The Smart Thinking Podcast

Episode 203: Ship- Captain- Crew (Process& Leadership)

How do you create intentional processes to support cascading engagement in your world and allow for people to collaborate, calibrate and validate their leadership? Want a process? Here you go!
Describe your current process for cascading problem solving in your world.
List the members of your crew.
Identify your captain.

Episode 202: It’s All About the Base (Leadership & Tools)

We need to get better at understanding the needs of those around us. Take a listen as we review Maslow's Hierarchy of needs and how to apply it in the realm of engagement in the classroom and the workplace. 
List the ways in which you can support others on the hierarchy.
Describe where you think you operate most days on the hierarchy.
Frame for yourself a process so that you can engage those you serve so they can reach the summit.

Episode 201: Just Keep Charging AND… (Reflection & Process)

Join us for a discussion on how we can better support the weird world we are living in by focusing on both sides of the coin. This episode focuses on the idea that we are in an "AND" world right now that is fueling debate and conflict. However, we focus on how to charge into this storm optimistically!!!! 
 
Describe your strategy to support others in an AND world.
List people you need to go and support
Reflect upon your AND’s and seek out others who can create lift for you.

Episode 200: Look For The Leaders (Reflection & Tool)

If you focus on looking for leadership, you will see that it is all around you! Join us for the 200th episode and a strategy to grow leadership in every environment!
List leadership that has already occurred around you today
Describe your worldview and how you see leadership
Describe how you will reinforce the leadership that is all around you.

Episode 199: How We Show Up (Reflection and Tools)

How do you show up in any given situation? Join us for a discussion and assessment tool to help you frame every day and interaction so that you are: optimistic, energetic, and motivated! 
Describe how you show up?
Describe your process for assessing how others show up.
Reflect on what you need to do if you are not prepared to show up.
Spotify: Ted Neitzke IV

Episode 198: Complimenting v. Criticizing (Leadership and Tactics)

What is your complement to criticism ratio? Take a listen as we reflect upon how we've forgotten the art of reinforcement in our leadership.
 
List behaviors you need to change within yourself to get the most of those around you
Describe a way that you can complement others
Track your compliment v. criticism ration this week.

Episode 197: A Conversation With A Physician About All Things Covid In 2021 (Reflection)

Join me for a conversation with David C Brousseau, MD - professor and chief of emergency medicine, at the Medical College of Wisconsin as we discuss how to approach this school year. Hear his advice around protecting ourselves, what he is seeing and what he believes will happen as we move into the fall and winter.

Episode 196: An Olympic Start (Reflection & Challenge)

The start of Season 4
Take a listen as we discuss a great way to start the school year. Disrupt the traditions of compliance and start the year in Olympic style! 

Episode 195: A Conversation with a Holocaust Survivor – Eva Zaret

Join me for a wonderful conversation with Eva who was born in 1936 and experienced WWII as a child. Her life and her story will move you, deepen your understanding of the experiences of Jew’s and Jewish children during the holocaust and motivate you to be an advocate for tolerance. Eva is an inspiration for her perseverance and mindset. She lived through WWII, a revolution and came to the United States as a refugee.
 
Listen as she describes her hope filled journey.
Describe how you fuel your life with hope.
List your reflections about perseverance and humanity.
 

Episode 194: First Day or First Date? (Reflection and Strategies)

The first day of a new job or on a new team is never easy. However, on this episode we offer a strategy to turn the first day into a first date. It's all about giving the new person choice and voice and eliminating as much compliance as possible. Engage early and retain great people!