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Mostly, we think of leadership as epitomizing confidence. We lead, therefore we know.  But beneath that is a deeper truth, an apparent weakness - vulnerability. But vulnerability can be a leader's superpower.  As Concord Leadership Group's founder, Marc Pitman helps leaders lead their teams with greater effectiveness and less stress.   His latest book is The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be.   He's also the executive director of TheNonprofitAcademy.com and an Advisory Panel member of Rogare, a prestigious international fundraising think tank.  Marc's expertise has caught the attention of media organizations as diverse as The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Al Jazeera, Fox News, SUCCESS magazine, and Real Simple.          In this episode, Marc highlights bringing back the values and humanity into leadership other than just the mechanistic way of leading.    What you will learn from this episode:  Find out about the map to leadership, so you know what stage in the four quadrants of leadership you are and learn to manage yourself and your team so you move forward Learn about actionable tips to help in your personal journey as a leader and as a team as you navigate the world of the unknown Learn to find strength in vulnerability and transparency to make that your point of progression in leadership      "Consider, I'll just say, consider listening to… that doubt, that confusion – ‘internal' we've been told is subjective. It's emotions and that's bad. …   try to think of them as a partner."   - Marc Pitman    Topics Covered:  02:04 - Bringing values and humanity back to business leaders  03:05 - Helping leaders face the challenge of the unknown  05:16 - The map to leadership and the two axis   07:11 - Why feeling doubt is never a moral failing or sign of weakness for leaders  08:20 - How uncertainty and self-doubt help you figure out how you are as an individual and understand others more  10:23 - The two personality assessment tools to help leaders in their goal-setting  12:05 - Looking at the map -- the four quadrants of where you are to help you progress as a leader and as a team  14:23 - Should everybody be open about their doubts and share them widely with people?  16:43 - Permitting yourself to think you're the perfect person in the leadership role    Key Takeaways:  "Some of the best leaders feel like, they must doubt, is a moral failing or a sign of weakness. And it could be that you need professional help, and there's no stigma in that. There are a lot of places to get help. But it could also be that you're really on the verge of greatness." - Marc Pitman  "Knowing that there's a map, figuring out where you are, where's your process on the four quadrants, and then how do you best be in that quadrant? And not try to short circuit your growth." - Marc Pitman  "There's strength in vulnerability and being vulnerable. But I would caution leaders to be vulnerable in safe spaces only. Not everybody has your best interests at heart. There are employees or people in your team that are gunning for you." - Marc Pitman    Resources:  Get the 4 Quadrants Worksheet FREE: Click here: https://concordleadershipgroup.com/focusedleader/    Connect with Marc Pitman:  Website: https://ConcordLeadershipGroup.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marcapitman LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marcapitman Facebook: https://facebook.com/concordleadershipgroup Instagram: https://instagram.com/marcpitman YouTube: https://youtube.com/marcpitman 

We were already in the midst of VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) times. Then COVID hit. Now it's VUCA 2.0 given COVID's very real economic and mental health ripples. So the question is, “How to flourish as a leader despite mounting uncertainty?”   This is Melissa's realm of expertise.   In this episode, Melissa unpacks how VUCA affects leaders. She talks about the mistakes leaders make, the importance of slowing down, and shares valuable insights that you can apply to remain intact, navigate through VUCA and be the leader your organization, your people, and this world needs you to be.  Melissa Eisler, MA, PCC, is an ICF certified executive coach. She partners with leaders to develop their systems thinking, resilience, strategic communication skills, and executive presence in order to reach individual, team, and organizational goals. She blends more than 15 years of experience in leadership positions in the corporate world, with her Master's degree in Organizational Leadership and extensive background in mindfulness to help her clients master their leadership skills and steer their teams through challenges and change.  Get a copy of her leadership ebook at https://melissaeisler.com/leadership-ebook-leaders-guide-vuca/   What you will learn from this episode:  Understand what VUCA is and how to navigate it Discover the power of pause Find out how to develop resilience and adaptability – the competencies you need   “To really answer the question of how do you know when I'm navigating VUCA effectively or what's the best thing I could do, I would recommend assessing what impact your state of being has on people.”   - Melissa Eisler Topics Covered: 02:11 – The biggest challenge leaders face in business today.  04:26 – Self inquiry, the feedback loop, and the mistakes leaders are making despite knowing that they need not to stay still in this changing world.  08:02 – An actionable step leaders can undertake to develop resilience.  09:43 – How to develop one's curiosity?  11:54 – Actionable tips and Melissa's go to's that absolutely work in terms of building leadership presence.  13:50 – Melissa's free Leadership eBook and the 5Cs of her leadership framework that paved way for it.  15:50 – What is the VUCA challenge asking of you, or what kind of leader is that asking you to be? Buddhist teacher and author Thich Nhat Hanh and his story.  19:45 – Melissa's final message.  Key Takeaways: “As a leader, if you show up frazzled, anxious, and worn out by the unknown, letting your nervous system get the best of you, others are going to feel that too, and then everyone in the organization ends up unproductive and stressed as a result. If you show up a steady during change in volatility, others follow suit and feel at ease by your steadiness. It's the leaders' job to help others to the groundlessness of VUCA.”  “Learning how to lead is a process and a mindset, and there's not one book you could just read or step you can take to learn how to become better. You got to do the inner work, and the answers aren't in a book. They're through a process, and usually it starts with self inquiry.”  “It isn't what you do. It's how you are being that is most important.”  Connect with Melissa Eisler: Website: https://melissaeisler.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissaeisler/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelissaEisler  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MelissaEislerExecutiveCoach 

A leader's mindset affects the entirety of the group, but with the pandemic and the things it make us experience, disengagement is slowly becoming present and it's making life a little harder to live.  Left with no choice but to find and do work in order to survive, we tend to pay more attention to that job instead of crafting the life we want. In these times, learning how to live a rhythm-organized life is necessary for you to avoid burning your entire soul out.  David Taylor – Klaus is the author of the best selling new book “Mindset Mondays with DTK: 52 Ways to REWIRE Your Thinking and Transform Your Life” – a book that will guide you towards living a life in rhythm. He reintroduces successful entrepreneurs and senior executives to their families, and challenges leaders in their teams to reach their highest levels of performance in both their professional and personal lives. As a serial entrepreneur, David was recognised for combining candour, intelligence, and humour with masterful coaching.   In this episode, David shares his insights on the disengagement leaders experience that slowly kills them and their being. Here, he discusses how a ‘work-life balance' system practiced in your life actually affects you in a way that exhausts you out, and how good it would be for you to shift into the idea of ‘life rhythm'. Listen and check these concepts out.    What you will learn from this episode:  Discover why the concept of ‘work-life balance' is actually killing you Learn ways on how you can start making a move to change the way you experience life with the help of a framework Find out what ‘life rhythm' is and why it's better than the idea of ‘work-life balance'    “We are paying attention to work more than our life when in fact it should be crafting the life you want.”  - David Taylor - Klaus    Topics Covered:  01:23 – The reason why David focused on the concept of mindset out of everything that's possible to cover in leadership.  02:29 – What is the biggest challenge leaders face in business today?  04:44 – What are some of the biggest mistakes people are making in their attempts on living a good life?  05:57 – Some actionable tips on how someone can actually start making a move and have traction.  08:45 – Other actionable steps David recommends for you to take.  10:11 – Another tip David shares for you to start getting more out of what you read: The REWIRE Framework.  11:57 – A free resource: The REWIRE Framework explained.  14:35 – The link that will lead you to see the REWIRE Framework: https://www.mindsetmondayswithdtk.com   15:05 – Why does David hate the term ‘work-life balance' so much and why it should be changed to ‘life rhythm'.    Key Takeaways:  “Mindset, for me, is the most critical element to leadership because not only does the leader's mindset impact his or her ability to lead and the way they lead; it's contagious. I've always heard that a leader sets the weather. The leader's mindset is something that he imbues, or I'll say, emits and becomes contagious to their team, and that's something incredibly important. It changes the way teams work.” – David Taylor - Klaus  “When you stop and look at your life and take an assessment with blameless discernment, letting go of the judgment, just objectively looking at where you are and where things are going, you'll look forward and you'll realize, ‘If I change nothing, if I keep going the way I'm going, it's just going to keep getting worse'.” – David Taylor - Klaus  “You can wait until you hit bottom, or you can make the decision that this is the bottom and you can start taking action to change things.” – David Taylor - Klaus  Connect with David Taylor-Klaus: Website: https://www.mindsetmondayswithdtk.com  

As a business leader today, what are the necessary key skills?  Given the context of extreme uncertainty, where must a leader focus? Tough decision making. Courage. Ensuring others shine. A leader grows and empowers those around them.   Henry Lopez is a Serial Entrepreneur, Small Business Coach & Consultant, and Host of The How of Business podcast show. He has over 35 years of diverse business experience, including successful careers in the information technology industry, sales, and sales training. He has been directly involved in over 11 different small businesses since purchasing his first business in 1991, And he is involved at every stage of launching, developing, buying, and selling.  What you will learn from this episode:  Find out one important capability a leader needs to have to run a business Learn what a leader should think and do to ensure everyone's working together to help achieve common goals Learn how to build a business and lead others truly  “Leaders are the ones … to make those tough decisions.”   - Henry Lopez  Topics Covered: 02:00 - Looking from a small business perspective, what is one capability leaders need to develop?  03:00 - The important questions you need to ask yourself before going into business   04:17 - What does a leader do in moments of crisis  05:12 - What biggest mistakes business owners commit to running their business  06:22 - Why develop and empower your people  08:23 - What responsibility do you have as a leader of an organization?  10:04 - Two questions you need to ask your team in your weekly sales meeting  10:48 - Delegation worksheet as a systematic approach to delegation  11:51 - Steps on how to delegate effectively  13:55 - What holds people back on decision making?  15:14 - An embarrassment that we have to learn how to deal with as entrepreneurs  16:06 - The biggest thing that you're missing when you do away with a delegation and empowering others  Key Takeaways: “It's not that I, by any stretch think I'm always making the right decisions; it's to have the courage to make a decision because that's often what we need.”  “What paralyzes people sometimes is they think, 'I have to have it perfect every time.' Or 'What if I make the wrong decision, and then what will people think about me?' Or 'What will that do to the business?' But that paralysis, otherwise, can kill your business.”  “Real leaders say to their teams, just by example, 'We're going to figure this out. We may not, but we're going as sure as heck give it a try. We're not just going to sit here idly and let it happen to us. We're going to try to impact the things that we can.' That's what a leader does in those moments of crisis.”  “A lot of times now, we have a virtual team, but trying to do it all yourself. That's not what a leader does. A leader empowers others to do so that everybody's working together to help us achieve our goals.”  “What I find is that people who aren't leaders think they have to do it all.  That only they can do it right. They have to make the doughnuts every day, instead of empowering others to become great donut makers.”  “I think the biggest way you coach your people is by making sure that they have the systems and the tools to do their jobs.”  “The biggest thing that you're missing [the issue of delegation], besides the fact that you have to leverage others to grow is that you're missing out on the perspective that others bring to it that you would have never thought about. Everybody has a unique voice. So, you need perspective.”  Connect with Henry Lopez: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-lopez-9758524/ Website: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HenryLuvsBiz 

