Conflict is something most of us tend to avoid because we view it as being negative and counter-productive. But what if we're seeing this wrong? Could conflict actually be productive and beneficial for our team? That's the focus of my conversation with organizational psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Liane Davey in this episode of my leadership podcast, “Leadership Biz Cafe”. Liane is the New YorkTimes bestselling author of “You First: Inspire Your Team to GrowUp, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done.” She is also a regularcontributor to the Harvard Business Review and an organizationalpsychology expert for Quartz magazine. As the co-founder of 3COze,she advises on business strategy and executive team effectiveness andhas worked with executives at companies such as Amazon, Walmart,Aviva, TD Bank, 3M, and SONY PlayStation.In this episode, we'll be talking about her book, “The Good Fight: Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track”.Over the course of thisepisode, Liane and I discuss:What is “conflictdebt” and why we should be doing our best to avoid amassing thiskind of debt.The threebehaviours we all do that can fuel conflicts instead of addressingthe underlying roots.Why it's importantto understand the difference between conflict aversion and conflictavoidance.Steps you can taketoday to reduce unnecessary workplace conflicts.Tapping into thepower of connection to transform conflict into an opportunity tolearn and understand.So give this episode a listen and if you enjoy it, please do share it with others in our organization or your network so that they might also gain these insights on how to transform conflict from something that harms to something that helps.https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vGNTNww97vLFZK6BbClqo?si=fba455e87f764910Noteworthy Links:Buy Liane's book “The Good Fight” on Amazon (or Amazon.ca for Canadian readers)Visit Liane's company site: 3COzeHow Leaders Create The Right Environment To Resolve Team Conflicts4 Keys To Successfully Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace6 Steps To Strengthen Team Cohesion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a leader, it's important that you're not just ensuring your employees complete the tasks they're assigned, but that you're inspiring and empowering your employees to deliver their very best. Of course, the onus is not on your employees to simply go above and beyond. Rather, as a leader, it's your responsibility to provide them with opportunities to do work that is personally fulfilling and meaningful. Work that inspires our employees to not simply thrive under our leadership, but to be extraordinary in what they contribute.To help illustrate this point, I share a story in this latest edition of my Leadership Espresso Shot series of a simple interaction between an employee and his leader that reveals how we can inspire our employees to be extraordinary ... by simply by recognizing how every contribution matters.I don't want to give away too much as it's a wonderful story that not only reminds us of the power of small gestures, but what we as leaders should be doing to ensure our employees remain committed to the work they need to do to help our organization achieve its goals.https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ezv0edy8azb4fuujuqo7t?si=b3ac09024867413e Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For most leaders, improving the way we lead involves developing new strategies and/or processes to be more effective in getting the best out of others. But shouldn't we focusing more on better connecting who we are with how we lead? That's the idea I explore with renowned CEO coach John Mattone in this episode of my “Leadership Biz Cafe” podcast.John Mattone is a best-selling author and one of the world’s most in-demand CEO coaches and leadership speakers. Since 2017, he has been recognized by Globalgurus.org as one of the top 3 coaching authorities in the world alongside Tony Robbins and Marshall Goldsmith. John Mattone is the former executive coach to the late Steve Jobs and the former legendary CEO of PepsiCo, Roger Enrico.John's work has been featured in several media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, Fast Company, and Thinkers50. He serves on the executive MBA faculty at FAU and is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Hult International School of Business. John is the author of nine books, including 3 best-sellers. On this episode, we'll be diving into his latest book “The Intelligent Leader – Unlocking 7 Secrets To Leading Others and Leaving Your Legacy”.Over the course of this episode, John and I discuss:How the key to improving the way we act and what people see in us as leaders is directly linked to who we are inside, to what John calls our “inner core”.Why leaders need to be more courageous in taking the feedback they get from 360 assessments to heart in order to create lasting change and with it, enduring success.The one thing most leaders fail to do that's so critical to succeeding in today's faster-paced, always on digital world.The power that comes from moving from being vulnerable because of what happens to you to making the decision to bring more vulnerability to the way you lead.Why leaders can no longer afford to make the excuse of being too busy in their work days to make time to connect in a meaningful way with their employees.As I mentioned at the end of this episode, if you enjoy this episode and gained some new insights, why not share this episode with your employees, your colleagues, or maybe even your boss. Just direct them to the podcast page at tanveernaseer.com/lbc where they can find links to listen to this podcast on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, and more.Thanks and let me know what you think of what John has to say about how to go about improving the way you lead.https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gHko6IEWkA8EJoCxglPry?si=83961155bab24104Noteworthy links:Learn more about John Mattone's work at JohnMattone.com.Buy John's book “The Intelligent Leader” on Amazon (or Amazon.ca for Canadian readers). