Your Evolving Leadership Journey: Recent Episodes
Tom Crea
“Your Evolving Leadership Journey” is for anyone who believes continuous learning is part of the ongoing leadership journey. “Companies that did business from a foundation of love and purpose and practiced servant leadership produced a 1026 percent return to shareholders over a ten-year period, eight times more than the so-called Good to Great companies.” (Coetzer, 2019) With a slant towards servant leadership, Tom interviews contemporary authors to drill down on topics such as long-distance leadership, resilience, clarity, culture, developing others, individual behavior, persuasion, managing up, spiritual best practices, character, values, trust and more.
Recent advances in the neuroscience of transformational leadership give people the ability to create and maintain purpose-driven organizational cultures that consistently and systematically live the principles of “servant leadership.” Such organizations achieve top performance – and are better places to work. Understanding the neural impacts of having a personal and organizational compelling purpose gives anyone the ability to achieve greater personal satisfaction and organizational success. Understanding the neural processes associated with developing and sustaining new, better attitudes and skills enables individuals and organizations to grow faster and in ways that are personally and professionally satisfying. In this interview, you will learn about the neuroscience of transformational leadership and how this can help you be a powerful servant leader.
Carol’s Toxic Practice book disrupts commonly held beliefs to reveal: Why feedback undermines employee development, the impact feedback has on our 3 core human capabilities, and the alternative that leads to self-regulating employees.
Utilizing examples from Carol’s decades of work, learn the flaws in the feedback trap and build conditions for employees to flourish for long-term success.
Carol’s work is deeply rooted in the belief that people can grow and develop beyond what their leaders or anyone sees possible. She approaches her work as an ecosystem with stakeholders to the business in order to create the market place positioning, the organizational conditions, and human capability for people to innovate and contribute.
Through a Socratic and contrarian approach, backed by research and extensive case stories and testimonials, Carol challenges and educates leaders to reimagine everything they currently know about strategic thinking, leadership, management, and work design.
Our bosses have enormous influence over our ability to succeed, thrive, and advance in our organizations, in our careers and in our own leadership journey. Establishing strong, productive working relationships with those above us is the single most effective way to accelerate success in any organization. Managing up is not about brown nosing, sucking up, or becoming a sycophant. It is about consciously and deliberatively developing and maintaining effective relationships with supervisors, bosses, and other people above you in the chain of command. It is a deliberate effort to increase cooperation and collaboration in a relationship between individuals who often have different perspectives and uneven power levels. It is about is consciously working with your boss to obtain the best possible results. Managing up is about you taking charge of your workplace experience. Managing Up is about helping people succeed with the boss that they actually have--not the boss they wish they had.
Every great leader is a great storyteller. And the first and most important part of being a great storyteller is knowing what stories to tell. After conducting over 300 one-on-one interviews with CEOs and executives in 25 countries around the world, author Paul Smith compiled a list of the most important ten stories any leader needs to be able to tell at a moment's notice. The 10 Great Stories Leaders Tell explores those 10 stories, and provides tips for you to find and craft your own, all in a short, easy, one-hour read. Each story is explored in its own chapter. Any leader who can tell those stories is far more likely to get their organization to go where they want it to go.
Change Resilience: It is time for us to stop the fear, the conscious and subconscious that is associated with change and embrace the change that will prepare us for both our professional and personal life journey. Most people believe that they are far more change adapt than they truly are. Change is no longer an event; it is a new way of living and staying relevant. It is time to develop a new core competence called change resilience, which is the ability to adapt to change in a faster and fuller way than we are used to do. The key success factor to change resilience is the ability to stay true to your purpose while adapting and changing the tools you use to pursue it.
Leadership is complex enough as it is. - How do you know whether tasks are getting done with remote teams? - Do your workers feel isolated? - Are they interacting with just you, or collaborating with the rest of the team? Wayne Turmel, co-author of “The Long Distance Leader,” addresses these questions and more. We’ll explore ways in which the Remote Leadership Institute (https://www.remoteleadershipinstitute.com/) teaches you to drill down into fundamental leadership concepts like delegating: realizing that its purpose is NOT to ease your load, that’s the wrong focus; coaching and feedback: how to do it at a distance, and, collaboration and engagement, how to turn remote workers into remote teams. We’ll explore values and their importance for establishing priorities, servant leadership, the 3-O model, the Golden Suggestion, the PIN technique for getting honest feedback, and Wayne will answer your questions. Listen in as we explore How to Lead Remote Teams Effectively.