Looking to 2021 cannot be business as usual. If 2020 has taught us anything, it's the need to be nimble. But towards what? Where do we pivot to? Where does some order of certainty lie? Kim Chernecki is Canada's leading expert on helping high-performing executives, consultants, coaches, and smaller businesses land lucrative contracts. She is the creator of the Land Corporate Contracts Fast-Track System and is a top-rated sales performance executive, facilitator, coach, advisor, speaker, and strategist. A 25-year entrepreneur, Kim has consulted with executives from100+ leading North American and Fortune 1000 companies and has, herself, started up and helped grow 10 businesses and business divisions. She's closed millions of dollars in corporate contracts and provides powerful strategies and proven formulas to help her clients do the same. In this episode, Kim talks about leaders' challenges to getting into new and changed opportunities brought about by the pandemic, and at the same time retaining clients. She encourages leaders to develop strategies to stand out and differentiate themselves from others who provide the same services like theirs. She shares how to listen rather than sell, develop trust, and give value. She suggests employing a strategy called ‘targeted ask' to increase your network. And more than anything, she underlines how important it is to digitize everything. What you will learn from this episode:  Find out what challenges leaders face today and the strategies that work now and into the futureThis includes strategies you need to build a larger network to find opportunities new clients, as well as keep current onesDiscover the one strategy that is so underutilized but can 10X up your network “Digitize everything. Whether you are a large organization, a small organization, or you're a solo business owner, you need to incorporate leading-edge technology in how you do business.” - Kim Chernecki Topics Covered: 2:09 - The challenge of how to gain access to these new and changed opportunities at the same time differentiating yourself from other providers 04:14 - How to adjust your messaging and your services to be able to address those needs now 05:21 - The need to know your target clients needs - being specific, targeted, and being really sensitive 07:19 - What you need to do to stand out above the rest of the people who are calling corporate 09:29 - Why do we need to shift mindset? 11:35 - Business as usual isn't the case anymore -- you need to adapt 12:41 - Lean on to your ability to be nimble and agile and to move a dime 13:52 - What you as consultants and small business owners need to know and do to get in the virtual door and meet your corporate clients' needs as we head into 2021. Attend a webinar on January 08, 2021, called Corporate Predictions 2021, and receive your FREE Corporate Predictions Special Report. Click here: https://www.freedomstreetinc.com/corporate-predictions-2021-webinar 15:09 - What is the number one insight for building your business with corporate clients in light of the pandemic in shifting your place? 17:53 - Get your networking strategy up - use this underutilized but powerful strategy to surely up your network Key Takeaways: “I guess what the struggle is, how to gain access to these new and changed opportunities, but then also how to stand out and differentiate from other providers who could be offering similar services because the old messaging, ‘business as usual,' it's gone. It's different now.” Resources: Attend a webinar on January 08, 2021, called Corporate Predictions 2021, and get your FREE Corporate Predictions Special Report. Click here: https://www.freedomstreetinc.com/corporate-predictions-2021-webinar Connect with Kim Chernecki: Website: https://www.freedomstreetinc.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimchernecki/

How do you ensure your business is sustainable? It is leading your community, it's maintaining relevance with your tribe.  Jane Anderson is a Strategic Communications expert. With over 20years' experience in Personal Branding, Content Creation, and Tribe Building. Jane has recently been voted in the top 3 branding gurus globally. She has won International Stevie Awards for Women in Business and was nominated in the Telstra Business Women Awards 7 times. She is also one of the top 1% of most-viewed LinkedIn profiles. She is the author of seven books, including “Catalyst Content: Create a Piece of Purposeful Content in Less than10 Minutes.”  In this episode, Jane talks about leadership that shifts from only focusing on revenue-generation to leading a tribe or community and creating a lifetime relationship.  She shares about having a non-metric-driven leader, but one who shows regard for human concerns of genuine care and interest in his people.  What you will learn from this episode:  Discover a business model built on the mindset of building a tribe or community as opposed to a transaction-based business Learn how to get around a mindset of a true leader that is not just revenue-generation focused but one on leading a community or tribe Find out what servant leadership is all about  “For most of us, that's the whole reason why we left corporate life because we want to work with people who we actually like. I think the shift, if you can get it, is the shift from transactions to friends, is that I actually care about these people.”  - Jane Anderson  Topics Covered: 02:25 - Building a business based on transaction versus building a tribe or building a community  05:16 - A mindset shift from ‘leading your team' to ‘leading your customers'  06:48 - A metric-driven leadership versus one that is caring and being interested in your people  10:09 - The shift from transactions to friends  11:13 - Get your FREE download of ‘Expert to Influencer' and find out the12 specific strategies to help you work out building your tribe. Click here: https://janeandersonspeaks.com/influencer-indicator/  13:00 - What holds people back from putting themselves out there?  Key Takeaways: “The real problem that leaders usually don't realize they've got is that they are focusing very much on building a business based on transactions, as opposed to building a tribe and building a community.”  “Leading with a tribe is shifting the mindset from clients as people who have a credit card, and you'll just process that and take their money, versus, these are people who my job here is to serve. And my job here is to help and support, and I've got to see them as customers for life.”    Quoting Seth Godin: “A tribe has a leader, they have a message, and they have a way to communicate.”  “I find for most leaders that I work with is they do focus a little bit too much on, ‘I'm only leading, you know, maybe a virtual team, they might be offshore, and they might be local.' But what we've got to extend that out to is seeing you're leading your customers, not just your team.”  “The imposter syndrome comes back to just doing the work. Those who do the work start to unpack their thinking, and we have things like a content club and content creation, boot camps, and things. And if you can start to do that, it takes a lot of courage to do it. But once you've started to do it, the imposter syndrome starts to lift.” Resources: Get your FREE download of ‘Expert to Influencer' and find out the12 specific strategies to help you work out building your tribe. Click here: https://janeandersonspeaks.com/influencer-indicator/ How Many Friends Does One Person Need: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks by Robin Dunbar Tribes by Seth Godin  Connect with Jane Anderson: Email: Jane@janea-anderson.com.au Website: https://janeandersonspeaks.com/ 

Superb technical skills, alone, are inadequate to face challenges in the workplace. Soft skills are what drives organizational growth.   Soft skills are the emotional and social intelligence skills. These are the skills that enable leaders to show up as their best selves, and enable others to rise to their best selves.   Nada Nasserdeen is the founder and CEO of Rise Up For You. She is a Leadership and Career Confidence Coach, No.1 Bestselling Author, and TEDx Motivational Speaker.   With over 10 years of experience as a college professor and former top executive for an education corporation, Nada understands the importance of using education, empowerment, and leadership together as she works with her clients and speaks to audiences worldwide. She has toured the world as a singer, has a Master's degree in Administrative Leadership, and has coached and mentored close to 50,000 individuals around the world on self-empowerment, career strategy, and soft skills.  In this episode, Nada doubles down on the power of servant leadership, leadership that sets aside ego, one that allows looking at the whole picture of the company.  What you will learn from this episode:  Learn how to foster a mind that identifies the specific challenge then finds solutions  The top two strategies to uncover a leader's blind spot  How to see the big picture for your team and the organization's growth   “If you're allowing your insecurities to prevent you from now having that big picture, then we're in trouble. We're not practicing leadership, right? What we're practicing is the opposite of that. It's service for ourselves, right? It's selfish leadership. And that's not what we want.”   - Nada Nasserdeen  Topics Covered: 01:55 - What leader's challenge does she focus on specializing and dealing with?  02:45 - The whole gamut of soft skills and people challenges she helps with   04:23 - What does it look like when leaders find for answers outside of themselves?  05:35 - How to help leaders realize that which they are not aware of and no knowledge about in terms of their own shortcomings?  07:28 - How to find a leader's Personal Board of Directors and the important roles they play  10:18 - Recalling the time she uses the same strategy, surveying herself and how she found out her blind spots  11:38 - The words they used to describe her in the survey  12:47 - The challenges and benefits of service leadership  13:56 - The positive outcome of those anonymous surveys she did on herself   15:26 - The challenge that we see today in the soft skills of our leaders  16:16 - How to exercise the soft skill muscle when you hear negative feedback  19:21 - The emotional intelligence kit - 18 competencies under it  20:42 - Why do soft skills matter?  24:17 - An inspiring thought from Nada  Key Takeaways: “The top challenge that I deal with leaders is people problems, people challenges, challenges that are happening in the workspace which all comes down to human behaviors. So how we communicate with one another, how we show up, how we respond to one another, and inversely, how it affects our work in the workspace.”   Resources: Download your FREE Emotional Intelligence Toolkit and Mini-Course now. Click here: https://mailchi.mp/riseupforyou/eitoolkit  Connect with Nada Nasserdeen: Website: https://www.nadalena.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadalena/ Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/nada.nasserdeen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nadalena_rise/ 

We can get locked on the need to be needed, to feel important and indispensable… and without even realizing it.   How about challenging that mindset? Moving to the notion that you seek to make yourself replaceable. That there can be an even better way of doing things, one that saves you time, energy, and ultimately grows your business even with your absence.  Ari Meisel helps entrepreneurs become replaceable so their business can grow without them.  In this episode, Ari challenges our conventional way of thinking. That there is always a different way of doing things that work and that you just have to be willing to do and try it.  What you will learn from this episode:  Learn how to create a documented system and process within the organization that allows for transparency to avoid disruptions Find out the whole methodology of less doing which is about optimization, automation, and outsourcing Find out the tactics you are already using in your personal lives that works just as well in your business to keep on winning every time  "The whole methodology of less doing is based on OAO. It's optimize, automate, outsource, in that order."   - Ari Meisel  Topics Covered: 01:07 - What makes his bio unique, brief, and concise?  01:44 - Get out of your way!  02:47 - Teaching the mindset of a leader that is replaceable  04:47 - Many companies are not doing communication effectively  05:37 - What is an asynchronous communication   07:19 - The sub-areas of communication that one needs to be dealing within the organization  10:05 - How the methodology of less doing works  11:48 - What it means to go automated and what are the basics of automation  12:54 - The value in outsourcing and delegation  14:29 - How to do things better? Get your FREE resource at less.do/facebook  15:05 - Are there any situations where you're not replaceable?  16:41 - One thing he does with his business that proves his idea of a replaceable founder that works  Key Takeaways: "The truth is that being irreplaceable makes you stuck. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted, and the entrepreneurs that I work with, have the freedom to leave the business if they so choose, go out, explore, learn, and then contribute those back into the business and the business doesn't crumble in their absence."   "A lot of it is a mindset. I don't mean mindset in terms of like, you are important, and you are special. No, it's really just about like the way that we approach the ownership that we have over the work that we do. And ultimately, how much we can empower the people that we work with."  "Unfortunately, you have so many people who work in, whether or not they work in an industry that has a history, but it's worse when people are in an industry that has a culture -- generational way of doing things. And then they can't see that there might be another way. It's just we do it because that's how we've always done it."  "The majority of communication nowadays should be done asynchronously. So, I say something when I want, whether it's voice, pictures, text, doesn't matter. And you receive it when you want and responding, 'Hi.' Now that could be using WhatsApp or Slack or even email, but truly treating it as an asynchronous means of communication."  "And to do that [documenting systems and processes] is not to devalue the person who was holding on to them, it is to release them to be replaced up, not out of business."  Resources: How to do things better? Get your FREE resource at less.do/facebook  Connect with Ari Meisel: Website: https://lessdoing.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/productivity-coach-entrepreneur/ 

