Lead from Scratch

Sometimes the hardest part of a change is getting others onboard. In this episode, Kyle and Carolina share ways to motivate others and connect with their deepest needs in order to help them reach their full potential. Listeners, since this is our final episode, thank you so much for being part of this journey. We have seen so much growth from you and are excited to see your future growth. Remember to Lead From Scratch and reach your full potential!

Have you ever tried to lead a change, only for people to come out of the woodwork to resist it? Resistance is to be expected when we lead changes, but there are ways we can overcome the resistance to keep moving forward. Carolina and Kyle discuss strategies to overcome resistance so that you can lead your organization to reach its full potential.

Even if you do not have a formal leadership position, you can still lead. Want to know how? Listen as Carolina and Kyle talk about the power of influence and how to lead change even if you do not have a prestigious title.

Have you ever wondered why no one followed your proposed change or worse, started too, but then stopped a week later? Did you wonder if it was you or if they just don't like change? In this episode, Carolina and Kyle talk about how to create changes that are effective and last using an easy to remember principle.

Have you ever been part of a change where halfway through the change journey, you have already forgotten why you are doing all the hard work? In this episode, Kyle and Carolina talk about the importance of purpose to a change effort and how starting with why can make the difference between a successful or unsuccessful change effort.

Have you ever wanted to see a change happen, but not known how to lead it or if you were qualified? In this new series, we talk about how to lead change by believing in your abilities, starting with why, and using a simple change model in which we unfreeze, change, and refreeze the change. For more information about Start with Why, click the link.

Emotional Intelligence is incredibly vital to learn, especially at a young age! This is why Kyle and Carolina invited teacher and emotional intelligence practitioner Paige Daughtery to the podcast to help us learn how best to teach and equip kids with emotional intelligence. Paige also assembled a book recommendation list for us: Children's Books for Social/Emotional Learning: Each Kindness, Jacqueline Woodson Salt in His Shoes, Deloris Jordan Chester's Way, Kevin Henkes Julius, the Baby of the World, Kevin Henkes Olive's Ocean, Kevin Henkes The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, Mem Fox The Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Pena The Legend of the Bluebonnet, Tomie dePaola Those Shoes, Maribeth Boelts Love You Forever, Robert Munsch I Promise, Lebron James The Bad Seed, Jory John The Cool Bean, Jory John Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, Eileen Spinelli Books for Parents: Emotional Poverty, Ruby Payne The Eq Intervention: Shaping a Self-Aware Generation Through Social and Emotional Learning, Adam Saenz Thrilled to Death, Archibald D. Hart A Child Called “It”, Dave Pelzer The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls Educated, Tara Westover

In this episode, we talk about how to boost our emotional literacy and the positive effects it can create for our leadership. Also, listen up for preview of a special guest episode next week!

We've discussed a lot of aspects of emotional intelligence, but how does it directly impact our leadership? In this episode, Kyle and Carolina explore how emotional intelligence can be leveraged to better give feedback and lead groups, so listen in!

Have you ever struggled to understand others' emotions and how they relate to leadership? Have you ever wished a conflict with another person went better or that a conflict never emerged? Learn important social skills anchored in emotional intelligence this week to improve your leadership skills and reach your full potential!

Have you ever wanted to be better at motivating yourself or at resisting harmful temptations? In this episode, Carolina and Kyle talk about everything from marshmallows to workouts to help you improve and become the leader you are meant to be.

Listen in as Kyle and Carolina share ways to manage your emotions, to leverage everything in your power to lead better.

Have you ever found that your emotions have gotten the best of you? Do you ever wish you had handled a situation with a coworker or teammate differently? In this episode, we will discuss the importance of a different type of intelligence, emotional intelligence, and how self-awareness can elevate your leadership. To find out more information, stay tuned for the next episodes and read Daniel Goleman's book, Emotional Intelligence.

You become like the people you spend time with. In this episode, we talk about how to intentionally take control of who you will become by finding a mentor who can help guide you towards your full potential.

