Why is a clear vision statement critical to the success of your organisation? And how do you ensure that message is consistently communicated throughout your business?

Today we speak with Jen Roberts of Difference Consulting about the importance of cohesive alignment within your management team and what you can do to engender engagement within the workforce.

Learn:

-What causes the disconnect between business leaders and their management teams?
-What are some of the problems we can expect to encounter when the relationship between the business leader and the management team is out of alignment?
-How important is it to create a common vision to the success of what you’re trying to accomplish?
-Transparency, and communicating with your team on a daily basis
-It is very important to ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined
-How can you determine whether your management team is aligned with your vision?

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The secrets to an aligned, cohesive management team with Jen Roberts of Difference Consulting

How do you set up a good framework to grow your career? And what steps do you need to take to keep moving towards your career vision?

We speak with Jasmine Briggs, a New York based Career Coach, who walks us through the process of setting up goals that enable constant growth and development in our careers.

Learn:

- How important is good career management to the success of professional development?
- How do you set up a good framework to help your career grow?
- How to create your career vision
- Look for mentors to aid career management
- Personal development vs. professional development
- What is the biggest misconception in career management?
- How do you know when you are on the right career path?
- Top 3 tips for good career management

Links:

JasmineBriggs.com
Women Create Facebook group -https://www.facebook.com/groups/458617627631275/

Expert advice on career management and professional development with career coach Jasmine Briggs

Mentorship is key to successful professional development and as leaders, we have the responsibility to offer ourselves as mentors to the next generation of business leaders.

But what is involved in a mentor-mentee relationship and how do you go about finding a suitable individual to work with?

To answer these questions we spoke to Tom Goodlet, co-author of the book MentorU.

Learn:

- Why is mentorship so important?
- Chris’ mentorship story from his time in the military
- How do you find a mentor?
- Tom’s formula to a CLEAR and successful mentor relationship
- How do you develop trust in following the guidance of a mentor?
- What is the responsibility of the mentee?
- Tom’s book, MentorU

Links:

Buy MentorU on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/MentorU-Begin-Effective-Mentoring-Relationship/dp/1532840896
Connect with Tom on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomgoodlet/
http://www.mentoru.info

Interview with Tom Goodlet, author of MentorU, on mentorship

How do we get our brand recognised? How do we become experts in our field? In order to grow to the next level, we have to put ourselves in a position to accelerate our performance.

So what’s the best way to do that?

Today we speak with certified executive coach, Eddie Turner, who “works with leaders to accelerate performance and drive impact!” ™.

Learn:

- What does it mean to accelerate performance and drive impact?
- How do you recognise complacency or stagnation in your career?
- What is the process to accelerating growth and moving to the next level?
- The misconception that as leaders at the director or vice-president level, we don’t need to grow
- Accelerating performance and driving impact isn’t just about business
- What are the mechanisms to driving impact?
- How Eddie helps clients

Links:

http://www.eddieturnerllc.com

How to accelerate performance and drive impact with Eddie Turner

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Leadership is an art and a science – and you need to know the science before you can paint the portrait of success.

We like to bring guests on the show with different specialties to really give us the expertise to help us grow in ways we may not have already considered. So we are going to talk about some things that you’ve probably not heard before with today’s guest.

To bring the very best out of our workforce, we need to bring the very best out of ourselves. In order to do that we need to be grateful for who we are, the positions that we hold and the responsibility to our workforce. So that is what we are going to talk about today.

Our guest today is a Senior Leader in Conflict Resolution, Executive Coaching, and Entrepreneurship, she has expertise that allows you to achieve measurable results through cutting edge solutions in communications and organizational development.

She is a visionary leader, and specializes in communications strategy. She is the founder of Trybal Performance, she is an accomplished author, and speaker. Coming all the way from the Lone Star State.

