Ep 66: Stop Pleasing Others and Start Being Yourself: An Interview with Kathleen Smith, Part 2
In this episode Irvine and Bridgette continue their interview Kathleen Smith author of True to You!
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Resilient Leadership
The Resilient Leadership podcast is aimed at helping you lead with a greater sense of calm, clarity, and conviction even in anxious times.
Co-hosted by Bridgette and Irvine both of whom are authors, leadership coaches, and trainers.
Our mission is to offer you insights into leadership and life that you will find nowhere else. Let’s face it we are living in uncertain times and it’s not surprising we are feeling overworked and overwhelmed. Our show will offer you practical tools that you can use today and help you grow your resilience and strengthen your leadership.
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Episodes
Ep 65: Stop Pleasing Others and Start Being Yourself: An Interview with Kathleen Smith, Part 1
In this episode Irvine and Bridgette interview Kathleen Smith author of True to You!
Ep 64: Focus on Your Own Functioning: A Systems Perspective on Leadership
In this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore why focusing on our own functioning is vital to our effectiveness, what gets in the way of doing this and three powerful questions to keep our focus where it should be – on ourselves and how we’re showing up, for better or for worse.
Ep 63: Three Imperatives For Leading Well In Disruptive Times
In this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore the three imperatives that go into being a Resilient Leader. Practicing these three things on a daily basis will enable you to stand apart from the emotional pressures of the day and influence others in extraordinary ways.
Ep 62: The Velvet Rut
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what a Velvet Rut is, how it impacts individuals and companies and what we can do to get ourselves and our teams out if we’ve fallen into one
Ep 61: The Future World of Work
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore 4 major trends on the future of work and how it will impact leadership.
Ep 60: Increasing Resilience Through Appreciative Inquiry
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore why what Appreciative Inquiry is, why it is a vital leadership skill and how it can instill hope and optimism, even in the midst of very trying and difficult times.
Ep 59: Moving Past the Imposter Syndrome
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore why the Imposter Syndrome plaques so many leaders, both new and seasoned, the upside of feeling fraudulent, and what we can do to move past it.
Ep 58: Making Workplace Conflict More Productive
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how to make the inevitable conflict in the workplace less destructive and more productive.
Ep. 57: Workplace Politics Played Right
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what workplace politics are, why they are not inherently bad and how being able to play politics the right way is a key leadership skill.
Ep. 56: Making Decisions When Everything Is Ambiguous
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the that despite being ambiguous averse we can learn to make good decisions when everything is ambiguous.
Ep 55: Making It Stick
Getting better at anything, including leadership, requires change. But how do we make changes in our lives that are lasting and sustainable? In this episode Bridgette and Irvine unpack the recipe for making changes that stick.
Ep 54: Making Room For Gen Z
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the new generation in the workplace Gen Z and the importance of generational empathy to overcome tensions.
Ep 53: The Art and Science of Failing Forward
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore why failure is inextricable linked to leadership, how our mindset around failing shapes our experience of it, and what “failing intelligently” looks like in action.
Ep 52: How Well Do You Know Your Emotions?
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore our emotions and the invitation to get to know them better so we are enabled to have more powerful interactions.
Ep 51: 3 Practices for Being a More Potent Communicator
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine share three simple yet impactful ways you can become an even more effective communicator.
Ep 50: Loneliness – A Leadership Epidemic
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how the rise of loneliness is reaching alarming proportions and what we can do to combat it.
Ep 49: What is Your Superpower?
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine define what a superpower is, how you identify your own superpower and ways you can harness it more fully.
Ep. 48: Gratitude – A Leadership Gap
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how a practice of gratitude can change your brain and the way the lead.
Ep 47: How Smart is Your Team?
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine provide listeners with a way to assess how smart their team is and the one thing they can practice to get better at facing adaptive challenges more nimbly.
Ep 46: Full Bodied Leadership
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how important it is to connect with our bodies and integrate its wisdom into our leadership actions.
Ep 45: Laughing Your Way To Leadership
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how important humor can be in making a leader more effective.
Ep 44: Stop Chasing Employee Happiness; Start Focusing on Employee Engagement Instead
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explain why focusing on employee happiness is a losing proposition for leaders, while focusing on employee engagement boosts performance, productivity and retention.
Ep 43: Building Resilient Teams
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explain the four stages of team development and what is most required from a leader at each stage.
Ep 42: Managing Up
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine focus on the critical skill of managing upwards. They discuss why it is essential to our career success and share strategies for improving our relationships with those above us in the organizational chart, whether that is a boss, a board or anyone else whom we might report to or be accountable to.
Ep 41: Mind Your Language
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explain the importance of distinguishing between an assertion and an assumption and the power it hold for making better decisions.
Ep 40: Brand You
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what a leadership brand is, why it matters and how it connects with being a well-differentiated leader.
Ep 39: Be A Step-Down Transformer
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explain that leaders have more power than they think to influence their highly anxious organization by being a step-down transformer.
Ep 38: Influence Vs Authority: Where Does Your Real Power Reside?
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the difference between influence and authority, and discuss how we can positively influence our relationship systems for the better, regardless of our title or position.
Ep 37: How To Turn Around Under-Performers
In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how we as leaders can inadvertently contribute to or compound underperformance and what steps you can take to turn it around.