Leading With Nice Daily: Recent Episodes
Mathieu Yuill
From Monday To Friday, we will discuss a leadership theme. Each day, we will give you a question to ponder, a perspective to consider, an idea to explore and actionable tips to help you and your team reach their full potential. All in less than 2 minutes.
New Year's Resolutions: why do we make them and can they actually help accomplish anything of purpose? This week we look at the right way to make a New Year's Resolution and different approaches to making them valuable set you up for success.
New Year's Resolutions: why do we make them and can they actually help accomplish anything of purpose? This week we look at the right way to make a New Year's Resolution and different approaches to making them valuable set you up for success.
New Year's Resolutions: why do we make them and can they actually help accomplish anything of purpose? This week we look at the right way to make a New Year's Resolution and different approaches to making them valuable set you up for success.
New Year's Resolutions: why do we make them and can they actually help accomplish anything of purpose? This week we look at the right way to make a New Year's Resolution and different approaches to making them valuable set you up for success.
New Year's Resolutions: why do we make them and can they actually help accomplish anything of purpose? This week we look at the right way to make a New Year's Resolution and different approaches to making them valuable set you up for success.
Using technology intentionally in your workspace is a business trend that has been amplified by COVID-19. However, most workplaces fall short of what they could be doing and capitalizing on. Today we look at what the "next step" in the adoption of technology use looks like and why you want to do it.
Who is the coach for your reports and employees? Are you the only one? Is this your strongest skill? Companies and organizations who invest in coaching for their employees are retaining top talent because people want to be at their best. Today we talk about why you should be doing this.
Winning organizations who are winning are the ones that have invested in defining effective leadership and great teams. The best way to approach this is through a coach, facilitator or consultant and using assessments. Today we look at how this is done.
Does your company or organization invest in its human capital? More than paying for conferences and development opportunities, companies who are attracting and retaining top young talent are the ones that invest in their employee's work-life balance.
This week we're looking at trends that are being accelerated in the latter half of 2020. Today we look at the trend of decreasing reliance on age-based metrics for promotions and leadership opportunities.
Diversity in the workplace is more than just the colour of our skin. It's age, background, experience and more. Today we look at why this is great and why it can be hard.
The way we give feedback may need to be changed depending on how you're doing it. If you're the manager/director/CEO that is doing employee reviews, you want to listen to today's episode.
Ethics. You might think it's always been an important topic. But the reality is more CEOs have been removed over the past decade for ethical and morale failures than ever before.
Today we discuss employee experience. Employees have moved beyond employee engagement and now want to know how the experience working at your organization is more than just a paycheque.
This week we're looking at five topics you and your team should be discussing. Today we look at the normalization of defects.
Today we're going to talk about someone who has a high "S" behaviour. Stability, speed, security. These are all words that describe someone who is high or low on this scale.
Today we look at someone who has a high I - or interpersonal behaviour. How do you feel about this person and how do you work with them?
Today we look at what a high D personality looks like and conversely, what someone who is low on the D scale might be like.
DISC is a great way to help your team reach their full potential. This week we're going to discuss how it can help you and your team.
Making people feel welcome very quickly is a great leadership skill. Today we discuss how Penny Kirlik is intentional in making people feel like they belong.
We wrap up this week our look at DISC assessments with someone who charts on the C scale. C stands for compliance. What does it mean if you're high or low C? Today we discuss this.
Today we discuss what we learned from Amy Gorecki. She is the Executive Director of the Science Teachers Association of Ontario and her big lesson to dealing with many volunteers is to over-over communicate.
Today we continue our learning from the Leading With Nice Interview Series podcast that launched yesterday. Today we discuss what we learned from Dan Goddard, a pastor from Moose Jaw who did a deep dive into what to do with leaders who have a morale failure.
DJ HORNS! Today the Leading With Nice Interview Series launches. So this week on the LWN Daily we're talking about lessons from some of the leaders we spoke with on the Interview Series podcast. Today we talk about Hero Making, a lesson from Paul Magnus.
This week we are launching a brand new podcast. Launching on Tuesday, June 23 our brand new podcast, the Leading With Nice Interview Series podcast. Today we talk about what we learned from Jack Armstrong, colour commentator for the Toronto Raptors.
Today you're encouraged to ask yourself some questions now that you have completed the Stress Quotient Report.
