Out Of The Comfort Zone

Growth is a key focus today whether that is expanding the company’s footprint or expanding product and service offers. How can you better understand the go/no-go decisions your company chooses to make? What culture and leadership behaviors impede growth? What can you do about it? Tune in for wisdom on how to grow your business.

72% of global workers report feeling lonely. If you are feeling disconnected from people at work, you are not alone. And, as a manager if you worry about how disconnected, or lonely, your team members seem to be, you are not alone either. Why should you care and what can you do about it? Tune in to find out more.

If you are a functional or technical specialist who is wondering what it takes to get promoted to the next level, this is the episode for you. What keeps you from getting the roles you think you deserve? How do you become more strategic? How do you think about collaborating across boundaries? Tune in to hear how one executive did it.

Hearing from leaders who have built and led organizations and then stopped to reflect on what worked and what didn’t inspires us. Tune in to hear experiences about navigating conflict, creating alignment, having tough conversations, expanding into unknown territory and boosting confidence – all essential for executing.

The pandemic has created a massive experiment in how we could work; however, it has also offered few roadmaps for how to work going forward. Do we go back to the office, in what proportion of time? How do we use technology more effectively? How do we foster human connection? How do we accommodate individual needs and preferences? While we do not yet have answers, we do have some guidelines for how to redesign work in your organization. Tune in to hear a model for evaluating what work at your organization looks like in the future.

If you are looking for practical advice as a leader - something simple, straightforward and immediately actionable that has survived the test of time - tune in for sound advice from two leadership gurus.

Trust and inspiration – we know both matter a great deal. Who wants to work for a leader who doesn’t trust you and who isn’t inspiring? Yet, knowing what to do to create a culture of trust and to inspire those who work with you is not so simple as saying the words. Tune in to hear how to shift from controlling to inspiring.

Frustrated with your lack of growth in your career? Or, as a manager, are you frustrated that your team is constantly complaining about their lack of growth? Maybe, we need to think about growth with a new lens – one that affords more than two dimensions. Tune in to learn a new framework to think about your career – or the careers of your team members.

Have you ever failed to get your message across in say a year-end performance review, a job interview or an introduction to a key stakeholder? If so, we have a solution for you. Tune in to hear what to prepare, how to prepare and what to do when you get an unexpected question.

Although, we know the world is changing rapidly, most of our business processes are designed to create stability and incremental change. How should your team be thinking about disruptive forces? What forces should we pay attention to? And how? Tune in to learn how to spot the next rogue wave and how to build a culture that is resilient.

Your company and your team are succeeding; performance is good all around. Now is the time to be vigilant. Why? And how to keep your team alert, vigilant to signs of change before things go wrong? Tune in to hear the answers to both questions.

Do you think you understand the power of your company’s brand? Do you know how to manage the sales cycle? Do you believe your customers are not buying on social media? If the answer to any of those questions is yes, then tune in to have your perspective challenged.

What are the next rules of how organizations work and how do you prepare yourself to lead in this new world? Innovation, growth, hybrid work and new ecosystems require leaving behind old skills and old mindsets and becoming increasingly more agile. In effect, the next world of work demands more out of the comfort zone moments. Tune in to hear the rules and how to lead in that world.

The pandemic has caused a lot of pain for a lot a people. Unlike traditional traumatic experiences that appear as horrendous headline news stories and involve a select set of people, this time the trauma has been shared and therefore more easily ignored. What do you need to know as a leader about trauma and how do you help your team heal? Tune in to find out. It is easier than you might expect.

How do you go up against a giant in your industry and win? How do you spot the next disruption in your industry? The answer lies in thinking about competitive forces in different ways. And that ultimately comes down to understanding and constructing the real ecosystem. Tune in to here why this matters and what to do as a result.

If you need to learn to have greater impact in your communication, this episode is for you. Tune in for great, practical advice regardless your comfort level with communication, influence and impact.

Have you ever received the feedback that you need to learn to “read the room” or that you need to improve your “presence or gravitas”? If so, this episode is for you. We focus on body language – what your body language is saying to others and what others are saying to you. And, we will show you practical tips to have the impact you want to have. Tune in to hear more.

If you have more work than you think is reasonable, you need to put yourself forward or you have a topic that is difficult to talk about; then today’s episode is for you. How do you stand up for yourself and when? How to you say no? How do you talk about topics that we are not supposed to discuss but that matter?

As a leader and manager, you want new ideas and new approaches. Yet, perhaps your own mindset is limiting the creativity you get from your team. What can you do? Why should you care? And how does creativity impact the culture? Tune in to learn how.

You want your team to tell you the truth and you want to create a space of psychological safety. What does that mean you need to do? How do you know if you are doing a good job or not? Why do people trust you? Tune in for practical advice that will make a difference for your organization.