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On this episode of the Consultant Corner, you get a front row seat as podcast host, Dr. Shari N. Dade opens the VA Psychology Leadership Conference in San Antonio, Tx and shares how to begin becoming the audacious leader many of us hope to be! Listen in to the talk focused on helping leaders harness the Audacity to BE Uncertain, Relentless, and Authentic while on their leadership journey. Closed Caption Transcript is available at: https://www.sharedfedtraining.org/Podcasts/TATF_S3E8.pdf ===============================Key Lessons: Lessons of Uncertainty: It's important to remember: The beauty of uncertainty is INFINITE possibility.Audacious living can transform panic into purpose. Relentlessness Actions: Understand your Mission!Understand your Hand!Authentic Reflections: Know your value. Understand your worth.Lean on each other – tell your peers how priceless they are!Please check out additional services here: VHA National Center for Organization Development - Home (sharepoint.com)

Through her transition from crisis management to time management coach, Anna Dearmon Kornick has learned how to create a customizable time management system that helps her clients align their time with what matters most in their life. We talk about the challenge Anna faced in transitioning from the reactive and always-on role of crisis management to one of intentionality and simplicity, and why women need to do the messy work of finding their “why” and aligning their values first, before trying to manage their calendar. In this episode you'll learn: How to visualize your priorities in terms of boulders, big rocks & pebbles The importance of designing your ideal week to avoid decision fatigue How reconnecting with your dreams and personal goals can help you build a time management system that helps you thrive   Check out the following which were referenced in this podcast episode: Book rec: the Fifth Trimester Book rec: 168 Hours It's About Time podcast episode dated 12/14/20: Plan with Purpose: How to Plan Your Year Ahead Even in Times of Uncertainty It's About Time podcast episode dated 2/20/20: Making Time for Money: How to Stay on Top of Your Money Game with Finance Fridays   About the Guest: Anna Dearmon Kornick is a Time Management Coach, wife and mom who helps busy professionals and business owners master time management so they can stop feeling overwhelmed and start spending time on what matters most.   Learn more about Anna's work at: Website: annadkornick.com Podcast: abouttimepodcast.com Instagram: instagram.com/annadkornick   About the Host Janice Scholl helps moms navigate the money and career transitions that come with the different stages of motherhood through her work as coach, speaker, workshop facilitator, and host of The Money, Career & Motherhood Podcast. Janice is passionate about helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career & business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money.  Her key areas of focus to help mothers succeed are navigating maternity leave, career breaks & transitions, and  values-based budgeting.   Sign up for a FREE 30-minute strategy session with Janice here. Visit the Money, Career, & Motherhood website, Facebook page, Facebook group, or on Instagram.       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. You can also subscribe from the podcast app on your mobile device. Leave us an iTunes review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on iTunes, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on iTunes.

Jonah Berger is a Professor at Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a world-renowned expert on change, word of mouth, influence, consumer behavior, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on. He is also the bestselling author of numerous books including a brand new one titled, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind.    How many times have you tried and failed to change someone’s mind about something, whether it was a family member, a coworker, a friend, or a boss? Jonah says it is because we are going about trying to change their mind in the wrong way. He says, “If you look at a chair in a room you are sitting in and you wanna move the chair, pushing that chair is often a pretty good approach, right? If you push that chair in the direction you want it to go, it often moves in that direction. But there's one problem, when we apply that same notion to people which is that people aren't chair. When we push physical objects, they tend to go, when we push people they tend to push back. Rather than changing, they often do the exact opposite of what we want. And so what the book is really about is, is there a better way? Could there be a different approach? And if you look to chemistry there actually is. There's a special set of substances in chemistry that make change happen faster and easier. They don't do it by adding more pressure or pushing harder. They do it by removing the barriers to change and those substances which you can probably guess are called catalysts.” Changing minds is about removing barriers that are preventing the change. In his book Jonah lists 5 key barriers to change.  Reactance--people resisting change because they feel like they don’t have control  Endowment--We tend to feel attached to the way we already do things, and that makes it extremely hard to change our ways Distance--When we are faced with ideas too far from our current way of thinking they tend to get ignored or we even potentially do the exact opposite Uncertainty--It is easier to convince someone to make a change if you can find a way to help them experience the differences the change will bring. That way they can see the benefit for themselves Corroborating evidence--Sometimes one person saying change is needed is not enough, you may need multiple sources to provide enough evidence for the change to take place.  So how can you start removing barriers to change in your life and work? Jonah says, “I think the first thing is just to start by finding those barriers, identify those roadblocks, those parking breaks. We tend to have barrier blindness, we tend to ignore them, but in case we don't know what they are, we can't solve them. And so, really start by being more aware of what they are and discovering them. And only then, once we've discovered them, then can we solve them. I talked about five ones in the book. I think those are the five ones that come up again and again and again, but there are others, in different situations, people may experience others and so I would start by understanding those five and then look for others in your own situation.” What you will learn: Five key barriers that prevent change from happening and how to overcome them How employees should approach leaders regarding change How to move from making decisions based on fear to being more logical How we can change our own minds