Today we look at the four stress symptoms that lead to stress. Physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural.
Why does the Stress Quotient Report sometimes return 0 or less than 25 in some categories. This is not to be alarming. If you were experiencing stress in all seven areas, it would be emergency time.
Stress can be seen in seven unique areas. Today we discuss the Stress Quotient Report we offer. When you and your team takes this free assessment, it gives you the language and awareness on how to proactively address stress.
This week we're looking at stress. Stress is always in the workplace, but there are ways to manage it, address it and actually solve it. This week we discuss what stress is and a report Leading With Nice offers to help with it.
How are you going to be at your best when leading from a distance. You need to set boundaries for you and yourself. Today we discuss what that can look like.
Building trust online can be difficult. Trust is often built in-person through physical and verbal actions. When we're not interacting and everyone is just a head and shoulders version of themselves, trust needs to be built with intentionality when you're leading from a distance.
There are three action steps you should take as a long-distance leader. There's been lots of change as we move into a virtual leadership position. How has it impacted you?
As a leader, your job is to get results and inspire other people. The long-distance leader needs to be intentional about focusing on others while we're leading from a distance.
This week we're looking at long-distance leadership. While your colleagues and reports might be around the corner or down the street, there is still a keyboard, mouse and monitor between you. Today we look at how coaching can be accomplished when you are meeting in a virtual workplace.
Today we complete out look at the model Patrick Lencioni presented in his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Today's issue we tackle is inattention to results. If you're this far along the process in a dysfunctional team and you don't deal with all the other issues they you probably aren't paying attention to the results.
As we work through Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team we arrive at the fourth level: Avoidance of Accountability. When we're not keeping each other accountable, we miss so many opportunities for big and meaningful wins. Today we discuss what it looks like when we aren't holding each other accountable.
On today's episode we're talking about the third level of dysfunction: lack of commitment. Lack of commitment keeps us from seeing what really matters through to the end. Today we discuss what that looks like and the implications of not being attentive to commitment.
In yesterday's episode, we discussed the first layer teams need to address on their way to being a highly effective team - trust. Today we turn to the ability to have conflict.
Teams can have accomplishments, but are they working at a level of effectiveness where they are truly inspiring others, building loyalty and getting results as best they can? Often teams are dysfunctional at some level. This week we're talking about the model Patrick Lencioni presented in his book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
Today we look again at the scorecard. This step is so important that it's important we include it. A great facilitator or consultant can help you create a scorecard that will help you on your culture change process.
It's time to map out your process for the culture change plan. Culture change can be a draining process so you want to be sure you've put enough time around your discussions to recharge and be ready for the next discussion.
Setting your target and creating a score card is important when looking to change or tweak a corporate culture.
Before you get too far into a culture change process you want to be asking yourself why you are doing this in the first place. Being clear about why you're doing it is key to making the process successful.
This week we are looking at the process you can take when you're looking to embark on a culture change process.
Today we are discussing the start of a leadership model. But we're also celebrating episode 100 of the Leading With Nice Daily (insert DJ horns here). Thanks for being on this journey with us!
The rubber hits the road today and we are requiring the person we have modelled for and mentored. This will be a great way to also measure your abilities to build up a leader.
Today we look at mentoring during leadership development. We discuss how to mentor effectively in today's episode.
Today we talk about the first step in a leadership model, which is to model the behaviour you want to see.
What does a leadership model look like? You might be surprised that you find it in everyday life.
Can you replace bitterness and resentment for acceptance and gratitude? You can and one of the steps is to give out measured gratitude. This doesn't mean holding something back, it means being genuine in how you respond to the things people do for you.
Today we start discussing some simple exercises you can do to increase your ability to show gratitude in a way that is meaningful. You won't believe how easy it is.
Gratitude equals money. Employees who feel they receive enough gratitude at the office demand 3% less money for salary. The same is true for all income earners.
Gratitude is considered to be in the top 4% of desirable aptitudes of a leader, but a large majority don't feel they receive enough gratitude at work. Today we look at how this impacts your company's profitability.
We recorded this in what would have been the end of the second or start of the third round of the NBA playoffs. I was excited to see my Toronto Raptors make a run to another championship. Which is why we talk about Kevin Durant today.
