Out of the Comfort Zone
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way. For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone?
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What if what you think you see is not actually what is really present? What if you knew that your brain was constructing reality? Would that cause you to re-think your decisions, how you see people or your interpretations of what is going on? Would it cause you to be better capable of managing disagreement? It turns out that humans make all sorts of mistakes as our brains create a world that makes sense, in a unique...
I know you are busy, are you having the impact you want to have? Are you stuck in too much execution without enough time to see the larger landscape? How do you shift into facilitation mode as a leader and leverage yourself out of execution mode? Finally, how do you avoid the six barriers that keep far too many leaders stuck?
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All of us are influenced by others in what we think is the right way to lead, collaborate, team up or even ask for help. Some of those influencers are other people in life, particularly in early life. Some of those influences come from movies and books. Often we don’t stop to analyze why we are comfortable with some choices over others, and we do not stop to question whether it’s time to move away from o...
The shock forces are coming from all directions and they are powerful. How ready are you as a leader to navigate not just the shocks but also the aftershocks? What do you need to do to be mentally, emotionally and socially prepared?
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There is never enough data to be certain any given decision is a good one or not. The more senior you become, the harder it is to be sure. Data is incomplete and unclear, there are competing interpretations, and advice goes in different directions. It is uncomfortable admitting you don’t know or you don’t know what the data means? So, we seek certainty.
There is a better way to approach such...
Sometimes the choices we make work out brilliantly, for the “greater good”. Sometimes the choices we make do not work out so well. And sometimes those choices are a slippery slope that puts you making more choices you never expected to make. It could happen to any of us. How would you react? What would you do to bounce back from a tough situation? How could you muster the courage to talk about the situat...
A Nightmare Scenario: You have a massive project to deliver, you and your team are just barely managing the tasks, and an important team member resigns unexpectedly. It’s more common than you might think.
So what can you do to make sure it doesn’t happen to you? What are the reasons people leave? What should you do to keep your team engaged, committed, thriving even? Listen in for an insightful conv...
One day, something happens and you snap. Maybe you loved your work yesterday, but today you are ready to just walk away. Maybe it’s a new manager you are not happy with, maybe it’s some other change, maybe your colleagues are leaving.
Everyone is one jolt away from quitting their job. What are those jolts? How common are they? What should you do if you are experiencing a jolt? And the ultimate quest...
You think you can handle the stress in your life. Your team will tell you otherwise because they live with the consequences.
As a leader, you cast a long shadow that destroys the team’s productivity. An off-handed comment by you because you are rushed or overwhelmed leaves the recipient worrying for several hours which means they are not being productive or strategic. Being in a constant state of reacting...
Breaking out of your comfort zone is breaking away from the need to know everything about the work your team is doing. It is also about breaking away from the familiar, the known, the day-to-day and facing that edge of uncertainty. How do you do that? Where do you start? How do you get comfortable with the uncomfortable? That’s what this episode is about.
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AI will force us to be “more human or be obsolete”. So what does it mean to be more human as a leader and still drive results, get great performance, keep a team engaged and motivated? Especially in a world that is driven by project after project, how do you lead project teams effectively when team members don’t formally report to you?
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To lead well, you must maintain some degree of emotional balance. Otherwise, people stop wanting to tell you the things you most need to know and they stop creatively solving problems just to name two consequences. Sometimes though what is causing stress is more about past events than about current circumstances. In those cases, it’s time to take a deeper look.
One of the exciting new ways to understand a...
Thriving at work sounds like a pipe dream. The question for the day is what you can do as a manager to create the conditions for each of your team members to feel that they can truly thrive at work.
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Too often leaders create more problems for themselves and for the team by being the one who solves problems, is in the middle of KPI’s, juggling multiple priorities. It’s a well-intentioned trap but a trap nevertheless. How can you get out of it to create the kind of value that is most needed? Stay tuned for an approach that just may be a game changer for you.
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Suppose you are charged with a challenge and you know there are obstacles that are not being addressed. How can you speak out to your leaders without risking it all? How can you encourage your team to speak up to you? How can you get your peers to align, speak the truth, hear each other and truly collaborate? None are easy, but none are impossible either.
Tune in for advice and wisdom from the trenches on tacti...
Women are struggling at work for a host of known reasons: volume overload, creating visibility, responsibilities outside work and much, much more.
However, men are struggling too for a host of unexplored reasons including expectations about masculinity.
We will not create the kinds of organizations and cultures that allow everyone to thrive, innovate, collaborate, stay engaged and produce great results if we don&rsquo...
We often talk about the importance of caring for your employees – leaving them feeling that they matter more than for just the output they produce. In this episode, we hear from one of the few leaders who has built a strong business really putting people first. How did it happen? What makes it work? And why do so many companies fall short when they claim to be people-first? Listen in for a powerful story about...
The better you as a leader understand your personal drivers, preferences, values and the story you hold about what it means to lead; then, the better you will be at working with a range of people and getting the best from them. Knowing yourself deeply creates space to know someone else. Where do you begin? How can you define your values with credibility and authenticity beyond the one or three common words eve...
Leading requires that you not only get out of your comfort zone and lead without being the expert but that you also learn to build trust with people you don’t necessarily appreciate immediately. Those micro-cultures make all the different in team engagement and team performance. Easily said but not so easily done. What do you need to understand about trust, yourself and your approach that can create the kind o...
Sometimes we can learn a lot about leading a business team by stepping outside the business world and examining a successful sports team. In sports, if you want to win at the top level, there are so many things you have to do well beyond just the physical skills - such as building a strong team culture, mentally preparing for adversity and building the right leadership model for your mission. While not all sports re...
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