Coaching for Leaders

Coaching for Leaders

By Dave StachowiakBusinessCareersManagement
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Coaching for Leaders episodes

  • 432: How to Work With a Board, with Denice Hinden
    Denice Hinden: Managance Consulting & Coaching
    Denice is the president of Managance Consulting & Coaching, a firm that helps transform organizations with provocative strategic planning and coaches leaders and leadership teams. She was lead researcher and co-designer of Executive Transition Management (ETM), a now widely used methodology for effectively supporting nonprofits through leadership transitions.
    Denice is the author of The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide: Revealing the Hidden Truths that Impact Performance* and Taking Leadership to the Next Level: A Year of Stimulating Essays to Discover More Joy in Leading & Inspiring Others* has a tremendous amount of experience helping leaders and boards find alignment and succeed.
    In this conversation, Denice and I discuss the purpose of a board and how leaders can build relationships with board members. We explore the importance of transparency, how to keep initiatives moving forward, and the practice of regularly providing context.
    Key Points
    Six purposes of a board: (1) set policy and direction, (2) monitor operations for compliance and mission, (3) represent the organization, (4) serve as strategy partners, (5) keep records for the organization, and (6) develop current and future leaders.
    Leaders who lean into full transparency with their boards will build relationships that weather difficult times.
    Be cautious of making assumptions about what board members want to know.
    When meeting one on one, communicate what has happened in conversations with other board members to help keep things moving forward.
    Connecting board members to context regularly will help them find movement, especially when the board is in a volunteer capacity.
    Resources Mentioned
    The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide: Revealing the Hidden Truths that Impact Performance* by Denice Hinden
    Taking Leadership to the Next Level: A Year of Stimulating Essays to Discover More Joy in Leading & Inspiring Others* by Denice Hinden
    Related Episodes
    How to Increase Your Conversational Intelligence, with Judith Glaser (episode 271)
    Executive Presence with Your Elevator Speech, with Tom Henschel (episode 316)
    How to Find Confidence in Conflict, with Kwame Christian (episode 380)
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    36 min
  • 431: Align Your Calendar to What Matters, with Nir Eyal
    Nir Eyal: Indistractable
    Nir Eyal is one of the most respected experts on the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. The MIT Technology Review has called him, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.”
    He previously authored the Wall Street Journal bestseller Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products* which received tremendous traction in the technology and entrepreneurial communities. Now, he’s turned his attention to how we can control our attention in a world of complexity.
    His new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life*, challenges some of the traditional misconceptions about distractions. In this conversation, Nir and I discuss the practical steps on how to align your calendar with what matters most.
    Key Points
    Being a professional is doing what you say you’re going to do.
    Most people don’t know what they are going to do. Research shows only a third of Americans keep a daily schedule.
    If you don’t plan your time, someone else will plan it for you.
    Look to executive leaders for inspiration on being intentional with time.
    Move away from the to-do list and instead begin the discipline of timeboxing your calendar.
    Resources Mentioned
    Resources Nir mentioned in our conversation
    Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life* by Nir Eyal
    Book Notes
    Download my highlights from Indistractable in PDF format (free membership required).
    Related Episodes
    Getting Things Done, with David Allen (episode 184)
    How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, with Mark Barden (episode 207)
    The Way to Stop Spinning Your Wheels on Planning (episode 319)
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    40 min
  • How to Create Your Personal Vision (5 of 5)
    Lesson 5: Your Next Step
    Once you’ve made your vision tangible:

    Set it aside for a day or two
    Consider sharing it with a supportive partner or friend
    Pick on place to take action

    Academy Applications Close Friday, September 13th
    The Academy is a year-long cohort of participant leaders who work personally with me to create movement in their leadership development and organizational results. Discover more and submit your application by this Friday, September 13th.
    Resources

    Great at Work* by Morten Hansen
    Atomic Habits* by James Clear

    Related Episodes

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    How to Become the Person You Want to Be, with James Clear (episode 376)

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    10 min
  • How to Create Your Personal Vision (4 of 5)
    Lesson 4: What to Set Aside
    Four practices to set aside what’s not important for your vision:

    Don’t worry about how to get there.
    Focus on what you haven’t yet mastered.
    Place your intention on what you can influence.
    Write your personal vision for you, not for the organization.

