category. It basically talks about how success has a lot to do with loving your job. Vikrant's latest book How to Write a Bestseller came out in 2020 and it became a number one bestseller in the electronic publishing category. This covers our whole process of ideation, writing, publishing, and promoting your book to become a guaranteed bestseller.

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of www.mkbconseil.ch a company specialized in leadership development and executive coaching.

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EEC 205: How to be Authentic without Losing Credibility with Elaine Bennett

Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC talks with Elaine Bennett about the importance of “being you” in all communication as they answer the following questions.

What are the top communications mistakes that keep executives from advancing?
How can clients position themselves for growth through speaking?
Why you shouldn't try to be Oprah (unless you're Oprah)
Why do you hate bullet points so much?
What kind of humor works best in a business setting?

Elaine Bennett

Elaine Bennett’s name may sound familiar. She is an award-winning speechwriter and definitely not the lady from Seinfeld, whose last name was Benes.

Elaine is a strategic messaging consultant. She advises clients from Fortune 50 CEOs to entrepreneurs on their messaging. She also creates and delivers trainings on how to improve the writing of everything from internal communications to speeches. Her 2019 TEDx Talk tackles the topic of how language can change the world. She began her career on Wall Street 25+ years ago, as speechwriter for the CEO of Salomon Brothers. When scandal forced the executive to resign, Warren Buffett stepped in as Interim CEO—and Elaine’s newest client. Mr. Buffett offered Elaine one of his highest compliments:

"You have a terrific ear and you turn straight thinking into straight writing.”

And that’s what she’s been doing ever since—melding the mind of a businessperson with the sensibility of an outsider to tell complex stories in a sophisticated but relatable way. Or as another client put it, “Elaine is the Obi-Wan of speechwriting.”

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Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of www.mkbconseil.ch a company specialized in leadership development and executive coaching.