Coaching for Leaders

By Dave Stachowiak

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Leaders aren’t born, they’re made. This Monday show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. Independently produced weekly since 2011, Dr. Dave Stachowiak brings perspective from a thriving, global leadership academy, plus more than 15 years of leadership at Dale Carnegie. Bestselling authors, expert researchers, deep conversation, and regular dialogue with listeners have attracted 30 million downloads and the #1 search result for management on Apple Podcasts. Activate your FREE membership to search the entire episode library by topic at CoachingforLeaders.com

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623: How to Align an Employ...

03.27.2023

Jonathan Raymond: Good Authority Jonathan spent 20 years building careers in business development and personal growth before realizing he could have the best of both worlds by starting his own company. Now, he uses those skills to advise CEOs and ...

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03.27.2023 623: How to Align an Employee to a Role, with Jonathan Raymond Jonathan Raymond: Good Authority Jonathan spent 20 years building careers in business development and personal growth before realizing he could have the best of both worlds by starting his own company. Now, he uses those skills to advise CEOs and ...
03.24.2023 How to Get Traction With a New Habit (5 of 5) Lesson 5: Calibrate With Stakeholders Feedback from stakeholders verifies traction on your new habit. Here’s how to get consistent, fast feedback to ensure you’re on track. An Example Question Twice a month, I say to either an employee or my ...
03.23.2023 How to Get Traction With a New Habit (4 of 5) Lesson 4: Keep Yourself Motivated Indicators can help keep you determine if you’re on the right track. This lesson helps you create these indicators that are critical for your success. Examples of Indicators I’m starting to hear things I wasn’t ...
03.22.2023 How to Get Traction With a New Habit (3 of 5) Lesson 3: Take Action, Joyfully Changing behavior is hard in the midst of busy schedules. In this lesson, I invite you to create an anchor that will trigger the daily action you want. Academy Applications Close Friday, March 24th The ...
03.21.2023 How to Get Traction With a New Habit (2 of 5) Lesson 2: Plan Daily Movement Behavior change works best when we work to create small wins, consistently. In this lesson, I invite you plan out a 5-minute daily action that will support who you are becoming. Academy Applications Close Friday, ...
03.20.2023 How to Get Traction With a New Habit (1 of 5) Lesson 1: Decide Who You Are Becoming The first step in getting traction with a new habit is deciding who you are becoming. In this lesson, you’ll discover the distinction between goals and identities and how to get started. Academy ...
03.20.2023 622: The Way to Manage an Over-Confident Team Member, with Bonni Stachowiak Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, ...
03.13.2023 621: How to Approach a Reorg, with Claire Hughes Johnson Claire Hughes Johnson: Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson is a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. She previously served as Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, helping the company grow from ...
03.06.2023 620: How to Respond When You Get Triggered, with Sally Helgesen Sally Helgesen: Rising Together Sally Helgesen has been cited by Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership. She is a best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. She has been named by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s top ...
03.04.2023 619: Finding Leadership Confidence Through Diverse Perspectives, with Kathy Fiddler Kathy Fiddler: TidalHealth Kathy Fiddler is the Vice President of Population Health for TidalHealth, a non-profit two hospital health care system on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She has been instrumental in building community programs supporting improved access to healthcare ...
02.27.2023 618: Leadership Through the Complexity of Current Events, with Adi Ignatius Adi Ignatius: Harvard Business Review Adi Ignatius is Editor in Chief of the Harvard Business Review Group, where he oversees the editorial activities of Harvard Business Review, hbr.org, and HBR’s book-publishing unit. Prior to joining Harvard Business Review in 2009, ...
02.20.2023 617: How to Start a Big Leadership Role, with Carol Kauffman Carol Kauffman: Real-Time Leadership Carol Kauffman is an international leader in the field of coaching and has more than 40,000 hours of practice. Her clients are C-level leaders and their teams or elite athletes and creatives. She was shortlisted by ...
02.13.2023 616: How to Discover What Others Value, with Joe Hart Joe Hart: Take Command Joe Hart began his career as a practicing attorney. After taking a Dale Carnegie Course, Joe reassessed his career path and future, ultimately leaving the practice of law, going to work for a top real estate ...
02.06.2023 615: How to Respond Better When Challenged, with Dolly Chugh Dolly Chugh: A More Just Future Dolly Chugh is a social psychologist and management professor at the New York University Stern School of Business where she teaches MBA courses in leadership and management. She was one of six professors chosen ...
