{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Modern Manager","title":"55: Become Your Own Coach with Jennifer DiMotta","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1894,"description":"You may have heard the idea of manager as coach before. It’s one of the core ideas I subscribe to as a manager - that we should coach our team members to unleash their potential. But what about coaching yourself? Is that even possible?\r\nThis week’s guest, Jennifer DiMotta, is the Owner and President of DiMotta Consulting LLC where she takes her 20+ years of triple-digit growth success and transforms it to easily digestible strategies and plans for clients, particularly in the luxury direct to consumer market.\r\nJennifer speaks on Women Leadership and has developed a method which she calls Six Steps to Becoming Your Own Leadership Coach, a proven method of developing your leadership skills for personal success.\r\nJennifer and I walk through the six steps, dig into the process and examples, so you can apply the approach to yourself or you team members.\r\n \r\nRead the related blog article: How to Coach Yourself\r\n \r\nJoin the Modern Manager community to get 2.5 hours of free coaching from Jennifer when you start the 6 Steps to Becoming Your Own Leadership Coach program. Join by June 30, 2019 and get two special gifts - a Modern Manager mini-notebook and a Meeteor meeting notebook to help you distill meeting outcomes.\r\n \r\nSubscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and mini-guides delivered to your inbox.\r\n \r\nI need your help: What's challenging about being a manager? Share your experience here: www.mamieks.com/new-course\r\n \r\nKEY TAKEAWAYS:\r\n\r\nStep one is to become more self aware. Through a series of assessments, you can get a better understanding of your strengths, preferences, and potential areas for growth.\r\nTwo great assessments to start with are Strengths Finder and Myers Briggs Type Indicator\r\nIt’s not about trying to change who you are, but rather develop in areas that will serve you and your team.\r\nLeaders come in all varieties. There are many attributes of great leaders. The key is to figure out your strengths which you can build on and what specific...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vh03-o0OUKG7JnFjtDqtJmV0y385f5sQOifebswPa_E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNjM5LzE2OTA1/Nzg4MDYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}