It's the first Monday of the month and we're taking your questions on Coaching for Leaders episode number 295

produced by Innovate Learning Maximizing human potential.

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

This is coaching for leaders and I'm host, Dave Stahoviac.

Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom

that will empower you to become a better leader.

And once a month we open up the lines to our, I always say open up the lines, but that is just

wrong for a podcast that's

recorded in advance we're not opening up the lines per se but we are taking your

questions from the coaching for leaders community and by the way you can submit a

question anytime to coaching for leaders

dot com slash feedback we will consider your questions and along with me considering

questions as always is Bonnie Stahoviac hello Bonnie

Hello Dave I am the person who always says I'm going to air the podcast at a certain time.

My teaching in higher ed podcast, and then I confuse people who have never listened to podcasts or have never been on a podcast before because they think they have to listen at the exact time that it airs.

So we got lots of questions here, Bonnie, so let's jump right in.

Richard wrote in and asks, I'm currently working in a unique organization which doesn't follow the standards of best practices.

It has a hierarchical reporting structure, but at the top we have an advisory board that takes decisions instead of a single person.

That board is just below the CEO, has three people in it, and I am one of them.

I struggle most of the time to get agreement with the other two decision-makers, either because of different views on a topic or because of political games.

Sometimes they refuse to agree on certain topics or challenge my proposals and each other's proposals just because they're reluctant to admit

the other member has a better idea than them.

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