For todays interview I got Jass Malaney on the microphone. We meet over LinkedIN and immediately had some good chat going on. With her 20 years of experience in Leadership coaching and keynote speaking she brings a lot to the table for anyone that wishes to grow.
Describes herself as:
- Inquisitive, loving to learn & looking at things in different perspectives
- Reuse what she learns in different ways and combinations
- Loves to travel
- Self Motivated & driven
Color: For the last few months she feels connected to gold. For her it represents abundance and positive energy. Before gold she was connected to the colour of nature; green.
Her Secret: Elephant figures. It started with her thinking of the coaching business, and her business statement “Work with leaders that are majestic”. Immediately she had a vision of an elephant. And so she started collecting the little statues.
Other topics we touched during the interview:
- How the internship at the World Bank working with top economists has shaped her life and strive to give the best.
- Her fathers support to try out and do whatever she wants. “You have always a choice”
- Life is a journey
- We have to fail to grow
- Self motivation to have drive
- Many Millenias are looking for motivation from the outside
- Compete & compare yourself with how you were yesterday
- Understanding yourself, take proactive action, be authentic
- Each of us has talents, combine it with what brings you joy. Use introspection, look at yourself, who is your best friend? Find the joy, then do more of the same, get better at it until it is your professional skill and you can stand out.
- Typical obstacles for growth & how to move from working in hell to work in heaven. How team leaders, managers can lead better and get out of their way.
- Over-control & limiting believes. How to learn to “Let go”
- How helping single individuals can affect 100s to 1000s to have a better work environment.
- What makes people happy.
- Inspire, help and see others grow
- “If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out.” If you squeeze people really hard, their authentic personality is coming to the surface.
Creativity:
Find new ways to come out of problems. Requires an open mind. We can find creative, innovative ways for anything in life. We do not always need a new creative way of solving problems, sometimes the old ways are good enough.
What is a coach doing?
- Coaching is a helping profession
- Using a structured path, procedure
- Coaches don’t give advice
- Help the clients to see and explore for themselves.
- Being a reflective board for the client
- Help highlighting what is the problem. What the problem is and how to solve it.
- Create an awareness
Advice:
“It is ok that we don’t have all the answers”
Be vulnerable. The earlier you learn the better.
Call for action:
Get a coach. Coaches help you to grow faster.
Connect with Jass:
www.linkedin.com/in/c-suiteleadershipcoachjassmalaney/
Books:
- Hector Garcia - “Ikigai”
- Marshall Goldsmith - “What Got You Here Won't Get You There”
- Napoleon Hill - “Think and Grow Rich”
- Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler - “Crucial Conversations”