Episode 38: Big Leadership Starts with Baby Steps featuring Mathew Georghiou
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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.

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Episode 37: Employee Engagement and Your Team featuring Natalie Robinson Bruner
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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.

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Episode 36: Emerging Leaders and Changing the System featuring Haley Grayless
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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.

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Episode 35: You are AMAZING!!!! featuring Nancy Shadlock
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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!

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Episode 34: Challenging Direct Reports featuring Danielle Cobo and Scott Drake
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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.

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Episode 33: Conscious Leadership featuring Teresa Lodato
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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.

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Episode 24: Not Being Taken Seriously featuring Brienne Hennessy and Jillian Webber
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Episode 24: Not Being Taken Seriously featuring Brienne Hennessy and Jillian Webber

It’s likely that at some point in everyone’s professional or personal life, they haven’t been taken seriously with the after-effects of these moments having a lasting impression on us.

From the lens of emerging leaders, these impressions often have a direct correlation to how we lead from the trenches, and so, in this episode, we’ll explore some of the reasons why people, specifically emerging leaders, tend to not be taken seriously, we will offer some tips to calm the self-doubt inside ourselves, and finally, we will reach into our leadership tool boxes and hand out some practical tools to enable each other to ensure everyone is heard as much as they want to be.

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Episode 23: Survivorship Bias (It’s not what you think) and Making Fully Informed Decisions featuring Simon Kardynal
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Episode 23: Survivorship Bias (It’s not what you think) and Making Fully Informed Decisions featuring Simon Kardynal

Here’s the thing, at its very core, survivorship bias is a kind of mental model where people tend to only look at what has worked in the past and use this as a metric for future success. But what about all of those stellar failures that we’ve experienced? Is there nothing for us to learn from these fails?

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