210 Nils Vinje Improve leadership communications with a framework
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English - November 14, 2020 13:36 - 56 minutes - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsBusiness News News Tech News b2b business customersuccess marketing saas sales software softwareadoption Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The last time I talked to Nils Vinje, it was on Episode 197, and we talked about his new great leadership book,“The 30 Day Leadership Playbook: Your Guide to Becoming the Leader You Have Always Wanted to Be.” In it, Nils talks about four pillars of leadership. The third pillar is leading with communications, and this one got to me.
In particular, the part of leading with communications called “the power of frameworks.” I spend a lot of time asking Nils about framework-thinking on the last episode. So much so that Nils suggested we do another episode in which he would help me with one of my frameworks.
So that’s what we did.
A live coaching session.
I didn’t know it at the time, but I had been working on a framework to describe how we would grow one of our business units at ServiceRocket. I wasn’t calling it a framework, but I was using it as a mechanism for communicating our strategy, progress towards our goals, and to give the exec team a one slide description of how we would achieve our goals.
I kept coming back to it. Using the language in it. Referencing it. Showing it on every slide presentation I gave for months.
I showed it to Nils and he critiqued it. Asked me uncomfortable questions. And helped me think through how to use to more effectively too communicate.
That’s what this episode is: Nils helping me improve my leadership communication skills with framework-thinking.
When you listen to our conversation, you will think to yourself, “I need to do this. I have been struggling with how I can improve my communication skills, especially with my leadership team. This is it. I gotta learn this framework thinking. I gotta buy Nils’ book.”
I am sold on this framework thinking idea. And I think you will be too.
More a about Nils
* Nils Vinje is the founder and CEO of 30DayLeadership.com.
* Link to the 30 Day Leadership Quiz that Nils talked about: https://30dayleadership.com/quiz
* To order a copy of Nils’ book, please visit: 30dayleadership.com.
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