    Academy Applications Close Friday, September 13th
    The Academy is a year-long cohort of participant leaders who work personally with me to create movement in their leadership development and organizational results. Discover more and submit your application by this Friday, September 13th.
    Resources

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People* by Stephen Covey
    Leadership vs. Management by Tom Henschel

    Related Episodes

    How to Succeed with Leadership and Management, with John Kotter (episode 249)
    How to Create a Vivid Vision, with Cameron Herold (episode 345)
    Find Your Leadership Voice, with Johanna Nalau (episode 420)

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    13 min
  • How to Create Your Personal Vision (3 of 5)
    Lesson 3: Making It Tangible
    Harvard professor Michael Porter says:
    The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
    A few useful guidelines:

    Pick a date, 2-3 years from now.
    Use present tense language.
    Zero in on 3-5 of the most important areas for you.
    Frame the vision around your why.
    Capture as much detail (conversation, sights, smells) as you can.

    In writing, a vision may start something like this:
    It’s three years from today, on the morning of March 13th. I climb out of bed at 5:30 a.m., put on my running shoes, and start walking down the stairs. A smile comes to my face as I step outside the house and smell humid air and morning dew on the plants…
    Dwight Eisenhower said:
    Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
    Academy Applications Close Friday, September 13th
    The Academy is a year-long cohort of participant leaders who work personally with me to create movement in their leadership development and organizational results. Discover more and submit your application by this Friday, September 13th.
    Related Episodes

    How to Create a Vivid Vision, with Cameron Herold (episode 345)
    Fly the Plane (Dave’s Journal)

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    12 min
  • How to Create Your Personal Vision (2 of 5)
    Lesson 2: Pursuing Your Why
    The Japanese word “ikigai” roughly translates to the reason you wake up in the morning. It’s your reason for being.

    During his 2005 commencement address at Stanford, Steve Jobs said:
    The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. And don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
    Academy Applications Close Friday, September 13th
    The Academy is a year-long cohort of participant leaders who work personally with me to create movement in their leadership development and organizational results. Discover more and submit your application by this Friday, September 13th.
    Resources

    Start with Why by Simon Sinek
    The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha
    Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

    Related Episodes

    The Secret to Happiness (episode 134)
    Start With Why, with Simon Sinek (episode 223)
    How to Be a Happier Person, with Neil Pasricha (episode 334)
    Create Margin Through Intentional Leadership, with Amy McPherson (episode 429)

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    11 min
  • How to Create Your Personal Vision (1 of 5)
    Lesson 1: Figuring Out What’s Important
    Past guest David Allen, author of Getting Things Done*, says there are two problems:
    You know what you want, and you don’t know how to get it.
    You don’t know what you want
    Earl Nightingale said:
    Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
    Jim Harter, author of It's the Manager*, says:
    Around the world, the great global dream is to have a good job.
    Here are questions you might ask to determine your ideal, typical day:

    How would the day start?
    What would your work look like?
    What kinds of people would you be working with?
    Where would you live?
    What interactions would you have in your community?
    What hobby might you do?
    What kind of foods would you eat?
    What would you feel during that day?
    What would you experience?
    How would the day end?
    What would you remember?

    These questions might also help:

    What did you really enjoy when you were a kid?
    What do you get so engaged with that you lose track of time?
    What have you heard from others that you do really well?

    Past guest Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why*, says:
    You don’t have to have a vision. You have to find a vision.
    Austin Kleon reminds us to:
    Steal like an artist.
    Here are more ways to have others inspire your vision:

    Read biographies of the people your admire.
    Watch movies that you love and that inspire you.
    Tap into great thinkers.

    Academy Applications Close Friday, September 13th
    The Academy is a year-long cohort of participant leaders who work personally with me to create movement in their leadership development and organizational results. Discover more and submit your application by this Friday, September 13th.
    Resources

    Man’s Search for Meaning* by Viktor Frankl

    Related Episodes

    Getting Things Done, with David Allen (episode 184)
    Start With Why, with Simon Sinek (episode 223)
    Gallup Findings on the Changing Nature of Work, with Jim Harter (episode 409)

