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Are You A Good Advocate ?
As a team leader you often have to be an advocate and speak on behalf of another person or group of people. Do you analyze how good you are at communicating the needs and expectations of yourself or others? An advocate is someone who supports another person either by speaking on their behalf, or by helping them to communicate their own thoughts, feelings or ideas. Advocates need to have inter-personnel skills, be effective communicators and negotiators; be able to understand and implement the balance required between listening to people and talking; and between advising a course of action and allowing individuals to discover their own solutions to the issues that they need to address. Advocates must also be sensitive, diplomatic, and use discretion with individuals and their team. Successful advocacy therefore contains elements of both mentoring and coaching. Indeed, as team leaders this is one of our key responsibilities if we want our teams to remain positive and function well.
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Success Coaching Tip – Devil’s Advocate May Be Just a Yeah Butt in Disguise
Do you ever find yourself thinking or saying something like: If I could play the role of Devil’s Advocate, I would like to call attention to…? For many this role has evolved into the infamous Yeah Butt. Yeah, I could have done this, but I cannot because. Success will not happen if you are embracing this role.
Everyone needs to hear both sides of the story when making a decision. The pros and the cons need to be constructively weighed before taking action that will direct you closer to being able to master success.
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Parental ADHD Advocacy
Children diagnosed with ADHD face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. First, an ADHD diagnosis conjures unflattering stigmas. The labels are detestable, but a regular part of an ADHD child’s life. Second, special accommodations in the classroom cause deep resentment in peers and the teachers responsible for implementing the accommodations. Most important, children diagnosed with ADHD rarely have an advocate who looks after their best interests.
ADHD advocacy is a nascent trend in the mental health industry. For years, children struggled without advocacy support while trying to cope in social environments and in the classroom. ADHD clinicians began to heed the call for advocacy, but their role was limited to medical education for parents and education personnel. National ADHD advocacy organizations have been effective in lobbying politicians for ADHD laws, especially in the areas of education and the workplace. National organizations have a macro sphere of influence, not the micro attention to detail that is parental ADHD advocacy.
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