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Leadership is often lonely. This conversation reveals the unspoken challenges at the top, and creates resources for connected leadership.
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Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
You can download Then Change Imperative here. https://www.change-imperative.com
This week on the Naked Leadership Adrain Koehler and Dan Tocchini join Chad Brown to talk about how leaders can combat burnout and overwhelm while working from home.
They discuss:
- The Change Imperative
- Maintaining presence of mind
- Turning overwhelm into growth opportunities
- "Locating" with employees
- identifying value in communication
- Practicing supportive management
And so much more!
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Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
This week on the Naked Leadership Adrain Koehler and Dan Tocchini join Chad Brown to talk about how leaders can talk with and stay connected with their teams in a time of crisis.
They discuss:
- What to say, what not to say
- How to not make the conversation about you
- The ethics of including your team in difficult conversations
- Why inspiration is not enough
- How to start the conversation
- The opportunity for a new culture
And so much more!
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Wednesday Mar 25, 2020
Wednesday Mar 25, 2020
In response to the current condition of our little blue marble, Dan, Adrian, and Chad with guest Davide are talking about what it means to show up as a leader in a time of crisis.
Davide is a leadership and executive communication specialist, joining us from Italy. Connect with him on linked in at the link below:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidezaccariello/
In this episode we explore:
- How despair is a gift
- What hope is and how we use it to disconnect from those we lead
- The opportunities that exist in this time of quarantine
And so much more!
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Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
You can connect with Jessie by going to his website! https://pavelka.co.uk/
In this episode, Dan, Adrian, and Chad Talk with Jessie Pavelka.
Jessie is a corporate fitness and wellbeing expert. He works to help leaders provide opportunity for wellbeing in their organizations.
In this conversation they talk about:
- The challenges for wellbeing amongst high performers and leaders
- That leaders often practice wellbeing in isolation
- How to share wellbeing practices with your company and teams
- How movement helps be a more effective leader and top-performer
- How to get our of your head and reduce stress through wellbeing
- How to create energy to do all that you have to, plus wellbeing
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Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
Grab your free copy of the Change Imperative, Innovating with your team. https://www.change-imperative.com/
This week Dan, Adrian, and Chad discuss intention.
What is it? How do we create it? Why do I care???
In this conversation they touch on:
- What intention is in leadership, and why we care?
- The idea of "no matter what"
- The significance of the Hero's Journey in the context of intention
- "How" vs. "whatever it takes"
- Intention vs. Mechanism
- Why do I not have what I say I want, and conflicting intentions
- How do we set an intention in our leadership work?
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Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
In this episode Chad, Adrian and Dan sit down with Greg Blackbourn, a financial advisor that helps people build relational wealth.
In this episode the discuss:
- What is relational wealth?
- How relationship capital is the most fulfilling capital we can accumulate.
- What's lacking when relational capital is scarce?
- How to invite others into vulnerability.
- We are all scared to look weak, but we don’t talk about it. What if we did?
- How Authenticity breeds respect.
- Taking stock of and managing your relational wealth.
- What is impulsive connection?
And finally a challenge for each of you to create deeper connections now in your leadership!
Connect with Greg on Facebook!
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Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
In this episode Chad, Dan and Adrian sit down to chat about the necessity of vulnerability in leadership.
The touch on topics such as:
- We don't choose to be vulnerable, we are naturally vulnerable. Its whether we choose to show our vulnerability or not that makes relatable to those we lead.
- Every leader deals with imposter syndrome.
- The role of self-doubt in leadership, and how to use it your advantage.
- The power we inherit when we claim and own our vulnerability
- How to be with those you lead in their vulnerability and empower them to use it for connection.
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Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
This week Dan, Adrian, and Chad sit down with Hendre Coetzee and talk about Resilience in leadership.
Hendre calls it The Art Of Rising.
In this conversation the cover aspects of resilience in leadership such as:
- What we can learn from the Hero's Journey
- What to do after a crisis
- How leaders contribute to the crisis
- Rising doesn't happen in a moment
- Sometimes resilience in leadership means letting go, instead of hanging on
- What is resilience in leadership
- How leaders hide behind the crisis
- Drawing the line of demarcation, and choosing to rise
Hendres book is called Shiftability; Creating A Sustainable Competitive Advantage In Selling.
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Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
This week Chad, Dan, and Adrian sit down to discuss the topic of connecting to current reality, and how to lead from a place of reality.
They cover topics such as:
- Why a leader should care if they are connected to current reality or not
- What are we talking about when we talk about connecting current reality?
- What does it mean to ground in reality?
- When we are disconnected from reality, there is no way to learn about ourselves and others.
- When you have it all figured out you lose curiosity.
- Connecting to current reality is like taking inventory.
- We tend to see things the way we want to see them.
- How often do you check in with your team, finding out what is true for them in the moment?
- Connecting to reality takes courage.
- Nothing ruins a plan like reality.
- What it means to contend with reality.
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Friday Jan 31, 2020
Friday Jan 31, 2020
This week in the conversation we interview Alli Webb on the founder's dilemma.
Alli Webb is an Entrepreneur, N.Y. Times Bestselling Author, Founder of Drybar and co-founder of Squeeze. After spending 15 years as a professional hairstylist, Webb left the professional hair industry in 2005 to start a family, but decided to find a way to continue pursuing the creative side of hairstyling at a new-mom pace. She began offering affordable in-home blowout services to her mommy friends, which quickly expanded into a mobile operation by 2009.
In 2010, Webb opened the first Drybar in Brentwood, CA. Almost 10 years later and over 150 locations across the U.S., Webb’s Drybar has exploded into a nationally recognized and highly sought-after brand. Webb has also diversified the Drybar brand, creating a line of products and tools sold at popular retailers such as Nordstrom, Sephora, and Ulta.
Webb has been named the “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company, featured on Fortune magazine’s “40 Under 40” list, Marie Claire’s “Most Fascinating Women” covered Inc Magazine’s “How I Did This” issue and recently Inc. magazine recognized her as one of “The 100 Women Building America’s Most Innovative and Ambitious Businesses.”
Webb is currently the host of “Raising the Bar” a podcast she launched with her brother and business partner Michael Landau. The weekly show provides a platform to budding entrepreneurs.
In 2018 Webb appeared on season 10 of ABC’s Emmy-nominated hit show “Shark Tank” as a guest shark.
Recently, Webb opened the doors to her next business venture Squeeze, an innovative massage concept that lets you book and pay online - the latest extension of her expanding empire.
Squeeze’s first location is set in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Studio City.
Webb currently resides in Los Angeles, CA with her two sons.
In this episode Alli talks about:
- When the weight of leadership hits
- Who You talk to when you can’t talk to the people you work with
- What conversations she did not have, that she wishes she had in the transition from founder to CEO
- Leading by example
- How no task is too small
- How to get your employees to care and take ownership
- The bitter-sweetness of losing great people in your organization
- Regrets in the process, and what she would do differently
- What knowledge she will carry with her to the next venture
You can connect with Alli:
Instagram: @alliwebb
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