Episode 46: The Enneagram Leadership Assessment - Combining Your Heart, Gut, and Mind featuring Sarah Wallace
In this episode, you’ll hear from Sarah Wallace, an Enneagram Business and Life Coach, who will offer some practical methods to help emerging leaders understand what leadership ingredients they already possess and how leaders can use this knowledge to help them along their leadership learning journey and be the best team leaders they want to be.
Episode 45: Leadership Assessment Tools - Clifton Strengths featuring Sheri Miter
In this episode, you’ll hear from Sheri Miter, a Visionary Strategist, Leader Strengths Coach and Gallup Certified Clifton Leadership Assessor, who will help emerging leaders by offering advice and tools to help answer these self-deprecating questions before the pivot arrives, giving emerging leaders the confidence to consider their next leadership opportunity with clarity and decisiveness.
Episode 44: Facilitating Your Team Discussion or Disagreement
Being the leader means you’ll have to facilitate formal team discussions, and also facilitate team disagreements.
The dynamics that come with this responsibility are too numerous to mention, but in this hyper-aware social climate we find ourselves in right now, it’s very easy to forget two basic principles: First, be kind and Second, it’s ok if we don’t agree with each other.
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear a panel conversation from a team of professionals who will discuss what can be a highly contentious and divisive topic: Faith. Specifically, we’ll talk about how faith affects, or doesn’t affect, our leadership styles.
We’ll have this talk so emerging leaders can hear, in real time, how people can have very different perspectives and still respect each other as people and professionals. You’ll be given tips and tricks to facilitate group discussions by listening and observing a group of people who barely know each, and can still respect each other’s opinions, thoughts, and beliefs.
Episode 43: Ruthless Compassion as a Kindness Leader featuring Dr. Marcia Sirota
There are many leadership principles for emerging leaders to choose from as they embark on their leadership journey. And while each of the principles has their own unique take on how to lead, there are many overlays. Such as: Be honest, be fair, be transparent, be kind.
Emerging leaders often feel overwhelmed in their new role, trying to balance the team goals, their own personal goals, the team dynamic, etc. In the midst of this balancing act, there is often team conflict, and most often, the emerging leader will be overly kind, trying to ‘kill’ the conflict with kindness.
The thing is, this tactic rarely works, and so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Dr. Marcia Sirota, a board-certified psychiatrist, author and professional speaker who will talk about Ruthless Compassion as a Kindness Leader. We’ll hear how emerging leaders can create a space where compassion and kindness are principal team attributes of cohesive and effective team.
Episode 42: Reach Your Peak Performance featuring Dr. Ruth Gotian
In this episode, you’ll hear from Dr. Ruth Gotian, author of “The Success Factor: Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Business Performance.” Dr. Gotian will offer insight and perspective from high achievers such as astronauts, Olympic champions, and Nobel Laureates, using their experiences to help emerging leaders operate at their peak performance level.
Bonus Episode: Leading During a Crisis featuring Mary Martz, Chad Martz, and Annalise Schamuhn
War is stupid.
And while we all know that wars have far-reaching physical, emotional, and mental effects, it’s only until you have lived, worked, loved, fought in a war zone, can you really understand how extensive the effects of the campaign will have on yourself and everyone in the war zone.
The thing is, even without these types of experiences, leaders can, and SHOULD, be prepared to lead from the literal and figurative front lines. But how DO we do this? How CAN we lead if we don’t have the experiences?
And so, in this episode, we’ll answer these questions and more. We’ll do this by hearing from Mary Martz, a Hungry for Life International Program Manager – Ukraine region, Chad Martz, the Director of Operations at Hungry For Life International, and Annalise Schamuhn, a long-time volunteer with HFL. This trio will talk about their experiences before and during their time as they are embedded in the Ukraine war, bringing food, water, supplies, and hope, to those who are caught in the cross-fire.
