In this episode, Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring and I explore how the best leaders and CEOs leverage action and accountability to face challenges and change head-on. We share a few stories from real leaders that we’ve worked with about our role as consultants and coaches in this process and give a few tips for how to slow down before you make any sort of decision when you’re facing your own challenges or changes. Enjoy.
In this episode, we discuss common pain points for CEOs and C-level leaders and what we’ve learned about how to navigate them. Whether you’re a C-level leader or a fresh new hire, we give tools that can help everyone navigate the challenging landscape of today’s work environment.
In this episode, we discuss Steve Magness’s latest book, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. We’ll share a brief overview of the book, give a couple of our biggest takeaways, and then share a few tips that we think will help you to better understand toughness and how you can apply that to your leadership and ultimately to doing hard things.
Team leaders regularly ask us how they can use Strengths in a short team-building meeting or off-site experience. While brevity with Strengths is better than nothing, creating healthy teams takes ongoing, meaningful engagement. Understanding Strengths is an ongoing process, but you gotta start somewhere!
Today on the podcast, we outline how to use Strengths in a 60 – 90 minute team building meeting. It’s meant to give you tools to start the conversation in the Strengths world, create a positive experience, and then hopefully move into more engaging Strengths-based conversation.
Transition on a team is never an easy process. In this episode, we share how good leaders lay people off. We discuss three high-level tips and talk about some of the things we’ve learned from helping lots of leaders lay people off the right way.