*THIS IS AN ENCORE PRESENTATION FROM MAY 2023*Rachel and Stuart have an engaging, insightful, and entertaining conversation with Ms. Natalie Catin, who has spent the last 20+ years in education as a teacher, a principal, and now as an executive coach for Pennsylvania educational leaders. We discuss:Imposter Syndrome and how and why it manifests in black women Leadership presenceAnd the value of leadership coachingLINKS:Email: ncatin80@gmail.comLinkedInLet's Get B...

*THIS IS AN ENCORE PRESENTATION FROM 2022*In the first episode of “The Essentials of Management” series, Rachel and Stuart’s discussion builds off of the major themes of the book, The First-Time Manager, 7th Edition, by Loren B. Belker, Jim McCormick, and Gary S. Topchik.Key Moments:• Stuart explains why he has been recommending The First-Time Manager for 20 years • Rachel discusses how she found the book to be a good “one-stop shop” for managers at all levels of experience...

Imagine it is the 1970’s and you are a young woman just beginning her journey as a minister within a protestant denomination that is comprised of at least some members and leaders who oppose your ministry because of your gender. In fact, imagine that you, as this young woman, had heard a radio minister of the same domination declare that the ‘pulpit was no place for petticoats.’ And, finally, imagine that when you were a young girl, you remember even your minister father stating h...

Hello everyone! This is Rachel and welcome to The Introspective Leader Podcast and to another addition of our Profile of a Leader series, where some of today’s top leaders and leadership experts take us through their personal leadership journeys; highlighting their greatest influences, successes, setbacks, and personal struggles. As an organizational leader and as someone who is responsible for the performance of others, do you feel you sometimes struggle with finding the line tha...

Welcome to another addition of our Profile of a Leader series, where some of today’s top leaders and leadership experts take us through their personal leadership journeys, highlighting their greatest influences, successes, setbacks, and personal struggles. There is a minority of people who see our world in a much different way than the rest of us do. As the saying goes, they are people who march to the beat of their own drum and know deep down in their heart that it is not they who...

We at The Introspective Leader Podcast know that there have been times in our lives when we have desired something big, something well beyond our current realities, but were hesitant to push beyond our self-imposed limitations to achieve it. Can you relate? We bet you can, because staying within our comfort zones, and avoiding pushing through the internal barriers we have created for ourselves, is a common feature of human existence. Mr. Art Turock, however, has developed an...

Have you ever worked for a leader who had a high need for control? You know, the type of leader who holds all the power and is reluctant to share it? Perhaps even, you are that type of leader. Well, whether it be your style or the style of someone you worked for, it is what Kurt Lewin identified in the 1930’s as the autocratic style of leadership; and what it is exactly, and what is its strengths and weaknesses is what Rachel and I discuss today on The Introspective Leader P...

Having been diagnosed with ADHD, Dez Rock is a neurodivergent leader who knows that having ADHD has been anything but a detriment to her career because her ability to see the world as a puzzle—and manage all of the pieces to that puzzle—has made her an exceptional leader. To help support our show, visit:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2017272/supportFor additional management resources and information, please visit us at: https://managementworksmedia.com Support the show

At the risk of sounding like a brag, I have to say that by now there are few management and leadership concepts about which I don’t have at least a cursory knowledge. However, an exception is the Agile methodology of project management. Agile began in the IT field, but the success it has helped create through the years has propelled it beyond IT and to fields and industries of all types, and today’s guest, Mr. Daniel Gagnon, is here to educate us on Agile and how it can help you, ...

We suspect that most of you are familiar with some version of the phrase, “As an employee, it is important to be able to separate home from work.” But just how accurate is that statement? Is it truly the standard for company professionalism that we think it is? And what if we told you that there is now a strong contingent of organizational and leadership experts that think this maxim has been taken to the extreme, and that, in fact, believe allowing the totality of an employ...

One of the more intriguing and relevant motivation theories we have come across is Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory. We can very much relate to its wholistic approach and its emphasis on an individual's fundamental need for autonomy and I suspect that you will too.LINKSManagement Works ArticleProfessor Deci VideoManagement Courses VideoTo help support our show, visit:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2017272/supportFor additional management resources and information, please visit us a...

To motivate our teams, we as leaders sometimes employ numerous and highly involved schemes. However, lack of motivation can often come down to something as fundamental to human existence as a sense of fairness. Luckily for us, we have the equity theory of motivation, which, as today's topic, Rachel and Stuart delve into to discover why employees can develop this sense of fairness and how we as leaders can help rectify it. LINKSManagement Works ArticleManagement Courses Video...

One of the most sure and organic means by which an organizational leader can motivate their team is through the setting and achievement of goals. And through goal-setting theory--our topic for the day--we can learn the best practices associated with setting and achieving those goals.LINKSManagement Works ArticleManagement Courses VideoEPM VIDEOMSG ArticleTo help support our show, visit:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2017272/supportFor additional management resources and information, please visit ...

While a multitude of employee incentives are by now well entrenched within the U.S. workplace, not all incentives are created equal. Sometimes they do help increase performance and sometimes they do not. And through today's discussion of the incentive theory of motivation, Rachel and I--and you--uncover the reasons for such variability. LINKS:Management Works ArticleManagement Courses VideoIndeed ArticleTo help support our show, visit:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2017272/supportFor additi...

While I suspect most of you are familiar with Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory, I am willing to bet that less of you are familiar with ERG theory, which, as a model built off of Maslow’s theory, is, we think, an even more accurate representation of how motivation works for most of us. However, fortunate for you, ERG is our topic for today. LINKS:Management Works Article“Your Coach” Article“Management Study Guide” Article“Management Courses” VideoTo help support our show,...

As an organizational leader attempting to motivate your team members, it is critical that you have a clear understanding of the internal process they go through when determining if what they get out of that performance personally is worth the effort that that reward requires. And we think today’s discussion of the expectancy theory of motivation gets you several steps closer to having that clear understanding. LINKS:Management Works ArticleIndeed ArticleYou Tube Video To help support ou...

And as an industry, esports is experiencing significant growth, and that growth is not expected to subside any time soon. In the U.S. market alone, 2022 saw esports grow to almost 30 million spectators, with that number expected to reach 34 million by 2026; and, globally, the esports market value is expected reach as high as $6.75 billion by 2030, which would be almost five times what it was in 2022. Because of such growth, and because I admittedly know very little ab...

Kelli Thompson is a keynote speaker, writer, and award-winning leadership coach, who has been featured in Forbes, MarketWatch, HuffPost, Parents, and elsewhere. She has over 10 years of leadership experience for financial services and technology organizations and her newly-released book, Closing the Confidence Gap, was chosen as a Next Big Idea Club nominee — a book list curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Adam Grant, and Susan Cain.LINKSClosing the Confidence Gap (Book)WebsiteTo hel...

Mr. Vin Infante is a psychotherapist, former firefighter, and master mindset coach who combines his own personal mental health struggles with his experience as a mental health professional to help people achieve mastery over their mindsets to live a more aligned and powerful life. He specializes in, and speaks on, the deeper psychological aspects of the subconscious mind and our deep-rooted internal programming, and on neurology and physiology and how all of these aspects operate in tan...

I am sure most of us would agree that when a product or service has such a high level of quality for an extended period of time, it’s a manifestation of clear, well-thought-out design. Afterall, exceptional quality rarely happens by accident, but is instead the result of carefully considered effort. However, if we acknowledge this is case with the products and services we buy, why do we so often take the opposite approach to the lives we live; that is, why do we not apply this pri...