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Special Episode: Inside Leadership with Guest Christine Crandell
Crack The Behavior Code - December 14, 2020 12:06 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsChristine Crandell, President of New Business Strategies, is our special guest for this insightful episode of the Crack the Behavior Code podcast where we discuss the importance of finding opportunity in times of crisis and much more. Christine is an award-winning expert in customer experience...
How to Stop Workplace Bullies in Their Tracks
Crack The Behavior Code - December 02, 2020 13:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHow to Stop Workplace Bullies in Their Tracks The VP of Finance constantly interrupts and actively prevents others from speaking in meetings. He scoffs when they share ideas or make suggestions. A Managing Director at a financial services firm publicly trashes another Director’s new strategy, ...
Sink or Swim: A New Leader's Guide to the First 90 Days
Crack The Behavior Code - November 19, 2020 15:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThere are about 350 new CEOs at the world’s largest public companies right now, with 102 new CEOs in North America alone. What do new or incoming CEOs need to know? Three key things. 1- Secure Acceptance From The Team Overall Successful CEOs frequently take the pulse of their culture. When...
The Power Primer
Crack The Behavior Code - November 05, 2020 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn my experience, leaders either use power well or they don’t. Thankfully, I’ve met more that fall into the “use power well” category. Here are four powerful leaders and the lessons they taught me. I hope their wisdom will touch you too. Andy Grove: Be Gracious Andy Grove always tried to feed ...
Brain-Based Proof That You're More Effective Working at Home
Crack The Behavior Code - October 22, 2020 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOver the past 5 years we’ve been tracking how our clients, executives in senior leadership, sales, marketing, finance, operations, improve performance in three key areas by working from home .5 to 2 days per week. The results are surprising. 1-Make Better Decisions—Faster 40 = the number of h...
Are You Killing Your Career By Avoiding Conflict?
Crack The Behavior Code - October 08, 2020 15:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAre You Killing Your Career By Avoiding Conflict? Bob is the CEO of a thriving construction company. The only trouble is he works 75-hour weeks, because he “picks up the pieces” when his key leaders drop the ball. Yet he hasn’t made it clear they need to own their work. Sharon is the SVP Sale...
How to Get More Energy in Three Minutes Day
Crack The Behavior Code - September 24, 2020 15:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this week's podcast episode, Christine shares a mindfulness practice to help you get more energy! Show notes: https://smarttribesinstitute.com/outcome-frame/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Art of Showing Up
Crack The Behavior Code - September 17, 2020 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Art Of Showing Up: How To Own Your Leadership Role And The Authority It Brings Sue, CMO at a Midwest insurance company, receives a litany of excuses from her VP Marketing when deadlines are missed. And he continues to miss them. Dan, VP Sales at a Silicon Valley software company, runs ragg...
The Neuroscience of Motivation: Why We Do What We Do
Crack The Behavior Code - September 10, 2020 15:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Neuroscience of Motivation: Why We Do What We Do What creates passion, loyalty, drive, peak performance and even love for one’s organization? Motivation. And what creates motivation? Well, it’s not a quick answer. In this podcast, you’ll learn how to unpack the motivators beneath human b...
Season 2 Highlights
Crack The Behavior Code - August 13, 2020 16:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhether you're new to the show, or you've been with us all along, we wanted to take a moment to review just a few of this season's big takeaways: -------------- EQ = money, according to Drs. Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves (see resources below). “The link between EQ and earnings is so direc...
How Humans Experience The World
Crack The Behavior Code - August 06, 2020 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat makes us who we are? What drives our behavior? These questions are key when we want to change a repeated and ineffective behavior pattern in either ourselves or in someone we care about. Since behavior is driven by beliefs and identity, how do we change--or upgrade--both? As a neuroscienc...
The 3 Things All Humans Crave--And How To Motivate Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
Crack The Behavior Code - July 30, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMaslow was right. As you probably know, once we have food and shelter, but before we can seek self-actualization—the Smart State—we must feel safety, belonging and mattering. Without these three essential keys a person cannot get in their Smart State—they cannot perform, innovate, feel emotiona...
The Secret Behind Executive Presence
Crack The Behavior Code - July 23, 2020 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHere’s the counterintuitive secret of developing more executive presence. Stop worrying about how you are perceived. Take the focus off yourself, your image and put it on what’s important in that moment. Focus. Increase your ability to listen, to really be with who you’re with (no matter what) a...
Want Your Boss To Respect You? Do These 6 Things
Crack The Behavior Code - July 16, 2020 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDo people respect you? Respect is often defined as a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements. The key word is elicited. Our actions and the outcomes we create are directly proportional to the amount of respect we think we shoul...
The Truth About How Your Brain Gets Smarter
Crack The Behavior Code - July 09, 2020 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings“What’s your greatest fear?” I asked Bill Gates one night, over Tom Yum Gai. “Easy—not getting smarter.” Bill then laid out his plan to ensure he’d always be surrounded by super smart people. Maybe he didn’t know about myelin. What’s The Smarter Secret? Let’s assume “smarter” means making ...