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Key to succeeding at leadership in today is our ability to learn new skills to improve the way we lead. But how can we consistently apply these new skills over the long run, instead of falling back on old habits? In this episode of Leadership Biz Cafe, I share 3 simple steps that will make your learning more effective.As I share in this episode of my leadership podcast, this topic was inspired by a question I got from one of my listeners about how to make sure that when leaders at his organization attend conferences or corporate training events, they take what they've learned and apply it to how they lead their divisions, and not slowly revert back to theirprevious day-to-day work routinesNow I've been asked this question many times at the various leadership keynotes and corporate training events I lead. In fact, I even have a leadership keynote, “Shifting from Training People to Continuously Improving Talent” that I created in response to fielding this question from so many leaders on how to ensure their learning and development initiatives they provide to their employees truly pay off over the long run.Granted, there's no way I can distill an hour leadership keynote into a short 15 minute episode. So what I decided to do was use the wonderful book “Made To Stick” by Chip and Dan Heath, research from a Stanford neuroscientist and a Harvard psychologist who was a guest on a previous episode of my leadership podcast, along with the productivity secret of a well known, highly successful person to create a framework of 3 simple steps that will make the insights and skills you learn stick.(It's so good I'm actually thinking of adapting it into some of my leadership keynotes and corporate training programs).The simple fact is that part of dealing with change and change management is our ability to be adaptive and resilient. And that requires we not only be able to make time to learn about new insights, behaviours and skills that can help facilitate us with these changes, but that we retain that learning so we can change our perception and outlook and with it, how we operate on a given day.While I can't give you a detailed map of how you're going to achieve this from start to finish, the 3 steps I share in this episode will help make sure that whatever skill or behaviour you want to adapt as part of your leadership toolkit not only sticks, but helps you drive the outcomes that will fuel your organization's success and longevity.It's a power-packed 15 minutes that will no doubt change both the way you view learning, as well as how you learn. So be sure to grab a pen and paper and let the learning begin!https://open.spotify.com/episode/2yQZVIlGwMtBn0xjMFWz9p?si=266aa4cd89be4064 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One key to succeeding at leadership is creating a workplace environment that empowers employees to commit their best efforts. To that end, shouldn't leaders also be looking at measures to improve employee health and wellness to help attract and retain employees? That's the focus of my conversation with Virgin Pulse CEO David Osborne in this latest episode of my podcast, “Leadership Biz Cafe”.As CEO of the world’s largest, most comprehensive digital health and well-being provider, David is responsible for optimizing and scaling Virgin Pulse as the company continues an aggressive growth strategy. He is responsible for setting and actualizing the company’s vision – solving the most critical and complex health and well-being challenges faced by employers and employees. David joined Virgin Pulse as chief operating officer in 2016, following the company’s acquisitions of GCC and ShapeUp. As CEO, he has accelerated Virgin Pulse’s growth and expansion, with several successful mergers and acquisitions, all aimed at simplifying and improving the health and well-being journey.Over the course of this episode, David and I discuss:Why leaders need to make employee health and wellness a key leadership focus – and why this strategy can actually improve your organization's profitability.What a recent study reveals as 4 critical steps organizations need to take to establish and sustain health and wellness as a key organizational value and an integral part of an organization's culture.How leaders can ensure their efforts are successful in promoting health and wellness in their organization.The connectionbehavioural science has shown between taking little steps andchanging behaviours and how this can help drive employee health andwellness initiatives.If you'd like to check out previous episodes of my show, check out my podcast page where you can also find links to subscribe to my show on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more, as well as links to the show notes for every episode.And if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your colleagues, your team and even your boss so that others in your organization can benefit from these insights.Without question, David is a seasoned and successful CEO having overseen the mergers and acquisitions of over 7 companies at Virgin Pulse. So it's certainly worth taking a half an hour of your time to learn from him why employee health and wellness is fast becoming a critical leadership priority.https://open.spotify.com/episode/1on2bwtshORLg06GeTQPuX?si=59029e93bd9b498e Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Driving collaborative efforts in today's workplaces has certainly become a key focus for many leaders. Unfortunately, there's a common mistake many leaders make about promoting collaboration, a mistake that I reveal alongside 3 powerful strategies to boost collaboration in this fifth edition of my podcast feature, Leadership Espresso Shot.My podcast