Parents who are working at home are feeling a kind of pressure they have not felt before. They have had their entire support network taken away from them. Employers need to be aware of this and understand how it impacts their business.
Employers - you need to understand your employees are working their tails off. You need to take action on how much you asking your employees will do. Everyone is working as hard as they can but you need to do your organization a favour and give your employees time to not be working.
The Work From Home Report is a free resource that helps you understand how you can be most effective when working at home. It's free and personalized just for you. You can get it at https://leadingwithnice.com
It's time for you to take a break. If you are fortunate to still be working, you probably haven't had a day off since COVID-19 began. Today it's all about taking a break.
We recorded these episodes as we approach month two of the COVID-19 quarantine in Canada. The data is showing that employees - especially those with children at home - are experiencing extreme burnout. This week we discuss how employers and employees can address this situation.
Buying local will be important to consumers after we return to being out and about like we had been in the past. Your company needs to consider how it will let customers know you are local. If you are local, how will you capitalize on this new trend?
Supply chain transparency will be very important to consumers in North America going forward. We were lucky this crisis did not involve wide-spread power outages. But we did run out of a lot of staples.
It felt like everything changed overnight. When governments insisted that we stay home and stop going to work it introduced a new set of expectations for consumers and employees. Your company will need to be able to pivot just as quickly as we exit COVID-19. Today we discuss what this looks like.
Your business will expected to be following rules around social contact. Today we discuss some ideas about how your company can come out ahead when we return to the new normal and people expect you to be doing something more.
This week we're looking at business trends that will come out of COVID-19. There will be big innovation out of the pharmaceutical companies because of the investment in R&D. This means customers will expect innovation from your company too. Today we talk about how you can start testing your innovation.
What is the difference between integrity and honesty? Honesty is the gap between what you say you're going to do and what you actually do - but it's seen. Integrity is very similar: it's the gap between what you say you're going to do and what you actually do - but when no one is looking. Today we discuss this critical difference and why it matters.
How you speak to your employees and reports will have a big impact on how they view your level of honesty. This week we're discussing the finer points of leadership and honesty.
Is honesty something you struggle to understand as a leader? Not because you're dishonest, but because you struggle with being transparent and being honest when there are some pieces that are best kept private in the workplace. This week we look at how to navigate these issues.
A leader who has a high level of honesty will be both honest with themselves and with their reports. However, honesty isn't license to be a jerk to everyone. This week we look at how being an honest leader can be both a win for you and your team.
Honesty in leadership is the gap between what you say you're going to do, and actually doing it. This week we'll look at different ways you can build an aptitude for honesty and the impact it has in the workplace.
What we've discussed this week is both very exciting and very scary. As we exit the COVID-19 pandemic, people will return to their offices and will be expecting the level of empathy and trust we have shown during these times - or demanding more of it. How do we prepare for this? We discuss how to in today's episode.
Increasing your trust in others and their trust in you is a process that requires very intentional input by the leader. Today we discuss some ways you can build trust (spoiler alert: be human).
There are some very simple exercises you can do to increase your empathy. They don't require a lot of effort and they definitely can be done from your own home.
How can you demonstrate the new empathy and trust in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic or other times of crisis? Today we discuss how you can do exactly that.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses and organizations will need to build new bridges with their employees around empathy and trust. We're seeing an increase in it right now.
What communication tools do you own? Building a website or other mechanism that collects email addresses is so important for crisis communications. Without your own list, you may be shut out of speaking with your audience.
How often you communicate will have a big impact on your success. While crisis by definition is going to be chaotic, setting out a plan around how often you communicate gives you the opportunity not to lose site of your messaging, even if it has to be adjusted on the fly.
When should you be helpful and when should you lead? Crisis communication requires both. We cover this and the rest of the week's topics in a webinar you can find at our website, https://leadingwithnice.com.
Communicating in Crisis requires two skill sets: empathy and authority. Too much of one and not enough of the other is a bad combination. Today we look at how to determine the right way forward.
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, it's difficult to know how to communicate with your audience. This week we're looking at how to do that and today we begin with understanding how to pivot your message.
Why should you be a non-profit board member? Today we look at the reasons you should be a non-profit board member.
Diversity is a cornerstone of a board of directors. What are you doing to ensure your board is doing a great job filling your board with diversity (and what does diversity mean in this context?)
