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Coaching for Leaders

317: We Are All Heroes in Our Own Movies, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Careers, Management, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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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

  • Melvin asked about how to handle a layoff he’s been asked to do.
  • Melissa asked about what she should do differently before letting people go.
  • Carlos asked about how to change the dynamics on a dysfunctional team.
  • Krystal asked about good reading resources for better customer service.
  • Jun asked about what he could do to improve his executive presence.

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0:00.0

It's the first Monday of the month and we're responding to your questions with ideas resources and perspective.

0:07.0

This is coaching for leaders episode 317

0:11.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:17.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.

0:28.0

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.

0:37.5

Once a month we open up the show to questions from the listening community. You can submit your question by going to

0:45.2

coaching for leaders.com slash feedback. It is a beautiful day in Southern California and I am spending time with a beautiful person, Bonnie Stahoviac.

0:55.6

Welcome back.

0:56.6

Thanks Dave, thanks for having me back.

0:58.2

I am excited about our questions today.

1:00.8

We have a lot of, we have enough questions for two or three hours. I think I have attempted to get it down to just a

1:08.6

hopefully a sizable amount, but we are going to tackle as many as we can here.

1:13.0

If we don't get to your question, we may in a future episode.

1:15.7

And as I mentioned early on, if you have a question for a future episodes,

1:19.4

feel free to send it our way.

1:21.1

And our first question here, Bonnie, is from Melvin.

1:24.2

Melvin writes, I was recently promoted

1:26.8

and now managing a group of very experienced peers.

1:30.4

Our group has been tasked to take on a new function, which everyone found to be exciting.

1:35.6

The training and setup went well, and in fact, we just recently received a very positive feedback

1:41.0

on the team's performance from management.

1:44.4

That said, my boss came to me about a week ago with news that we may have to cut two members

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