Lead with The Essentials

In this 7-minute episode on meeting management, we’ll look at how the way you and others manage meetings can be the difference between opportunity seized or lost, productivity gained or stalled, and time well spent or wasted.

In this 8-minute episode on feedback, we’ll look at why feedback is necessary to provide your employees with the information and guidance they need to make sure their work stays on track to reach your mutual goals, like a steering wheel is necessary to make sure your car stays in its lane to reach your destination.

In this 8-minute episode on a difficult conversation, we’ll look at what’s at stake when you avoid a difficult conversation, and how your approach to it can shift your anticipation and the conversation from dread and anxt to gratitude and relief.

In this 8-minute episode on communication, we’ll look at the irony of communication. We need it more than any other tool and yet we take it the most for granted, even though the way we communicate can make or break a business deal and be the difference between collaboration and chaos, and moving in sync or in circles.

In this 7-minute episode on a reward system, we’ll look at the power of monetary and non-monetary rewards to encourage, acknowledge, and reinforce specific performance and behavior that’s aligned with your company’s goals, targeted key results, and culture – and why the payoff is priceless.

In this 7-minute episode on authority, power, and influence, we’ll look at why teams struggle to accomplish their task when they lack the combination of authority power and influence to get it done, and how balancing their scope with the composition of the team so they have all three makes the difference between their success and failure.

In this 8-minute episode on roles, responsibilities, and relationships, we’ll look at why clarity and flexibility around the 3Rs are key to a highly functioning organization, no matter what organizational structure you choose, and why you need to give the 3Rs that underpin your structure the same level of thought, care, and attention as the 3Rs that underpinned your education.

An employee-centric mindset is the path to exceptional performance. In this 8-minute episode, we’ll see that there are two essential components of that mindset: a psychologically safe workplace and an understanding of what your employees need to fully engage and succeed along with your commitment to meet those needs, where appropriate and possible.

In this 8-minute episode on the tool of a balanced leadership team, we’ll look inside the formula for a balanced leadership team to see that it must be a complimentary group of individuals who can produce, administer, envision, and integrate – and why you risk being pulled down a path of chaos and compromised productivity if that balance is missing.  

Strategic planning is not just a box to be checked. It’s a living blueprint for your business. Putting it in the context of The Essentials is meant to give it new meaning. In this 7-minute episode, we’ll learn how the strategic plan becomes a compelling portrait of the vision of the company and a rutter for managing change, guiding decision-making, and steering the organization.