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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to Keep Your Self-Development on Track by Establishing a Daily Practice of Journal Writing. All personal change and development starts with self-awareness and to develop your self-awareness you have to establish a regular practice of self reflection and there is no better tool for doing that than a journal. This is the one practice that I strongly recommend to all of the executives that I coach. Time for self-reflection is sorely lacking in most of our busy work days so we have to develop the disciple to take time out and a journal is a great tool for facilitating that. Give a listen to see how it's done.

I Sense a Disturbance in The Force. How to Trust and Act on Your Intuition in Real Time When an Interaction Takes a Turn You Didn't Expect. Developing your ability to pay attention to, trust, and act on your intuition in real time is one of the absolute most powerful communication skills you can learn. By doing so you move yourself away from reacting without full awareness to people and events, which usually leads to a need to clean up messes that you've inadvertently created, to responding in a mindful manner, which enables you to be more successful in all your communications. There is something magical about being able to communicate your intuition or what you sense and call out an issue in real time that's not being spoken about, but that everyone senses. If you'd like to learn how to do this just give a listen.

Centering is a technique for grounding and calming yourself and regaining your composure and sense of control once your emotions or stress have driven you off course and started to consume you. It can help you be in the present moment to bring your full focus and critical thinking to bear, and it can improve your self-awareness, but it's much more than that.

It's Time to Scrap the Idea of Balance and Instead Strive For Integration With the many changes Covid 19 is bringing to the way we work there's one idea in particular that the pandemic has shown us was never going to work. That is, the concept of work/life balance is both unrealistic and potentially harmful. Instead of balance, we recommend work/life integration, which means that employers take a wholistic view of staff and recognize that they have a role to play in helping them integrate the different parts of their lives into one whole life. It means organizations understand that the stress of managing both home and work realms can have a negative effect on staff morale, productivity, and engagement, and that they can't leave this challenge on the shoulders of staff alone to manage.

Empathetic Understanding of Your Staff's Psychological Needs Now Will Make Reopening Much More Successful. In this podcast we talk about reopening workplaces during this Covid 19 pandemic. In particular, we look at the psychological state of your employees and the very nature of the relationship between you and your staff. We're currently involved in a grand global social experiment and your employees are experiencing stressors like they've never faced before along with a completely different way of doing their jobs. When they return to the workplace they'll have very different expectations of how their work and home lives fit together. Our main message to organizational leaders is this: If you want to increase the prospects of a successful reopening make it a priority now to address your staff's psychological needs and do it in an empathetic manner.

I Am Not Being Defensive! How Your Career Depends on Your Ability to Receive Feedback Listening to feedback about our performance, especially negative feedback, is difficult for all of us. In this segment we show you why your career success depends upon your ability to be open to and handle feedback and give you suggestion on how to do that.