Enabling Effective Leaders for Organizational Success
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Back to School for Business
How does your organization build on prior learning? How do you apply that learning to increase your growth trajectory? In...
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Rest from Your Labor and Increase Productivity and Satisfaction
Are you depriving your teams of proper sleep? Did you know that rested minds and bodies work better and are...
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Understanding Cultural Differences: It’s Not About You
What may be perceived as normal and ordinary in one culture may be experienced as unacceptable in another. Listen to...
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Cascading Accountability in Organizations
Blame and punitive cultures are unfortunately too common in many organizations. The blame/punitive culture creates a culture of silence, hiding...
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The Leader as Coach and Consultant
To be an effective leader, you must become both a coach and a consultant. In this podcast, Dr. Karen shares...
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Succession planning: Building Future Sustainability
Succession planning is not an event, rather an organic part of organizational culture and identity. Succession planning is about facilitating...
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Leaving a Powerful Leadership Legacy
When is the right time to start thinking about your leadership legacy? It’s never too early to start. In this...
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Identify Constructive Choices: Managing Your Emotions (Part-2)
Do you fight fire with fire? If so, you have probably also noticed unintended collateral damage. Dr. Karen shares eight...
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Know Your Conflict Triggers: Managing Your Emotions (Part-1)
Did you know that unreliable people, overly analytical perfectionists, and unappreciative people are three of the nine types that may...
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Sober Lessons from a little Robin
Leadership lessons are all around us, even from beautiful nature and the backyard robin. A planned and delicate eco-system depicts...
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When More is Less: Stress in the Workplace
Do you realize the level of stress that may exist inside your organization? Or that certain conditions may be creating...
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Finding Ways to Connect Across Cultures: Lessons from Saudi Arabia
Cultures enrich our lives, experiences, and successes and they also present some key challenges for us to overcome. Dr. Karen...
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What Does Agility Have to Do with the Use of Conflict Styles?
Did you know that conflict can be measured? Or that an instrument exists that allows you to assess five different...
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The Top 3 Reasons Conflict Becomes Problematic and What to Do About It
Advocating too hard to get everyone to see the issue as you do is the second of three points in...
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Productive Conflict: Five Steps to Enhance What Works
Are you trying to avoid conflicts? Do you realize that some conflicts are productive? In this podcast Dr. Karen talks...
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Flying Around a Storm: Lessons Learned
In life we encounter many storms. How we fly through or around them makes a difference. Even in a storm,...
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Feedback as the Bridge to Positive Culture
Is your team walking blind through a maze at work? How can you prevent or even eliminate this from happening?...
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Free to be Me at Work
Dr. Karen’s definition of freedom relates to identifying collective purpose. She also believes that finding people who buy into your...
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Reclaim Your Signature Strengths from Childhood
Childhood reflections are a tool for leading yourself first. In this podcast, Dr. Karen reflects on some of her childhood...
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The Beauty of Children and What We Can Learn from Them
Children recognize their gifts early and readily gravitate to their areas of giftedness. Great parents also bring out these special...
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