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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Mid-career leaders have the hardest leadership role in the entire organization. They have enormous pressure from above to deliver fast and excellent results and they are challenged by younger employees who expect to be led in a very different way than in the past. These leaders are still trying to prove themselves in some ways, they are still partially in execution roles and they have zero capacity to spare.
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Who doesn’t want to be a “great” leader that accomplishes exceptional results, inspires their team and leaves a powerful legacy! If you share this aspiration and are wondering what to do in a time starved environment, then we have answers. Listen in for applicable tips and a clear strategy to inspire.
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Managing up is necessary for career progress and it’s an art form. Some do it better than others. In this podcast we level the playing field. Regardless of your skill level thus far, we are going to review the critical conversations that allow you to create visibility, take ownership, say no and more.
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Getting the commitment, engagement and enthusiasm of your team should be top priority for every leader hoping to make a substantive contribution. However, as any experienced leader will quickly report – it is easier said than done. What can you do to build real buy-in? Listen in for tips and more.
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Accountability, authenticity and autonomy – that is what leaders want and what team members want as well. All three define the feel of any organization – the culture. How can you capitalize on these three to create the kind of culture you want? Listen in for how to strike the right balance on all three.
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Most companies measure engagement at least once a year and the more senior managers typically receive a report about how engaged their business area is. And, most worry about what to do to bring engagement up, seeing this as a proxy for how strong their culture is and how much effort people are putting into their work. What if we are measuring this all wrong? What if there is a better way to understand the strength of...
Judging by the number of talks and books on culture, many people must be thinking about what defines an organization's culture, how to change it and what advantage culture really offers. If those are your questions, then listen in. Plus, we will talk about cultural betrayal and a few myths about culture such as hiring for cultural fit.
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In these times, so many people are seeking how to drive change – whether at work or in the community. Too often, while very well intentioned, too many of us approach change with too narrow an understanding of what it really takes to achieve and sustain meaningful change. What do you need to do to lead change? Who should you involve, why, when and how? Listen in for insights from real success stories about organizing f...
It’s easy to feel you have no, or perhaps not enough, power. However, you have more power than you realize. How do you tap into your own power? That’s the topic of this conversation. Three strategies can make all the difference.
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Everything that happens in business is wrapped up in a conversation of one form or another. Therefore it seems wise to spend a bit more time understanding the types of conversations we have, our role in moving each type of conversation forward or backward along with what we can do to have better conversations. Listen in for practices that will elevate your conversations!
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Have you ever been asked to co-lead a business, a function or even a project? Did it work out as you had hoped? Most co-head structures fail to deliver on their potential. What can you do to make co-leading effective? Listen in for practical advice and a few examples.
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Uncertainty is at an all time high or so it seems and senior leaders are encouraging their organizations to get more comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity. Sounds great but what can you do for yourself and for your team? Who manages uncertainty, not knowing, experimenting better than artists and what can we learn from artists to inform our working lives? Listen in for great stories and a few tips.
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Innovation or rather the habit of innovating is a key to sustained success in every organization. What does it take to truly create a culture of innovation that builds success upon success? What do you need to do to lead teams that innovate? We explore a few examples from Microsoft that highlight best practices you can use.
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The expectations of employees have changed and that means you cannot manage the way you were managed. What are these new expectations? Are they reasonable or not? How can you manage your best talent in a way that makes them want to stay longer? How do you become an employer and manager of choice? What is a struggling manager to do? Listen in for great tips and a different perspective.
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Work loads are out of control with the number of projects, the inability to stop or finish anything and relentless demands. All of which adds enormous stress for you as a leader and for your team. How can you think about work/load sustainability? What can you do for your team and yourself? How can you build team resilience? And, how can you keep your team motivated? Listen in for practical, tiny noticeable things that...
Most leaders believe that their teams are totally aligned behind the stated strategy. However, when you ask more specific questions of team members, the misalignment becomes apparent. In principle, they may agree but in the details they don’t agree. How does this happen? How can you determine how aligned your team is with your strategy? What are the steps to move towards real alignment?
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With workload demands and AI tools, what it means to work efficiently needs a revamp. How can we help our brains work best on the work that matters most? How do we change gears? How do we work most efficiently?
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In any organization, if you want opportunities to advance, you need people who will help you open doors that matter to you. Those people become sponsors – but it’s not just the senior most leaders that can help you open doors, peers can as well. How? What can you do to foster better sponsorship at all levels? How do you build an authentic network that works for you? Listen in for tactics and a new perspective on spons...
Systems are usually well intended but over time create more hassle than value. Often we think there is nothing we can do as an individual to change the systems that frustrate us – whether that is at work or in society. However, there are things you can do. In fact, there are 7 habits you can deploy. Listen in for what they are and how to use them, from the person who helps enemies collaborate.
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We see people that we say have great “wisdom”. What gives them wisdom, what does it mean to have wisdom? And, how can you develop more wisdom for yourself? We will tackle those questions via a fascinating research project that interviewed people others say have wisdom. What do they hold in common? Listen in to understand the 8 dimensions of wisdom and how to develop these in yourself.
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