Latest Thegreatresignation Podcast Episodes
Work life balance is the wrong goal
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - October 05, 2023 19:07 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst, global expert on leadership, workplace culture, and attention. This week Curt discusses why work-life balance is an unattainable goal — and what to strive for instead. More on this topic: Focuswise blog post: Beyond the Illusion of Balance ...
Burnout in the corner office
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - June 30, 2023 13:45 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst, global expert on leadership, workplace culture, and attention. This week Curt tackles the most damaging (yet overlooked) form of burnout: the one occurring at the top. He shares insight on why leader burnout is so prevalent, and what his perso...
The Senate passed a bill... but does it really matter?
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - June 06, 2023 21:13 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt shares a personal experience from his recent family vacation to Disney World that left him contemplating the incessant stream of global concerns that infiltrate our daily lives, and the toll they take on our ability to be fully p...
The curse of shiny objects: How to manage an obsession with novelty
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - April 21, 2023 17:34 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt discusses one of the most common distractions that leaders face: An obsession with new and novel ideas. Episode links: Curt's blog post expanding on Shiny Object Syndrome Learn more about Curt Steinhorst's work: Keynote Spea...
Meeting myths: Dispelling the notion that being in the room equals being in the know
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - April 11, 2023 16:06 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt discusses one of the most pervasive meeting misconceptions plaguing corporate America: that being in the room equals being in the know. Episode links: Forbes article: Top 5 Meeting Myths That Sabotage Success by Curt Steinhorst...
Shake up your career: Strategies to overcome stagnation and boredom
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - March 09, 2023 17:34 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week, Curt discusses why feeling stagnant or bored at work is often the result of being too good at your job, and he shares two ways that successful leaders can rise above the static and create opportunities where they're challenged. Epi...
How distraction almost killed my career
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - February 08, 2023 17:04 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst, global expert on leadership, workplace culture, and attention. This week Curt shares his ADHD story, his all time career low, and how his struggles with distraction led to a career in focus. Episode links: Blog post: Curt's ADHD Story Learn ...
Difficult challenges with non-difficult people
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - December 22, 2022 19:15 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst, global expert on leadership, workplace culture, and attention. This week, Curt discusses why self awareness is a leadership must-have. Show Links: Can I Have Your Attention?: Inspiring Better Work Habits, Focusing Your Team, and Getting Stuf...
Context shifting wrecks the work day, and here is why
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - December 02, 2022 17:33 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst, global expert on leadership, workplace culture, and attention. Most people attribute work exhaustion to the volume of responsibilities on their plates. But attention science tells us there is something else at play. In this week's podcast, Curt...
The hidden cost of sharing your opinion
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - November 04, 2022 19:05 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst, global expert on leadership, workplace culture, and attention. This week Curt discusses the two most critical questions leaders should ask to avoid the "infinity trap" and define what deserves their involvement — and what doesn't. Learn more a...
I don't care about your mission
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - October 18, 2022 03:15 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with the #1 expert on focus and attention at work, Curt Steinhorst. This week, Curt gets real about missions statements. Even though crafting a mission statement is an arduous process, leaders often miscalculate how much it can motivate their people, trigger meaning...
Drowning in meetings and messages
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - September 30, 2022 18:35 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with the #1 expert on focus and attention at work, Curt Steinhorst. This week, Curt dives into the challenges companies face today — particularly keeping good employees and improving productivity. Despite our best efforts, people are less engaged than ever at work,...
No one likes a micromanager
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - September 20, 2022 15:45 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt discusses micromanagers. It's no secret that they are NOT great leaders. Curt shares why people are still hindering the growth of their businesses — and their people — with this ineffective (and dehumanizing) leadership style, an...
How to stop needing a vacation from your vacation
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - August 16, 2022 21:46 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to another Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week, Curt reveals how in an era when Elon Musk's Starlink aims to bring internet connectivity to every part of our planet, sometimes it pays to follow a different path — make that a dirt road — to a fully disconnected place (while...
The Soul-Sucking Side of Efficiency
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - July 20, 2022 03:08 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with the #1 expert on focus and attention in the workplace, Curt Steinhorst. In this week's episode Curt examines why efficiency may not always be a good thing. In fact, there's a dark, soul-sucking side that will eventually propel us backward instead of forward. ...
Stuck in meeting madness?
