379: Influence Without Authority and More Questions, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 35 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
- Samantha asked about what to do if you have a problem employee that is affecting the team.
- Pat asked about how to show respect for difficult work while also setting clear boundaries for ethical behavior.
- Ashish asked about using buzzwords and complexity vs. keeping language simple.
- Craig wanted to know how to influence people whom you have no direct control.
Resources Mentioned
- Theory in Practice* by Chris Argyris
- Temple Grandin
- Double-loop learning
- Team of Teams* by General Stanley McChrystal
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- How to Challenge Directly and Care Personally (episode 302)
- Five Steps to Hold People Accountable (episode 306)
- Executive Presence with Your Elevator Speech (episode 316)
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| 0:00.0 | It's the first Monday of the month and we're responding to your questions. |
| 0:04.5 | This is coaching for leaders episode 379. |
| 0:09.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. 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 Stahophiac. |
| 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, the first Monday of the month, we open up the show to your questions. |
| 0:39.8 | If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future episode just go over to |
| 0:43.8 | coaching for leaders dot com slash feedback we missed last month because I can't |
| 0:48.9 | read a calendar and Tom was here the month before but we are I'm so glad to have you back on it's been a couple of months |
| 0:54.3 | I'm laughing you know how to read a calendar just perfectly fine it's that there just aren't enough days in those |
| 0:59.2 | darn months in this case I really was not reading the calendar, but yeah, things that life has a way of keeping going whether you are paying attention or not. |
| 1:10.0 | So we got as a result, we have a ton of questions questions so we are going to do our very best to respond to these. |
| 1:16.0 | If you have a question that comes out of this conversation please feel free to reach out. |
| 1:20.0 | As I mentioned coaching for leaders.com slash feedback is the very best way to do that |
| 1:25.0 | and our first question comes in from Samantha. |
| 1:28.3 | Samantha writes what to do if you have an employee that is affecting the team. |
| 1:33.6 | In an effort to coach this person in my team, I listened to several of your past episodes. |
| 1:38.4 | I really wanted to help this person, develop this person, make it work, |
| 1:42.3 | but at the end of the day this person's |
| 1:43.8 | behavior was never going to change no matter how much coaching I gave. As a result the |
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