Humanergy Leadership Podcast

David Wheatley presents to Humanergy's First Friday work session about how a Personal Board of Directors can help when you are feeling overwhelmed.  Continuing the metaphor of our backpack being full, David looks at how coaches, mentors, sponsors and friends can help, if only you'd ask

Mimi Mitrius introduces the newest Humanergist Quay Eady and digs into her coaching style, her history and what brings her to Humanergy

Humanergy's David Wheatley talks with Erin Tolefree, CEO & President of Baldwin Richardson Foods. They discuss:What is is like to be both second and third generation in family business leadershipThe lessons learned from her father and grandfatherWhat set her up for successBest practices she has learned along the way

John Barrett talks about how we can use Artificial Intelligence to help when we are feeling overwhelmed and our virtual backpack is overloaded.  Among his suggestions are: Think of AI as a super-smart, literal and naive intern, who can't read your mind but who has unlimited time and access to information. And who will provide you exactly what you ask for with high probability. Use AI to help you use AIWhat is an effective prompt to …..?What questions do you have for me to better answer my request?Provide the AI the parameters for exactly what you want (don't worry about the HOW)E.g.Answer as a thought leader who has deep understanding and practical experienceYour audience is junior employees who are smart and inexperienced in the workplaceDefine the key thinking and provide 3 practical actions they can take to be better team membersProvide references and a list of further resources for deeper understandingAdopt a 3 iteration approachGive feedback and/or adjust request and ask for another suggestionHe also mentions a couple of resources...https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Use the Prompt Engineer GPT by The AI Report to 10x your prompts.  

Humanergy's Chief Questions Asker, David Wheatley, takes a look at another of our What Great Teams Do Great issues - this time, what to do if the team leader is struggling to keep focused on success and holding the team accountable. 

Humanergy's Chief Questions Asker, David Wheatley, takes a look at another of our What Great Teams Do Great issues - this time, what to do if the team meetings are not as productive as they could or should be... one solution is to stop having meetings! Listen in to find out what he suggests you replace them with

Jeannette Stawski shares some thoughts on Prioritization and how we can get a handle on our busyness including the power of the Eisenhower Matrix

Humanergy's Lance Satterthwaite talks about how to manage when you are pushed to do more with less. This is part of our First Friday work sessions. He covers three strategies...Strategy 1 - Let things spill over:Be wise about what will and won't get done.Strategy 2 - Get a larger bucket:Increase efficiencies where possible.Ask for help, delegate, and coach othersAdvocate for increased resources.Work longer hours when necessary.Strategy 3 - Change what is flowing into the bucket or the pace in which it is flowing:Engage in crucial conversations with stakeholders.Clarify key deliverables.Prioritize the work and make a game plan.

Humanergy's Jim Marshall takes the backpack analogy and applies it to how we feel loaded down during any role transition - and what we can do to stay fit, lessen the load and ensure the smoothest transition

David shares some thoughts for when you are having one-on-one meetings with your direct reports and how a simple one not document and a prioritization structure can make them more efficient and effective

Corey Fernandez, as part of Humanergy's First Friday work sessions, talks about what makes a powerful questions and how they are particularly valuable in the world of leadership

Mimi Mitrius interviews the Humanergy Leadership Podcast host and founder, David Wheatley to celebrate episode 200. What made him start a podcast, what he has learned and what we can expect in the future.

David talks with Sharissa Sebastian Deppen of the Leadership mastery Alliance about the challenges of being an introverted female leader in a modern work environment and some approaches to greater success

David talks with Sarah Noll Wilson, author of Don't Feed The Elephants about how her new book lines up with What Great Teams Do Great and helps people understand where their challenges are in dealing with conflict and how to address your 'elephant'

Corey Fernandez talks about how to lead with empathy as part of Humanergy's First Friday work sessions

David talks with Judy Brown and Rick Eigenbrod about how we can make good decisions about the health and welfare of our leaders. They delve into how loneliness is the emotion of isolation and how leaders can kick off their teams with some words to limit their isolation.There is a great article we found after recording that mirrors the sentiment... Give your boss a break: See the human behind the role by Kevin Kruse

Guest, Chris Sargent, CEO of United Way of South Central Michigan talks about how non-profits should be looking at how they can collaborate and where they are on the continuum of collaboration. The tool he discusses can be found here, along with Humanergy work supporting non-profit collaboration and merger. 

