From the course: Having Career Conversations with Your Team
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Career coaching tip: Find resonance through body language brightness
From the course: Having Career Conversations with Your Team
Career coaching tip: Find resonance through body language brightness
- Throughout your coaching, gauge your team members' body language bulb brightness. Imagine the person in front of you as a light bulb. When they're in their stretch zone and they're excited about something, the light bulb gets brighter. Their body language, their voice, their facial expressions, they brighten, they get excited. They're happy that you see potential in them and are challenging them. You can also see when that light bulb dims. So when they start to tip into the panic zone of anxiety or the stagnation zone, their body language bulb dims. Their shoulders might slump, their voice trails. It's a look of discouragement and a lack of energy and enthusiasm. One of the most powerful things you can do as a coach is notice this for them. You can say "When you said that, "I saw your whole face light up." Or "Your tone of voice changed completely. "What's that about?" That will actually bring in a self-awareness…
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