The Solutions Oriented Leader podcast

Why Hiring a Transformational Leadership Expert Increases Your Success!   If you’re trying to motivate your team and engage them at a high level hiring a transformational leadership expert as a consultant will increase your success. It Is been my experience as a consultant over the last 20 years that bringing in an outside transformational leadership expert helps to assess your business needs...

5 Keys to Choosing The Best Keynote Speaker   Choosing the best keynote speaker for your next meeting is one of the most important decisions you could make that can help determine the positive outcome of your meeting and a return on investment for your attendees and your organization. In fact, having the right speakers in conference lineup can help to increase your attendance numbers year aft...

6 Ways to Boost Employee Engagement   Employee engagement is critical if you want to retain and build a culture of solutions oriented leaders. In today’s podcast I will share with you six ways that you can immediately boost employee engagement and create a happy and productive work environment.   Studies today indicate that CEOs and see sweet executives agree the best way to retain and a...

I’m often asked by leaders around the world what is transformational leadership? They hear the words used but they don’t understand the benefit or the true meaning a transformational leadership. In this episode I will share with you the benefits of having a transformational leadership culture in the five steps that you can use to implement one immediately in your organization.   In order to u...

How To Empower Your Team Members to Be Leaders Episode 27  Have you ever had people on your team that showed signs of being a great leader? In this episode you will discover for ways to empower your team to become better leaders in this episode of the solution during leader podcast.   It’s been my experience that many times there’ve been people on my team that could do a better job in ce...

The best leaders in the world understand the importance of strategic planning and their success. In this episode of the solutions aren’t leader podcasts we’re going to discuss why the best leaders have a strategic plan and the importance of the strategic planning process in their business growth and success. There are a number of reasons why you should implement a strategic planning process in you...

Building the right leadership skills in today’s world is crucial for your success as a leader. In this episode we will discuss the importance of having the right leadership skills and the seven key leadership skills that will bring you the results you desire. I am often asked buy leaders and executives that I coach if I believe that leaders, we’re born that way or if they have developed their skil...

If you are like me there have been many times when you’ve worked hard a whole day and felt like you got nothing accomplished. There were distractions, meetings and drains on your time. I call these the productivity killers that live in your workplace. On today’s episode of the Solutions Oriented Leader Podcast we are going to discuss four ways that you can conquer productivity killers and create m...

In Today’s world the top leaders develop and protect their personal brand biggest thing know we could make them a fortune or lose everything for them in an instant. Discover six ways that you can build your personal brand that will make you stand above the crowd.   There are a number of reasons why your personal brand is so important for you as a leader. It’s not just for entrepreneurs, C-sui...

As an executive coach and consultant, I’m constantly asked by new team leaders and veteran team leaders about what they can do to become more effective. In this episode of the Solutions Oriented Leader Podcast I am going to share with you seven key steps you can take to become a more effective leader right away!   The best transformational leaders I know provide vision and motivation to their...

       Seven Questions to Ask Your Potential Keynote Speaker  Hiring a keynote speaker for your next conference or meeting is a critical decision which can affect the overall outcome and success of the meeting. There are many ways to screen for potential keynote speaker and in this episode of the solutions oriented leader podcast I’m going to share with you seven questions...

Your team is your company’s most valuable asset! That’s why it’s so important for you as a leader to care about employee engagement. Today I’m going to share with you five key benefits of an employee engagement program and why you need to have one immediately if you want to retain your best people and attract new talent into your organization.   The five key benefits to employee engagement: &...

The morning huddle is a powerful tool for leaders, business owners, managers, supervisors and entrepreneurs to better communicate with their teams resulting in an increase in productivity, better communication and transparency and a happy workplace environment. In today's episode of the solutions oriented leader podcast you will discover how to implement a morning huddle effectively to accomplish...

Carolyn Strauss sold over one million dollars of her Carolyn Strauss clothing line on Home Shopping Network in just one day! Today she is going to share the three keys for selling to woman and she should know!  In 1997, Carolyn Strauss created the Carolyn Strauss Collection later rebranded as  CSC Studio and spent 18 years as the inspiration, CEO and on camera spokesperson exclusively so...

There are many ways that world champion athletes and teams stay motivated to succeed and win the big game. However, few can compare to the power of self-talk and affirmation which are the topics that we will discuss in this episode of The Solutions Oriented Leader Podcast.   Dr. Rick Goodman’s Solutions Oriented Leader Book is now available to order online. In this first-of-a-kind, compr...

Many of us have to deal with difficult personality styles in our professional and personal lives. In order to master and manage our communication effectively to achieve the maximum results we must understand what make these styles difficult and how we can use them to drive solutions for our clients and customers. The four personality style that we will examine in this episode are:  Victims Co...

Today on the Solutions Oriented Leader Podcast we are going to discuss the number one way you can connect and engage with your team!  Are you communicating and connecting with the people on your team?  Are you talking more than you're listening In today's email driven world communication is sometimes a one-way conversation instead of a dialogue.  We need to have more conversations w...

How to Use Conflict to Make a Connection!   Many times, leaders would rather avoid conflict than to confront it. As I said before I believe that conflict can be good and can even help us to make a connection with our team. On this episode of the solutions oriented leader podcast we are going to discuss how we can take conflict and use it to make a connection by taking a number of steps. &nbsp...

What is a Resilient Leader   What is a resilient leader? Many times, I'm asked what some of the most important traits are that a leader can possess? My first answer is always persistence and resiliency! A person who is resilient maintains a positive attitude and is always looking for opportunities even when business is down.   On today's solutions oriented leader podcast we are going to...

The Seven Traits of a Resilient Leader   Many studies have indicated the importance of resilience is both an individual and leadership trait. On today’s solutions-oriented leader podcast you will discover seven traits of resilient leader. A resilient leader is a person who sees failure as temporary setbacks and they believe they can recover from them quickly. They always maintain a positive a...

Building Your Team with Remote Employees I believe that if you are going to have remote employees you must bring them together for a team building exercise at minimum once a year. When done right, these activities can improve communication, foster cohesion, and bolster morale. It’s a lot harder to include employees in your group activities when those employees don’t work in the same building—or in...

5 Tips for Making Your Day More Productive   I’ve talked before about the importance of having the right morning routine —It’s not enough to have a to-do list these days. What we really need to do is think about when you’re going to do things according to highest and best use of our time   Here are Five Actions that you can take to make your day more productive!   Plan your weeks in...

Hi this is Dr. Rick Goodman international leadership expert, keynote speaker and author of the Amazon Kindle best-selling book The Solutions Oriented Leader in this episode of the Solutions Oriented Leader Podcast our topic is "Why Leaders Fail" There are many reasons why leaders fail, however in this episode I'm going to examine four of the most common reasons that I have found over the last 30 y...

There are many things that we get wrong about company culture. Today I am going to share and dispel four myths that are frequently discussed by the business community around the world so that you can be aware of them and develop your own solutions and results!   Subscribed & Review in iTunes   Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you're not, I want to encourage you to do that today....

I've written so many times about the importance of company culture and in fact many of my keynote speeches recently are focused on that general theme also on how it can be a tool for your recruiting how it helps with engagement and how it improves performance and gives your company and your team the competitive edge in order to compete in today's very competitive environment. As a business leader...