Friday, May 17th, 2013
Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 4, Season 3
Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations
EPISODE 4: THE STAR
“In a team situation, having a star performer becomes a threat and an opportunity. If a person is a star performer, their job is to spread their skills around to other members, to mentor and pair with people so other people’s skills are lifted up to where theirs are.”
Running time 40:50
Have you encountered a star performer in your organization? Was it a positive experience? How did your organization respond to the star performer?
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Friday, May 10th, 2013
Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations
EPISODE 3: KNOW THYSELF
“Using self-awareness and self-knowledge for self-management seems to be key in becoming an effective leader.”
Running time 26:38
What instruments have you experienced that have been helpful to you? When has really good self-awareness and self-knowledge helped you self-manage as a leader? If you’ve experienced the Hogan, tell us about it. We’d love to hear your stories.
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations
EPISODE 2: AN INQUIRY INTO QUESTIONS
“Leadership really comes from the nature of the questions you ask rather than the statements that you make.”
Running time 32:54
What questions have been particularly powerful for you? What questions have you asked or have been asked that have made a difference in your life or which have stimulated learning in others (and in yourself)?
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Friday, April 26th, 2013
Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations
EPISODE 1: THE SECRET CLUB
“Membership in the secret club carries with it the need to behave in certain ways that may not be your personal inclination. My advice would be to get some experience to get a clear-eyed understanding of what it looks like because it’s not a one size fits all.”
Running time 32:37
Have you made it in the secret club? What has your experience been like? If you opted out of the secret club, what prompted you to turn away and go in a different direction?
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations
EPISODE 9: SIMPLE RULES
“One of the guiding thoughts about simple rules is that not only are they pretty short and action oriented by starting with a verb, but they are also generalizable and scalable so that they can help you in many different kinds of context in any situation, whether it’s a big or small decision to be made.”
Running time 30:54
Are you using simple rules in your work? Have you found ones that work particularly well for you and your team? Do you have questions about how simple rules can be applied in your organization?
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Friday, March 15th, 2013
Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations
EPISODE 8: THE COMPLEXITY OF CHANGE
“How can a leader be an innovator or expect innovation in their own organization if they’re not willing to experiment with the idea of innovation about what leadership is and how you do it?”
Running time 29:00
How is leadership defined in your organization? Does it stay confined at the top or is it a shared function throughout the organization?
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Friday, March 8th, 2013
Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations
EPISODE 7: Our Changing Views of Change
“To really accept that the world and change are emergent is to accept a kind of stance that says ‘I really can’t know the future and I really can’t do a whole lot to prepare for it’ and that makes people, including me, sometimes uncomfortable.”
Running time: 38:45
What kind of changes are you encountering in your organization? How is your view of change changing and what are you learning from that?
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Steve Berczuk writes a short and succinct article on TechWell describing, “Why Agile Retrospectives are Important in Software Development.” I’m looking forward to reading the comments and responses he gets.
More and more I think of Agile Retrospectives as an opportunity for the kind of learning that leads to real adaptive action in complex situations. I’m also looking forward to the publication of Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization by Glenda Eoyang and Royce Holladay. Adaptive Action is a close cousin with our flexible framework for designing retrospectives.
If, as Steve describes, you want retrospectives that generate valuable learning, look for just enough structure in the group process design to help team members learn, think, and choose useful improvement experiments.
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Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations
EPISODE 6: LEADING THROUGH NEGOTIATION
“You can’t really be a good negotiator if you can’t hold boundaries …And to hold the boundary you have to be able to see it, you have to be able to perceive where the boundary lies.”
Running time 45:49
What kind of negotiations are you involved with every day? Have they been successful or unsuccessful? Where are you using power and love? If you’re a woman, what strengths are you using in negotiations and where are your boundaries?
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Friday, February 15th, 2013
Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations
EPISODE 5: ASKING FOR WHAT YOU NEED
“We become somehow acculturated to making do with what we’re given rather than asking for what would make things better.”
Running time 45:53
What are some of your negotiation experiences? What tips did you garner from those interactions? What has helped you or hindered you in the midst of a negotiation? Share your stories with us and help us learn from you.
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