Matt Spielman
22 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 23, 2021 by Matt Spielman · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Aug 23, 2021 positive
Aug 23, 2021 positive
Spielman: Executive coaching is most efficacious during periods of high stress
“It's actually times like this when the coaching partnership can be most efficacious. I talk a lot about slowing down to speed up, taking five minutes to have a conversation with me or have a conversation with oneself and say, okay, okay, I know things are craz…”
Aug 23, 2021 negative
Spielman: Chasing financial upside early clouded his true passions
“Early on, I think I let the opportunity for financial upside cloud or murky the waters for this passion, this energy, the excitement that I speak so much about now, and I made some decisions in retrospect that if I were making those today, I probably wouldn't …”
Aug 23, 2021
Spielman: Financial services accounts for roughly 70% of coaching clients
“And I have found in financial services, they're very much like-minded people, whether it's public investing, you know, whether it's like hedge funds or in private equity. Or even investment banking and money management is probably. 70% of my client base.”
Aug 23, 2021
Spielman: Daily employee performance depends on psychological fulfillment beyond compensation and carry
“The day to day sort of performance of somebody is, hey, do I enjoy the people I work with? Am I really valued? Am I trusted? Do I have an opportunity to grow and develop? Do I have an opportunity to recharge my batteries every once in a while?”
Aug 23, 2021
Spielman: Coaching should amplify strengths rather than fix weaknesses
“We don't coach from a position of weakness, so let's find out what Ted doesn't do well, and let's take out the sandpaper and sort of smooth that out. Let's identify what you do really well. What are your strengths? What are your signature traits that you deriv…”
Aug 23, 2021 neutral
Spielman: Coaching is often squishy because anyone can call themselves a coach
“There really is training, and there's a science behind coaching and the arc of the coaching conversation. I want to do it, and I didn't have that, and I want to do it the right way, and anybody can call him or herself a coach. It can be a really squishy indust…”
Aug 23, 2021
Spielman: Limiting daily priorities to three tasks prevents dispiriting to-do lists
“What are the three things that you will have either, and could be started, advanced, or completed? We don't always complete things in a day. So what are the three key things that you will have done, the future perfect tense, today, so you can look back and say…”
Aug 23, 2021 positive
Spielman: Career growth requires shifting mindset from 'should do' to 'could do'
“So I mentioned my coach, Peter Hazelrig, earlier, and he gave me the permission to actually think about doing things that maybe I shouldn't do, but that I could do. Something that I talk a lot about now, sort of the should versus could.”
Aug 23, 2021 positive
Spielman: Focusing on three to four consequential goals produces cascading life effects
“This game plan has three to four critical goals that you've thought a lot about that are real consequential, meaningful to you. And if they're chosen, well, three or four is fine. Cause they're going to have massive cascading effects throughout the rest of you…”
Aug 23, 2021 negative
Aug 23, 2021
Spielman relies on a daily analog 'Win the Day' index card
“So aside from the exercise, I have the win the day card. I get all analog, and I have a little index card here, and on top of it, I have win the day, and there are the three things that I'm going to do today that are going to move me closer to my goals on my g…”
Oct 6, 2025 positive
Oct 6, 2025
Oct 6, 2025 positive
Spielman: Outside coaches elicit more openness than internal staff coaches
“There can be something pretty powerful being outside an organization where intentionally a very different email address may not be in every day, and there's a little bit more comfort, I think, in sharing information with me or one of the members on my team Ver…”
Oct 6, 2025
Oct 6, 2025
Oct 6, 2025
Oct 6, 2025 positive
Spielman: Busiest executives are the most committed to executive coaching
“Those people who were the most busy and had the busiest schedule and they were traveling all over, they were the ones who were voracious to read the books or the articles and to have the conversations, and they kept all the coaching sessions.”
Oct 6, 2025 positive
Spielman: Six to eight reports are optimal; check-ins need five minutes
“The six to eight is the sweet spot, but let's just even take the 20. I still think that that person can meet with his folks once a week, and it doesn't have to be an hour conversation. It could be Knocking on the door, popping by. Say, Ted, what do you got goi…”
Oct 6, 2025 neutral
Spielman: Asset managers reach executive roles via analytical skill, not leadership ability
“First, it's important for them to understand how they and their organization got there, which is they got there not because they were a great Leaders, but because they were really good at doing the job, doing the work, doing the analysis, doing the presentatio…”