If the culture and environment of the organization is determined by the leader, then how as a leader can you help the team with healthy mindset practices. Mindset that drives innovation, promotes a safe and secure environment, encourages and challenges limiting beliefs and to succeed in challenging business situations.  You will learn what you can do to create healthy mindsets. For more information, check out lisalamcoach.com and salwanaali.com.

The question in most people’s mind is how best to deal with people who have different mindset from us. It is hard when a fixed or limited mindset person comes together with a growth mindset person. Afterall it is like oil and water. What is the best way to get some form of emulsion going? Just like mixing oil and water in itself would not work, however by adding an emulsifier, you are able to cause the mixture to not separate. The best example is creating mayonnaise which is essentially a combination of oil, water and an emulsifier like egg york or mustard and mix like crazy. How does that look like in the workplace? What is or are the “emulsifiers” in the workplace?  We believe they are: 1. Clear Goals. Common Goals. 2. Agreements. Win-Win outcome. 3. Accountabilities. Developing Trust. To find out more, check out lisalamcoach.com and salwanaali.com.

Yes, changing your mindset is a journey.  It does not happen overnight and it certainly does take intentional and consistent actions.  Join us on this journey as we explore how we can start with identifying our current mindset, replacing it with the new one and how to consistently put it into practice. To find out more, check out lisalamcoach.com and salwanaali.com.

Mindset is one of the key elements that will determine your abilities to continuously develop your skills, adaptability in the workplace and resilience and commitment when faced with challenging situations. In this series, we will learn the basics of mindset, types of mindsets, how to change it and why it is important in determining your leadership.  In this episode you will learn:  the different types of mindsets, how to identify your mindset and what you can do to change it. To find out more, check out lisalamcoach.com and salwanaali.com.

Blind spots, each of us have them.  The only person that is surprise by the blind spots is you.  You can't see them but the people around you sure can.   Blind Spots are not a sign a weakness but an opportunity for you to learn and further improve yourself.  In this episode, you will learn how you can use feedback as an effective tool to uncover and learn to improve and work on your blind spots.  For more information, check out lisalamcoach.com and salwanaali.com.

In this episode, you will learn how to create a feedback culture in your team through establishing a safe and secure environment for feedback, develop readiness and skills within the team around feedback and what the is the feedback comfort index. To find out more information, check out lisalamcoach.com and salwanaali.com.

To help in the process of putting feedback into action, there are 3 steps that need to take place - Translating an idea or the feedback that you have received into action, take the necessary changes or actions that will result in noticeable actions and that change has to be permanent.   To achieve this, you will need to answer the following questions: Why am I going to do this? What do I need to do and to break it down to small simple steps? What structures do I need to put in place?

How do we give feedback to our manager? Giving feedback can either turn out to be a great trust builder or career limiting move. I think that there are a few key areas that we need to be mindful of and if we take them into account, the feedback sessions can be rewarding. Let me give you the 3 key takeaways and we will delve deeper into them: 1. Know your manager.  2. Be specific and only from your observation and experiences NOT someone else’s. 3. Time and place.  To find out more check out lisalamcoach.com and salwanaali.com.

Have you ever encountered situation where you will need to give corrective or "tough" feedback?  Chances are, the answer is yes.  Learn how you can respond appropriately, the most appropriate timing to give tricky and challenging feedback, the best way to approach feedback in a company culture that does not seem to be supportive of it and last but not least, giving feedback to your manager. To find out more, check out lisalamcoach.com and salwanaali.com. Give Receive Improve book on amazon.com.

In this episode, you will learn how to: 1.  Ask the right questions to get the right answers.   2.  Types of questions to avoid and those that are powerful to open up a discussion. 3.  Get the outcome that you want from vague or generic "feedback" that will help you to move forward. To find out more information, check out lisalamcoach.com and salwanaali.com.