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113: Top 7 Email Hacks for Leaders – Don’t Let Email Kill Your Strategic Leadership
Some people fall far short of their leadership potential because they let the best part of their time, energy, and focus get sucked up by non-strategic tasks like replying to emails. On the other end of the spectrum are leaders who don’t have the impact...
112: Are You Fully Charged? 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life | with Tom Rath
Being an engaging leader starts with engaging your own work and life optimally. When you are fully charged, you get more done, your mind is sharp and creative, you feel fully alive – and you are a better leader, parent, spouse, and friend. Does that...
111: Getting Things Done (GTD) for Leaders | with David Allen
Being an engaging leader starts with engaging your own work and life optimally. Five years ago, Jesse had given up on the umpteenth system he’d tried for organization and productivity. As he went back to the drawing board, he discovered that a new...
110: Turning Followers into Leaders | with David Marquet
How do you move people from being passive followers doing what they were told, to becoming proactive, engaged leaders themselves? We’ll give you a hint: It’s not about being visionary or giving the right orders. David Marquet is the author of Turn the...
109: Act Like a Leader. Think Like a Leader. | with Herminia Ibarra
It’s sort of a chicken-or-the-egg question. To take your next step toward great leadership, do you start with introspection and learning to think like a leader? Or do you put yourself into positions where you are forced to learn by doing? Most leadership...
108: Leading with the 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity | with Kory Kogon from FranklinCovey
Nearly half of your company's payroll is being spent on things that don't matter to your strategic goals. That's based on results of a six-year global study of 350,000 people by the firm FranklinCovey. Here's the good news: You can change your practices...
107: Four Seconds: Quick & Counter-Intuitive Ways to Get the Results You Want | with Peter Bregman
The things you and your team want most—peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, success at work—are surprisingly straightforward to achieve. But habits and behaviors often trip up our best efforts. Let Peter Bregman help you learn quick, counter-intuitive...
106: 4 Storytelling Frameworks to Lead Change | with Amanda Marko
Storytelling is a key tool for leading change. In episode 102, “Storytelling for Leaders,” Amanda Marko joined us to discuss why it’s such a powerful tool and provided tips for putting it to work. In this episode, Amanda returns to talk more specifically...
105: Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace | with Ron Friedman
As a leader, how can you create a great place to work that not only attracts great people but also promotes smarter thinking, greater innovation, and stronger performance? As you probably already know, there’s a popular annual survey about great places to...
104: Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing | with Liz Wiseman
Is it possible to be at your best even when you are under-qualified or doing something for the first time? And after decades of experience, can you keep your skills from becoming obsolete and irrelevant, and recapture the curiosity and fearlessness of...
103: How to Use Bach Remedies to Become a Balanced Leader
On Engaging Leader, we talk a lot about who you need to be and what you need to do to be an engaging leader. But what if you keep catching yourself doing the wrong things? For example, you know you shouldn’t practice command-and-control management or act...
102: Storytelling for Leaders: How to Influence, Engage & Inspire | with Amanda Marko
Storytelling is an effective leadership tool for change management, engagement, and bringing the business strategy to life. We discussed this tool back in episode 52, “How to Use Stories to Engage People.” Today we’ll dig deeper, with the help of someone...