Humanergy Leadership Podcast
167 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago -We talk with leadership thought-leaders and draw out practical actions you can apply to your leadership today
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Ep167: Behavioral expectations of the team
April 19, 2024 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.48 MBDavid reflects on a kids hockey coach who has the leanest version of behavioral expectations (from the Set-Up box of What Great Teams Do Great) - work hard and be a great teammate!
Ep166: Making Decisions (First Friday)
April 12, 2024 16:00 - 13 minutes - 6.54 MBLance Satterthwaite talks about how teams can make great decisions
Ep165: A personal board of directors
April 05, 2024 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.99 MBDavid builds on the ideas from Ep95 about creating a personal board of directors. Imagine doing a seating chart for an event... who are the people you have at each of the following tables: Coaching Sponsorship Mentoring Friends Who can provide insight and advise to you personally and professionally?
Ep164: Preparing to leave - the right glidepath
March 29, 2024 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.91 MBDavid shares the idea that when we are preparing to leave a role, we can create a glidepath that best allows for a great transition by stepping down our work
Ep163: Family Business Best Practices - Bergquist
March 22, 2024 16:00 - 25 minutes - 12.8 MBDavid continues his exploration of family business best practices with Lauren Clark and Bob Barry of Bergquist
Ep162: The Outdoor Leader with Jeannette Stawski
March 15, 2024 16:00 - 12 minutes - 7.09 MBDavid talks to Jeannette Stawski about her new book, The Outdoor Leader - a great introduction to leadership whether you work in the outdoors or not.
Ep161: Stakeholder Mapping (First Friday)
March 08, 2024 17:00 - 16 minutes - 9.16 MBCorey Fernandez talks about how stakeholder mapping can help identify the interdependencies and set up a clear picture of the greater good
Ep160: Show your work
March 01, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.56 MBDavid talks about how problem solvers can sometimes become bottlenecks because they don't develop problem solving skills in others. The simple idea of 'showing your work', like the math teachers made you do in school, can help others see your thinking and develop the skills themselves
Ep159: Family Business Best Practices - Gallagher Uniform
February 23, 2024 17:00 - 38 minutes - 21.1 MBDavid talks with John Gallagher, President and owner of Gallagher Uniform in Battle Creek, Michigan about this 5th generation family business
Ep158: Working with Remote Teams (First Friday)
February 16, 2024 17:00 - 17 minutes - 9.82 MBCorey talks about how the What Great Teams Do Great model can be applied to support remote teams and how, with intention, they can be as or more productive than face-to-face teams
Ep157: Use vs Utilize - a 24th anniversary gift from Humanergy
February 09, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.03 MBDavid shares a gift of language that you won't forget and you will probably go check for yourself. This is to celebrate our upcoming 24th anniversary as a company. Happy birthday to us!
Ep156: Preparing to leave (Ending well)
February 02, 2024 17:00 - 44 minutes - 22.9 MBDavid talks with Judy Brown and Rick Eigenbrod about how it is a leaders responsibility to "end well". They look at how leaders should be checking themselves regularly to make sure they are still offering the leadership the organization needs right now... or are they hanging on, hanging in or hanging out? Perhaps it's even time to hang up!
Ep155: Family Business Best Practices with Agroliquid
January 26, 2024 17:00 - 33 minutes - 16.8 MBDavid talks with Nick and Gerrit Bancroft from Agroliquid about their experiences as part of a family business. This is part of our 2024 family business best practice series.