Learn:

- Background on Trybal Performance
- Lexy’s philosophy of a ‘Trybal Attitude’ and the ‘Power of Abundance’
- Gratitude Practice
- How does keeping track of gratitude help with self-reflection?
- How do you maintain gratitude if you’re having a hard day through pattern interruptions?
- How important is emotional intelligence in gratitude practice?
- Lexy’s suggestions for those wanting to develop a gratitude practice
- What if you don’t enjoy journaling?
- What’s the best way to reach Lexy and talk about gratitude practice?

Links:

- http://trybalperformance.com
- Lexy on Twitter - https://twitter.com/alexsysthompson
- Trybal Performance on Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/trybalperformance

How to develop EQ through a gratitude practice with Lexy Thompson of Trybal Performance

In today’s show we revisit our most popular interview to date. Tammy Kling had so much to offer when we talked at the start of the year, we wanted to revisit the episode.

When we think about growing as leaders and as people, and as we take the next step in our careers, what does that path look like? We spoke to Tammy to answer those questions and more.

Tammy Kling is a coach to the coaches. She’s a New York Times bestselling author, she’s a sought after speaker - her TEDx talk, ‘Words Are Currency’ have inspired and motivated countless people on the importance of how to use their words.

Learn:

- Developing a leadership legacy
- Are we living our legacy now or do we find out what it is?
- How do you have confidence and believe in yourself that you have a legacy?
- Taking ownership of our legacy
- Your words are your currency
- More about Tammy Kling and her services

Links:

- Tammy’s TEDx talk, Words Are Currency - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA2rTnpAF44
- Tammy’s email: tammykling at me dot com
- Tammy’s website - http://www.tammykling.com/

How to intentionally build your leadership legacy - interview with Tammy Kling

What’s the true measurement of leadership success? Is it being able to do a line item budget? Meeting deadlines? Resource management?

Really it’s none of those traits. The true measure of a successful leader is the satisfaction, engagement and productivity of our workforce. Giving the very best experience to our clients and customers comes from that effective workforce.

According to the Gallop Association, close to 70% of our workforce is disengaged or actively disengaged. So how realistic can it be to have an engaged workforce with such staggering numbers. We’ll be putting these questions to today’s guest.

With a dream to become the next Bill Gates, our guest started his first company when he was just 22 years old. Despite his hard work the company failed after just one year.

But after discovering the power of leadership and extreme productivity he went on to start, build and sell several multimillion dollar tech companies that have won both “Inc 500” awards for fast growth and “Best Place to Work” awards.

He is a New York Times bestselling author of six books including 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management and Employee Engagement 2.0. And his new podcast is the LEADx Show. Please welcome, Kevin Kruse.

In this week’s show:

- What is employee engagement?
- Getting buy-in from your organisation is about having a sense of ownership
- What are the effects of low employee engagement?
- How do you identify a disengaged workforce?
- How do you ensure front-line managers have the time and resources to engage with their team and inspire employee engagement?
- Training our managers for a changing workforce
- How do you improve employee engagement?

Links:

Society for Resource Management (SHRM) - https://www.shrm.org/
Survey Monkey employee engagment survey - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/mp/employee-engagement-survey/
Kevin’s email: kevin [at] leadx [dot] org
LEADx Podcast - http://leadership-podcast.com/

How to improve employee engagement with Kevin Kruse of LEADx

How to improve employee engagement - interview with Kevin Kruse of LEADx

Welcome to The Ultimate Leadership Podcast. Our discussions will include guests who are experts in their speciality, we will chat about organizational challenges, and share best practices. Your Host is Chris Cebollero. Chris has 30 years of leadership experience, and some of those years were not successful. Chris is the Number 1 Best Selling Author of Ultimate Leadership 10 Rules for Success.

Chris is going to talk about successes, challenges, mistakes and failures. Leadership is difficult and sharing stories, best practices, and experience will build community. Chris will interview Industry Leaders who are experts in their respective speciality to share the secrets to success as a leader.

Join us, let’s discuss leadership, and thank you for allowing us to join you on your professional development journey.

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