Bold Business Podcast

Knowing our priorities - our real priorities - and deciding what we can do sets the tone of each day, which turns in each week, which turns into each month. Time goes by, and there are always external pressures: family obligations, work tasks that keep us on track for the next promotion, and our own personal goals. When we actively work on emotion management, create our own structures and routines...

Responsibility and accountability are character traits. And even if our experiences have made us shy away from them - to avoid the ownership of what we do and why we do it, we can change. Because if we don't…if we, at all costs, we avoid making a visible mistake and shift the responsibility to another, it becomes blame. When we find ourselves avoiding responsibility or blaming others, we immediate...

Freelance, remote teams, outsourced services all are part of today's business. How we interact and collaborate with them will directly relate to the results. The more candid, open, and focus on collaboration - the higher the results. Just like the team you have surrounding you, in your office, relationship matters. The challenges (and mistakes) of remote teams are also the benefits. Listen to Jess...

Whether we're talking about self awareness (which includes putting things back where you found them, clean up your own mess, and watch for people/bikes/cars when in the world), or we are practicing responsibility (play fair, say you're sorry when you hurt someone, don't take things that aren't yours)…we impact our own life AND the lives of others. From how we take action to when we take vacations,...

When we are busy and our schedules are full make it hard to pause and look at our goals. Look at when our intention (the goals we set) match our action (what problems we are solving). The only way to reflect, measure, and assess progress is by making time to think about it. Jessica Dewell and cohost Tanya Bourque discuss a Purposeful Yes. Starting the conversation… Say YES with purpose Use persona...

In addition to being a First Lady, Eleanore Roosevelt served at the United Nations, focusing on human rights and women's issues and She worked on behalf of the League of Women Voters. Like any leader, she had people that disliked her and people that loved her. Her impact still is felt today through her words and the roles she modeled. Jessica Dewell hosts this Leader's Discuss panel featuring Debr...

Responsiveness directly correlates to long term strategy and success. Adaptiveness is about being present in the moment and adjusting to what is. Action is the core. We act, and then we can plan (responsiveness). The more of those things we have (preparation, knowledge, and understanding) the easier it can be to adapt. Jessica Dewell hosts Carmen Rojas and Iva Ignjatovic are this programs Leaders...

When things are going well, we don't want to spend time on thinking about redundancy. We focus on leveraging processes, improving efficiencies, and doing more with less. Yet, when we are sick, we want to take a vacation, or we need to take take time off because of unexpected events and we need covered…what happens? Things fall through the cracks, activities directly related to driving business for...

It is on the rare occasion we truly look inward and look at what we think and how we act. The way we think informs the action we take toward ourselves and others. The way we think shapes how we face adversity. The way we think comes out in the way we talk. We've all had stories in our life where we've won out over adversity and where we've withdrawn in the face of it. Jessica hosts this Lead in Bu...

We do want to check our reactions. We want to recognize there is something here for us to understand. There is a place for gratitude for the interaction, even if it doesn't seem like it at all. We want to be curious about what we hear and make sure we understand the root of the criticism. Time is always on our side. Jessica Dewell hosts this Leaders Discuss panel with Geoffrey X Lane and Donna Dan...

Our happiness is relative because what makes us happy isn't the same for everyone. That's a common myth. Busting through to talk about our core strengths - our super powers - and how to own them. The question they are answering: What's your super power and how did you discover it? This Leaders Discuss program is hosted by Jessica Dewell, the panel includes: Joel Dawson, Carmen Rojas, Geoffrey X La...

Standards are given to us, and we can make our own. With a basic human need to be accepted, we adopt others standards, sometimes before figuring out of we believe in them. It's constant and conscious work to belong and have our own identity. Hosted by Jessica Dewell, this Leaders Discuss panel features Lynn Abate Johnson and Christine L Bowen where we consider the question: How do we decide what o...