feature, Leadership Espresso Shot, is a new series of episodes that are designed to be short listens that feature a concentrated dose of insights and actionable advice that are typical of what I'd share with leaders who attend my keynotes or corporatetraining sessions.If you didn’t catch the previous four editions of Leadership Espresso Shot, you can find those along with other past episodes of my podcast on the Leadership Biz Cafe podcast page. You can also find there links to subscribe to my show on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more, as well as links to the show notes for every episode.And speaking of which, I'm also delighted to announce that you can now also find my show on iHeartRadio! I just got word from the iHeartRadio team yesterday and I can tell you, I'm excited to join the iHeartRadio platform to help continue grow my audience as I can continue to share insights on how to improve the way you lead today.As always, I’d appreciate it if you could subscribe, rate, and comment about my show on your preferred podcasting streaming platform to help continue to support this show.And now, check out my latest Leadership Espresso Shot. Again, it's a short listen, but it will leave you with 3 powerful strategies that you can start using today to help boost collaboration in your organization.https://open.spotify.com/episode/7jd9qEV9xuHqtmM0vDTuwI?si=164fd5de2a7f4046 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Over the past few years, there's been a greater acceptance that one critical measure to succeeding at leadership is building and nurturing relationships amongst those you lead. Unfortunately, every few months a new study comes out revealing that many organizations continue to lose employees to their competitors because employees don't feel heard and understood. Meanwhile, a majority of leaders still considerthemselves to be good listeners.So why are leaders convinced they're good listeners when the evidence says otherwise? And what can they do about it? That's the focus of my conversation with Oscar Trimboli in this episode of my Leadership Biz Cafe podcast.Oscar Trimboli is an author, keynote speaker, and host of the podcast, Deep Listening. Since his time working as a marketing director at Vodafone and Microsoft, Oscar has been driven by both a passion for helping others become better listeners both at work at and home, as well by his goal to create 100 million Deep Listeners across the world. Oscar has worked with executives and teams at Cisco, Google, PayPal, Qantas, and TripAdvisor to learn how to become better listeners for both employees and customers.Over the course of this episode, some of the topics Oscar and I discuss include:Why so many leaders have poor listening skills even though most leaders believe they're good listeners.How our brains set us up to be bad listeners because of a gap between how many words we can speak and how many words we can hear.3 surprisingly simple things you can do right now that will make you a much better listener.The 5 levels of listening that are necessary to become an effective listener.The difference between distracted listening and deep listening.What are the 4 villains of listening and which one you're most likely under the influence of.Don’t forget you can now stream all episodes from my show, and find the show notes for past episodes, as well as find links to listen to my show on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and more on the podcast page on my website.Finally, I’d appreciate it if you could subscribe, rate, and comment about my show on your preferred podcasting streaming platform to help continue to support this show.Click on the player below to listen to the podcast:https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LycAv16KsGCLPS0aeg2dk?si=6dc07d1685164a34Noteworthy links: Visit Oscar Trimboli's website - listeningmyths.com3 Keys For Building Relationships With Those You Lead Why Leadership Should Be Hard How Do You Inspire Others Through Your Leadership? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Earlier this month, my second daughter turned 18 years old. I'll admit it's crazy at times to think the little girl who's artwork used to adorn a previous version of this site is now old enough to vote in Canada's upcoming federal election.But while there are times I miss holding the hand of that little girl who walked alongside me, I must admit I enjoy the conversations I have with her and my other adult daughter about their dreams and aspirations of what type of work they'd like to direct their talents and skills into.Of course, the interesting thing about talking about our dreams for the future is that it seems to be something we think is the sole purview of the young. That at some point in time, we have to let reality in and cast aside those hopeful aspirations of what we can do and who we can become.The irony is that while there may be political and social strife in certain Western countries these days, the fact is that we are living in a time where we can in fact make our dreams a reality. And for leaders of today's organizations, this actually a powerful motivating force that they need to be putting more consideration and thought into how to nurture and empower it within their workforce.It's an idea that I examine in this latest episode of my podcast feature, Leadership Espresso Shot, which are short episodes that pack a powerful leadership lesson or insight that, in this case, is meant to leaders to understand the untapped potential that exists within their workforce and why they shouldn't let it go to waste. These segments are based on some of the lessons and actionable advice I share with leaders who attend my keynotes or corporatetraining sessions, so in addition to giving you some importantinsights and ideas to consider, they also give you a glimpse intowhat I offer through these types of speaking and trainingengagements.If you didn’t catch the previous ones, you