Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D.

Send us a textAbout Bela Jevtovic  & Dr. Dan Jenkins Bela was the founding executive director of the Collegiate Leadership Competition (CLC), and an integral force in the growth and development of the CLC.  Currently, she is Co-Founder and Co-Owner at BiG Comm E-Commerce and serves on the CLC board. Dan is Department Chair & Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the Univesity of Southern Maine. His most recent books were co-authored with Kathy Guthrie - The Role of Leadership Educators: Transforming Learning.  He is co-host of the Leadership Educator Podcast. Dan is also a CLC Board Member.What is the Collegiate Leadership Competiton?Collegiate Leadership Competition (CLC), a nonprofit founded in 2015, creates a digital practice field where students can actively apply what they learn via CLC’s global virtual competition. Colleges and universities identify a coach and recruit teams of six students. Any student interested in practicing leadership is welcome. Throughout the experience, each team member leads one challenge and receives extensive feedback based on their performance.The competition begins in January. Competition activities occur via Zoom. The top 25 teams with the highest cumulative point total after the first four challenges compete in the global head-to-head in April.CLC’s curriculum explores the attributes of effective leaders, leadership/followership styles, creative problem solving, influencing others, navigating difficult conversations, conflict resolution, delegation, stressors, and effective teaming.Academic Articles About the Collegiate Leadership CompetitionCLC WebsiteRosch, D. M., & Headrick, J. (2020). Competition as leadership pedagogy: An Initial Analysis of the Collegiate Leadership Competition. Journal of Leadership Education, 19(2).Allen, S. J., Jenkins, D. M., & Buller, E. (2018). Reflections on how learning in other domains inform our approach to coaching leadership. Journal of Leadership Studies, 11(4), 58-64.Allen, S. J. (2018). Deliberate practice: A new frontier in leadership education. Journal of Leadership Studies, 11(4), 41-43.Allen, S. J., Jenkins, D. M., Krizanovic, B. (2017). Exploring Deliberate Practice & the Use of Skill Sheets in the Collegiate Leadership Competition. Journal of Leadership Education, 17(1), 28-34.Allen, S. J., Schwartz, A. J., & Jenkins, D. M. (2017). Collegiate leadership competition: An opportunity for deliberate practice on the road to expertise. In S. Kempster, A. F. Turner, & G. Edwards (Eds.) Field guide♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a text"Let's create a question that we can't answer without living the definition." - Drew DudleyAbout Drew DudleyDrew Dudley is a leadership educator and speaker who focuses on creating value-driven cultures of leadership. His clients include some of the world's largest and most dynamic organizations, including McDonald's, JP Morgan Chase, Hyatt Hotels, Kohl's, The United Way, and more than 75 colleges and universities. He's recognized as one of the most dynamic keynote speakers in the world, speaking to over 250,000 people on 5 continents. His work is featured on The Huffington Post, Radio America, Forbes.com, and TED.com. His “TED talk” has been voted “one of the 15 most inspirational TED talks of all time.” TIME Magazine recently named it one of their "Seven Speeches That Will Make You a Better Leader," and Inc. and Business Insider Magazines have also included it on their lists of the world's "Best Leadership Speeches."Resources by DrewDrew's WebsiteDrew's Ted Talk - Everyday LeadershipDrew's Book: This is Day OneA Thinker: The Toughest Question on the Leadership TestQuotes From This Episode"Leadership's not in these big things, it's in the consistent things.""If you take away the before and the after, and you focus only on the non-negotiables today, that is your day one for leadership...What I try to help people do is figure out what those non-negotiable leadership behaviors are every day, and then teach them a step-by-step process to how to actually live them.""Questions are an incredibly powerful driver of human behavior.""Courage is a commitment to taking action when there's the possibility of loss.""What we were really trying to do is find some avenue to prioritize our 'to-be' list at the same level as our 'to-do' list."  "Failure is reps for your resilience muscle."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeTed Talk: Jia Jiang - What I Learned from 100 Days of RejectionBook: Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection by Jia Jiang Podcast: The MothPodcast: In the DarkPodcast: FloodlinesI Have a New Podcast!The Ca♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textBarbara C. Crosby, Ph.D. is associate professor emerita at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and former academic co-director of the Center for Integrative Leadership at the University of Minnesota. In 2017 she received the Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). She is a fellow of the Leadership Trust in the UK, and during 2002-03, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.  She is the author of Teaching Leadership: An Integrative Approach (2016), Leadership for Global Citizenship (1999), and co-author with John M. Bryson of Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World  (2d. ed. 2005).  She served many years on the editorial board of Leadership Quarterly.  She and John M. Bryson were joint winners of the 2019 Keith G. Provan Award for Outstanding Contributions to Empirical Theory from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management.Quotes from This Episode "I think about these concentric circles. And so if we think about just a dyad relationship, that’s one center of the circle. Then we move out to the group, then to organizational, to the community, to country, and to the world.""Context involves identifying ecological, economic, political, sociological, technological trends and developments that might open opportunities for leadership.""Most of us need to be engaged followers most of the time. I think having a sense of what it takes to be an engaged follower is a helpful part of leadership, too."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeCenter for Integrative LeadershipBegin Again by Eddie GlaudeSoul of America by Jon Meacham♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Steve Mortenson is an award-winning teacher and researcher. Steve's mission is to help people help themselves by sharing transformative tools for building personal skills and relational effectiveness. