283: How to Create a Mission Statement, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.
Questions
- Dustin asked about the distinction between mission and vision and how to get started on both in his organization.
- Andrew asked about how we remember to connect people in our network and stay in touch with the right people.
- Etai asked if asking for feedback too often might been seen as weak in his organization.
- Josh asked about resources for books and podcasts on leadership development in Spanish for his team.
Resources Mentioned
- How to Write a Mission Statement That Doesn’t Suck by Dan Heath
- OmniFocus
- Learn OmniFocus
- Start With Why* by Simon Sinek
- Contactually
- Getting Things Done* by David Allen
- Talking From 9 to 5* by Debra Tannen
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- How to Get Way Better at Accepting Feedback, with Sheila Heen (episode 143)
- Start With Why, with Simon Sinek (episode 223)
- The Way to Conduct One-On-Ones, with Zvi Band (episode 246)
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| 0:00.0 | It's the first Monday of the month and time for our monthly Q&A show. |
| 0:05.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders episode 283. |
| 0:08.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:14.4 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:20.8 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:25.0 | Leaders aren't born. They're made and this weekly show gives you access to the practical |
| 0:30.6 | wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:34.4 | And once a month we open up the show to your questions and Bonnie and I attempt to |
| 0:40.9 | provide as much perspective resources thoughts on the questions as we can. |
| 0:46.5 | You can submit your question by going to coaching for leaders.com slash feedback for future |
| 0:51.2 | Q&A shows and back with me as always is Bonnie Stahoviac, same last name as mine and I'm emphasizing that |
| 1:00.2 | Bonnie because I did talk to one of our one of our applicants for the Academy |
| 1:06.2 | recently who just started listening to the show in the last couple months and she she was |
| 1:10.0 | so kind she said that Bonnie you have on that she just really seems nice and you |
| 1:15.4 | guys just have good chemistry and it became apparent in the conversation that |
| 1:18.4 | she did not realize we were married and then I thought I don't think we've made mention of that on the show in some time. |
| 1:25.7 | And so if people didn't catch the last name, they may not realize that we're married. |
| 1:29.2 | And so I just wanted to point out that we are married. |
| 1:31.0 | And so that's... |
| 1:31.6 | The charisma is real baby |
| 1:33.1 | it's real great charisma this right here is not no one could fake this no one could |
| 1:38.1 | make this up I wanted to say something I was so excited that you got to interview |
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