Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future - Archive

S5-Ep29: SkillNet: Personalized Learning Framework for Your Company

Guest: Mike Kritzman
Current research is showing that upskilling, reskilling, and retention are new mandates for companies to retain talent but it’s easier said than done. Trying to use old methods that won’t scale or engage users doesn't work so a new approach to personalized training is needed for leaders to retain the level of talent desired. Mike Kritzman of SkillNet shares how leaders can provide personalized training for each of their employees.

S5-Ep28: Creative Thinking Can Lead to Confidence in Quality Solutions

Guest: Chris Griffiths
Outmoded ways of thinking through problems will no longer suffice in a world where change is constant. To keep ahead of the competition, companies need to seek out innovation. Leaders need to be creative to help their employees thrive, not just survive. By applying the ideas and methods Chris discusses from THE CREATIVE THINKING HANDBOOK, leaders will be able to have confidence in the quality of their solution, adopt new thinking habits, attitudes and beliefs, and embed a creative culture in their company.

S5-Ep27: Elevating the HR Professional to the C-Suite

Guest: Glenn G. Jones
Human resources executives are not typically thought of as being CEO-ready, though they play a major role in setting policy on employee engagement, culture and diversity. The common perception is that HR is not viewed as a profit center and is perceived as a drain on profits. These executives tend to be defensive about what they do. HR needs to gain the ability to look critically at the problems facing their companies and come up with 21st century options that fit today’s world. Glenn G. Jones will discuss how to give HR professionals a different view of what’s possible, open up new career paths and provide confidence that what they do is a positive for all. Non-HR executives will also gain perspective on gaining the growth mindset and courage to allow HR professionals to flourish outside the realm of human resources.

S5-Ep26: Entrepreneurial Operating System: Gaining Business Traction

Guest: Rainee Busby
EOS© (Entrepreneurial Operating System) builds a solid foundation necessary to grow a successful business. This system is designed for entrepreneurial organizations and the basics apply to well run businesses of any size. Rainee talks about implementing this system to help business owners and leaders maintain a solid balance between leading and managing a business with practical tools. The six key elements are: 1. Vision - defining the organizations vision and values using 8 key questions shared by all 2. People - getting the right people in the right seats 3. Data - Scorecard, measurables looking at leading indicators 4. Managing issues - using list and continually tracking accountabilities and resulutions 5. Documenting and following processes 6. Gaining traction through execution - managing the business through clearly defined goals and accountability meetings weekly For organizations to be successful, they need to perform at 80% on all six elements.

S5-Ep25: Sustainability: Why Hasn’t It Been Embraced?

Guest: Christoph Hinske, Michelle Thatcher & Khoo Hock Aun
Business as usual can no longer be the leader thought pattern in regard to environmental impacts made by businesses. We are at a critical point where sustainability and impacts on the environment by business practices must be considered. What as leaders can we do to make a difference in these highly sensitive decisions? Christoph Hinske, Michelle Thatcher and Khoo Hock Aun discuss the options leaders have to encourage favorable corporate behavior and what leaders can do to make a difference.

S5-Ep24: The Soulful Leader

Guest: Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Dr. Ciaramicoli's will talk about his book: The Soulful Leader. He provides poignant and practical examples of his ground-breaking AIE (authenticity, integrity and empathy) leadership platform for leaders in all industries to help them successfully optimize the potential of employees. AIE leadership produces an environment where staff members grow to respect each other while producing on the highest possible level. Dr. Ciaramicoli has developed this approach during 35 years of consulting with and counseling leaders in business, education, politics, and on athletic teams. His communication and leadership groups have been ongoing for over 30 years, which has allowed him to study the personal characteristics that lead to excellent leadership skills. His pioneering approach offers new promise to a society struggling with fear and doubt about those in powerful positions.

S5-Ep40: WE Empower UN Sustainable Development Goals Challenge Winners

Guest: Amanda Ellis, Hadeel Anabtawi & Habiba Ali
There are women leaders making a difference by promoting positive change in their local communities which can have a global impact. “Women hold each other’s hands around the world for innovative positive change, supporting and promoting each other’s work to make the world a better place and co-creating the future we want”. Amanda Ellis, co-chair of the WE Empower United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Challenge, which promotes women business owners globally who are both running successful businesses and supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, joins Maureen along with Hadeel Anabtawi and Habiba Ali, two of the 2018 winners of the challenge. Their inspiring stories show how women leaders can make a difference in the world to promote positive change.

S5-Ep39: FOCUS on Women and Leadership

Guest: Parminder Vir
For twenty years The International Leadership Association’s mission has been to advance leadership knowledge and practice for a better world. Through this platform, they organize events and conferences assembling talent across sectors, cultures, disciplines and generations. For the 4th Women and Leadership conference, a community of like-minded women and some men, young and old, spent three days discussing, debating, and reflecting on ways in which women’s leadership potential can be developed, energized and liberated for the ‘greater good’. Parminder Vir joins us today to share her insights on Women in Leadership from the conference and her life experiences.

S5-Ep38: Leading with GRACE

Guest: John Baldoni
Successful businesspeople can usually point to a previous boss or mentor who helped shape their career by sharing their expertise as well as their wisdom. These lessons are not held in a classroom but in offices, hallways, cubicles, lunchrooms and wherever employees gather. The lessons revolve around what’s happening in the business as well as what’s necessary to learn in order to become more effective. John Baldoni joins the program to discuss how C-level executives, managers, as well as employees and other stakeholders, following the principles in GRACE will result in stronger, more cohesive teams which makes for a stronger company overall.

S5-Ep37: Leadership SIgnals that Turn Culture Into Competitive Advantage

Guest: Jeff Grimshaw & Lynne Viscio
Your organization’s culture: It’s either an asset or a liability. At this very moment, your culture is helping business performance. Or hurting it. Jeff Grimshaw and Lynne Viscio are here to discuss their new book, Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture Into Competitive Advantage. It seeks to answer one of the most critical questions facing leaders and organizations today: How do you turn your business culture into a sustainable source of competitive advantage?