
Leadership Without Losing Your Soul: Master Communication & Management Skills To Boost Productivity, Teamwork & Ease Overwhelm
Does your team's lack of productivity frustrate you? What if I told you it's possible to be a decent human being and STILL lead teams that achieve transformational, breakthrough results? In Leadership without Losing Your Soul, your host, best-selling author David Dye, gives you the same real-world leadership and management tools he’s shared with tens of thousands of leaders around the world to help you master communication skills, boost productivity, and ease your overwhelm.You’ll learn how to support your team, hold them accountable, and still feel like yourself at the end of the day. In every episode, you’ll gain communication skills to:
→ Confidently navigate tough leadership and management scenarios
→ Increase your team’s productivity without burning out
→ Reduce stress and have fun while building effective teamwork and strong relationships
Ready to transform your leadership? Listen to fan-favorite episode: “12 G.O.A.T. Powerful Phrases to Instantly Boost Your Communication Skills” and get started - today!
Latest episodes

Apr 23, 2021 • 12min
The Power in a Powerful Thank You
A specific, relevant thank you has the power to energize and keep people moving. In this episode, David shares a meaningful thank you and how you can encourage your people - even when you haven't had a recent "win."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

Apr 15, 2021 • 10min
Why We Lead
As we celebrate 100 episodes of Leadership without Losing Your Soul, it's a good time to reflect: Your leadership extends far beyond your team and the work you do. Every day, you build the world we all will live in. As you commit to human-centered leadership, achieving results, and building relationships - who can you invite on the journey with you to build a better world?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

Apr 8, 2021 • 15min
Inclusive Leadership - Get comfortable with discomfort
Building inclusive leadership requires getting comfortable with discomfort, taking daily small steps, and being selective with the feedback you listen to. The first time you presented to the executive team—you stuttered a bit, but you got through it. Discomfort doesn’t mean anything’s wrong. It means you’re growing. As you do the work to lead inclusively, you’ll return again to these moments of discomfort. It’s not a one-time deal. I invite you to join me in stepping into them and building a better future for all of us. That’s confident humility in action.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

Apr 1, 2021 • 34min
On Being a Trusted Leader with David Horsager
Without trust, people and businesses fail. Trust is the currency of your influence. The foundation of your results. Trust is the air your culture breathes. In this fast-paced interview, David Horsager, CEO of the Trust Edge gives you a crash course in the 8 Pillars of trust (backed by research!) and how they will transform your leadership. Be sure to take notes (and pick up a copy of Trusted Leader - it gives you a framework for building trust so that you and your organizations can perform at your best and I highly recommend 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

Mar 25, 2021 • 36min
Transform Your HR Relationships and Your Leadership
In this inspiring conversation with Elle Marc-Charles, Director of Inclusive Culture for Belden Corporation you'll get practical insights into how to guard yourself and your leaders from losing their humanity, how your human resource professionals can help you achieve your strategic results, and insights into the benefits (and challenges) of diversity, equity, and inclusion leadership domestically vs globally and how you can be a more inclusive leader.Grab a pencil and get ready to take notes!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

Mar 19, 2021 • 29min
How to Partner with Your Learning and Development Team
Training and development are a vital part of every team member's growth and success (including yours!) But there are common mistakes leaders make that undermine that success. In this episode with Director of Learning and Development from UFHealth Jacksonville, Dan Kurmaskie, you'll get specific mistakes to avoid and how you can help your team get the most from their work with learning and development professionals - whether you have an internal L&D team or are working with external partners like us at Let's Grow Leaders.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

Mar 11, 2021 • 35min
How to Partner with Your HR Teams
Your human resource, organizational development, and learning professionals can be wonderful strategic partners and collaborate with you to achieve amazing results - but it takes trust and a solid relationship to get there. In this episode, Jessica Schwaller shares some secrets and opportunities available to you when you build a transformational relationship with your HR pros. This is the first of three episodes in a series on how to partner with your HR, OD, and L&D teams to achieve transformational 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

Mar 5, 2021 • 55min
How to Be a More Influential Communicator with John Bates
You’ve got something awesome inside of you and John Bates is in business to bring that out so it can live in the world and make a real difference. Join David and John for this dynamic and energizing discussion about the heart of leadership and how to make your leadership communication more dynamic and influential. John has trained hundreds of TED/TEDx speakers all over the world and works with C-level executives at top companies to make their communications "TED-Worthy" so grab something to take notes and take your communication to the next level!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

Feb 26, 2021 • 45min
Building a Human Centered Culture - with Charlie Bailes IV
You build your culture one decision at a time - but how do you ensure that the decisions you make build the culture you want? In this episode, Charlie Bailes, VP of Human Resources and Distribution for ABC Fine Wine and Spirits shares practical ways you can build a human-centered culture in your organization, team, or department.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

Feb 18, 2021 • 11min
A Tough Leadership Lesson
If you've ever worried about losing someone from your team or organization because you reinforce expectations, this episode's for you. Early in my career, I learned a tough leadership lesson from a retired English teacher named Joan. In a few succinct words, she gave me one of the most important leadership lessons I would ever learn: about what it meant to lead, to truly value people, and the importance of accountability.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