How To Deal With Someone Whom You Believe Might be Trying to Sabotage You
Sometimes it’s difficult to determine if a coworker is out to sabotage you or if something else entirely is going on. In many situation our preconceived notions about someone can completely color the way we see them and their actions in an unfair and inaccurate way. That’s called prejudice. Remember, it’s a quantum world and before you conclude that someone is engaging in sabotage you owe it to yourself and the other person to do your best to determine the reality of what’s going on before your own actions contribute to evoking the very behavior from the other that you desperately do not want. Listen in and we’ll give you three action steps you can take to deal with a potential saboteur.
Dec 15, 2022
11 min
What Do Emotions Have to do with Leadership?
Why Your Success Depends on Your Leadership EQ and Your Business Skills
Talking about emotions at work has traditionally been discouraged. Being able to deal with feelings at work has been viewed as touchy-feely soft skills as opposed to the hard business skills. No more than fluff or a nuisance. Now research is showing that the best leaders have something called EQ (EI) or emotional intelligence in addition to great business skills and their smarts. Have we piqued your curiosity yet? Want to know how to develop your own EQ? Listen in and we’ll give you the lowdown on how to build your EQ and overall leadership success.
Aug 11, 2022
11 min
How to Become a More Conscious Leader and Create a Healthy, Energetic Culture for Your Team or Organization.
My guest today, Rebecca Watson, has spent nearly 20 years coaching senior leaders on how to create high performing teams and a healthy, vibrant culture in their workplaces. She is a master coach, author, speaker and online trainer hoping to share her knowledge as widely as possible so people don’t suffer under poor leadership. Her most recent book is entitled “Conscious Leadership - And The Power Of Energetic Fields.” Rebecca is based in London, England.
Aug 10, 2022
14 min
What to do when you’re a good ways into a collaborative project and you realize in your gut that you're just not into it?
Your ability to be truly honest with others is dependent upon your ability to be honest with yourself about your feelings. Taking your feelings into consideration when making important decisions and commitments gives you the capability to make better decisions and avoid making commitments that your heart just can’t make. If you’d like to learn how to get better at including your feelings in major decisions and commitments give a listen.
May 24, 2022
12 min
How To Do Training and Development Right In An Online, Zoom Work World.
Whether you’re a provider or consumer of online training it’s important to understand how the online learning experience vastly differs from that of the in-person classroom. Taking material developed for the in-person classroom and just pushing it online doesn’t work and bores your learners to tears. Want to learn what makes for successful and engaging online learning? Give a listen to my interview with Curt Dowdy, CEO of InnerProfessional on what works and what to look for in your next online learning experience.
Feb 13, 2022
18 min
Uncertainty has always been a part of our world, but with Covid 19 and all the disruptions it has caused it looks like uncertainty is now a permanent, unrelenting worldwide fixture rather than something that happens in response to a particular crisis and then recedes. Despite how much we may dislike uncertainty, learning how to not only accept, but truly embrace it and the new possibilities it brings is one of those fundamental leadership skills for our time. If you’d like to learn how to make this leadership switch, give a listen to my interview with executive coach, leadership consultant and six-time Ironman triathlon finisher Bobbie LaPorte.
Jan 4, 2022
13 min
It turns out that one of the absolute best coaches you can hire is yourself. If you'd like to learn some practical self-coaching skills give a listen to my interview with Mike Normant, the creator of Coach Your Self Up, a training program that teaches self-coaching skills to help individuals make lasting behavior changes in support of their career and life goals.
Sep 3, 2021
12 min
How to Be Honest With Others When They Let You Down Without Becoming Disrespectful.
You know the situation where someone tells you that they're going to do something and then they don't follow through. When this happens how do you respond in a way that's true to your own feelings, but doesn't alienate the other person by having your frustration infect your communication with them. Want to learn how? Give a listen to this cast and we'll show you.
Aug 26, 2021
13 min
Give a listen to my conversation with Dr. Ginny Whitelaw in our new Interview series. Dr. Ginny is a Zen master and founder/CEO of the Institute for Zen Leadership. She holds a doctorate in biophysics, degrees in physics and philosophy, and a 5th degree black belt in Aikido, and was formerly a senior leader at NASA, where she led the integration of the Space Station Program. She is the author of 4 books, including her latest, Resonate.
Aug 4, 2021
14 min
Leadership Lessons Learned From Being Trapped in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina.
It was the fourth day since Hurricane Katrina had struck New Orleans, and as I walked out of the elevator in my four-star French Quarter hotel I was met by a scene that stopped me dead in my tracks: the lobby was completely empty and the front doors were chained and padlocked. Just the night before there had been so many sweaty, desperate people in that lobby that I could hardly walk without stepping on someone. Now, just eight hours later, I was the only person left in the entire hotel. I had been abandoned.
Standing in that lobby alone and locked in, it became instantly clear to me that if I was going to get out of New Orleans, it would be the result of my own efforts. I would have to take the leadership I’d been expecting the local authority figures to assume and find my own escape from that hotel and New Orleans. Want to hear what Katrina taught me about leadership? Listen in.
Oct 18, 2020
9 min
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