Leadership Development News

Brain and neuroscience are now coming together to provide an inside look at what is effective in leadership development. Our guest today has been called a neurotransmitter of linking up neuroscience with leadership and business practices. David Rock is one of the thought leaders in the global coaching profession. The coaching system he developed in the mid-90’s has been taught to over 10,000 professionals worldwide. He is the founder of Results Coaching Systems, which is helping global organizations such as EDS, AIG and NASA build coaching cultures. He is the author of three books, recently ‘Quiet Leadership’ and the soon to be released ‘Coaching with the Brain in Mind’. David is also the founder of the NeuroLeadership Summit, a global initiative bringing neuroscientists and leadership experts together to build a new science of leadership development. He is collaborating closely with several senior neuroscientists on research.

No! It’s a word few of us like to hear, especially when presenting an idea we feel very enthusiastic about. So how do people like Andy Grove and Bono know how to persuade others so effectively? What can we learn about effective persuasion and why what you say may not be as important as “how you say it”? What makes someone a “good persuader”? Do senior executives really need to “woo” anyone? Can’t they just use their authority and influence to make things happen? How often have you seen business people use numbers and facts to get people on board- Are they really effective or not? Find these answers and more in this show featuring award winning author Mario Moussa, PhD on the subject of his new book ”The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion.

Jessica Pryce-Jones CEO, iOpener, formerly of Rothschild's Bank, Paris, has worked internationally all her career and has found that far too many people are ‘deficit thinkers'. “When people think negatively about new challenges they hold themselves back from achieving their true potential” says Pryce-Jones. In today’s show the co-founder of iOpener shares her secrets to helping individuals, teams and organizations build on their strengths and develop happier workplaces. Learn how everyone changes and grows: but the secret to maximizing this lies in unleashing inner power and formulating practical solutions. Listen to the exciting facts about why so many people are now embracing this message. Jessica coach’s senior executive, is a speaker and is currently writing a book: ‘The Practical Guide to Achieving Happiness at Work.’ She has degrees in Classics and Psychology and lives in Oxford, UK with her family.

• What is the best path to performance? Is it working from strengths, learning an industry or experience? • How did he develop his popular program: Creating Coaching Capabilities? Fred Harburg, is a respected consultant, writer, and speaker in leadership and performance coaching. He has served in significant international positions as both an internal and external organizational architect for Fortune 100 companies. “Chief Learning Officer Magazine” profiled Fred’s success as President of Motorola University, which at its peak had over 1000 faculty and staff and operated from 20 campuses around the globe. Join Fred as he shares secrets on how he helps leaders realize critical business strategies and develop talent wherever he goes.

Co-hosted by Dr. Cathy Greenberg and Dr. Relly Nadler, your leadership development coaches, who have helped thousands of leaders and executives to perform in the top 10%. • Why is Employee Engagement so important for leaders to understand and “master”? • What are some of the best practices to promote Employee Engagement? • What are Fortune 100 companies doing today to support developing their leaders for the role of Engaging Employees to help retain top talent? Today’s guest is: Barrett Avigdor Barrett Avigdor is the Director of Legal Talent Strategy for Accenture, a publicly traded technology and outsourcing company with annual revenues in excess of $13 billion. Ms. Avigdor has been in-house legal counsel at Accenture since 1992 and has held a variety of leadership roles during her tenure there. Prior to joining Accenture, Ms. Avigdor was in private practice in Chicago specializing in international business law. Ms. Avigdor is known at Accenture for her creativity and

Hugh Lytle is Principal of StarWest Ventures, LLC a strategic healthcare advisory in Tempe, Arizona and an Operating Executive with Genstar Capital, a premier Private Equity firm. Before founding StarWest, Hugh was President and Co-Founder, Axia Health Management, LLC, the nation’s first true single source provider of integrated preventive health and wellness benefits. Mr. Lytle successfully sold the company to Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY) for $450 Million in 2006. Hugh served as SVP for Healthways supporting the integration of the two companies before founding StarWest in 2007. Join Hugh for leadership insights to the challenges of a multi-unit integration experience including issues like group goal setting and alignment, strategic coaching for personal mastery, teaching smart people how to learn and dealing with difficult situations while finding gratitude and success along the way. Mr. Lytle earned an MBA from Butler University and a BA from the University of Indianapo

Today’s guest is Dr. Mark Goulston best selling author of four books including “Get Out of Your Own Way at Work and Help Others Do the Same. “Dr. Mark” will talk about why you have the talent, education and skills to do so much more than you’re doing, so what is still getting in your way? Join us to explore the self defeating behaviors that limit career success and how fear of learning from mistakes can keep you from reaching your goals Dr. Mark Goulston writes The Leading Edge column and blog for Fast Company and the Tribune Media syndicated column Solve Anything with Dr. Mark. He is an executive coach and advisor trained as a clinical psychiatrist who includes FBI/police hostage negotiation training as well as top company executives from GE, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Kodak and Federal Express among his clients.

