Out Of The Comfort Zone

We want our leaders to be ethical and to consider the “greater good” in making decisions, particularly big ones. How do you identify ethical leadership and how can you develop it in yourself and in your organization? Listen in a very important debate.

Coaching is everywhere. Everyone, at every level, seems to want a personal coach whether the subject is career, leading or life. While no doubt one-one coaching can be effective, there is a growing interest in a different coaching format: peer-to-peer or even one coach with several coachees. Does this model work? Why? And How? What does it say about how you lead and develop your team? Can these models help us do a better job of building a hybrid team? Listen in for the debate and some solutions.

Based on latest research, a lot of people are feeling lonely, unmotivated and lacking a sense of joy. No, it’s not depression or burn-out. It’s languishing. There are 5 vitamins for flipping the switch back to flourishing. Listen in to hear what languishing is, why it matters to you and to the success of your team along with what you can do about it.

Emotional intelligence is an essential ingredient for great leadership and there is nothing new in that statement. What is new is recent study showing a steady global decline in emotional intelligence – across generations, cultures and industries. If you are leading people, this has big implications for how you manage people, particularly younger talent. And, it has big implications for each of us in being our best selves for all the people that matter in our lives. Listen in to hear the data and a conversation about the implications along with potential actions you can take.

Leaders faced with decisions often ask if they made the “right” call. Winning athletes and coaches make a constant series of calls. What can we learn from studying how they make the “right calls’? What does it tell us about how to be a better leader? Tune in for fun stories and brilliant insight.

I have been saying for a few years that leaders expect themselves to perform like Olympic athletes but do none of the preparation and practices that make today’s athletes competitive. In this episode, don’t take my word for it. Listen in to hear the story of a medal winning Olympic athelete. Learn what she did and how the same practices can apply to you.

Science has given us a window into what the best performers do that sustains and propels their performance. What distinguishes the best from the rest? What practices do you need to adopt for yourself and your team? Listen in to hear the latest advice on the skills you need.

This is a wide-ranging conversation with an entrepreneur. We talk about her big career moves, maintaining confidence, staying centered, taking risks and of course the impact of Generative AI. Listen in for a fascinating exploration of one leader’s career and how she thinks about the future.

Your career matters to you and therefore you are the only one who really cares, who can make the choices that will make a difference, who can define what you should do and when. Listen in for advice about really winning, making mistakes and how to know when it’s time to leave.

Being persuasive, convincing others is tough especially when the people you want to convince are over-scheduled, distracted and have a thousand things going on at any moment. Hostage negotiations and crisis communications have a many good insights for navigating the day-day challenges of persuasion. Intrigued? Listen in to understand 4 skills you can add to your repetoire that will be game changers.

Growth mindset, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks, perseverance, willpower are all adages we hear every day about how to succeed. What if we are thinking about these in the wrong way? How can you think about risk? How do you know if you should preserve at something or change course? How do you keep from burning out? Listen in for how one leader navigates his challenges and what he has learned about success from establishing over 100 companies.

There are many disruptors on the minds of business leaders today. A.I. and automation may be at the top of the list. However, A.I and automation enable something bigger such as a drastic change in when goods are made available to customers making it possible for customers to have anything they want, anytime they want it and anywhere they want it. This is the proximity revolution. What does it mean to you and your business? Listen in insights and steps you can take.

Having great impact is a worthy goal. In fact, I think it’s a better goal than striving to reach a particular title. And it forces you to ask some of the most important questions a leader needs to address like: Where can I add the greatest value and where do I put my efforts to have the greatest impact. What do impact players do that sets them apart? Listen in to find out and stay with us to learn why this is creating a lot of controversy in a “quiet quitting” world? What has happened to our relationship with work?

Conflict is inevitable if you are working on complex challenges. Learning to manage conflict well will be a game changer for success as a leader and in your career. What do you say in the moment? How can you make your point without offending the other party or sounding defensive? Listen in for phrases that help you say no, manage the matrix, deal with complainers, increase accountability and much more.

In almost every aspect of business, great teams outperform individual efforts. Yet creating a ‘dream’ team isn’t as easy as it sounds. What does it take to create a winning team and how can you turn your team into a winning team?

Have you ever wondered about the essential skills for being a leader that inspires people and that people want to follow? What really sets great leaders apart from the rest? Wondering what you need to develop to increase your leadership? If you answered yes to any of these, then check out answers in this episode.

This episode addresses one question: How do you come to understand who you are and what matters to you so that you can live the life you want to live and feel satisfied with your life? To answer that key question, we dive into how to define what matters, how to understand your core values, how to understand who you are and who you are not and how to define success for you. Listen in for exercises that will help you answer those questions for yourself.

Most of us avoid getting things done either from fear or self-doubt or lack of time. Regardless what you need to get done or your temperament on planning, this episode will give you fabulous tips for how to get things done and get over the inner critic.

Stress comes from the big events at work and outside of work as well as in all the small micro moments. Managing stress levels may well be the most important thing for leaders to do to keep from over-reacting, stressing their teams and amplifying negative energy. Breathing is the best way to manage your stress in the moment. But there is more to breathing than just taking in a gulp of air and letting it out. Science is showing us the power of specific breath exercises. Listen in to hear about the latest and the impact it could have on you.

If you are leading a team, you probably spend a lot of your time solving problems with or for the team. And, perhaps you spend more time than you like persuading others, especially senior most leaders, that those solutions are good or that change is necessary. Is there a better way to solve problems – one that encourages innovation and that fosters transformation? That is the focus on this episode.