02.03.2023 FINAL DAY: Coaching for Leaders Plus Today (Friday, February 3rd) is the FINAL DAY to join Coaching for Leaders Plus for the inaugural membership of $100 USD annually. Discover how to use Coaching for Leaders Plus to accelerate your learning, build your confidence, and invest more ...
01.30.2023 614: The Way to Get Noticed by Key Stakeholders, with Daphne E. Jones Daphne E. Jones: Win When They Say You Won't Daphne E. Jones has 30 years of experience in general management and executive level roles at IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira, and General Electric but began her career as a secretary. ...
01.26.2023 Your Invitation to Coaching for Leaders Plus Join Coaching for Leaders Plus to accelerate your learning, build your confidence, and invest more fully in developing others. Activate your membership by Friday, February 3rd to receive the inaugural membership of $100 USD annually.
01.23.2023 613: How to Lead Better Through Complexity, with Jennifer Garvey Berger Jennifer Garvey Berger: Unleashing Your Complexity Genius Jennifer believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. She designs and teaches leadership programs, coaches senior teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and ...
01.16.2023 612: How to Solve the Toughest Problems, with Wendy Smith Wendy Smith: Both/And Thinking Wendy Smith is the Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management and faculty director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at the Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware. She earned her PhD in organizational behavior ...
01.14.2023 611: The Power of Courage in Leadership Growth, with Jorge Alzate Jorge Alzate Jorge Alzate is a senior R&D; manager at PepsiCo, an active leader in Toastmasters, and an alum of the Coaching for Leaders Academy. In this conversation, Jorge and I discuss what brought him to the podcast, how he ...
01.09.2023 610: How to Help Team Members Find the Right Work, with Patrick Lencioni Patrick Lencioni: The 6 Types of Working Genius Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to protecting human dignity in the world of work, personal development, and faith. Pat’s passion for organizations and teams ...
12.23.2022 New Episodes Return January 9th Dave Stachowiak: Coaching for Leaders The podcast is taking a few weeks pause over the holidays, with new episodes returning on January 9th. Next Academy Application Opening The Coaching for Leaders Academy will open for new applications again in March, ...
12.19.2022 609: How Proactive Leadership Can Navigate Inflation, with Ram Charan Ram Charan: Leading Through Inflation Ram Charan is a bestselling author, teacher, and world-renowned advisor to CEOs and other business leaders of some of the world’s best-known companies. His work is often behind the scenes and focused on highly sensitive ...
12.12.2022 608: The Mindset Leaders Need to Address Burnout, with Christina Maslach Christina Maslach: The Burnout Challenge Christina Maslach is the pioneer of research on job burnout, producing the standard assessment tool called the Maslach Burnout Inventory, award-winning articles, and several books, beginning with Burnout: The Cost of Caring, in 1982. Her ...
12.05.2022 607: How to Quit Bad Stuff Faster, with Annie Duke Annie Duke: Quit Annie Duke is an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners, a seed stage venture fund. Her previous book, Thinking in ...
11.28.2022 606: The Way Into Better Conversations About Wealth, with Kristin Keffeler Kristin Keffeler: The Myth of the Silver Spoon Kristin Keffeler is a thought leader and consultant at the forefront of a global shift in family wealth advising, known as Wealth 3.0. She guides affluent and enterprising families, the rising generation, ...
11.21.2022 605: How to Discover Self-Awareness Through Enneagram, with Ian Morgan Cron Ian Morgan Cron: The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron is a bestselling author, speaker, trained psychotherapist, songwriter, and Episcopal priest, but he may be best known for popularizing the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a personality typing system identifying ...
11.14.2022 604: How Remote Teams Build Belonging, with Gustavo Razzetti Gustavo Razzetti: Remote Not Distant Gustavo Razzetti is the CEO and founder of Fearless Culture, a culture design consultancy that helps teams do the best work of their lives. For more than 20 years, he has helped leaders from Fortune ...
11.07.2022 603: Where to Start When Inheriting a Team in Crisis, with Lynn Perry Wooten Lynn Perry Wooten: The Prepared Leader Lynn Perry Wooten is a seasoned academic and an expert on organizational development and transformation. She became the ninth president of Simmons University on July 1, 2020 and is the first African American to ...
11.05.2022 602: Moving from Doing to Leading, with Gemma Aguiar Gemma Aguiar: Design Like Whoa Gemma Aguiar is the CEO of Design Like Whoa. Her firm helps brands like Sephora, Meta, the Golden State Warriors, and Spotify amplify their brand and strengthen their culture through sustainably focused apparel, accessories, and ...
10.31.2022 601: Gallup’s Insights on Addressing Unhappiness, with Jon Clifton Jon Clifton: Blind Spot Jon Clifton is the CEO of Gallup. His mission is to help 7 billion citizens be heard on their most pressing work and life issues through the Gallup World Poll, a 100-year initiative spanning over 150 ...
10.24.2022 600: How to Discover Meaningful Work, with Scott Anthony Barlow Scott Anthony Barlow: Happen to Your Career Scott Anthony Barlow wants you to find work you love. He is CEO of Happen To Your Career and host of the Happen to Your Career podcast, which has been listened to over ...
