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Todd Davis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1035 total appearances

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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

I'm not going to participate. I love that example. I'm going to borrow that if you don't mind. I love that. Please put it in the course. I'd love for you to do that. You just reminded me of one of the other activities. It sounds so simplistic. It is so powerful. We do this. We have participants write a I may not be able to statement. And so they have to write a statement.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

I'm not going to participate. I love that example. I'm going to borrow that if you don't mind. I love that. Please put it in the course. I'd love for you to do that. You just reminded me of one of the other activities. It sounds so simplistic. It is so powerful. We do this. We have participants write a I may not be able to statement. And so they have to write a statement.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

I may not be able to, and then they fill in the blank, but I can, and they fill in the blank. So for example, someone's in a company they really love, but they're kind of burned out on their role. They've done it for so many years and they just, they want to stay at the company, but, and the company's not going to change their role.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

I may not be able to, and then they fill in the blank, but I can, and they fill in the blank. So for example, someone's in a company they really love, but they're kind of burned out on their role. They've done it for so many years and they just, they want to stay at the company, but, and the company's not going to change their role.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

I may not be able to, and then they fill in the blank, but I can, and they fill in the blank. So for example, someone's in a company they really love, but they're kind of burned out on their role. They've done it for so many years and they just, they want to stay at the company, but, and the company's not going to change their role.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

So I may not be able to change my role, but I can explore other areas of the company where I might be interested in looking. And people, again, it sounds so simple, but people have these real aha moments going, Wait a minute. I can make a choice here. I have more influence than I think I do. One lady, though, I got to tell you, she wrote this table was laughing. This is about a month ago.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

So I may not be able to change my role, but I can explore other areas of the company where I might be interested in looking. And people, again, it sounds so simple, but people have these real aha moments going, Wait a minute. I can make a choice here. I have more influence than I think I do. One lady, though, I got to tell you, she wrote this table was laughing. This is about a month ago.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

So I may not be able to change my role, but I can explore other areas of the company where I might be interested in looking. And people, again, it sounds so simple, but people have these real aha moments going, Wait a minute. I can make a choice here. I have more influence than I think I do. One lady, though, I got to tell you, she wrote this table was laughing. This is about a month ago.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

This table was laughing. I went over. I said, OK, what's so funny here? And this woman said she hated her house, by the way. And she said, I wrote, I may not be able to convince my husband to move. but I can make his life miserable for the rest of our marriage. I said, okay, not quite what we were going for, but I guess that is being proactive.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

This table was laughing. I went over. I said, OK, what's so funny here? And this woman said she hated her house, by the way. And she said, I wrote, I may not be able to convince my husband to move. but I can make his life miserable for the rest of our marriage. I said, okay, not quite what we were going for, but I guess that is being proactive.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

This table was laughing. I went over. I said, OK, what's so funny here? And this woman said she hated her house, by the way. And she said, I wrote, I may not be able to convince my husband to move. but I can make his life miserable for the rest of our marriage. I said, okay, not quite what we were going for, but I guess that is being proactive.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

So in each of the habits, we have a series of activities and exercises, and then they make commitments to themselves. There's of course a workbook, everything they go through and inhabit to begin with the end in mind. There's one of the activities we do is called backcasting. This is super powerful. Backcasting is they partner up and they think about a goal that they would like to achieve.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

So in each of the habits, we have a series of activities and exercises, and then they make commitments to themselves. There's of course a workbook, everything they go through and inhabit to begin with the end in mind. There's one of the activities we do is called backcasting. This is super powerful. Backcasting is they partner up and they think about a goal that they would like to achieve.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

So in each of the habits, we have a series of activities and exercises, and then they make commitments to themselves. There's of course a workbook, everything they go through and inhabit to begin with the end in mind. There's one of the activities we do is called backcasting. This is super powerful. Backcasting is they partner up and they think about a goal that they would like to achieve.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

that might take anywhere from three months to a year. One person I was working with, they have this goal of running a marathon, and they were set on that. And so they visualize, and I'm sure your listeners are familiar with visualization exercises, but they visualize the day they accomplish that goal. They just crossed the finish line of the marathon.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

that might take anywhere from three months to a year. One person I was working with, they have this goal of running a marathon, and they were set on that. And so they visualize, and I'm sure your listeners are familiar with visualization exercises, but they visualize the day they accomplish that goal. They just crossed the finish line of the marathon.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

that might take anywhere from three months to a year. One person I was working with, they have this goal of running a marathon, and they were set on that. And so they visualize, and I'm sure your listeners are familiar with visualization exercises, but they visualize the day they accomplish that goal. They just crossed the finish line of the marathon.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

Or this one gentleman, he was building an addition to their home, and he had never been a general contractor before, but he just finished cutting the ribbon, so to speak, on their new addition. And they visualize every detail and they partner up and they tell their partner, they talk for 10 minutes each about what it feels like.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

Or this one gentleman, he was building an addition to their home, and he had never been a general contractor before, but he just finished cutting the ribbon, so to speak, on their new addition. And they visualize every detail and they partner up and they tell their partner, they talk for 10 minutes each about what it feels like.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert

Or this one gentleman, he was building an addition to their home, and he had never been a general contractor before, but he just finished cutting the ribbon, so to speak, on their new addition. And they visualize every detail and they partner up and they tell their partner, they talk for 10 minutes each about what it feels like.