Ep154: Introduction and insight with new Humanergist, Jim Marshall
January 19, 2024 17:00 - 22 minutes - 12.5 MBDavid reconnects with Jim Marshall, who is re-joining the Humanergy fold in 2024. He shares some insights from his 10-years away
Ep153: Race & Power in the context of What Great Teams Do Great (First Friday)
January 12, 2024 17:00 - 19 minutes - 10.6 MBDavid addresses the impact of race and power in the context of What Great Teams Do Great. This is expanded on in the supplemental chapter available here
Ep152: Murmerations
January 05, 2024 17:00 - 40 minutes - 20.7 MBDavid talks with Judy Brown and Rick Eigenbrod about finding patterns and coherence within chaos. Could you give you people three rules that would allow them to operate without you, have freedom and leave you comfortable about their delivery? We discuss what helps us see order amongst chaos and reference the work of Meg Wheatley (Leadership & The New Science)
Ep151: The Sweet Spot of Collaboration (First Friday)
December 29, 2023 17:00 - 20 minutes - 11.2 MBLance Satterthwaite talks about how some teams can be over-collaborative and some under-collaborative and how to find the sweet spot of collaboration. This is part of the What Great Teams Do Great series
Ep150: How to listen to the Humanergy Leadership Podcast
December 22, 2023 17:00 - 5 minutes - 3.16 MBWith 150 episodes in the bag, here is a guide for those just finding the Humanergy Leadership Podcast and wondering where to start.
Ep149: Intuition is just sub-conscious pattern
December 15, 2023 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.52 MBDavid reflects on how our gut-reaction is often simply sub-conscious pattern - and how spending the time to consider this can often bring it to the conscious.
Ep148: A meditation on Notice, Stop, Think & Choose
December 08, 2023 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.71 MBDavid walks the listener through a meditation to understand the physiological response when things are getting 'interesting'
Ep147: The Eisenhower Matrix
December 01, 2023 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.55 MBDavid talks about the Eisenhower Matrix - popularized by Stephen Covey in the 7 Habits - contrasting those things that are urgent and important
Ep146: The Centered Leader
November 24, 2023 17:00 - 42 minutes - 22.2 MBDavid talks with Judy Brown and Rick Eigenbrod about what it takes to be a centered leader and the value of being one.
Ep145: Making Meetings Work (First Friday)
November 17, 2023 17:00 - 19 minutes - 10.8 MBCorey Fernandez talks about how to make the most of your meetings in this First Friday work session - join us on the first Friday of every month at noon (eastern) to participate
Ep144: Are you doing the work you should be doing?
November 10, 2023 17:00 - 4 minutes - 2.36 MBDavid talks about a recent experience that highlights the challenge of letting go of old work and focusing on the job you have today.
Ep143: Leadership & Aikido
November 03, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutes - 2.39 MBDavid talks about the similarities behind Aikido and Leadership: Be centered Use the energy that already exists Add as little of yourself as is necessary to get everyone to a good place
Ep142: FACET a tool for behavior change
October 27, 2023 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.73 MBDavid talks about 5 simple elements that drive behavior change: Focus Accountability Compelling motivation Easier to do than not Tracking
Ep141: Mission, vision & values
October 20, 2023 16:00 - 13 minutes - 7.37 MBHumanergy's Business & Marketing Director, Mimi Mitrius talks how mission, vision & values ties into What Great Teams Do Great and provides useful definitions and tools for organizations or teams engaged in this "Set-up" work
Ep140: The buzzard and the busy
October 13, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes - 2.86 MBJudy Brown shares a poem with David that gets us thinking about what we miss when we are rushing through things. The poem is "On reading a poem by Phillis Levin" by Marilyn Robertson
Ep139: Nemawashi
October 06, 2023 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.43 MBDavid shares the Japanese concept of Nemawashi - having meetings before the meeting to build alignment and buy-in
Ep138: Eat the frog
September 29, 2023 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.41 MBDavid discusses the concept of Eating the Frog - getting the important and challenging tasks done sooner rather than later
Ep137: Learning from our choices
September 22, 2023 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.26 MBDavid tells a story about how his Dad was forced to learn from his choices by David's Granddad and how we can all take a lesson form this
Ep136: Managing Interuptions
September 15, 2023 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.1 MBDavid discusses how we can take back control of our interruptions by simply turning off notifications
Ep135: Staying on the Green-Path, even when under pressure (First Friday)
September 08, 2023 16:00 - 14 minutes - 7.4 MBDavid talks to the Humanergy First Friday group about how to stay green-path even when in difficult circumstances
Ep134: Leader Transition
September 01, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes - 22.3 MBDavid talks with Judy Brown and Rick Eigenbrod about how leaders can best transition out of an organization or into an organization. Are departing leaders thinking about how they 'end well'? and let go, leaving the best space for their successor. Are the new leaders thinking about new leaders assimilation processes, honoring history while driving forward and creating opportunities to be vulnerable. The question holds the lantern (John O'Donohue)
Ep133: Mutual Understanding - ICUC
August 25, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes - 2.93 MBDavid talks about how we can ensure mutual understanding when sharing information using the simple framework of ICUC: Individualize Context Unmistakable Close the loop
Ep132: Man City or Wigan Athletic? Who are you leading?
