real talk: perspectives: Recent Episodes
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"real talk: perspectives" is a weekly show, exploring and providing free advise and support around a broad range of coaching subjects. Ranging from individual life coaching to executive leadership topics, this entertaining and educational show has something of value for everybody each and every time. Your hosts, Frank Basinski, leadership coach and head of Blue Horizon Training, is sharing useful insights with the world, and provides people with powerful tools and knowledge for leadership and personal development
When the pressure is coming back on, many leaders revert to their old behaviours: Managing through authority, applying pressure, controlling and micro managing, etc... although they may have worked hard in the past on becoming better leaders and managers. Why is that? Leadership coaches Frank Basinski and Brad Solomon are digging a bit deeper and expose the mechanism in our minds that are the cause of this reaction. They also explain the mind tools necessary to resist falling back into the old, unwanted and negative behaviours.
Frank Basinski: https://www.bluehorizontrainingro
Brad Solomon: https://www.ctggroup.co
In our first guest talk in 2021, we have invited four experts in leadership development to discuss about "Inclusive Leadership" and "Inclusive Company Cultures". What is the meaning of inclusive leadership? Which traits play a role in creating an inclusive environment? What are the business impacts of maintaining non-inclusive environments? What can the average middle manager do, in order to bring awareness to the C-suite?
Frank Basinski is the owner and founder of Blue Horizon Training SRL:
http://www.bluehorizontraining.ro
Brad Solomon is the Founder and CEO of The CTG Group:
http://www.ctggroup.co
Ana-Maria Garbea is an HR Director and career and personal development coach
William Galton is an L&D consultant and executive coach in the UK
http://www.Linkedin.com/in/williamgalton or https://www.ctggroup.co/william-galton
On the example of events on the world stage, Brad and Frank look at how disregarding key leadership traits can lead to catastrophic failure.
In this episode, Frank Basinski and Ana-Maria Garbea shed a light on an underrated, yet essential leadership skill: Self-compassion The idea of treating yourself as you would treat a friend, is a rarely discussed leadership skill, that can help us to recover more quickly from setbacks, failure and tough times, when the stakes are high. Deploying self compassion also generates many secondary benefits, that in turn help us make better decisions and to gain perspective and clarity.
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In Part 2 of the mini series about how to develop your "executive quality presence" - that's the quality of someone who influences with easy and has a seemingly natural impact on people and outcomes. In part two of this talk, Frank and Brad discuss the three qualities that people with executive presence possess, that lay the foundation for their abilities to HAVE AN IMPACT - the second 3 C's: Charisma, Communication and Credibility
Brad Solomon and Frank Basinski reveal what it takes for anyone to develop an "executive quality presence" - that's the quality of someone who influences with easy and has a seemingly natural impact on people and outcomes. In part one of this talk, Frank and Brad discuss the three qualities that people with executive presence possess, that lay the foundation for their abilities to influence with ease - the first 3 C's: Connection, Confidence and Competence
Nine months into the pandemic, Frank Basinski (Blue Horizon Training SRL) and Brad Solomon (The CTG Group) discuss, how leaders need to re-center their efforts for driving employee engagement. In the early days of the pandemic, a lot has been done to find recipes for supporting resilience, social connection and supporting working from home. It is now time to revisit and strengthen the more fundamental building blocks that drive a purposeful culture, lest your culture derails into a toxic one.
https://www.bluehorizontraining.ro
https://www.ctggroup.co
Every day, we are faced with situations in which we are somewhat dependent on the willingness of others to support what we need. It’s just a fact of life, that we cannot simply order everyone around. We need people to help us, support us, all the time.
Most of the time, other people owe us NOTHING - not even a favour. In this episode, Brad Solomon from The CTG Group and Frank Basinski from Blue Horizon Training are discussing loads of useful techniques on how to get what you need from anyone who you don't have any authority over!
Check out the related article here: https://bluehorizontraining.ro/blogs/articles/influencing-without-authority
Acquiring confidence is a goal for most people, yet it's not easy to do. In part 2 of this discussion, Brad Solomon and Frank Basinski go a little bit deeper and give additional explanations and tips, designed to help you understand the mechanism that's holding you back, and to trick this mechanism into working FOR you instead of against you.
Frank Basinski owns Blue Horizon Training, a company focused on leadership coaching and training: https://www.bluehorizontraining.ro
Brad Solomon owns The CTG Group, global Leadership and Coaching consultancy. https://www.ctggroup.co
Brad and Frank are starting season 3 of Real Talk: Perspectives with a conversation about how to acquire confidence. Can confidence be taught? What sabotages our confidence? And what is it that helps us to become more confident?
In this last episode for season 2 of the real talk series, we unpick the three steps you need to make to formulate incredibly effective "praise" - the supercharged variant of positive feedback. Praise, when done right, WILL encourage the individual to display MORE of those wanted behaviours and will inspire them to consistently produce more outstanding results.