Luke Peters wants to help your business. After making every mistake, he discovered tips for any small business that center on leadership and strategy, e.g., why is delegation is difficult? How do you give the right people more confidence to lead, build accountability but not micromanage, and, show key team members that you truly value their work? Luke and his wife started Newair alone and have grown to more than 50 people. Discover why they were voted as one of Orange County’s top Workplaces and move your business from startup to entrepreneurial success.
Why not do what it takes to transform your life, your business, and your leadership skills?
It’s actually very simple!
Top achievers are readers, they think and act differently. That’s the simple reason they reach higher levels of success in their business and their life. Discover strategies and principles to change your thinking and change your life.
Trust Based Leadership-proven ways to stop managing and start leading contains powerful messages to take your leadership skills to higher levels. By using these principles, you can achieve better results while leading. Each proven strategy is written in a short digestible thought and is independent of the others. You do not need to read each proven strategy in sequential order. Simply flip to any proven strategy to learn, apply or share as needed. My goal in writing the series of Trust Based Philosophy books is to inspire and empower people (like you) to BE MORE, DO MORE, AND ACHIEVE MORE!
The process of multiplying leadership lies at the heart of The 100X Leader. Using the metaphor of the TIbetan Sherpas, world-renowned guides who train themselves to climb mountains at elite levels, only to help the climbers they serve by helping them get to the top of the summit, Jeremie inspires people all over the world to take seriously their responsibility of becoming healthy themselves and then passing that health on to those they lead. Just as climbers need the proper tools, equipment and gear, so does the 100X Leader. The simple, scalable, visual tools that Jeremie has developed gives leaders the practical steps and application they need to see that becoming a leader worth following is within reach. Don't be a leader people have to follow, instead, become someone worth following!
Stephen and Mara Klemich, a husband and wife team, are the co-founders of Heartstyles and co-creators of the Heartstyles Indicator tool, a tool that measures effective and ineffective thinking and behaviour. They have been working in the corporate world for over 30 years, focusing on individual, team and organisational behaviour and cultural transformation. They both believe that the style of one’s life, character and leadership comes from an attitude of the heart and have placed this at the core the people development industry. They are the co-authors of Above the line – living and leading with heart, which will be published by Harper Collins in 2020.
Again and again the growth of organizations outruns leader skills. If you’re one of those leaders, you know the result: As the job grows bigger than you, a world of unfamiliar challenges disorients you. You then hit a wall of ineffectiveness, a stall point. Your stall then escalates into a crisis.
What Happens Now? helps you to embrace this reality, by showing how sophistication requires you to do things you’ve never done before––inspire people, nurture relationships, energize teams, groom successors, influence stakeholders. As a troubleshooter for leaders of all kinds, Mark Nevins focuses on the most menacing issue seen in organizations every day: leaders who try to solve challenges solely by engineering solutions to more complexity –– process mapping, data analytics, information systems, instant reports. The result? Organizational wreckage.
Turn game-stopping stalls into personal growth and organizational success and launch the next phase of your lifelong leadership journey.
Stephen and Mara Klemich, a husband and wife team, are the co-founders of Heartstyles and co-creators of the Heartstyles Indicator tool, a tool that measures effective and ineffective thinking and behaviour. They have been working in the corporate world for over 30 years, focusing on individual, team and organisational behaviour and cultural transformation. They both believe that the style of one’s life, character and leadership comes from an attitude of the heart and have placed this at the core the people development industry. They are the co-authors of Above the line – living and leading with heart, which will be published by Harper Collins in 2020.
Good leadership is complicated. The kind of leadership that revitalizes a plateaued church or changes the direction of a declining business takes selfless courage and can’t be defined in just a few simple words.
As a pastor with an extensive business background, Ron Edmondson understands the expectations that plague leaders in all circles of life. He has seen countless aspiring leaders give into “myths” about what it looks like to be at the top,
In The Mythical Leader, a simple book about a complex subject. Edmondson walks readers through common misunderstandings about leadership and explains how changing perspective on these issues can make you highly effective in your sphere of influence.
