The Look & Sound of Leadership Podcast
1) Leading When Ego at the Top Is Unchecked
A chief officer is infuriated by the behavior of his egomaniacal CEO. With his coach, he explores how to be a healthy leader while reporting to a boss he doesnât respect. Core concepts in this episode...Show More
2) How to Grow Your People
A senior vice-president worries that attention on his peopleâs development will get overwhelmed in the volume of work. He asks his coach for tools to make the process effective and efficient. Downl...Show More
3) How to Motivate and Inspire
After a leader turns around the performance of one of his direct reports, he and his coach explore how it happened. And how to make it stick. Core ideas in the episode: Workplaces improve when pos...Show More
4) How to Guarantee Psychological Safety
A toxic boss destroys psychological safety on her team. One of her direct reports talks to his coach about how to survive. And how to keep his own team safe. Core ideas in the episode: Donât take o...Show More
5) How to Supercharge Introversion
Concerned his introversion makes him less effective, a corporate vice president asks for coaching â from an extrovert! Together, the coach and client explore ways to assure his introversion is a stren...Show More
6) How to Manage Defensive People
A leader with a direct report who is, she says, the most defensive person sheâs ever known, devotes an entire coaching session to gathering tools to help her cope. All the tools and ideas and scrip...Show More
7) How to Own Healthy Assertion
Still traumatized over an angry explosion sheâd aimed at an abusive leader years before, a leader asks her coach to help her access healthy assertion to use during moments of conflict. Where are you...Show More
8) How to Create Engagement Online
Convinced that participants need to engage in order to learn, a leader is discouraged after the cheerless rollout of her online learning program. She turns to her coach for help facilitating virtual g...Show More
9) How to Deepen Relationships at Work
Knowing sheâs never been good with people, a leader seeks coaching to her deepen relationships in ways she can tolerate. Two ways to deepen workplace relationships: Matching & Curiosity 4 Ways to Ma...Show More
10) How to Talk so People Understand You
A leader is losing credibility with her senior leaders. Her boss thinks she can turn it around by learning the sorting tool that transformed him as a communicator, so he brings in the coach who taught...Show More