Out Of The Comfort Zone

What should you do if you are fired? What should you do if you have to fire someone? And, what’s the best practice for managing a cross-cultural team? Tune in for advice on these questions and a few others.

Improving communication is key for every leader. Regardless how good you are at it, you still need to improve. What’s the secret to better communication regardless of the format, the occasion or the number of people present? Can you become a great public speaker even if you don’t like crowds? The answers might surprise you.

Do you find generational differences at work to be a challenge or a benefit? Are you like many who think the other generations don’t get it, have poor work habits, don’t understand what it takes or are self-centered? Whatever your view, multigenerations in the workplace are here to stay. We need a way to cope – starting with a new metaphor and new tactics. Tune in to hear more about how to lead and succeed.

Have you found yourself defending yourself, saying “my intentions were good”? In your quest to support diversity, do you find yourself wanting to help but not quite succeeding? Tune in for a solution on how to move from being a believer to a builder. Hint, the answer lies in how you frame your intentions.

Tune for advice on having greater influence with peers and with your manager. Hear why grace is a so important for powerful leadership.

When you are leading a business, generating results and driving growth are paramount. What if there was a better way to think about organic growth? What if you discovered that the conventional wisdom didn’t always work? Would you change your behavior? Could you convince others? Tune in to find out what to do to drive growth in your business.

How do leaders create strong, positive cultures and what do they need to do to prevent creating a toxic culture? What is it about truly great leaders that is unique? Where is leadership headed in the coming years? Finally, what is radical self-responsibility and why does it matter for leadership and culture?

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.

Conflict, tension, disagreement are common events among colleagues – not that people are wrong in some way but that we all have competing points of view, different experiences and contradictory criteria for success. When is a fight a good thing? Why should we fight? What happens if we don’t fight? How can we fight without creating an unhealthy environment? Tune in for more.

Drawing on years of experience both working with leaders and interviewing people for the show, your host will talk about her views of what the best leaders do, why it matters, what’s changed and how it all impacts culture and inclusivity. Davia Temin will be the interviewer.

When we track how ideas move through organizations and thus ultimately get accepted and implemented, we find particular types of people are critical for that movement. They are not the experts. Tune in to hear who is key, why and how as well as the implications this insight has for expertise and innovation.

Everyone has someone at work who is “difficult” for them to deal with. Having a difficult colleague is one thing but what should you do if you feel the behavior has moved into harassment and bullying? How do you recognize the signs?

Have you ever felt the need to reposition your brand, such as with a new boss or after a merger or with a new strategic focus? Tune in to hear step by step how to re-position yourself and how to create an elevator pitch.

In every organization, there will be people that you find to be “difficult”. The question is how to navigate these people in a productive way and that doesn’t cause excess stress for you or your team. What can you do? What you do say? What do you ignore?

Leadership is an art form. To do it well, you have to constantly adapt, stretch and transition. Tune in to hear the experiences, perspective and advice of a senior executive.

What does it really take to get people with radically different perspectives and beliefs to collaborate? Hear from someone who has spent years getting people to collaborate when they don’t like or trust each other.

Listening – all of us know it’s important and all of us don’t do it well. Between multi-tasking, meeting team needs along with manager expectations and preparing your message let along doing the day-job, we don’t feel we have time to listen. However, have you ever thought about what you lose by not listening properly? If you trying to improve engagement, influence or emotional intelligence, then listening becomes more mandatory than you may have appreciated. How do you know you are listening well enough? That’s the topic for today – when does listening really matter and how can you get better at it.

When people focus on expertise and assume that depth and experience are sufficient to progress their careers, they limit career opportunities. What workplace habits are most limiting? What can you do to change? Tune in to find out.

When we look at companies we admire and value, we find they do more than deliver profits. They improve people’s lives in some way. Does doing good really lead to corporate strength? How does this citizenship work and why does it matter? Where and how does trust enter the equation? How can the culture change from me to we? Tune in to hear about the research that underpins “brand citizenship”.

“Persuaders are irreplaceable.” Being able to convey your ideas and reach the minds of others is a valuable asset. Tune in to hear what the new science of persuasion tells us along with insights gleaned from some of the best leaders in a variety of fields.