Hitting the Marks Pro Wrestling Podcast w/Michael Jargo & Ric Vickrey (March 28, 2020) "The Word of the Day is Uncertainty” It’s the last to last time you’ll have the chance to hear this podcast. With just two episodes to go, #DemHTMBoys, Jargo & RBV take you on a whirlwind trip around the world of professional wrestling. On the Run... Take a Walk on the Dark Side of the Ring. Cinderella Gets Her Wish. Sell Vince Sell. Enjoy the WWE Network for Free. News & Notes from #EmptyMania. Doing Business in NXT. Dynamite Empty Arena Take Two. Social Media Links: On Twitter: @notjargo @therealrbv @htmpwpod @haminmediagroup

Are you trying to get other people to use agile or lean software development methods, but they can’t seem to break out of the mindset they’re stuck in? Today I’d like to offer some strategies to overcome attachment. Building What Customers Want Takes Failure And Learning Traditional management at many companies focus on predictability. They want to know how long things will take, and how much they will cost. Unfortunately if your software company wants to be innovative, you may already know that you can’t measure performance this way. If you want to deliver truly disruptive and valuable ideas to your customers, you need to experiment and make small investments to see how customers receive them. Establishing the Mindset for Failure and Learning I talk often about how important experiments are to the success of your software company, and how you can sell and introduce the changes needed to work this way to leadership and other stakeholders. Assume for a moment you’ve already convinced people of the benefits of lean software development methods that let your company experiment (DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Lean Startup techniques etc.). Yes, people now understand the mechanics of these approaches. But it can be frustrating at first to help others have the courage to take risks and actually experiment. This is because experimenting and then learning from the results, often requires failure. The Uncertainty of Innovation Can Cause Anxiety One of the technology capabilities I have said in other articles is crucial to a company sustainably releasing valuable software, is Continuous Delivery. This lets your team release your software to customers as frequently as multiple times per day. If you’re going to let the customer take a larger role in deciding what’s in your product, and release it multiple times per day — you’ll have an increased set of feedback. Also subject matter experts like Product Managers will find out their ideas aren’t as valuable as they’d hoped when trying new things. These two changes alone introduce  data-href="https://medium.com/jayme-edwards-mentoring/how-uncertainty-impacts-software-development-processes-9d7d7cefe5c6">uncertainty that needs to be handled with care. Without addressing this, your team will start blaming each other and going back to what they’re comfortable with when their first few experiments don’t produce the results they anticipated. Overcoming Attachment to Enable Learning If you celebrate Christmas or your Birthday, you’ve probably experienced being attached to a gift or outcome you wanted as a child. You and your team need to overcome these feelings of attachment at your company to use lean and agile methods for developing software. Without detaching from outcomes, people will feel threatened when things change. We Must Be Comfortable With Uncertainty to Take Risks The more comfortable you can be with trying things and not being able to guarantee that the outcome is something that you want, the more you can take risks. This is exactly the mindset needed to be more innovative with software development. Strategies for Practicing Detachment Since you know people need to be more comfortable with uncertainty, and they need to be less attached to outcomes — what are some strategies you can use to cope with this? Thinking About the Possibility of Other Outcomes Most people in corporate America don’t want to do this. Typical work structures are all about certainty and planning for outcomes we expect. Instead, thinking about the possibility that what you’ve planned might not work out ahead of time primes you for a healthy mindset for taking risk. When you’re working with a team to experiment, remind them at every opportunity that everyone is looking forward to seeing the data to help them steer the product in the right direction. If the data behind a release shows that a change wasn’t positive, that is not a failure. It must be clear that there will be no reprimanding for theories the team held about what would be valuable, as testing those theories will inherently prove when our ideas aren’t good. This is the nature of the scientific method! Beware of Catastrophizing Once you begin to allow yourself to entertain the possibility of uncertain outcomes, it’s tempting to think of the worst case scenario. This is known as catastrophizing, and creates anxiety by focusing your thoughts on negative situations that haven’t even happened yet! When I’ve caught myself catastrophizing, I often realize I’m tensing up and experiencing the same emotions as I would if the event happened — but it hasn’t. Spending significant time thinking about the worst possible outcome will cripple your team with fear, and cause them to lose the courage needed to present their best ideas to your customers. Yes, there is a time for risk management — but innovation is not that time. Overcoming Resentment to Past Failures If you hold on to negative feelings about what may have happened in the past, you won’t have the open mind necessary to try new things. Examples might be working with a person who made a mistake before, a business partner who didn’t hold up their end of the deal, or a software development task that was more complicated than first thought. Resentment is another form of attachment. You should consider practicing forgiveness and using whatever healing tools work for you or your team to let go of any resentment. These could be simple things like giving someone a personal apology if you played a part in the situation. Or something that lets you face the situation and let your feelings with it rest such as meditation. Whatever physical, emotional, or spiritual activity you can find that works to help you or others involved emotionally detach from the experience, use it. Let the past go so your team can try new things with a clean slate! Challenging Limiting Beliefs If someone told you something about yourself as a child, or perhaps a co-worker made a statement about your skills — you may be walking around carrying an inaccurate picture of yourself. You should challenge thoughts held about what is really true with respect to the limitations you or your team may perceive about their capabilities. I once worked with a Fortune 500 client who only released their product at night when no customers were using it. They were convinced it was impossible to release it during the day even though the technology needed to do so was common. Until I challenged this belief, and did not back down until I heard a logical answer for why it couldn’t be done — no one had considered it a possibility. Once everyone moved past this limitation in their thinking, they were easily on board and supportive of working with me to plan for the change. Separating Our Identity From Outcomes In most companies if someone makes a “bad” decision, they are held accountable. What this can do though is cause you to place your self-worth in your decisions and their outcomes. To have the courage to innovate, you need to separate these two. People on your teams should strive to treat each other kindly especially at the times when they make mistakes. But when they slip up and get upset at you or someone else for a decision that they didn’t like, it’s important to not take it personally. You can’t control how the other person will react — but you can control your reaction to their being upset. Practicing Delayed Gratification Your company may need to build and release five small versions of an idea to your customer before you hit the ideal solution, when delivering a product in a lean fashion. Because of this, the management team may be lacking in the necessary patience at first to see things unfold with the product this way. Delayed gratification is simply waiting longer to get something you want. This might sound like a silly thing to recommend, but you’d be surprised how many people I come across in leadership positions who are still very attached to immediacy. If you have people like this in key positions at your company, this may be the reason why you’re having a difficult time getting support for the changes you want made. Practice this yourself, and with your team, to relax your feelings of urgency so you have the patience to try several iterations of an idea before settling. Permitting Others to be Frustrated with Uncertainty It’s natural that when trying something new, such as to not be as attached to outcomes, you and others will make mistakes. It’s crucial that everyone be willing to forgive each other when unpredictable negative outcomes occur. Without this safety net, there can be no loyalty, transparency, or ability to take risks. These are the attributes of relationships at your company that can make or break the long term health of the software development culture. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.  Related resources: How Uncertainty Impacts Software Development Processes 5 Ways To Cope With The Anxiety Of Software Development How To A/B Software Development To Find What Customers Value Lean Software Development - It's About Uncertainty!   Visit me at JaymeEdwards.com Find me on Facebook at JaymeEdwardsMedia Find me on Twitter as @jaymeedwards

