Podcast Episodes

In this week's episode, I go solo again and answer your challenges! I asked a question in our free Facebook Community this week "What is your current leadership struggle?" and the replies were wide ranging and deep. Lots of things to consider and many different themes. Just shows leadership is not a single line process but rather an ever evolving dance. Nonetheless I decided to provide some advice to three different members' problems live online. Here they are.

Bob Tiede has been on the staff of Cru for 48 years. He currently serves on the U.S. Leadership Development Team and is passionate about seeing leaders grow and multiply their effectiveness. He is committed to helping leaders shift their paradigm from the pressure of having to have all the right answers to simply having a few of the right questions. In 2006, while browsing in a bookstore, he came across Leading With Questions by Michael Marquardt. He only had to peruse a few pages before declaring, “This is a keeper.” He then launched Leading With Questions—a blog with a…

Robert Jordan leads InterimExecs, providing access between the best interim and project executives in the world and company owners seeking brilliant leadership on demand. Robert has helped launch, grow and ultimately sell a number of fast growing companies. His first company, Online Access, put him on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. After selling Online Access, the first Internet-coverage magazine in the world, he launched InterimExecs LLC, which works with public and private companies and nonprofit organizations. He is author of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America and author of the Nightingale…

It's happening again. One of your employees and you are not seeing eye-to-eye. Tension is high, there's disrespect in the air, and results are just not what they should be. You keep pointing the finger at their performance, they keep pointing the finger at your attitude towards them. Congratulations, you found yourself in the "You vs Me" scenario. A scenario where the outcome is almost guaranteed to not yield the results you want. If this situation sounds familiar, I'm (un)happy to tell you that you are not alone. In fact, it is all too common that supervisor and subordinate don't…

In the end results do matter. It matters to your company's bottom line, it matters to your team's morale, and it matters to your personal pride. But yet all too often we don't get the results we are looking for, why is that? Sometimes we need to look inwards to find out that it is us as leaders who are the cause of our own burdens.

In this episode of the Peak Performance Leadership Podcast, Scott McCarthy, the chief leadership officer, delves into the inevitable nature of major transitions and the importance of embracing them as a leader. He emphasizes the necessity of being open and willing to accept change, acknowledging that transitions are not just beneficial, but essential for personal […]