Encore Restoring the Soul of Business

What does it really take to successfully lead in the 21st Century? Leading well is difficult. If it were easy, more people would be doing it. Bad leadership results in disengagement, turnover, unhappiness, anxiety, stress, and poor performance. Today’s workforce seeks a new type of leader, better equipped to navigate the speed and complexity of our digital workplace. Employees (59% of whom are Gen Y and Z) want to work in organizations with a clear sense of purpose, with leaders who connect with empathy, communicate with authenticity, and collaborate with transparency. This new type of leader is not born, but made. Becoming this strong leader comes down to the choices that we make and the habits we create. Building on a simple model of Connection, Communication, and Collaboration, this show will open your eyes to the obvious and not-so-obvious reasons why leading today is so difficult.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that, “women today lead 167 of the country’s top 3,000 companies – more than double the share a decade ago, but still under 6%.” “Despite all the attention and the one-off successes, the overall picture still looks bleak,” says,” co-founder of Her New Standard, Ellen Keithline Byrne. The problem is people are stuck in the old narratives about what’s holding women back and not shifting their perceptions to what the data shows. Denise D’Agostino, co-founder of Her New Standard, says that “what’s encouraging is that more and more research is clearly indicating that diversity of thought at the top of an organization contributes to increased productivity, innovation and profits. It’s not just nice to have a more equitable workforce, it’s a good business decision. With these findings, companies are taking a more serious look at how to make changes, but as we know, changing how we do things is hard.”

What exactly is meant by trust-based leadership? What does integrity, the power of why, “like”, understanding plateaus, and sharing the mantle have to do with trust? “Trust is a critical link to all good relationships whether personal or professional.” When present, the speed of things moves quicker and when trust is low or even absent, the results can be poor productivity and low energy. This show will dig into practical approaches for building long-sustaining trust.

Everyone admires visionary leaders like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs, who look past the conventional wisdom of their day, foresee a different and better world, and mobilize others to join them in their quest to create it. But few leaders understand the principles and practices that practical visionaries use. It is not just what they think but how they think that allows them to see so much farther and clearer. In this episode we will discuss: · How leaders can catalyze even the most complacent companies into visionary-driven growth · How leadership teams can develop a vision from scratch, connect it to a strategy, and then program and implement it in the best possible way · How to embed future-back thinking in both an organization’s C-suite and its wider culture · How a sufficiently long-term planning horizon and a powerful firm vision have allowed such unicorns as Amazon and Google and long-established enterprises like Procter & Gamble and J&J to sustain their growth.

Have you ever been on a highly talented team, but the team wasn’t very good? Have you ever been on a team where not every single member was a rock star, but something about the team just worked? We’ve all had these types of experiences. Yet, it can be difficult to understand what makes one team successful and another one not. In this show we will dive deep into the ways great organizations build trust, collaborate, and operate at their peak level. While each team and organization have their own unique challenges, goals, and dynamics, there are some universal qualities that allow teams to come together and thrive: an environment of psychological safety, inclusion and belonging, navigating conflict, and maintaining a healthy balance of high expectations and empathy. And, facing a global pandemic and all of the ways this impacts the economy, the way we work, and how we live, is a painful, but important reminder of how interconnected we all are. So, what is the leader’s role in all this?

Master Your Mind; Counterintuitive Strategies to Re-focus and Re-energize Your Runaway Brain. Fed up with trying to get ahead in business by working longer hours and continually racing your brain at a hundred miles an hour? Unfortunately, success in business is spelled M-O-R-E: better results, faster growth, more revenue, greater efficiency. Do more. Make more. Achieve more. And do it now. Master Your Mind offers an antidote to the endless (and pointless) cycle of doing more in order to succeed. The counterintuitive approach of slowing down can help optimize your performance and get you the positive results you've been searching for. Master Your Mind reveals the tactics and methods that lead to increased energy, revenue, and good health in a self-sustaining way. The approaches presented are not pie-in-the sky but have proven to be effective with the authors' thousands of clients. We show how to stop thinking your success relies on quantity, rather quality.

What does it really take to successfully lead in the 21st Century? Leading well is difficult. If it were easy, more people would be doing it. Bad leadership results in disengagement, turnover, unhappiness, anxiety, stress, and poor performance. Today’s workforce seeks a new type of leader, better equipped to navigate the speed and complexity of our digital workplace. Employees (59% of whom are Gen Y and Z) want to work in organizations with a clear sense of purpose, with leaders who connect with empathy, communicate with authenticity, and collaborate with transparency. This new type of leader is not born, but made. Becoming this strong leader comes down to the choices that we make and the habits we create. Building on a simple model of Connection, Communication, and Collaboration, this show will open your eyes to the obvious and not-so-obvious reasons why leading today is so difficult.

What makes the difference between an effective leader and a dysfunctional leader? How can leaders maximize their effectiveness when they have a large span of control? The answer to these questions lies in an individual attribute that most leaders overlook: their mindsets. For decades, researchers have found that mindsets are foundational to and drive how individuals think, learn, and behave. Despite their foundational influence, few in organizations ever talk about or focus on mindsets. In this webinar, Dr. Ryan Gottfredson will help leaders at all levels awaken their mindsets and learn how to harness the power of mindsets to enhance their leadership as well as the culture throughout their organization. You will learn: (1)The power and importance of mindsets in leadership effectiveness (2) Identification of specific mindsets that drive leadership success (3) The degree to which you possess the mindsets necessary for leadership effectiveness (4) How mindset can impact org leadership

As today’s companies race to compete on data, algorithms and AI, they risk losing touch with something far more valuable: what’s human. Some companies are failing to meet this new challenge. So what to do? In this show, Tobaccowala will define the challenge we’re faced with in a world that has too much math and too little meaning. Next, we will discuss how anyone in business can counterbalance the digital and the analog with practical techniques for counterbalancing screens, codes, and algorithms with human thoughts, interactions, and feelings in the workplace. Finally, Tobaccowala will show how leaders can strengthen the soul of their business in “the third connected age” by fusing story and the spreadsheet.

Most companies think they have integrity…until they get boycotted, protested and skewered in the press. They’ll punish and apologize for lapses but have no clue about prevention. Rob Chesnut is Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb and knows first-hand what it takes to drive integrity into corporate culture. A former Federal Prosecutor who prosecuted spy Aldrich Ames, he went on to found the Trust and Safety Department for eBay and the integrity training program for Airbnb: two companies with business models dependent on trust that had to invent the rules in the new frontiers of e-commerce and platforms. Rob joins us to discuss ethical blindspots at work from #metoo to alcohol consumption to how we acquire and use data. He also provides insight into how to survive an integrity lapse in an age when a single tweet or a bad Yelp review can live forever.