August 18, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutes - 2.26 MBDavid talks (proper) football and how we can feel the tensions between where we would love to be and where we are... and how we need to focus where we are and bring out the best in the people we have
Ep131: The cost of inefficiency (time derailers)
August 11, 2023 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.9 MBDavid talks about what can cause our time management issues
Ep130: Why you might consider an MBA (retro edition)
August 04, 2023 16:00 - 21 minutes - 13.6 MBDavid talked with Cheri DeClercq about why you might consider an MBA back in September 2020. We repeat this episode the weekend that Humanergy kicks off Michigan State University's Executive MBA program for it's 26th year
Ep129: Letting Go
July 29, 2023 16:00 - 33 minutes - 17.5 MBDavid talks with Judy Brown and Rick Eigenbrod about the difficulty leaders have transitioning from one role to the next. How do we let go of our comfort and move to being curious about what is in front of us.
Ep128: Being micromanaged
July 21, 2023 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.22 MBDavid talks about how to prevent being micromanaged
Ep127: Think like a college coach
July 14, 2023 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.63 MBDavid talks about how business leaders need to think like a college coach. They have their players for 4 years, sometimes less - get the most of them while they have them and expect them to move on... and have great recruiting pipelines
Ep126: Emotional Intelligence & What Great Teams Do Great
July 07, 2023 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.84 MBDavid talks about a couple of tools from our book What Great Teams Do Great that are a simple way to think about emotional intelligence
Ep125: The Work of Edgar Schein with Margie Hagene
June 30, 2023 16:00 - 30 minutes - 16.3 MBDavid talks with Margie Hagene about the work and legacy of Edgar Schein. Industrial psychologist and author, Schein wrote Humble Inquiry and Humble Leadership. He died earlier this year at the age of 94. Margie had the honor of working with him and reflects here on his lasting legacy
Ep124: AI and Leading Change
June 23, 2023 16:00 - 7 minutes - 4.3 MBDavid sets ChatGPT the task of writing an episode of the Humanergy Leadership Podcast... and with help from Humanergy's own Mimi Mitrius shares it with you... and also how Humanergy are looking at AI to stretch our thinking
Ep123: Green Path Choices (First Friday)
June 16, 2023 16:00 - 16 minutes - 9.5 MBLance Satterthwaite talks about Green-Path choices within the What Great Teams Do Great Model and how it can make a difference to your life and your team
Ep122: Inklings
June 09, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes - 21.6 MBDavid talks with Judy Brown and Rick Eigenbrod about inklings... when we receive information in our periphery or sub-consciously and how to tune in to them and use them
Ep121: When is my voice loud vs. helpful?
June 02, 2023 16:00 - 27 minutes - 14.7 MBDavid talks with Kim Carter, Superintendent at Battle Creek Public Schools; Lauren Clark, CEO of Bergquist and Scott McFarland, CEO of Honor Credit Union, about the challenge of a CEO's voice and when it is too loud vs. helpful.
Ep120: Ready to be rescued?
May 26, 2023 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.1 MBDavid shares the concept that people need to be ready to be rescued before you can help them
Ep119: Understanding the feedback process
May 19, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutes - 2.23 MBDavid talks about how to best process feedback through understanding and owning it. When feedback is someone's perception, it is 100% accurate - but we might not like it or agree with it. Here are a few steps to help ensure you get the most from any feedback
Ep118: The Team Set-up (First Friday)
May 12, 2023 16:00 - 19 minutes - 10.7 MBCorey Fernandez talks to Humanergy's First Friday work group about the Set-up box of What Great Teams Do Great. Filled with tips for ensuring your team gets the best start possible.