Being accustomed to the fast-paced workplace and the virtual environment becoming a new normal these days, how do we power to become the bold, unshakeable leaders expected of us?  More than ever, creating a sacred space for oneself is paramount. It allows leaders to set the tone for a winning race in the corporate arena nowadays -- a slow and steady pace.  Certified Life & Executive Coach, TEDx Speaker, Author, Podcast Host, and Retreat Cultivator. After nearly 20 years in Corporate America, Lolita Walker founded Walker & Walker Enterprises, a coaching consultancy that creates intentional sacred-spaces for individuals, corporations, agencies, and groups. She is at the forefront of a movement that empowers women and teams to embrace their challenges and triumphs, act in their strengths, and thrive in the greatness that drives individual and group ownership toward a renewed vision of excellence.  In this episode, Lolita talks about how we should set boundaries. With the virtual environment and the work already taking the homes, you need to take that pause to regather yourself. Get all the energy and your full self back to be ready and be at top speed again. That it's time to be intentional to have that BOLD leadership that sees the change you want to see yourself, owning your abilities, willingness, and actions. It's about delegating and moving out of the way, trusting that your people do the work they ought to do effectively, letting their own boldness shine. What you will learn from this episode:  Find out the four distinctive foundations of BOLD Leadership that will help you get clarity, become intentional, and see the changes you want to see by modeling yourself Learn about the decisive actionable steps you can do right now to fire up that bold, unshakeable leadership within you  Learn how to make bold, unshakeable leaders in your team members, followers, in the people that report to you so you can step back and let them be in the forefront, trusting them to do the work that they ought to do  “Let's be preventative, let's go in and be intentional about how we're looking at our new normal. And then let's set the pace before the pace sets us.”   - Lolita Walker  Topics Covered: 01:35 - How do you find sacred spaces in the corporate world and what does this contribute to one's being?  02:31 - Her suggestion on how to exactly create that sacred space for yourself.  03:15 - What does she think of micro pauses?  03:43 - What is the largest barrier in today's virtual environment?  04:38 - What does it mean, ‘set the pace'?  06:46 - The four distinctive things of bold leadership that you need to look into  08:44 - Actionable tips to manifest a bold, unshakeable leadership right now  11:13 - Actionable tips leaders can do to build boldness in their team members, their followers, and the ones reporting to them?  13:27 - Lolita's free resource  15:21 - What is one barrier that I feel is still standing before me?  17:33 - What do you need to remember always?  Key Takeaways: “My encouragement is actually to put in the time for you. Schedule that time in so you can intentionally pause and get yourself together to recap from the beginning of the day, and then again at the end of the day so you can be ready to go full speed ahead tomorrow.  Resources: Listen in to Lolita's podcast: Coaching, Cocktails, and Conversations For FREE portions of her book, go to https://lolitawalker.com/the-book Empower Work: https://www.empowerwork.org/  Connect with Lolita Walker: Website: https://lolitawalker.com/ Facebook: https://www.faebook.com/walkernwalkerchange LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lolita-e-walker Twitter: https://twitter.com/lolitaewalke Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walkernwalkerchange 

What stops us doing what we say we want to happen?  Real transformation occurs when you can manage your brain - your identity, thoughts, feelings, and actions; this, then leads to results.    With over 20 years of experience as a transformational and leadership coach, Rita Hyland helps leaders—emerging and established—to excel in productivity, creativity, and courage in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments. Rita believes that if leaders were more clear about how transformation really works and more intentional about creating what they want, their impact would be unstoppable.  Through her coaching programs, private coaching, and masterminds, Rita shows leaders how to feel better and experience high performance consistently so they can create the impact, fulfillment, and legacy they want.   In this episode, Rita talks about how leaders face the challenge of not creating impact, growth, more clients, and more revenue despite their hard work, drive, and will power. She shares her neuro leadership growth structure, highlighting the change buttons for real transformation and success. What you will learn from this episode:  Discover the five crucial thoughts you need to make the seemingly impossible, possible  Learn how to activate transformation to create a self-confident and self-aware leader, one who leads from a place of truth and love Find out the three models of leadership performance to help you understand which of these you need to adapt to power through to success  “There's a better question to ask, which is, who is the person I need to be to create what it is I say I want?”   - Rita Hyland  Topics Covered: 02:02 - Where should real transformation come from?  02:46 - Why do leaders can't power through something to get the success level that they've had in the past?  03:56 - Working through drive, force, and willpower don't work anymore for his clients  06:04 - What are the three backward models of performance that support ‘hard work doesn't always equal success'?  09:38 - Possessing the ability to manage your brain  16:35 - Get your FREE download, ‘'Why You Don't Do What You Say You Want?' and 'How to Use the Neuroleadership Growth Code to Move from Hope to Success in your Business'. Click here: https://www.ritahyland.com/do-what-you-want/  18:19 - What can be done for the person who feels, in business, that they may be spinning, or drowning?  22:50 - Start leading from truth and love  Key Takeaways: “You don't build a masterpiece or a great business from being stressed, pressured, and losing confidence.”   “The biggest mistake is that they believe that hard work equals success. But we know success does not equal hard work because if it did, everybody who worked hard would be successful.”   “The greatest resource and asset that you'll ever experience or possess is your ability to manage your brain, and that being the identity, thoughts, feelings, and actions within it.”  “The bigger and the most evolved, and those who are creating success in their life are people who stood the test and knew how to do this and to manage themselves.”  Resources: Get your FREE download, ‘'Why You Don't Do What You Say You Want?' and 'How to Use the Neuroleadership Growth Code to Move from Hope to Success in your Business'. Click here: https://www.ritahyland.com/do-what-you-want/  Connect with Rita Hyland: Website: https://www.ritahyland.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rita.Hyland.Coaching/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ritahyland LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rita-hyland-coaching/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rita_hyland_coaching/ 

How do you make sense of the success you're achieving?   Was it good timing? Luck? And that unclarity probably leaves uncertainty about next steps.  By clarifying your leadership framework, you can unlock a leadership style that underpins how you want to be seen and heard as a leader.  As an executive coach, Christina Holloway has over 20 years of experience coaching senior leaders on finding meaningful careers, as well as mentoring business owners and start-ups as their companies grow and thrive.   Her unique approach to leadership development has landed her speaking opportunities at The University of Chicago and Yale University's Women in Management Forum. Through her giving program, a percentage of profit each year goes towards helping women escape domestic violence.  In this episode, Christina highlights successful leaders' inadequacy assumptions about themselves despite their evident success. She shares how she helps these emerging leaders find value in how they were able to do it by spending quite a bit of time dealing with the mindset and making sure that they know there's value in their presence. What you will learn from this episode:  Find out the three actionable tips to help you assert your leadership Learn how to find the leadership style that allows you to show your authenticity and uncover your true voice to step up to your leadership role Learn about the mistakes that young and successful leaders commit to keep moving forward and keep finding opportunities for you to show up to be an empowered leader  “Ask yourself, who am I as a leader? Who am I as a young or new person showing up to a new role? And how do I want to be seen?”   - Christina Holloway Topics Covered: 01:30 - Christina's unique approach to leadership  02:20 - Doing a lot of work with the mindset of emerging young and successful leaders  04:18 - Making sure young leaders know there is value in their presence  05:55 - The imposter syndrome among young leaders of today  06:36 - Clients making the mistakes of too many assumptions  08:16 - Three actionable tips to help young, successful leaders assert their leadership  11:15 - Download your free resource, ‘Building a Profitable Brand'. Click here: https://christinaholloway.com/profitable-brand-ebook/  11:57 - How can I see measurable results?  Key Takeaways: “What I found is that it's been quite important to help people who are emerging leaders, and these are younger people really just trying to learn to navigate the leadership framework.”  “The imposter syndrome is quite what I'm finding to be the biggest challenge for young, successful leaders these days. And I deal also with introverts.”  “The biggest mistakes clients are making before they work with me has a lot to do with assumptions.”  “There isn't just one way to be a leader, there isn't just one way to show up in your authority. There are a number of different ways you can show up.”  “Ask yourself exactly what am I doing and take a really deep mindful exploration into why am I in this job? Why did I agree to do this?”  “Who can I work with who supports me? Because what we want is to be reflective of people around us who say, 'I hired you for this reason, I brought you on board.' We need a little bit of confirmation-validation for why we're there.”  Resources: Download your free resource, ‘Building a Profitable Brand'. Click here: https://christinaholloway.com/profitable-brand-ebook/ The Eight Archetypes of Leadership by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries  Connect with Christina Holloway: Website: https://christinaholloway.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christina.m.holloway/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christinamholloway Twitter: https://twitter.com/originalCMH LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinaholloway 

What is so important about the clarity of purpose?  It's all about meeting a person's need for personal growth and development as well as the opportunity to contribute to something bigger than yourself. Bottom line, it's a direct route to happiness and joy.  Michael S. Seaver is an award-winning executive coach, author, keynote speaker, and podcast host with expertise in executive leadership, personal branding, change management, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement. He is the author of 200+blogs, contributor to Forbes, and is a graduate of the Thunderbird School of Global Management MBA.  In this episode, Michael shares how to live at your best on a day-to-day basis by focusing on your top five personal core values. This is how you become the authentic leader the world needs you to be.   What you will learn from this episode:  Learn how to uncover your life's purpose to grow and develop yourself and add value to other people's lives Find out how your clarity of purpose gives other people the opportunity to authentically express themselves in meaningful ways Discover about the essential ways of becoming an authentic and emotionally intelligent leader who knows how to align and empowers people to achieve a common goal  “By being authentic, we're showing what our purpose is to others. I think we give people that opportunity to express themselves in a more authentic, deeply meaningful way.”   - Michael Seaver  Topics Covered:  01:57 - Defining your life's purpose  03:12 - Uncovering that purpose within us  03:41 - What are the top two core human needs?  04:25 - An internal work that leads to external benefits  05:45 - Walking into our authentic power is not an overnight success  07:04 - The trap they fall into when leaders don't have clarity of life's purpose  10:02 - What triggers the shift to showing up authentic  10:57 - Actionable tips to help you uncover clarity of purpose  12:15 - How to resolve values conflicts  13:22 - For your FREE tools to help you find clarity of purpose, download a four-page PDF called ‘Choose Your Boss, not your Job' and an eBook called ‘Authenticity is the Way'. Click here: https://michaelsseaver.com/free-tools/  14:34 - As a teenager or in your early to mid-20s, what recurring challenge were you confronted by?   16:17 - The need to build emotional resilience to overcome the challenge  17:36 - Be the person you needed when you were younger  Key Takeaways:  “I think there's kind of that intuitive knowing that people are going to gravitate to others who make them feel safe, who make them feel like it's okay to take a calculated risk or who make them feel, it's okay to show up as themselves and really express themselves of their opinion in some sort of way.”  “Leaders who don't know their life's purpose, they don't know how to say no. And so, they become really poor at time management that they over-commit to things that aren't necessarily right for them.”   “In the 21st-century work world, the command and control kind of leadership style is passe. It's about aligning and empowering people these days.”   Resources Mentioned:   For your FREE tools to help you find clarity of purpose, download a four-page PDF called ‘Choose Your Boss, not your Job' and an eBook called ‘Authenticity is the Way'. Click here: https://michaelsseaver.com/free-tools/  Connect with Michael Seaver:  Website: https://michaelsseaver.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelScottSeaver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelsseaver/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsseaver/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelsseaver 