How do you know what makes a good goal? When is it time to move on from a goal and choose another goal? In this episode, we share a powerful tool from Michael Hyatt called the LifeScore Assessment that will help you find where you need to grow and where you are already satisfied. Tap here LifeScore Assessment to take the LifeScore Assessment.

Have you struggled with sustaining your growth over a long period of time? Do you find yourself unsure of how to keep growing after you have accomplished a goal or two? In this episode, we will discuss ways to keep your growth going so that you can reach new heights in your leadership journey.

This is our final episode of the year! Listen as we reflect on some of the key concepts we've learned throughout the last 6 months with two of our listeners -- Amy and Trisha! They joined us in our reflection as we wrapped up season one. See you again in 2022!

Take your coaching to the next level with these three coaching tools: direct conversations, silence, and metaphors. These three tools help elevate your conversations and create new spaces for the people you lead to grow and reach a deepened self-understanding of themselves.

Have you ever been asked a question that made you rethink a major part of your life? Has a single question or single conversation ever shaped your life in a powerful way? In this episode, Carolina and Kyle share how to craft powerful questions that allow you to impact the people you lead and help them become the best version of themselves.

So you want to coach someone, but you have absolutely no idea what you are doing? Does imposter syndrome pervade every coaching conversation you have with someone? Carolina and Kyle break down a simple coaching structure that will give direction to your coaching conversations and allow you to influence people while motivating them to action.

Have you ever had a conversation with someone where you wanted them to change or grow, but felt like they just were not that motivated? Are you surrounded by people who just seem stuck without any ability to get themselves unstuck? In this episode, we talk about how to have inspiring conversations that lift people out of stuckness and help them get to where they want to be.

Leading yourself is one thing, but how do you effectively guide and influence others to be the best versions of themselves and reach their full potential? Kyle and Carolina introduce a powerful tool, coaching, in this episode that will help you lead others and effect powerful change.

Now that you're starting to build these positive habits and daily rituals, what tools are there to help you actually achieve these goals? Kyle and Carolina share their preferred habit resources which have helped them win at work and succeed at life. Try Carolina's recommendation: The Full Focus Planner. Try Kyle's recommendation: Bullet Journal.

Do you find your work life and home life continue to bleed into one another? Do you carry your stress from place to place and never seem to be able to fall asleep when you want to? In this episode, we talk about building daily rituals that will help you work more productively at work while also being able to rest and have more fun at home. Read Michael Hyatt's book, No Fail Habits, to learn more about building daily rituals that automate your work and rest needs.

Wouldn't it be nice if we had no negative habits to break? But we all know that we have negative habits or are immersed in negative environments that hold us back from reaching our full potential. Whether this is as big as breaking a generational curse or breaking the habit of eating ice cream after each meal, learn how to break negative habits in this episode. Read James Clear's book, Atomic Habits, or subscribe to his email list, to learn more about how to build powerful habits to change your life.

Now that you have decided to start some positive habits, how do you make them stick? How do you make sure that you actually follow through on those habits and get the results you want, while coming to actually enjoy, not dread those habits? In this episode, we will learn how to build positive habits that last and give us the transformational results we have been looking for. Read James Clear's book, Atomic Habits, or subscribe to his email list, to learn more about how to build powerful habits to change your life.

Have you ever accidentally driven to work when you meant to drive elsewhere or wondered why you always crave a snack at 3:00 p.m? The power of habits can make us laugh sometimes, but can also be leveraged to elevate our leadership and our lives to new heights. In this episode, we will learn how to think about habits and the improvement that can come with incremental improvements. Read James Clear's book, Atomic Habits, or subscribe to his email list, to learn more about how to build powerful habits to change your life.

Building common ground, or rapport, is the secret to true communication success. Being a leader means that we have to step down out of our ivory tower and share life with others. In this episode, we share practical tips on how to build rapport and trust so that we can lead effectively. Read John Maxwell's book, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, to learn more about how to connect with others through your communication.

Do you ever feel like your words go right through someone or that even when they listen to you, they never do what you say? Communication is all about connection, and in this episode, we give you practical strategies to move from empty talking to real connection. Read John Maxwell's book, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, to learn more about how to connect with others through your communication.

