Talk Like a Leader

As businesses around the country make quick adjustments to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, many people suddenly find themselves leading - at least for a short time - a remote team. This week, my guest is co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute, Wayne Turmel. Wayne shares insights for helping you better lead a team in a remote working environment.

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Not everyone views time the same way, and those differences can become major drivers of stress, frustration, and conflict. This is the first of three episodes where Carl Smith and I explore different perspectives on time and how leaders can better navigate those differences.

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When we try to coach people towards higher performance, it's easy to get frustrated and to make some common coaching mistakes. In this episode, I'll define the difference between coaching and discipline and give you three do's and don'ts of coaching conversations.

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In honor of National Pancake Day, I'm discussing the Pancake Theory of Communication. How is communication like a pancake? What can we learn about communication from pancakes? Tune in to find out.

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Change is emotional, and change is a choice. As leaders, we hope to help others make the choice to change rather than feel like they got forced to change. Using the four levers of change and learning a simple communication strategy can help you to help others to accept, embrace, and implement change. In this episode, we'll take a look at the four levers of change and this simple communication strategy.

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Change communication is a topic that nearly warrants its own podcast. It's complicated, it's messy, and it has lots of conditional issues to consider. And, it's worth talking about on this podcast. In this episode, I'll lay out some starting thoughts on how leaders can better talk about and sell change. I'll continue to explore this topic in future episodes.

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Carl Smith and I continue our conversation on building trust. This week, we'll discuss less the process of building trust and more the impact of it with specific examples from our experience that illustrate the importance of knowing the order to follow when engaging with another person.

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Different people think about and approach building trust in different ways. In this episode, Carl Smith and I discuss the two sides of trust and how understanding them can help you build trust with more intentionality.

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In this episode I'm excited to welcome my long time friend and colleague JJ Brun to the podcast. JJ is a communication and relationship expert from Canada who served as an intelligence offer for the Canadian Forces in Bosnia. He has a great perspective about leadership communication that I'm happy to share with you this week.

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I recently re-read what has become a leadership classic - Leadership and Self-Deception. It reminded me of the ways we interact with others as objects rather than as people. It also reminded me that how we use words can both influence and reveal how we view others. In this episode, I'm inviting you to consider how you use the words With, For and To and what that can do to your communication effectiveness.

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