How to Break the Trust Barrier
There’s trust and then there’s trust. Sure, you and your team need to trust each other to achieve results over […]
Next Level Podcast
Next Level Podcast
The Coaching Habit
With The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever, Michael Bungay Stainer has written a really useful book for anyone charged with leading and facilitating the work of others. Michael is a star in the coaching field and has distilled all he’s learned over the years into seven simple and sequential questions that practically guarantee really useful coaching conversations. And, he’s done that in a format that is as fun to read as it is useful. I recently had a lively conversation with Michael and recorded it so you can listen in.
Leadership, Next Level Podcast, Organizational Development
What It Takes to Be a Superboss
When you think back on the best bosses you’ve ever had what stands out about those people? What do they all have in common? What makes a good boss great and a great boss a super boss? What does it take to be a super boss?
Those are the kinds of questions that have intrigued Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, for much of his professional career. They’ve intrigued him so much, in fact, that he spent ten years researching and conducting 200 interviews on the questions. (Audio)
Leadership Lessons, Next Level Podcast, Team Building
What’s the ROI on Your Leadership Capital?
The science of economics is often described as being about the division and allocation of scarce resources. Any leader has
Leadership, Next Level Podcast
Are You Ready to Change the Way You Think About Leadership?
When you think of the word “leader” what comes to mind? For lots of people, the picture that comes to mind is the charismatic visionary that sets a direction that people want to follow. All too often, that model of leadership fails because the followers inevitably end up disappointed and disengaged when the leader is incapable of delivering everything he or she promised. (Audio)
Next Level Podcast, Personal Presence
What is the Creator’s Code?
What do Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Spanx founder Sara Blakely and Under Armour founder Kevin Plank all have in common? Amy Wilkinson has done the research and knows the answer. She shares it in her new book, “The Creator’s Code”. (Audio)
Mindful Mondays, Next Level Podcast, Personal Presence
One Less, One More
We’ve all heard the phrase less is more. Perhaps it’s also true that more is less. I think that’s where Robbie Vorhaus is coming from with his recent book, “One Less. One More. Follow Your Heart. Be Happy. Change Slowly”. Vorhaus is a well respected crisis expert and communications strategist with years of experience advising corporate leaders, government officials and celebrities about how to get things back on track when they’ve run off the rails.
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Make Better Choices for Better Time Management
There’s a very high likelihood that you’ve heard the counsel to spend your time on the things that are important but not urgent. Easy to advise, hard to do, right? It’s all too easy to end up spending your day reacting to things that are both urgent and important or, worse, not that important to you but urgent to someone else. And, after hours and days of that, burnout can easily occur and you end up wasting your time and attention on stuff that is neither urgent or important just to get some relief. (Audio)
Next Level Podcast
How to Uncover Happiness When You’re a Leader
Being a leader can be and often is a high stress job. The demands on your time, the tough calls, the conflict resolution – it can all add up. If you’re not paying attention, it can leave you feeling stressed out, burned out and even depressed. In this episode of The Next Level Podcast, I’m sharing a conversation with an expert who can help teach you how to avoid that. (Audio)
Next Level Podcast
How to Avoid the Disaster of Leadership Vertigo
Is there a gap between how you view the impact of your leadership and the way others view or experience it? If there is, then you’re suffering from what leadership expert, speaker and author Tanveer Naseer calls “leadership vertigo.” That’s actually the title of a new book that Naseer has co-authored with S. Max Brown. As Tanveer explains it in a recent conversation he had with me, leadership vertigo occurs when your brain tells you one thing and the facts tell you another. (Audio)
Mindful Mondays, Next Level Podcast
How to Relax Like a Baby
One of my guiding principles in life is to look for and act on the stuff that’s easy to do and likely to make a difference. Even the smallest mindful breaks can make a huge difference in reducing the overwork and overwhelm that comes with modern life. If you are looking for a super simple way to get started, you’ll want to listen to my recent conversation with Mimi Sommers. (Audio)
Next Level Podcast
Getting Up to Speed on A World Gone Social
Whether you love it, hate it or are somewhere in the middle on it, social media can have a huge impact on your effectiveness as a leader. Whether you’re in the conversation or not, the chances are people are talking about your organization online. Why not search for your organization on Google, Yelp or Glassdoor and see what you find? The results might surprise you. (Audio)
