Coaching for Leaders

By Dave StachowiakBusiness Careers Management

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August 26, 2019 427: The Way to Get Alignment With Your Boss, with Pete Mockaitis
Pete Mockaitis: How to be Awesome at Your Job
Pete Mockaitis is an award-winning trainer and coach who helps professionals perform optimally at work. He hosts the How to be Awesome at Your Job podcast, a show that has been downloaded eight million times and consistently ranks as a top business show in Apple Podcasts.
Pete facilitates training for organizations on enhanced thinking and collaboration to increase clarity and reduce rework. He helps teams save an average of 1.4 hours per person per week.
In this conversation, Pete and I explore some of the key mindsets and questions that are helpful when getting alignment with your boss. We explore the areas you’ll want to generate clarity, as well a few key questions to consider.
Key Points
Six areas where clarity is critical:
Deliverables
Timing
Process
Resources
Audience
Motive
Questions you may consider when getting alignment with your boss:
How do you want this to look when complete?
What does the organization value on metrics and deliverables?
What’s an example of a time this expectation was not met?
What metrics are my boss being measured on for their own success?
Resources Mentioned
How to be Awesome at Your Job
Related Episodes
Seven Principles for Leading People Older Than You, with Bonni Stachowiak (episode 59)
How to Influence Numerous Stakeholders, with Andy Kaufman (episode 240)
Effective Delegation of Authority, with Hassan Osman (episode 413)
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40 min
August 19, 2019 426: Five Lies About Corporate Culture, with Ginger Hardage
Ginger Hardage: Unstoppable Cultures
Ginger Hardage is the former senior vice president of culture at Southwest Airlines. She led a team responsible for building and sustaining the organization’s legendary culture and communications enterprise, resulting in 23 consecutive years on Fortune’s list of Top 10 Most Admired Companies in the World.
Today, Ginger leads Unstoppable Cultures, a firm designed to help organizations create and sustain cultures of enduring greatness. She facilitates the annual Unstoppable Cultures Fellowship to help leaders of all kinds take practical steps to create the culture that will help their organization thrive.
In this conversation, Ginger and I discuss the five lies she’s seen come up again and again in her work with leaders who are struggling with culture. Perhaps most importantly, Ginger emphasizes that leaders need not accept the default culture, but should work to define the culture.
Key Points
The five lies Ginger has uncovered about culture:
Culture is someone else’s job.
Our values are on the wall.
Culture is fluffy.
If I empower my employees, I might lose control.
We can’t afford culture.
Bonus Audio
Defining a culture
Resources Mentioned
Unstoppable Cultures Fellowship
Related Episodes
The Four Critical Stories Leaders Need For Influence, with David Hutchens (episode 148)
Notice and Change Dysfunctional Culture, with Jonathan Raymond (episode 327)
How to Create an Unstoppable Culture, with Ginger Hardage (episode 350)
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36 min
August 17, 2019 425: Change Comes Through Resilience, with Leonardo Baumworcel
Leonardo Baumworcel: Hospital São Lucas
Leonardo Baumworcel is the director of Hospital São Lucas in Brazil. He oversees a 200-bed hospital and emergency room seeing 10,000 patients a month. He also oversees the work of 2,500 staff. He is a cardiologist by training and a recent alum of the Coaching for Leaders Academy.
Key Points
One way to utilize the podcast is to leverage if for staff training to get the entire team on the same page.
Resilience is key when working to achieve your vision through change — beware of giving up too quickly.
Leaders need to establish the frameworks and limitations for what to do — and then help people to have the freedom to work within it.
Peer mentoring allows both leaders to learn from each other, instead of limiting the professional development to one person.
Resources Mentioned
Leading Change* by John Kotter
Our Iceberg Is Melting* by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber
Related Episodes
The Power of Vulnerability in Leadership, with Jason Brooks (episode 385)
How to Create an Unstoppable Culture, with Ginger Hardage (episode 350)
How to Succeed with Leadership and Management, with John Kotter (episode 249)
Move From Theory to Practice, with Steve Schroeder (episode 369)
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36 min
August 12, 2019 424: Craft a Career to Fit Your Strengths, with Scott Anthony Barlow
Scott Anthony Barlow: Happen to Your Career
Scott Anthony Barlow is the founder of Happen to Your Career. He’s been featured on CNBC, Yahoo, CareerBuilder, Fast Company, and Huffington Post and various colleges and universities as a top expert on career happiness. He's held executive roles in human resources, business development, and career coaching.