How do you pull yourself together when you've been hit with the most unfortunate circumstance you could ever imagine? It's human nature to be transfixed by the problem.  How about slowing down, so you can get faster? How about reframing your perspectives, so you find opportunities and not just challenges?  Michael O'Brien is the Chief Shift Officer at Peloton Executive Coaching and helps leaders prevent bad moments from turning into a bad day. He has shared his personal transformational Last Bad Day story and leadership advice on the TEDx stage, with Fortune500 companies, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Real Simple, ABC, and NBC.  In this episode, Michael shares what difference it makes when making a significant change in business and leadership and, most importantly, in the people who matter most to us, our family, and our closest friends. He believes that when we change one life, we make a change everywhere. What you will learn from this episode:  Discover about a simple exercise to do away with stress and use the time to shift perspectives to find opportunity beyond the problem  Learn how to live a life in alignment where authenticity and consistency rule your life Learn the power of seeing a problem as happening for you and not to you "When we feel that we're stressed, when we feel that our self-narrative or chatter isn't as healthy as it could be, I recommend to people - pause, breathe and reflect. Slow it down for a minute or two." - Michael O'Brien Topics Covered: 01:27 - Why the name Chief Shift Officer?  03:13 - How to fully show up as your true self in every aspect of life  05:11 - How authenticity means consistency  06:57 - What have his clients done wrong before consulting with him?  08:37 - Getting results which are impacting not just business success but one's personal life  10:57 - Shifting perspectives in the way we look at a problem  13:10 - Get your FREE ‘A Better Life Workbook.' Click here: https://www.michaelobrienshift.com/  14:25 - The need to pause, breathe, and reflect  Key Takeaways: “What I'm trying to do is help leaders show up fully as themselves in every aspect of their life. And when they do that, they send a powerful ripple to the people on their teams. And as a result, they show up in the way that they can show up. And when we all show up with the type of potential we have, I believe we create better change that the world desperately needs right now.”   “I think there's a line there that is important to honor when we think about work and life. It's that consistency to say, 'Hey, you know what, the person I meet, in-person or online or in the conference room is that same person. That consistency, when there's alignment, things are less stressed.”   “I get hired because I'm going to help them get better at leadership, better at business, help their company make more money, return on shareholder investment, all that jazz. But the stuff that fires me up is that when they're better at home with the people that truly matter in their lives, not to say that their corporate colleagues don't matter.”  “When we think about those people who are going to be with us for our whole lives, we're talking about our family and our closest friends. When they show up better for them, I know we've made an incredible difference.”  Resources: Get your free ‘A Better Life Workbook.' Click here: https://www.michaelobrienshift.com/  Connect with Michael O'Brien: Website: https://www.michaelobrienshift.com/ LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/michaelobrienpelotoncoaching Instagram:  www.instragram.com/michaelobrienshift Facebook: www.facebook.com/michaelspeloton Twitter: www.twitter.com/roadieob 

Tired of do-it-yourself strategies and tactics that don't move a needle in your business performance? Despite the effort you've taken to fit the puzzle pieces, there's little progress?  When you're not crystal clear about what you want your business to do for you and your consumers, this happens. Only when there's alignment that your business will be in a state of flow and continually grow.  Stephanie Hayes works with experienced entrepreneurs who have built successful businesses but aren't sure what's next. She helps them create a business model that works for them and plan to get to their next level of growth to do the work they want to do and become more profitable. Stephanie has been working with entrepreneurs and small businesses for over 20 years. She has built a number of her businesses. She launched her business strategy and coaching practice in 2015 so she can dedicate her focus to helping entrepreneurs align their businesses with their deepest goals. Stephanie understands that business owners are looking for direct, actionable help and works with her clients to become self-sufficient as well as establish the foundation for continued growth.  In this episode, Stephanie shares how today's leaders face challenges in the alignment of their business model to their pillars of passion. Before you can even begin acting on your strategies and tactics, make sure you are putting your business in the direction where everything flows, so your business grows. What you will learn from this episode:  Discover the four pillars of passion that will help you attain alignment in all the puzzle pieces and drive forward your business Find out why DIY strategies don't help move up your business to where it should go Learn how to be very clear about what your business wants to do for you and for your customers to help you drive decisions for your business to go forward "The phase of business that you're in is really important to understanding where you should prioritize your activities."   - Stephanie Hayes Topics Covered: 01:42 - What do leaders need to put in place before piling up tactics to their days  02:36 - The four pillars of passion that help assess entrepreneurs on  04:08 - Why the need to align your passion around who you are and your goal  06:31 - What a Frankenstein business looks like  07:43 - Why piecing things together in isolation and doing DIY is not a good idea for your business to move forward  09:32 - An actionable tip for business owners to get themselves aligned: Know yourself better and go back to those four pillars.  11:32 - What does your business need to do for you?  13:52 - Finding meaning in what you're doing  14:14 - FREE 30-minute strategy call with Stephanie, click here: http://www.stephaniehayes.biz/flowpreneur  15:02 - What stage of the business are you at and how well do you know the stage of business that you're at right now  15:48 - The different business phases that indicate where you're at in your business  18:22 - An interesting key point from Stephanie that we can all derive inspiration from Key Takeaways: "The biggest challenge for leaders, I would say, number one is getting alignment in their business and this is sort of the place that they need to start before they start piling tactics on to their days."  Resources: Get your FREE 30-minute strategy call with Stephanie, click here: http://www.stephaniehayes.biz/flowpreneur  Connect with Stephanie Hayes: Website: https://www.stephaniehayes.biz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephaniehayescoach/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephaniehayes Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/stephaniehayescoach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniedhayes/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniehayes.biz/ 

In the process of navigating the uncertainty of this time, leaders tend to beat themselves up. Inclination towards perfectionism gets heightened, exerting further pressure on themselves and those they lead. Self-awareness is the key to reducing that. As a business coach & speaker, Keren Eldad is a trusted advisor to industry-leading executives and superstar entrepreneurs who regularly set records at the top of their fields. Since 2016, powerhouses have sought her out to help them make additional breakthroughs in the profitable growth of their business while revitalizing their energy and defining the meaning of their entire lives. Over the last three years, Keren has worked with top organizations including J.P. Morgan, Christian Dior/LVMH, Van Cleef & Arpels, Waypoint Helicopter Leasing, Beyond Capital, YPO–and more. In this episode, Keren Eldad points out how the challenges of this time make leaders even more prone to analysis-paralysis, more demanding of themselves and their people, and indecisive. Seeing the ramifications of this, she underscores the need for leaders to go easy on themselves first, to then become the proactive, innovative, and focused leader they are meant to be? What you will learn from this episode:  Discover about The Overachiever Method to help you create a productive, powerful, innovative, and ever charging leadershipLearn what mistakes leaders commit to help you know the big difference between high standards and perfectionism to live your authentic lifeFind out helpful tips you can do right now to be graceful as possible towards yourself even with your go-getter tendencies “As you go through any degree of change, you have to learn how to be easy on yourself.”  - Keren Eldad Topics Covered: 03:14 - Who is a perfect client?  03:30 - The challenge leaders face in navigating the uncertainty in their lives   04:58 - The symptoms of the problem that is coming in by way of perfectionism  06:59 - The mistakes leaders commit that prevent them from having an authentic and truly happy life  09:22 - The three actionable tips you can do right now to help you move out of where you get stuck right now  10:48 - Learn to be graceful with yourself  12:27 - Book resource: Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. By Brene Brown  13:46 - What's really in it for me in approaching personal development?  15:47 - A message she would like to tell her over-achiever self Key Takeaways: “Many leaders will find themselves more analysis-paralysis prone than ever, more indecisive than ever, more unforgiving than ever, perhaps, invulnerable than ever. And these are the main challenges that I helped them face, both in terms of their systems, but also in terms of their goals, which is really to make it to the other side of a tricky period.”  “The most important thing is to recognize that you don't know what you don't know. And that's very, very hard for people to become self-aware of.”  “There's a big difference between high standards and perfectionism. High standards still allow us to move. They don't make us beat up on ourselves. They hold people up to high standards, but they don't beat up other people.”  “Perfectionism is really the creation of a form of paralysis, and it hurts. It physically feels like tightness, it feels like anxiety. It feels like sleeplessness.”  Resources: Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. By Brene Brown  Connect with Keren Eldad: Website: https://www.kereneldad.com Facebook: facebook.com/livewithenthusiasm LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keren-eldad-5232033/ 

To achieve a productive and profitable workplace, leaders need people-decoding skills to disentangle the stress, anxiety, and workplace conflicts.    Marie Gervais believes that a happy workplace lies at the heart of this. Her mission is to build workplace capacity characterized by real communications that acknowledge people for who they are.   Using the S.W.E.L. model of safety, wellness, encouragement, and learning, Marie focuses on building confidence and intercultural communication. Through both online courses and web coaching, Marie helps two levels of managers build their people skills and see visible results. She helps:   Front and middle managers increase their confidence and skill range.  Executive Managers reduce stress, increase their sense of purpose, and manage with empathy.   Marie is also a podcaster with a podcast called ‘Culture and Leadership Connections.'  In this episode, Marie shares insights on how to understand culture, race, religion, ethnicity, and language. She also underlines the unconscious biases leaders have within decision-making.  Recognizing and adjusting these make for a happier, more productive, and more profitable workplace. What you will learn from this episode:  Learn about the self-awareness package that helps you become a more collaborative leader Find out how unconscious bias negatively impacts decision making  Discover the power of naming an emotion and its positive impact on making effective decisions “Start paying attention to the fact that you have feelings. So, notice an emotion and then name it yourself.”   - Marie Gervais Topics Covered: 01:56 - What are ‘people decoding skills'?  04:06 - Why ‘people decoding skills' are essential?  04:38 - The biggest challenge that she keeps running across with her clients  05:49 - Of emotional intelligence, emotional resiliency, emotional resets, and emotional awareness  09:08 - One actionable tip to help leaders in their decision-making: Start paying attention to the fact that you have feelings. So, notice an emotion and then name it yourself.  12:08 - What comes next after being free when naming your emotion  13:23 - Get your FREE one-month Emotional Insider Membership. Click here: https://www.shiftworkplace.co/emotionalinsider  15:25 - Why does it matter for leaders to acknowledge their own emotions?  17:18 - Why do we make decisions based on our authentic selves? Key Takeaways: “The keys to a decoding process typically have something to do with communication, understanding different personality types, and different cultural conflict styles.”  “What I find as the biggest challenge is people do not recognize the role their own emotions play in their decision making.”  “To learn to be self-aware, recognizing, and naming and understanding your emotions is really critical.”  “Being aware of your own emotions helps you to start to see other people for who they are instead of putting them into a box.”  Resources: Get your FREE one-month Emotional Insider Membership, click here: https://www.shiftworkplace.co/emotionalinsider Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston Connect with Marie Gervais: Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leaderstraining/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShiftWorkPlace Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiftWorkPlace Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marie_shift_think Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/amariegervais/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKNoMIug6Bs53LoLAiBI_cg Podcast: https://shiftworkplace.com/podcast/

