313: The Way to Start Leading, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, a professor of business and management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, Bonni was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. She joins me monthly to respond to listener questions.
Listener Questions
- Chris asked for advice on how to begin his leadership development journey, in spite of a lot of current frustrations.
- Warren asked for our perspective on how to handle a problematic situation with two employees he has inherited.
- Malcolm asked about our philosophy of leadership and how much we need to stay true to ourselves.
Resources Mentioned
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People* by Stephen Covey
- How to Win Friends and Influence People* by Dale Carnegie
- 11 Crucial Books That Every Leader Should Know
- American Management Association
- Dale Carnegie courses
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking* by Susan Cain
- Podcast episodes for new leaders
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body* by Roxane Gay
- The Power of Vulnerability* by Brené Brown
Related Episodes
- The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, with Susan Cain (episode 44)
- The Way to Turn Followers Into Leaders, with David Marquet (episode 241)
- Five Steps to Hold People Accountable, with Jonathan Raymond (episode 306)
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| 0:00.0 | It's the first Monday of the month and Bonnie and I are fielding your questions. |
| 0:04.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders episode 313. |
| 0:08.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:20.0 | 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 |
| 0:30.0 | wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader. It is the start of fall here, here in the |
| 0:36.8 | states at least, and it's back to school time. Bonnie, it has been quiet around the |
| 0:42.0 | house. Nothing going on in our lives right as usual oh there's |
| 0:46.0 | been nothing nothing going on I just finished giving our parents an update on kids |
| 0:50.6 | back to school stuff and that was sort of how I left the final paragraph was |
| 0:54.0 | holy cow making lunches is way harder than people made it out to be. |
| 0:58.6 | Who's supposed to bring what papers and backpacks and sweaters and yeah but it's fun I |
| 1:05.4 | certainly am not complaining my goodness what a fun invigorating time of the |
| 1:09.8 | year and I'm full of imagination for what's possible both at work and our lives and so I'm not I sound like I'm complaining I'm just overwhelmed but also excited |
| 1:18.8 | It's one of those being overwhelmed in a good way feelings I was thinking that last night as we were coming back from our |
| 1:24.1 | sons back to school night for kindergarten. Just how what an exciting time it is in his life and do you |
| 1:29.9 | remember his principal said last night we didn't even talk about this remember |
| 1:34.4 | that this like we're not preparing kids for life that this is their life right now |
| 1:39.7 | I loved that I'm so glad I should have put that in the email to your parents or parents. |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah. I have to go back and edit it. Yes, get it back from the ether and add that piece and that was really good. |
| 1:50.1 | You'll have to hit reply all and add that piece. |
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