Bottom Line? If you improve your individual leadership skills, it not only will help you, but your stronger leadership will also transform the people, the church, or the business around you.
Author of Find the Fire, Scott Mautz, shares why so many become so uninspired at work, and how they can fully reignite their passion for work (and in life). It turns out, when we're feeling uninspired, we ask ourselves the wrong question. Scott teaches the right question to ask and uncovers the most common and caustic inspiration draining forces -- The Anti-Muses. Stop the Anti-Muses and you start feeling inspired, happy, and uber-productive at work again.
How do the really exceptional CEOs get more done in less time than everyone else? What is their technique for getting their work done while still having the time to spend pursuing hobbies and spending quality time with their friends and family?
The truth is that great and lazy CEOs know a secret when it comes to time management. Rather than spending a little time on a lot of things, the best CEOs spend most of their time eliminating the single biggest constraint to the growth of their business.
They spend a lot of time diagnosing this constraint before taking action. This process is similar to looking for the kink in a garden hose so you can get the flow going again. There is no use trying to unkink the hose until you find the actual problem.
Once they find the kink in the hose, they spend 30-40% of their time fixing the kink in the hose, compressing their time on everything else.
These lessons from CEOs are applicable to every professional in their work and personal lives.
To accomplish your goals people must believe in you. In any endeavor, success is built on a foundation of character, communication and trust –– the building blocks of reputation. A positive reputation can mean the difference between failure and great success. Based on his book, The Power of Reputation, this episode will discuss how to create the kind of reputation that generates trust and paves the way for lasting success. We’ll discuss real-world examples and how to build a platform of respect for and confidence in your decisions –– and a commitment from others to your goals. This includes how to be authentic, open to ideas, a strong communicator, and, by your actions, demonstrate over and over again that you are a person of character. Reputation isn’t something that just happens … nor is it something you can afford to leave to chance. Discover powerful methods for building and leveraging a strong reputation –– and using it to achieve extraordinary results.
Poor and ineffective leadership is evident in all spheres of life, especially in business. A possible reason for the current leadership crisis is the application of ineffective and self-serving leadership practices that only aim to achieve selfish and short-term objectives at the detriment and longevity of people, business, society, as well as the environment.
Listen to a more effective and proven leadership approach to sustain people, business, society, and the environment, namely servant leadership. We’ll discuss the dimensions and functions of a servant leader and address a refreshing book that also provides several systematic leadership frameworks to empower people and to build high performing and significant organizations.
Leaders, consultants, and practitioners can use this book as a guide to implement servant leadership in a company to ultimately create a more profitable, significant, and sustainable organization.
Jeff Tobe, M.Ed, CSP believes that effective servant leadership is based on three crucial assets: 1. Get CREATIVE – look at leadership from a new perspective 2. It’s not about you – servant leadership is an end-to-end EXPERIENCE 3. Get ENGAGED – it’s all about the people you lead and what they do under your guidance
Join us as international speaker, author and trainer, Jeff Tobe shares his thoughts on 28 years of studying leaders in business globally. He will share his theory called the “Harvey Principle” based on seeing invisible opportunities as a leader. Jeff will also discuss perspective as it relates to servant leadership.
Stephen and Mara Klemich, a husband and wife team, are the co-founders of Heartstyles and co-creators of the Heartstyles Indicator tool, a tool that measures effective and ineffective thinking and behaviour. They have been working in the corporate world for over 30 years, focusing on individual, team and organisational behaviour and cultural transformation. They both believe that the style of one’s life, character and leadership comes from an attitude of the heart and have placed this at the core the people development industry. They are the co-authors of Above the line – living and leading with heart, which will be published by Harper Collins in 2020.
Well Done are the words that drive any faith driven business leader to strive for excellence in building their business and ordering their life. Although Well Done has a noble connotation to it, many business leaders including myself have a difficult time describing and defining what Well Done looks like in the life of a business that is led by a person of faith. In this book, I will attempt to describe and practically apply the twelve biblical business principles that can help any leader who desires to grow their business and Kingdom impact to know how they can hear the words Well Done at the end of their journey. Life is too short and business is too difficult to labor and work all one’s life and not hear the words Well Done. We will examine a few principles that will help a leader work to Well Done in their life and business.
