Accelerate Your Career with a Coachable Mindset: Unlocking Professional Growth

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
A coachable mind leads to greater career
development.
First of all, what's a coachablemind?
A coachable mind is a personwho seeks feedback, seeks
coaching, has their own coach,works with their leader, shares
their goals, shares theirpassions, is open to
interpretation, open to feedback, open to practicing, open to

(00:22):
personal development, open tovulnerability.
They're just open and mostpeople are not.
So a coachable mind needsdevelopment.
You know, when we have peoplewho go for promotions and after
32 years I'm involved in a lotof different discussions and
sometimes I'm even privy toinformation that people inside

(00:44):
the company aren't becausepeople will sometimes vent or
trust the outsider just as apoint of reference or to get it
off their chest or to have aneutral party.
You know, give feedback.
I don't think there's ever beena time when people have talked
about not promoting someonewithout them bringing up

(01:08):
attitude, resistance to feedback.
They're tough to work with.
See, I think we have differentlevels of career development.
I think the foundational levelare foundational skills,
coachable mind attributes,seeking and accepting feedback,
being a good teammate,positivity versus negativity,

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engaged versus non-engaged,willingness to do whatever it
takes to go above and beyond thecall of duty without somebody
you know asking for more pay.
Then the second level is ourpresent ability, our present job
function.

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Do they have the knowledge, dothey have the skills, do they
have the confidence to do whatthey're currently doing
extremely well?
And then the third level is theattributes of where the next
step might be, and what thatmeans is if they were to get
promoted or they were to go intoa different job, what

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attributes do they have and dothey need to improve to be
successful in that job?
So again, the foundationallevel is the coachable mind
attributes.
You know a lot of people usethe term soft skills.
The second thing is the present, their present ability.
Do they have the knowledge,skill and behavior?

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And then the ideal next step Dothey have the knowledge, skill
and behavior and what gaps existand what do they need to do to
fill those gaps?
Do they have the knowledge,skill and behavior and what gaps
exist and what do they need todo to fill those gaps?
Yet, every single time it'llcome back to those coachable
mind attributes and I cannottell you how many people have

(02:59):
not been promoted when they evenhad the skill sets for the next
step, because what they did isthey viewed that person, they
perceive that person we talkabout.
You know personal brands allthe time.
You know.
I'm not so sure I agree ordisagree with the comment that
perception is reality.
It actually isn't, because ifyou have a perception of me and

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I think it's incorrect and maybeother people think it's
incorrect, well then yourperception isn't 100% accurate.
It's your perception, though,and perceptions need to teach us
what we need to alter toimprove our collaboration,
communication, connection withother people.
So a coachable mind is one thatmakes it easy for leaders to

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lead them, yet it also makes iteasier for leaders to promote
them, and we tend to separate it.
See, individual contributorswould be well-advised to develop
a coachable mind, because whenyou look at Gallup's study, 71%
of people are neutral oractively disengaged, and
recently, in their latestresearch, that number has even

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gone down.
So if you're in that three outof 10 people who are positively
engaged, you've separatedyourself, you've elevated your
personal brand and I promise you, not everyone's perception of
you is correct.
Not everyone's perception ofyou is incorrect.
So a coachable mind isconstantly making it easy for

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other people to coach them, givethem feedback, collaborate,
connect, communicate.
They're making a distinct,conscientious effort to make it
easy for other people.
That's what leads to greatercareer development.