can stream them as well as past episodes of my podcast – as well as find the show notes for all episodes on our Leadership Biz Cafe podcast page. You can also find there links to listen to my show on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and more.Finally, I’d appreciate it if you could subscribe, rate, and comment about my show on your preferred podcasting streaming platform to help continue to support this show.And with that, please do check out this latest episode. Again, it's a short listen, but I promise you it will leave you with much food for thought.https://open.spotify.com/episode/5dLcB6X2HmkZCxc5zHr2eU?si=d162eb28eda24c74Noteworthy links:My TED talk: Forget Passion - Purpose is the Real Spice of Life Are You Helping Employees Find Purpose In What They Do? 3 Key Steps To Finding Purpose In What You Do 3 Steps To Create An Organizational Vision That Energizes Employees A Powerful Lesson On What It Takes To Succeed At Leadership Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's no question that leadership is hard work and requires a diverse tool kit of skills and abilities to do the job well. But are there actions and behaviours leaders are employing that are actually impeding their ability to succeed in their role? That's the focus of my conversation with this episode's guest, Scott Miller.Scott is the Executive Vice President of Business Development and Chief Marketing Officer for FranklinCovey, a global consulting and training leader in the areas of strategy execution, customer loyalty, leadership and individual effectiveness.Prior to joining FranklinCovey, Scott worked for the Disney Development Company, the real-estate development division of The Walt Disney Company. He has a new book out called “Management Mess to Leadership Success – 30 Challenges To Become the Leader You Would Follow”, which serves as the focus of this episode of my leadership podcast.Over the course of this episode, some of the topics Scott and I discuss include:Why it's important for leaders to 'carry their own weather'Why leaders need to challenge their mindset in order to ensure their ability to drive long-term success and growth.How leaders can approach difficult conversations without the fear most of us have about having these conversations with our employees or colleagues.How“pre-forgiveness” can help leaders right the wrongs we all will inevitably make at some point in our careers.How leaders can strike a balance between sticking to their convictions about what's best for the organization while at the same time allowing employeesto feel heard and understood about their concerns/issues?Why leaders really need to make the time to celebrate wins with their employees.Don’t forget you can now stream all episodes from my show, and find the show notes for past episodes, as well as find links to listen to my show on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and more on the podcast page on my website.Finally, I’d appreciate it if you could subscribe, rate, and comment about my show on your preferred podcasting streaming platform to help continue to support this show.https://open.spotify.com/episode/7HymbcA0ulh0wOHvQYr6wI?si=d0da28a4fbd14de7Noteworthy links:Buy Scott Miller's book “Management Mess to Leadership Success – 30 Challenges To Become the Leader You Would Follow” on Amazon (or Amazon.ca for Canadian readers).A Lesson On Bringing Out The Best In Those You LeadAre You Missing This Critical Element In Your Leadership?The One Thing Exceptional Leaders Never Forget Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The arrival of summer-like weather often leads not only to people spending more time outdoors, shaking off the dreariness of the winter months, but also discussions and planning of summer vacation breaks and spending time with family and friends away from work. Or at least it used to be.Every year, there's another study that comes out pointing out how employees are taking less and less time off from work. This year, for example, there was a study that found that only 28% of US employees plan to use all their vacation days, and 4% plan on taking none. And another study by Glassdoor found that 66% of employees admitted that they do work while on vacation.While there are many benefits that we can gain from going on vacation, a study done by researchers at Wharton reveals why taking time off work can help us achieve our goals for this year.It's an idea I explore in this latest episode of my podcast feature, Leadership Espresso Shot, which are short, quick listens that pack a powerful leadership lesson or insight that you can put into action right away to improve the way you lead going forward.These segments are based on some of the lessons and actionable advice I share with leaders who attend my keynotes or corporate training sessions, so in addition to giving you some important insights and ideas to consider, they also give you a glimpse into what I offer through these types of speaking and training engagements.If you didn't catch the previous ones, you can stream them as well as past episodes of my podcast - as well as find the show notes for all episodes on our Leadership Biz Cafe podcast page. You can also find there links to listen to my show on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and more. Finally, I’d appreciate it if you could subscribe, rate, and comment about my show on your preferred podcasting streaming platform to help continue to support this show.And with that, please do check out this latest episode. If you're debating over whether to take a vacation break at any time this year, I'd like to encourage you to take 16 minutes of your time to listen to this episode and discover the connection science has shown exists between taking time off work and our ability to achieve the goals we set out to attain this year.https://open.spotify.com/episode/0s5KRYet3ZF7C1tOEFJ1wV?si=f4a435bb25f6411f Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.