CTRL+ALT+DELETE with Lisa Duerre™

Are you feeling stuck? Are you feeling disconnected from  your colleagues and your family? Are you just running so fast that you’re not even stopping to pause? Are the conversations you’re having turning into disagreement and disconnection? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’ll want to stop and take a listen.

Most of you know by now that I am a huge fan of the book Conversations Worth Having. I reference it all the time, and I’m so excited to welcome the co-authors, Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres, on to CTRL+ALT+DELETE. Because right now, there is so much disconnect in the world. People are burnt out. They’re scared. They’re overwhelmed. I can’t think of two better people to help us reframe and think about everything on a much deeper level so that we can be agents of change and connection instead.

Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres have been internationally recognized for their work with appreciative inquiry. They've positively affected the lives of thousands of people and helped hundreds of organizations improve their capacity to thrive in uncertain times. They've been researching, writing, consulting and speaking on appreciative inquiry since 1996.

CTRL+ALT+DELETE with Lisa Duerre is brought to you by RLD Group on a mission to reboot leadership drive, eradicate burnout in tech, and help transform technical experts lacking people leadership skills from being a company's biggest liability into their greatest asset.

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CTRL+ALT+DELETE is about rebooting your leadership drive. It's about rebooting your mindset. It's about rebuilding your business process. I'm so excited today to have Angelique Rewers here today because if there's anyone who can talk to us about rebooting all of those things, her vantage point and her insight is something I seek out. I've joined her community and collective, and she has not only elevated our business but she's really helped me see why what we do matters so much right now.

Angelique Rewers is the bold, always blunt and unapologetic CEO of BoldHaus, on the Inc.5000 company that trains and advises both small enterprise and self-employed professionals on winning corporate clients. She has been called the undisputed champion at helping small businesses. She's among the top 2% of women-owned businesses. BoldHaus is a global online community of 35,000 business owners and has mentored over 10,000 small businesses in 72 countries.

Angelique is also on the advisory board for Space for Humanity, which is a nonprofit expanding access to space for all of humanity, as well as on the committee for the United Nations Women, Peace and Humanitarian Fund.

CTRL+ALT+DELETE with Lisa Duerre is brought to you by RLD Group on a mission to reboot leadership drive, eradicate burnout in tech, and help transform technical experts lacking people leadership skills from being a company's biggest liability into their greatest asset.

Show Notes:

What Leaders in Tech Should Be Thinking About [00:57]

How Strategic Communications Can Help [5:50]

Self-Inflicted Burnout [8:36]

The Difference of Simplifying Communication [11:20]

Give Your Employees Credit and Respect [14:47]

Importance of Being Human [16:36]

Pandemic Anxiety and Burdens [17:10]

Keeping Up with Accelerated Change [19:08]

Build Your Own Monument [23:24]

Getting Help for Before Burnout [27:01]

Taking Care of Your Best People [31:43]

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What does it feel like to be included? And how does it feel to be excluded? I'm not here today to talk about the business case for diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging. I'm here to talk about what it really means at the soul level and how each leader can take their own journey just like I've been on myself. So I've invited my favorite expert on the topic.

Maureen "Mo" Berkner Boyt is the Founder of The Moxie Exchange and the Everyday Inclusion app. She is a thought partner to organizations and executives serious about creating an inclusive workplace. She holds a M.Ed. in Organizational Development, is a graduate of Corporate Coach U, authored the 5-book series, Rock Your Moxie: Power Moves for Women Leading the Way, and is the host of a monthly online workshop series of the same name. She has coached, trained, and delivered high-impact keynotes and workshops for 1000s of leaders around the globe, as well as founding multiple successful businesses.

CTRL+ALT+DELETE with Lisa Duerre is brought to you by RLD Group on a mission to reboot leadership drive, eradicate burnout in tech, and help transform technical experts lacking people leadership skills from being a company's biggest liability into their greatest asset.