Scott is the host of the Happen to Your Career podcast, featuring the career stories of many successful professionals. He and his team have worked with over 25,000 people to help them stop settling, find their signature strengths, and start doing meaningful work they are enamored with.
Key Points
Many people frame career choices only as, “Should I take this offer or not?” or, “Should I quit this job and go and get another?”
Skills are not necessarily strengths. People who are successful and happier are spending more time in their strengths.
The CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) assessment is a useful tool for getting clarity.
Change to a role/company that allows you spend more time in your strengths or decide to design your career from the inside.
Stop pursuing marginal improvements of your weaknesses.
Resources Mentioned
The Ultimate Guide to Using Your Strengths to Get Hired*
8-Day Video Course to Figuring Out What You Love
StrengthsFinder training for individuals and teams* (use code CFL10 for a 10% tuition discount)
Related Episodes
How to Figure Out Your Career, with Scott Anthony Barlow (episode 259)
How Teams Use StrengthsFinder Results, with Lisa Cummings (episode 293)
Move From Caretaker to Rainmaker, with May Busch (episode 390)
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38 min
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3 min
August 05, 2019 423: Step Into Leadership and More Questions, 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.
Listener Questions
Samantha asks about how to confront an employee who is not willing to take direction for her.
Cathy is wondering how she can lead on a team where she does not have formal authority.
Amir is seeking advice on how to step into a director role with confidence and managing former peers.
Kelly asks about responding to stakeholders who give suggestions when it doesn’t align with organizational strategy.
Resources Mentioned
Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play* by Mahan Khalsa, Randy Illig, and Stephen R. Covey
Working Wardrobes*
Related Episodes
How to Manage Former Peers, with Tom Henschel (episode 257)
How to Actually Move Numbers, with Chris McChesney (episode 294)
The Path to Start Leading Your Team, with John Piñeiro (episode 349)
Finding Joy Though Intentional Choices, with Bonni Stachowiak (episode 417)
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38 min
July 28, 2019 422: Influence Through Overlapping Networks, with Sandie Morgan
Sandie Morgan: Global Center for Women & Justice
Sandie Morgan is the director of the Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University of Southern California. She is recognized globally for her expertise on combatting human trafficking and working to end violence against women. Sandie is professor, researcher, and partner to many organizations and agencies across the globe including governments, law enforcement, and non-profits.
Since 2011, she has hosted along with me the bimonthly Ending Human Trafficking podcast which was recognized by The National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth at the Department of Health and Human Services as a great way to “get up to speed on human trafficking.”
Key Points
Culture often changes from the top down. Engage “elites” who are outside of the centermost position of prestige.
Find avenue of agreement instead of focusing on differences.
Influence happens in exciting ways when the networks of elites and the institutions they lead overlap.
Change will mean conflict — don’t be scared of this.
The more diverse your partnerships are, the stronger your net is going to be.
Bonus Audio
Why learning from elites is so important
Resources Mentioned
To Change the World* by James Davison Hunter
How to Win Friends and Influence People* by Dale Carnegie
Global Center for Women and Justice
2019 Trafficking in Persons Report
Related Episodes
How Storytelling Helps You Lead, with Sandie Morgan (episode 51)
How to Collaborate Across Organizations, with Kirsten Foot (episode 215)
How to Grow Your Professional Network, with Tom Henschel (episode 279)
The Power of Weak Connections, with David Burkus (episode 347)
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35 min
July 22, 2019 421: Help People Learn Through Powerful Teaching, with Pooja Agarwal
Pooja Agarwal: Powerful Teaching
Pooja Agarwal is an expert in the field of cognitive science and is passionate about bridging gaps between education and the science of learning. She is the founder of RetrievalPractice.org and Assistant Professor at the Berklee College of Music, teaching psychological science to exceptional undergraduate musicians.
She also serves as a consultant and facilitates professional development workshops on the science of learning around the world. Pooja is the author with Patrice Bain of the book Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning*.
In this conversation, Pooja and I discuss the key strategies that leaders can use in order to maximize their effectiveness as teachers. Since almost every leader is responsible for talent development in some capacity, becoming a more powerful teacher will help you develop others more successfully.
