Tom on Leadership Podcast

Coaching Senior Executives - in this show we ask: What's the essence of coaching? How do I tell if I'm coaching well? How does group coaching differ from 1:1? What are the trade-offs? How do you coach a CEO - is it different from coaching someone else?...Read more ›

Hype aside, what good is "lean" (sometimes called "kaizen") management, how do you lead it, and does it have a place outside manufacturing? We talk with experts Mitch Gooze (The Customer Manufacturing Group) and Rick Pay (The R Pay Company LLC).managem...Read more ›

A special program for the CEOs and owners of consulting practices: how to get yourself published in magazines and booked to give speeches, and how those practices should be best leveraged to grow your business. Guest experts: 0:00 Vickie Sullivan (How ...Read more ›

Leading More Effective Meetings. Everybody has meetings and everybody says they hate them. How can we lead better meetings? We find out from Henry J. Evans of Dynamic Results, LLC and Jim Smith Jr. of JIMPACT Enterprises, Inc. management | leadership |...Read more ›

Controlling Your Own Emotions And Responses. Guests include Beverly Flaxington, author of Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior, and Aila Accad, RN, MSN, speaker and author of 34 Instant Stress-Busters.management | leadership |...Read more ›

How can we get teams working well across silo boundaries? Experts including UNM's Deana Pennington, and Tim Wilson of T.A. Wilson Associates, weigh in.management | leadership | CEO | alignment | silos Read more ›

Many CEOs come up from sales, and all of them are responsible for ensuring that the sales function works well. How should you set up and structure your sales force? We ask experts including Jeff Schneider of Sandler Sales Training, and Scott Gustaff, t...Read more ›

Reducing your stress, and leading others to reduce theirs. We get tips from returning expert John Chappelear, author of "The Daily Six", and Dr Greg Nigh, a naturopathic physician and licensed acupuncturist practicing at Nature Cures Clinic in downtown...Read more ›

What's the leader's role in fostering innovation? We ask Anna Kirah (bio) of CPH Design in Copenhagen, Denmark, about her experiences, including as VP, Design Consultation at a prestigious Danish design firm, as Dean and Faculty at a design school, and...Read more ›

How can we stay -- and as leaders help others stay -- Motivated and Productive? We ask the experts, including Bill Gately, Principal at The Rockland Group, Inc. and others. management | leadership | CEO | motivated | productive Read more ›

Never led through a downturn before? Learn from those who have. Our seasoned experts include Bob Pene, a corporate turnaround guru whose victories include work at Kimberly-Clark and dozens of others, and Mike Barnes, whose leadership has crossed indust...Read more ›

To discuss Teaching and Learning Leadership we're privileged to have Susan de la Vergne of (https://forenglishmajors.wordpress.com/) who is teaching in the Engineering and Technology Management department at Portland State University, and is fond of say...Read more ›

Coming to consensus in meetings may be hurting your company. Most meetings are built around an agenda focused on a series of specific items to be discussed and one or two key issues to come to consensus on. But many managers confuse consensus with alig...Read more ›

The only processes you cannot outsource are leadership and marketing. Guest Mitchell Goozé of the Customer Manufacturing Group, Inc. describes his vision for using the tools of Process Improvement to create a robust and powerful business system for ge...Read more ›

Four of the top experts on Procrastination, in four 15-minute interviews - how to spot Procrastination, diagnose it, beat it, and help others out of it. Guests include: Dr. Toni Galardi, Ph.D. of LifeQuake Enterprises DeAnna Radaj of Bante Design LLC R...Read more ›

Yesterday I was Board Host for a City Club of Portland talk by human brain researcher Dr. Paul Nussbaum, and got a brain-full of his brilliance about how our most valuable organ works, and how to make it work better.Listening to him, and later as I ref...Read more ›

My first guest is Marc Lesser, CEO of ZBA Associates LLC. He is developing and teaching a leadership program at Google called "Search Inside Yourself." Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years and is the author of Less: Accompli...Read more ›

Leaders need accurate knowledge, and since Shakespeare's Henry V they've used anonymous surveys and other tools to get it. We talk with John Russell of The Russell Consulting Group about employee surveys, customer surveys, how to use them and how not t...Read more ›

Top performing leaders almost invariably have a formal or informal group of advisors and mentors, a sort of Personal Board of Directors, with whom they share their problems and from whom they seek advice and counsel. How can you create or improve your ...Read more ›

A business isn't a business unless it has systems. How can you use the timeless truths found in David Allen's bestseller Getting Things Done and Sam Carpenter's new book Work the System, to enhance your business systems? We talk with Sam Carpenter of w...Read more ›