Leadership Without Losing Your Soul: Master Communication & Management Skills To Boost Productivity, Teamwork & Ease Overwhelm

Real connections within teams can create a culture shift for an entire company. In this episode, LaTonya Wilkins gives you practical ways to lead below the "surface-ness" of traditional corporate culture, and how to build R.E.A.L. relationships with your team. Psychologically safe relationships with people who are different from you are the cornerstone for creating truly innovative, productive, di...

The Earned Life  is a road map for ambitious people seeking a higher purpose. An earned life means living in a way where the choices, risks, and efforts we make moment to moment line up with our bigger purpose, regardless of the outcome. But for many of us, that pesky final phrase is a stumbling block: “regardless of the eventual outcome.” Not being attached to the outcome goes against everything...

Do you believe you're capable of accomplishing extraordinary things? How about your team? In this episode, Peter Docker, author of Leading from the Jumpseat , talks about leadership that lifts people up and gives them the space they need so that, when the time is right, they can take the lead. In business and in life, handing over the reins to others is inevitable. Everyone will eventually leave t...

Have you checked the Soul Index? One of the most pressing questions for corporate leaders today is how do I build and sustain a human-centric performance culture? At a time when 10,000 baby boomers retire every day, 79% of employees quit their jobs because they don't feel appreciated at their workplace, and 69% of millennials see a lack of potential for leadership development in their companies, B...

Have you experienced a desire for connection, or feelings of loneliness, over the past few years? Feelings of loneliness among employees are on the rise with 72% of global workers suffering from it. This sense of isolation is contributing to a real and growing mental health problem that affects both individuals and organizations. In this episode, Ryan Jenkins author of Connectable shows how tackli...

Did you know that companies with more diversity in their ranks are more innovative, expand their markets, and perform better financially? Why, then, has so little progress been made, especially when it comes to corporate leadership? Most companies have yet to develop and implement effective diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives.  In this episode, DEIB expert, Cynthia Owyou...

How do you build a culture of feedback? In this episode, Neil Khaund, President and CEO of The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS), the largest accredited leadership honor society in the United States, explains why creating a culture of feedback is imperative and gives you specific techniques you can use to get all the information you need to build an effective team, department, and...

Ready for some brilliant approaches to human-centered communication? In this episode, David talks with Lizabeth Wesely-Casella, founder and CEO of L-12 Services; a Washington DC firm focused on internal communications, organizational development, and human-centered leadership. Lizabeth shares her insights on how you can improve workflow, processes, and culture by leveraging communication and the i...

Have you ever been faced with a puzzling pattern of events, been stuck in a confusing situation, or felt trapped by your own routine thinking patterns? Or have you wondered about how you think and make decisions during messy and unexpected situations? Then you're familiar with the business of ambiguity.  In this episode, Dr. Debbie Southerland gives you five key thinking and behavior strategies to...

Have you or your team felt the drain from virtual work? In this episode, author Betty Johnson reveals the voices of real virtual workers. They say it’s people, not cameras, that create “Zoom fatigue.” Through their verbatim words, Dr. Johnson illuminates how you can stop doing the things that wear down virtual work and what you can start doing—right now—so that virtual meetings cease to be an exha...

Have you worked in an organization that suffers from a crisis of management and leadership? Then you know how important it is to have a Manager's Playbook. Under-trained and under-equipped, many great people have turned out to be not-great bosses and their employees and companies' bottom lines are suffering the consequences. In this episode, David talks with Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher, co-a...

Whether you want more influence and to make a bigger difference within your organization or the world beyond, Weaving Influence CEO and author Becky Robinson gives you the roadmap. Too many think it’s a question of numbers—the more people you can get in front of, the better. But true reach is about expanding your audience while making a meaningful and enduring difference that has lasting a impact....

How do you support your employees' career development when promotions aren't immediately available - or they're not interested in a promotion? There are so many other ways that employees what to grow. In this episode, Julie Winkle Giulioni helps you navigate the many ways you can support your team's career development - and how it will make leadership and management more enjoyable for you. Leaders...

Many leaders find that it's easier to be a human-centered leader when everything is going well. When you're stressed or anxious, it's easy to snap at your team, lose your temper and undermine the culture that you've worked so hard to build. Getting stressed out or anxious from time to time is unavoidable, but you can lead through these challenging times to build a stronger and more productive team...

During times of stress and change, when you need your team to be the most resourceful, some managers clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. In our research on  innovation and psychological safety,  67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” It’s tough for teams to be quick and clever in those circu...

Have you heard this from your managers? "My people aren't coachable. They're defensive, it's like they have a wall up. They just won't listen." Sometimes people can't grow because they're not in the right position or they are actually incapable. Leaders take responsibility for the legitimate reasons people might ignore feedback. In today's episode, you get seven reasons people ignore your feedback...

Trust takes time, but sometimes you need to get everyone working together quickly. If you're going to succeed, you have to build a team that's able to work well together and get results, and you need to be able to do that quickly. In this episode you'll get four activities to speed up the process and improve your team's commitment to outcomes and to one another. Leadership Without Using Your Soul...

This episode has it all - poignant wisdom, 6th graders influencing billionaires, mason jar soup, even Darth Vader jokes. Above all, you'll get practical wisdom to help you show up with grace and dignity for some of the conversations that many leaders find most challenging. These can be the most meaningful leadership conversations you'll ever have - when you learn how to acknowledge your story, lis...

You work hard to set a positive example for your team. You care about success, and you want your people to succeed. You’ve clarified what matters most and you’re committed to accountability. You’re intentional about your culture. But somehow, your leadership presence isn’t working. You don’t have the connection or influence you hope for. What’s happening? Committed, caring, hard-working leaders of...

What do you do when you see a problem and you want to bring it to your colleagues' attention, but you're worried it might create problems? This topic came in as a question from a member of the Let's Grow Leaders community and it's a fantastic opportunity to address some leadership challenges that everyone can empathize with. In this episode, you get three steps to use to address problems with your...

Conversations are the soul of leadership. We all know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. The art of Appreciative Inquiry gives you the ability to have conversations that truly matter, build better relationships, and achieve more together. In this episode, Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres give you...

Most of us have seen fear drive short-term results, but it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. Winning organizations aren’t fear-free; they know how to reframe fear into opportunities for learning and growth. They create resilient cultures of unfear. In this episode, Gaurav and Mark, authors of Unfear , give you the rundown about the impact and archetypes of fear in the work...

It's a cliche you've undoubtedly heard more than once: Fake it until you make it. The problem is that the pressure to succeed can drive leaders to exaggerate their strengths, minimize weaknesses, bend the truth, and sacrifice the very authenticity that would help them succeed. In this episode, former Silicon Valley communications CEO Sabrina Horn gives you the tools to lead with integrity, navigat...

"My people lack a sense of urgency. I've got to follow up on everything or we miss deadlines. I'm tired of babysitting. How can I ensure things get done on time?" Sound familiar? In this episode, you'll get five ways to help get things moving. Paradoxically, sometimes leaders with a high internal sense of urgency can struggle with this the most. But the good news is that there are just a few strai...

Do you feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind? How can you break out of this endless cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful lives we all seek? In this engaging episode, Dorie Clark gives you unique principles and frameworks to help you reorient yourself, see the big picture, and tap into the power of small changes. It's not an overnight process, but the long-term payoff is...