The most important duty a non-profit board member is the duty of obedience. What does that mean and how does it impact you?
Being on a non-profit board can be rewarding. But do you know how to do it? This week we look at what it means to be a non-profit board member and what your responsibilities are.
This week we looked at five tips for working remotely. If you have a remote work team there's so much more you can do to make it successful. Check out our website for more information on helping your team reach their full potential.
Whether you work at home, a coffee shop or a shared workspace, it can be tough. This week we're looking at tips for making working remotely a success.
Are you working remotely - this week we have five great tips for making it a great experience
Working remotely can be tough - this week we look at tips for surviving working from home, a coffee shop or shared workspace
What does IBM know about service driven leadership? They studied their most successful account managers and built a system to repeat their success. Today we discuss how IBM hires and trains account managers for big success.
Sharing information is key to helping your organization succeed. Employees put a lot of risk in the hands of their employers, so why wouldn't they want to know the health of an organization? Today we discuss why more transparency is better than less.
Today we look at three ways to celebrate employees. These tips aren't even hard! But put them into action and you'll see great results in the workplace right away.
How can you help your reports and employees through feedback? In this episode we look at a way to give feedback better.
Master Muppeteer, Jim Henson, relied heavily on building trust in his office (which he called "the workshop"). This made the workplace an enjoyable place to work.
Do you know someone who isn't even scratching the surface of their potential? Today, the last in our series on Developing Leadership Skills, we'll look at how to empower and inspire others.
When you're in a crucial conversation, you need to be resolving conflict. But how do you do it? On today's episode we discuss how to move forward through a crucial conversation.
When should you be acquiring knowledge? If you're wanting to develop your leadership skills you need to be acquiring knowledge all the time. Today we look at three tips for acquiring knowledge that anyone can do.
When is the right time to follow? Learning to follow is a leadership skill that sounds counterintuitive but knowing when to let someone else take the reins is a top leadership skill.
What leadership skills should you develop? This week we'll look at five leadership skills along with some practical tips to develop them. Today we're looking at developing discipline.
Day five and we return to integrity. Honesty is interchangeable with integrity with today's employees and employees say it is the biggest leadership acumen that keeps them engaged.
What could be holding your team back? Could it be a matter of honesty? Today we're going to discuss the difference between being held accountable and being left to your own devices.
Transparency and honesty are important today because employees expect it. Failing to be transparent is not something you can really afford to do today as a leader.
Honesty and integrity are often interchanged in the workplace by your reports and those you manage. What does it look like to them and how you can you demonstrate your integrity and honest?
in a recent survey by Workopolis.com, over 55% of workers said integrity and trust were the most valuable leadership characteristic. This week we examine what that looks like and how to build it.
Failure language! It's like salt: too much and the recipe is ruined, but too little and it's too bland. Your messaging needs to include just a little bit of failure language. It's what will separate you from your competition.
When you guarantee something to your potential customer, you're going to show them how something you do all the time is the exact solution for their problem. In this episode, we share a few examples.
Success language starts to pull the potential customer closer to your company and helps begin closing a sale. Are you using it? Find out what it is and how today.
What problems is your customer facing? And even better, how are you solving those problems? Today we talk about the physical, emotional and philosophical problems your customers face.
Does your customer feel like the hero when they deal with you or do they feel like YOU'RE trying to be the hero? This week we discuss how to make the customer the hero of the story with your business.
The newest generation to enter the workforce is Gen Z. But they aren't working for you, they're working for their mission and if you don't align, well then they'll be gone. How do you help this generation be their best at work? Today we discuss some ideas.
Millennials get a lot of flack. Sometimes considered soft and unable to do anything without their mommy to help them, this generation actually makes up the largest part of the workplace. Today we discuss the benefits Millennials bring to the workforce and what we need to be aware of when leading them.
The generation that introduced the "latch key kids," are also the same ones that see work as just that: work. Today we discuss how to lead the Gen X generation.
Baby Boomers represent the oldest workers today. What makes them unique? What do they want and how are they motivated? We discuss this today.
For the first time in history, our workplaces have employees from four generations: baby boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z. How do you lead in a time like this? This week we discuss each generation.
How can you salvage and rebuild your team that includes people are who using company time to actively look for another job? Today we discuss a strategy to address this issue.
What is the benefit of completing DISC assessments and including a complete team assessment that includes everyone.
