Be a Better Leader

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | What if all your organization’s leaders could identify their weaknesses but instead steer toward their strengths? What difference could that make for them and their teams? In this episode, Dr. AJ Lee, manager of customer success, is joined by FranklinCovey Vice President of Content Development and best-selling author, Kory Kogon, to talk about how a leader can focus on multiplying their strengths and recharging their approach to leading others.

• 40 Back-pocket Questions to Unleash Your Team’s Intelligence: The best leaders are curious. But they don’t just ask a lot of questions. They ask the right questions—the kind that focus their team’s brainpower on the right problems.

Recharge: Your Leaders. Your Teams. Your Culture. Your Results. | How can we continue to progress and deliver results when there’s so much going on—both inside and outside of our organizations? Join FranklinCovey Managing Director Jeffery Downs and Scott Thele, national execution practice leader, as they discuss what the “Performance Curve” is and how understanding it can help you and your organization unlock potential as you move “righter and tighter” and recharge your results.

• Impact Your Organization's Results: Turn Average Employees Into High Performers: Your organization has pockets of great performers and extraordinary teams. And then there’s everyone else. The challenge is to move the middle 60% of your average performers toward the higher performance level of the top 20%.

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader  | One of the biggest changes when transitioning to a leadership role for the first time is making the mindset shift from an individual contributor to a leader. In this episode of Be a Better Leader, FranklinCovey’s Leena Rinne and senior leadership consultant Victoria Roos Olsson discuss why this mindset shift is so critical, explore the underlying purpose of leadership, and recommend resources and practices to help a new leader make the transition.

• Make the Mental Leap to Leader: A Six-Step Guide for First-Level Leaders

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader | Leaders are responsible for a workplace culture that creates opportunities for growth and advancement for everyone. Teams with inclusive leaders report higher performance, better decisions, and more collaboration. Daniel Martin, a FranklinCovey senior solutions architect, joins Leena Rinne to talk about differences between diversity and inclusion, ways a leader can foster inclusion, and a key trait that can create a more cohesive team culture.

• Manage Your Biases to Better Manage Your Team: Bias is a natural part of the human condition—of how the brain works. Understanding bias helps leaders notice and adjust for it, cultivate meaningful connections, and choose courage to make real change and unleash their own and others' potential.

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader | As a leader, it's not always easy to have tough conversations with team members who may be falling short. But when a leader creates a culture of feedback, everyone feels heard and respected, and performance and productivity blossom. In this episode, Leena Rinne and Todd Davis, a FranklinCovey consultant, author, and former chief people officer, discuss how to create that culture of feedback, common mistakes that leaders make, and share successes and failures from their own careers.

• Crucial Insights for First-Level Leaders: Leading a team requires a different skillset than working as an individual contributor.

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader | Change is inevitable. While many organizations primarily focus on the process, successful change takes more than that—it requires your people to make it happen. And as a leader, it's your job to guide your team through it. Marché Pleshette, a FranklinCovey senior consultant, and co-author of Change: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity, joins Leena Rinne to talk about the predictable pattern of change, strategies for communicating, and a valuable tool for gaining buy-in.

• How to Communicate Change: A Tool for Leaders - Download our tool to help your leaders learn how to articulate change clearly and share a vision of the future when they communicate a change to their team.

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader | Leadership isn't just about setting a vision—it's about empowering your team to achieve it. It’s helping team members get clear about the “Why” behind the “What” and support them in the “How.” Leena Rinne is joined by FranklinCovey Benelux CEO Thijs Westerink to share how to set your team up for success by creating a clear path to achieving your goals and objectives.

• 8 Ways to Boost Your Team's Commitment to Goals: Get your team on board and moving in the right direction.

What You Don't Know When You Become a Leader | One of the primary changes when transitioning to a leadership role for the first time is creating a culture of trust, which is essential for any high-performing team. And a leader’s style directly influences the trust within that team. In this episode, Leena Rinne is joined by FranklinCovey’s global practice leader for The Speed of Trust Doug Faber to talk about how a leader can build trust to foster growth, innovation, and success.

• How to Build Trust & Unleash Potential: Everyone has greatness inside of them. Are your leaders doing enough to unlock it?

Set and Execute Your Strategic Goals | While the new year is a great time to set goals, many people fail to reach them because of this common mistake: Relying on willpower and practices rather than trusted principles. Join FranklinCovey execution practice leader Scott Thele as he talks with bestselling author and thought leader Chris McChesney about checking in on your goals and identifying systems for success.

80% of your results will come from 20% of your activities—are you focusing on the right ones? Use our 80/20 Activity Analyzer tool to be more strategic in your process and more successful in your results.

Set and Execute Your Strategic Goals | A major barrier to executing your goals as a leader is ambiguity. Keeping your goals vague and flexible may minimize risk and create safety, but this often leads to inaction. Achieving results requires clear direction, actions, and behaviors. Join FranklinCovey national practice leader Scott Thele as he talks with UK practice leader Ray McGrath and Scandinavian execution practitioner Carsten Lingaard about the ambiguity trap and how to go from misalignment to measurable execution.

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