Talk Like A Leader

In honor of National Pancake Day, I'm discussing the Pancake Theory of Communication. How is communication like a pancake? What can we learn about communication from pancakes? Tune in to find out. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

Change is emotional, and change is a choice. As leaders, we hope to help others make the choice to change rather than feel like they got forced to change. Using the four levers of change and learning a simple communication strategy can help you to help others to accept, embrace, and implement change. In this episode, we'll take a look at the four levers of change and this simple communication strategy. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

Change communication is a topic that nearly warrants its own podcast. It's complicated, it's messy, and it has lots of conditional issues to consider. And, it's worth talking about on this podcast. In this episode, I'll lay out some starting thoughts on how leaders can better talk about and sell change. I'll continue to explore this topic in future episodes. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

Carl Smith and I continue our conversation on building trust. This week, we'll discuss less the process of building trust and more the impact of it with specific examples from our experience that illustrate the importance of knowing the order to follow when engaging with another person. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

Different people think about and approach building trust in different ways. In this episode, Carl Smith and I discuss the two sides of trust and how understanding them can help you build trust with more intentionality. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

In this episode I'm excited to welcome my long time friend and colleague JJ Brun to the podcast. JJ is a communication and relationship expert from Canada who served as an intelligence offer for the Canadian Forces in Bosnia. He has a great perspective about leadership communication that I'm happy to share with you this week. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Learn more about The Retired Spy. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

I recently re-read what has become a leadership classic - Leadership and Self-Deception. It reminded me of the ways we interact with others as objects rather than as people. It also reminded me that how we use words can both influence and reveal how we view others. In this episode, I'm inviting you to consider how you use the words With, For and To and what that can do to your communication effectiveness. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Leadership and Self-Deception from the Arbinger Institute. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

As we enter a new year, the idea of reflecting on the past year and thinking about changes for the new one are on many people's minds. Two weeks with grandchildren has given me a refreshed perspective on leadership communication that leads to three communication resolutions for the new year. In this episode, I'm inviting you to join me in making and keeping these resolutions. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

As we look forward to next year, many people reflect on the past and set goals for the future. This time of year can lead to focusing on specific time frames like the first quarter or the next year. This finite approach can be useful for improving personal and business results, and it is different from how we should approach leadership communication. The goal of leadership communication is more about winning the relationship to get results than it is about winning the point in the moment. Additional Leadership Resources The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

Today, Christmas Eve, marks a day when many people will either be with family or about to be with family that they do not see on a regular basis. In family situations where your guard is down a bit, it is easy to slip into old and possibly negative communication approaches that create or amplify conflict. This becomes a perfect time to practice the ideas presented in Talk Like a Leader. Remember, these communication ideas work with family, too. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

This week, I have the honor of speaking with retired SEAL Team 6 member, adventure athlete, and NY Times best selling author Don Mann. Don has long experience in both leading and following other leaders in many varied and, in some cases, extreme situations. He has a great perspective on leadership that I'm excited to share with you. Additional Leadership Resources Learn more about Don Mann. Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

Leaders often know exactly what they want done and how they want it done, and telling people what to do is not likely to invite cooperation and enthusiastic engagement. Questions are better than statements for engaging people and inviting them into the conversation. In this episode, I share something my granddaughter taught me and some practical considerations for asking better questions. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

Leaders often find themselves in the position of having their motives and intentions misunderstood and misinterpreted. In today's episode, I'll share one specific example of how to overcome potentially negative perceptions people have of you and generalize the idea for application to other negative perception situations. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

Finding ways to stay positive, encouraging, and supportive rather than negative, critical, and judgmental of others is a powerful strategy in your leadership communication tool box. One way to develop your ability to stay on the positive side of communication regardless of the circumstances is to develop a consistently grateful perspective. This week, I'm looking at ways to cultivate a grateful mindset so that you can better Talk Like a Leader. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

How you think about your communications with others - your intentions and mindset - will make a big impact on your long-term communication effectiveness. In this episode, Carl Smith and I briefly explore the impact of your communication mindset and how it affects your ability to Talk Like a Leader. Additional Leadership Resources Learn more about Carl Smith. Take our free DISC Assessment. Learn why you should use communication models and why I use DISC Learn more about the DISC Model of Human Behavior Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.

Unmet expectations - spoken or otherwise - can lead to dissatisfaction and damaged trust. Damaged trust can, in turn, can slow communication and results. Using the DISC model, you can better understand, and manage, expectations in order to build and protect the trust needed to speed both communication and results. Additional Leadership Resources Learn more about Carl Smith. Take our free DISC Assessment. Learn why you should use communication models and why I use DISC Learn more about the DISC Model of Human Behavior Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.  

How we think about others affects how we interact with them, and how we interact with them often reveals how we think about them. This week, I'm covering three actions we can take towards others that will improve both how we think about them and how we interact with them. Let's discuss the concept of accepting, approving, and appreciating others. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.  

This episode is the final episode of a 4 episode series looking at the ways each of us communicate and interact with others that can unintentionally create the perception of threat in other people. This week, I'm focusing on both sides of the interactions involving people with Cautious traits. What do people with Cautious traits do that can trigger a threat response in others and what do other people do that can trigger a threat response in people with Cautious traits. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Listen to the previous episodes in this series: Unintentional Threat Triggers for Dominant Style Unintentional Threat Triggers for Inspiring Style Unintentional Threat Triggers for Supportive Style Learn why you should use communication models and why I use DISC Learn more about the DISC Model of Human Behavior Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.  

This episode is the third of four episodes looking at the ways each of us communicate and interact with others that can unintentionally create the perception of threat in other people. This week, I'm focusing on both sides of the interactions involving people with Supportive traits. What do people with Supportive traits do that can trigger a threat response in others and what do other people do that can trigger a threat response in people with Supportive traits. Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Listen to the previous episodes in this series: Unintentional Threat Triggers for Dominant Style Unintentional Threat Triggers for Inspiring Style Learn why you should use communication models and why I use DISC Learn more about the DISC Model of Human Behavior Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.  

This episode is the second of four episodes looking at the ways each of us communicate and interact with others that can unintentionally create the perception of threat in other people. This week, I'm focusing on both sides of the interactions involving people with Inspiring traits. What do people with Inspiring traits do that can trigger a threat response in others and what do other people do that can trigger a threat response in people with Inspiring traits? Additional Leadership Resources Take our free DISC Assessment. Listen to the previous episode about Unintentional Threat Triggers for Dominant Style Learn why you should use communication models and why I use DISC Learn more about the DISC Model of Human Behavior Download our free report, The First 7 Things to Do When You Get Promoted.