Living Leadership with Phil Eastwood: Recent Episodes
Phil Eastwood
As 2023 comes to a close, it is a chance to sit and reflect on the journey we have taken with Fiore Group Training....this episode details that story.
Phil continues the series on authentic and empowering goals, based on Mark Murphy's HARD GOALS. This week we discuss "heartfelt" goals. How do we know where to find them, recognize them and in the end accomplish them?
Join Phil as we explore how to use Goals to propel you to your success outcome - whatever you choose that to be.
The conversation we dread and put off as long as possible, can if done correctly, yield long-term results - some that may surprise you.
In the final episode of our Thinking Hats series, Phil discusses the need for the impassioned Red Hat Thinkers, who rely on intuition and emotion as seriously as others rely on logic.
Yellow Hat thinking is curious, optimistic, and logical. Known for their good nature and dependability, they are well-liked. Heads up - be prepared to take your time - they won't be rushed!
Every team needs people who sow seeds of the future, think forward, risk rejection, and dream with curiosity. If your team does not include and support green hat thinking, the future of your endeavors will suffer for it.
Black hat thinkers are right/wrong, black/white in their approach to work. They focus on logic, facts and often discard creativity or intuitive reasoning in problem-solving or innovative processes. They can offend other team members while thinking they are giving to the team exactly what they would hope the team would offer them in return.
Join Phil for the next several weeks as we look at the different ways people process facts and how we can respectfully navigate working relationships when we don't agree.
Leaders are most effective when their influence is contagious and people respect who they are. This week we remind ourselves of some top leadership influence tips from 2021.
Phil Eastwood offers the most loved posts from 2021 on leadership, personal growth, career development - a mindful approach.
Cognitive Dissonance is dangerous for you and the people that you influence. Find out what it is and how to spot it in your behavior.
It’s mid-January, and by all statistical reports, over 90% of us have already ditched our New Years Resolutions.
No matter where you are in the process, I think we can find a way to keep moving forward. If you are sinking in to do, this podcast is for you!
As leaders, we know that fundamentally we are influencers. If people don’t respect the leader, all the programs, policies, manuals, and requirements mean very little. Active listening is one sure way to increase your influence. You demonstrate and offer respect to others, who, in turn, offer theirs.
Learn how you can use word pictures to capture the ownership and commitment to respectful behaviors that reflect diversity and inclusion. Phil shares an amazing tool used in all our training.
Our daily rituals and habits determine how we live our lives. Fortunately, while we need to adjust to the demands of a changing world, how we adjust (through the disciplines we choose) can have a big impact on our happiness. Join Phil in this week's episode on practicing keystone habits in 2022.
2022 takes us into the third year of a global pandemic. Phil shares how we need to strengthen our body, our mind, and our connections with people we care about. How can we do that with such uncertain circumstances?
Discover how you can share repetitive, even boring information in ways everyone wants to listen to. Tell a story!
Before we venture into respectful workplace behavior or how kindness transforms your work environment, first we must address indecent behaviors. Here are 5 tips for creating healthy foundations for workplace behavior and morale.
People are changing careers and leaving old work paradigms in droves. There is a consensus that you want more, but how do you get to the next level? Phil shares how the Leadership Accelerator Program helps emerging leaders develop the skills that propel you forward in life and your career.
At Fiore Group Training we have been teaching a respectful workplace curriculum for many years. 2022 demands some big revisions. It's time to train much more extensively on the subject and to teach teams how to create a CODE OF CONDUCT that they all can buy into and become stakeholders of the outcome.
For optimal personal development, Phil recommends developing a lifestyle of learning - and books make that possible. Whether you choose audible, paperback, PDF, hardcover, or collectors editions - the ideas inside the words are your treasures!
There are definite benefits to working from home, but the drawback can be - we are never NOT working. Let's explore some healthy ways you can create much-needed boundaries around work and your personal life and well-being.
Phil shares how his dad has had a lasting and major impact on his life and career choices and, finally, how dad and mom ever met in the first place!
You may not be the superstar in skill, but the value of kindness is universal - it cannot be stated. It is a grace. Once we receive it, we are altered. Once we give it, we become even more.
Phil Eastwood uses Paul E. White and Gary D. Chapman’s work in the 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work as a model for the variety of ways we can significantly impact the lives of those we lead, and consequently the performance of our organization as a whole.
In times of uncertainty, stress is elevated and tension is thick. We need to be able to trust. Here are some tips for building trust in the workplace.
