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LeadershipSOPs
LeadershipSOPs is a podcast for leaders who want to move beyond managing teams and learn how to create alignment, influence, and results across entire organizations.
Hosted by leadership author, coach, and consultant Ed Tyson, the show explores the real work of leadership, especially in complex environments where success depends on collaboration across teams, departments, and stakeholders. Each episode breaks down practical leadership challenges and provides frameworks, tools, and insights to help leaders build stronger communities of effort, improve organizational effectiveness, and lead with greater clarity and consistency.
Whether you're an executive, manager, or emerging leader, LeadershipSOPs helps you navigate the complexities of modern leadership and develop the skills needed to drive meaningful results through
Episodes
14 episodes
The Great Flattening: Can Your Managers Manage the Heavier Leadership Load?
Flattening an organization sounds appealing: fewer management layers, lower costs, faster decisions, greater autonomy, and less bureaucracy. But what happens when the leaders who remain suddenly inherit a much heavier leadership load?In ...
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Multi-Site Leadership: Preparing Leaders to Lead Beyond Their Sight
How do you effectively lead people when you can’t see what they’re doing, how they’re performing, or when they need your help?In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson explores multi-site leadership and why leading beyond your physical...
Have You Ever Found the Solution But Fumbled the Change?
What if the biggest reason organizational change fails isn’t the solution, but how leaders introduce it?In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson shares the unforgettable “diaper debacle,” a multimillion-dollar opportunity that collaps...
Are Your Leaders Mistaking Maturity for Mutiny?
What if the team you think needs fixing is actually becoming the team you’ve been trying to build?In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson explores how teams develop from dependence on their leader to greater trust, ownership, healthy...
Whose Perspective Are You Coaching From?
Great coaching doesn’t start with what you know. It starts with understanding where the other person is.In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson breaks down how executives can develop stronger leaders through curiosity, cognitive empa...
Can Anything Beautiful Come from Ugly Feedback?
What do you do when the feedback you receive is painful, personal, and the last thing you want to hear?In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson begins with a brutally honest piece of anonymous feedback he received from a colleague, an...
The Politics of Leadership: How to Build Trust Without Playing Games
What if avoiding organizational politics is actually preventing you from leading effectively?In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson challenges the idea that great leaders can simply ignore office politics and focus on their own team...
Where Does Your Search for Accountability Begin?
When someone on your team fails to perform, who is really accountable?In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson challenges leaders to stop treating accountability as something that begins after performance goes wrong. Instead, he intro...
Are Your Plans Emphasizing Hard Choices or Masking Structural Flaws?
Have you ever watched a great idea get parked... only to disappear forever?In this practical episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson shares one of the most valuable leadership lessons of his career: why even the best ideas fail when leaders...
Does Your Org Design Drive or Dam the Flow of Strategy?
Why do so many brilliant strategies fail?The problem usually isn't the vision. It's the gap between strategy and execution.In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, executive coach and organizational strategist Ed Tyson explores one of l...
Are Your Leaders Thinking Upstream of Strategy?
Why do so many talented leaders get labeled as "too tactical," and what does it actually take to become a truly strategic leader?In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson explores one of the most misunderstood concepts in leadership: ...
Is Leadership A Personality Or A Process?
What if the key to becoming a better leader isn't another leadership book, but a better leadership process?In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson explains why leadership should be treated as a repeatable process instead of a persona...
Are Your Leaders Leading Or Busy Doing The Team’s Work?
What if the biggest leadership problem isn't a lack of talent, but a lack of clarity about what leaders are actually supposed to do?In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson challenges one of the biggest misconceptions in leadership de...