Coaching for Leaders

Kent Rhodes: The Family Business Consulting Group Culture is how we do things around here. The three Levels of Culture from Edgar Schein Artifacts Espoused values Underlying assumptions Culture is difficult to identify when you are inside of it. Organizations confuse climate and culture: Climate comes from the outside and tends to be more temporary Culture is what is happening internally and more...

Sheila Heen: Thanks for the Feedback Author with Douglas Stone of Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well * Author with Douglas Stone and Bruce Patton of the New York Times Business Bestseller Difficult Conversations * Feedback sits at the core of two human needs: Our need to get better Our need to be accepted, respected, and loved for how we are now “Who’s giving t...

Andrew Stenhouse: Vanguard University Dean, School for Graduate and Professional Studies Vanguard University of Southern California Loss is pervasive and we don’t often recognize how much we’re dealing with loss at the time. Three broad categories of emotions tend to show up for people during a time of workplace loss: Fear We don’t know the loss will affect us personally We don’t know how we are g...

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast , Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor:...

Eric Ruckle It’s not about me, but about the project. Book recommendation: The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman * Book recommendation: So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport * What’s one attitude change you can make that will help you work with multiple bosses? Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To ac...

Susan Gerke: GO Team Resources This model originates with Bruce Tuckman in the 1960’s Forming Storming Norming Performing Susan and I discuss the issues at each stage above and the actions that both team members and leaders can take in order to maximize team performance. There are several options when conflict emerges: Reform the team Do good Feel good Deal with the conflict There are also several...

Susan Gerke: GO Team Resources Teams are different and unique Purpose Structure Stage of Development Membership Leadership When you are trying to figure out how to lead a team, 2 models can be very helpful. Types of Teams Interdependence degree of cooperation and coordination Number of meetings Content of meetings Goals —team vs. individual Reward team vs. individual Expertise Training plan Resour...

John Dickson: Spokane County, Washington Here’s a link to the Lean Fighter article John mentioned about some of the work he contributed to at Boeing John mentioned the learning organization that was articulated by Peter Senge. This model was made popular in Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline *, which is a must-read for leaders and also appears on my Top 10 books for leaders list. “The s...

Douglas Conant: TouchPoints Founder, Conant Leadership ( Facebook ) ( Twitter ) Former CEO, Campbell Soup and President of Nabisco Author with Mette Norgaard of the New York Time Bestseller TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments * “The More I Learn About the Outside World, The More Effective I  Am With The Inside World.” -Doug Conant Doug’s TouchPoin...

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast , Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor:...

While many things contribute to happiness, one key attitude shift in how we talk and think about our activities will help us be much happier. “Happiness isn’t doing what you like, it’s liking what you do.” -Quote on my dad’s desk Vance Caesar was one of my professors in graduate school. He wrote The High Achiever’s Guide To Happiness * Vance said, “Create more ‘gets to’s’ t...

Heather Backstrom: Executive Coach What is a personal brand? Personal brand is who a person is from the inside out. It’s not about external looks – that is personal image (also  important, but different). 1. Values Knowing our values can provide clarity on the kind of  work and work environment we choose. To help get clarity on your values, you may wish to utilize Dave’s values exercise at ...

Jennifer Deal: Center for Creative Leadership Author, Always On, Never Done: Don’t Blame The Smartphone Center for Creative Leadership works to help improve leadership. Many people said that staying so connected really started when  they received their smartphone. On average, people in the survey were connected to the workplace  72 hours a week, or 13.5 hours a day. Personal tasks done durin...

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast , Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor:...

What do you do when you’re the target of criticism? Here are the two kinds of critics that show up at work in the workplace and also how to address them. It all comes back to Mathnet Two kinds of critics The bully The champion Why you need your critics Hawthorne studies ( Harvard article ) ( Economist article ) Benefits You Get From A Recognition Program ( episode #79 ) with Michelle Smith o...

“Knowledge management is a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world and work more effectively.” – Harold Jarche Capture Capturing through the stream Twitter Some social media Live TV Live radio Capturing through subscriptions Email updates and newsletters Podcasts RSS via services like  Feedly.com Curate Bonni uses Delicious ( link to her library...

If you do these four things with consistency at the meetings you lead, you’ll get vastly better results from the investment you are making in meeting time. Worst offenses Trying to come up with a topic to talk about Let’s share what’s going on (without any context for how/why) Information sharing only No agenda Too many agenda items People on devices Too many meetings total Good news!...

Have you considered telling the people you lead about the mistakes you’ve made? On this episode, why you lead better when you share your mistakes. “Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.” -Dale Carnegie Here are the benefits to talking about your mistakes with others: You get people’s attention. You open the door for people to be more willing to accept coaching. You give...

Here’s some advice that many of us have heard when we starting giving presentations or speeches for the first time: “Tell ’em what you’re going to tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em what you told ’em.” That’s lousy advice. Here’s how to do better. Four great and interesting speeches, with varying levels of importance: Honoring the dead – The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Civil...

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast , Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor:...

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast , Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor:...

John Corcoran: Smart Business Revolution Key Points Ursula Burns (CEO of Xerox) and her thoughts on work-life balance , as reported by the Wall Street Journal The Storyline Productivity Schedule (used by John) David Allen’s Getting Things Done * (both John and Dave use the philosophy of this system) ProductiveFlourishing.com (John uses) OmniFocus (Dave’s task management system) Drafts...

Richard Sheridan: Joy, Inc. Author of the new book  Joy, Inc. * CEO, Menlo Innovations Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus .

Mario Livio: Brilliant Blunders * A lot of us fear making mistakes, but mistakes are such an important part of the process in moving forward. Today, you’ll hear why this is important even for (and maybe especially for) the most successful thinkers and doers. Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerat...

How do I manage my former peers? Should I get an MBA? What can I do to get my organization to train people? I tackle these and more community questions on today’s show. If you have a question for a future Coaching for Leaders Q&A show, be sure to submit it at coachingforleaders.com/feedback Resources I mentioned for Kyle’s question on managing peers vs. being buddies: My appearance on Fi...