You've covered the basics. People can hear you and see you and you've got a clear agenda, but online meeting fatigue is real and it can suck the life out of your team. In this episode, get practical ways you can lead more engaging online meetings that don't suck - or steal away your team's energy and motivation. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and...
Sep 24, 2020•19 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast In this incredibly practical and inspiring episode, Jeff DeGraff, the "Dean of Innovation" gives you practical ways to cultivate a creative mindset for yourself and with your team. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active lis...
Sep 18, 2020•48 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, get the tools you need to ensure your teams achieve the results you need to keep the business moving forward while creating space for the realities of working remotely - and all without micromanaging your remote employees. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management s...
Sep 09, 2020•12 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast If you've felt burned out over the past few months, you're not alone. In this practical and hopeful episode, Hall of Fame Speaker and esteemed author Eileen McDargh gives you the tools to identify and overcome the main causes of burnout for you and your team. You'll want to take notes and be ready to play back sections as Eileen helps you move from Burnout to Breakthrough! Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential...
Sep 03, 2020•47 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Gratitude, real gratitude, not the saccharine "too blessed to be stressed" meme mantra, has the power to revolutionize your leadership and your influence. In this interview with Chief Operating Officer Kerry Wekelo, you'll get practical ways you can cultivate gratitude in your own life, inspire your team, and even your customers. In the last segments, we get down to the grit of gratitude and how it can change your life and the lives you touch every day. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast...
Aug 26, 2020•38 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Your team may have vital information, solutions, or ideas that would make a tremendous difference – if you only knew what they were thinking. In this episode, you’ll get a powerful tool to draw out your team’s best ideas. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict re...
Aug 21, 2020•13 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast What is it you give to your team and customers that’s uniquely you? In this episode, master showman Jason Hewlett shares what it means to keep the promise to your team, but more importantly, to yourself. That promise might not be what you think. Listen or watch and then check out Jason’s book: The Promise to the One. Connect with Jason: JasonHewlett.com LinkedIn Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communicat...
Aug 14, 2020•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast It can be frustrating when your team’s behavior doesn’t make any sense. But those moments where you wonder “What were they thinking?” are also opportunities. In this episode, you’ll get a way forward for the next time you wonder “What were they thinking?” that helps you find out. The answer will always help you move your team forward. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, te...
Aug 07, 2020•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Karin Hurt joins us in-studio for the first time ever to talk about Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. In this episode, find out why business leaders are responding passionately to Courageous Cultures, why courageous cultures are more important now than ever and how to get started – with practical tools – today. You can download a FREE chapter of our new book Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem So...
Jul 31, 2020•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you get an idea you can’t use, it’s an opportunity to help people think more deeply and to get even better thoughts. In this episode, you’ll get specific leadership techniques you can use to build more strategic thinking and relevant problem-solving skills in every member of your team. You can download a FREE chapter of our new book Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates here. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers ins...
Jul 24, 2020•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, you’ll meet Ellen Robinson, former General Manager for Denver Pepsi Cola and President of Ascent Sports (owners of the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche). She will help you look at your leadership through a different lens and give you tools to have more influence and avoid stress and burn-out by integrating your entire self into your leadership. Connect with Ellen here: Robinson Coaching Group: www.robinsoncoaching.com The PersonPuzzle Company: www.personpuzzle.com LinkedIn ...
Jul 17, 2020•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast How can understanding yourself help you be more influential with your team? In this episode, Dr. Nate Regier will help you understand, connect with, and lead your team members more effectively by understanding yourself. They may seem different, but look a little closer and you’ll find them – in you. Connect with Nate Regier, PhD Get Nate’s Book: Seeing People Through Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential commu...
Jul 03, 2020•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast It can be tempting to write people off and assume they don’t have creativity or innovative solutions to offer. Many times, however, there’s something blocking their contribution. In this episode, you’ll get strategies to help you bring in your reluctant team members and help them contribute their game-changing ideas. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation...
Jun 26, 2020•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast So many people are hurting, frustrated, traumatized, scared, or, at the very least, uncertain. That includes your team – and they’re looking at you. In this episode, we talk about fundamental ways to make space and listen. Your team needs you. Be there, even if it’s awkward or uncomfortable. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help lea...
Jun 12, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast If it takes courage to show up for work every day, your people won’t have the energy, creativity, or courage they need to solve bigger problems or better serve your customer. This episode challenges leaders to find their own courage to build cultures where people can bring their best selves to their work. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedba...
Jun 05, 2020•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jane Miller has an incredible track-record of business leadership success including roles as CEO for a variety of food businesses making nutritious (and tasty) products. She’s served as President for the UK & Ireland Division of HJ Heinz and is currently CEO of Lily’s Sweets. All that, and she’s an incredible mentor to leaders. In this episode, Jane shares some of the hard-won experiences that shaped her leadership, mistakes she made that you don’t have to, and practical leadership fundamentals ...
