423: Step Into Leadership and More Questions, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 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.
Listener Questions
- Samantha asks about how to confront an employee who is not willing to take direction for her.
- Cathy is wondering how she can lead on a team where she does not have formal authority.
- Amir is seeking advice on how to step into a director role with confidence and managing former peers.
- Kelly asks about responding to stakeholders who give suggestions when it doesn’t align with organizational strategy.
Resources Mentioned
- Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play* by Mahan Khalsa, Randy Illig, and Stephen R. Covey
- Working Wardrobes*
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- How to Manage Former Peers, with Tom Henschel (episode 257)
- How to Actually Move Numbers, with Chris McChesney (episode 294)
- The Path to Start Leading Your Team, with John Piñeiro (episode 349)
- Finding Joy Though Intentional Choices, with Bonni Stachowiak (episode 417)
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| 0:00.0 | It's the first Monday of the month and we're responding to your questions on the monthly |
| 0:04.8 | Q&A show. This is Coaching for Leaders episode 423. |
| 0:10.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:14.3 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:22.2 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:27.0 | Leaders aren't born. They're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom |
| 0:32.0 | through insightful conversations. |
| 0:35.0 | Once a month we open up the show to respond to your questions. |
| 0:39.1 | You can get your questions to us for consideration for a future episode by going over to |
| 0:44.2 | coaching for leaders dot com slash feedback I am joined as I am almost every month by |
| 0:50.3 | Bonnie Stahoviac who's's going to help respond to questions. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello, Bonnie, welcome back. |
| 0:54.7 | Hi Dave, I'm so glad to be back with you today. |
| 0:57.0 | I am too in our normal format. |
| 0:59.0 | Last month, we stepped aside from the normal format |
| 1:01.9 | and talked about being intentional about joy by saying no. |
| 1:05.5 | I haven't even shared with you most of the messages that I've received back. |
| 1:08.9 | It's inspired so many email conversations. |
| 1:11.5 | So thank you all of you for reaching out and sharing with us that that was a helpful conversation. |
| 1:16.0 | We'll do some more on that in the future and I enjoyed that a lot. |
| 1:19.0 | I was also glad for the, I think of few people tweeted, |
| 1:22.0 | so I saw a few pieces of feedback and it was just so nice to know that it resonated |
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