We may have grown accustomed to the work-from-home vibe and enjoy the 12-foot commute, but we do better with collaboration and problem-solving when we are running into one another at the most unexpected times.
Although it’s a given (and the law) that employers are responsible for their employees’ physical safety and well-being, your workplace can benefit in numerous ways by looking at the mental well-being of all who work there.
Phil shares key communication tips and the value of respectful communication to any organization.
My dad is 96 years old and mentally sharp! I learned a key from him that enables me to keep growing personally and professionally. Today, I'll share that secret with you.
Some common sense behaviors that will improve workplace morale and make your 9 to 5 a richer experience.
While it's easy to see what others need to do, what is the baseline of respect we all need to follow to build a healthy workplace culture?
Our social norms are changing, including how we talk at work - using words and our body. Learn to use your eyes, hands, posture, and personal space in constructive ways that build respect and solid relationships in the workplace.
Laughter is oxygen to our work life and office morale. But when does humor become weaponized or demeaning?
You may not like to apologize. It feels uncomfortable for most of us. For some, it even seems like a show of weakness. In fact, an honest apology that takes into consideration what we did or didn't do, and how that affects others can not only change our working relationships - but we change too. We are on the road to our best selves!
Learning to speak your truth while allowing the truth of another to have room to breathe is a skill. Let's practice!
The morale of the team and the company as a whole reflects the attitude and conviction of the leaders in the board room. It starts with you!
A smart leader knows their team and has an intuitive read on the climate in the workplace. This week I gave you a guide in the blog that you can use to recognize the trouble before it becomes a serious issue.
You inherently possess a wealth of inner resources to help you deal with the situations you face when managing people. All you need is some practice before the crises hits.
More than one person in a room and you have the potential for conflict. Smart leaders proactively take steps to reduce the chances and plan processes to resolve them when they arise.
Look out! With more people back in the office and bringing new opinions formed in their basement closet office nooks, there is room for conflict. How you deal with it as a leader will have a significant impact on how people feel about their workplace, and perform their tasks.
How do we maintain a culture of respect and inclusion when we work at a distance using emails, texts, messaging, and Zoom? How will we manage the mixed work cultures of the home and the office building? Let's start with the basics and build from there.
Can one person make a difference in the office? I'm betting on you and your team! Here are some practical tips to create a positive, engaged, and productive workplace.
Episode 59 - With Your Host Phil Eastwood
Are you silent when you need to speak, and noisy when you need to listen? Difficult conversations are a skillset you must embrace in Leadership. Let me give you some useful tips.
You have the secret sauce to a happier workplace! It is a choice you make every day on the way to work. What you talk about, focus on, and celebrate will determine the energy you feel towards the work and the people who work there. Phil discusses the benefits of a positive thinking habit.
Change is the course of nature. Nothing stays the same from one minute to the next. Oftentimes the conflicts we fear are really a knock on the door to your next opportunity. Phil offers indicators of conflict and some valuable resolution tips.
Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile record and made living history. Like all great accomplishments, it took a team of people to create the conditions for success. Phil discusses the benefits of having accountability partners in your work.
Small steps, done every day, create big strides. You don’t have to do it all, and you don’t have to do it fast. You simply need to act in the direction of your dreams EVERY DAY to create the groundswell to your success. Phil discusses the 3 Engines of Greatness and how they apply to you.
Dreams – those illusive imaginings never come true unless we take steps in the real world to make it happen. Phil has a “secret garden” analogy that reveals his fears and how he overcame them to step into his dream.
Leaders who thrive are people who are continually learning something new! You are curious, interested, and humble enough to know you don't know enough. Phil shares the four characteristics of Transformational Leadership Theory.
Core values are the driving force behind what is accomplished in your business/organization/personal life. It's one thing to publish your objectives, but without the inner fire of value-based conviction, the effort may begin with fanfare and fizzle to smoke.
Your job title has little to do with your leadership function. Leaders are easy to recognize. You'll find them helping other people succeed.
Trainers, workshop providers, and adult educators have a big job to do! Your work is to help your participants want to learn what you have to share. It's not mere information you provide. You offer the connection between needed information and the human desire to know it. Phil offers a clear understanding of what to do to improve your teaching style.
How you treat the people you lead is how they will treat people they lead or work with. Typically company morale issues start in the C-suite! Take a quick personal inventory as Phil shares five powerful aspects of influence leadership.
A positive attitude is contagious and if we expect others to display positive attitudes, we should model such behaviors for them. Phil shares some practices you can try if you think you need an attitude adjustment, such as: associating with positive people and changing your thoughts.
