In this episode, Christian speaks about how leaders need to rest and recover. Christian talks about the cost of stress, burnout, and how to recover. 

In this episode:

• Sick from leadership
• You get stronger when you rest
• The costs of burnout
• How cortisol effects your ability to lead
• How to deal with Burnout
  • Rest
  • Reflection
  • Resilience 

🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

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In this episode, Christian is joined by Richard Henderson to discuss how to create a culture of excellence and belonging. 

Richard Henderson is a native of Scotland who has translated to the US. Before coming to the US, Richard played fours years of professional Soccer in Scotland. He has several degrees related to coaching and Physical Education. Richard has done his Masters work in leadership, and has worked in Higher Education for the last eight years.

For 15 years he has coached elite youth soccer at the highschool, college, and semi-professional level. 

Richard is the owner, and Principal consultant at the Nevada Networking Institute.

 In this episode:

• How Richard found his way to leadership
• Leadership archetypes
• What an environment of excellence and belonging looks like
• Resolving conflict quickly 
• Getting to the root cause
• Accountability
• Individual and systemic coaching
• Building high performance
• Psychological safety

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🖥 Connect with Richard Henderson: https://www.nevadanetworkinginstitute.com

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🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

Conflict Resolution Resources from Christian Muntean

My book: Conflict and Leadership

Free Resource: Four Steps to Resolution

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In this episode, Christian speaks about the importance of being curious, about yourself, your team, your business and your life. He explores how leaders that stay curious and engaged in learning are often more effective than others who lose that desire to keep learning.

In this episode:

• Curiosity is the tip of the iceberg
• Internal curiosity
• Relational or social curiosity 
• Contextual curiosity
• Experiencial curiosity
• Explorational curiosity
• Conceptual curiosity 
• Building a culture of curiosity
  • Be a model for staying curious
  • Normalize healthy and appropriate fears
  • Except and create challenges
  • Healthy group dynamics
  • Not accepting easy solutions or answers
  • Create paths from curiosity 

🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

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In this episode, Christian explores humility in leadership. He defines what humility is, and why it is so important for those who want to be effective leaders. 

In this episode:

• How we think about and relate to humility
• What is humility?
• Relational humility
• Is it possible to always be humble?
• Success case study 
• Does having more power make you less effective?
• Cultivating humility
  • Making comparisons 
  • Gratitude and appreciation
  • Learning from others
  • Serving others
• Humility as culture within an organization

🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

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In this episode, Christian describes how often, as we begin to pursue our idea, build our organization or launch the product, we can get bogged down in the minutia of keeping everything running. The distraction takes us away from being able to focus on what we intended on achieving.

In this episode:

• Flavor your communication with references to the vision
• A strategic plan that nobody knows is useless
• Acknowledge their will be rough spots
• Take time to reflect - be quiet and alone
• Having a practice of reviewing progress 
• New experiences lead to new ideas
• Tell your vision to others
• Engage all your senses
• Visualization exercise 

🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

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In this episode, Christian is joined by Jathan Janove.

Jathan is an internationally published author, organization development consultant and executive coach, and member of the  Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching North American Team. In a prior career, he spent 25 years as an employee relations attorney.

He founded and managed his own employment law firm, and was named by his state bar as Employment Lawyer of the Year. Jathan currently serves as President of the Organization Development Network of Oregon and writes the twice-monthly column “Putting Humanity into HR Compliance” for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). 

 In this episode:

• Jathan's background, and what attracted him to law
• "I went from symptoms, to cures..."
• Avoidance
• Its not about compliance, it's about culture
• Human Resources - Let's move from compliance cop, to culture coach
• Leaving money on the table
• Engaged, non-engaged and dis-engaged employees
• The value of HR
• The cost of conflict
• Coping with the impact of COVID-19
• Dealing with Conflict
  • EAR listening
  • Don't let issues fester
  • Disclose your well
  • How do you deal with it, fight, flight or curiousity
  • Check in
• Benefits in a out of the office

Resources:

A selection from Jathan's column in SHRM

For the HR professional working from home with significant others

Viewpoint: How using a 'Star Profile' led to an HR success story

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🖥 Connect with Jathan Janove: https://jathanjanove.com

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🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

Conflict Resolution Resources from Christian Muntean

My book: Conflict and Leadership

Free Resource: Four Steps to Resolution

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In this episode, Christian speaks on how effective leaders use structure to go further and faster with less effort. 

In this episode:

• Framing
• What is structure?
• Built on process and systems
• Example - when you lack systems
• Sales systems 
• Example - culture change process
• Structuring decision making
• Structure should serve the vision
• Questions to determine what kinds of structure or processes you may need to put in place

🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

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In this episode, Christian talks about the importance of leaders following through, and doing what they said they will do. When a leader does not following through it will often result in a loss of credibility and trust. 

In this episode:

• Learning to achieve
• What prevents follow through?
  • Distractions
  • Discomfort
  • Lack of accountability 
  • The goal is too complicated
  • Too many goals
  • Hitting plateaus
  • Mindsets: Fixed vs Growth
• Building your ability to follow through
  • Set small goals
  • Map your journey
  • Pursuing progress over perfection
  • Re-visit your vision
  • Build in accountability
  • What has been stopping you?
  • Notice your patterns

🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

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In this episode, Christian explores endurance as it relates to leadership, teams and organizations. Christian also speaks about how to define and track progress as well as supporting your team along the way. 

Leadership Endurance - the ability to pursue a vision all the way to the point of it's realization.

In this episode:

• A strong start, than it gets hard
• Mental toughness
• Reframing accountability  
  • Having clear metrics - what does success look like?
  • Assign clear responsibilities 
  • Have clear deadlines
• Supporting the process
  • Regular check-ins
  • Make changes as needed
• Goal setting - How well did we forecast? 
• Annual and quarterly reviews

🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

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In this episode, Christian talks about conflict, conflict in the workplace, and the common dynamics that you may find yourself to be involved in.

In this episode:

• Perceived conflict
• Eight hours per week dealing with conflict
• Are you playing into this common dynamic? 
• The Drama Triangle / Karpman Triangle
  • Persecutor, Rescuer, Victim
• Leaders who like the conflict 
• Getting out of the drama triangle

📚Book: Conflict and Leadership: https://www.conflictandleadership.com

🖥 Connect with Christian: https://www.christianmuntean.com

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