Lyn Christian will be speaking in the Performance Track.
Bring Your Best Self to Work
The best team outcomes demand that team members share their unique knowledge, perspectives, and strengths. It also requires that our team is aware of their weaknesses and pseudo-strengths and have mitigation plans in play. Both statements are constructs within the “Bring Your Best Self to Work” effort that I am part of.
Within the world of peak performance for both extreme and elite athletes, activation of a “best self” is a common practice. 86 % of U.S. Olympic sport psychologists use techniques in their training programs that I use with business teams. The result is that we can increase an individual’s engagement at work by as much as 32% and in turn these employees can increase client/customer happiness by 11%.
When we know how to focus on developing our people so they do bring their “best self” to work, we can gain these benefits as well as allowing them to feel more authentic, improve personal resilience and job satisfaction.
In this presentation I will take the audience through 3 exercises that immediately provide them with a portrait of their own “best self”. And I will offer a free sign-up to receive two more virtual coaching sessions after this presentation to keep that effort going.
This presentation is based on the research which backs my Best-Selling Book – Soul Salt Your Personal Field Guide to Courage, Purpose, and Fulfillment. It is also backed by the work published in Dan Cables’ book – Exceptional. There are many other “best self” titles and articles from those of us working in this field, which can be offered up as resources as needed.
Audience members will leave with:
- A “Best Self” portrait that they can lean into whenever they need a boost of confidence, courage, and professional strength
- A “Delegation Plan” to implement so they perform fewer tasks from a pseudo-strength and assist in resisting falling victim to burnout.
- A “Weakness Mitigation” plan. This allows individuals to better manage against these human traits which allows their strengths to be leveraged unencumbered.
Lyn Christian
Founder and Head Coach @ SoulSalt
With a coaching trajectory expanding nearly 30 years, Lyn Christian is an author, founder, speaker, and master-certified coach. Christian got their start in coaching at The Franklin Covey Company, pursuing their life's passion and leaving behind an honorable teaching career in education.
Through their tenacity and merit, helping orchestrate hundreds of coaching sessions for leadership teams and entrepreneurs, Christian became the Director of Innovation at Franklin Covey and an ambassador at The World Association for Business Coaches. After several more years and certifications, Christian launched their coaching company SoulSalt Inc. in 2002. Their coaching style has been coined the "soul salt" technique, an approach used to help anyone uncover the mental fortitude to overcome life's challenges.
When asked how they coined the soul salt approach, Christian explains, "It would have been nice to have been born with an owner's manual attached to our ankles. Well-meaning parents would have consulted [the manual] to know how to feed, care for and nurture the highest potential of each of us had they had this manual. But I believe in some way that this "manual" is buried inside the salt of our soul, and it is our opportunity and right to excavate it, bring it forward, and act upon it."
