Content Driven Coaching: Transform Leadership and Team Dynamics WITH Positivity

The impact of positivity on leadership and workplace dynamics can be astounding. How can you help create a simple shift in mindset to make all the difference in your team's energy and productivity? Here we'll explain how content-driven coaching can highlight positive takeaways that leads to genuine change. We unveil lessons from one of our programs, Always Stay Positive, a groundbreaking initiative that inspired employees through motivational content over a 21-day period. Our client witnessed a remarkable uplift in their teams' spirits and cohesion.

Read the real-life coaching stories that illustrate the power of positivity, including one about encouraging a disinterested professional to replace one particular daily routine that led to a more positive work atmosphere. Read the actionable tips for creating content that aligns with organizational goals to inspire positive change.

I think about our ability as coaches and leaders to expand the mindsets and thought processes of our people that we're coaching, whether they be clients or employees. We have to shine in our ability to get people to think and look at things differently.

I did something at a client site years ago, a program we created called Always Stay Positive. Every day, everyone had to watch a video of something positive, inspirational, or motivational--whether that be videos, sound clips or quotes--for 21 days. We sent it out and everybody had to journal what was their major takeaway. Keep in mind, this wasn't about what their impressions were because people will easily turn negative or sarcastic or discount the exercise. We framed our questions to be positive, such as:

What are two positive things you took from this?

We had them watch the video or listen to the sound clip and then answer that question for 21 days.

At the end of those 3-4 weeks, we went back to their leaders and asked what had they noticed. Between the dozen managers, all of them said they saw a noticeable difference in their team's positivity.

Here's the lesson with content-driven coaching. Content fuels people's minds.

When you watch the evening news, especially during election time, does anyone really get invigorated? We see all the things around the world where there are challenges and struggles, day in and day out? What does the news report? Challenges, wars, tough times for people. We don't really have a continuous, positive news channel, do we? That's mainstream.

That fuels people's minds.

Recently, I was coaching someone who is more lackluster in their performance. They don't know what they want to do with their career. I asked them what they do for enjoyment and for fun. He started talking about a sport he plays in the evenings and on weekends. I said, "That's awesome. So how does that person come into the workplace?"

He said he'd never thought about that before. He started laughing and his tone changed as I urged him to talk about it, and how he could bring that energetic, lively person into the workplace, too.

Then I asked him what he listens to when he drives into work. He said the radio. Which is mostly music. He just listens to the song and that's kind of it. He gets to work and he thinks about the long day ahead and he kind of sighs. Here's where I asked him to try something different.

I told him I wanted him to listen to something positive on his way to work every day for the next 30 days. No music, no news, no talk radio. Find a podcast that's all positive, or a motivational series, anything positive. Then I wanted him to think about two things of what he was going to do that day to just be helpful to others. He agreed.

At the end of the 30 days, we met again and I asked him, "What did you learn? What happened? What was your major takeaway?"

He said, "Everybody seems so much nicer to me."

When people get caught up in their own stuff, we tend to think about ourselves negatively, we put ourselves into a unenergetic, inward-thinking cycle. We don't think about others. We certainly do not take the time to reflect and tell ourselves to fuel our brains positively. And we should.

When you use content to help reframe people's minds and thought processes, try it with your team. Every time you have a staff meeting, lead with something inspirational and just let it sit. This is powerful.

When you use content and create content that inspires and motivates, guess what happens? People start to feel different. Their willingness goes up, their transparency, their openness...it all goes up. Find content that is in alignment with what you're trying to achieve, and then, when you start to fuel people's brains with positivity, guess what happens? Things start to improve. People become more approachable and coachable.

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