Leadership Matters

Challenging economic times and massive uncertainty related to funding, and staffing resources, offer opportunities rife for innovation and creativity.  Increasingly, agencies are engaged in strategic collaborations with "unlikely" partners, to build organizational capacity and expand the scope, breadth, depth and reach of services. "Enterprising" business models are becoming increasingly popular a...

The ADVANCE, a cultural competence institute for leaders, focused on dialogue and interaction for developing diversity and competency for leaders. This show highlights insights from 2011 ADVANCE participants from the East Coast, West Coast and Midwest. Participants will share insights gained from engaging in the ADVANCE forum. Does race continue to matter and be an issue in America? Systems, power...

This episode, features co-host Jenni Frumer and guest Neil Newstein, the CEO of Alpert Jewish Family & Children's Service. Neil is past Chair of Council on Accreditation of Family & Children's Agencies and is currently on the Board and an officer of the Center for Guardianship Certification. Join us to discuss how critical it is to create a culture of support for organizational risk management, wh...

Got leadership challenges managing personalities in the workplace? Call-in questions. Explore solutions with Dr. Sheryl G. Gain perspective for effective issues management and increased leadership success. Don't miss this opportunity to ask questions and hear responses to questions facing leaders across the globe. Join the conversation by emailing or calling in your own leadership questions, chall...

This episode features Brian Carroll, MSW and CEO of Secret Harbor as a guest, with co-host Jenni Frumer.  Secret Harbor, located in Northwest Washington state "saves kids who are in danger by providing them with an essential structure and stability to develop healthy relationship."  Two years ago, Secret Harbor transitioned their focus to include serving older adults and their families.  Join us t...

Got leadership challenges on having difficult conversations in the workplace? Call-in questions. Explore solutions with Dr. Sheryl G and guest Jordan Goldrich, Partner with CUSTOMatrix, Inc. in San Diego. Gain perspective for effective issues management and increased leadership success. Don't miss this opportunity to ask questions and hear responses to questions facing leaders across the globe. Jo...

Based on a successful community-based leadership program, the Heartland Family Service has developed an internal Leadership Academy. How does an organization arrive at the decision to implement leadership training? What is the process and what are the outcomes for internal training? How are stakeholders in the community engaged? These and other questions will be addressed with guest, John Jeanetta...

Got leadership challenges on inspiring an apathetic workforce? Call-in questions. Explore solutions with Dr. Sheryl G. Gain perspective for effective issues management and increased leadership success. Don't miss this opportunity to ask questions and hear responses to questions facing leaders across the globe. Join the conversation by emailing or calling in your own leadership questions, challenge...

Got leadership challenges on inspiring an apathetic workforce? Call-in questions. Explore solutions with Dr. Sheryl G. Gain perspective for effective issues management and increased leadership success. Don't miss this opportunity to ask questions and hear responses to questions facing leaders across the globe. Join the conversation by emailing or calling in your own leadership questions, challenge...

Based on a successful community-based leadership program, the Heartland Family Service has developed an internal Leadership Academy. How does an organization arrive at the decision to implement leadership training?  What is the process and what are the outcomes for internal training?  How are stakeholders in the community engaged?  These and other questions will be addressed with guest, John Jeane...

Got leadership challenges? Call-in questions. Explore solutions with Dr. Sheryl G and co-host Jenni Frumer. Gain perspective for effective issues management and increased leadership success. You will not want to miss this opportunity to ask questions and hear responses to questions facing leaders across the globe. Join the conversation by emailing or calling in your own leadership questions, chall...

Got leadership challenges? Call-in questions. Explore solutions with Dr. Sheryl G. Gain perspective for effective issues management and increased leadership success. You will not want to miss this opportunity to ask questions and hear responses to questions facing leaders across the globe. Join the conversation by emailing or calling in your own leadership questions, challenges, and/or concerns. L...

Got leadership challenges? Call-in questions. Explore solutions with Dr. Sheryl G and guest Dr. G. Lynette Reed author of Fixing the Problem: Making Changes in How You Deal with Challenges. Gain perspective for effective issues management and increased leadership success. You will not want to miss this opportunity to ask questions and hear responses to questions facing leaders across the globe. Jo...

In this week's episode Dr. G and guests, Lawrence Murray author of The Four Pillars of Success; and Valerie Sheppard, the Sherpa of Happiness will discuss ways to fortify oneself to be better equipped for successful living and thereby better prepared to provide effective leadership. You won't want to miss this enlightening and empowering discussion.

Got leadership challenges? Call-in questions. Explore solutions with Dr. Sheryl G, co-host Jenni Frumer, and guest host Undraye Howard. Gain perspective for effective issues management and leadership advancement. You will not want to miss this opportunity to ask questions and hear responses to questions facing leaders across the globe. Join the conversation by emailing or calling in your own leade...

In today's fast pace "eWorld," most of us are overwhelmed by the vast number of emails we receive daily and how many we leave sitting in our email inbox—many unopened and unanswered. On this week's episode, Dr. Gee, along with co-host Jenni Frumer, guest host Undraye Howard, and Randal Dean, the author of Taming the E-Mail Blast: 45 Key Strategies for Better Managing Your Email Overload, will disc...

Accreditation is both a status and a process. It is a means to assure and improve higher service quality, assisting organizations private, governmental and public in using a set of standards developed by peers. Accreditation helps to provide the conditions necessary to develop diverse, flexible and robust practices throughout all aspects of the organization, by meeting threshold expectations of qu...

Much has been written about leadership styles. Servant Leadership was coined by Robert Greenleaf in 1970 and many leaders in nonprofits and public agencies are comfortable with this style of leadership. Others tend to lead with power. Are effective leaders engaged in a particular dominant style of leadership; or a combination of styles? During this episode, Dr. G will introduce Jenni Frumer, our n...

During this week's episode the conversation continues with Dr. G and guests, Lawrence Murray author of The Four Pillars of Success; and Valerie Sheppard, the Sherpa of Happiness discussing ways to fortify oneself to be better equipped for successful living and thereby better prepared to provide effective leadership. You won't want to miss the second part of this enlightening and empowering discuss...

In this week's episode Dr. G and guests, Lawrence Murray author of The Four Pillars of Success; and Valerie Sheppard, the Sherpa of Happiness will discuss ways to fortify oneself to be better equipped for successful living and thereby better prepared to provide effective leadership. You won't want to miss this enlightening and empowering discussion.

During the month of September, we will continue to explore the 5 practices of exemplary leadership put forth by Kouzes and Posner in one of the best-selling leadership books of all time: The Leadership Challenge. This 4th episode in the series highlights the practice of enabling others to act. According to Kouzes and Posner, To get extraordinary things done in organizations, leaders have to enable...

In this week's episode Dr. G and guests, Dr. Joseph F. Johnson, Jr., Executive Director of the National Center for Urban Schools Transformation based at San Diego State University; Dr. Alfonso Rodriguez, Director of Training and Staff Development with the Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA, and Troy Bell, Local Government and Educational Consultant will continue the dialogue on impact...