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185: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation | with Dan Schawbel
The relationships between your team members make a big difference — both in terms of business results and each person’s wellbeing. As tempting as it is to rely on virtual communication and collaboration, technology too often contributes to workplace...
184: Using Storytelling to Lead a Transformation at Lowe’s (and Your Company) | with Kyle Nel
The home improvement store chain Lowe’s was named #1 among Fast Company's 2018 Most Innovative Companies, for augmented and virtual reality, as well as #1 for innovation among specialty retailers on Fortune's 2018 World's Most Admired Companies. How did a...
183: Using the Fogg Behavior Model to Drive Change | with Jamie Barnes
When developing a communication strategy to drive change within an organization, we use various models and frameworks to help ensure we create a strategy that actually works. The Fogg Behavioral Model is a powerful framework for driving change. BJ Fogg is...
182: The Power of an Authentic Employer Brand and EVP | with Laurie Barnes
A strong, authentic employer brand is key to recruiting, retaining, and fully engaging top talent. The most effective companies build a differentiated employee value proposition (EVP). Many people think of an employer brand only in terms of recruiting new...
181: The Art and Science of Workforce Communication | with Laurie Barnes
You can’t achieve your potential as a leader or an organization without practicing effective communication. Organizations that communicate effectively with their workforce deliver better results. According to a study by Willis Towers Watson, companies...
180: Performance Management Truth & Lies | with Michael Bungay Stanier
Boom! That’s the sound of performance appraisal processes being blown up across the country. There’s been a collective lightning flash of realization that the old way of doing it just isn’t doing it. But what’s really happening? In a new piece of...
179: Leading with Emotional Courage | with Peter Bregman
You have the opportunity to lead: to show up with confidence, connected to others, and committed to a purpose in a way that inspires others to follow. But great leadership — leadership that aligns teams, inspires action, and achieves results — is hard....
178: How to Succeed at Work/Life Balance (Without Going Crazy)
Imagine life is a game where you are juggling five balls. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls — family, health, friends, integrity — are made of glass. ~ James Patterson The first secret to work/life balance is...
177: Meaningful Work: How to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your (and Your Employees’) Soul | with Shawn Askinosie, CEO of Askinosie Chocolate
This episode is about a true story that is interesting and well told — a story that is important for all leaders and entrepreneurs ... especially those of us who aspire to use business not only to make a living for ourselves but to help make the world a...
176: Stop Networking — Start Applying Network Science to Transform Your Career and Leadership | with David Burkus
This is a conversation about a book that’s not like any networking book you have read (or ignored) before. In fact, it’s not about networking; it’s about how networks actually work. Networking seems to many of us to be an insincere way to manipulate...
175: The Excellence Dividend | with Tom Peters
In the next two decades, nearly 50% of white-collar jobs are at risk, either to automation or artificial intelligence (AI), according to analysis by Oxford University. Every leader and every worker need to ask: What will be left for people to do that...
174: Managing Willpower for What Matters Most
Willpower is the ability to control yourself to determine your actions. It allows you (and your team) to accomplish what matters most to you — solving a business problem, losing weight, cornering the market, getting out of debt, etc. To control many of...