Solving global challenges through inclusion [3:36]

Learning about inclusion as a leader [6:14]

Best inclusion activity [13:19]

Fear is causing the worst action of all [19:08]

Letting go of comfort [21:52]

Battling microaggressions [23:51]

Failures of leadership [28:20]

Make your environment safe for truth [33:03]

Are you feeling overwhelmed or tired? Are you feeling like this is never going to end, life is just too heavy? Too many decisions, so much obligation. If you want to go from that to feeling fulfilled and having a sense of well-being, you want to listen in today. Because Jeremy Reisig, aka brotha James, is here with me today.

Jeremy Reisig is very in tune with the magic of energy, completely understands the power of music and healing, and brings his heart into everything he does. Jeremy is a designer and facilitator of group experiences that unlock collective intelligence. He designs intelligent questions and conversational choreographies that amplify learning, create authentic connections, and builds community at speed and scale. It's about creating islands of calm in the sea of insanity.

CTRL+ALT+DELETE with Lisa Duerre is brought to you by RLD Group on a mission to reboot leadership drive, eradicate burnout in tech, and help transform technical experts lacking people leadership skills from being a company's biggest liability into their greatest asset.

When you’re feeling stuck in life or work [5:21]

Give yourself the opportunity of peace [6:17]

Give yourself choices [8:54]

Find your magic to get through burnout [13:06]

Propel into the future with skills learned throughout life [16:00]

The risk that made me stronger [23:45]

Avoid burnout and evolve as a human [26:15]

The best meditation [28:41]

Having a learner's mindset allows you to adapt to change [35:22]

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Do you know the difference and why it matters? I am here today to help you crack the code. Today, our guest, Jennifer Kahnweiler Ph.D., will give us such a gift of her knowledge and passion.

Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D., is a bestselling author and one of the top global leadership speakers on introverts in the workplace. Her pioneering books, The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, The Genius of Opposites, and Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces have been translated into 18 languages. The Introverted Leader was named one of the top 5 business books by The Shanghai Daily.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete with Lisa Duerre is brought to you by RLD Group on a mission to reboot leadership drive, eradicate burnout in tech, and help transform technical experts lacking people leadership skills from being a company's biggest liability into their greatest asset.

Courage for conversation [1:57]

The gift of introversion [7:43]

Quiet leaders [9:06]

Big ideas are being missed [11:05]

Needing quiet time [15:02]

Advantages of prep time [20:49]

A blend of introvert and extrovert [25:33]

Asking the necessary questions [26:25]

Burnout: is it easier to quit or stay? I have faced that question myself. Do you feel like quitting when you're in burnout? Yes. And are people leaving? Absolutely. I'm so excited for the person who's with us today to answer this question for us because she's seeing amazing human resource leaders just quit and not stay. And I have to tell you, that is not okay.

Susan Nelson is an integrative leadership coach, who shows emerging HR leaders, and those new to the C-Suite how to increase their impact, confidence, and results so they can thrive at work and at home. Susan has developed her signature system for coaching HR leaders to stay in the game by reclaiming their power at work and at home, elevating their leadership role and function in their organization, and making it okay for them to bring their whole self to work.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete with Lisa Duerre is brought to you by RLD Group on a mission to reboot leadership drive, eradicate burnout in tech, and help transform technical experts lacking people leadership skills from being a company's biggest liability into their greatest asset.

HR leaders are underappreciated [4:16]

HR leaders don’t realize their burnout until it’s too late [8:24]

Possibilities without burnout [12:52]

The negative mindset towards HR [17:18]

Struggles and challenges [21:42]

Your moment of power [25:26]

Three shifts for long term success [30:01]

Learning from your HR partner [38:45]

What conversation are you not having? Today, we will lean into whatever conversation you are aware that needs to happen, but avoid it for whatever reason, and because it doesn't feel safe, you don't know what to do. There's nobody better equipped to help us with this than Elisabeth Cardiello.

