Leadership Without Losing Your Soul: Master Communication & Management Skills To Boost Productivity, Teamwork & Ease Overwhelm

What does your Leadership Brand Authority say? We look to brands for what to do, what to think, and how to feel. We want to know what to support and what to stand against. Brands are the new voice of authority and now is the perfect time to reveal the humanity behind the brand. Consumers want to connect with the brands they support. Business leaders want to create purposeful, passionate companies. At this intersection of shared values is where a brand’s authority is established and humanity shines through.How do you ensure a meaningful connection? How do you make it last? How do you establish an authoritative footprint that encourages growth wherever you are and follows you throughout your career? In this episode, brand impresario Deb Gabor shares the secrets to differentiating yourself and your company by exposing the humans behind the business. Get one-of-a-kind strategies, inspiring stories, and key exercises to point you in the right direction.Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The numerous daily leadership decisions we make, both at work and in life, are small chances to make a big impact. In this episode Richard Moran, author of Never Say Whenever: How Small Decisions Make a Big Difference, offers a blueprint to help everyone understand why and how the choices we make, even the minor ones, are pivotal to professional development and career trajectory. For young graduates just starting out to seasoned professionals seeking ways to reenergize their careers, it's a timely call to get on track and stay on track with boosted productivity and an impressive personal brand.Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To achieve culture change, you don't want to be scared of the conflict between values. When people know your values as an organization, but you don't see those values being lived out, the problem is likely one of two invisible conflicts within change.Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When was the last time you were absolutely sure about something… and then discovered you were wrong? As a leader, it’s easy to feel like you have to have all the answers. But the truth is, leadership skills that grow when you admit mistakes are the ones that build trust, resilience, and real connection with your team. Holding too tightly to what you think you know can keep you and your team from growing. This episode is your reminder that some of the best leadership breakthroughs start with three simple words: “I was wrong.” By listening, you’ll discover: • How admitting you were wrong can strengthen—not weaken—your leadership. • A practical mindset shift that turns mistakes into learning opportunities. • Simple ways to model curiosity and humility so your team feels empowered to grow. Hit play now and uncover how embracing “I was wrong” can make you a more trusted, effective, and human leader. Be sure to check out: 00:28 – The Confession: David opens up with a personal story that sets the tone for a powerful leadership lesson. 03:55 – “How do you know?”: A single question sparks a mindset shift—and a surprising realization. 06:20 – The Leadership Pivot: David connects his toe sock epiphany to the dangers of needing to be “right” as a leader. 07:35 – The Challenge: A direct, thought-provoking question invites listeners to reflect on when they last changed their mind. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Compassion and accountability are too often in tension - leaders feel they have to pick one or the other when in fact, practicing compassionate accountability can lead to a thriving organizational culture. Solely prioritizing accountability can create toxic work environments that drive away good talent. On the other end of the spectrum, being too nice can compromise performance and productivity.The solution is recognizing that compassion and accountability are not opposites. In fact, accountability is an element of compassion. In this episode, Nate Regier, Author of Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results, gives you areas to focus on the start building a culture of compassionate accountability and the common barriers for leaders and how to overcome them.Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you want to be heard, you need to know how to listen.​ Communication isn’t all about what you say. It’s about what you hear, what you notice, and how you respond. In short: it’s about how you listen. And despite leaders spending eighty-three percent of their day listening, only two percent of them have ever been trained in how to listen effectively. At a time when we are more technologically linked than ever, our conversations have never been more distracted and disconnected―because most don’t know how to truly listen.When you understand the art and science of listening, you’ll master the missing half of communication―and create a more powerful impact in your workplace and beyond. In this episode Oscar Trimboli, author of How to Listen: Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication, and host of the Apple-award-winning podcast Deep Listening, shows you how to unlock your listening superpowers. Oscar shares practical and pragmatic insights to help you notice when you aren’t listening―and what to do about it.Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you change your leadership assumptions, can you create a powerhouse with the organization or team you already have? The COVID-19 pandemic and an ever-changing array of new ways of working seem to have all of us asking, “Does work really have to suck this bad?” It looks like a small taste of flexibility and freedom has made many of us rethink the nature of the work we do and how we do it.In this episode Melissa Swift, author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace, gives you a roadmap to better work that generates wins for companies and employees alike. Learn different ways to improve the growth-impeding, borderline inhumane people management practices we’ve created and endured over time. And start with a simple framework questioning your own leadership assumptions to help you make people-centered decisions.Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, former fighter pilot and retired Air Force Colonel Kim "KC" Campbell gives practical and inspirational ways of leading through fear and decision-making in high-stress situations. You'll get lessons and stories that will serve as a resource for you as you lead your employees, students, and others through the challenges of life and work, learning to create a positive impact and make a big difference in the lives of the people who follow you. Kim offers specific strategies and techniques for leading in situations of extreme stress and risk, methods for female leaders to overcome the challenges of working in male-dominated environments, and ways to act in critical moments by recognizing that being brave and afraid simultaneously is both normal and necessary.Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can you be the kind of leader who turns challenges into opportunities, instead of getting stuck in problems? The secret often lies in how they use their leadership and communication skills to guide what their teams focus on. In the middle of a busy schedule, it’s easy to slip into problem spotting instead of problem solving. This episode shows you how a simple shift in focus can improve your leadership style, strengthen your team’s mindset, and boost overall productivity. You’ll learn how what you choose to look for as a leader shapes the way your team responds and performs. You’ll discover: • How your brain’s filters influence what you and your team see as possible. • A simple mindset shift that transforms obstacles into opportunities for growth. • Practical ways to apply better problem solving and communication skills to build stronger teamwork and results. Press play now and learn how to sharpen your leadership focus so you and your team can uncover solutions that lead to real productivity and success. Be sure to check out: [00:57] The moment of realization: why your brain misses what’s right in front of you and how that affects your leadership decisions. [03:24] What birds can teach you about focus, energy, and leadership attention in a busy world. [07:51] The city council story that turned “this won’t work” into a breakthrough moment of teamwork and problem solving. [09:09] The leadership question that changes everything: what are you training your team’s minds to look for? Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever been absolutely certain your solution was the right one, only to realize no one else saw the “obvious” problem you were solving? As a leader, it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing your facts are clear and your fixes are right. But what if those “obvious truths” are actually blinding you to the perspectives, experiences, and values of the people you lead? This episode explores how curiosity and the willingness to question what feels obvious can transform not just your leadership but your relationships and results. Here’s what you’ll take away from this episode: • How to recognize when your “obvious” solutions might actually be blocking collaboration and innovation. • Simple ways to invite other perspectives that make your leadership more human and more effective. • A mindset shift that helps you move from arguing your point to building understanding and trust. Hit play now to discover how a few curious questions and a herd of Caribbean donkeys can make you a wiser, more empathetic leader. Be sure to check out: (00:58) The power of “obvious facts” — David introduces the idea that what seems clear to one person might be completely invisible to another. (03:40) The donkey dilemma on a Caribbean island — A fascinating real-world story that reveals how perspective shapes what we see as problems and solutions. (07:15) When your “perfect solution” backfires — David shares the frustration every leader knows: solving a problem no one else thinks exists. (09:20) How curiosity transforms leadership — A practical takeaway on replacing arguments with questions to build trust, connection, and better results. Leadership Without Using Your Soul podcast offers insightful discussions on leadership and management, focusing on essential communication skills, productivity, teamwork, delegation, and feedback to help leaders navigate various leadership styles, management styles, conflict resolution, time management, and active listening while addressing challenges like overwhelm, burnout, work-life balance, and problem-solving in both online and in-person teams, all aimed at cultivating human-centered leadership qualities that promote growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices