Evolve: Reinventing Leadership - Building Freedom Cultures

As a leader, it is important for you to keep your fingers on the pulse of the organization. It helps to know what is happening, what is about to happen and why, because your ability to answer these questions equips you with the information you need to take proactive steps.

An extraordinary team is a high performing team.  They find ways of being and doing that are unique to them.  This is no easy feat.  Members of extraordinary teams are capable of facilitating constructive conflict, they genuinely like or respect each other, and they can balance the need to achieve results with evolving people needs.

Some persons have little to no boundaries, they are unaware they are infringing on your personal space because they are predisposed to crossing boundaries. Others know they are encroaching on your boundaries and they don't care about you, your needs. or your attempts to set boundaries. This episode shares four tips you can use to set and maintain your boundaries.

In this episode, Yvette shares her expertise about cultural architects and the dynamism of change.

Confrontation tends to have a negative connotation.  When appropriately timed and facilitated in a way that is devoid of unproductive emotion, a constructive conversation can bet initiated with a difficult employee or uncomfortable circumstance.

There are organizations that are intentional about their cultures. Leaders of these institutions don't perceive the value of spending time defining and sustaining their cultures. They don't realize a well defined, intentional culture is so valuable that it can serve as a critical differentiating factor within their market(s).

In the midst of any cultural change process, your team needs you to model the desired behaviors, hold them accountable to those behaviors and to be empathetic when they fall short of your expectations. Learn more at  www. YvetteBethel.com

As a leader it is important to keep your finger on the pulse of the organization. It helps to know what is happening, what is about to happen and why. Your ability to answer these questions equips you with information you need to take proactive steps.

Regardless of how vigilant you are when making decisions, sometimes we allow known or indiscernible biases to penetrate our decision making process, coloring it with assumptions, misinterpretations and opinions. In this episode you will learn how to neutralize bias when making important decisions.

In this episode, you'll learn that the first step in identifying your emotions is to expand your personal vocabulary of emotions so you can perceive your full range of emotions and distinguish subtle differences.

Avoidance is an action or lack of action propelled by decision or indecision.  This podcast explores the unproductive side of avoidance, why it happens and what you can do you transform your team into one that is accountable.

Respect is often confused with obedience because with obedience, the end result is compliance, but the process and underlying reasons for the compliance may have absolutely nothing to do with respect. In other words, respect is not fear based, it is inspired because it allows you to show your people that you value them.  www.yvettebethel.com

There are different types of networks that exist.  Some of them are built by arbitrary action and others are built deliberately through planning and focused effort.  In this episode, Yvette provides you with practical strategies you can use to build networks successfully.

Learn why change leaders sometimes underestimate the destabilizing effect a new initiative can have on the team so they don't place the same amount of emphasis on the people side of change.  

When you give a person the benefit of the doubt you have a doubt about that person or a related  situation and you choose to take a positive position when there are insufficient facts to support your doubt. In other words, you are giving the person the advantage of being innocent until proven guilty.

There are persons who link their value to their compensation of position. There are others who are valued because of their ability to play power games at work. These tips provide your with strategies you can use to improve your value to your employer and more importantly improve your value so you can achieve your career goals.

When changing cultural dynamics is a priority, leaders establish a vision for transformation, but if these persons only have the benefit of experiencing a single organizational culture, authentic change is difficult because these leaders don't know what they don't know.  Yvette explores how you can overcome the obstacles to cultural enhancement and the unifying power of communication.

Blame is a self-preservation tactic.  It is used to cover up and conceal.  Rather than suffer through embarrassment, self-flagellation or attack, blamers point their fingers at others.  This podcast outlines the different types of blame, how you can create a blame free environment, and how to protect yourself from blamers.

In this episode, Yvette teaches us the power and importance of being mindful our body language. Our bodies often speak louder than our words..

In this episode, Yvette shares a story about a manager who is being constantly attacked because she is unaware that she is perceived as a threat. She is unaware that others perceive her as powerful. The story illustrates two types of players: Those who reject power and all its trapping, and those who embrace it wholeheartedly. Yvette explores how persons who reject the traditional displays of powe...

In this episode Yvette shares tips that are designed to help leaders build a code of trust. Like the code of silence where silence is used to protect a secret. The code of trust is a collection of integrity based behaviors that protect and sustain trust. Unlike the code of silence, the code of trust is based on transparence and serving the good of your entire team.

This week learn how to harness diversity within your organization for growth, creativity, and trust.

In this episode Yvette shares how you can evolve your emotional intelligence as a leader within your organization.

Yvette Bethel welcomes listeners to the Evolve podcast series. 

CEO and award winning author, Yvette Bethel and Shann Vander Leek discuss the new Evolve: Mastery For Leading a New World podcast series and what leaders can expect when they listen to this new business podcast.