483: How to Start in Leadership, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 30 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 is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.
Listener Questions
- Kierstin asked for suggestions (books, individuals) for starting her leadership journey — and also how to navigate leading people who are older than her.
- Bridgette wondered if we had suggestions on funding priorities, vision, and bringing others into leadership roles.
- Michael asked our advice on handling confrontations between departments.
Resources Mentioned
- The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations* by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
- How to Win Friends and Influence People* by Dale Carnegie
- The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work* by Peter Block
- Personal History* by Katharine Graham
- The Post
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- How to Deal with Opponents and Adversaries, with Peter Block (episode 328)
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| 0:00.0 | It's the first Monday of the month and we're responding to your questions. |
| 0:03.4 | This is Coaching for Leaders episode 483. |
| 0:07.6 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. maximizing human potential. |
| 0:19.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born their mate and |
| 0:26.2 | this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. |
| 0:31.9 | Once a month we open up the episode to respond to your questions. If you have a question you'd like us to address in a future episode, go over to coaching for leaders. |
| 0:42.0 | Com slash feedback. |
| 0:43.1 | That's the best way to get it to us. |
| 0:44.7 | I am joined this month as I am most months by Bonnie Stahoviac. |
| 0:48.8 | Hello Bonnie. |
| 0:49.6 | Hi Dave. |
| 0:50.6 | Glad to have you back. |
| 0:51.5 | We've got lots of questions to tackle during this time of change and |
| 0:55.3 | so many places for us to dive in on here today. So why don't we just jump in on the first question that came in from Kirsten. |
| 1:03.0 | Kirsten writes, I would say that I'm very new to the leadership world. |
| 1:07.0 | I just started to really dive into learning about leadership this past year or so. |
| 1:12.0 | With that being said, I've learned so much and continue to learn every day. |
| 1:15.8 | I just started a new position as a supervisor which I know I will use many leadership skills in. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm also young in this role, |
| 1:25.0 | and I get a lot of shock when people find out |
| 1:27.5 | how old I am. |
| 1:28.5 | I feel as with my young age a new leadership role, |
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