222: Connecting Remote Teams with Responsibility and Accountability

How do you hire, onboard and get the best results in a virtual workplace? Dr. Ronald Beach knows it takes a combination of communication skills, setting clear expectations, and taking time to create a strong relationship with each person on the team. He shares many useful tips from his two books, The Virtual Divide and The Virtual Bridge.

Ron is an Organizational Sociologist with a Ph. D. in Organization and Management. He’s now at the University of Arizona Global Campus, where he serves as the Lead Faculty for the Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration within the Forbes School of Business and Technology®.

Before that Ron had more than 25 years’ experience as a manager in high tech manufacturing at companies like Western Digital and Hitachi. He’s also an award-winning author of 7 books.

You’ll discover:

How Ron applied lessons from his years in the Marines to his work in a high-tech manufacturing environment
Why it’s worth a leader’s time to schedule weekly calls with each person on their team
What to include in your onboarding to ensure a good match and high productivity long-term
Ron’s approach to managing his remote team of 84 full-time and adjunct faculty members at the University of Arizona

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212: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching

Are you working with a coach or have you considered hiring one? There are things you can do to maximize the experience, and my guest Karen Davis has literally written the book on it. In this enlightening conversation, you’ll find out the characteristics of being coachable and how to integrate what you learn into daily practice.

After 25 years in leadership roles in business-to-business technology, Karen changed her life by serving and guiding the transformation of others. Since 2007, she’s been coaching, consulting, and facilitating leadership workshops for organizations such as Pfizer, Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, and Medtronic, as well as small to medium businesses

Today, Karen’s practice focuses on deep one-on-one coaching with high-performing executives, entrepreneurs, and executive coaches who are committed to their success, ready to uncover their hidden potential and make their own unique difference in the world. She’s the co-author of three books; and in her interview, we focused on her latest, How to Get the Most Out of Coaching, A Client’s Guide for Optimizing the Coaching Experience.

You’ll discover:

The benefits Karen has experienced herself by working with different coaches since 2007
The distinction between goal-line and soul-line and how the two work together
What it means to be coachable
Why it’s so critical to have an agreement related to each person’s commitment to the coaching process
The kinds of actions that are important immediately before and after the coaching session

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How to Get the Most Out of Coaching

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194: How PEERNOVATION Builds High-Performing Teams

What do CEO peer advisory groups and high-performing teams in organizations have in common? Leo Bottary has worked closely with both, and he’s identified 5 Factors that are essential to their ultimate success. You’ll enjoy learning from his expertise combined with his passion to have a positive impact!

Leo is the founder and managing partner of Peernovation, LLC. He’s a sought-after thought leader, keynote speaker, and workshop facilitator on leadership and maximizing the power of peers in the workplace. Leo is the author of three books, and we focused on his latest one, PEERNOVATION: What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us about Building High-Performing Teams, in this conversation.

You’ll discover:

Why CEO peer advisory groups are so effective
How the principles from those groups apply to teams in today’s organizations
What’s behind Leo’s saying, “The Power of WE begins with ME”
How the 5 Factors work together to create the right results
The importance of celebrating large and small wins as a team

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Peernovation: What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us About Building High-Performing Teams

What Anyone Can Do: How Surrounding Yourself with the Right People Will Drive Change, Opportunity, and Personal Growth

The Power of Peers: How the Company You Keep Drives Leadership Growth & Success

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157: When Love, Passion & Accountability Are a Company’s Core Values

What’s it like to work in a company whose core values are practiced daily by leaders and employees alike? Christopher Lind paints a clear picture, describing the positive impact on relationships and results.

Christopher is Chief Learning Officer at ChenMed. He’s a globally recognized, digital-first leader in learning and workplace technology with a career at the intersection of people, business, and technology. He’s the founder of Learning Sharks and host of the Learning Tech Talks Podcast.

You’ll discover:

How ChenMed teams live their core values when interacting with each other and their patients
Four challenges that Christopher is hearing about when talking with leaders in organizations
A simple solution for eliminating the problem of poor managers
How leaders can reduce employee anxiety and build a foundation of trust

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121: Replace Drama with Compassionate Accountability

Want to reduce the amount of drama and conflict in your life? My guest Nate Regier explains the drama triangle and the real causes of conflict…and why compassionate accountability is the solution to both. Nate’s unique perspective about conflict can help you approach differences with another person in a new, better way. He’s brilliant in creating models that foster positive relationships and workplaces…and then teaching clients how to use them to transform their organizations. You’ll find that his model for compassionate accountability has immediate application in your life.

Nate is the CEO and founding owner of Next Element Consulting, a global leadership firm dedicated to bringing compassion into the workplace. He’s the author of three books, and this interview focused on his second book: Conflict without Casualties: A Field Guide for Leading with Compassionate Accountability. Nate hosts an excellent podcast called “On Compassion with Dr. Nate,” where he spotlights leaders committed to building positive cultures.

You’ll discover:

The dynamics between the 3 roles of Victim, Rescuer and Persecutor
Why Nate describes Rescuers as “non-consensual helpers”
What Nate means when he says, “Compassion is not for the faint of heart”
The 3 elements of the model (Open-Resourceful-Persistent-Order) and why the sequence is so important
The distinction between boundaries, ultimatums and consequences

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