ChoinqueCast

How well do you communicate with others? Do your subordinates and team perform as well as you would like? Have you thought about how you might improve your communication skills and raise your game? Christine Comaford , author of Smart Tribes , mentions five types of communication in her Clarity of Intentions and Energy section — Information sharing, requests, promises, sharing of oneself and debat...

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, is home to an amazing collection of giraffes, seventeen in total. During a recent tour, my daughter & I noticed most of the giraffes were outside. Our tour guide Amy showed us the giraffe’s indoor facility where a training, or enrichment environment was set up. Four of the giraffes were here, performing specific, positive tasks for the trainer, and af...

Choinquecast eight showcases one of the finest examples of leadership, program management, and innovation you may not know about. Durrell Hillis had responsibility for the research, design, and development of advanced communication and electronic systems for a host of domestic and international commercial users, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense, an...

During the second of three coaching sessions following an Academy Leadership Excellence Course, a client in a highly technical profession critical to national defense shared an uncomfortable decision made since our first coaching call. Turns out the client fired a team member, who was described in our initial discussion as a “challenge employee.” Chances are you may have a similar term for someone...

For choinquecast seven we connect with Susan Packard , who helped to build powerhouse media brands like HBO, CNBC, and HGTV. She was the co-founder of Scripps Networks Interactive and former chief operating officer of HGTV. Under Packard’s helm, HGTV became one of the fastest growing cable networks in television history. Today HGTV is available in more than 98 million U.S.homes and...

In a recent coaching session following an Academy Leadership Excellence Course, a client in the construction industry shared his action plan progress. One of his documented leadership lessons was: “I have no idea if the people on my team are motivated and need to get to know them better through some motivation assessments that will allow me to understand them better.” The client then described a p...

Our sixth choinquecast kick-starts our productivity with Carson Tate , creator of the Productivity Style Assessment® and the Work Smarter, Not Harder program. Carson is an internationally-renowned productivity expert and coach with strategies featured in top-tier business media including Bloomberg Businessweek, CBS Money Watch, Fast Company, Forbes, The New York Times, Shape, USA Today and Wo...

While recently journaling and reading over Thanksgiving in the Galapagos Islands my thoughts turned to recent Leadership Excellence Course attendees who described performance issues within their organizations. Specifically, some of them asked "How do I get people on my team, who don't work directly for me, to get more done?" As leaders, rather than just managers , we should strive to create alignm...

Our fifth choinquecast takes us on a powerful journey of positive personal transformation with Mary Shores . She is the author of Conscious Communications : A Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life. Mary is a recognized leader of innovative thought, and has spent over a decade teaching businesses and individuals how to identify the...

How many of you are looking forward to retirement? Or just wondering what’s next? In a recent coaching session with a highly educated scientist near the end of his career, he mentioned that he wants the freedom to explore stuff on his own time & further if he had to live life over again he would go into the State Department and help our country overseas. Keep in mind my scientist colleague is...

Our fourth choinquecast persuasively argues that finding our purpose and happiness first leads to success, rather than the opposite. Distinguished keynote speaker, advisor, facilitator and executive mentor across the Asia-Pacific region and author of “ step up ” Michelle Gibbings shares her personal discovery that being known for getting things done, often by leaving her comfort zone, is far more...

Our third choinquecast reminds us that corporate purpose is more significant than corporate goals. Vice President of Best Practices for SAS and author Jill Dyché shares her stories from “ The New IT ,” written for the IT professional who wishes to connect with their overall enterprise and for the executive who wishes to understand what innovation looks like within their corporate culture.

For our second choinquecast, we'll interview Mark Crowley : Speaker, change agent for culture & engagement and author of Lead From The Heart . Mark shares his powerful personal journey confirming that the more we help others find fulfillment and purpose, the more effective leaders we actually become.

For our inaugural choinquecast, we'll interview former Navy SEAL Jeff Boss , author of Navigating Chaos , co-founder of Chaos Advantage and choinque business partner. Jeff will share leadership lessons he learned during eight deployments and how we may apply them to the workplace and to our lives.