Out of the Comfort Zone
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.
For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling.
The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone?
Episodes
517 episodes
Hyperefficiency with Mithu Storoni
With workload demands and AI tools, what it means to work efficiently needs a revamp. How can we help our brains work best on the work that matters most? How do we change gears? How do we work most efficiently?
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Opening Doors with Rosalind Chow
In any organization, if you want opportunities to advance, you need people who will help you open doors that matter to you. Those people become sponsors – but it’s not just the senior most leaders that can help you open doors, peers can as well...
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How You Can Change the Systems Around You with Adam Kahane
Systems are usually well intended but over time create more hassle than value. Often we think there is nothing we can do as an individual to change the systems that frustrate us – whether that is at work or in society. However, there are things...
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44:43
Finding Wisdom with Laura Gabayan
We see people that we say have great “wisdom”. What gives them wisdom, what does it mean to have wisdom? And, how can you develop more wisdom for yourself? We will tackle those questions via a fascinating research project that interviewed peopl...
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37:18
How to Deliver Bad News with Mahesh Guruswamy
As a manager, you have to deliver bad news – probably more of it than you would like to deliver. If you like making people happy, delivering bad news is probably even more difficult. So how can you say no, deliver negative feedback, go back on ...
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42:08
Changing Minds with Michael McQueen
Trying to persuade someone to change their mind isn’t for the faint of heart. Some days it seems nearly impossible. You could be trying to persuade someone that the path you have outlined as the best way forward, or that the change program is “...
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Flexible Leadership with Kevin Eikenberry
It seems every organization is expecting it’s leaders to be more agile, flexible, versatile, adaptable, “anti-fragile” – choose your favorite word. What does it mean to be more flexible? How do you get to that state of being? What behaviors sho...
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46:24
You’re the Boss with Sabina Nawaz
Let’s say you have just been promoted at any level. How do you manage the pressure and the power as you go up the hierarchy? How do you manage up? What traps do you need to watch for and how do you avoid them?
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Ask More, Do More, Persuade More with Jeff Wetzler
If you follow my work, then you know that I am a massive fan of having great questions for any occasion. They are every leader’s secret arsenal. When you step out of your comfort zone, you have to ask even more. And, asking questions will lead ...
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The 80/20 Law with Perry Marshall
No doubt you have heard that 20% of your team delivers 80% of the results. But just how true is the adage? And how deep does it run? What if it is a fundamental law by which most of the world is organized? If it were universally true, what woul...
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Built to Innovate with Ben Bensaou
You may believe that only the rare, unique individuals like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk can innovate. And you may believe that only the radial, industry disruptions really count as innovation. Neither are true. Innovation can be big or small, radic...
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Multiply Your Impact: The 5% Rule with Anil Singhal
Impact is the watchword lately. In a jammed schedule, with extensive demands, how do you make sure you have the right kind of impact and in the right places? Which decisions do you need to focus on? How can you avoid the micromanagement trap? H...
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Power of Pressure with Dane Jensen
Pressure is a double edged sword. It can spur you to get things done, push yourself to new heights and it can damage your motivation and your health. How can we be smarter about pressure – applying pressure or navigating pressure filled moments...
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Employee Motivation with Stephan Meier
Have you been thinking about how to better motivate your team? Do you believe money is the primary driver for engagement and performance? Do you wonder how to make work more human and why you should try to do so? We have answers. Listen i...
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45:19
The Joy You Make with Steven Petrow
With daily microstress, a heavy workload and a constant juggling of priorities, most leaders feel depleted. Add an out of the comfort zone role change and you can begin to feel that you can’t cope. If that isn’t enough, listen to the glob...
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40:31
Survive Microtraumas and Thrive with Monique Daigneault
Far too often, work is overly demanding, unrelenting and a source of stress. Add a negative experience with a manager or co-worker and you have microtraumas that pile up – eventually depleting your capacity to lead and to thrive. How can you he...
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43:46
Metamorphosis with Steve Blue
This is a real life, business transformation story from the person who led and is still leading the company. If you are thinking about how your business can be more hi tech regardless the current level of technology, this is the conversation fo...
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49:27
Leading Gen Z with Tim Elmore
The expectations and experiences of the youngest generation in the workforce (Gen Z) is, to put it simply, different. You may be frustrated or worse. However, to have an effective, productive, engaged workforce you must learn to lead them and l...
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46:41
Identifying the Tensions in Any Negotiation with Cash Nickerson
In our comfort zones we do the same routines and engage in the same habits. To move out of the comfort zone, we have to change habits. One of those habits is trying to separate emotions from any situation. When the outcome matters, you can’t ta...
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54:26
Leadership – The Inside Story with Willie Pietersen
If you want to improve your leadership, start by looking inside. Successful leadership is not about power or grand decisions; it’s driven by the set of personal principles that guide the leader’s actions and inspire others. As coaches, we...
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54:06
Pathway to Flow with Julia Christensen
If you are seeking a way to calm your mind and stop all the ruminating thoughts so that you can focus, solve problems more efficiently and have that sense of satisfaction that comes with being in a state of, then this episode is for you. What i...
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47:07
Doing Good While Doing Well with Marcia Dawood
No doubt you want to make a positive impact on the world and no doubt you have issues or causes you would like to see solved. How can you use your money to create change without having huge amounts to give away? Listen in for surprisingly acces...
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55:09
Persuasion and Lessons from Working with Spies with Jeremy Hurewitz
What do spies learn in their trade that leaders can apply every day? Turns out that spies are not as the movies portray them and they have incredibly skills in connecting with people – even with people they don’t necessarily like. Intrigu...
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55:56
Change and Uncertainty with Curtis Bateman
Change and uncertainty – something everyone is trying to cope with and if you lead people probably something that is easier said than done. Despite all the many books on the subject, we are still missing a key ingredient – the human at the center ...
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