Episode 41: Authentic Leadership featuring Linda Basso
In this episode, you’ll hear from Linda Basso, a business and marketing coach, who will talk about what it means to ‘be yourself’ and how to be authentic. Once we can self-accept who we are and how we lead, our teams will see and feel our authenticity, creating an even stronger bond among all of the team members.
Episode 40: Resilient Leadership:Transforming Adversity into an Opportunity featuring Mike Coyle
There is a lot of talk about what it means to be resilient and how leaders have to display a sense of resilience to achieve the desired goals.
In this episode, you’ll hear from Mike Coyle, a former Canadian Special Operations Senior Officer and Vice-President of Reticle Ventures Canada, who will explore the impact resilient leadership can have on individuals, teams, and organizations. We’ll talk about what resilience is and why it matters, particularly during these uncertain and complex times. Mike will share some important insights that will help established and emerging leaders build resilience in their organizations and transform adversity into an opportunity.
Bonus Episode: The Ukraine War – How You Can Help RIGHT NOW featuring Annalise Schamuhn and Chad Martz
Leaders talk about wanting to make real change, to help others, their organizations, or both. And this is good thing because leaders, followers, everyone in between, can and SHOULD try to make an impact, to make ourselves and those around us feel safer and happier.
The thing is, quite often, emerging leaders feel that they can’t make these changes early in their leadership journeys.
Well, there’s no way to sugar coat it, they’re wrong. We can make impactful changes right away.
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Chad Martz, the Director of Operations at Hungry For Life International and Annalise Schamuhn, a long time Hungry For Life International volunteer, who are both embedded in the Ukraine right now, doing their part to help those in need.
You’ll hear the ways that Hungry For Life International provides care and support, why they do this, and how we can help too. Most importantly, you’ll see, in real time, how emerging leaders can make a lifelong, lasting impact, right now.
Episode 39: The Power of Guilt
Guilt is a powerful emotion, one that sits inside us, stirring up emotions and feelings, often creating tense personal and professional situations for ourselves and our team members.
If guilt has such a strong grip on how we act, the questions then become, how can we recognize guilt? How do we live into our guilt, not allowing it to take over our lives? How can emerging leaders help their team members when they are feeling guilty?
Fear not!
In this episode, you’ll hear from a group of professionals from diverse and extensive backgrounds. You’ll hear from guests who gave it all up to follow their passions, the guilt about following their dreams, overtaking them. You’ll hear from life and leadership coaches, and how they manage the guilt of being parents while also being professionals in their fields. You’ll hear about how guilt can force us to work harder, work faster, work meaner, all to cover our own self-loathing at ourselves and our guilt.
And it’s their stories, their admissions of guilt and how they navigated through these feelings, coming out the other side, that will help emerging leaders see, understand, and work within their guilt.
Episode 38: Big Leadership Starts with Baby Steps featuring Mathew Georghiou
Leaders tend to want to make big splashes in the change pond very early in their leadership journey. And this makes sense, we are finally in a position to ‘right the wrongs’, and take care of our people, and be the voice we feel the company needs to go to the next level.
The challenge with being a new leader and having all of this energy is that the practical leadership experience to know when and how to make these splashes can only be achieved with time and practice. And most often, businesses don’t, or can’t, wait for leaders to gain this invaluable experience.
This is where Mathew Georghiou, Founder and CEO of MediaSpark comes in. Mathew and his team have taken our love of games and blended it with experiential leadership lessons, and these games gives new leaders and entrepreneurs the experience in a safe environment where we don’t have to worry about causing real-world damage to our team or business.
Episode 37: Employee Engagement and Your Team featuring Natalie Robinson Bruner
Listeners have heard me talk about my personal leadership development as I discovered the power of leading with my heart, and my leadership evolution as I found a way to blend leading with my heart and mind.
The thing is, as emerging leaders, we’re often trying to figure out how we want to lead so that we can get the most out of ourselves and our team, in short, we are striving for maximum team engagement.
