67 - Expectation Drift: How Vague Leadership Breaks Execution

Welcome to episode 67 of Leadership Kung Fu! If you've ever come up empty-handed when searching for answers from a leader, or your team is divided on what they thought the project completion standard was, you might have experienced Expectation Drift! Sandi and Jen jump in to tackle this topic to help teams and leaders identify and get ahead of a potential problem. Listen along as they discuss: What IS Expectation Drift and how it happens Employee engagement rates and other statistics around misalignment What happens when leaders don't know what expectations are Leaders as learners The role of accountability in expectation drift Micromanaging vs. checking in A rock analogy How to get in front of the Drift and own it and much more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video over on the Leadership Kung Fu Youtube Channel! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

It's critical that you know that Episode 66 of Leadership Kung Fu is here! Welcome to February's topic of what outsourcing thinking actually does to your team and how your practices can keep the problem-solving muscles healthy. Sandi and Jen dive right into: How the cost of time with critical thinking is a lie Low accountability and leaderned helplessness The role of psychological safety System 1 and System 2 thinking The importances of exploring your problem-solving tools Critical Thinking and A.I. Leadership self-reflection and the role it plays Managing discomfort How many places you might have abandoned thinking and much more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video over on the Leadership Kung Fu Youtube Channel! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Starting off 2026 strong, it's episode 65 of Leadership Kung Fu! Join Sandi and Jen in this new year as they revisit the topic of strategy in the workplace and how to get it unstuck from your meeting slide deck and out in action in your workforce. Listen along as they discuss: Strategy to action How strategies from Q4 are looking in Q1 Personal anecdotes The importance of your "No" list Facing the fears of "what if" Real risk vs. risks we THINK are real What strategy is and is not Operationalizing How alignment is an ongoing conversation What happens when everything is deemed important What each level of leadership needs to do with the strategy from the top The importance of choosing the right words Strategy upkeep and metrics How strategy can die and what happens if it does The effect of run-time on strategy The 5 take-aways of strategy and more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video over on the Leadership Kung Fu Youtube Channel! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Start making plans, episode 64 of Leadership Kung Fu is here! Jen and Sandi are thinking about the future on today's episode and discussing workplace succession plans! What happens when your CEO has a medical event? Can someone easily take over if your manager has a family emergency? Who steps in when retirements are announced? Join Sandi and Jen as they cover how you and your team can think ahead as well as:  Succession success rate statistics Where you should start planning and who can do what in the planning process How strategy is involved The role bias plays Where training comes in and types The benefits of assessments in leadership PXT Select® What Future Fit means PrinciplesYou and EverythingDiSC® What defining potential entails What should be on your succession checklist Red Teaming: How Your Team Can Conquer the Competition by Challenging Everything by Bryce G. Hoffman and more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video over on the Leadership Kung Fu Youtube Channel! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Our actions have aligned to bring you Episode 63 of Leadership Kung Fu! Join Sandi and Jen as they excitedly tackle the topic of aligned action and how your teams' strategies can hinge upon it. Dive in with them as they cover: What gets in the way of aligned action Fragmented ownership Working in silos vs. moving forward collectively Decisions vs. feedback Where incentives knock you out of alignment Dashboards Fighting stagnant policies/standards The curse of unwillingness Leadership drift Giving strategy a chance to breathe Buy-in vs. agreement Movement based on workplace agility Chance of success based on aligned action and much more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

New to the group, it's episode 62 of Leadership Kung Fu! Sandi and Jen are enthusiastic about today's topic of new leaders and how you and your organization can set them up for success and if you're a new leader, how to tackle that transition with flying colors. Listen in as they discuss: common new leader hurdles and transition difficulties how values shift in a new role the art of letting go what your leadership will look like as you make the shift technical skills and relationship skills how relationships evolve when new leadership occurs where Imposter Syndrome can affect the new role and how limiting it can be  Taming Your Gremlin by Rick Carson troubles with the hand-off trust during the transition leadership groups for new-to leadership leaders perks of being a brand-new leader and much more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Welcome to episode 61 of Leadership Kung Fu! Jen and Sandi are talking the talk and walking the walk to bring you today's topic: why leadership teams can stall! Settle in as they chat about: Words are nice, but action is important Stalling due to fear of conflict Feeling safe in the workplace How multiple priorities can actually be a hindrance Corporate whiplash and fatigue Alignment vs. accountability The Knowing-Doing gap How to stop "The Stall" The One Hard Question What parts you actually play 6 Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono Where your bias lives Timeboxing Meeting habits and much more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Ready for some self reflection? Here's episode 60 of Leadership Kung Fu! Sandi and Jen are asking us to take some time and join them a moment as they chat about the importance of a mid-year check in, not just with our teams, but with ourselves too! Listen along as they highlight: The importance of sense-making Measuring your efficacy, not your results How often are you getting feedback? Your leadership "brand" Behavior that reflects value Reactiveness and the signs of burnout, physical and non Intentional resets A.I. in leadership styles and the most popular uses as of recording Goals and the metrics of goals Are your metrics just a sign of activity? Driving focus The weights of risk and opportunity and much more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

It's a group effort over here on Leadership Kung Fu, so we're glad you're here for episode 59! Join Jen and Sandi as they dissect the topic of Concious Un-Bossing, and listen along as they cover: Jen's NEW book Workers are the Solution, Not the Problem: A Guidebook to Leading Differently how Gen Z is bringing changes to the workplace conscious uncoupling what it means to start to change a workplace culture purpose over power inclusivity is a power tool trust at every level and how it becomes an operating system mature accountability systems how group leadership makes you a better person how leading is a capability, not a title what advantages your business can gain from this model how shifting to a new cultural model takes time the books Humanocracy by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini and The Social Leadership Handbook by Julian Stodd what happens when human solve problems together and more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Travel back in time with Jen and Sandi as they chat about a topic that's not necessarily new, but is certainly still a topic of discussion: working remotely and hybrid workforces! Whether you're taking a break in the breakroom or moving laundry in between meetings, listen along as Jen and Sandi discuss: The importance of asking questions and the weight of listening a brief conversation about how engagement surveys can fail you thinking about how your work is best done could influence hybrid work management what working in a conducive environment to the work you do can influence work output looking at the work instead of seeking giving "same treatment" what can cause resentment among hybrid teams the strategy of shaping in office/remote work around the type of people who work for/with you the state of strategy your workforce is the solution if you are setting them up for success regardless of environment new terms and slang that have come from 5 years of hybrid workforces how celebrating success is important half the battle is understanding the correct problems to solve Red Team Thinking benefits and more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab! Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!® Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc! Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on LinkedIn! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!