{"id":41410,"date":"2023-09-07T07:29:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=41410"},"modified":"2023-09-07T07:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:29:55","slug":"visual-metaphors-from-spinning-plates-to-home-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/09\/07\/visual-metaphors-from-spinning-plates-to-home-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Metaphors: From Spinning Plates to Home Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis is another in a series of visual metaphors that I provide as a learning tool for executive coaches in order to develop their clients\u2019 leadership skills. This visual metaphor is a three panel, sequential cartoon that illustrates this client\u2019s current career state, a transitional state and a successful final state that sees the individual flourish in the company. Below is this man\u2019s description of his particular leadership challenges from which I derive my illustrations:<\/p>\n

FRAME 1
\n<\/strong>There are a number of spinning plates and I\u2019m handing them off to others who are competent, I trust that they can deliver, and I\u2019m making the shift from operating to leading.<\/span><\/p>\n

FRAME 2
\n<\/strong>I\u2019m in front of people engaging them and building relationships.\u00a0 I\u2019m certain that I have the right leaders on my team\u2014they are competent, capable, and empathetic.\u00a0 I\u2019ve shifted from operating to leading and I believe these team members will help us accelerate \u00a0our organization results\u2014results that are aligned with our values.<\/p>\n

FRAME 3
\n<\/strong>I\u2019m providing strong leadership and the team has been fully built.\u00a0 We have real bench strength, too \u00a0so we can constantly keep winning at a major league level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Jai-B-p1\" <\/a> <\/div>
\"Jai-B-p2-1\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jai-B-p3-1\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

This series of illustrations has a sports element which is typical for a lot of these visual metaphors, but it also has plate spinning which is fairly common. Often there is a chaotic stage in these metaphors where the executive compares his or her career to trying to keep an impossible number of plates spinning atop flexible rods. Apparently a lot of these executives were fans of The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em><\/a>. That was the last time I remember seeing plate spinners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is another in a series of visual metaphors that I provide as a learning tool for executive coaches in order to develop their clients\u2019 leadership skills. This visual metaphor is a three panel, sequential cartoon that illustrates this client\u2019s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[41,27,5690,3661,5,5706,480,39],"class_list":["post-41410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visual-metaphors","tag-collage","tag-digital-illustration","tag-executive-coaching","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-leadership-development","tag-usa","tag-visual-metaphor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aLU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39892,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/01\/20\/visual-metaphor-from-the-big-top-to-the-wild-west\/","url_meta":{"origin":41410,"position":0},"title":"Visual Metaphor – From the Big Top to the Wild West","author":"Joe","date":"January 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This is another in a series of visual metaphors that I provide as a learning tool for executive coaches in order to develop their clients\u2019 leadership skills. 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