How to Grow Your People

A senior vice-president worries that attention on his people’s development will get overwhelmed in the volume of work. He asks his coach for tools to make the process effective and efficient. Download our free tool that maps the Three Conversations Development Plan. Core Concepts Prioritizing professional development is hard. The 3-Conversation model makes development easy for the leader and meaningful for the person. The three conversations in summary: Define ‘what,’ ‘why’ and give homework; The person reflects on the homework and how they plan to improve; Periodic check-ins about the homework. ‘What are you learning?’ The leader’s role in these conversations: Clarify the ‘what’ and ‘why’ Listen and encourage Ask, ‘What are you learning?’ You can sign-up for more resources and tools in our monthly email. If you’re thinking about coaching for yourself, or for someone on your team, let’s talk. tom@essentialcomm.com . This episode is tagged in three categories in our podcast library : Feedback Leadership Management Skills RELATED EPISODES 132 Coaching Your People 212 How to Coach Your People 258 How to Manage Defensive People 83 Leadership and Listening 206 Understanding Feedback Thanks, as always, for your reviews! Happy holidays. Until next time, thanks so much for listening. From The Look & Sound of Leadership team

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How to Grow Your People is an episode from The Look & Sound of Leadership by Essential Communications - Tom Henschel.

This episode is 23:19 long.

This episode was published on Dec 11, 2025.

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