Follow: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio or your favorite podcast player. How are we doing? This is a simple question. However, we need to be vulnerable to hear the answers. Marc Lesser joins Kevin to discuss the importance of clarity, accountability, and compassion in creating relationships and successful teams. Lesser believes the business world has finally caught up
Follow: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio or your favorite podcast player. We know that stress levels are high today. Karen Dillon and Rob Cross found that it’s not only because of your macrostressors like a job loss, death, or illness. Karen tells Kevin that there is more microstress due to our connectivity. These are the little stressors that
Follow: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio or your favorite podcast player. When you think about your career path, does it take you to the boardroom? Getting a board position is a great way to gain visibility, credibility, and experience. However, it can be difficult to understand the landscape and know where you fit. Coco Brown joins Kevin to
Follow: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio or your favorite podcast player. Innovation is not a one-time event; it’s a continuous cycle. It requires an environment that encourages and supports creativity. It requires an environment that leverages the human-centered mindset. Mauro Porcini tells Kevin that we are in an age of excellence; either you do it, or someone else
Follow: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio or your favorite podcast player. We don’t schedule the next crisis on our calendar so we can prepare. They just happen. Lynn Perry Wooten tells Kevin we need to frame the crisis as an opportunity; an opportunity to contain and move to learning and growing. Lynn suggests we look at the past
Follow: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio or your favorite podcast player. Maybe Dr. Seuss said it best, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Jeff Brown joins Kevin to discuss why leaders are the best readers. He
Susan McPherson is a “serial connector” and suggests we need to get back to humanity. She is the author of The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships and shares her three-step process to building relationships. Connection is different from networking. When you connect, you are intentional, you
Is more better? Maybe, if we are talking about ice cream. What about if we are talking about collaboration? Rob Cross would argue that we can become overwhelmed by all the connecting and collaborating. Pre-pandemic we spent 85% of our time in collaborative activities, like e-mail, phone calls, meetings… That is higher today. Rob is
Are you exhausted? Maybe you are feeling a bit cynical? These can be signs of burnout. Paula Davis defines burnout as the manifestation over time of chronic workplace stress. Paula is the author of BEATING BURNOUT AT WORK: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience. She tells Kevin that pre-pandemic, we were suffering
Are you executing or are you busy? Jim Huling suggests we all struggle with execution, both personally and professionally. Jim is the global managing consultant for the 4 Disciplines of Execution® practice and co-author of the book by the same name, now in its second edition. Jim shares the 4 disciplines – Focus, Leverage, Engagement,
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