In our latest episode, Brad Solomon and Frank Basinski talk about how developing your own leadership signature is a major milestone on your journey of becoming a truly great leader. We share the key questions you need to ask yourself and find answers to, so that your unique signature as a leader can start to form.
In episode 8 of season 2, Brad Solomon and I recorded a discussion about DYSFUNCTIONAL vs FUNCTIONAL TEAMS - including tell-tale signs by which you’ll know yours is dysfunctional 🔐 (for example, have you ever been bcc’ed on a conversation between team members?) 😉 Luckily most teams can be helped evolving into becoming awesome, provided that there’s a general awareness that something is not right the way things are going. Reach out to us if you need help there.
How can you help someone who's stuck?
You want to help a friend, or a colleague, or a team member, to get unstuck from their "stories" that they are telling themselves and which are holding them back from success, a happier life or better outcomes at work?
Then perhaps this talk is a starting point for you. It's centred around aspects of realism, responsibility, courage and focus.
This time on #realtalk, the leadership season, Brad Solomon and I are laying out guidelines that anyone can use anytime.
What was the last time you helped someone get 'unstuck', and what was the #1 thing you did to help make that happen? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
We discuss:
REALISM:
Help people stay out of their 'story' and focus on reality
RESPONSIBILITY:
Helping people to take responsibility for their feelings and emotions, can help shift their focus back to tangible outcomes
COURAGE:
Apply directness, for it is crucial to point the issues immediately to the right source
SPEED:
By getting right to the point, you redirect attention to what matters most before crucial time is lost
Brad Solomon and Frank Basinski take this episode to explore the nature of conflict at work, how to deal with it, how to prevent it from escalating, and how to avoid unnecessary conflict. Tune in and subscribe, there's much to learn from this one!
The book mentioned at the end of the episode was:
The 4 Agreements
by Don Miguel Ruiz
In this “scintillating” episode, Brad an I discuss the differences between being a manager versus being a leader! People often confuse one with the other and more importantly, often make the wrong career choices thinking that becoming a manager is what they want. We shine a light on what managers do versus what leaders do, and how it is entirely possible to be a respected leader without being a people manager also.
In episode 4 of season two, Frank and Brad shine a light on the steps that C-Level leaders need to take, if they want to establish an open, inclusive and rewarding culture, that attracts and retains talent. We talk about defining values and implementing the standards and behaviours across the organization, and how to make all of that work in practice
In episode 3 of the second season of real talk, Brad & Frank explore the subject and the importance of "Inclusive Leadership". More than ever before, leaders need to make a conscious effort to explore, support and encourage diversity, to be able to leverage the full potential and talents of every team
In episode two of the leadership perspectives series, Brad and Frank are talking about leading with kindness and compassion, what that means, where the benefits are, and how you balance that with the required assertiveness for ensuring results.
Brad and Frank kick off the second season of real talk with a conversation about how great leadership looks like in our time and day. Among other exciting topics, we explain how positional authority is the lowest and weakest form of influence, and why it's only useful under specific circumstances. We also give you a quick recipe towards the end of the video, how you as a leader can find out if you need to invest in your personal development - or not.
In episode 9 Brad and Frank are discussing how to use leadership skills for your own personal development. Topics covered include how to develop your own moral compass, how you challenge the process, and how you enable yourself to act.
Brad Solomon and Frank Basinski dig deeper into the subject of happiness and uncover some of the behaviours and perspectives that are detrimental to achieving a happier life. And they discuss how living by the expectation of others, especially from family, can really get in the way for a happy life.
In this episode, Frank Basinski and Brad Solomon are taking a look at how to (and how probably not to) achieve happiness in your life. In positive psychology, happiness is a key component of making your life worth living. Listen in to this thought provoking and entertaining talk.
Confronted with sudden and unplanned change in their lives, some people thrive on the opportunity immediately, while others sink into and dwell in a valley of misery and frustration. In this episode, packed with great and useful insights, Brad Solomon and Frank Basinski explain how you, too can get better with dealing and mastering change, and consequently thrive and feel in more in charge
While the previous episode focused on leading people and teams remotely, in this episode Frank Basinski and Brad Solomon share best practice tips FOR teams and individuals, as they are forced to work remotely, in the context of the covid-19 crisis. Many people find themselves in a situation at home right now, in which it is quite difficult and challenging to work. Listen to this episode full of really useful tips on how to better deal with this situation
As executive leadership coaches, Brad Solomon and Frank Basinski have quite a few insights to share when it comes to the matter of leadership. In this episode, which was produced in the middle of the covid-19 crisis, they have put an emphasis on those aspects that you need to consider when you are leading people and teams remotely.
Frank Basinski and Brad Solomon decide to make a follow-up episode on anxieties, but this time with an emphasis on sharing insights and techniques on how you can work on yourself to minimise the intensity of your anxieties, and possibly eliminate them for good, over time.
In their first episode of "real talk: perspectives", Brad Solomon and Frank Basinski, both experienced executive leadership coaches, explore and share information and techniques on how to deal with anxieties, particularly in the acute moment