Leadership Voyage
Welcome to the podcast dedicated to your pursuit of becoming a great leader.
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Jason wraps up his 3-part engagement series based on Gallup's 2026 reports on engagement.
Key takeaways from this episode:
- 13-point drop in Gen Z and younger millennials feeling like their supervisor cares about them as a person (falling from 54% to 41%).
- 28% of workers identified "better communication" as the primary way to gain clarity, and 24% identified "supportive relationshi...
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Jason talks more about Gallup's latest on employee engagement, with a focus on how a clear understanding of exceptional can lead to 4X more engagement.
Things to try as a manager:
- Ask your employees for their Top 3 priorities and compare them to your answer
- Objectively write down what you're judging your people on (hours worked? calls made?), and then write "Exceptional" and start ...
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Jason goes over the latest engagement numbers from Gallup, in part 1 of a 3-part series on what's going on out there and what you can do about it.
Jason challenges managers to do one of two things THIS WEEK:
- Show more care, communication, or respect for employees in 2-3 mins/day.
- Have a conversation with your managers and employees about what great performance looks like.
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Leadership Voyage
email: StartYourVoyage@gmail.com
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
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voice: by Ayanna Gallant
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Jason recommends six leadership books to gift someone you care about during the 2025 holiday season!
- Andy Crocker - The Unconditionals
- Brian Reich - Life in Motion**
- Dominic George - The Authentic Edge Leading Without Losing Yourself
- Jim Carlough - The Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership
- William Davis - How to Lead Without Just Managing
- Don Schminke - Winners and Losers
**Jason mistakenly refers to t...
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Andy Crocker is an aerospace executive with three decades of experience across human and robotic exploration, hypersonics, and missile defense. He’s held senior roles at several companies, leading the development of innovative technologies and managing complex system programs for NASA, commercial, and Department of Defense customers. As a strategic leader, he’s built high-performance teams and contribu...
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Dominic George is a dedicated leadership coach with a passion for empowering Black men to ascend from mid-level leadership roles to senior leadership positions. With a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by Black professionals, Dominic brings a tailored approach to his coaching, providing targeted guidance and strategies for career advancement.
LinkedIn: https://...
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Jason discusses the Harvard Business Review article, "Why Kindness Isn't a Nice to Have." After a discussion of kindness versus niceness and other insights from the article, we also dig into seven characteristics of effective feedback.
Leadership Voyage
email: StartYourVoyage@gmail.com
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lead...
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Jason discusses the Forbes article "Planning Your Team’s 1:1s? Use This 4-Step Framework."
GROW Framework
- Goals
- Reality
- Options
- Way Forward
Leadership Voyage
email: StartYourVoyage@gmail.com
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
https://www.fiverr.com/napbak
voice: by Ayan...
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About Brian Reich in his own words:
I don’t regret it. I worked hard. I played hard. But looking back, I can see it was just a little too much.
For more than three decades, I worked in the high-pressure world of automotive manufacturing. I led teams, hit deadlines, and managed stress—or so I thought. Then on December 12, 2019, everything changed. Lying on a hospital table, I had to face the toll my lifes...
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Jason read the latest from Gallup on hybrid work, so you don't have to! What are the latest trends and best practices in hybrid work? Find out here!
The section below is taken verbatim from Gallup's article:
Gallup research shows that four simple practices can increase employee trust by nearly 30 percentage points. Employees are more likely to feel more trust when they strongly agree with any o...
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Jason discusses the WSJ article Your Boss Doesn’t Have Time to Talk to You and the HBR article AI Is Making the Workplace Empathy Crisis Worse.
Leadership Voyage
email: StartYourVoyage@gmail.com
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
https://www.fiverr.com/napbak
voice: by Ayanna Gallant...
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Jason discusses the Harvard Business Review article, "Why Senior Leaders Should Stop Having So Many One-on-Ones."
Leadership Voyage
email: StartYourVoyage@gmail.com
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
https://www.fiverr.com/napbak
voice: by Ayanna Gallant
www.ayannagalla...
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**GET A FREE BOOK** Be one of the first three to comment on this interview with Jim Carlough and get a signed copy of his book, "The Six Pillars of Effective Leadership," for free. No strings attached!
Leadership + Writing a Book
- even though there's a gene for some tendencies, leaders are made and not born
- he wrote a book because managers aren't given guidance when promoted
- he start...
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Jason talks about Leading By Example versus Delegating. There's meaning and benefits in doing it yourself, but there are also effective ways to delegate to your team that free you as the leader/manager up (and give your folks growth opportunities!).
References in this episode:
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When looking for a job:
- know yourself
- anticipate what you want to grow into
It's a challenging job market because:
- domino-effect of layoffs
- it's crowded; it will be a long process and you need to be persistent
Writing a great resume
- Think of Tinder: you don't have a recruiter or hiring manager's time for long
- how you market yourself leads to those first impressions ...
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Jason talks about the HBR article "5 Ways Leaders Accidentally Stress Out Their Employees."
- Negative language
- Erratic actions
- Emotional volatility
- Excessive pessimism
- Ignoring people's emotions
Other references in this episode:
Gallup's 2025 State of the Global Workplace Report
Managers Have Major Impact On Mental Health: How To Lead For Wellbeing
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Meet William Davis—a man who’s spent 38 years not just leading teams, but lifting them up. With a career that spans the heights of corporate America, William has become a trusted voice in leadership, blending decades of experience with a genuine passion for guiding others. He’s the kind of leader who doesn’t just talk about success—he builds it, one relationship, one project, one person at a time. Full...
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- Do we have decision-making all wrong?
- Wall Street Journal's "The Best Leaders Aren’t Decisive. They’re Ambivalent."
- Don't rush!
- Don't fall into what Michael Watkins calls the "action imperative."
- How much information is the right amount before making a decision?
- Bezos' 70%
- Bain's Pareto principle
- Improve your decision-making process.<...
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AI
- not going to predict where it goes
- great research assistant
- good editor for writing
- Augment not Abdicate; like a calculator
Winner and Losers Book
- came from working with entrepreneurs
- what we're teaching about entrepreneurship isn't what people are doing in the field
- too often we're writing only about successes
- seek failure as a way to learn; either win or learn
- "tool seductio...
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