2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Save expensive cycles with a firm but empathetic conversational mindset. Drive results even in high-stake situations.
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Save expensive cycles with a firm but empathetic conversational mindset. Drive results even in high-stake situations.
Hosted by
Mounica Veggalam
Leadership Coach | 100+ hrs coaching tech leaders on challenging conversations
Course overview
As a smart and caring leader, you might face 2 problems in your conversations:
🛑 Abrasive posturing: Pushing too hard
🛑 Empathetic collapsing: Letting them take over
Learning communication strategies and reading about executive presence may not help you shift the underlying cause-- your defense mechanisms that enable this.
The secret is in the conversation framing methods executive coaches use for behavior change.
Speak with executive-level confidence in every conversation so you can...
✔️ Make quick decisions by getting to the meat of the matter.
✔️ Never have people come to you after a failure and say, "I had a feeling about that."
✔️ Develop the mental resilience to speak on point despite your impostor syndrome.
✔️ Feel energized even after a full day of back-to-back alignment meetings.
(even if you're an introvert).
In this course, we'll create your personal methodology for creating safe spaces and result-driven conversations. You'll work with your mental blocks by practicing conversations in real time.
This is Radical Candor 201.
01
You're an experienced manager in a tech company driving alignment conversations daily.
02
You silently shiver or avoid the next difficult conversation that could enhance your leadership position.
03
You want to challenge and influence in a way that feels good without using backdoor politics or pushing hard.
You'll create your set of leadership principles that act as a compass for all conversations. This will help you hold your team to high standards and avoid you push too hard or collapse with empathy.
You'll deconstruct the mechanics of an impactful conversation that inspires commitment and support, whether in 1:1 or group meetings. You'll practice with a partner using my commitment container framework.
You’ll distinguish the core mental narrative that keeps you from responding objectively to your stakeholders, reports, and bosses. You’ll leave with inquiry methods to remove the emotional burden and help you reframe your mindset to data.
You'll reframe building trust and understand the psychology of resistance. You'll practice how to make people feel heard, seen and acknowledged, even if you disagree with them.
You'll get nuanced feedback so you can bring awareness to the automatic behaviors you tend to use. You'll also get live coaching to start creating a change.
You'll work with a partner to role-play conversations and keep you accountable. With consistent group work, you'll uncover your blind spots and bring different learning angles to the frameworks.
Mastering Tense Conversations For Senior Tech Leaders
Janani Vasudevan
Reetch Reddy
Go beyond just tactical skills.
Rewire your candid communication mindset to scale your leadership impact.
Hey, I'm Mounica. I'm a former introverted engineer turned leadership coach and advisor. I help ambitious, people-first tech managers land senior leadership positions.
I spent more than 100 hours coaching people on transforming these patterns. My clients landed functions and situations that they thought were a stretch-- Executive Director, Doubling the team they lead, and Better work/life balance.
One conversation at a time.
I trained rigorously in ICF-approved transformational techniques. I'm also a long-time student of eastern spiritual traditions that dig into the nature of the mind. Using these breakthrough methodologies, I've been helping leaders for the past 2 years to cause a deep transformational change in their survival patterns.
Why I started this course:
I'm passionate about the power of conversations for career growth.
I remember the time when I coached a manager for a job interview. They had been leading people for more than 15 years. They were brilliant, had the credentials, and knew all the right communication strategies.
"But Mounica, I don't want to come across as too pushy," they said. So we dug in and role-played.
2 weeks later, they told me they got that executive job.
That's when I knew I was onto something.
So now, I help experience leaders, who put their people first, to advance in their careers by mastering the art of leadership conversations.
01
How to create your Leadership Manifesto
Pushing or collapsing happens when you are not clear on the foundation of your leadership. In this lesson, you'll draw out your own set of leadership principles that will serve as the compass for all your conversations.
02
Digging into your psychology
Though you're brilliant and have answers most times, what has you tongue-tied in certain situations? We'll dig into the core mental narratives to cause a mindset shift in the way you think about your presence.
03
Building strong conversation containers
You'll learn and practice the container framework executive coaches use to cause behavior change and drive commitment.
04
Making people feel seen and heard
The ability to create psychologically safe spaces that has people open up and trust you is a game-changer in leadership. In this lesson, we'll understand how to handle pushback even when you disagree.
05
Live practice and Coaching Sessions (x2)
It's one thing to learn about frameworks but completely another level to put into practice in-the-moment. You'll learn actively with role-play, live critique, and feedback from your peers and me. We'll address some nuances personalized to your situation. This module is based on some of the best leadership trainings in the industry.
10:00am - 11:30am PST/1:00pm- 2:30pm EST
Plus, it's highly recommended to start using the frameworks you learn in your daily conversations.
2 weeks, 2x week, x90 minutes
2 weeks to practice, dive into your mental blocks and get feedback.
1 hour per week
Projects will include connecting with a partner for practice conversations and reflections.
Always on
Get feedback and answers from the community and me in-between sessions in your Maven student hub.
Active hands-on learning
In this course, we do a little bit of a lecture, but a lot of learning by role-playing and exercises.
Interactive and project-based
You'll be practising conversations and figuring out your leadership approach. You'll leave transformed in the way you think about conversations and receive feedback.
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded tech leaders who want to learn and grow alongside you