KickStart Your Edge: Play to Win Leadership

Today, we’re diving into the cool world of your AirPods Pro to uncover some seriously game-changing leadership hacks.  Learn how the settings on your AirPods Pro—transparency, adaptive, and noise cancellation—can be powerful metaphors for leadership. Learning to filter out unnecessary noise, adapt to different environments, and know when to be transparent can significantly enhance your leadership game. 

We all hold preconceived notions that can significantly shape our perceptions and decisions, especially in leadership roles. Through the lens of a recent presidential debate, we explore how bias manifests and its broader implications beyond politics. Does your existing bias hold you back from opportunities? 

Imposter syndrome is a self-inflicted label that creates a fixed mindset and often can become an excuse. We need to stop living into limiting labels that cause us to only focus on overcoming the label versus embracing a growth mindset to get more comfortable in certain situations. Check out this episode for insights.

Think of all the things you hear that you believe at face value. Does that go the same for the thoughts in your head? In today's episode, we dive into a thought-provoking conversation about the importance of digging deeper into the things we believe. We reflect on recent experiences with misinformation on social media and discuss the need for critical thinking and fact-checking, both in our external sources of information and in our own internal beliefs. It’s time to be a journalist in your own mind and start fact-checking your thoughts.

In this episode, we dive into an intriguing concept called the "what if" concept. You can redefine your past and use it as a secret weapon for your future. By examining our beliefs, behaviors, and experiences through a new lens, we discuss how to unleash endless possibilities and break free from self-imposed limitations. What if this podcast episode was the answer you were looking for?

If you want to work on being more patient and being more persistent – just change your golf swing. Karen is two months in on her new golf swing and she is committed to staying the course no matter how easy it would be to go back to her old ways.

Do you think that everything you need is already inside of you? In our latest podcast episode, we talk about whether or not that statement is true. And if so, how we go about tapping into the potential and strengths that lie within us as we face various situations.

Does constantly thinking about getting better in the future take away from the ability to improve in the present? We share a-has from the yoga mat about how to harness the power of now to improve in the moment of whatever you are doing. It all comes down to applying the mindset in the moment as opposed to waiting for another day.

You could see it in his face, by the decisions he made, how he played his game after the missed putt on the 16th hole. Rory shifted from Playing to Win to Playing Not to Lose. He diverted from his plan and strayed from the calm, cool, collected, boring golf he had been playing.

Are you struggling with employee engagement and communication in your organization? In this episode, we dive deep into the challenges facing modern workplaces, from the silent treatment between generations to the impact of return-to-work policies. The stats are staggering and it doesn’t seem to be getting better. It’s time to explore the importance of clear communication, company culture, and connecting to your organization's mission and purpose.