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Natalie Robinson Bruner, the founder and principal strategist for Glad ED Leadership Solutions, who will discuss how emerging leaders can get the most out of your team while trying to mold your own leadership style. We’ll do this by discussing the leadership development principles that are near and dear to me, which are finding a blend between leading with your heart and mind. We’ll offer some our own employee engagement attempts and their epic failures and their wins.
Episode 36: Emerging Leaders and Changing the System featuring Haley Grayless
Have you ever been at work and thought, “I can do that better”, or looked around and thought, “Things need to change here”, but felt overwhelmed or powerless to effect these changes?
Here’s the thing, you’re a leader now. You have a voice at the table now, all those times that you complained about the company, the culture, the boss, all of it. Now, you have a chance to start making those changes. They’ll very likely be incremental changes, but any forward change is a start to systemic and institutional change.
And so, in this episode, we’ll discuss these feelings and thoughts, and then go one step further by providing some advice and insight into ways that you might be able to make these changes, and we’ll do this by speaking with Haley Grayless, MSOD, founder and CEO of Vaxa Collective, where we’ll hear her story of how she helps change toxic cultures by revolutionizing leadership and management in the workplace.
Episode 35: You are AMAZING!!!! featuring Nancy Shadlock
In the hustle of becoming an emerging leader, sometimes we can lose sight of ourselves, build personal walls, place very high and often unrealistic expectations on ourselves. The thing is, somewhere along the way, we’ll make a mistake, we’ll stumble and fall, sometimes spectacularly, and this happens to you, you’ll have this podcast episode to help pick you up, reminding you that you ARE amazing, that you EARNED the right to be in this role, that you DESERVE to be the leader.
To do this, you’ll hear from Nancy Shadlock, a fellow Canadian, Mom, and Certified Life Coach where we’ll hear inspirational stories and facts that will remind us that struggles are natural and part of life, but we can learn from them and make us stronger, helping us grow, and be lifelong reminders that we are ALL AMAZING!
Episode 34: Challenging Direct Reports featuring Danielle Cobo and Scott Drake
People are challenging. There’s no other way to say it. Every person is unique, every situation is unique. People have their ups and downs, their bad days, their good days, their blah days, and they have their regular average days, and while all these days are irregular in nature, the one constant for leaders is to know how to recognize which of these challenges your people are having, and how to be an effective leader for them, the company, and yourself.
In this episode, I’ve assembled a group of diverse leaders from the Leadership Executive Coaching, HR, and IT industries to help define what makes a challenging direct report. We’ll also explore how emerging leaders can recognize when their people are experiencing challenges, and we’ll provide some advice and practical tools to help emerging leaders help their direct reports as they all navigate their challenges from the trenches.
Episode 33: Conscious Leadership featuring Teresa Lodato
Words have power. And the words you use WILL have consequences. As emerging leaders it’s invaluable to understand the immediate impact you have on your team, and one of the most powerful aspects of your influence are the words you use. I’ll say it again, intended or not, your words WILL have IMMEDIATE impact.
In this episode, I’ll be talking with Teresa Lodato, a certified leadership coach and we’ll be discussing the concept of conscious leadership and how emerging leaders can use this idea to help frame their power words to embolden and strengthen the team dynamic during the hard and easy times. We’ll also talk about some specific power words that can have a detrimental effect on your team, it’s goals, and ultimately the efficient success of the group. Lastly, we’ll discuss what to do when your words don’t have the intended purpose.
Episode 32: Burnout: Teaching Leaders for Their Teams featuring Catherine Moore
Episode 32: Burnout: Teaching Leaders for Their Teams featuring Catherine Moore
Episode 31: Understanding Loud or Quiet Team Members featuring Megumi Miki
Episode 31: Understanding Loud or Quiet Team Member featuring Megumi Miki
Episode 30: Mentorship & You featuring Craig Anderson
Episode 30: Mentorship & You featuring Craig Anderson