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Our tagline at Bright Morning is, “every conversation counts.” This is because the skills, habits and orientations we teach aren’t unique to “coaching” conversations. 

In a very short amount of time our context has shifted dramatically and in multiple ways. And it is likely to do so again. I’m willing to bet that at least some of your old leadership tools are no longer serving you and it’s time to pick up some new ones. We can appreciate and honor what has (hopefully) served us well in the past and now be open to reach for new (or modified) behaviors, beliefs and ways of being. Our upcoming Leading in Times of Crisis Virtual Summit is designed to help you do just that.

For today, I offer my Three Bs framework (if you’ve attended an Essentials of the Art of Coaching workshop this will be familiar) to guide your reflection.

Behaviors: How are you behaving when it comes to:

• Setting Vision & Direction: Despite the uncertainty, what are you doing, creating, saying that exudes some sense of stability and clarity?
• Communication: When connecting with others, are you using active and intentional listening? Are you listening for pain, for love, for concern? Are you honoring the emotions that may be coming up for them (and you!)? What tone are you using when you speak?
• Decision-making: Who is making decisions? Does the rest of your team know that? When it is ‘appropriate’, does the rest of the team have a say? Who determines what classifies as ‘appropriate’?
• Building strong culture and trust: how are you continuously building trust with your people? How can they build this with each other? How are you building strong culture in virtual spaces?

Beliefs: What are you believing when it comes to:

• Leadership
• Crisis
• Justice & Power
• Equity
• The role of emotions
• The role of communication
• The values that are currently driving you
• The values you may want to drive you (if different from above)
• The values your people hold

How, if at all, is this different from what you would’ve said just a few months/weeks ago?

Ways of Being: How are you being when it comes to:

• How you are showing up in a virtual space?
• The expectations you are holding/not holding for the work that gets done.
• Your state of confidence.
• Your state of fear.

Together, let’s embrace Grace Lee Bogg’s belief that, “...we are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.”