Got Inner Peace? 5 Ways To Get It NOW
Crack The Behavior Code - July 02, 2020 16:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhen we stop our thoughts, we stop the world. When we stop the world we experience peace and mental clarity. According to the research of Dr. Fred Luskin of Stanford University, a human being has approximately 60,000 thoughts per day—and 90% of these are repetitive! 60,000. Wow. 90% repetitiv...
Get Horizontal: 20 More Minutes Sleep Boosts Your Brain Power
Crack The Behavior Code - June 25, 2020 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat if 20 more minutes of sleep could boost your work performance 2-3x? Would you get it? Everywhere I go people tell me they’re not getting enough sleep. As an executive coach it’s key that I help my clients perform at their peak—sleep deprived or not. Recently I met with Dr. Jessica Payne, ...
Loneliness: The Executive Challenge No One Talks About
Crack The Behavior Code - June 18, 2020 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAs a leadership and culture coach, I’m often asked: what is the hardest part about being a CEO? Although as a CEO you get to shape a company in your image, hire people to work with you, and receive recognition for your accomplishments… …It’s also incredibly lonely. CEOs claim the biggest leade...
3 Practices To Become A Great Listener
Crack The Behavior Code - June 11, 2020 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAre any of these phrases familiar to you? “You just don’t understand.” “How many times do I have to repeat myself?” “I can’t tell if you’re distracted, or you just don’t care.” Whether you’re hearing these phrases or saying them, they’re all signs of ineffective listening. And ineffective li...
What Being Excluded Does To Your Brain
Crack The Behavior Code - June 04, 2020 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe all want to be included, to belong to the tribe. Our brains are constantly scanning our environment and our interactions to determine if we “fit in” or not. That’s why the “like me” bias is so prevalent—because we feel most comfortable (most safety and belonging) with people that are similar ...
What Stress, Change And Isolation Do To Your Brain
Crack The Behavior Code - May 28, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsLet’s dive into the neuroscience of stress. Your brain releases stress hormones, like cortisol, which then fire up excessive cell-signaling cytokines which alter your physiology. Suddenly your ability to regulate your behavior and emotions is compromised. Your ability to pay attention is comprom...
12 Stress-Busters Happy Healthy People Know
Crack The Behavior Code - May 21, 2020 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEmail. Texting. Voicemail. We’re constantly connecting with others, so why do so many people feel so disconnected–which is a key factor in excessive stress? According to Dr. Edward Hallowell, an expert on anxiety and stress, there are twelve ways in which people need to connect in order to have...
Guarantee Work-Life Balance With These 3 Daily Actions
Crack The Behavior Code - May 14, 2020 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat is your life experience when the work day is complete? Are you spending time doing things that you love or are you too drained to do anything other than recoup before the next workday begins? We spend a lot of time at work and the brain-based tools that I teach my executive coaching client...
Become A More Emotionally Intelligent Leader in 4 Simple Steps
Crack The Behavior Code - May 07, 2020 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe CEO tells the VP Marketing candidate he’d hire her if she lost 20 pounds. She’s “too fat to represent our company.” The VP Operations tells her team if they were competent they would’ve achieved their quarterly goals. The CFO sends the Controller an angry email saying his budget “sucks and...
Reduce Drama In 3 Proven Ways
Crack The Behavior Code - April 30, 2020 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCultivating the Witness To witness yourself, to keep the ego in its appropriate role (the ego is the CEO for the vast majority of humans, like 99.99999999%!), we need to catch it at its tricks. Here’s an initial list. You may want to keep it on your phone and add to it when you notice a new tr...
The Three Essential Agreements Every Team Needs
Crack The Behavior Code - April 23, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAmbiguous or unspoken agreements often cause pain. Lots of it. This is why more and more organizations are creating agreements for expectations of one another. These aren’t employment agreements—these are behavioral agreements. These agreements, or codes of conduct, help an employee both be ea...
What Keeping Secrets Does to Your Brain
Crack The Behavior Code - April 16, 2020 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSecrets. We all have them. One of our clients recently had to let an executive go for non-performance reasons. The tricky part was the executive was well-loved in the organization and a large number of the employees reported up through his department. Prior to the termination, my client had to,...
Stressed At Work? 4 Fun Ways Leveraging Neuroscience Can Help
Crack The Behavior Code - April 09, 2020 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsStressed? Grumpy? Need to lighten up? Our brains need passion, play, and release at work. They’re essential to keeping us emotionally connected and engaged, to feel part of the tribe, to blow off steam, to create shared experiences. As a leadership and culture coach, I repeatedly find that ou...
Want A More Creative Team? Help Them Be More Mindful
Crack The Behavior Code - April 02, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRecently our team had tons of complex deadlines where they were doing work that was new to them. New challenges, new people to collaborate with, new aspects of the project that they couldn’t control. These are the situations where you truly want to have a more creative team. In this case, howev...
Season Highlights
Crack The Behavior Code - February 01, 2020 12:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhether you're new to the show, or you've been with us all along, we wanted to take a moment to review just a few of this season's big takeaways: Emotional agility is a key trait for leaders, as emotions have energy. What we focus on, we fuel! Sometimes leaders focus so much on growth, that t...
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