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Aug 31
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055: Coaching Questions of Mass Instruction with Michael Bungay Stanier

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Michael Bungay Stanier says: "In some ways what strategy is, it's saying no to the stuff that you kind of want to say yes to. Strategy is making choices."

Irreverent Great Work coach Michael Bungay Stainier provides mindset and questions to inspire your teammates–10 minutes at a time.

You’ll learn:
1. Why being a coach at work is a lot quicker and easier than you might think
2. How to give less advice while getting more results
3. 7 powerful questions for transforming your team

About Michael
Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps people and organizations all over the world do less Good Work and more Great Work. Michael left Australia 25 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He has written a number of books. His latest, The Coaching Habit, has been praised as one of the few business books that actually makes people laugh out loud. He was recently named the #2 Coaching Guru in the World, which caught him by surprise as he’s not entirely sure why.

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Aug 22
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051: Minimizing Corporate Drama and Insanity with Amanda Mitchell

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Amanda Mitchell says: "Don't take things personally. A person's behavior in general says more about them than it does about you."

Amanda Mitchell, the founder of OurCorporateLife.com, shares hidden sources of workplace politics that may hinder productivity — and how you can prevent it.

You’ll learn:

  1. Approaches to identify and eliminate unnecessary suffering at work
  2. How to deal with “pot-stirrers” at your job
  3. The importance of focusing on your agenda before anyone else’s

About Amanda

Amanda is an executive coach and strategist specializing in helping senior executives deal with disruptive drama within their teams.

An advertising agency veteran, she experienced first-hand the business implications of corporate drama both with her Fortune 500 clients and within the Manhattan ad agency she led.

A practical problem solver, she founded Our Corporate Life (www.ourcorporatelife.com) to help executives solve the problems no one wants to deal with.

She has been published in Bloomberg Businessweek and quoted in Fast Company, CNBC.com, and Monster.com. She lives in New Jersey (aka the Land of Enchantment!) with her family.

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Aug 05
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045: Collaborating Beyond the Org Chart with Emmanuel Gobillot

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Emmanuel Gobilott says: "One question which you should ask yourself after every interaction... 'have I made that person stronger and more capable?'"

Leadership thinker/author/speaker/consultant Emmanuel Gobillot lays out how people really work best together.

You’ll learn:
1. What charisma actually is and how to project it
2. When collaboration is ideal vs. inappropriate
3. The four steps to collaborative success

About Emmanuel
Emmanuel Gobillot is one of Europe’s most sought-after leadership speakers and has been described as ‘the first leadership guru for the digital generation’ and ‘the freshest voice in leadership today’, He is the author of Kogan Page’s UK and US bestsellers The Connected Leader, Leadershift, and Follow The Leader. His new book Disciplined Collaboration provides further insight into new leadership and organizational models. He is the founder of leadership development consultancy Emmanuel Gobillot Limited and co-founder of Collaboration Partners, a boutique consultancy specializing in helping organizations release the value of collaboration.

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Jul 15
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036: Detoxifying Teams with Steve Ritter

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Steve Ritter says: "You're supposed to struggle because that's the way we grow... the idea is to keep changing and keep growing and keep evolving."

Old friend and Team Clock originator Steve Ritter shares his experiences on the key differentiators of toxic vs. healthy teams… and key steps for making the leap.

You’ll learn:
1. Why strategic planning is often a monumental failure
2. The pillars of Ritter’s Team Clock model for successful teaming
3. Common behaviors that cause dysfunction in teams –and how to correct them

About Steve
Steve Ritter has served as a human resources leader, teacher, author, and consultant. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Founder and CEO of the Team Clock Institute, the Managing Director of the Midwest Institute & Center for Workplace Innovation, and the author of Team Clock: A Guide to Breakthrough Teams and Useful Pain: Why Your Relationships Need Struggle. Steve is on the faculty of the Center for Professional Excellence at Elmhurst. He is the former Senior Vice President and Director of Human Resources at Leaders Bank, which won the #1 Best Place to Work in Illinois in 2006 the APA’s Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award in 2010. Steve consults organizations including Kraft Foods, Kellogg’s, Advocate Health Care, the Chicago White Sox, Northwestern Mutual, the Illinois Hospital Association, and Starcom Worldwide.

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Jul 13
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035: Millennial Mania with Lee Caraher

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Lee Caraher says: "'Us' versus 'Them' is nothing new. Intergenerational conflict, we talk about it like it's never happened before."

Lee Caraher separates fact from fiction when it comes to millennials, and discusses how to work through intergenerational conflict.

You’ll learn:

  1. Just what defines a millennial, exactly? And why do 72% of us reject the label?
  2. What’s actually different about millennials vs. traditional generational bashing?
  3. How to coordinate well cross-generationally.

About Lee

Lee Caraher started Double Forte in 2002 to work with good people, doing great work for good companies. Her friends and colleagues call her “The Millennial Whisperer.”

After struggling with how to work well with Millennial clients and now staffers (more than half of Lee’s staff is under 35) and then working to figure out how to make that work, Lee has written a positive and practical book about the topic, “Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work.”

She served as the Vice President of Corporate and Consumer Communications at the $1.6 Billion SEGA of America—their youngest US VP. She then served as Executive Vice President of The Weber Group and Founder and President of Red Whistle Communications, both Interpublic companies. Lee is active in the community and currently serves on numerous boards.

A graduate of Carleton College, with a degree in Medieval History, which she finds useful every day, Lee lives on the Peninsula with her husband, two sons, and their blind cat Al.

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