About 1 year after gradating college, I quite my management consulting job without a plan, just a strong feeling that I needed to be doing something I was more passionate about. Having traveled to organic tea estates in the Himalayan foothills as well as to every great speakeasy bar in NYC, I had the idea that maybe people would be interested in using premium cocktail mixers crafted from organic teas, local honey, and other fresh/organic ingredients. I made a video describing the idea, put it on Kickstarter, and since it funded Cocktail Crate has been my full time job.   On Today's show Alex will share: - What’s Your Personal Mission Statement The journey is the reward - Biggest Business Mistake Rather than 1 giant mistake, I typically do every little thing wrong the first time I try it, then get it right the second. - How Do You Handle Business Stress and Uncertainty It’s really important to build a network of other entrepreneurs to offer advice/complain about things with. - Greatest Business Decision That Changed Everything Not sure I’ve made that yet, although listening to my customers and cutting the size of the mixer bottle in half was pretty big. - Best Book For The Entrepreneurial Mindset Steve Job’s official biography - Plus much more...

Michelle Ivankovic is a Canadian living in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  She is an industrial designer who develops products that focus on sociological needs.  Her products are both popularly and critically acclaimed with work held in the permanent collection of the national design museum (Cooper Hewitt, a part of the Smithsonian). Adrienne McNicholas is an American & Canadian living in Madrid. Adrienne specializes in the development and launch of new products and new product categories.  She specializes in bring together a complete story that surrounds and supports the products. On Today's show Michelle & Adrienne will share: -What’s Your Personal Mission Statement? The journey is the reward -Biggest Business Mistake Rather than 1 giant mistake, I typically do every little thing wrong the first time I try it, then get it right the second.  -How Do You Handle Business Stress and Uncertainty It’s really important to build a network of other entrepreneurs to offer advice/complain about things with.  -Greatest Business Decision That Changed Everything Not sure I’ve made that yet, although  listening to my customers and cutting the size of the mixer bottle in half was pretty big.  -Best Book For The Entrepreneurial Mindset Steve Job’s official biography - Plus much more...