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - July 01, 2022 16:25 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt explores the problem with meetings and how the real dilemma is not having enough daily capacity to work on our responsibilities and priorities. Show links: Great Expectations: Making Hybrid Work Work (Microsoft) Learn more ab...
Raise your hand if there's a task you're avoiding... again
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - June 16, 2022 20:55 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt shares tips on how to avoid avoiding important tasks. Learn more about Curt Steinhorst's work: Keynote Speaker Founder of Focuswise Forbes Columnist TedX Talk Speaker Best-Selling Author FocusFit Challenge Professional Sp...
How I organize my day
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - April 28, 2022 05:09 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to another Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. Today, Curt shares how he organizes his day. It's a hybrid "new tech" / old school system that gives him the structure he needs to get important work done and the flexibility to manage whatever pops up along the way. Episode Links: No...
Your work boundaries: Working? Failing? Or hard to figure out?
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - April 08, 2022 18:32 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with the #1 expert on focus and attention in the workplace, Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt shares three keys for creating (and keeping) the kinds of boundaries that let you achieve the work-life balance you desire — and feel good about it. Learn more about Curt S...
When back-to-work backfires
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - March 25, 2022 16:27 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt shares what some leaders are doing to give their employees back to work flexibility — and what unexpected challenges they face. Show links: Infographic — Why does everyone want to work from home Learn more about Curt Steinho...
How to eliminate 50% of your overload
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - March 18, 2022 15:17 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with the #1 expert on focus and attention in the workplace, Curt Steinhorst. Leaders can't make great decisions if they're busy making every decision. This week, Curt shares one essential question leaders can ask their team that can eliminate 50% of decision overl...
The resignation cascade
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - March 04, 2022 05:15 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with the #1 expert on focus and attention in the workplace, Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt shares two cases where leaders losing valuable team members found ways to let their remaining people know how much they mattered — and that made all the difference. More o...
How to stop your people from resigning
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - February 18, 2022 03:58 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst. In today’s podcast, Curt shares three mind shifts leaders can adopt to prevent their people from leaving. If you’re interested in more ideas to keep your staff satisfied with their work, take a look at Curt's TED Talk, “How to Like Work Again....
Why “I’ll be more efficient today” doesn’t work — and what to do about it
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - February 04, 2022 17:54 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to another Focus in Five podcast with Curt Steinhorst. In this week’s podcast, Curt suggests a different way to increase your productivity while reducing some of that pressure and freeing up your mental space. Learn more about Curt Steinhorst's work: Keynote Speaker Founder of Fo...
What they say when you leave the room
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - January 21, 2022 03:50 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to another Focus Break with the #1 expert on focus and attention in the workplace, Curt Steinhorst. This week Curt shares the stories of three sub-par CEOs (including what each one did to deserve disparaging remarks) and how we, as leaders, can learn from these examples to keep our...
2022: The year I’m doing something I would “never” do
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - January 06, 2022 20:52 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to another Focus Break with the #1 expert on focus and attention in the workplace, Curt Steinhorst. This week, Curt reveals a big, big change for 2022 –– he's doing something he NEVER thought he would do. (Hint: it involves suborbital space.) Episode links: Venus Aerospace Lear...
A Counterintuitive Solution for Overwork and Burnout
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - October 21, 2021 19:25 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to another FocusBreak with Curt Steinhorst. This week, Curt shares a story about friend and colleague, Mark Skeba, reaching a breaking point in his corporate career – that moment he recognized work was negatively impacting his life and that he needed to do something about it. Tune i...
Building a billion-dollar empire and getting home for dinner
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - October 14, 2021 19:56 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to another Focus Break with the #1 expert on focus and attention in the workplace, Curt Steinhorst. There's a pervasive myth in today's work culture that most of us still believe: Success is tied to constant availability and prioritizing work above all else. But one friend and cl...
End workplace drama with geometry
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - October 01, 2021 18:14 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to another Focus Break with the #1 expert on focus and attention in the workplace, Curt Steinhorst. Drama. If you're a leader, you have to deal with it on your team. And if you're like most leaders, you don't want anything to do with it. Curt recently had a conversation with Kris ...
What’s the greater meaning in your job?
Focus in Five with Curt Steinhorst - September 23, 2021 16:31 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to another Focus Break with Curt Steinhorst – global leader on attention and focus. We all want our work to be meaningful. And right now, when so many people are questioning the value of their jobs, leaders have an incredible opportunity to make the significance of their employees’ ...
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