This show is focused on profiling an executive who is a great example of applying emotional intelligence daily. We will explore some of his secrets in exercising EI in his organization. You will hear actual EI tools and practices that have been successful for him. How does he hire, downsize, motivate and deal with foreign owners using his Emotional Intelligence? Today’s guest is Myron Jones, president of NMB Technologies. For over 50 years, NMB Technologies Corporation has been a global leader in the OEM manufacturing of precision mechanical and electrical components. NMB is the world's largest manufacturer of miniature ball bearings, and a volume leader in design and manufacturing of keyboards, cooling fans, audio speakers, precision motors, and mechanical assemblies. Myron has been with NMB for 25 years and president for 10 years. There are approximately 200 employees in the US and 45,000 worldwide.

Today’s guest, Dr. Reuven Bar-on is one of the originators of the research on Emotional and Social Intelligence going back into the 1980’s. EQ was coined by Dr. Bar-on in 1985. How and when did his research start on EQ? How did he develop his popular EQ Assessment called the Emotional Quotient Inventory or EQi? How is it used today in Leadership development? What are the best ways to raise a leaders’ EQ? Today’s guest is Dr. Reuven Bar-On is an internationally known expert and pioneer in the field of emotional intelligence and has been involved in defining, measuring and applying various aspects of this construct since 1980. The “Bar-On model” is described as one of three leading approaches to emotional intelligence. Dr. Reuven Bar-On earned his doctorate in South Africa, and currently holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he is in charge of directing EI-related research.

In this show Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Nadler will discuss the fundamentals of executive coaching. What are the competencies, capabilities and chemistry of a great coach? What is coaching and why is it important for your career advancement? What does a coaching session look like? What makes a great coaching client? How is coaching different than mentoring or therapy? What are some of the Emotional Intelligence and the new science of Happiness strategies and tools that are used in coaching? Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Nadler have helped over 20,000 executives become top 10% performers. They have worked with CEO’s, COO’s, CFO’s, executive teams, general managers and frontline managers in Fortune 100 companies, smaller organizations and start-ups. In addition to having doctorates, a wealth of practical experience they both have advanced training and certification in executive coaching.

In a time when we are all studying the candidates for the primaries as our future leaders. What can their face tell us in addition to their words? What are the key emotions you can tell from reading some ones face? What are the clues that tell you someone is lying? What does the latest research tell us about emotions across cultures? These questions will be the focus of this show. Today’s guest is: Dr. David Matsumoto, he is the CEO and Research Director for the Ekman Training Group and Professor of Psychology and Director of the Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory at San Francisco State University. He is a world-wide expert on emotions and facial expressions. Dr. Matsumoto has studied culture, emotion, social interaction and communication for 20 years, and has approximately 400 works in these areas. His well-known books include Culture and Psychology: People Around the World.

Why is personal mastery and self-awareness so important for leaders? What are some of the best practices to promote it? What are Fortune 100 companies doing today to develop their leaders? Today’s guest is: Alastair Robertson an expert on leadership development, but is different than many experts in that he does not come from an academic background, but from the pragmatic environment of the business world, where developing leaders to rapidly impact business performance is all important. Alastair was a business executive for 20 years with top companies such as Mars Inc., Pepsico and Pillsbury, before joining the consulting world to help companies develop leader styles and behaviors matched to their business objectives.

This show is focused on Optimism, Happiness and Positive Psychology. Why is being optimistic important for leaders and how can you develop it? What is the new field of Positive Psychology and how can it help you? What does it take to be happy at work? How are women leaders different than men? Today’s guest is Cathy L. Greenberg is an internationally recognized authority on leadership and human behavior, an executive coach, author and trainer. Currently, a founding partner in a new venture, h2c: Happy Companies Healthy People. She has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, London Times, The Financial Times, Australia’s The Boss. Her most recent book “What Happy Women Know” Rodale Press, 2007 is featured in Oprah, and she co-authored “What Happy Company’s Know: How The New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Company for the Better.”

