Conversations for Fear-less Leaders

What is a Fear-less leader and how do they operate? What really makes a leader successful? A real leader is not fearless, a real leader has fear, realizes it, and decides how to manage through it, be vulnerable, open, honest, and real. Listen to this series of podcast delivered by two professionally trained coaches, certified in Conversational Intelligence and Team Coaches. Rhonda York of the US and Dale Laughlin of Trinidad and To...

Life happens! And, life has to go on! The roller coaster experience of this global pandemic continues for all of us. For FearLESS Leaders there is no other alternative but to show up with courageous intention and hopeful positivity. In this podcast, we reveal the essential questions leaders must ask as they do the inner work on themselves and the outer work with their people. 

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As a leader, there is always the opportunity to help team members and colleagues grow in their abilities. Many times, the leader is too quick to place blame on the underperforming employee without looking within and asking, "what might I be doing to contribute to their ineffectiveness"?  To be a great and fearless leader, one has to do some reflecting on how our behavior, actions, and words can diminish the work ethics an...

We know you have heard of succession planning--making sure someone is talented enough to take over certain roles. How are you developing the members of your team to create a strong bench of talent? Recently, two well-known US college basketball coaches retired, or announced their retirements. Both men have a history of winning seasons for their prospective school teams. While both teams had certain star players, they also had a str...

Problem-solving is one of the keys to great leadership. But how can you solve a problem you don’t even know you have? We all have blind spots, areas where we make assumptions or hold beliefs without pausing to question their rational basis and the ways in which they influence our behaviour. 

The tricky thing about our blind spots is that because we aren’t aware of them, we usually don’t notice the impact they are having on those aro...

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 🎧  EP-10 Triggers that Impact our Conversations
 
 What triggers us? And, how 'response-able' are we when we get triggered? A trigger is a stimulus to which we react. It may originate in the external environment – in the things people say and do, the situations that arise, or the circumstances we find ourselves in. Al...

Join Rhonda and Dale as they probe for a deeper understanding of how Triggers impact us and the daily challenge to navigate them. They draw from personal experience to unpack the troublesome words and phrases that trigger their discomfort both internally, in their inner dialogue and, externally, in their conversations with others. They explore, too, self-awareness and self-regulation as vital tools for disarming the triggers and re...

“High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.” – Colin Powell

This week on Conversations For FearLESS Leaders we’re tackling one of those evergreen issues that has come even more sharply into focus since the pandemic began - Building High-Performance Teams. With many organizations compelled to make the shift to remote work, it has become imperative for lea...

Team members and colleagues need to feel psychological safety in an organization to function at their best and give the team their best. It starts with trust and should be the norm and not a one and done.
Rhonda and Dale are joined by Maree Wrack, their colleague from Perth Australia. Maree is a coach, professional speaker, and author. She shares her experiences working with organizations to build psychological safety in their ...

We all do it-avoid conversations. We know we need to have a conversation with a co-worker, boss, direct report, or friend, but we avoid them. We create stories in our minds as to how the conversation might go, it is never a positive story, so we decide not to have the conversation. By avoiding the conversation, things may get worse. They usually do not auto-correct. 

In this episode, Rhonda and Dale discuss steps, tools, a...

“To get to your next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of the relationships, which depends on the quality of the conversations. Everything happens. through conversations.” Judith E. Glaser

 Rhonda and Dale deconstruct this powerful quote by Judith E. Glaser, the Organizational Anthropologist, prolific author and though leader, who made Conversational Intelligence®, her life’s work...

In this episode, Rhonda and Dale deconstruct the great quote by Judith E. Glaser, author and founder of Conversational Intelligence.
"To get to the next level of success depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of the relationships, which depends on the quality of the conversation. Everything happens through conversation."

This powerful quote contains a wealth of information to imp...

Do not be put off by the title. To be a successful leader, your communications skills need to be top notch. In addition to how you communicate, you want your team members to hear and receive the message you are sharing.
Are your conversations Kind? Do they promote forward movement for your teams? If not, self-check how you communicate and ask for feedback on your communication style.
In this episode, Fear-less leaders will ...

It can be so frustrating! You think you’ve communicated clearly and completely. Then you realize that what you said is not what was understood. You find yourself having to do  more telling and more explaining. Errors are made, deadlines are missed, and people become frustrated with each other.

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” Robert ...

Are you stuck thinking about how to word your questions? When to ask them? How to decide what the ‘right’ question would be? 

 As a FearLESS Leader, you can turn your questioning into a powerful conversational tool to heighten clarity, enhance alignment and evoke trust. Join Rhonda and Dale as they explore and answer these big questions about questions. Listen as they discuss using questions to listen; to measure personal mastery an...