We want what we want, and we want it now! Success is not a stagnant destination. It changes and morphs as we change and situations evolve. To enjoy success, begin by doing your very best in the now moment, and make NOW a success.
The pillars of self-care and wellness are the foundations for personal and professional success. Join Phil as he shares the power of awareness, authenticity, mindfulness, and rational thinking.
Recognizing the lagging indicators and how they could influence the future of your workplace is key to effective leadership. Measuring not only successes, but what steps were used, and what needs to be changed to make the process more effective.
Relationships are key to how your experience your life - both at home and at work. Starting with your relationship with yourself and working outwards to trusting, authenticity, and recognizing how our previous conditioning then blurs the facts in the present moment.
In the same way we plan for disasters, weddings, and an upcoming holiday, we can prepare for a more respectful workplace through deliberate actions.
We talk a lot about self-awareness and how well we know ourselves. But have you ever investigated how others know you? How are you perceived by your team, and why?
Setbacks and mistakes in life are inevitable, and for the vast majority of us, life will seldom unfold as we predicted. Berating ourselves is not helpful when things go wrong. How do we practice the compassion for ourselves that we would with others?
Use this amazing self-awareness tool to develop a well-rounded composite of who you are in your various relationships.
Changing direction is more than a positive thought. It requires some reflection on what we don't want and what we are willing to do to get what we do want.
GOLD Episode! Phil shares 5 books that helped him with his personal, day-to-day transformation.
GOLD EPISODE! Phil shares 5 books that helped him with his personal, day-to-day transformation.
What is your one liner about your past that you choose to leave behind and propel yourself to a better future?
What should you do when things go wrong? Make a plan, break it into steps, consider each step forward a success, and repeat. If you face challenging times, don’t run, don’t hide, don’t panic. Pivot.
Chances are you have. We all do. Effective leaders practice improving judgement calls. Phil shares an invaluable concept to help you improve.
At a time of historic crises, leading during a pandemic may be more than you signed up for. It requires adaptability. Phil shares some tricks on how to survive by using the fundamentals.
If managing your expectations of yourself seems tough, managing the expectations you have for others is an understated challenge. Phil shares how "I did it my way" can actually limit you.
Listening takes practice. You would think with two ears it would be easy - but it's far more than hearing noise. You can learn the art form.
Phil shares how consistent study in five-minute segments a day with application in your own life can dramatically increase your yearly outcome.
Our day-to-day mental health is reflected in our enjoyment of life, our ability to cope with a range of emotions, and a having sense of connection with others. Phil shares four behaviors you can control for better mental health.
We don't always agree or see things the same way. Colleagues may have very different concepts of life, social norms, and work outcomes. Still, civility and respect must be the backbone of workplace conversation. Here are some tips to help.
It's easy in the remote environment to forget how important individual effort can be in the overall outcome of the day. Leaders need to find ways to focus on the accomplishments of their team members. Phil offers 3 important techniques.
How would your team describe you? Are you there to assist, empower and help them to succeed? Or did you hire them to do that for you? You get what you pay for.
How much more can we accomplish when we treat people we know and don't know with common, or as it may become in our day, uncommon courtesy?
We need it. It takes Moxy to handle negative feedback - even if we know we need it. Phil shares some tips on facing feedback that hurts, but may help our overall performance.
It will take a mental shift to get us back to the office and feeling safe again. That's where a leader can really shine. Find out how to create a "Safe" feeling in the workplace environment - post Covid19.
Leaders set the pace for the workplace environment. When it's toxic we limit ourselves in every way. Don't make some of these common leadership mistakes.
To become the best version of yourself requires brutal honesty and transparency - with yourself. Here are some tools to help you look and recognize the person you see.
The Arc of Fire is actually a management technique in the military. It helps people who work on a team understand their responsibility and where it starts and ends. Ensure your team members know the Why and Where they fit in the team.
Rather than setting goals, what if you set objectives. What you want to accomplish and why you want to accomplish those things. Once done, goals are much easier to reach.
How well do you see yourself? Can you honestly evaluate your emotional intelligence? Are you aware of your habitual behaviors and how they affect those around you?
What if you found 10 ways to solve your problem and had 2 or 3 that could actually work? What if you are not as trapped in a "sand trap" as you might think. Learn how you can change your perspective.
Stories capture human imagination and become relatable. Through the narrative, you can show why something matters and why it's worth the effort.
Core values guide our behaviors, decisions, and actions. Phil guides you through a personal values exercise where he shares how to find your core values. He also shares helpful questions to ask yourself when uncovering your core values.