With the many intricacies of running a business, it's easy for leaders to feel overwhelmed.   What often compounds this, is following systems that have worked for others, hoping they will also work for them.  Success is about individualising… identifying and discarding what's not working – for you. The art is knowing what to keep, what to discard, what to delegate.  With over 25 years of leadership, management, and entrepreneurial experience, Nicole BZ literally puts her money where her mouth is. As a business expert and success strategist Nicole has started, advised or lead 38 organizations (their two current companies are a Financial Consulting Firm, and a property and real estate management company). She has invested 1000s hours into coaching owner and executive level business owners. She is so committed to growing the small business ecosystem, that she volunteers with the Small Business Administration as a business mentor.   In this episode, Nicole shares how business leaders of today are so stressed and overworked without having a clear vision of their path to success. They rely on their skills and capabilities, not seeking for help, repeating the same problems and not making progress. What you will learn from this episode:  Find out how to turn problems into opportunities  Learn how to apply a system to trailblaze your company's success Discover a key management tool that helps create consistency in your cash flow “When we discover that all we can see as one of two options, we know we need to take a step back from the situation.”   - Nicole BZ Topics Covered: 01:28 - What are these ‘two sides of the same coin' that leaders of today have a fear of?  02:41 - Unblocking that particular perception of a leader's success  03:29 - What businesses does she work with?  04:18 - Taking a look at Nicole's process that she uses to work with leaders  05:41 - Actionable tip to help business owners get unstuck: When you're finding yourself struggling because you feel as if you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, take a step back.  06:49 - Other actionable tips you can do when you are in a binary situation  08:22 - The power of synergy  08:51 - Creating something better together - internally and externally  09:59 - The whole point of Nicole's job  10:10 - Get your FREE leadership and change management workbook, click here:  https://www.nicolebz.com/free-resources  11:26 - What is the one thing you can do in this moment, to make everything else easier or potentially unnecessary?  12:25 - Her suggested activity for self-reflection and self-review  13:08 - Nicole's one insightful comment to help you as a leader Key Takeaways: “Most of the business owners that I'm working with are at capacity, their businesses are thriving, but struggling to be able to serve the level of customers, clients, sales, that not only they need to keep growing, but they need to grow too to hit their big targets.”   “I always say the business strategy is simple, it's the execution of it where we really get to learn where we are challenged.”  “When we stop actually taking the steps necessary to implement, measure, track and improve those systems, that's where we learn what's holding us back. And sometimes it can be a mindset, sometimes it's very much based on experience, sometimes it's skills development and resources.”  Resources: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller  Connect with Nicole BZ: Website: https://nicolebz.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NBZCoaching/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nbzcoaching/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/NBZcoaching/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbzcoaching 

These challenging times demands so much more from leaders. It has become increasingly crucial to close the gaps and acknowledge every individual's contribution.  In seeing and recognizing the value each one brings, collaboration becomes a practical path that ensures an organization's growth.     Kelly Meerbott is a passionate advocate, ally and activist for diversity, equity and inclusion.  In 2009, at the height of the recession, Kelly found herself caught up in a round of 30,000 layoffs-a defining moment in her career. As Kelly explored what was next, she hired a coach who subsequently changed her life. The support and guidance of the personal coach helped her realize her passion for helping others and desire to make it a career. More importantly, she recognized how impactful and life-changing a great coach can be. This is what inspires and motivates her to share her talents to make a difference in the world.  In this episode, Kelly shares how, at one point, she wasn't included, and felt like she didn't belong. That's why she's standing up for what she advocates for, - helping leaders to step up in their leadership game where diversity, equity, and inclusion strongly matter.   In her words, it's about getting out from your head and dropping to your heart and soul to open up conversations and to just listen. A great solution is best achieved when there is a participatory atmosphere where everyone feels they belong and they matter. What you will learn from this episode:  Learn how to get past the fear of mistakes and just show up as a true leader Discover what a soul line versus a goal line of leadership is about to make you a truly empowered leader Find out the compounding power of appreciation in ways that impacts your people's morale and shoots up your profit in magnitude you would never imagine “The best thing you can do right now as a leader is open the conversation. You don't have to come up with these long, complicated plans. You don't have to do that. Just start the conversation and listen. And that's it.”   - Kelly Meerbott Topics Covered: 02:19 - What makes her a staunch advocate of diversity and equity inclusion?  04:19 - Why is there gold in mistakes?  06:58 - What you should know about ‘false evidence appearing real'   09:50 - Actionable tip to foster the spirit of inclusion: Listen, ask questions, get feedback, and take action.  12:31 - The soul line versus the goal line  16:54 - Get your FREE anti-racist resource list. Click here: www.kellymeerbott.com/resources/  18:00 - Why out of everything Kelly could have done with her life, why be a coach, especially now when it's a challenge to be an entrepreneur?  20:23 - What it entails to be an empowered leader Key Takeaways: “I was so unclear for so long that when it hits you, it hits you like a ton of bricks.”  “When all of that George Floyd murder went down, it just reaffirmed the fragility of human life. I thought, there's no time like the present to tell you who I am and what I stand for.”  “I think there's gold in mistakes. If you look for the lessons and the blessings, and you have people around you that are willing to honor your apologies when you make those mistakes, and you made those mistakes, you apologize for them, and then they lift you up and help you heal from it.”     Resources: Get your FREE anti-racist resource list. Click here: www.kellymeerbott.com/resources/  Connect with Kelly Meerbott: Website: https://kellymeerbott.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Youloudandclear/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyameerbott/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellymeerbott/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/kmeerbott/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KellyAMeerbott/ 

There is a surprisingly close parallel between music and leadership. For an ensemble (team) to deliver a great performance, every member must be skilled, aligned, and follow their score… and the conductor  The same for teams in organizations. To reach a common goal everyone has to have strong communication, collaboration, and accountability.  In this episode, Stephen underscores the parallels within his two passions: music and leadership development highlighting the steps to deep listening, being fully present, and achieving what matters most.   Stephen Kohler is Audira's Founder & CEO. He brings a passion for growing people along with 25 years of extensive corporate experience within organizations ranging from startup to Fortune 100, across multiple industries.   His credentials include an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, a BA in Philosophy from Northwestern University, and is a Certified Professional Coach (PCC, CPCC) and balanced Scorecard Professional (BSP). His passions include spending time with his wife, two children, and two dogs. He is a life-long musician, avid BBQ enthusiast, and loves traveling the world. What you will learn from this episode:  Discover the three leadership challenge areas for leaders to focus on, to create a greater impact within the organization Re-approach leadership communication, collaboration, and accountability in an insightful, creative, and unique way. Find out the three steps of listening to help you identify what's missing and needed to generate action within the organization “Practice the three levels of listening, really getting present with not only yourself but those around you in the space. After you practice that listening, identify what's missing or needed, and then act and create action with intended impact.”   - Stephen Kohler Topics Covered: 01:46 - A musician's unique approach to leadership training, coaching, and development  03:28 - The parallelism of musicianship and leadership in critical areas of communication, collaboration, and accountability  06:07 - Areas of challenges that many of his clients tend to fall into at some point in their careers  08:05 - Getting a clear understanding of the mistake of assumptions that leaders usually commit  09:31 - Actionable tips that you can apply now: The three steps of listening  12:09 - Free resource to help leaders in all situations: audiralabs.com  12:58 - Imagine yourself in your final hours on the planet or perhaps at your retirement party, and you're looking back, what would you like that impact of your life to have been, what would you like your legacy to be?  14:27 - A beautiful quote to live by: "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Key Takeaways: “A lot of organizations struggle with accountability and learning what that looks like. And that's no different where we can use the lens of music, for example, if you're playing in an ensemble, we all have to play our part.”   “The first challenge that I help leaders with is really become more self-aware, in terms of really helping them clarify what their personal leadership mission-vision values are, and then also become just aware of what their impact on others is.”  Connect with Stephen Kohler: Website: https://audiralabs.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/audiralabs/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kohlerstephen/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Cz99_OMLkZsqcOnN5FBeg 

On average, we get interrupted every 11 minutes on a normal workday, but that it takes us 23 minutes to refocus afterwards? That means productivity is slammed recovering from distractions.  Imagine the productivity boost if we could manage these distractions.   Alexis Haselberger is a time management and productivity coach who helps people do more and stress less through coaching, workshops, and online courses. Her pragmatic, yet fun, approach helps people easily integrate practical, realistic strategies into their lives so that they can do more of what they want and less of what they don't. Alexis has taught thousands of individuals to take control of their time, their to-do lists and their overwhelm. Her clients include Google, Lyft, Workday, Capital One, Upwork, and more.  In this episode, Alexis shares about the challenges leaders face in terms of managing schedules and priorities where emails, Slack, and other apps take much of your time and focus. Overwhelm prevents leaders from fully connecting in the present moment and doing more. Alexis helps you recover your time, lift your enthusiasm, and refocus on what really matters.  What you will learn from this episode:  Find out the challenge leaders face today in the digital world and know what their mistakes are to become fully productive  Find out this simple system that effectively saves you time and reduces overwhelm Learn about simple but practical tips to find mental space to connect more fully to people that matter to you     “As you continue to build that new sort of neural pathway in your brain, that becomes the more automatic route instead of the old way that you're doing things.”   - Alexis Haselberger    Topics Covered:  01:37 - Facing the challenge of letting the day happen to you  02:25 - What made her clients come to her for help  03:34 - Some mistakes her clients commit before finally seeking out her help  06:19 - Taking advantage of the one-touch rule to lessen message and task overwhelm  09:53 - Where do people fail in pursuit of making a lasting and impactful change in habits  11:34 - Get your FREE downloadable Guide to Minimize Distractions. Click here: https://www.alexishaselberger.com/reduce-distraction  12:33 - If I need to just get started today if I feel like my life is incredibly overwhelming right now, and I can't do coaching, what should I do?   13:43 - One suggestion to help you become more productive and effective at work and in your family life    Key Takeaways:  “One of the big mistakes we make is we download an app or read a book and we expect that to be the silver bullet. And then when it doesn't work out, and just the way that it's supposed to, we feel like we failed”  “Have a single trusted system for your tasks. What happens when we have these things in all the places is that we can't prioritize like, we are just grasping at things like does this look good? Should we do this? We can't properly plan either because we don't know the full breadth of everything.”  “Figure out where all your stuff is coming from, where all your tasks, your projects, etc., and spend an hour or two putting it all in one place, right so that we can actually look at it linearly because humans can't multitask.”  Resources Mentioned:  Get your FREE downloadable Guide to Minimize Distractions. Click here: https://www.alexishaselberger.com/reduce-distraction Online Courses: https://www.alexishaselberger.com/online-courses    Connect with Alexis Haselberger:  Website: https://www.alexishaselberger.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh9iAkCALqr3FsKfYOqjb3Q Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/do.more.stress.less/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/domorestressless/ 

What's the needed shift for leaders in today's business environment? Traditional approaches revolved around ‘Acts of Heroism'- a bias towards rescue and solving issues to get things done fast. More effective now, is ‘Operating in Moments of Silence'. This empowers team members to step up and solve problems on their own, to become great leaders themselves.  Results come when a leader holds each team member accountable plus encourages their sense of accomplishment.  Dave McKeown helps individuals, teams, and organizations achieve excellence by doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well. He is the CEO of Outfield Leadership and author of The Self-Evolved Leader - Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down. His specialty lies in connecting individual and team performance to improve business results with a particular focus on fast-growing, complex organizations.  In this episode, Dave talks about how peer-to-peer leadership develops their sense of worth, empowering them to find solutions on their own and become effective leaders themselves.     What you will learn from this episode:  Learn how to shift from a mindset of mediocrity to a mindset of excellence Find out the key disciplines of great leadership  Learn how to do ordinary things extraordinarily well so as to become not just good but a great leader    “I think that we have mythologized great leaders, often to the point where we've got this message that says, 'You have to have some great visionary perspective on life to be a great leader', whereas actually being a great leader is all about doing those ordinary things extraordinarily well.”   - Dave McKeown    Topics Covered:  03:04 - How should leaders do ordinary things extraordinarily well  04:53 - Good leadership never happens by osmosis   06:13 - Shifting from the cycle of mediocrity to a cycle of excellence  08:20 - Five key disciplines to help you achieve your goals  11:10 - FREE resource - download the first chapter of the book called Self-Evolve Leader: https://www.selfevolvedleader.com/  11:45 - What's the future of great leadership look like?  13:36 - The curiosity, care, and compassion side of leadership  Key Takeaways:  “There are plenty of good leaders out there. But in order to help them become truly great, it's all about focusing on doing those ordinary things extraordinarily well. So, getting 1% better tomorrow, getting 1% better the next day, over a prolonged period of time.”   “For me, the shift from that cycle of mediocrity that we talked about towards the cycle of excellence, which is where you're really developing your people and thinking more strategically like any other behavioral shift has to start with a mindset or a perspective shift.”   “Being a great leader is being a good delegator, but also ensuring that your people are developing as a result of that.”  “Discipline is to build shared accountability in your team so that it's not a top-down thing. Did you do this? Here are your goals? Why are you not doing this? It's more a peer to peer sense of, we're all working towards some common goals here. So, let's find a way to hold each other accountable.”    Resources Mentioned:  Get your FREE download of the first chapter of the book entitled ‘The Self-Evolved Leader'. Click here: https://www.selfevolvedleader.com/    Connect with Dave McKeown:  Website: https://www.selfevolvedleader.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/davemckeown Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davejmckeown/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemckeown/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davemckeown1/ 