Elisabeth Cardiello is a communications expert whose BRAVE Conversation Over Coffee® series is giving organizations, entrepreneurs, and families a framework to have the difficult conversations that are key to building trust, inclusion, high performance, and overall well-being. Her mission is to build a world where coffee is the catalyst that inspires deeper listening, safer spaces, and hence, greater access to our own creativity, connection, and fulfillment. She has spoken at TEDx twice, at UN conferences, given Congressional briefings, and has been featured by Forbes, NBC, SHRM, Goop and Virgin’s 100% Human at Work Initiative, and many others.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete with Lisa Duerre is brought to you by RLD Group on a mission to reboot leadership drive, eradicate burnout in tech, and help transform technical experts lacking people leadership skills from being a company's biggest liability into their greatest asset.

Speak your truth [3:04]

The safety of having a coffee [6:50]

The great resignation [14:17]

The loss response [17:24]

Change the culture of burnout [21:01]

Keeping calm and having trust [25:03]

Showing up as a human to your peers [34:45]

The value of feeling valued [37:51]

What it means to be empathetic [44:55]

Rebecca O'Brien is a certified stress management and burnout prevention coach, mindfulness instructor, and nutritionist. Her one-on-one coaching and corporate programs look at the mind, body, and spirit connection, which is a massive area of need for leaders in tech trying to be amazing for their team and their loved ones as we transition out of this Covid-19 pandemic. Rebecca and Lisa met through Clubhouse a few months ago, and from the very beginning, Lisa could sense just what an incredible person Rebecca is. Not just as a true professional, but she cares, really cares! And now, Lisa has the incredible opportunity to share with you their conversation about burnout, the power of pause, and normalizing conversations about mental health. Hit play and get ready for an amazing experience!”

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As you listen, Lisa Double Dog Dares you to reflect on the following questions:

-What is one learning or 'a-ha' moment from this episode that if you integrate into your life and work would make the biggest impact on you?

-What is the smallest and most immediate action you're willing to take today to move this forward?

-How will taking this action benefit you, your team, and your loved ones?

Who else in your life would benefit from this conversation? Pay it forward

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Silos in business - we've all experienced them at one point or another, and they're momentum killers! The best businesses - and the best leaders - understand why we need to smash the silos, create a truly collaborative work environment, and optimize our efforts for better communication and results into the future. That's why I'm over-the-moon excited to share my interview today with Kiki Orski, founder of Peak Performance Consulting. In a word, she is a total badass, so impressive with a background in leadership training and executive consulting.

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I Double Dog Dare you to look at this next. Focus three questions per episode with one key resource.

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Ani Anderson is the best-kept secret when it comes to mindset shifts for more motivation. She is the CEO of New Health and I absolutely love what she's done for my life and work with RLD Group. Yes, there's a whole alphabet soup behind her name because she's so incredibly educated. Officially, Ani Anderson, MS, OT, LMT, CEMP, SBMC is the creator of the Find Your Soul’s Agenda process and co-creator of Sensation-Based Mindset coaching. If we just left it there, that's only a fraction of what she brings to our conversation today.  

What Ani does is unlocks every part of your consciousness and ignites your motivation so success naturally flows into every area of your life. Dude, it's effin' awesome! (Quick side note on the personal side: Ani lives in a log cabin in the woods, nestled between the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain. She, her husband Brian, and their kids live in paradise where they swim, ski, play board games, savor amazing local food, and guess what? They ride a ferry boat to school! How cool is that?!)  

I can't wait to share our conversation with you for Ctrl+Alt+Delete because we do a deep dive into the 'acorn' of your subconscious, what it means to be human, and how leaders in tech can reconnect motivation with true success, not just productivity or revenue numbers. Let's do this!  #burnoutprevention #burnoutrecovery #CtrlAltDelwithLisaDuerre