In this episode, Phil expounds on John Maxwell's 5 levels of leadership. Where are you in your leadership career?
Do you have a routine inventory? Is there a way you hold yourself accountable for the outcomes you desire? Phil shares how to start, and more importantly, how to keep going.
Do you actively listen to the stories of your team members. Listening to others helps you understand and catch a glimpse of how they see things that matter to them.
Heartfelt, animated, required, and difficult. Phil discusses why each of these is important to move toward the success you desire in life.
Phil shares the 10 essential questions you need to often ask of yourself, and how color-coding your progress helps.
Phil tells a personal story of training for his first marathon and how that informs his personal development strategy today.
Resilience equips us with essential tools to face the storms. You can train yourself toward resilience. Learn the role mindfulness plays.
The problem with our life is not our problems. Our “problem” is how we view ourselves in that circumstance.
Improve your leadership skills when hosting online team meetings. Phils shares 5 tips on mastering the virtual environment.
We all have lots on our plates. It’s easy to dismiss professional development as a luxury for which you don’t have time to spare. Phil encourages leaders to carve out time in their schedule to access training and grow their skills.
What tends to separate resilient people and those who buckle under pressure is - attitude. Resilient people meet adversity head-on and can bounce back from setbacks.
Phil explains how he grew and where it all started for him – in a Chapters bookstore, sipping a Starbucks coffee. He shares how you can take your tiny steps for whatever massive change you want in your life.
Mike Roberts started his career with the City of Burnaby at the age of 17. He spent his initial years working in an operational capacity before moving into supervisory and then managerial roles. He held the Safety and security manager for the City of Burnaby 5 years and then found a natural transition into the Manager of Audit and Training Services for BCMSA.
In 2017 he was successful in achieving the position of Executive Director and is now engaged in further developing an already excellent organization.
Delivering almost 800 training sessions last year to 11,000 students, BCMSA has a lot going on with much more to come he says.
A soccer coach who is certified at the national level, Mike Roberts is a goal-oriented professional who naturally finds himself thinking in strategic ways, laser-focused on delivering results which make a positive difference in people’s lives.
Patricia Evans is a facilitator and consultant with more than 30 years of experience in health care, communications and the social profit sector. Following an early career as a journalist in both print and television, she went back to school and acquired formal communications training.
She worked for more than a decade at BC Children’s Hospital, including serving as Director of Public Affairs and Communications. Pat honed her governance and project leadership skills as Vice President and Senior Advisor at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in Vancouver.
Pat describes herself as a governance geek who thrives on the variety of working with a constantly changing list of clients, each with unique challenges. The mission of her consulting practice is to Support and empower individuals and organizations to create a better future.
Jaeny Baik takes business owners from “zero to hero” in front of the video camera. She first cut her teeth as a reporter and TV host, digging up stories for a decade at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Today Jaeny coaches on-camera performance, and writes video scripts with authentic PUNCH!
More than a thousand entrepreneurs have trained under her signature system, learning new techniques to perform with confidence on video.
She’s media coached clients around the world, including Qatar in the Middle East via video Skype. Jaeny’s passion runs deep - slaying corporate clichés and revealing the honest, human face behind business through online video marketing. Her website is JennyBeckMedia.
Darrell is the Chief Relationship Officer for Bloom Strategies.
He introduces new clients to the firm, builds strategic partnerships and coordinates the company’s community building events.
He passionately educates people as to how money and the financial system “really work”, and is on a mission to help people understand that they can master their finances, and make socially and environmentally sound investments which are good for profits, the planet and people.
Darrell is also a professional speaker and trainer.
He helps companies, their teams and individuals maximize their effectiveness in the workplace through building networking and business development skills, sales skills, and a greater understanding of personality and behavioral styles for enhanced communication and performance.
He has also co-authored 3 books and it was a pleasure to sit down and chat with him.
Julia Oulton is a natural leader with a talent for making connections and building lasting partnerships for her clients and customers.
Having built successful businesses for herself and others, Julia has leveraged her consultative sales, strategic planning and negotiating abilities to assist her clients and their teams with entering new markets and securing deals.
Julia began her business career with IBM at the time when they were expanding in the new era of PCs. She excelled as a sales associate and was promoted into successive leadership roles throughout the ten years she was with the company.
During the 20 years that she has run her own consulting business, Julia has worked with clients in a variety of industries, from IT and other technologies to the nutrition and health care industry and the not-for-profit sector. Now this dynamic senior business strategist has turned her attention to the role of TEC Chair for Small Business and CEO groups.