Getting people to take action is the ultimate goal. In communication, there is intent (yours) and impact (on them). So how do you truly connect with your audience and ensure your delivery has impact?    Work on an emotional connection! Keep it real, ditch perfection. More freeing and easier for you, more accessible for them. Connection made.    Lisa Braithwaite is a speaking coach, trainer, and author of "Presenting for Humans: Insights for speakers on Ditching Perfection and Creating Connection." She mentors' purpose-driven leaders to create memorable and engaging presentations in order to promote and grow their organizations. Her approach to public speaking is influenced by her theater and education degrees, and 16 years as an advocate, teaching, and training in the nonprofit sector. Lisa's philosophy is that ‘Public speaking is fun, it's an awesome way to express yourself creatively'. It offers an accelerated approach to developing an intimate and trusted relationship with your target audience.    In this episode, Lisa talks about how to establish engagement with the audience on an emotional level in order to elicit action. She shares about the need for leaders not to take themselves seriously and focus more on engaging with their audience to connect at a human level.      What you will learn from this episode:  Learn how to connect with an audience emotionally Find out why leaders should take their roles seriously Learn how to utilize the power of human connection      “People don't take action unless they're emotionally engaged.”  - Lisa Braithwaite        Topics Covered:    01:55 - Why an inability to engage with their audience poses a challenge in today's leaders?  02:42 - How to know if you engage your audience emotionally  03:40 - Why leaders shouldn't take themselves seriously  04:20 - Ditch perfection!  05:42 - How emotional connection is shown  07:55 - Make it relevant  09:09 - Exercises and activities to help your audience to take action  11:44 - Find information that feels practical and relevant to your audience  13:17 - Get your FREE digital download of Lisa's book entitled ‘Presenting for Humans: Insights for Speakers on Ditching Perfection and Creating Connection'  14:18 - How can speakers get rid of their nervousness?  17:03 - On keeping it real      Key Takeaways from Lisa Braithwaite:    “People don't take action unless they're emotionally engaged.”    “The number one thing that brings business leaders to me is that kind of an inability to engage with their audiences.”   “One of the biggest signs of having engaged with your audience is that they take action. They feel inspired to act.”  “I recommend ditching perfection and creating connection.”   Resources Mentioned:    Get your FREE digital download of Lisa's book entitled ‘Presenting for Humans: Insights for Speakers on Ditching Perfection and Creating Connection. Click here: https://coachlisab.com/pfh-giveaway-private.html      Connect with Lisa Braithwaite:    Website: https://coachlisab.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachlisab/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisabraithwaite Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachlisab/ Blogsite: https://www.speakschmeak.com/ 

This pandemic shaken us all and fundamentally exposed the type of person we are: either someone who feels the sky is falling or someone who sees this as an opportunity to inwardly strengthen and find success despite the uncertainty.   Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development consultant, author, trainer, and researcher. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership” (Morgan James Publishers). He is also a leadership professor at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.  In this episode, Ryan talks about why mindset makes all the difference.  What you will learn from this episode:  Discover the place of self-awareness in leadership development Learn what stops leaders really showing up and serving their people Find-out how mindset sets the trajectory for an organization's success map  “Becoming conscious of your mindsets allows you to be a more mindful practitioner in life because we're now starting to gain control on consciousness of things that are dictating in our life that we previously haven't had consciousness or control over.”  – Ryan Gottfredson  Topics Covered: 01:16 – The synergy between mindsets and the idea of unshakeable leadership  02:38 – Why is there lack of awareness among leaders of today  06:00 – What is at the core of leaders lacking self-awareness  07:48 – Why resistance is huge in a closed mindset  09:23 – What have his clients have done wrong before seeking out his help  09:23 – From a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, from a closed mindset to an open mindset  11:32 – From know-it-all to learn-it-all  13:01 – Take your free mindset assessment of twenty questions: RyanGottfredson.com  13:37 – What impact has doing mindset work had on your life personally? Key Takeaways: “Those with negative mindsets, their mindsets caused them to think and operate in ways that make their life more difficult for them that are disengaging their employees.” “Those with the more positive mindsets, natural and effective leadership just naturally come out in terms of how they process and operate in their world.” “I think everybody needs some work on our mindsets, we can always improve. And the thing that's tricky about our mindsets is that for most of us, our mindsets, they're consistently shaping how we think and how we operate, but they're doing so at a non-conscious level.” “What I termed to be a closed mindset is, they want the best for the organization, but because they're closed-minded because they think that what they know is best this leads them to quickly shut down the ideas of others because I know what's best, I don't need to listen to you.” “When we believe that we may be wrong, then we're not focused on being right. We're focused on finding the truth and thinking optimally, and they're just not there yet. So, we need to help awaken these leaders that they may have a little bit of a closed mindset, that could be very well-intended.” People / Resources Mentioned: Get your FREE mindset assessment of twenty questions, click here: RyanGottfredson.com Ryan's Book: Success Mindsets: Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership Satya Nadella  Connect with Ryan Gottfredson: Website: https://ryangottfredson.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RyanGottfredsonPhD Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanGottfredson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangottfredson/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryangottfreds

With the pandemic has come a new reality: having to lead, virtually, through Zoom. And then the inevitable happens: ‘Zoom fatigue'… skewing any real sense of connection.  Understanding (and applying) executive presence helps create the deep and lasting connections that are so needed in these times.    Gregory Derelian and Peter Katona are co-founders of ADVOgroup, a boutique communications consultancy based in Los Angeles, that focuses on authentic connection and developing behavioral changes in their clients that last.   In this episode, Greg and Peter share their expertise in tackling communication challenges that prevent leaders from truly engaging and connecting with their people. They have translated the most effective principles of performance into a methodology designed to tackle the greatest communication challenges in the world beyond the stage.  What you will learn from this episode:  Learn how to move people on a deeper human level as a purposeful leader  Discover an actionable understanding of Kinection Address how ‘Zoom Fatigue' is affecting engagement and connection in this ‘new normal' set-up “As a leader, set your intention to connect.”   – Peter Katona Topics Covered: 01:53 – What is ADVO Group all about and what do they to as executive coaches?  03:13 – What is Kinesthetic Awareness and how does it lead to a greater and deeper level of connection with who they're speaking with?  06:27 – Addressing ‘Zoom Fatigue' with engagement and connection  08:23 – Where often do leaders fail in leading their team members?  10:13 – Why lead from a strategic lens and not just from an operational lens angle  11:44 – Actionable tip for leaders to improve their ability to connect, influence, be authentic: Elevate someone's sense of your own belief system, your own value set, and we call it the Think, Believe and Know method.  14:19 – Set your intention to connection  15:40 – An important idea that they make their client understand and encourage to imbibe  16:44 – Should we all be seeing executive presence in a different light given the pandemic and the cultural shift, at least that you're seeing in the US when it comes to Black Lives Matter, and there is a huge cultural shift happening here?  17:44 – How to exude an authentic executive presence?  18:58 – Watch TED talk: Lead Like The Great Conductors Key Takeaways: “Our body and spaces come from our world of performance, our body and space, and the impact it has on those around us through the choices we're making, either consciously or unconsciously. And so we believe that if we can tune their awareness to that we can begin to work with them from an inside out approach.”  “Let's find the way that's authentic to you. Because for us, so much of it is about authenticity. And we don't want to just offer tips and tricks that can be layered or lacquered on top of someone's existing ethos.”  “What we're finding over and over again, is, leaders who are leading these Zoom meetings or virtual meetings, they don't necessarily have the skill set to be able to connect with the audience that they're speaking with. And so it is so important, especially today to really be really intentional about your ethos.”  “Connection to us is the key to successful communication, I believe, successful communication and the best people who can do that tend to be the best leaders.”  “Very clear boundaries and expectations, it makes a huge difference for the people who attend those meetings, and for the people who lead them.” Connect with Greg Derelian and Peter Katona: Website: http://www.advogroupinc.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/advogroup-inc. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/advogroupinc Twitter: https://twitter.com/advogroupinc 

We overcome an obstacle – and that's cause for celebration. But what if there's actually a way to obliterate the problem and do away with it, once and for all?   A proven, solid problem-solving process can do just that… and, BTW, what's this got to do with Love?  David Veech is the author of two best-selling books: Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces , and The C4 Process: Four Vital Steps to Better Work .    He teaches leaders how to love, learn, and let go so they can create a workplace that fully engages the creative and productive power of people.   In this episode, David helps us learn how to obliterate obstacles rather than just overcome them. Learn how to use critical thinking as a powerful tool in solving organizational problems and discover the secret sauce to leadership success and peak performance.  What you will learn from this episode: Discover how to practice lean thinking as a leader — which is deeply rooted in developing people both technically and cognitively using ‘The C4 Process'Learn how organizations of all types can create a leader-development system that defines critical leader behaviorsDiscover how personal behavior of leaders enhances influence and performance and how it is positively associated with being perceived as a leader     “The secret sauce to leadership success and peak performance is, love. You gotta love your people. You have to love what you do. You have to love yourself. And that mindset and that calibration around love, and I define love as a deliberate decision that you make to place the needs of someone else over your own.” – David Veech    David Veech's Valuable Free Resource:  FREE A full digital copy of The C4 Process. Just click here: https://leadersights.com/free-downloads/   Topics Covered: 02:20 - How to obliterate and not just overcome an obstacle 02:53 - What happens when you apply a good, solid problem-solving process 03:51 - What are the two biggest challenges facing our leaders today 05:18 - The who, what, when, where, how and why of critical thinking 06:31 - What are the symptoms of an indecisive leader 07:58 - How does leadership development become a failure in preparing the organization for the future 09:45 - One actionable tip for leaders around critical thinking: Stop making decisions! 10:50 - Get for FREE A full digital copy of The C4 Process. Just click here: https://leadersights.com/free-downloads/ 12:44 - What's the secret to leadership success and peak performance?  15:07 - What are the four most important skills that leaders have to develop Key Takeaways From David Veech: “Everybody talks about overcoming obstacles, you know, we all have obstacles. But you know, if we overcome an obstacle, you just left it behind. It's still there for somebody else. If you apply the right kind of problem solving, you can obliterate that thing and it never bothers anybody else again.”  “I want people to solve problems and not just bypass and not just push them off to somebody else. Solve it, get rid of it, obliterate it.” “Leaders are charged with creating learning organizations and learning really flows from this problem solving thinking process.” “If we apply a good, solid problem solving process with good, deep critical thinking, we can solve problems once, instead of having to solve them over and over and over and over again.” “Leadership development is probably the biggest failure in preparing an organization for the future. If a leader also doesn't have a clear vision of where he or she wants to take the organization, it gets very hard to build those kinds of development plans for your subordinate leaders.” Connect with David Veech: Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidveechFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DSVLeadersightsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidveech/Website: https://www.leadersights.com/

