The Leadership Sparq

In this episode, we talk about a recent research study that uncovered one trait that will make you a bad boss. This is one behavior you want to stay away from if you want to be a great leader.

In this episode, we introduce three questions every leader should ask their boss to set themselves and their team up for success.

In this episode, we continue our conversation about how to approach having tough conversations. We’ll unpack two additional ways to think about preparing for your next tough conversation.

In this episode, we tackle the topic on every leader’s mind - how to have a tough conversation. We will introduce four questions you can ask that will help you prepare for your next tough conversation.

Brene Brown says “leadership - vulnerability = disengagement.” Wow! No leader wants a disengaged team. In this episode, we talk about why vulnerability is important for a leader and provide practical ways you can put it into practice today.

We talk about the two fundamental things your team needs from you, their leader. If either of these two are missing, you’ll have an uphill climb as a leader.

In this episode, we unpack five practical steps you can take today to make your next communication stick.

Here’s a sobering fact for leaders— your people forget most of what you say! In this episode, we unpack the importance of using story when communicating and how using story will help you communicate in a way that moves people.

We introduce the 4 C’s of communication. Implementing the 4 C’s will help you communicate in a way that moves people to action.

We talk about the one thing people on your team will never forget. They will most likely forget a lot, but this one thing will be remembered forever.

Implementing this one idea might radically change your leadership impact. In this episode, we talk about the need for leaders to be interested over interesting.

We talk about the say/do ratio for leaders and how many leaders get derailed because this ratio gets out of whack.

This one thing might be killing your communication effectiveness. In this episode, we introduce the #1 communication killer and share ideas on how to minimize its impact.

In this episode, we introduce four actions you can take today that will make you so good you can’t be ignored.

We introduce the idea that your team needs you to be more like Yoda and less like Superman. Yes, your team needs more Yoda (but not baby Yoda).

We talk about why “who” you are as a leader is more important than “what” you do. People will follow your “who.”

Caring is not optional as a leader. It’s a non-negotiable. In this episode, we talk about why caring is not optional and introduce the CARE acronym to help you put caring into action.

Is your leadership “why” compelling enough to get you through the hard times as a leader? We unpack this idea in this episode and share insights into our leadership “why.”

We wrap up unpacking the five pillars of extraordinary teams by discussing the need for leaders to harness the brilliance of everyone in the room.

Is excellence a habit on your team? Does your team know what excellence looks like? In this episode, we talk about the next pillar of extraordinary teams and unpack why you need to turn excellence into a habit and not just a value.

We continue to unpack the five pillars of extraordinary teams. Today we focus on the need to create an environment where teammates pursue healthy conflict. No, that’s not a typo. You need to PURSUE healthy conflict.

We continue to unpack the five pillars of extraordinary teams. Today we focus on the need to get your team to commit to a common goal.

We start unpacking the five pillars of extraordinary teams by focusing on the need to develop authentic relationships. This is the starting point of all extraordinary teams.

No leader sets out with the ambition to build an ordinary team. We all want to be part of something EXTRAOrdinary. In this episode we introduce why building an extraordinary team is important and the five pillars that will get you there. Download the overview of the 5 pillars: https://bit.ly/3q9WFnM

We're tackling the big topic of feedback. We introduce the FAST Framework and how you can use this model to help you develop your feedback skills. Get the free feedback ebook: https://bit.ly/430TWvD