Breakfast with Bacon

We recently welcomed Yolanda Owens on Breakfast with Bacon. Yolanda has a passion for building effective teams and has 20+ years of Fortune 500 and start-up human resources experience. In this podcast we hear how leaning into her strong Belief and Connectedness themes have helped Yolanda, especially over this past year of transition.

This week we welcome Lisa Cummings to Breakfast with Bacon. Lisa is the founder and owner of Lead Through Strengths and brings first-hand experience (and solutions) dealing with the challenges of work/life balance. Listen in as Lisa, TyAnn Osborn and I dive into the topics of reforming workaholism and doing less, better.

In this week's podcast, Doug and Ty talk about the power of words and how we have to sometimes "adjust the volume" based on our Strengths and our audience.

Today we're joined by Alexsys Thompson, Strengths coach, friend and author of newly released book, "The Power of a Graceful Leader". Hear how Alexsys has matured into her Influencing themes by learning to surrender to time and by realizing that gratitude is the portal into grace and therefore, transformation.

From The Involvement Practice, meet Tim McCleary. We've benefited first-hand from Tim's help with our virtual studio set-up. What a difference! Listen in as Tim shares his expertise and advice on virtual meetings and how the human-touch side of meetings is as important now as it has ever been.

In this week's Breakfast with Bacon podcast, we welcome Leah Keogh! Leah learned early that "you'll relax when you realize what you bring to the table". Heavily gifted in the Relationship domain, Leah has unique abilities and talents that help create a safe place for teams (often in conflict) to grow. You can reach Leah at www.lkstrengths.com.

TyAnn Osborn turns the tables on Doug as he becomes the interviewee in this week's Breakfast with Bacon. Listen in as they talk about Strengths superpowers and how to hire objectively to identify the best fitting candidate with complementary Strengths. There's even a "lightning round" Q&A to close it out.

We're back and this week we have Gallup's very own, Dean Jones. Dean, co-host TyAnn Osborn and Doug talk about the ongoing importance of communication and how it helps with organizational stability and business resilience.

Meet Lea Williams! She recently finished her Ph.D. and Master's in Organizational Science and has taken a new job at PMA Consulting, LLC. Hear how her Strengths led her to connecting with Doug, aided in her job search and enabled us to find out the correct pronunciation of her first name after several months (it's Lē).

In this week's Breakfast with Bacon, hear how TyAnn Osborn is utilizing (and adapting) her future-oriented CliftonStrengths in these times of uncertainty.

Parenting can be tough. Parenting teens can be even tougher. In this week's Breakfast with Bacon (family edition) Whit and Jackson talk about how understanding each other's Strengths eased conflict and allowed them to "be who they are".

In this week's Breakfast with Bacon we discuss the importance of good team work when prepping for, and during, vacation.

Chris Berger, VP of Enterprise Communications at Atrium Health, joins us this week. He speaks to his Achiever Strength and the importance of having diversity of thought on your team with folks who think differently.

Four months into the pandemic and working remote, it's as important now as it was in the beginning to connect with each other...even if it's still via Zoom.

When looking at Strengths it's often easy, and natural, to default to what we lack. In this week's Breakfast with Bacon, Doug helps us focus less on what we don't have and more on what we do.

Looking to increase meeting impact? We are! Introducing a new product, Making Meetings Work. It's an easy-to-use app that collects anonymous data from meeting participants. We've been using it for our own weekly meeting for 60 days and have already implemented changes to increase impact. Hear what we're doing in this week's Breakfast with Bacon.

Strengths are great unless taken to the extreme. When that happens they can impact the person and others around them adversely, what we refer to as being "in overdrive". In Doug's 22 conversations last week, several Strengths (Achiever, Restorative, Maximizer) took center stage.

MC explains how diving into her Strengths helped lessen her career anxiety and gave her the confidence (and freedom) to live out who she truly is.

Know of someone who relocated during the pandemic and has done 100% of their onboarding virtually? We do! Meet the new CFO at the CRVA, Anthony Shelborne. He is this week's Breakfast with Bacon guest and he shares his experience with adjusting to beginning a new job, in a new city , in a vastly different working environment.

Influencing when you don't necessarily have influencing Strengths....

In today's Breakfast with Bacon, JZ comes out from behind the camera to discuss her Strengths and how they played out in a recent client project that required some adaptability.

Today we have breakfast with Chris Elmore - author, speaker, AvidXchange evangelist, adjunct professor, board member, fellow entrepreneur and so much more! Hear Doug and Chris talk about strategic talents along with the correlation between mission, purpose and value.

For Strengths to be most effective certain needs need to be met. That can be challenging when work environments change drastically. Awareness, adaptability and creativity is key!

This week's Breakfast with Bacon guest Brian Leary (Highwoods Properties Executive VP and COO) shares a story of when he realized he wasn't building only items that contained brick and glass but was building people as well.

Doug shares his recent experience regarding the differences between a partner and a vendor relationship.Bre

Betsy Appleyard, VP of People Development at The Hickory Tavern, joins Doug to talk about Strengths in times of change.

In Episode 5 Doug shares insights relating to the Four Leadership Domains: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building and Strategic Thinking.

In this episode, Doug shares two recent stories relating to how our Strengths play into how we give and receive communication.

Did you know that Doug's recent low BP is not due to working from home as his nurse assumed? Take a listen and hear about his new habit...

Doug, Lynne and JZ continue their conversation on delegation.

Doug, Lynne and JZ share their recent experience regarding delegation within the Throwing Words team.