David talks with Stephanie Hickman Boyse about her experience running Brazeway, a third generation family business, and what she learned along the way

Corey Fernandez looks at #9 in our What Great Teams Do Great issues series, what to do when members of the team are in conflict

David talks with Bill Doherty and our First Friday attendees about the work of Braver Angels to help us have more reasonable conversations in the workplace with people who have opposing political views

Corey Fernandez looks at #8 in our What Great Teams Do Great issues series - how a team handles the 'superstar' who takes all the credit

Lance Satterthwaite presents the compressed content from our September First Friday work session - on being more open to receiving feedback.  Register for our First Friday sessions at Humanergy.com

Corey Fernandez talks about the latest in our What Great Teams Do Great issues series - What happens when your team is risk averse.

David talks with former sports executive Bernie Mullin about his new book Reimagining America's Dream: Making it attainable for all, and the economy, our education system and healthcare (for a start) need to change to provide opportunities for people to prosper.

Corey talks about our 5th issue in the What Great Teams Do Great issue series - how to help a new team that is struggling to get up to speed

David talks about our 6th issue in the What Great Teams Do Great issue series - how to help a team that is struggling to address conflict

David and Judy Brown talk about an experience they had where a jazz band was the keynote speaker at a quality conference and the leadership lessons that were drawn from the event

David discusses the value of formally handing over the keys to someone when you go on vacation.  This discipline helps you take a complete rest and allows others the opportunity to step up, and it takes investment and structure to make happen well

Corey Fernandez talks about another regular team issue from our coaching work around What Great Teams Do Great - how to help a team that is lacking energy and imagination.

Corey Fernandez shares the 3rd in our series of What Great Teams Do Great issues... this one on how to help a team that is struggling to communicate and not sharing information

David talks to Bill Dobbins about his many companies, all operating around Caster Concepts in Albion, Michigan. They talk about how he is thinking and working on next generation transition and how he is using the main business to support smaller ones that meet is conscious capitalism approach.

As part of our What Great Teams Do Great Issues series, David looks at what to do when people are too busy putting out fires to  get the necessary and more strategic work done

David shares some of the work of his colleague Lance Satterthwaite on the symptoms of low-trust and high-trust cultures

As part of our What Great Teams Do Great issues series, David looks at how to address frustration within the team

David talks with Dee Cramer President Matt Cramer about his family business journey and the best practices he recognizes as supporting their third generation success

David talks about what to do when another project or job is added to your role and no one is actively taking anything away. Using the analogy of a backpack, there are some simple steps that will help relieve the tension caused by adding more and more to an already full load

Humanergy's Jim Marshall share part two of a conversation on Transformative Discussion - and how to have a difficult conversation using the Green Path

David talks with Judy Brown and Rick Eigenbrod about two CEO's and how they are looking at their organizations differently. They discuss leadership and followership, flexibility and agility in an organization and pushing decision making to where the information is at.

Corey Fernandez looks at how we can often make assumptions about people's intent and this can get us into trouble. He recommends being curious and searching past the words to find the intent behind them to ensure understanding

David talks with Mike and Michael Williams, two generations of leadership at this tier one automotive supplier based in Troy, Michigan.  They discuss best practices they have learned from leading and transitioning within a family business

Judy Brown reads from her book, A Leaders Guide to Reflective Practice, a segment called, Cone-in-a-box.  She talks about how dialogue can help us see a better truth

Jim Marshall talks to our First Friday group about having difficult conversations.  This will be continued next month.

David talks about how important it is for leaders to create space:The pause after a questionThe pause before solving someone else's problemStrategic timeSafe venting

David talks with Joe & Joey Cekola of Imperial Beverage about their experiences working in the family business - and the best practices that have allowed for success.

David reflects on a kids hockey coach who has the leanest version of behavioral expectations (from the Set-Up box of What Great Teams Do Great) - work hard and be a great teammate!

Lance Satterthwaite talks about how teams can make great decisions

David builds on the ideas from Ep95 about creating a personal board of directors.  Imagine doing a seating chart for an event... who are the people you have at each of the following tables:CoachingSponsorshipMentoringFriendsWho can provide insight and advise to you personally and professionally?

David shares the idea that when we are preparing to leave a role, we can create a glidepath that best allows for a great transition by stepping down our work

David continues his exploration of family business best practices with Lauren Clark and Bob Barry of Bergquist

David talks to Jeannette Stawski about her new book, The Outdoor Leader - a great introduction to leadership whether you work in the outdoors or not.

Corey Fernandez talks about how stakeholder mapping can help identify the interdependencies and set up a clear picture of the greater good