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Lead with The Essentials
22 short episodes for leaders of an organization and anyone intent on joining their ranks. These tools are essential for organizational checkups and sustained health because of the vaccine they provide against organizational problems, the high stakes of not using them, and the enormous benefit that flows to the bottom line. Collectively they can be a mainstay of your leadership craft.
Episodes
22 episodes
Episode 22: Vulnerability
In this 8-minute episode on vulnerability, the last in this series of Lead with the Essentials, we’ll look at the power of leading by dropping your armor – the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors you use to protect yourself – so y...
Episode 21: Cross-training
In this 8-minute episode on cross-training, we’ll look at the value of cross-training, which at minimum, is a low-cost insurance policy and disaster prevention plan that significantly increases your ability to maintain an effective and e...
Episode 20: Conflict resolution
In this 9-minute episode on conflict resolution, we’ll look at how resolving conflict is a process of shifting your mindset from an entrenched, “either/or” position to “the relationship”, where you recognize the counterproductive pattern...
Episode 19: The "Huh?" moment
In this 8-minute episode on the Huh? Moment, we’ll look at what to do at those times when someone’s comment, behavior, action, or even inaction is inappropriate, unexpected, or hard to make sense of, and your instinct is to brush it asid...
Episode 18: Joint accountability
In this 8-minute episode on joint accountability, we’ll look at what it takes to be jointly accountable, the signs of accountability gaps that become normalized when we feel helpless and powerless, and what’s at risk when that happens.
Episode 17: Succession planning
In this 8-minute episode on succession planning, we’ll look at how succession planning is a tool for managing risk and protecting company and shareholder value when change occurs in the leadership of your company.
Episode 16: Leadership development
In this 9-minute episode on leadership development, we’ll look at what it takes to become a transformational leader who models behaviors that increase individual and team engagement and their sense of what they can achieve, and that perm...
Episode 15: Change management
In this 8-minute episode on change management, we’ll look at the preparation and planning, the socializing and implementation, and the embedding and assessment that’s needed for people to fully embrace change and adapt to it, so that cha...
Episode 14: Problem-solving and decision-making
In this 8-minute episode on problem-solving and decision-making, we’ll look at a reliable way to solve problems and make decisions that brings greater consistency and consensus, and a greater likelihood of achieving desired results, so y...
Episode 13: Project management
In this 7-minute episode on project management, we’ll look at what it takes to successfully lead a team from planning to execution in a climate of collaboration, where people work together because they want to, not because they must.
Episode 12: Meeting management
In this 7-minute episode on meeting management, we’ll look at how the way you and others manage meetings can be the difference between opportunity seized or lost, productivity gained or stalled, and time well spent or wasted.
Episode 11: Feedback
In this 8-minute episode on feedback, we’ll look at why feedback is necessary to provide your employees with the information and guidance they need to make sure their work stays on track to reach your mutual goals, like a steering w...
Episode 10: Difficult conversation
In this 8-minute episode on a difficult conversation, we’ll look at what’s at stake when you avoid a difficult conversation, and how your approach to it can shift your anticipation and the conversation from dread and anxt to gratitude an...
Episode 9: Communication
In this 8-minute episode on communication, we’ll look at the irony of communication. We need it more than any other tool and yet we take it the most for granted, even though the way we communicate can make or break a business deal and be...
Episode 8: Reward system
In this 7-minute episode on a reward system, we’ll look at the power of monetary and non-monetary rewards to encourage, acknowledge, and reinforce specific performance and behavior that’s aligned with your company’s goals, targeted ...
Episode 7: Authority, power, and influence
In this 7-minute episode on authority, power, and influence, we’ll look at why teams struggle to accomplish their task when they lack the combination of authority power and influence to get it done, and how balancing their scope with the...
Episode 6: Roles, responsibilities, and relationships
In this 8-minute episode on roles, responsibilities, and relationships, we’ll look at why clarity and flexibility around the 3Rs are key to a highly functioning organization, no matter what organizational structure you choose, and why yo...
Episode 5: Employee-centric mindset
An employee-centric mindset is the path to exceptional performance. In this 8-minute episode, we’ll see that there are two essential components of that mindset: a psychologically safe workplace and an understanding of what your employees...
Episode 4: Balanced leadership team
In this 8-minute episode on the tool of a balanced leadership team, we’ll look inside the formula for a balanced leadership team to see that it must be a complimentary group of individuals who can produce, administer, envision, an...
Episode 3: Strategic planning
Strategic planning is not just a box to be checked. It’s a living blueprint for your business. Putting it in the context of The Essentials is meant to give it new meaning. In this 7-minute episode, we’ll learn how the strategic plan beco...
