Best of 97% Effective - Nihar Chhaya, Executive Coach for C-Suite Leaders: How To Navigate “Everything, Everywhere All At Once.”

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The C-suite – there’s a lot of storytelling about this world – but how do you rise there, survive and thrive there? Nihar Chhaya, Executive Coach for C-Suite Leaders and President of PartnerExec, shares his experience helping Fortune 50 executives do well for themselves, but also produce superior business and strategic outcomes. We peek under the hood of what most helps top executives -- from accepting criticism and changing behavior to managing life and work when it feels “everything, everywhere all at once.”

• How life in the C-Suite most resembles these two movies
• Common presenting issue for Nihar’s C-Suite clients
• Coaching… “the one business where the customer isn’t always right”
• Underlying need of C-Suite Leaders: recognizing blind spots
• Why you need a clear coaching contract
• Top interpersonal skill that deserves your attention
• Secret sauce to effectively reframing criticism
• Mini-master class on asking and framing questions so you can receive high-quality feedback
• Competition vs Collaboration: The Buddhist executive who had to deal with ambition and comparison
• Getting in touch with what is most important for you, and the balance between belonging and standing out in the C-Suite
• How to maintain high-quality feedback – honesty and accountability
• Importance of strategic vulnerability in leadership
• Pratfall effect: needing to be both vulnerable and competent
• Tension free feedback
• Connection between executive presence and awareness
• How to make your coach a secret weapon
• Rapid fire questions: Nihar’s biggest influence, Eagles or Cowboys, process over outcomes, and 2023 Oscar Predictions

BIO AND LINKS:

Nihar Chhaya, a Wharton, Columbia and Georgetown trained leadership expert, is President of PartnerExec, which helps leaders master influence. Nihar is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company. He’s also a Master Certified Coach by the ICF, and a Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches.

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niharchhaya/
• Nihar’s email: [e-mail]
• Website: https://partnerexec.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/partnerexec?lang=en
• The Pratfall effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratfall_effect
• Nihar’s HBR article on managing competition with colleagues: The Upside of Career Envy
• Nihar’s article on feedback: How To Give Feedback People Actually Respond To
• Michael’s HBR article on Office Politics: https://hbr.org/2016/04/great-leaders-embrace-office-politics
• Nihar’s Ben Affleck article: Are You Evolving To Be Ready For The Next Chapter of Your Career?
• Nihar’s Will Smith article: Deconstructing 'Will'
• Adam Grant’s recent critique of the Myers-Briggs
• “Work as a masculinity contest”: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327626790_Work_as_a_Masculinity_Contest
• Wayne Dyer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Dyer
• 18 minutes of highlights from the GREATEST GAME ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1xbhW2PEE
• Nihar and Michael pay homage to the amazing Dorie Clark: https://dorieclark.com/
• Process over outcomes, Steven Pressfield’s book: The War of Art
• Nihar’s Oscar prediction -- and film recommendation: To Leslie
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://changwenderoth.com/#tve-jump-180481ecea3

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