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University. Recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award, Dr. Mortenson teaches and publishes at the University of Delaware. He has designed and conducted leadership development seminars and communication workshops for the U.S. State Department’s International Leadership Programs, The National Association for Environmental Management, Delaware Psychological Association, The Horn Institute, and the Blue Hen Leadership Program. Steve's TED TalksProjecting Your Personal ShadowAdventure and the Problem of the HeroA Sample of Steve's ScholarshipConfronting implicit and benevolent bias in teamsA fluency of feeling: Exploring cultural and individual differences (and similarities) related to skilled emotional supportQuotes From This Episode"One of the things that I’ve asked my students is what new strengths has the pandemic brought out in you? I talk about 'dark gifts of the pandemic' - like, I’ve got a lot more patience than I used to, because I don’t have a choice.""The way I talk about supportive confrontation...you have to support the person while you critique their behavior. Otherwise, it’s difficult for them to hear what you’re trying to say."On people who are comfortable having difficult conversations - "they don’t get set off, they’re able to listen, they’re more comfortable in their own skin.""We need to see that there’s another side to our personality and the things we’re afraid of have a lot of really important potential for us. And that the things that we rely on are also the root of our dysfunctions.""What are you good at? But when does it also undermine you?""Authentic anger is - you crossed a line with me - there’s a clear transgression - I can tell you what it is. And I can tell you, this is why I’m mad.""Jung said that you can show somebody their shadow, and they’ll kind of deal with it. You show somebody their genius, they’ll fight you every step of the way.""I want us to have a fuller understanding of our identities, not just the parts we’re comfortable with."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeBook: ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Axel Meierhoefer is a retired U. S. Air Force officer and the founder of Ideal Wealth Grower - an educational organization helping people get away from exchanging time for money and building an asset-based portfolio using residential real estate. Through teaching, online learning, mentoring, and coaching, Ideal Wealth Grower helps members help themselves find success. He started his first company in 2005, focusing on consulting, employee skill development, and program management. Axel is an entrepreneurial leader who thrives in change-oriented environments and drives constant oversight, accountability, coaching, mentoring, and financial planning.Axel's WebsiteIdeal Wealth Grower Quotes From This Episode"For me, it's  a legacy in the context of how do I provide for my family and ultimately turn over what we did to my daughter?""So it's constantly evolving, but there has never been an intention to really make it big.""As soon as you get in that mindset, you’re creating basically your future, rather than sitting there and letting the future happen to you.""I would say you have people in a victim mindset, and you have people in a creative or creator mindset... I'm setting a goal, I'm going to find the energy to go after something.""I think it goes back to the core term community. If we see ourselves as a community, then there shouldn't be a question that the weaker ones get support from the stronger ones.""I would go as far as saying the system we're running was probably okay, for the 60s and 70s... It's not okay in the 21st century."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeThe Wealthy Gardener by John Soforic James Clear on First Principles Thinking♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. William (Willy) Donaldson is a Professor of Management at the Joseph W. Luter, III School of Business at Christopher Newport University. Willy has over 30 years of experience as a board member and president and has been CEO of eight companies including a publicly-traded company and an international joint-venture. Willy is the Founder and President of Strategic Venture Planning, a management consulting firm that helps boards, investors and senior management teams maximize results. His experience runs from start-up to International 50 companies, private and public companies, from services to manufacturing, from low to high tech, and from for-profit to not-for-profit. He is a member of the International Council on Systems Engineering, where he chairs the Enterprise Systems working group world-wide.Book by Willy DonaldsonSimple Complexity Quotes From This Episode"Systems thinking really is a worldview.""Dana Meadows’ really sparse, elegant definition of a system is 'a set of elements that interrelate for a particular purpose or characteristics that have behaviors.'""The leader is the system architect...They need to understand that they are managing and running and leading a system.""The first thing is to be humble and realize you don’t know it all, and that’s really a challenge...I don’t see enough humility in leadership.""You’ve got to realize how your biases get assembled through the silos that you come up through in the organization. If you came up out of finance, you view the world as finance or operations.""Leaders don’t realize how much the system drives behaviors.""Building a company that’s sort of poised on a razor’s edge of change is hard to do when you have to get people comfortable in that environment.""Bounded systems are ones that have some form of governance that’s readily apparent. It may not be good governance, but there is a group or somebody who’s responsible - maybe a board of directors, an association, etc. Unbounded systems are natural systems that we can’t do anything about.""An inversion has to occur, where followership becomes the most important function and followers have to rise up and demand leadership of an ilk that is humble and does use systems thinking.""Academics is so siloed into these swim lanes - chemistry, physics, math, accounting, finance - that we don’t cross disciplines, we don’t share our disciplinary knowledge, we use different language to talk about the same phenomenon.""Systems have this property called an emergent property where things emerge from the system, it’s not just a collection of parts, but they actually start to evolve and take on a character of their own. And culture is an emergent property of a system."Resources Men♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Leaders in the business world need to embrace complexity and paradox, understanding when to share power or wield it alone. Dave Snowden and Mary Boone discuss the Knevin framework for decision-making in social systems. They explore topics like rethinking government, mapping culture, and conflict resolution. Their perspectives also touch on crisis management, health, religion, and climate warming.