With heightened uncertainty so amplified, leaders must somehow balance their own personal challenges but also that of the demands of the organization they lead. Everyone is being pulled in multiple directions.  Our response to these demands must include increased self-responsibility and self-reflection… and a specific focus on that which we can control… and that is our attitude.   Tina Greenbaum works with executives who want to increase their performance level in high- stakes, high-pressure situations. She's an Optimal Performance Specialist and Sports Psychology Consultant.  In this episode, Tina shares with us the challenge of uncertainty that leaders have to grapple with in today's pandemic, the pain and the stress that go with it. With her expertise in neuroscience, she's able to give action steps to combat the different struggles we are facing in our lives today. Central, is the importance of self-awareness to determine the right response to all that is happening around us. Leaders must become diligent self-helpers and self-healers.  What you will learn from this episode:  Learn how to manage your negative self-talkDiscover why it is important to be aware of your blind spotsFind out how to be aware in the present moment without judgment “If our expectations are a certain place, and our reality is someplace different, in between these are frustration and disappointment, so we have to get real with what's real.” - Tina Greenbaum     Tina's Valuable Free Resource:   Check-out Mastery Under Pressure Quiz at https://www.masteryunderpressure.net/   Topics Covered: 02:02 - What is that one thing we need to be aware of to become better leaders  02:54 - How big of a challenge is uncertainty for leaders of today  04:56 - What mistakes do people commit to addressing the challenge of uncertainty  06:16 - What can we control  08:02 - How to change our attitude  09:07 - How to be aware in the present moment without judgment  11:42 - How do our belief systems influence our positive thinking  14:21 - Calming down the nervous system to clear the mind and start to think and feel clearly again  17:12 - Getting past the challenge of setting up a practice to calm the mind  20:39 - Tips for self-help and self-healing to help out leaders deal with pain and uncertainty in today's time  Key Takeaways: “The more aware we become of our blind spots, the better people we are, the better leaders we are. And so we all need somebody to work as a mirror to help us kind of see things that we just don't see.” - Tina Greenbaum “When we are in a period of uncertainty, the greater the uncertainty, the greater the anxiety. The more that we have structure, the nervous system can calm down a little bit. And we can proceed.” - Tina Greenbaum “Mindfulness is being aware in the present moment, without judgment.” - Tina Greenbaum “I like to say, 'Do my thoughts produce something useful for me?' And if they don't, then I'm responsible for changing them.”- Tina Greenbaum   Connect with Tina Greenbaum: LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/tinagreenbaumFacebook: Facebook.com/MasteryunderpressureTwitter: @masterypressureInstagram: Instagram.com/masteryunderpressure

More than ever, in this very trying time, communication has to be more clear, empowering questions have to be asked of yourself and of your team in coaching, and connection has to boil down to making emphatic decisions and empathy for your people for more productive results. As Co-Founder and COO of BetterManager, Wendy Hanson is proud of her company's mission to help leaders at all levels create a workplace where people can thrive. She is a firm believer that when companies invest in their managers, they are providing the tools to create a positive culture. She is an author, podcaster, and public speaker. In this episode, find out how business leaders can make a positive difference in the lives of the people they work with and their organizations using the 3 ‘C's' of Great Leadership - communication, coaching, and connection. What you will learn from this episode:  Learn why a good leader-manager struggles to connect with their people when they get caught up in the process of results and salesDiscover why coaching skills is crucial to a leader-manager in helping their people find their own answersFind out the empowering questions you need to ask yourself and your people to improve these 3 C's of great leadership   “What stops us from being a good leader-manager is we get caught up in our own process of results and sales. And when we do this, we forget to connect with the people.” - Wendy Hanson     Wendy's Valuable Free Resource:   Check-out BetterManager's Leadership Resource Center at https://www.bettermanager.us/resources   Topics Covered: 01:50 - What are the three C's of challenges that business leaders face today 02:33 - The important questions you need to ask yourself as a leader 03:00 - What are the important points you need to understand  about these 3 C's 05:29 - What are the actionable steps you can do to improve in the areas of these 3 C's 09:31 - Why getting caught up in our process of results and sales stops us from being a leader-manager 11:26 - Free resources you can make use of to help you become a good leader-manager  12:39 - In this COVID-19 pandemic, we have lots of things on top of us, what is the thing that we need to be most aware of because we've really changed the way we're working? 16:41 - How to make people happy in the simplest of ways today   Key Takeaways: “We do a lot of teaching and training around delegation because you can't just throw a ball over the net, you have to say, 'Okay, here's where we're heading. Let's set our GPS, make sure we're on the same page.'” - Wendy Hanson “Coaching skills are really important because we want to help people find their own answers.” - Wendy Hanson “Connection is about empathy.”- Wendy Hanson “We don't always use common sense. That's why the answers always seem simple. And my father used to say this when he was teaching me to ski, he said,'It's simple, but it's not easy.'”- Wendy Hanson “What a good leader does is, they don't just keep doing, they stand back. And they say what's gonna make the biggest difference to the business today? And what's gonna make the biggest difference to my people today?”- Wendy Hanson “Relationships and connections are the things that will never get old.”- Wendy Hanson   Connect with Wendy Hanson: Website: https://www.bettermanager.usLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyhansonE-add: wendy@bettermanager.us

For any sustainable growth to thrive there has to be a building of an ecosystem of conscious corporate leaders. Where there is an opportunity for people to open up and express themselves, there is shared learning and people become emotionally bonded together for a common goal.    That is what this conscious leadership stands for.    Ram Ramanathan has 40 years of global corporate leadership experience, 30 years of spiritual training with 7 years as trainee monk, 10 years as a leadership coach as the cofounder of Coacharya - a leading, award-winning, coaching company where its focus is in building an ecosystem of conscious corporate leaders.    In this episode Ram shares his thoughts on why individual leaders find it difficult to align with organisational vision when their lenses change through coaching. He also pointed out the importance of learning from mistakes, and why we shouldn't just revel in the knowledge we acquire, we need to gain wisdom from it.           What you will learn from this episode:    Discover the importance to democratize coaching to bring positive systemic change across the world Learn why for an organization it is important that leaders learn from mistakes Know what a systemic coach is and their responsibilities      “The systemic approach is a means to an end. Mistakes need to be made because in any leadership development, a part of anyone becoming a leader is that they have to make mistakes and learn from them.”  Ram Ramanathan      Valuable Free Resource:    Why Systemic Leadership Coaching? Check-out the blog at https://coacharya.com/blog/why-systemic-leadership-coaching    Topics Covered:     01:39 - What is conscious leadership, conscious capitalism, or servant leadership?    05:08 - Why is there a need for a systemic approach to leadership?    10:01 - Why does he think people are not learning from history's mistakes and keep repeating the same mistakes?    12:04 - Actionable tip to help people learn from their mistakes    15:10 - One free resource that can people understand the concept of the learning organization    16:49 - What did he do as a spiritual seeker for a while?    22:02 - Learning from ancient spirituality to align with Quantum Science          Key Takeaways:      “I coach CEOs. Because CEOs do not like to be coached, they know everything, they want others to change, they don't want to change themselves. I rarely found CEOs coming to me for any kind of input for changing themselves.”    “People don't learn from their mistakes.”     “As a corporate leader, I was never used to listening. I was used to telling people what to do. Fear was the key, but as a coach, it has that diametrically opposite kind of stuff. So I work with leaders today, to see how they can completely shift themselves.”    Resources Mentioned:    Otto Scharmer's Theory: https://www.presencing.org    Connect with Ram Ramanathan:    Website: https://coacharya.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coacharya Twitter: https://twitter.com/coacharya Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Coacharya 

Where does elegance fit for a leader? Elegance in leadership is being able to choose your standard.  How do you maintain your integrity as a leader when things get hard and busy?  How do you stay compassionate or empathetic when there's a conflict? Becoming a good leader means you know how to lead yourself more than anybody else. It means to practice using tools at your disposal, and when you build the skill set, it then becomes who you are. Heather Hansen is an award-winning trial attorney, a trained mediator, a Coach, a Keynote Speaker, and the best selling author of the book, The Elegant Warrior: How to Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself. She is the host of The Elegant Warrior Podcast. Her “5 Cs of Advocacy” have helped thousands of audience members use the tools of a trial lawyer to be better leaders, marketers, and salespeople. In this episode, Heather talks about defining your elegance and how it affects you as a person and you as a leader. What you learn from this episode: Learn how to influence, convince and persuade your inner narrative or inner jury to help you become a better leader and advocateLearn ways how you can use multiple perspectives to craft a better question, argument, and story so you can relate to your outer jury and win them overFind out how one of the 10 tools of an advocate that can bring you life-changing results for your clients, family, and team members “You are all your own best advocates and you have everything inside, you have the passion and the experience. You have the ability to advocate for yourself and your team. And you just need the tools to make it happen.”  - Heather Hansen Heather's Valuable Free Resource: Become a Powerful Advocate for Your Ideas: https://advocatetowin.com/ Topics Covered: 03:11 - Where does elegance fit for a leader? 04:28 - How do you define elegance? 04:55 - Heather's definition of elegance 05:20 - What's the biggest challenge you help leaders with? What are the symptoms? 06:52 - How does the inner jury work? 07:01 - Finding your own elegance 07:08 - What is Illeism and how does it affect your inner jury? 08:48 - How do you win over the inner jury? 09:26 - Example of Evidence and the role it plays in convincing and persuading your inner jury. 09:50 - What are the biggest mistakes your clients are making before they work with you? 11:10 - How multiple perspectives can help you influence, persuade, and convince. 12:11 - What is a Win-Lose Weird Proces? 12:56 - What actionable tip or piece of advice that you can share to help people become a better leader? 13:19 - How to practicing seeing things from other perspectives helps you become a more elegant leader. 18:52 - Five ways to get what you want and five tools to advocate for the things that you want, go to https://advocatetowin.com/ 19:23 - Questions as one of the 10 tools of an advocate Key Takeaways: “You have to be willing to be wrong, or at least see where you could be wrong in order to win. I always say you have to be able to see where you could lose in order to win.” - Heather Hansen “You have to be able to see outside of what you normally see in order to find other purposes for yourself.” - Heather Hansen Resources Mentioned: 5 C's of Advocacy - https://advocatetowin.com/speaking/Elegant Warrior: How to Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself - https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Warrior-Trials-Without-Yourself/dp/1989025269/AdvocateToWin - https://advocatetowin.com/Elegant Warrior Podcast - https://heatherhansenpresents.com/heather-hansen-podcast-the-elegant-warrior/ Connect with Heather Hansen: Website - https://heatherhansenpresents.com/Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-hansen-84243512/Instagram and Twitter - @imheatherhansenFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/heather.hansen.3720