Do you have doubts that your boss cares about you? Are you someone who just needs everyone to like you? In this episode, we talk about how to care for our team while delivering constructive feedback while moving from a place of Manipulative Insincerity to Radically Candid communication. Read Kim Scott's book, Radical Candor, to learn more about how to move from Manipulative Insincerity to Radical Candor.

Have you ever had a boss who was extremely nice, but never gave you the honest feedback that you needed to grow? Do you struggle with giving people feedback because you do not want to hurt their feelings? In this episode, we talk about delivering feedback and how to move from Ruinous Empathy into Radically Candid communication. Read Kim Scott's book, Radical Candor, to learn more about how to move from Ruinous Empathy to Radical Candor.

We all know someone who is too aggressive, yells too much or is too critical in their communication style. This may even be you. In this episode, we will give practical strategies for how to move out of this place of Obnoxious Aggression and into effective Radically Candid communication. Read Kim Scott's book, Radical Candor, to learn more about how to move from Obnoxious Aggression to Radical Candor.

One of the most overlooked, but important, ingredients to leadership is empathy. While sometimes we hear that being a leader means we should not care for our team, without empathy, our team will feel neglected and perform worse than if we cared for and understood them fully. No matter if you are naturally empathetic or uncertain of what the word even means, this episode will help you care for your team and others around you in a way that will elevate your leadership to the next level. Read Brene Brown's book, Dare to Lead, to find out more about empathy and the amazing results it can create for your team.

We often set goals for ourselves, but it can seem impossible to actually achieve those goals, no matter how much we want to achieve them. How many New Years' resolutions or weight loss challenges have slipped your mind and your habits after a week or a month? This podcast shows us a new way to think about and plan goals so that instead of just setting goals, we will start achieving goals! This material is adapted from Michael Hyatt's books and leadership materials, so be sure to check him out at https://michaelhyatt.com/.

Too often in life, we are held back from our goals by self-created obstacles and limiting beliefs: “I'm not talented enough for that”, “I don't have time to do that”, “I don't know how to do that so why try”, etc. In this episode, we cover how to overcome those self-defeating beliefs through the use of liberating truths that help us reach our full potential. This material is adapted from Michael Hyatt's books and leadership materials, so be sure to check him out at https://michaelhyatt.com/.

We hear it time and time again that communication matters in all aspects of life. But does it really matter in business? Why should I care? What are the best practices for implementing it? We cover all these questions in the episode today. We only give an overview of the communication content today but are planning a full communication deep-dive later this fall. Subscribe to our podcast so you can stay up-to-date when we dive in further. Reach Kim Scott's book, Radical Candor, to learn more about the communication type quadrant.

If you are not healthy, your leadership style and overall effectiveness will struggle. In this episode, we discuss the importance of caring for yourself first and how that can make or break your output and relationships in the workplace.

True leadership is not about how we best promote ourselves, but how best we advance the needs of others. In this episode, we talk about how good leadership is servant leadership which adds value to the people we lead.

No one ever fully arrives as a leader. Leadership takes continual, intentional growth in order to reach our full potential. This means we must step out of our comfort zones and be stretched so that we can find significance as leaders. Book we recommend: John Maxwell's 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

From individuals to massive corporations, character and values matter and often determine whether our leadership succeeds or fails in the long run. In this episode, we talk about how to lead with character to ensure that our influence lasts for years after we are gone. Recommended Resource: Simon Sinek's Infinite Game

To lead others, you must know yourself. In this episode, we discuss the importance of knowing our strengths and blind spots, while providing resources on how to know yourself and everything you bring to the table as a leader more fully. Assessments we Recommend Using: Myers-Briggs Personality Report Enneagram Gallup CliftonStrengths 34 KOLBE A

While leadership may seem to be something only certain people should strive to attain, the truth is that all of us have the potential to lead others. Leadership can be learned and developed, and you have the potential to become a great leader!

Welcome to the Lead From Scratch Podcast, a podcast designed with the new or soon-to-be leader in mind. This podcast will help you start growing your leadership potential with foundational leadership skills and practical applications.