Well Done are the words that drive any faith driven business leader to strive for excellence in building their business and ordering their life. Although Well Done has a noble connotation to it, many business leaders including myself have a difficult time describing and defining what Well Done looks like in the life of a business that is led by a person of faith. In this book, I will attempt to describe and practically apply the twelve biblical business principles that can help any leader who desires to grow their business and Kingdom impact to know how they can hear the words Well Done at the end of their journey. Life is too short and business is too difficult to labor and work all one’s life and not hear the words Well Done. We will examine a few principles that will help a leader work to Well Done in their life and business.
Companies who have a higher purpose than simply making a profit are more likely to attract loyal customers. Anne Bahr Thompson notes the business case for doing good, citing statistics from a 2014 Harvard study on companies that showed that 87 percent of executives believed companies perform better “if their purpose goes beyond profit,” and 90 percent believed that business purpose increases customer loyalty. Thompson conducted her own three-year quantitative and qualitative study, called CultureQ, through which she explored with thousands of participants what customers expected from brands in the areas of social responsibility and purpose beyond profits. From the responses, she developed a model for a 21st century approach to doing good that she calls “brand citizenship.” Thompson shares her brand-citizenship model that consists of five steps that progress steadily from a ME focus (on the individual customer) to a WE focus (the community and the world at large).
To accomplish your goals people must believe in you. In any endeavor, success is built on a foundation of character, communication and trust –– the building blocks of reputation. A positive reputation can mean the difference between failure and great success. Based on his book, The Power of Reputation, this episode will discuss how to create the kind of reputation that generates trust and paves the way for lasting success. We’ll discuss real-world examples and how to build a platform of respect for and confidence in your decisions –– and a commitment from others to your goals. This includes how to be authentic, open to ideas, a strong communicator, and, by your actions, demonstrate over and over again that you are a person of character. Reputation isn’t something that just happens … nor is it something you can afford to leave to chance. Discover powerful methods for building and leveraging a strong reputation –– and using it to achieve extraordinary results.
There is a special kind of person who seeks the more authentic experience, the genuine moment, the sweet fresh air escape from all the noise – a return to what’s real and what matters most. Often that person feels both called to a purpose and frustrated by the world around them, right on the edge of giving up. That same person may also feel brief flashes of immense power or sustained surges of energy, punctuated by drawn-out periods stalled in the doldrums.
This life experience is much more common than most people want to admit, but there’s positive energy available in fear, distress, anger, or sadness, once we start to uncover it. With access to that energy, could you change things for good? If you were able to leverage your emotions, not just for intelligence, but for fuel, what could you accomplish?
We are talking about the human spirit. Your human spirit and its power in your organization.
Recent advances in the neuroscience of transformational leadership give people the ability to create and maintain purpose-driven organizational cultures that consistently and systematically live the principles of “servant leadership.” Such organizations achieve top performance – and are better places to work. Understanding the neural impacts of having a personal and organizational compelling purpose gives anyone the ability to achieve greater personal satisfaction and organizational success. Understanding the neural processes associated with developing and sustaining new, better attitudes and skills enables individuals and organizations to grow faster and in ways that are personally and professionally satisfying. In this interview, you will learn about the neuroscience of transformational leadership and how this can help you be a powerful servant leader.
Carol’s Toxic Practice book disrupts commonly held beliefs to reveal: Why feedback undermines employee development, the impact feedback has on our 3 core human capabilities, and the alternative that leads to self-regulating employees.
Utilizing examples from Carol’s decades of work, learn the flaws in the feedback trap and build conditions for employees to flourish for long-term success.
Carol’s work is deeply rooted in the belief that people can grow and develop beyond what their leaders or anyone sees possible. She approaches her work as an ecosystem with stakeholders to the business in order to create the market place positioning, the organizational conditions, and human capability for people to innovate and contribute.
Through a Socratic and contrarian approach, backed by research and extensive case stories and testimonials, Carol challenges and educates leaders to reimagine everything they currently know about strategic thinking, leadership, management, and work design.
Our bosses have enormous influence over our ability to succeed, thrive, and advance in our organizations, in our careers and in our own leadership journey. Establishing strong, productive working relationships with those above us is the single most effective way to accelerate success in any organization. Managing up is not about brown nosing, sucking up, or becoming a sycophant. It is about consciously and deliberatively developing and maintaining effective relationships with supervisors, bosses, and other people above you in the chain of command. It is a deliberate effort to increase cooperation and collaboration in a relationship between individuals who often have different perspectives and uneven power levels. It is about is consciously working with your boss to obtain the best possible results. Managing up is about you taking charge of your workplace experience. Managing Up is about helping people succeed with the boss that they actually have--not the boss they wish they had.
