Unleashed - Elevate Your Leadership Impact

E42: Dr. Adizes - Why Corporations Grow and Die

In a world of rapid, disruptive change, how can you grow your business with more certainty and confidence? Dr. Ichak Adizes developed a system to build mutual trust and respect in a company so that it can better handle risk, surprises, and change. He spent the last 50 years proving out the system which has now seen remarkable and consistent results in a broad range of organizations, industries, and groups.

Three reasons to tune in:

• See how organizations that are better integrated internally grow faster externally.
• Explore how to unleash diversity to its fullest through a safe, full-participation culture.
• Remove cultural and leadership impediments to growth and achieve higher performance.

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E41: Kim Scott - Radical Candor

How often do unpopular opinions, information and perspectives go unvoiced and later come back to bite us? Kim Scott took her experiences of working at leading companies like Apple, Google, and others, and unearthed what makes some teams thrive while others struggle. In a phrase, radical candor.

Three reasons to tune in:

• Hear how great teams interact differently than those who struggle, and how they communicate with facts, directness, and care.
• Learn the two dimensions of radical candor and how with both we can communicate powerfully, directly, and still maintain engagement and buy in.
• See how, as a leader, you can model the way to radical candor within your organization.

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E40: Tiffani Bova - 10 Stages of Organizational Growth

Growth and innovation strategy will either make – or break – your business. Tiffany Bova has de-mystified growth in the face of stiff competition and a fast-changing business environment. She has identified 10 simple growth paths, and how to apply them to build the right strategy for you. 

Three reasons to tune-in -  

• Understand how to evaluate your competitive landscape to know which growth path will have the greatest impact. 
• See how great leaders are countercyclical, knowing that the best time to create the next big opportunity is when things are going well, not when things are struggling. 
• Learn from the experiences of diverse organizations like Red Bull, Marvel, and Starbucks as well as smaller, owner-operated firms.  

 

E39: Adam Grant - The Power of (Re)Thinking

We are all expected to think, but how often do we question our own thinking processes?

Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people’s minds, and his recent work focuses on unlearning, relearning, and thinking again. Too many of us favor conviction over controversy, status quo over innovation, assumptions over facts, and certainty over doubt. But it is within these very habits that, if we can rethink, we can grow.

Three Reasons to Tune In:

• Understand how biases, habits and assumptions undermine our critical thinking skills.
• Supercharge your ability to influence by recognizing that persuasion is less about truth and reason, and more about process, questioning and listening.
• Learn how to develop a rethinking habit for yourself and your organization to ensure better decisions making and greater success.

 

E38: Annie Duke - Decision Making for Today‘s Leaders

What do you do when faced with a big decision? Generate a pros and con list? Get caught in analysis paralysis? Only to finally go with your gut?

There is a better way to make quality decisions. A way that allows you to think clearly, feel more confident, second-guess yourself less, and ultimately be more decisive and be more productive.

Bestselling author and former professional poker player Annie Duke lays out a series of tools anyone can use to make better decisions.

Tune in to -

• Learn how to identify and dismantle your own hidden biases.
• More accurately identify the influence of luck in the outcome of your decisions and therefore how to learn from past decisions.
• Know when to decide fast, when to decide slow, and when to decide in advance.

 

E37: Shelle Rose Charvet - Words That Change Minds

As leaders we need to be effective influencers to be productive. But did you know that the specific words you choose can have a significant impact on your ability to influence and motivate others?

Shelle Rose Charvet has spent the past three decades helping people leverage The Language and Behavior Profile (LAB Profile®), a tool for understanding how people and groups process information, make decisions and are motivated to act. Using this tool allows us to notice and respond with just the right influencing language to persuade and inspire those around us.

Three Reasons to Tune In:

• Understand the different profiles people have for taking in information, making decisions, and choosing actions.
• Discover how language and word selection triggers specific responses in listeners depending on their profiles.
• Learn a methodology to use in conversation to effectively influence others.

E36: Jim Detert - Choosing Courage - An Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work

Does your organization embrace a culture of courage? Or do you - or others - bite your tongue in fear of saying something unpopular or facing recrimination? How often do the people in your organization fear speaking up to you?

Workplace courage is acting because it feels right and important to stand up despite the potential for serious career, social, psychological, and even physical repercussions for doing so.

Jim Detert has discovered that workplace courage is in short supply today and has become a champion of helping individuals and organizations become more courageous. Courageous cultures help people feel safe and help surface more diverse viewpoints, leading to better decisions and actions.

Three reasons to tune in:

• Explore the concept of Truth to Power, the set of behaviors for confronting or challenging others, acting with more autonomy than you technically have, protecting or promoting others, and owning your mistakes.
• Learn how to have candid conversations that ensure commitment to bold aspirations and actions.
• Understand the steps in the Courage Ladder, a development process we can all follow to develop our own workplace courage.

 

E35: Karen Eber - Persuading People Through Good Stories

Human beings are wired for story. From our earliest ancestors, knowledge, culture, and information was passed from one generation to the next through story. Even today, research shows people are persuaded more and learn faster through story than through charts, graphs, and facts.

Yet how often do we skillfully leverage storytelling at work? Karen Eber, a top TED speaker and “Leader Whisperer,” believes anyone can learn to be a great storyteller, and story skills are essential for leaders.

Three Reasons to Tune In:

• Learn why stories are more effective than data in building trust and how storytelling affects our brains.
• See why people respond to vulnerability in storytelling.
• Discover how to come up with good ideas for your best stories.

 

E34: Alison Fragale - How to Make Leadership a Level Playing Field for Women

Most women don’t advance in their careers because of their own limiting assumptions. Often, according to the research, women are far less likely than men to take a shot at a new role or opportunity when they feel they aren’t fully qualified.

Most women assume that their performance will speak for itself, and opportunities will find them rather than seeking them out.

Alison Fragale, a champion for women’s advancement, believes that if women could get out of their own way, we would benefit from seeing more of them in leadership positions.

Three reasons to listen:

• Understand the research behind how women and men self-promote differently.
• Learn approaches to overcoming the self-limiting assumptions.
• Listen to how we can all be part of the solution to removing barriers to diversity and inclusivity in our organizations.

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E33: Annie Korver - Truth, Reconciliation and Our Path Forward

September 30th, 2021 marked Canada's first ever Truth & Reconciliation Day. Honour this important initiative by listening to this authentic, raw conversation with Annie Korver. Annie is on a mission to advance indigenous participation and inclusion in Canadian businesses. Grow your understanding of Canadian history, and strengthen your culture of inclusion.

More than ever the opportunity exists for organizations to proactively participate in, support, and partner on economic development activities with Indigenous communities and ventures. Through thoughtful conversations and planning, values-led reconciliation can become a reality.