May 29, 2020•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast You’re smart, informed, and know your work backward and forward. But sometimes, being “right” stops you from being effective. In this episode, you’ll discover challenges leaders face when they’re overly focused on being right and how to let go of being “right” and focus on being effective. Available for preorder now! Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. You can take our FREE Courageous Cultures quiz and receive a free chapter here,...
May 22, 2020•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The intent behind your open-door policy is good: a door that is figuratively always open to encourage transparency, open lines of communication, a standing invitation for your employees to bring you issues that affect them or their work. But relying on an open-door policy to give you what you need to lead creates several problems and can undermine the culture you want to create. In this episode you’ll get specific strategies you can use to move beyond the open-door and lead with intention. Coura...
May 15, 2020•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Disruptions like the recent crisis also create opportunities. Your team gets scrappy. They figure out different ways to serve your customer or solve problems you didn’t know existed. As you move through these times and establish a new cadence, you don’t want to lose all this innovation and insight. In today’s episode, Karin and David share questions you can ask to take the best of your team and carry it through to a brighter, bolder future. Preorder Courageous Cultures and register for IDEA Day ...
May 08, 2020•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this wide-ranging interview, David and David discuss how to rapidly make effective leadership decisions, how to keep your ego from derailing your influence and effectiveness, a three-step process to quickly work through strong emotions and find a productive response, techniques to ensure a productive day, a five-step regimen to ensure your leadership effectiveness – and much more. Be ready to take notes and enjoy this interview with David Meltzer. David Meltzer is the Co-founder of Sports 1 M...
May 01, 2020•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Feeling tired, burned out, or listless? You might just need a good night’s sleep – or you may need to make some changes to how you manage your energy as a leader. In this episode, you’ll get ten ways to manage your energy and be more productive with the time you do have. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various...
Apr 24, 2020•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast You’re in a unique position to develop your team’s confidence (or erode it). In this episode, we discuss one of the most important ways leaders help teams to develop confidence and belief in themselves. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time mana...
Apr 17, 2020•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast For many leaders, the challenge of keeping your team focused, productive, and connected when everyone works from home can feel overwhelming. In this episode, you’ll get practical strategies you can use to lead well, even when everyone’s working from home. Links from this episode: Lead Remote Meetings that Get Results and Build Relationships 7 Icebreaker Questions to Melt Frustration and Build Trust Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and managem...
Apr 10, 2020•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast John Register was a decorated athlete when one misstep changed his life forever. How do you find that positive new normal and lead well when your world has turned upside down? Join us for a discussion of how to keep the past from holding you back and move into your full confidence and courage as you lead in the new normal. Connect with John on LinkedIn Order John’s Book: Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential c...
Apr 03, 2020•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Even after social distancing ends, remote meetings are here to stay. In this episode you’ll get several ways to ensure that your remote meetings are the best use of everyone’s time – including how to take advantage of technology to do things you can’t do in a face-to-face meeting. Every meeting should lead to results and build relationships – and remote meetings are no exception. In this time of extraordinary uncertainty and change, your team has learned to adapt quickly and do the best they can...
Mar 27, 2020•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coronavirus has turned the world upside down. When you’re called on to lead your team through crisis and rapid change, focus on clear, concise, calm communication. In this episode, get a practical example and more ways you can lead your team through crisis and change. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various le...
Mar 20, 2020•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Culture can be tricky to measure. How can you assess how well people look out for one another and commit to one another’s success? It turns out that there are places you can look to get a sense of your culture. Shared resources (both physical, like breakroom microwaves, and intangible, like your meetings) are a great way to assess your culture and practice your leadership. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential...
Mar 13, 2020•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast You start to hear concerns from your team. Or your colleague’s team, who you rely on for your own performance, isn’t getting it done. Or maybe you’ve observed the dysfunction firsthand. No matter how you became aware, it’s clear that your peer’s team is struggling. Now what? In this episode, you’ll find out what not to do – and how you can be most helpful in these tough situations. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on ...
Mar 06, 2020•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Be ready to take notes as you listen to this powerful interview with Lisa Fain, co-author of Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring. You’ll get practical ways to be a fantastic mentor, a great mentee, and more inclusive leader including: * The three whys leaders need to know and communicate. * How leaders create more inclusive teams. * Why being a mentor will make you a better leader. * How to be an awesome mentor. * Why noticing differences is a vital leadership skill. * The biggest predicto...
Feb 28, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you’re frustrated with a team member who seems to be doing everything but the work you hired them to do, it can feel tempting to bark “Just do your job.” Or perhaps you’ve got a team member who responds, “I don’t care about the big picture, just let me do my job.” In either case, you’ve got a leadership and performance challenge. The world is changing and your team’s success takes more than a “just do your job” attitude. In this episode, you get ways to move out of this attitude and bring o...
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