Have you ever wondered how people would remember you at the end of your career?    What is that one word you want someone to use when they describe you?    Leadership is about leaving a legacy. It is about making a positive impact on someone's life and making things better. We may not realize it, but sometimes, we make it about ourselves, and that is a problem.     Rocky Romanella is an experienced CEO, keynote speaker, independent board member, founder, and CEO of 3SIXTY Management Services and author of the 5-star book, Tighten The Lug Nuts.    In this episode, Rocky talks about the essential things a leader should do in these challenging and uncertain times to become a bigger and stronger company.      What you will learn from this episode:   Learn how a leader maintain their own balance in challenging times Discover how leaders can ‘Tighten the Lug Nuts' in these challenging times of rebuilding lives and economy Some actionable tips for leaders to address the challenges they're facing        "Utilize the opportunity to communicate, show the character of yourself and your organization, prepare yourself for the time when you're going to get out there and run, and then when you run, don't look back."   - Rocky Romanella    Rocky's Valuable Free Resource: https://www.3sixtymanagementservices.com     Topics Covered:    02:37 - As a leader, what's the most important thing you have to do as an individual and as a company in this challenging time    04:33 - Why the need to take an inventory of yourself    06:07 - Why should it be not 'about us'    07:29 - What are the manifestations when you start building a wall around yourself and what you should know about the speed of making decisions    09:02 - What tone should you set from the top    10:28 - What mistakes do his clients make before they go and consult him    12:40 - Free actionable tip to help address the challenge that you face: "Manage from a value perspective."    15:39 - Get interactive, click here: www.3sixtymanagementservices.com    17:38 - As a leader, why should you ‘tighten the lug nuts'    Key Takeaways:  "There's going to be decisions that you have to make, that will be better decisions in the long term for the organization and for your people. And so I think it's important to really take the time to analyze the things you need to do, the things that have to be done, communicate, always communicate, over-communicate in these times." - Rocky Romanella    "One of the biggest hurdles that leaders have to get over is, it's not about you, it's about your people." - Rocky Romanella    "We don't realize that sometimes, but we make it about ourselves. And I think that's, that's a problem. And I think we have to take that step back and always recognize it's not about us, it's about our people in our care in our organization." - Rocky Romanella    "Values matter in all you do." - Rocky Romanella      Resources Mentioned:  Tighten the Lug Nuts: The Principles of Balanced Leadership    Connect With Rocky Romanella:    Website: https://www.3sixtymanagementservices.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/3sixtymgt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/3Sixty-Management-Services Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/3sixtymanagement/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3sixty-management-services-llc/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/3sixtymanagementservices/ 

How is leading in possibility make sense to you in these relevant times?  Leadership is not just about having a title, it is not even just about having business opportunities. It is about mentoring, coaching, and modeling capacity of leadership for the people around you, in the context you are in, to create more responsible leaders.  Stacey Ashley is a High-Performance Leadership Expert, Speaker, Change & Transformation Leadership Coach, C-Suite Executive Coach, Leadership Development Coach, Mentor, and LinkedIn Top Voices 2018 Awardee  In this episode, Stacey shares about building practical foundations for effective leadership,   getting out of the trenches, to lead strategically and with influence.    What you will learn from this episode:    Learn about why you should Lead in Possibility Discover about the mentoring, coaching, modeling capacity of leadership in order to lead strategically and effectively Learn how to take responsibility for yourself and the people you serve so you can elevate leadership and create more effective leaders      “Leading in possibility is about creating the opportunity for people to actually realize their potential and possibility as well.” - Stacey Ashley     Stacey's Valuable Free Resource:  Claim your Leadership Performance Boost: www.ashleycoaching.com.au/28days        What you will learn from this episode:   01:46 - What is the essence of leading in possibility?  02:19 - Why leading in possibility is more than just about business opportunities?  03:28 - The idea of elevating the practice of leadership around the world.  04:40 - What could be preventing leaders from doing so much more with what they were set out to do from the start?  05:33 - How are leaders get sucked by the day to day operations?  06:12 - In what forms symptoms of a problem are showing up?  07:15 - What mistakes do her clients commit before working with her?  07:53 - The New Leader: What is this new book all about?  08:24 - Her definition of Leadership.  09:33 - In what capacities are we showing up as leaders?  12:15 - Free actionable tip to help develop one's leadership skills: What is the most important thing for me to be doing right now?  14:06 - For your leadership performance boost, go to www.ashleycoaching.com.au/28days  14:50 - How do you create more leaders?  15:10 - Mentoring, coaching, and modeling: How do they differ?      Key Takeaways:   “Leadership is about the aspiration for yourself and also for the people that you work with and the context of the world in which you work or operate. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and for those that you serve.” - Stacey Ashley  “The practice of leadership needs to elevate so that we can actually take everyone with us and create more leaders, more leadership at a higher level.” - Stacey Ashley  “Leadership is not having a title and there are people reporting to you. I can be an individual and be a leader and show leadership. I can be a thought leader or a portfolio leader or leader of people.” - Stacey Ashley  “Leadership absolutely starts with self. If someone really wants to begin to elevate their leadership and to show leadership to the people around them, so they are growing, start with yourself, understand where your leadership at, where you might have opportunities to develop, and then do that.”- Stacey Ashley    Resources Mentioned: The New Leader: From Team Member to People Leader - A Practical Guide    Connect with Stacey Ashley: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyashley/?originalSubdomain=au AshleyCoaching.com.au: http://ashleycoaching.com.au/  

How have you shown up as a leader in this day and age?    If you think we are still in the time of instruction-led, old traditional leadership style then it's about time we have to think again and integrate an adaptive leadership stance to the way we manage people. In this new normal that we are in, it's about time we do it.    Andro Donovan is an author, speaker, leadership development and team Coach.  Andro combines her experience as a business owner and management consultant with her coaching and facilitation work, bringing natural insight to help her clients gain greater influence, effectiveness, and perspective. She has worked with numerous top management teams and CEOs from blue-chip companies, assisting them to create the culture they need to support their business growth and performance strategies.    In this episode, Andro shares the challenges leaders face in today's age. Along with it, she sees the solution and the likely path leaders should adapt to provide an environment where individuals are heard, left to their own devices, living out their creativity, given that sense of trust and autonomy thereby increasing productivity.  What you will learn from this episode:  Learn why you should adapt to a new style of Adaptive Leadership in today's time Find out the new norms of leadership that help increase productivity in the workplace Learn about why, as a leader, you should not just be there at the balcony and instead get down on the dance floor and still have a strategic view of things around    “I think one of the mistakes leaders make is they don't invest in the people that are with the people. They do it all in this ivory tower, leave it all up there. What I advise them to do is make some investment in your team leaders.”   - Andro Donovan  Andro's Valuable Free Resource  Download Andro's Free e-book: 4 Pillars Team Coaching: https://www.androdonovan.com/freedownload/    Topics Covered:  02:33 - What are the key challenges leaders face today of which she also helps with  03:52 - How to face up to the challenge of having internal capability to move between two positions of being a leader and being among his people  04:30 - How are these challenges show up as symptoms in an organizations  05:57 - Actions clients mistakenly do before working with Andro and what has proven to be an effective solution for these  07:19 - What happens when you give your trust to your people  07:48 - What she recommends leaders should act on where giving trust to their staff is concerned  09:26 - Helpful tips for senior leaders to help better themselves and their relationship with mid-managers  11:22 - Downloadable resource to help you become a better leader  13:38 - When was the last time you really had a proper conversation with individuals in both your team and your next team down?  14:33 - What she says about familiarity and ease of communication with your people    Resources Mentioned:  Motivate Yourself: Get the Life You Want, Find Purpose and Achieve Fulfilment by Andro Donovan    Connect with Andro Donovan:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/androdonovan Website: http://www.androdonovan.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivate_yourselfad    Connect With Bruce Ross:   Website: https://www.ignitebusiness.co.nz  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucesross  Twitter: https://twitter.com/flowpreneur   

Overworked and overwhelmed?   Most likely, as business leaders today, this is one of the many challenges you face.  It's time to step back, evaluate, determine what your key strengths are, and develop them in order to reach your full potential in terms of leadership.  Nancy Jonker, Ph.D., is an experienced psychologist and coach. Her professional career, spanning thirty-one years includes teaching, training and workshops, transformational retreats, small and large group facilitation, and speaking.   In this episode, Nancy talks about the challenges business leaders face at work which consequently has affected their relationship, health, and focus. She also shares how she helps leaders gain back clarity, develop awareness and inner wisdom in terms of utilizing their strengths and purpose to be the audacious leaders who are taking full responsibility for their lives and that of their team.  What You Will Learn: Learn about the challenges business leaders face today and the solutions to help them move forward and live the life they truly want    Learn how to step up, get clear about your key strengths as a leader, develop them, and harness them to its full potential to deepen your impact at home and at work  Find out how to be an effective and audacious leader that you are meant to be  “When we can create a culture of respect and freedom where people are free to be themselves and use their gifts and talents, the ones that come naturally to them, then that becomes to be, it grows the culture. We can actually develop that respect and it creates more trust and safety in the group when we lead with that.”   - Nancy Jonker    Nancy's Valuable Free Resource:  Check-out Nancy's Free Quiz that identifies 10 Hidden Growth Opportunities for Top Leaders:  visit www.QuizLeaders.com    Topic Discussed: 01:51 - What does Nancy do and why you should work with her  03:00 - The reality of leaders being overworked and overwhelmed  03:56 - What are the manifestations being overworked and overwhelmed  04:43 - Mistakes business leaders commit before they realize it and get help  06:07 - One free, effective actionable tip that helps business leaders in moving forward  08:35 – [Recommended High leverage Activity] Ways to develop a particular strength  09:52 - The special assessment she uses to determine one's four key strengths  10:52 - What does a culture of respect and freedom create in a team  11:06 - One valuable free resource: quizleaders.com  11:41 - Book resource: Atomic Habits by James Clear  12:18 - What is an audacious leader  13:03 - What stops us from being effective leaders  14:52 - What impact does she want to create in the world    Resources Mentioned: Atomic Habits by James Clear    Connect with Nancy Jonker: Website: https://www.nancyjonker.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNancyJonker/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nancyjonker Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyjonker  Podcast: https://audaciousnow.com/podcast/   Connect with Bruce Ross: Website: https://www.flowpreneur.coLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucesross/Twitter: https://twitter.com/flowpreneur

Welcome to FlowPreneur™ Unshakeable Leadership Podcast. And you're here because you know you have the potential as a business leader to operate on a grander scale both at work and the time.  But you also know that having potential is not the same as doing something about it.  Our Goal Our goal on this show is to introduce you to people and amazing ideas that will help you actually execute on those dreams.  Who the show is for? Hello, and welcome to the FlowPreneur™ Unshakeable Bold Leadership Podcast. My name is Bruce Ross, your host and this weekly podcast is for business owners and leaders who want to accelerate their progress and deepen their impact in the world. That is - be a better you both at work and at home.  At work, it's about increasing your productivity, your creativity, confidence, courage, and on the personal side is savoring the magic moments with your family, your friends, and yourself. What's in it for you?  We'll be providing insights and proven strategies for you to lead better, live better and get actual traction. In short, it enables you to feel great about yourself when you're by yourself.  Each podcast is a focused 15-minute format. And one of the key questions each of my guest's answers is, what's one valuable free action that someone can take to address whatever the challenges that we're talking about whether it be dealing with difficult people or finding your groove or becoming an even more inspiring leader.  And they provide a clear action step or step series of steps that you can apply immediately. Plus apply downloadable material to give you even further support. And these are pure gold.  So stay tuned right to the end, because then you get the link to the downloadables. Head across now to www.flowpreneur.co/podcast. For more content, they'll inspire, encourage and challenge your personal and professional growth.  Thanks very much for checking out FlowPreneur™  Unshakeable Leadership Podcast. If you like what we're doing here, please head on over to Apple Podcast, subscribe, rate us and leave a review. We'd very much appreciate this.  Connect with Bruce Ross: Website : https://www.peakperformance.coLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucesross/Twitter: https://twitter.com/flowpreneur