Amplifying Leadership

The language you use can affect the outcome.

So what are some of the words we could use differently...or not at all?

In this guest podcast episode of Amplifying Leadership, Tara and Andy Weins, a fourth-generation entrepreneur who supports Veterans, entrepreneurs, community engagement, individual empowerment, and the environment, talk about how language affects how we lead.

How changing just 1 word, such as saying Get (to) instead of How or changing If to When can change the narrative and outcomes. They talk about moving from words like Hope and Wish to Having the Courage To, why apologizing can be unproductive, to aligning to our company values.

One thing to remember though is we all do it...use words that can create a closed mindset over an open one.

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Do you have that poor leadership story you experienced and share?

What if that could be a great leadership story to share?

In this Tip Thursday with Tara episode, Tara shares why she loves to learn more about leadership and why she wants to continue to develop new leaders. No more hating to show up to work. Instead, let's create great leaders and company cultures we want to be part of.

For more information on our leadership services, please visit amplifyingleadership.ca.

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It is our bet you or one of your employees have a chronic illness.

Do you have open communication around this?

Join Tara and Rhonda Nelson, a patient advocate, as they talk about how chronic illnesses can affect the workplace and leaders. From how to manage it affecting performance, lost time to letting go of the fear around sharing when we or employees have illness. It starts with open communication and a place where employees feel safe to privately (or publicly if they wish) share information around chronic illness so there is an understanding and willingness to be empathetic to even creating accommodation plans.

Almost everyone knows someone or actually has a chronic illness. It's time to talk about it.

You set your goals, now it's time to achieve them.

But... However... Not this year!

In this Tip Thursday with Tara, she uncovers some key words and motivation that can help you not only create a goal this year, but keep you motivated to keeping it too.

This can be your New Year's Resolution, your daily habit goal, to saving to buy a house. Whatever it is, you and your mindset are key players to achieving it.

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You have the safety policy and evacuation process out there, but do you have a workplace violence risk plan or policy in place? If not, you should.

In this episode Tara has a very important safety conversation with Ashlee Cervantes Thomas, a Chief Executive Officer at Guardian Protection Force Inc. where she is passionate about all things related to Security Solutions, Physical Risk Mitigation and Management.

They discuss the importance of awareness of workplace violence, creating risk plans to help be proactive or perhaps mitigate the risks of violence against your workforce or your business. Using empowerment and communication is also key to preventing or being more proactive against the worst case scenarios around this. Ashlee shares numerous key point and a few tips to help organizations get started.

Reviewing and updating a business vision and mission statements, as well as core values, is very important especially if changes have been made within the business.

In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara shares the renewed Vision statement, Mission statement and new core value that will be added to Twin Life Coaching & Business Services (including Amplifying Leadership).

Why renewed statements? Because we wanted them to clearly state what we do for not only ourselves, but you our followers, clients, or friends.

From going from Individual Contributor to Leader, to understanding leaders can't do it all, this episode is all about delegation.

Join Tara and a diverse leader with various leadership experiences, now a Career Coach & Work-Life Balance Strategist, as they discuss why delegation is a key ingredient for leaders.

This engaging conversation covers everything from how delegation can create trust, to the challenges around letting go of some control and thoughts around not wanting to overwhelm others. We also cover a great framework for mastering delegation as a leader.

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You are human. This means that we, even as leaders, make mistakes or things go wrong.

In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara reviews how we need to own our mistakes and failures, review them in order to understand what happened, then create the actions to make necessary changes.

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Are you a single parent trying to balance leadership or even owning your own business?

Tara and Natalie McCabe, now a Parent Coach who has been a business owner while a single parent, discuss the need for self-care with these roles. Self-care goes beyond eating well and exercise as well, but about saying no to asking for support when you need it.

Learn some great scheduling tips, how to balance things when you have busy work experiences or seasonal ups (i.e. budget season or month end), to trusting your team so you can be with your family when needed.

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Budget season can be stressful.

However, you can get through it and keep some of the things you want too.

In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara provides a few handy tips around budget season and when you are asked to reduce your budget as well. Let's be as prepared as possible to reduce your stress and time working on revising your budget.

Remember, Leadership Matters!