Top leadership coach says 3 minutes daily can change your life
Even the world’s top leadership coach admits he needs a helping hand to navigate through life and the decisions he has to make.
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, a bestselling author and the world’s No. 1 leadership thinker and executive coach from the US, said that it’s okay to ask for help from others. While most people veer away from asking for help, Goldsmith actually urges everyone to get over the idea of being able to do everything alone.
“I do this exercise daily with a peer coach,” he says. “I have someone call me to listen to me ask myself questions I wrote and provide the answers I wrote every day. Why I do this? I’m Marshall Goldsmith and I’m too cowardly to do this by myself,” said Goldsmith in a podcast with EntreLeadership.
The three-minute exercise can help people change their lives for the better when done regularly. While skepticism is expected, Goldsmith said that most people usually quit the exercise after two weeks — not because they failed, but because it has already impacted them.
“I’m too undisciplined. I need help, and that’s okay. I know how difficult it is to go,” said Goldsmith.
The Daily Question Process requires the individual to write several questions on a spreadsheet, with each question representing a behavior that is important yet often easy to neglect. The questions usually begin with “did I do my best to…” and must be answerable with a yes or no.
The process helps the individual confront how they actually live out their values every day. The mere process of writing the questions allows for introspection on what really matters to them.
Hailed by Harvard Business Review as the “World’s No. 1 Leadership Thinker,” Dr. Goldsmith has had more than 40 years of successfully coaching CEOs from many of the world’s most renowned organizations such as Ford, Pfizer, GSK, World Bank, Toyota, Goldman Sachs & Co. He is also an author of numerous No. 1 bestsellers, with the latest book, Triggers, as a No. 1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Dr. Goldsmith will headline a two-city CEO, HR and Senior Leaders Conference in Asia this October, with Manila as his last stop on Oct. 26. He will be joined by top coaching gun Dr. Peter Chee, and master trainer and chief coach Serely Alcaraz. The leadership conference is organized by ITD, the global leadership development expert.
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