The Smart Thinking Podcast

Episode 110: Stay In Your Lane (Leadership and Tools)

Listen as we explore why people put themselves in lanes they have no business being in and learn two processes to support your leadership. Stay in your lane!
 
Describe your three lanes and reflect on times you’ve chosen to go off road.
List areas that you could benefit others by using a decision-making matrix. 
Describe one project that would benefit from an innovation configuration map.

Episode 109: The Ritual of Homecoming (Leadership and Strategy)

Developing customs in your worlds is critical to creating an engaging culture. This episode explores how we can take the lessons of homecoming and apply them in all of our environments.
Describe how you can provide voice for all involved?
List ways that you can celebrate past and present failures? 
Describe how you can create collaborative opportunities for people to reflect.
 

Episode 108: Parents Just Don’t Understand (Leadership & Empathy)

 
This episode explores how parents think and why they “just don’t understand. Not that they are aloof – instead, that parents don’t always understand what to do to support their family. This is a discussion on strategies for parents and those that serve their families.
Describe how you can support parents with the details needed to support the narrative?
List strategies to support parents who are stuck in control mode.
Describe how you can be allies with parents when they are in protect mode.

Episode 107: It’s for you. (Leadership & Mindset)

Does life happen to you or for you? Take a listen as we explore the importance of recognizing that everything in life is you for you and you can take advantage of every challenge that comes your way. Why? Because you matter!
Describe what happens for you?
List strategies you can employ to shift your mindset to a "this is happening for me thought process."
Describe how you will place yourself second.

Episode 106: Breaking the Cycle of Conflict: (Leadership and Tools)

Have you ever found yourself in an argument and later on asked yourself – what just happened? In this episode we are going to explore the behaviors needed to get out of an argument or conflict that has become an unbreakable cycle.
 
Describe what you will do to see the threats others are feeling.
List the steps for disengaging from the threat cycle.
Describe how others can help you recognize your low tolerance areas.
 
 
 
 

Episode 105: Message in a Bottle – Communication (Leadership and Tools)

Communication is a frustrating topic and few people are ever satisfied with organizational communication. Join us for a discussion that shares the problem and the process to increase collaborative communication. This episode is applicable at every level of an organization.
Describe strategies you could employ to determine the best ways to communicate with your team.
List the ways you prefer to receive information
Describe an approach you could employ to change how people receive your information.

Episode 104: Teachable Moments (Leadership and Tools)

This episode explores how we can address those in our lives that have fallen out of alignment with our expectations. A teachable moment provides the chance for you as the leader to step back and assess the situation and bring clarity to the person who is not in alignment with your norms or worse – trying to undermine the culture of your organization, classroom, division, department or company.
Confront the situation
Demonstrate how their behavior is impacting the situation 
Support them with expected behaviors
Choice 
Accountability 
Describe what you can do to support someone who’s mindset is stuck in the negative. 
List ways you can shift to teachable moments 
Describe the ways in which you can support others in fixing the problem and not fixing blame.
 

Episode 103: That’s what she said?!? The FRANC Principle (Leadership)

This episode explains the FRANC principle. It will help you grow as a leader and serves as a great reminder to us all -- how to lead every day. 
Forgive
Reinforce
Acknowledge
Notice
Closure
What do you need to do to be FRANC every day?
Describe what you need to do different today to apply one of the FRANC principles.
List those in your life that have been FRANC with you.
 

Episode 102: Meteorologists, Astrologists and Hope’rs (Leadership & Tools

Listen as we explore how we "get to" create the conditions of hope and optimism using tools in our organizations.
List your value propositions.
Describe your process for propagating the “get to’s” in your organization that will steer mindset.
List your behaviors so that you can be the fortune teller for your organization.
 
 

Episode 101: Don’t be dull. (Leadership, Reflection & Tools)

This episode is a reflection on what you are doing to stay sharp personally and professionally. Too often we fail to recognize that we are not at the top of our game.
Describe how you can sharpen yourself before you get dull.
List the people in your life that you could ask to keep you sharp.
Go into your calendar and block off the time to create your day to catch up, sharpen up, and proactively prepare.