Out Of The Comfort Zone

Have you been identified as a high potential talent in your organization? What does it take to be seen as high potential? What do high potentials do that other don’t do? How do you identify the high potentials in your team? How do you help them develop? If you are concerned about your career or the careers of people who work for you, this episode contains critical information.

With the “Great Resignation”, most leaders have renewed their focus on finding, hiring and keeping great talent. Are you doing the right things to be sure you have found the best talent and can keep them? Tune in to hear what you need to know about creating a talent magnet.

The stories of how individuals overcome extreme adversity are widely told and lauded. They emphasize personal grit, perserverance, growth mindset and mental toughness. What if that popular narrative is wrong? Scientific research says it’s not that simple. The ability to deal with adversity and come out the other side involves three things. Tune in to hear why our narrative needs adjusting, what is a better framework and how to get there from here.

Do you find yourself struggling to keep up, to make the impact you know you can make? What choices do you need to make to get out of quicksand and stay out? How do you make choices that let you have an even greater impact? As it turns out, there are 4 key choices. Tune in to hear more.

What makes a great leader today? No doubt you have your own experiences with leaders you thought were truly inspirational and admirable. What are the common elements and behaviors for those leaders? What do they do? How do they develop agility? What has changed about what we expect from our leaders? Tune in for a fascinating discussion.

In this episode, we begin with a story of a newly hired leader who is overwhelmed, not fully backed by the team, not getting the support expected from her manager and at risk for not delivering. Through this story we will explore why she is in this situation and what she can do about it. How can she (or you) advocate for herself when others haven’t done so, cannot do so or are too overwhelmed themselves to do so. Tune in for a exciting and enlightening episode.

All leaders need to create greater leverage by delegating more effectively. That isn’t news; yet most leaders struggle to delegate effectively and consistently. What does it take and how can you get better at delegating? Tune in for answers.

Leadership is about leading change whether the change is to get better performance, better teams, better cultures or better client/customer reactions or even to correct a misstep or anticipate a market shift. For something that is so fundamental to leadership, most get change horribly wrong for the people that are being asked to make a change. What are we missing? What really happens to people when they are asked to change? How can we lead change in a more effective manner? Tune in the hear a different way to lead change.

Stories – no doubt you have heard that to capture your audience you need to tell a story. Yet, most executives don’t use narrative well and most are trained to understand its power let alone how to master it. Why are stories so powerful? How do we think about stories that make a difference for our organizations? Tune in to hear how.

Who do you find irritating at work? Chances are they are not very much like you – they may be from a different generation or background, hold different values or even think about work differently. Tune in to here why we generalize as human beings, what we find most irritating, how to alter work dialogues and more.

If you are looking for ways to inspire your team, we have a process to follow that will lead to inspiration, engagement and better decisions. It all begins with your ability as a leader to engage individuals in a conversation about the purpose of their job. Tune in to hear how to make this conversation work with you team.

What is the secret to changing your behavior and changing your habits? What about changing the habits of your team? Tune in to discover a methodology that works.

We often get feedback about a behavior that is too much – such as being too direct, too quiet or too assertive. However that same behavior is a core quality and it has generated great results. When does a strength tip into a liability? How do we think about these “flaws” in a way that is more productive? How does this help us boost confidence? Tune in to discover a fascinating approach.

In honor of fathers and mothers around the world who are working and struggling to keep all the aspects of their lives together. First, Josh Levs offers his experience and perspective on why we must give fathers the same parental rights we give mothers. Second, Stew Friedman introduces his framework for how to integrate all the parts of your life. It works just as well for any leader whether you are a parent or not. Tune in to be inspired.

Growth is a key focus today whether that is expanding the company’s footprint or expanding product and service offers. How can you better understand the go/no-go decisions your company chooses to make? What culture and leadership behaviors impede growth? What can you do about it? Tune in for wisdom on how to grow your business.

72% of global workers report feeling lonely. If you are feeling disconnected from people at work, you are not alone. And, as a manager if you worry about how disconnected, or lonely, your team members seem to be, you are not alone either. Why should you care and what can you do about it? Tune in to find out more.

If you are a functional or technical specialist who is wondering what it takes to get promoted to the next level, this is the episode for you. What keeps you from getting the roles you think you deserve? How do you become more strategic? How do you think about collaborating across boundaries? Tune in to hear how one executive did it.

Hearing from leaders who have built and led organizations and then stopped to reflect on what worked and what didn’t inspires us. Tune in to hear experiences about navigating conflict, creating alignment, having tough conversations, expanding into unknown territory and boosting confidence – all essential for executing.

The pandemic has created a massive experiment in how we could work; however, it has also offered few roadmaps for how to work going forward. Do we go back to the office, in what proportion of time? How do we use technology more effectively? How do we foster human connection? How do we accommodate individual needs and preferences? While we do not yet have answers, we do have some guidelines for how to redesign work in your organization. Tune in to hear a model for evaluating what work at your organization looks like in the future.

If you are looking for practical advice as a leader - something simple, straightforward and immediately actionable that has survived the test of time - tune in for sound advice from two leadership gurus.