Simple, just not easy - The SLS Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Simple doesn't mean easy, especially when it comes to leadership. The behaviors and attitudes that drive our success are grounded in some very simple principles - things like character, competence, vision, and emotional intelligence. We live in the INFORMATION age, which is great for starters. It provides the basic understanding we need to do something about our potential, but what is really needed to put those simple principles to work in our lives and the lives of those we lead is TRANSFORMATION. And that's just not easy. Subscribe here and we'll put some arrows in your leadership quiver.
In this episode of Simple, Just Not Easy, SLS Founder and President John Wright shares the Big 3 - three things every organization must do, and do right, to attain and sustain success.
In this series, Simple Leadership Strategies Founder & President John Wright reviews each of the seven session comprising our Transformational Leader-Manager™ Experience. Designed for TLM participants and graduates, this five-minute podcast episode is also a great preview of the program for those considering it for themselves or their organization.
In this series, Simple Leadership Strategies Founder & President John Wright reviews each of the seven session comprising our Transformational Leader-Manager™ Experience. Designed for TLM participants and graduates, this five-minute podcast episode is also a great preview of the program for those considering it for themselves or their organization.
In this series, Simple Leadership Strategies Founder & President John Wright reviews each of the seven session comprising our Transformational Leader-Manager™ Experience. Designed for TLM participants and graduates, this five-minute podcast episode is also a great preview of the program for those considering it for themselves or their organization.
In his latest 3 Minutes on Leadership session, Simple Leadership Strategies Founder & President John Wright discusses the importance of self-awareness to avoid getting your emotions hijacked.
Simple Leadership Strategies CEO TD Smyers presents an audio version of Swinging at Baseballs with Hockey Sticks - the SLS blog post he co-authored with Senior Leadership Development Specialist Lorie Brown.
TD and Lorie explore the dilemma of promoting high-performing Individual Contributors (ICs) into management positions, only to see them fail; and offer three concrete steps toward avoiding it and producing consistently great management.
SLS Founder & President, John Wright shares a quick three-minute talk on what really makes SLS different - a vision focused on the individual, the organization and the world.
In this episode of 3 Minutes on Leadership, John shares data from Gallup on how a thorough understanding of what's expected of them keeps employees engaged.
"The Curse breaks down like this: The more expert a person is in their professional life, the better they get at finding answers. The better they get at finding answers, the more susceptible they become to refusing answers from others … even though others may, at times, have better answers."
From Simple Leadership Strategies facilitator Ryan Mainey and CEO TD Smyers comes this humorous, ironic and insightful take on hubris in the professional workplace.
In this episode of 3 Minutes on Leadership, John explores the controversial subject of managers having friends at work. There's a lot of research that support it, but many people still say it can't, or shouldn't, happen. Let's hear what John has to say.
In this episode of 3 Minutes on Leadership, John describes a simple but effective method for setting achievable priorities - END the madness!
In this episode of 3 Minutes on Leadership, John explains the Simple Leadership Strategies "grading" system we borrowed from elementary education to help our transformational leaders gauge where they are and get to a better level of performance.
In this episode of 3 Minutes on Leadership, SLS Founder and President John Wright explains the difference between training and developing as it applies to managers and leaders. It's the improvement model SLS is based on.
If this title sounds a little like a horror story, that’s because it often is. Most open door policies don’t work because people don’t trust their boss … or, for that matter, their boss’ boss. Still, having an open door policy is a well-worn cliché among American executives. If you’re one of those with such a policy, what does it really convey to your team? Is your “open door” welcoming? Are you actually accessible? Why is the door open in the first place? In fact, is it truly open at all?
In this episode of 3-Minutes on Leadership, SLS Founder & President John Wright discusses the nature of the leadership traits our Transformational Leader-Manager Experience are built around - simple to understand, just not easy to pull off!
Many SLS clients are getting back to work in their familiar confines after spending the last year in virtual relationships with a distributed workforce. Your business may be one of them.
Whether you’re all the way back in face-to-face work days, or easing back with hybrid schedules, this peculiar moment in the life of your team provides something rarely seen – a chance to start fresh.
In this episode of his 3 Minutes on Leadership series, Simple Leadership Strategies President and Founder John Wright addresses the crucial business transformation of turning customers into advocates, including context within the overall transformation of your business and the two things you have to get right to pull it off.
In this episode of his 3 Minutes on Leadership series, Simple Leadership Strategies President and Founder John Wright introduces you to heart learning - the deep, enduring way things we know in our head become lifetime habits.
In this episode of his 3 Minutes on Leadership series, Simple Leadership Strategies President and Founder John Wright offers three simple and insightful ways to inspire action from your team. More great tools to use on your journey to become a Transformational Leader.
In this episode of his 3 Minutes on Leadership series, Simple Leadership Strategies President and Founder John Wright offers three ways to earn trust on your way to becoming a Transformational Leader.
In this episode of his 3 Minutes on Leadership series, Simple Leadership Strategies President and Founder John Wright offers three ways to enable your people to thrive and set you on the path to becoming a Transformational Leader.
In this follow-up to his description of Bad Bosses, Mere Managers and Transformational Leaders, John continues his 3 Minutes on Leadership series with five non-negotiable strategies every Mere Manager MUST GET RIGHT to become a Transformational Leader.
In this inaugural episode of John Wright's 3 Minutes on Leadership series, John and I take a little more time than that to set the stage.
Have you ever had a bad boss?
Of course! We all have! In fact, the memory of how they impacted your life or career can evoke a lot of emotion. What can be done about these folks? Are managers leaders? Are all leaders good manager?
Join Simple Leadership Strategies President and Founder John Wright and me as we introduce you to the set of characters that every participant in our Transformational Leader-Manager Experience™️ gets to meet.
At SLS, we help organizations achieve operational excellence, improve financial results, and change lives. Through a process called heart-learning, we help transform customers into advocates, workgroups into teams, employees into partners, and managers into leaders. These strategic processes not only achieve excellence but inspire families, communities, and the world to become better.
Global market research company, TNS, has shown us the following statistics: Two out of every three workers do not identify with or feel motivated to drive their employer's business goals and objectives.
Gallup research confirms similar findings. 70% of employees are disengaged. Even worse, these percentages have barely budged in over a decade.
At SLS, we're out to change all that, starting with your organization.
In this short introductory episode, meet SLS Founder and President John Wright and CEO TD Smyers.