Grounding and Growing Leadership Podcast

While the adage “it’s better to give than receive” is true in many areas of life, in one area, we’re thinking you might need to start receiving it to give it better. That area is feedback. As a grounded and growing leader, you need to be able to receive and provide feedback in a healthy way that promotes growth. The best way to learn how to give constructive feedback is to practice receiving it wi...

We’re back this week with our incredible guest Dr. Ashley Lang as we continue our chat about leading and mentoring the different generations (if you haven’t caught part one of this series yet, make sure you start there!).  Dr. Lang shares her knowledge on how to integrate the values and needs of different generations. Pamela and Ashley both share their perspectives on how to approach cross-generat...

This week we have a special guest joining us (our first podcast guest!) as we chat about being a leader in a multi-generational workplace. Her qualifications are out of this world, and you won’t want to miss this podcast as she provides insights on the intergenerational dynamics of the workplace. Dr. Ashley Lang shares how the four different generations currently in the workforce have all had diff...

We’re back and talking about conflict again. We know it can be a hard topic, but we also want to help you grow through it. How you define success will determine how you react to conflict. For example, if you want everyone to be happy, you might sacrifice your own needs so everyone else is happy. But your needs are important as well. Your voice matters, especially as a leader. And honoring your voi...

Today we dive into the super comfortable topic of CONFLICT! Excited? Probably not, most of us avoid conflict.  We don’t love it either AND it’s a part of life, especially the life of a leader. As a leader, you’re managing multiple perspectives as well as your own so a conflict of opinions is not only likely, it’s inevitable. How you handle it is critical to your ability to communicate well within...

Travel back in time with us. Did you set a word for a year? Do you even remember what it was? It’s April and it’s not uncommon for many of our early New Year resolutions and intentions to be forgotten. Don’t beat yourself up about it. According to some statistics, only 8% of people continue to focus on their word of the year (or their resolution) all year.  Instead, what is your INTENTION for this...

You are uniquely created to make an impact on the world. You were made for peak experiences. What is a peak experience? A peak experience is when you’re in the zone, leveraging your strengths, doing what you love and happy with the outcomes. We hope that as a leader you will have many peak experiences. Peak experiences most often occur for leaders when we lead through our Strengths. But we don’t h...

If the pandemic shone a light on anything, it was that healthy leadership matters more than we even realized. Embracing the practices of Grounding and Growing helps us take seriously the impact we have on others as leaders. It was through this shedding of the old, and the re-evaluating of many of our past practices, that we developed Grounded Leadership(™) at ALIGN. Grounded Leadership is formed f...

We don’t really know how to set healthy boundaries in our culture and it shows. It can be even more difficult to set healthy boundaries at work in an effective way because of the team and power dynamics involved.  And even if you do set a healthy boundary, what happens if the other person doesn’t honor it?  While your reactive response might be to build a wall, if you care for the person and your...

Every leader alive does it at some point in their career . . . and some of us do it daily. We begin measuring our success by the way others define theirs.  This unconscious comparison causes us to look at someone else and think “I’ll never be able to do that as well as them.” We may feel this way while watching a cooking show, listening to a concert, or with how we lead others. How we define leade...

Have you ever witnessed someone’s behavior and thought “what motivated that person to respond like that?” We often look at others’ behaviors through our own lenses of experiences and motivations and then project those viewpoints onto what just happened. But as a good leader, it’s important to understand that individuals have different motivators that can show up in all types of behaviors. And thes...

Are you a natural-born leader? You’re not alone if you feel like you’re not. In fact, we are here to say, the idea of a natural-born leader is a myth and that anyone can be a leader. And yes, that includes you! We’re excited to kick off our first podcast talking about what makes a good leader (and big surprise, it may not be what you think!). Just as flight attendants tell us to put on our own oxy...