Lead with Learning
Most leadership models miss one key element: how adults actually learn. This podcast is the ultimate career smash... taking the insights from the science of teaching and learning and applying them to the world of leadership to build a new blueprint of how teams learn and succeed in business.
Each week we'll share learning strategies and break down how learning happens and why that matters to you and your team's growth and development.
Come for the insights, stay for the growth.
Episodes
16 episodes
Stop Leading Everyone The Same Way: Steal This Strategy Series
We challenge the idea that treating everyone the same is the fairest way to lead, and we show why it often blocks real growth on a team. We borrow the education strategy of differentiation to keep expectations consistent while tailoring support...
The Training Isn’t the Problem. What Happens After Is: Steal This Strategy Series
“We already trained them on that” might be the most expensive sentence in business. When customer complaints rise, managers avoid hard feedback, or onboarding feels like a blur, the reflex is often another workshop. But the real problem is usua...
Stop Watching People And Start Watching Work: Steal this Strategy Series
Observation stops feeling like a threat when we treat it as a tool for learning instead of a surprise evaluation. We share how leaders can use quick, low-stakes moments of watching the work to coach with precision, build psychological safety, a...
Don’t Just Delegate. Develop: The Power of Gradual Release... Steal this Strategy Series
Don't Wait for the Performance Review: Steal This Strategy Series
What if your next performance problem isn't really a performance problem?What if it's a learning problem?In this episode of Steal This Strategy, I'm taking one of education's most powerful learning strategies—formative a...
The Advice Monster Lurking Behind You
Your team walks in with a problem and your brain lights up with solutions. You can feel the “here’s what I’d do” forming before they even finish the sentence and it works… until it doesn’t. Because when you become the place where every hard dec...
Why Aren’t We Practicing at Work?
We spend a lot of time at work showing people what to do. We explain the process, provide the resources, hold the training, answer questions—and then expect people to perform.But what if we’re skipping one of the most important parts of ...
From “I Do” to “You Do”: How to Make Change Stick
You’ve explained the new process. You sent the email. You held the meeting. Everyone nodded their heads.So why isn’t anyone actually doing it?One of the biggest mistakes leaders make when introducing a new process, initiative, or ...
The Power of Anonymous Feedback: What Are Your Employees Not Telling You?
What would your employees tell you if they knew you couldn’t see their name?Sometimes, the most valuable feedback is the feedback people don’t feel comfortable giving you directly.In this episode of Lead with Learning, we...
The Feedback That Actually Changes Behavior... Why Good Job Isn't Good Enough
“Good job!”It’s positive. It’s encouraging. But is it actually useful?In this episode of Lead with Learning, we’re talking about one of the simplest—and most overlooked—leadership skills: giving specific, target...
You Were Promoted Because You Were Good at the Job. Now What?
You were great at the work. So they promoted you to lead the people doing it.But here's the catch: knowing how to do the job and knowing how to lead someone else to do the job are two very different skills.In this episode o...
Learning Doesn't Live In the Training
What if the training isn’t actually where learning happens?We spend a lot of time and money getting employees into training. Workshops. Courses. Presentations. Onboarding sessions. And when the training is over, we often assume ...
The Learning Architect: Stop Managing the Problem. Start Understanding the Learning.
What Is a Learning Architect?What if some of the best ideas for leading people have been hiding in education all along?After 20+ years in education—as a teacher, reading specialist, curriculum designer, instructional coach,...
What's Getting In The Way?
What if your biggest performance problem isn’t a people problem?When an employee isn't performing the way you expect, it's easy to assume the problem is them.They're unmotivated.They don't understand.They'r...