Leadership Podcasts

The leader who wants to solve problems, watch the KPIs and manage every stakeholder's priorities means well, Wanda Wallace says on Out of the Comfort Zone, but becomes the bottleneck. The usual cure, "just delegate," is in her words "not nearly adequate enough." The best leadership podcasts work in the gap between that slogan and an ordinary week. That might mean a promotion announced before anyone has taken over your old team, an engagement survey nobody acts on, or fifteen minutes in a staff meeting to explain four months of planning.

Leveraging Leadership, hosted by Emily Sander, gets closer still to the calendar. In Q&A: How to Lead a New Team Without Letting Your Old One Down, a newly promoted listener worries about the team left behind. The advice is concrete: train the colleague likely to step in, block Friday afternoons for it, and tell stakeholders why you seem slow on Fridays. Then run a 30-day listening tour with the new team.

Limitless Leadership Lounge supplies the operator's version. In The Team First Playbook — How Chad Peterman Builds High-Trust Cultures, Peterman describes a required 30-minute leadership training every Tuesday at 8:30 for anyone who manages anyone. His leadership team has worked through a book on team dysfunction. E311: How to Prioritize Like a CEO on Getting Results: Clearer leadership. Better outcomes. argues that the real shortage is priority, not time.

Moving from one manager to a whole organisation changes the question from what to do to whether anyone will come along. Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, hosted by Nicole Greer, is energetic about this. In The Leadership Skill That Fixes Workplace Culture and Saves You Money, Greer says engagement surveys are often disastrously handled afterward. The conversation produces a line worth keeping: "We have too much cheerleading and not enough funerals."

Your Morning Boost: The Weekly Reset for Educators does similar work for schools. You Had Four Months. Your Staff Gets Fifteen Minutes. pictures a principal drafting an opening staff meeting. Before any process, it asks: "Does everybody understand what we're trying to accomplish?" The test is shared understanding, not whether the idea appeared on a slide.

The Inner Game of Change, hosted by Ali Jamaa, turns inward. In E107 - You Cannot Change What You Cannot See - Podcast with Jill Macauley, blind spots are the view a driver needs mirrors for, and "the test of awareness is a conversation." In another episode Helen Palmer proposes 15 minutes a week of self-directed learning instead of waiting for a course. Entries such as Stories Of Change - Why People Fought the Seat Belt widen the lens. Continue with the Culture & Change Management page and the Workplace Culture guide.

An interview earns its place when the questions test the answer. TrustTalk - It's all about Trust is the most rigorous show here. In Reasoning Runs on Trust, cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier explains why reasoning alone can make us more confident whether we are right or wrong. Arguing with someone who disagrees at least airs both sides. In Leading with Trust, Dick Boer, who led Ahold as CEO through its merger, talks about running "two cultures in one house."

Leaders in Conversation with Anni Townend trades analysis for life story. In Can business be a path to wholeness? - a conversation with Patrick Andrews, lawyer and co-founder of Yoak, Andrews describes 20 employees deliberating: two minutes in pairs, five in fours, then the whole room. A vote at the start, he says, would have gone 19 of 20 to take the money. Instead the group became the foundation for an elected co-owner council.

Connecting to Admired Leadership is a recorded webinar hosted by Wes, chat box included. In Saying Nothing Usually Makes Things Worse, a coach recalls her college-age son objecting to his parents discussing him. Her point is that people will judge you anyway, so that fear should not keep you quiet. For more conversations at the top, try the Executive & CEO Interviews page.

Burnout and self-trust form the largest cluster. In Burnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level, the episode Trapped in the Business You Built? How Entrepreneurs Burnout & Leadership Skills That Will Reduce it with Tyler Dunagin has Dunagin asking his team to set consequences for breaking their rules. The team's version came back stricter than his by a factor of three, and they enforced it because it was theirs.

In 81: From Pressure to Power: The 3 Shifts to Become a Badass Leader, a 70-minute masterclass on The Badass Leader: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Deep Self-Trust, Coco Duan recalls finally declining a work dinner. Her boss was not upset: "it was all in my head." On The Balanced Leader: Merging Logic and Heart in Women's Leadership, 73. How High-Achieving Women Leaders Move From Survival Mode to Command Energy has Yan Dang recounting a CEO who demanded that a unit head look him in the eye and commit to his numbers.

Some of the most concrete listening sits in sector shows. On Creating a New Healthcare, Episode #198 Health Benefits Done the Right Way with Chelsea Ryckis, Founder and President, Ethos Benefits describes a client pleased with a flat insurance renewal. Ryckis says her firm argued the client deserved a double-digit decrease. That is her account of one case, not a benchmark.

Experiencing Healthcare Podcast, with Matt Staub and Jamie, uses a patio that became a paver patio to frame What Patients Want vs. What They Need: Who Decides? Anatomy Of Leadership takes on hospice economics in Carve-In or Carve-Out? The Future of Hospice Under Medicare Advantage | Part Two. Near the end it quotes W. Edwards Deming: "Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets."

So Ya Wanna Be THE Chief?! brings Air Force leaders to Bob Vásquez. In Lieutenant Colonel Gilberto Perez!, Vásquez tells how a cadet arranged for Chad Hennings to phone a friend of his. Vásquez says the call gave his friend "at least a couple more weeks of life."

In finance and technology, It's not all about the numbers! hears Katharina Herzog of Hugo Boss on the comments she faced returning to work with a very young baby. The Digital Transformation Playbook's Beyond Rebranding HR: Building People Strategy That Performs asks whether anyone should have to tell a chatbot their pet died to get leave. The Human Resources and Finance guides continue from here, and the Business & Finance category guide maps the wider territory.