Relying on your own ability to get to know your employees or direct reports is leaving a lot of great information on the table. Today we discuss why using an assessment is key to understanding your team.
Employees want more than just a job they're skilled for at the salary they want. They want to be known as the person they are. Today we discuss how to accomplish this.
What your employees want has changed. Some alarming statistics have emerged about how your employees are approaching their job while on the clock. Today we look at what those statistics are.
One of the influences behind Leading With Nice is social entrepreneur, Bill Strickland. He wrote a book, Make the Impossible Possible, where he tells the story of how the non-profit he founded, The Manchester Bidwell Corporation, came to be. It's a great example of gratitude in practice.
Increasing your capacity to have and express gratitude isn't hard. In today's episode we share several techniques you can use to improve your gratitude.
As the world shrinks, expectations of what normal business practice will need to adjust. Today we look at how gratitude is approached in the offices and factories of Asia and specifically China.
What is the cost of ignoring gratitude as a leader? Today we look at some research from Monster.co.uk that uncovered the cost of putting aside being grateful.
Being a grateful leader means showing and demonstrating gratitude. This week we look at why it's important and how you can build your capacity to be full of gratitude.
This is the last day we're looking at leadership resiliency and we're going to discuss a great resource you can read to help build your capacity and understanding of being a resilient leader.
If you choose to forgo the hard work it takes to build leadership resiliency, it can have a significant impact on you. Today we discuss what it is in particular that will be the greatest consequence.
How do you build leadership resiliency? Today we discuss three strategies to build your resiliency and prepare for those times when things aren't going your way.
Today we look at how resilient leaders handle change. Their approach, their attitude and how they do it.
This week we explore leadership resiliency and today we define it and look at a few key attributes behind leaders that have high levels of resiliency.
Empathy is hard. In this episode we discuss a few points of awareness you should have as you seek to increase your capacity for empathy.
What happens when empathy isn't enough? Today we discuss what perspective taking looks like and when to apply it.
We've established that empathy is a worthwhile trait to develop for leaders. Today we discuss a few exercises you can practice to build your capacity for empathy.
So what's the bottom line on empathy and leadership? Well ... it's actually the bottom line. Empathy impacts your company's or organization's profitability.
Empathy is hardwired into our brains - but that doesn't mean we develop it well. This week we'll look at the role empathy plays in leadership.
It's day five of looking at our question and today we turn to the US Army for research they did that concluded the logical person to do leadership teaching, may not have the capacity. So what do we do about that?
It's day two of looking at research from Jonathon P. Doh on how leadership can be taught. His research outlined the specific type of education needed to teach leadership and four ways leadership can be taught. We talk about it today.
Research shows that leadership frameworks can be developed in adolescence. Today we discuss what resources you might use to help influence a young person in your life to help develop their leadership skills.
Teaching leadership requires equal onus of both the teacher and the learner. The teacher needs a mindset of being a heromaker and the learner needs to be ready to learn at all times.
This week we're asking the question "Can leadership be taught?" Sometimes you'll hear people suggest that a particular person doesn't have what it takes to be a leader. And while that might be true - it's only true for a very narrow definition of leadership. Listen today to find out what we mean.
It's the final day of our discussion on "What is Leadership?" Today we turn to author and former professional sports agent, Molly Fletcher, and author of Good to Great, Jim Collins, for what a leader must be above all else.
This week we’re looking at the question: What is leadership? Today we look at the anti-question - what leadership is not. At a base level, there are three types of leadership and what we're seeing today is leadership that exists in one style and doesn't deviate. Is this good or bad?
This week we’re looking at the question: What is leadership? In today's flash briefing we will look at: What Simon Sinek says about leadership, a paradigm shift and who you might be able to help maximize.
This week we’re looking at the question: What is leadership? In today's flash briefing we will look at: What author Kevin Kruse says about what leadership is and identify an area where you could intentionally maximize.
This week we’re looking at the question: What is leadership? In today's flash briefing we will look at: The dictionary definition, what it mean, what it means to influence and who you influence and lead.
Welcome to the Leading With Nice Daily. Each day from Monday to Friday we'll discuss a leadership theme and give you a question to ponder, a perspective to consider, an idea to explore and actionable tips to help you and your team reach their full potential.
All in less than 2 minutes.