Key Points
The three stages of the learning process are encoding, storage, and retrieval. We tend to focus too much on getting information into peoples’ heads (encoding) and not enough on getting it out (retrieval).
Stop reviewing past discussions and meetings. Instead, invite people to recall and articulate prior interactions.
Cramming works, but only in the short-term. For long-term retention, spacing is much more effective.
There is no significant evidence that visual, auditory, and kinetic preferences correlate to actual learning. Instead, effective learning combines all these methods.
Bonus Audio
Why struggling is a good thing for learning
Resources Mentioned
RetrievalPractice.org
PowerfulTeaching.org
Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning*
Are You a Visual or an Auditory Learner? It Doesn’t Matter
Book Notes
Download my highlights from Powerful Teaching in PDF format (free membership required).
Related Episodes
The Best Way to Do On-the-Job Training (episode 32)
These Coaching Questions Get Results, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 237)
Essentials of Adult Development, with Mindy Danna (episode 273)
Develop Leaders Before You Leave, with David Marquet (episode 405)
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39 min
July 20, 2019 420: Find Your Leadership Voice, with Johanna Nalau
Johanna Nalau: Climate Adaptation & Everyday Leadership
Johanna Nalau is an adaptation scientist researching the ins and outs of climate change adaptation. She is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and the Adaptation Science Theme Leader at Cities Research Institute at Griffith University.
She’s also the lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report, Working Group II. Johanna writes about climate adaptation and everyday leadership on her own blog and is an alum of the Coaching for Leaders Academy.
In this conversation, Johanna and I discuss how she found her voice as a developing leader and how she took action through her writing and other professional activities to help others.
Key Points
Never underestimate the importance of having a group you can just bounce ideas off of.
The most transformative way to build leadership is to start with the people below you who are the future leaders.
Blogging is a great way to synthesize you thoughts while also being helpful for others.
Resources Mentioned
Johanna’s blog: Climate Adaptation & Everyday Leadership
Stand Out* by Dorie Clark
Great at Work* Morton Hansen
Digital Minimalism* by Cal Newport
Related Episodes
How to Write a Killer LinkedIn Profile, with Brenda Bernstein (episode 285)
Ideas Worth Stealing From Top Entrepreneurs, with Dorie Clark (episode 318)
Six Tactics to Achieve Extraordinary Performance, with Morten Hansen (episode 337)
How to Reclaim Conversation, with Cal Newport (episode 400)
The Way to Nurture New Ideas, with Safi Bahcall (episode 418)
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34 min
July 15, 2019 419: Performance Measurement That Gets Results, with Stacey Barr
Stacey Barr: Practical Performance Measurement
Stacey Barr is a specialist in strategic performance measurement and evidence-based leadership. She is the creator of PuMP®, a performance measurement methodology that routinely transforms measurement cynics into its greatest advocates.
Stacey is also the author of two books, Practical Performance Measurement: Using the PuMP® Blueprint for Fast, Easy, and Engaging KPIs*, and Prove It!: How to Create a High Performance Culture and Measurable Success*.
In this conversation, Stacey and I discussed some of the common mistakes that leaders and organizations make with performance measurement. We also explore what well-formulated performance measures have. Plus, Stacey has kindly made her book available for free to our listening audience.
Key Points
Common mistakes in performance measurement:
Initiatives are not performance measures
Events or milestones are not performance measures
Measures of activity completion are not performance measures
Sources of data are not performance measures
A few vague words don’t make a performance measure
Well-formulated performance measures have:
A method of comparison that we can use to tell whether performance is good or not
A base of objective evidence that gives a reasonably accurate and reliable picture of current performance
A sufficient degree of granularity to detect small but important changes in performance to which we should respond
Relevance to the organization’s priorities
The ability to show changes in performance levels over time, giving us enough context to avoid short-sightedness
Resources Mentioned
Download a free copy of Stacey’s book, Practical Performance Measurement
The PuMP® Approach to Performance Measurement and KPIs
Book Notes
Download my highlights from Practical Performance Measurement in PDF format (free membership required).
Related Episodes
How to Actually Move Numbers, with Chris McChesney (episode 294)
How to Leverage People Analytics, with Jenny Dearborn (episode 323)
The Truth and Lies of Performance Management, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 361)
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39 min

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