364: Finding Courage to Lead and More Questions, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 37 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.
Questions
- Garfield asked about how to lead a team that doesn’t have enough to do.
- Kevin wondered how his disability might be affecting his ability to lead his team.
- Roland asked for advice on working for a disengaged leader.
- Jane wanted to know if she should stay with her organization if there’s no clear path forward to make things better.
Resources Mentioned
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People* by Stephen Covey
- Scrum
- Seth Godin’s blog
- Leading Change* by John Kotter
- Our Iceberg is Melting* by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber
- Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway* by Susan Jeffers
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- How to Succeed with Leadership and Management, with John Kotter (episode 249)
- How to Actually Move Numbers, with Chris McChesney (episode 294)
- How to Create a Vivid Vision, with Cameron Herold (episode 345)
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| 0:00.0 | It's the first Monday of the month and we're responding to questions from the listening community. |
| 0:04.5 | This is Coaching for Leaders episode 364. |
| 0:08.5 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. 8 learning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:14.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:21.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm'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 |
| 0:30.4 | wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:34.8 | Once a month we open up the dialogue here on the show to questions and thoughts from the |
| 0:40.6 | listening community. |
| 0:41.6 | Bonnie and I do our very best to, if not answer questions, |
| 0:44.9 | at least hopefully get a perspective a little different than what you may be thinking and hopefully |
| 0:49.6 | be of value to others in our listening audience and as always I am joined by |
| 0:53.9 | Bonnie here the first Monday of the month hello Bonnie. |
| 0:56.1 | Hello Dave I am excited about all the questions we've got here today we've got |
| 1:01.0 | we've got some great questions so I'm going to see if we can get |
| 1:03.0 | through as many as possible as always if you'd like your question to |
| 1:06.9 | potentially be considered for a future episode go over to coaching for leaders |
| 1:11.5 | dot com slash feedback and we will do our very best to help if we can. |
| 1:15.0 | And Bonnie first question here comes from Garfield. |
| 1:18.0 | How do you keep a team motivated when the job is quiet over a long period of time. I'm a new leader and we have gone |
| 1:24.5 | through a period of losing a few clients so we're just waiting for new work to |
| 1:28.9 | come through. We have work to do now of course it's steady I guess but there can be periods of |
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