Unleashed - Elevate Your Leadership Impact

The best vision, strategy or talent will fall short if people in your organization don’t get along. Could incivility, friction and conflict be holding you back? Listen as host Jeff Tetz talks with Amy Gallo, an expert in human interactions and workplace dynamics, about how a lack of harmonious relationships can hold people and organizations back, and what to do to address this problem.

Have you set a worthy goal for your development? Join host Jeff Tetz as he talks with Michael Bungay Stanier about his research into what makes a goal worthy, how to set one, and why it’s important we have one.

Misinformation is all around us. It can create tension and polarization in the workplace, in our homes, and in our social circles. The good news is if we can learn how to debunk it right out of the gate, it can't take a foothold in our work culture or our relationships.    Listen to host Jeff Tetz's conversation with Tim Caufield to learn how to spot it, how to debunk it, and how to help others do the same. 

Is persisting always the best decision? How do we decide when to stick and when to quit?  In this episode, host Jeff Tetz talks with former world poker champion turned leadership scientist Annie Duke about Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away.

Lise Vesterlund’s research has uncovered that organizations are wasting precious skills and knowledge by assigning a disproportionate amount of non-promotable work to women. For women, this leads to working longer hours leading to burnout, stress, and disengagement. Are you underutilizing the skills and knowledge of the women in your organization? Listen now as host Jeff Tetz talks with Lise Vesterlund about Putting a Stop to Women's Dead End Work.

Do you live a life without regrets, or do you wish you could have a “do over?”  Most people have regrets, according to Dan Pink’s research.  And there is a right and wrong way to deal with them to maximize their benefits for you personally and for your organization.  Listen now as host Jeff Tetz talks to best selling author Dan Pink about The Power of Regret.

We live in a time where work and career achievements often become our identities. If we live our lives for the rat race, says Bob Sutton, we tolerate a lot of stress, friction, “bullshite and clusterfugs.” Having spent his entire life training leaders and managers, he shares his surprising rules for success.   Three reasons to tune in: Learn Bob’s “twelve things I believe in” when it comes to running a successful business. Understand the core causes of workplace frustration, headaches and friction, and how to avoid them. See how reframing work, life and success makes all the difference.

According to Roger Martin, efficiency has turned into a damaging obsession for business leaders. Instead, we need to seek a productive balance between the pursuit of efficiency and the nurturing of resilience. Three reasons to tune in: Understand how the principles driving 200 years of remarkable economic growth are now casing more harm than good. See how to flip-the-script to a more sustainable approach to performance. Learn the productive and practical roles for business executives, political leaders, educators and citizens to bring about this productive balance.

We live in an additive time, a time of more - more to-dos, choices, information, change, and options which can quickly overwhelm us. Leidy Klotz believes what we really need to do is subtract. Subtraction helps us to right size our companies, strategies, and lives so we can better surf the waves and achieve better focus and results. Three reasons to tune in: Learn how designers, rock stars, Nobel-prize winners and everyday heroes are using subtraction to dismantle racism, advance knowledge, heal the planet, and even tell better jokes. Understand how to revamp your day-to-day life to do less and achieve more. For leaders, explore how to take subtraction to your organization and make results easier for those you lead.

Problem solvers love to use the word, “but” which unfortunately is one of the most polarizing words in the English language; it can push people away and make them feel like you are against them. Instead, Tim Arnold tells us that great leaders choose to use the word “and” builds a bridge to collaboration, openness, and engagement. Three reasons to tune in: See the power of moving beyond traditional “either/or” thinking by unlocking the power of “both/and.” Understand how AND thinking is not about compromise (splitting the pie) but about true collaboration (increasing the size of the pie for all parties). Use balanced tensions alongside AND thinking to move from one right answer to exponential opportunities.