Drama Free Living Podcast

Dennis shares 5 common mistakes leaders make when trying to get the drama out of their teams as well as practical steps to take in order to stop making them.

Dennis shares a 5-step-guide to get the drama out of people to make way for confident, creative, collaborative teams.

As leaders, we need to redefine what it means to help. We want to help our people and serve them, but when we overextend that desire, we move into the role of a rescuer. Dennis shares how rescuing actually holds teams back and the key to stop doing it.

Dennis shares two mindsets to take the drama out of your productivity. Drama free productivity means we can do more in less time with less stress.

Drama always has a story. In this podcast, Dennis shows how the Excuse Buster exchanges the story for creativity. When we become creative problem solvers, we start to take ownership. We can complain or create, but we can't do both.

All drama lives in the gap between expectation and reality. We have ideals and potential which produce mental gaps when compared to reality. In this episode, Dennis addresses how to shorten the Expectation Reality Gap producing better outcomes.

One of the greatest gifts a leader can give their team is awareness. We can't control people's behavior, but we can provide feedback. We lead them to Awareness, bringing Alignment and Accountability - the "Three A's" of Leadership.

Do you feel like you waste your time in meetings? Are your interactions with others busy but unproductive? Join Dennis as he explains how to make meetings Drama-Free because when we hide obstacles we can’t make good decisions.

Nothing in life changes until behavior changes. For behavior to change, something on the inside has to change, and all change happens emotionally. Leadership training is a process and not an event.

People tend to behave how we believe them to be. In this episode of Drama Free Living we show how to create value and bring out the gold in people by utilizing the TSP framework

Procrastination is a motivator when we use it as an activity to produce progress. Dennis explains when we step into the uncomfortableness, our clarity improves and we become more intentional.

The results in your life are based on the actions you take. The actions you take originate from your feelings which have their root in your thinking and the starting point of these thoughts are the questions you ask. Join us as we discuss Q-T-F-A-R.

Drama-Free is about living a life of confidence and creativity. It is becoming free from other peoples expectations and moving forward. It’s about progress, not perfection. Drama-Free living is about living in the freedom of whom you were created to be.

The outcome of Drama Free Accountability is self-directed high-level ownership and responsibility by each team member for their assignment. If someone has to ask, "Where are you at on that?" It's a cue I'm not as accountable as I need to be.

Self-leadership is the most vital leadership capacity. So goes the leader, so goes the team. Dennis shares 5 practical ways we can begin or get better at self-managing/leading ourselves.

To accomplish more in less time, increase trust. How? Character and Competency. It's the fastest path to trust: results are defined and actions are clear when we start to tell the truth and are honest about them. Join Dennis as he unpacks 2 Ways to Expand

We waste our time clearing webs of issues in our organization instead of getting to the spider, and the webs keep returning. But, when we get the spider, the webs go away. The 5W Coaching Process in this episode gets to the spider of the issues.

A leader's three gifts to their teams: In this episode of Drama-Free Living, we show how AWARENESS, ALIGNMENT and ACCOUNTABILITY remedies cloudy, fuzzy focus in your teams keeping you out of the negative emotion and into seeing and thinking straight.

People who actively choose to identify and remove their blindspots succeed over people who don’t. The lighter the load you carry the further you can go. This week we address how the posture of 100% responsibility produces the power to change.

Imagine a creative team. Imagine working with people that solve problems instead of always complaining about the challenges. In this episode of the Drama Free Living podcast, we cover "How To Ask Better Questions."

Drama is a tragic expression of an unmet need. In this episode of Drama-Free Living, we dive into conflict. It is simply a passionate debate about ideas and, managed well, brings clarity creating life in your organization.