Emotional Intelligence has been documented to be more important than IQ or technical expertise for moving up in an organization. Questions answered will be: What is emotional intelligence? Why is it important? What are examples of stars and average performers? What can you do to raise your EI? How do you rate on the EI Star Profile? Go to: www.leadersplaybook.com to download your survey. Today’s guest is Dr. Richard Boyatzis, a professor at Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, co-author of Primal Leadership and Resonant Leadership. Richard Boyatzis is one of the world’s leading experts in leadership development and emotional intelligence (EI). His research on human behavior has revolutionized management education. His work has had an impact on the management of human resources around the world and helped spawn a whole new industry of competency consultants, researchers, academics and executive coaches.

This show is focused on the Change Leadership competency. What makes a successful change initiative? What are examples in Corporate America of failed change initiatives? What steps can leaders take to lead change successfully? How do leaders champion change? Do women lead change differently than men? How can women leverage their Competitive Advantage? Today’s guest is Dr. Tammy Wong, she is the founder and CEO of Fostering Executive Leadership. An author, executive coach and speaker, Tammy has over 25 years of experience as an executive in corporate America for Sun Microsystems and Xerox Corporation. She had senior leadership roles in Sales, Marketing and Strategic Planning and has been involved in many corporate change initiatives. Tammy’s new book is “The Hour Glass Effect: Leveraging you Female Talent for your Competitive Advantage.”

This show is focused on the Service Orientation competencies. How can Emotional Intelligence skills help you to be better sales person? What are the best ways to understand and address the underlying needs of your customers? How can you communicate to be a trusted advisor to your customers? Today’s guest is Liah Kraft-Kristaine. Liah is an award-winning international speaker and author of nine books, including the best-selling 30 Days to Happiness, and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She was a highly successful IBM account executive in computer sales before becoming an attorney in Atlanta and CNN broadcaster. She has presented in over 400 cities on four continents. She is well known for her expertise in emotional intelligence in the workplace, leadership motivational communication, stress management, communication skills and sales achievement.

This show is focused on the Initiative and Achievement Orientation competencies. What are the best ways for leaders to initiate action? How do leaders anticipate obstacles and take calculated risks? When do leaders take too much initiative and undermine their success? What can leaders do change for the better? Download a FREE Leadership tool at www.leadersplaybook.com Today’s guest is Dr. Goldsmith, a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior. He is a prominent speaker, educator, and author of many books and articles on leadership. The American Management Association named Dr. Goldsmith as one of the 50 greatest thinkers and business leaders who have influenced management. Forbes named him as one of the five most-respected executive coaches. Dr. Goldsmith also contributes a regular column to Fast Company. His new book is “What Got you Here Won’t Get You There”, is a New York times best seller and Wall Street Journal #1 business b

This show is focused on the Communication and Influence competencies. What are the best ways to engage an audience? How can leaders communicate in way that is inspiring to their followers? How do leaders fine tune their delivery? What is the best way for a leader to persuade others? What are the pitfalls of poor communication? Today’s guest is John Davies founder of DAVIES PUBLIC RELATIONS, one of the most successful strategic communications firms in California. The company has won over 250 awards for excellence in advertising, design, and communications and is the third-largest public relations firm in the state. For 20 years, Davies ran numerous political campaigns and had an 85% win ratio. His focus has always been on studying human behavior and effective communications strategies to influence decision-making processes, no matter the venue. John is top speaker and communication strategist.

This show is focused on the Developing Others competency. Why is direct feedback so important for employees? What are some of the reasons that managers don’t give feedback? What is Mentoring, why is it important and what does a mentor do? What do employees want in an organization that helps retention. Today’s guest is Sharon Jordan-Evans a pioneer in the field of employee retention and engagement. She is an executive coach, sought-after keynote presenter, and co-author with Beverly Kaye of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, “Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em: Getting Good People to Stay”, the world’s best-selling employee retention book and translated into 20 languages. Their follow-up book, “Love It, Don’t Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work” is also a Wall Street Journal bestseller and has been translated into 15 languages.

This show is focused on Optimism, Happiness and Positive Psychology. Why is being optimistic important for leaders and how can you develop it? What is the new field of Positive Psychology and how can it help you? What does it take to be happy at work? How are women leaders different than men? Today’s guest is Cathy L. Greenberg is an internationally recognized authority on leadership and human behavior, an executive coach, author and trainer. Currently, a founding partner in a new venture, h2c: Happy Companies Healthy People. She has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, London Times, The Financial Times, Australia’s The Boss. Her most recent book “What Happy Women Know” Rodale Press, 2007 is featured in Oprah, and she co-authored “What Happy Company’s Know: How The New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Company for the Better.”