Every email, every phone call, every meeting…every interaction you choose to have. When we are not all in, when our mind is somewhere else - the people around us know. As a society we shrug it off, but it's a missed opportunity. It's a missed connection. We lost a bit of credibility (not being in the meeting with them). We lost a bit of influence (we didn't value their time). We lost a bit of rela...

Don't fall into this trap: Reliable and INCOMPLETE information. When we have trusted avenues to find information, we become comfortable with them. The more comfort we have the bolder we become. The bolder we become the more we might think we don't need to seek out corroborating data. And we wonder why we were blind sided by a problem or encounter problem after problem. This Leaders Discuss program...

The more solid we are in what we know, what we have, and what we want, as business leaders, we are poised to achieve the success we want. As John Wooden said: It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it." Common problems around lack of action: the vision is held by a single person, the teams strengths are not put to highest use, and that the processes a...

We're always assessing what add-value means to us. And once we know what it means to us, we know how to bring it to our position at work, to model it for others, to build in the expectation of value with each action we choose to take. Because, in the end - it's a choice. Starting the conversation... What does 'add value' mean to you? Host: Jessica Dewell Panel: Jason Wiesgerber , Lori Anding     W...

Learning new skills and practicing them to gain personal confidence in our abilities at work as well as our hobbies stretches our brain. We step into and fly with the uncomfortableness of being a beginner again. And the big myth is that we are a beginner again. We are not. We bring everything we have already learned to each new skill we want to develop. So, what is the secret to developing new ski...

Organizational culture is always changing. It's reinforced or shifted with every leader's action. While it starts with the mission and values, it's built and evolves with behavior. When times are tough, sales are stagnant/declining, there is high turnover…first we look outside to find out if there are changes that would affect us. And, it is easy to look far and wide to make it not our fault these...

The ability to articulate a plan (create it) and do a plan (implement it) to get to the desired result takes repetition. What we do with our plans are just as important. The follow through, the implementation also matters. For this Leaders Discuss program, set aside everything you think you know about planning. Jessica shares 5 elements of creating a plan, and then she asks Joel Dawson and Geoffre...

5 Ways to Step Out of the Center of the Business As the decision makers, leaders set the culture. We decide what is allowed and tolerated (and what isn't). If we walk around and make comments that we will do something so it's done right, the team will quit trying. If we walk around saying no one understand, no one will try. If we only allow one way, our way, the team will quit trying to come up wi...

The most basic form of communication is straightforward and easy to understand. With so many nuances, there is a tendency to include everything. Yet, it's in that inclusion that makes it hard to know what to focus on…what's the priority. Simplification is a skill, that requires effort and thinking. It's in the clarity of each message - internally and externally - every person in the company knows...

What was modeled to us directly relates to our ability to approach learning skills for success. Success includes using our own developed skills and strengths as well as the ability to relate, connect and interact with others. Who we know, and what we know them for is what make it possible to navigate problems and unexpected situation. Build and hone your skill to ask for help. Starting the convers...

It is our responsibility to think. What is actually real and known today is what we use to make decisions. Allowing uncertainty to stall or inhibit our ability to act limits success. (And, when we decide for others, we inhibit their ability to step up. We want the right result. We want to be free. Listen in and find out what Les Dossey and Jessica Dewell talk about for building a beginners mind an...

Lessons learned come from reflection, a look back. We explore where we were to get where we are. It's a moment of clarity that a line is drawn in the sand. We dig in and know what skills we have and what we need to move forward. Its a choice to stop talking, consider, and then take action. Starting the conversation... Whats one of your lesson-learned stories and the gift that came from it? Aesop's...

Technology has changed our interaction with customers, what we expect to be able to do - to do our job well, and even stay connected to work after work. But when we aren't happy doing our work, what then? Do you or someone you know resonate with one of these 5 lies we tell ourselves to stay in a job? Recognizing the lie is the first step. Then, evaluate the situation with this lens and decide what...