Send us a textLaura Guilliam manages leadership research and development projects at Progressive Insurance. Her primary interest is the individual and cultural impact of emotionally intelligent leaders—creating and sustaining positive organizational relationships within virtual and in-office work environments. Laura brings 26 years of practitioner experience to the ongoing study of organizational development and change. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Akron, a Master of Science in Project Management from Boston University, and a Master of Science in Positive Organizational Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University. She also earned a certificate of Appreciative Inquiry in Positive Business and Societal Change and a certificate in Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and Executive Coaching at CWRU. Laura is currently working on her Executive Ph.D. in Values-Driven Leadership from Benedictine University, Chicago.Quotes From This Episode(Regarding Progressive) "We are a company that believes relationships are the core of everything. ""I love supporting leaders. I think it’s one of the hardest, most selfless jobs, and I love supporting people who’ve invested and said, 'I want to lead people.' So that’s what I’ve made my mission, and I will always serve that group.""Our interactions have positive and negative charges; our words have positive and negative charges, our gestures have positive and negative charges. If you’re responsible, and you care about the relationships, you will mindfully pay attention to how many of those you deliver.” "So these are kinds of things that we're teaching, in our virtual leadership...it's virtual 101 - pay attention to the positive and negative that you deliver day-in and day-out to your people because they're getting bombarded with negative all day long. So what are you doing to help them get through that?""So this is really important in the leadership, really important in the virtual space, to pay attention to these most positive and, and negative charges, rarely will you lay your head down at night and say, 'Gosh, today was completely neutral, I had neither good nor bad.'""There's so much fantastic work done in the academic field that needs to get in the hands of practitioners. ""We're coming up with creative ways to stay connected and build our relationships. So I'd like to tap into that and see how leaders are getting creative.""The one thing that COVID didn’t take from us was relationships. And so that’s what we have. And that’s what we’re left with, and obviously, it’s a passion point of mine...How do I help my leaders protect those relationships?"Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeThe Hidden BrainThe Overwhelmed BrainThe Daily - The New York TimesDo You En♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textCatherine M. Rymsha, EdD,  is a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where she teaches courses on leadership. Catherine spent more than ten years in marketing and communication leadership roles ranging from marketing healthcare conferences to writing speeches on payment card security. She now leads learning and development for a software company. Between her academic and professional experience, she has taught courses on leadership, feedback, and career to global leaders across an array of industries. Catherine's WorkBook - The Leadership DecisionTed Talk -  Want to become a better leader? Here's how. Just listen.Quotes From This Episode"Establishing a leadership brand is similar to that of a corporate brand.""Once you make that decision, to be a leader you need to think about your life overall.""A lot of times leaders fail to get feedback on how others perceive their brand.""A very wise thing for leaders to be aware of is that it's okay to show vulnerability...it can be a way for leaders to connect in a different way...and can speak volumes for their brand."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeResource: Project Implicit at HarvardShow: Surviving Death♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textBrad Jackson is Associate Dean of Strategic Engagement at Waikato Management School in New Zealand. He also serves as Professor of Leadership and Governance. Jackson has published several books — Management Gurus and Management Fashions, Organisational Behaviour in New Zealand, Demystifying Business Celebrity, and Revitalising Leadership. He has also co-edited the Sage Handbook of Leadership and Major Works in Leadership. He is a former co-editor of the journal, Leadership.Select Publications by Dr. Brad JacksonBook - A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying LeadershipBook -  The Hero Manager - Learning from New Zealand's Top Chief ExecutivesArticle - The Power of Place in Public Leadership Research and DevelopmentQuotes From This Episode"If you want to get to know a place, try to change something.""I suppose as you go through your career, particularly as you get towards the twilight phase of your career, you tend to think...'Hang on, where did this all start?', and you start to go back to your original passions and interests.""What I’ve been quietly and slightly more noisily doing recently is looking at what I call a 'geography of leadership.'""You’re encouraged to talk about your Mountain and your River. And as someone who’s sort of moved around an awful lot, I must admit, I really struggle with the question - 'What is my Mountain and my River?' The whole idea is that these are critical advocates for who you are and what you’re about, and what you stand for.""And of course, the key task of leaders is to create the kind of collaborative governance structures that sustain, but then the collective leadership that keeps the momentum."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeJournal - The Journal of Management and Organization - Tribute to Ken PerryConcept - Keith Grint’s four lenses of leadership (A quick reference)Film - NomadlandEpisodes Mentioned in This EpisodeTed Baartmans - ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.