10.17.2022 599: The Art of Mentoring Well, with Robert Lefkowitz Robert Lefkowitz: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm Robert Lefkowitz is James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at the Duke University Medical Center. His group spent 15 difficult years developing techniques ...
10.10.2022 598: The Assumptions That Stop Us From Listening Well, with Oscar Trimboli Oscar Trimboli: How to Listen Oscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. He is passionate about using the gift of listening to bring positive change in homes, workplaces, and ...
10.03.2022 597: How to Help People Speak Truth to Power, with Megan Reitz Megan Reitz: Speak Up Megan Reitz is Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School where she speaks, researches, consults and supervises on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 ranking of ...
09.26.2022 596: The Ways Leadership Can Derail Us, with Bill George Bill George: True North Bill George is executive fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004. He is the author of four best-selling books: Authentic Leadership, True North, Discover Your True North, and 7 Lessons for ...
09.19.2022 595: How to Deal With Passive-Aggressive People, Amy Gallo Amy Gallo: Getting Along Amy Gallo is an expert in conflict, communication, and workplace dynamics. She combines the latest management research with practical advice to deliver evidence-based ideas on how to improve relationships and excel at work. In her role ...
09.12.2022 594: How to Begin Difficult Conversations About Race, with Kwame Christian Kwame Christian: How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race Kwame Christian is a best-selling author, lawyer, professor, and the Managing Director of the American Negotiation Institute. He has conducted countless specialized trainings worldwide and is a highly sought after keynote ...
09.09.2022 How to Delegate Better (4 of 4) Lesson 4: How to Respond to Obstacles How you respond when an employee hits obstacles will have huge implications for their growth. Several key questions will help you both move forward. Key Points Use the “see one, do one, teach ...
09.08.2022 How to Delegate Better (3 of 4) Lesson 3: The Delegation Dialogue Good delegation is an ongoing dialogue. Once you’ve defined what done looks like, they draft a plan, review it with you, and you both establish milestones. Key Points Once you’ve defined what done looks like, ...
09.07.2022 How to Delegate Better (2 of 4) Lesson 2: Defining Done Before you ever start a delegation conversation with an employee, it’s essential to define what done looks like. Use time, cost, and quality to frame success. Key Points Defining done starts with the manager, before any ...
09.06.2022 How to Delegate Better (1 of 4) Lesson 1: The Key Realities of Effective Delegation Delegation brings many benefits to others and you. Once you’re ready to begin delegating better, knowing these realities will help accelerate your results. Key Points Delegation is one of the best and ...
09.05.2022 593: How to Start Finding Useful Stories, with David Hutchens David Hutchens: Story Dash David Hutchens helps leaders find and tell their stories. He works with leaders around the world to find, craft, and tell their most urgent stories for the purpose of creating shared meaning, preserving culture, disseminating learning, ...
08.29.2022 592: How to Change the Way You Think, with Ari Weinzweig Ari Weinzweig: A Lapsed Anarchist’s Approach to The Power of Beliefs in Business In 1982, Ari, along with his partner Paul Saginaw, founded Zingerman’s Delicatessen with a $20,000 bank loan, a Russian History degree from the University of Michigan, 4 ...
08.22.2022 591: How to Build a Network While Still Doing Everything Else, with Ruth Gotian Ruth Gotian: The Success Factor Ruth Gotian has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development. Recently, she was named as the #1 emerging management thinker in the world by Thinkers50. ...
08.15.2022 590: How to Genuinely Show Up for Others, with Marshall Goldsmith Marshall Goldsmith: The Earned Life Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world’s leading executive coaches and the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Mojo, and Triggers. In his coaching ...
08.08.2022 589: How to Create Inclusive Hiring Practices, with Ruchika Tulshyan Ruchika Tulshyan: Inclusion on Purpose Ruchika Tulshyan is the founder of Candour, a global inclusion strategy firm. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and Harvard Business Review. As a keynote speaker, Ruchika has addressed organizations like ...
08.01.2022 588: How to Help Your Manager Shine, with David Gergen David Gergen: Hearts Touched With Fire David Gergen has served as a White House adviser to four US presidents of both political parties: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He then served as the editor of US ...
07.09.2022 New Episodes Return August 1st Dave Stachowiak: Coaching for Leaders The podcast is taking a few weeks pause here in July, with new episodes returning on August 1st. In the meantime, here’s a few past episodes I’d recommended, if you want to keep your listening ...
07.04.2022 587: Enhancing Teamwork and Confidence, with Bonni Stachowiak Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, ...

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