Lead with The Essentials

In this 8-minute episode on vulnerability, the last in this series of Lead with the Essentials, we’ll look at the power of leading by dropping your armor – the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors you use to protect yourself – so you can show up to a conversation with an open heart and an open mind to serve the work and your team, not your ego 

In this 8-minute episode on cross-training, we’ll look at the value of cross-training, which at minimum, is a low-cost insurance policy and disaster prevention plan that significantly increases your ability to maintain an effective and efficient organization, when people with key skill sets and institutional knowledge are not available or no longer around.

In this 9-minute episode on conflict resolution, we’ll look at how resolving conflict is a process of shifting your mindset from an entrenched, “either/or” position to “the relationship”, where you recognize the counterproductive pattern of your actions and reactions, examine the lens through which you both see the issues, and restructure past thinking that no longer serves you so you can reframe your approach, disrupt the pattern, and potentially find common ground.

In this 8-minute episode on the Huh? Moment, we’ll look at what to do at those times when someone’s comment, behavior, action, or even inaction is inappropriate, unexpected, or hard to make sense of, and your instinct is to brush it aside, rather than trust your internal voice and treat it as a warning sign that you take seriously.

In this 8-minute episode on joint accountability, we’ll look at what it takes to be jointly accountable, the signs of accountability gaps that become normalized when we feel helpless and powerless, and what’s at risk when that happens.

In this 8-minute episode on succession planning, we’ll look at how succession planning is a tool for managing risk and protecting company and shareholder value when change occurs in the leadership of your company.

In this 9-minute episode on leadership development, we’ll look at what it takes to become a transformational leader who models behaviors that increase individual and team engagement and their sense of what they can achieve, and that permeate the organization with a mindset for excellence that leads to better performance.   

In this 8-minute episode on change management, we’ll look at the preparation and planning, the socializing and implementation, and the embedding and assessment that’s needed for people to fully embrace change and adapt to it, so that change management shifts from a process of hoping for desired results to a plan for meeting and exceeding them.  

In this 8-minute episode on problem-solving and decision-making, we’ll look at a reliable way to solve problems and make decisions that brings greater consistency and consensus, and a greater likelihood of achieving desired results, so you and your leadership team aren’t reinventing the wheel with every challenge that arises. 

In this 7-minute episode on project management, we’ll look at what it takes to successfully lead a team from planning to execution in a climate of collaboration, where people work together because they want to, not because they must.