Understanding the theories of persuasion, motivation, and influence will put you in life’s driver’s seat. Why? Because everything you want in life, or will want, comes from these three simple concepts. Kurt reveals the 12 Laws of Persuasion: you will be able to gain instant influence over others and inspire them to take action, all while getting exactly what you want from life. You will win people to your way of thinking and will empower yourself with an unshakable confidence. You will triple your prosperity in sales and marketing. You will become a captivating magnet of success. You’ll learn how to make people instinctively like and trust you, something that might otherwise take you years to accomplish. No longer will you face the unexpected with fear or intimidation. Rather, you will confront it head on with credibility, control, and confidence.
Effective leadership comes with a large learning curve. Many leaders rely too heavily on past achievements, practices, and ways of thinking to drive positive business results today, but they often need to unlearn those behaviors before they can take a step forward.
Join executive coach Barry O’Reilly as he breaks down a transformative framework that shows leaders how to rethink their strategies, retool their capabilities, and revitalize their businesses for stronger, longer-lasting success.
Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results shows leaders and entrepreneurs how to deliberately move away from once-useful mindsets and outdated behaviors that were effective in the past and embrace new behaviors that are effective in a world ripe with emerging technologies and accelerated change.
In this session, you will discover: Why we need to learn to unlearn, and how; How to use the system of unlearning; How to get started with unlearning; and more.
Poor and ineffective leadership is evident in all spheres of life, especially in business. A possible reason for the current leadership crisis is the application of ineffective and self-serving leadership practices that only aim to achieve selfish and short-term objectives at the detriment and longevity of people, business, society, as well as the environment.
Listen to a more effective and proven leadership approach to sustain people, business, society, and the environment, namely servant leadership. We’ll discuss the dimensions and functions of a servant leader and address a refreshing book that also provides several systematic leadership frameworks to empower people and to build high performing and significant organizations.
Leaders, consultants, and practitioners can use this book as a guide to implement servant leadership in a company to ultimately create a more profitable, significant, and sustainable organization.
Learn to think inside the box and discover why you should!
Todays business environment is more complex than at any time in history with greater ambiguity, chaos, and uncertainty. This tangled mass of noise effectively handicaps every facet of business. Clarity is the dynamic force that aligns and connects your most critical business principles. Leading Clarity blasts you beyond any preconceived limitations and with razor focus sets new direction, expectation, and pathways for success.
Leaders today often overlook clarity as a critical piece of their solution set. Organizational clarity rises above, with a more dynamic understanding of what is possible. It demands a holistic approach. Clarity cannot only be found, but created within defined, dimensional framework. Once, achieved, clarity closes the gaps by providing unparalleled connectivity that drives people, profit, and performance.
Change Resilience: It is time for us to stop the fear, the conscious and subconscious that is associated with change and embrace the change that will prepare us for both our professional and personal life journey. Most people believe that they are far more change adapt than they truly are. Change is no longer an event; it is a new way of living and staying relevant. It is time to develop a new core competence called change resilience, which is the ability to adapt to change in a faster and fuller way than we are used to do. The key success factor to change resilience is the ability to stay true to your purpose while adapting and changing the tools you use to pursue it.
Leadership is complex enough as it is. - How do you know whether tasks are getting done with remote teams? - Do your workers feel isolated? - Are they interacting with just you, or collaborating with the rest of the team? Wayne Turmel, co-author of “The Long Distance Leader,” addresses these questions and more. We’ll explore ways in which the Remote Leadership Institute (https://www.remoteleadershipinstitute.com/) teaches you to drill down into fundamental leadership concepts like delegating: realizing that its purpose is NOT to ease your load, that’s the wrong focus; coaching and feedback: how to do it at a distance, and, collaboration and engagement, how to turn remote workers into remote teams. We’ll explore values and their importance for establishing priorities, servant leadership, the 3-O model, the Golden Suggestion, the PIN technique for getting honest feedback, and Wayne will answer your questions. Listen in as we explore How to Lead Remote Teams Effectively.