Out Of The Comfort Zone

In challenging times right now and in months ahead, leaders need better insight on keeping motivation within their teams. What better example than Antarctic explorers who faced enormous adversity, kept the team moving and lived to tell the story. You may think you know these stories, but do you know the secrets to their team spirit? Tune in to learn how their tactics might apply to you.

What if you knew that four social signals would improve your ability to win a sale, negotiate salary, bring a team together, been seen as a leader or even get a date? They can. Tune in to hear what the signals are and how they work.

Where ever you work, whatever you are trying to accomplish in your business, culture comes first. Tune in to hear why that is true and to learn what to you can do to foster a better culture.

Whereever you work, you probably interact and collaborate with people from a range of cultures. What do you need to do to insure that you are being culturally aware and helping people “save face”? Tune in to learn what this concept really means, what it doesn’t mean and what you can do be a great colleague, fabulous leader in all cultures.

As a leader, you know the value of hiring great talent – talent with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. The power of the team you have assembled now depends on your ability to create an inclusive culture which balances uniqueness with belonging. What does that look like? What do you need to do? How can you take steps today to move in the right direction? Tune in to hear more about the latest research and advice.

Many leaders talk about changing the culture of their organizations. Few succeed. Tune in to learn about best practices of the companies that do succeed along with advice on how to return to the office and not destroy your culture.

There are so many forces shaping the future of your business. What are they? What’s unique today? How are they impacting you as a leader? What does it mean for how you interact with customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and the larger community? Tune in to hear more.

Increasingly, headlines are noting the impact of the last year on mental health. Employees are quitting in record numbers. Every level within the organization seems to be experiencing higher stress than the year before. What is happening? What can you do about it as a leader? How do you build a culture that minimizes anxiety and supports mental health? Tune to hear more.

The current corporate trend is to articulate a purpose statement as a way to provide a sense of meaning and purpose for employees, to create pride in the company and to connect with customers. Having a sense of purpose does seem to be an important part of feeling connected to and having a sense of fulfillment from the work you do. From a comprehensive study, we can now identify 10 principles that are important for making work meaningful. I think you will be both surprised by the results and not surprised at the same time.

Whether you are a salesperson, a leader or an individual contributor, you are selling something all the time – a product/service, your capability, your idea or even your personality. And in these times, all of that “selling” is happening virtually. We have no option but to master how to convince people in a virtual setting. Tune in to hear how and learn the secrets from the experts?

Why is history so important today when you are leading a team? Given the social justice concerns, what do you need to know to be an effective ally and leader?

Inspiring and engaging your team, ultimately delivering great results, begins with having the people on your team believe you care about them as whole human beings. At our current pace, too many leaders say they have lost the time to have a meaningful conversation. How do we get compassion and caring back into the day-day fabric of our leadership without losing track of everything else? Tune in for simple ways to make a difference with your team.

Loyal customers generate greater returns and even more powerful word-of-mouth advertising. Loyal employees drive customer loyalty. Regardless what industry you are in, loyalty should be on your radar screen. How do you measure loyalty, why should you, and what can you do to foster it in your customers and in your employees, even in millennials? Tune in to hear this and more.

How much is your image and appearance holding back your career? As much as you may want your knowledge and expertise to drive your career, you may be limiting your impact. Human beings decide to listen, trust and perhaps believe based in part on the image of the presenter. Whether you identify as male or female, tune in to learn what matters most and what you can do about it.

The job of the leader is to lead change; otherwise the leader is managing the status quo. But leading change is not about running a change process, it’s about winning over hearts and minds. Tune in to hear how to do this as a leader as well as how to get more comfortable with changing yourself.

Being able to persuade others to buy your products and services as well as to buy you; meaning to trust you, back your idea or promote you has never been more important regardless what role you are in. So what do we often get wrong? Hear about the big mistakes and the best fixes.

During the pandemic, some leaders have excelled and changed what they do. Who are those leaders? What did they learn after reflection? What does it say for all of us leading teams and organizations? Tune in to hear more.

Obsessive personalities are those people who pursue excellence at all costs; sometimes to the detriment of relationships on the team and in the organization. When is this obesssiveness helpful and when is harmful? If you are working with or leading such a personality, how do you get the best of that person and avoid the worst?

There is no doubt that work has changed – the way we work, the actual work we do and the pace of work to name a few. Three significant trends should be in the foreground for everyone from employees to leaders. Those are humans working with machines in new ways, multiple models of what it means to be employed and the rise of the super-team. Those trends have significant implications for the capabilities each of us needs to thrive as well as for how leadership needs to shift and how the culture will change. Tune in to hear more.

What will be the future of our office work? Some miss the office and some don’t. Some have been more productive at home, some think they haven’t been as productive. Will we return to a central office and presentee-ism culture? If not, what will we do? What are the implications for work, location, hours and connections? Tune in for a lively debate.