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    12 min
  • 430: How to Start Seeing Around Corners, with Rita McGrath
    Rita McGrath: Seeing Around Corners
    Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, and a longtime professor at Columbia Business School. She is one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth and is one of the most regularly published authors in the Harvard Business Review. Rita is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50.
    Rita is the author of the bestseller The End of Competitive Advantage*. Her newest book is titled Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen*.
    In this conversation, Rita and I explore how it feels like change happens overnight, but why that’s not usually accurate. We detail four basic stages of inflection points, why it’s critical to be present at the edges, and what leaders can do practically to see around corners.
    Key Points
    Strategic inflection points feel like they happen overnight, but in reality there are many indicators over time that inflection points are coming.
    The four basic stages of almost every inflection point: hype, dismissive, emergent, maturity.
    Snow melts from the edges. The most effective leaders can and will see this if they are present at the edges.
    To see early warning signs, create information flows that reach directly from leaders offices into the frontlines of the business.
    Create incentives that reward useful (and awkward) information.
    Talk to the future that is unfolding now. There are people, customers, and businesses where the future is already happening.
    Resources Mentioned
    Seeing Around Corners by Rita McGrath
    Rita McGrath on LinkedIn
    Breaking Up the Degree Stranglehold: Disruption in Higher Education
    Only the Paranoid Survive* by Andrew Grove
    Book Notes
    Download my highlights from Seeing Around Corners in PDF format (free membership required).
    Related Episodes
    How to Lead a 100-Year Life, with Lynda Gratton (episode 266)
    The Truth and Lies of Performance Management, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 361)
    The Way to Nurture New Ideas, with Safi Bahcall (episode 418)
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    39 min
  • 429: Create Margin Through Intentional Leadership, with Amy McPherson
    Amy McPherson: Advisors for Change
    Amy McPherson is the managing partner and founder of Advisors for Change. Since 2007, Advisors for Change has developed financial management systems for non-profit organizations so they can spend more time on their mission and less time on their administration.
    Amy is also a member of the Coaching for Leaders Academy. After discovering this podcast three years ago, Amy sought a practical way to implement the leadership ideas she was discovering.
    In this conversation, Amy and I discuss how her aim to create more margin for her family has driven more intention for staff development, coaching, and transparency. We also discuss what she’s discovered from expert guests and how she utilized the framework of the Academy to create movement.
    Key Points
    The seven questions from The Coaching Habit provided a framework for the kind of culture that would best serve the non-profit partners of Advisors for Change.
    Shifting focus from lagging indicators to leading indicators helped zero in on the behaviors needed today for success tomorrow.
    Find the bigger “why” behind what you are doing. In Amy’s case, her leadership growth was fueled by her desire to spend more time with her teenage children.
    The Coaching for Leaders Academy provided Amy with the framework for deliberate, consistent movement on what was most important for the business.
    Resources Mentioned
    Advisors for Change
    Amy McPherson on LinkedIn
    Related Episodes
    These Coaching Questions Get Results, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 237)
    How Teams Use StrengthsFinder Results, with Lisa Cummings (episode 293)
    How to Actually Move Numbers, with Chris McChesney (episode 294)
    How to Challenge Directly and Care Personally, with Kim Scott (episode 302)
    Growth Mindset Helps You Rise From the Ashes, with Jeff Hittenberger (episode 326)
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    37 min
  • 428: Ten Million and Counting, with Bonni Stachowiak
    Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
    Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, a professor of business and management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, Bonni was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. She joins me monthly to respond to listener questions.
    Key Points
    In this episode, Bonni and I celebrate Coaching for Leaders recently passing the milestone of 10 million episode downloads since we began airing this podcast in 2011. Today, this podcast is regularly ranked as a Top 50 business show on Apple Podcasts.
    The growth of the show has been the direct result of listeners like you who have put your trust in us to support your development. As a result, we invited listeners to be featured in this episode by telling us what they’ve gained from the show.
    Thank you for supporting Coaching for Leaders and for sharing it with others in your professional network. There is no greater compliment to our work.
    Resources Mentioned
    Essential Communications with Tom Henschel
    StrengthsFinder with Isabeau Iqbal
    Lead Through Strengths with Lisa Cummings
    Sequentia Solutions with Steve Chase
    Aid for Aid Workers with Torrey Peace
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    The Power of Introverts, with Susan Cain (episode 44)
    How to Improve Your Coaching Skills, with Tom Henschel (episode 190)
    These Coaching Questions Get Results, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 237)
    How to Write a Killer LinkedIn Profile, with Brenda Bernstein (episode 285)
    Move From Theory to Practice, with Steve Schroeder (episode 369)
    Unconscious Mistakes Women Make, with Lois Frankel (episode 386)
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    38 min

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Leaders aren’t born; they’re made. Many leaders reach points in their careers where what worked yesterday doesn’t work today. This Monday show helps leaders thrive at these key inflection points.…

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