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About Dr. Bridget Cooper in her own words: I'm a cage rattler; a coach, speaker, and author with over two decades of experience helping teams and leaders think and communicate more clearly and strategically so they can work and navigate problems proactively and effectively. I work with clients to overcome the attitudes, tactics, and patterns that derail their success through down-to-earth insights...

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Jess Gardner is a Storytelling and Communication Coach who specializes in helping professionals tell their stories more effectively. Many people struggle to find their voices and speak with confidence. She uses her expertise in communication and teaching to empower everyone to level up their careers through better communication and storytelling. 

Jess started her private coaching business in 2017 and ha...

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Terrance Lee, AKA The Introvert Leader had always avoided taking on leadership roles in his life.  At the age of 13, an experience occurred which caused him to doubt his ability to speak in front of people, and caused him to shy away from the spotlight.  This worked for Terrance until he eventually had to learn leadership skills by necessity at his first engineering job out of college.  

When he had bee...

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Just a heads up to everyone that the season premiere of the podcast comes this Wednesday, March 27. I can't wait to share the insights of my first guest with you!

Leadership Voyage
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email: StartYourVoyage@gmail.com
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
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Jason shares recommendations for 14 leadership books you can grab for yourself or someone you care about this holiday season. These books cover a wide range of topics, from business acumen to culture, teams, personality & personal development, and personal stories.

Business Acumen

• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael D. Watkins
• Negoti...

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If you've objectively identified a problem your team is having, try the COOP framework for cooperatively fixing it!
 
C - Challenge: Identify the Challenge
O - Opportunity: Reframe it as an Opportunity
O - Options/Optimize: List the Options and choose what to Optimize for
P - Progress/Progress: Decide to Progress and measure Progress

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Mahzarin Banaji and Frank Dobbin wrote "Why DEI Training Doesn’t Work—and How to Fix It" in the Wall Street Journal.

Key Takeaways

• Over the last 50 years in America, conscious prejudice has improved significantly but implicit bias has not.
• DEI training fails when they 1) use implicit-bias education to shame trainees for holding stereotypes and 2) seek to solve the problem of bias ...

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Kelly McDonald is an acclaimed speaker who specializes in consumer trends and changing demographics. She is the president of McDonald Marketing and has authored four bestselling books on the customer experience, leadership, and marketing -- all from the standpoint of working with people "not like you".  Her book, How to Work With and Lead People Not Like You has been on two bestseller lists. ...

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Amanda Swim wrote a great Medium article called "What’s the value of a manager?" It's a solid blueprint for how a manager brings the most value to an organization and its people. I break down the article's main points and integrate them with insights from past guests Maria Åkerlund, Michael Watkins, and Liz Wiseman.

Build the team

• Define mission
• Hire well
• Create team artif...

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Robert Jordan is CEO of the Association of Interim Executives. He has been launching and growing companies and helping other entrepreneurs do the same for 20 years. His first company, Online Access, put him on Inc. magazine’s Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. Online Access, the first Internet-coverage magazine in the world, ran for 10 years and after its sale Jordan launched RedFlash, an inte...

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Sarah Jackson had a Business Insider story called "Nearly 1 in 5 workers are 'loud quitting' their jobs, a new Gallup poll says — and it's way more extreme than 'quiet quitting'."

• What is loud quitting?
• What's the difference between quiet quitting and loud quitting?
• Which is better?
• What could we do about it?

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Carol Rossi has led research teams at NerdWallet, Kelley Blue Book, and Edmunds, where she started the research function from scratch. Carol has more than 25 years of experience in user experience, including a stint as the sole researcher at GeoCities in the late 90s. After 14 years leading teams in-house, Carol returned to consulting in 2022, this time focused on research leadership for orgs that have...

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Don Schmincke has been accused by a NY press agency of providing “the most provocative and sensational view of business than any other speaker today.”

What else would you expect from an MIT and Johns Hopkins researcher who was nearly arrested as a capitalist spy in the Soviet Bloc, got shot off an aircraft carrier, survived in the Kurdish capital as the Ayatollah held hostages in Tehran, and developed m...

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Alise Cortez and Associates is founded and led by Dr. Alise Cortez, Chief Purpose Officer. She is also an inspirational speaker, social scientist, author, and host of the Working on Purpose radio show. Having developed her expertise within the human capital / organizational excellence industry over the last 25 years, she is focused on enabling organizations to lead from purpose and create cultures of m...

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"Are You Addressing Psychosocial Risks at Your Workplace?" was a recent Gallup article by Camilla Frumar, Patricia Hubbard, and Mansi Sachdeva.

The story talks about 3 psychosocial hazards in the workplace:

• lack of role clarity
• inadequate reward and recognition
• poor support

The article states, "As part of this new regulation, Australian businesses will soon have a more expl...

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After 25 episodes of Leadership Voyage, Jason picks five big ideas from the past year and a half!

1. Teams that reflect are 30% more productive
2. Discover your core values
3. Mattering
4. Impact players
5. STARS Framework

These ideas come from past guests Maria Åkerlund, Erika Chestnut, Zach Mercurio, Liz Wiseman, and Michael Watkins.

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"Knowing Everyone’s Salaries Can Light a Fire Under Workers" was a recent Wall Street Journal write-up by Courtney Vinopal.

• New laws have gone into effect requiring pay ranges
• When employees learn how their pay compares to peers, they can work harder as long as they perceive the system to be fair
• Conversations about pay are leading to direct discussions around expectations

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Michael Watkins came on the show to talk about a variety of topics related to transitioning into a new role. You can find Michael at:
www.genesisadvisers.com (Website)
https://news.genesisadvisers.com/ (News Page)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldwatkins/ (LinkedIn)

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The Importance of Transitions 

• we go through so many of them
• they're times when there's a lot at ...

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Brian Slade is a Combat Rescue Helicopter Evaluator Pilot in the United States Air Force with 25 years of military service. He is also a real estate professional and recently minted author. His debut book "Cleared Hot" is a compelling, non-fiction account of what it takes to face your fears and overcome potential PTSD. When it comes to war and life, there are a lot of things that can happen. ...