494: Embracing Management and Empathy, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 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 is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*. Listener Questions Liz wondered how a manager can empathize with an employee while continuing to uphold the businesses needs. Chris asked about fostering innovation while maintaining business efficiency. Colette wanted to know what activity was most helpful for us to decide the next direction of our careers. Dave and Bonni asked each other about what is giving life right now, and what is taking life away. Resources Mentioned 7 Habits of Highly Effective People* by Stephen Covey Design Thinking Methods: Affinity Diagrams by Matthew Weprin Related Episodes How to Lead Part-Time Staff, with Chris Deferio (episode 289) How to Work With an Executive Recruiter, with Becky deSouza (episode 406) How to Build an Invincible Company, with Alex Osterwalder (episode 470) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	It's the first Monday of the month and we're responding to your questions.
0:03.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 494.
0:07.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential.
0:19.3	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made and
0:26.4	this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.
0:31.7	The first Monday of every month,
0:32.9	we open up the show to respond to questions
0:35.3	from our listening community.
0:36.6	If you have a question you'd like us to respond to
0:39.0	in a future episode,
0:40.4	coaching for leaders.
0:41.2	com slash feedback is where to go. I'm here with my best friend in the world
0:46.0	Bonnie Stahophiac as always. Hello Bonnie. Hello Dave. All right we've got a bunch of questions to respond to today's. Let's dive right in. Our first question is from Liz.
0:57.0	Liz asks, I'm looking for resources on how to balance the personal needs of employees with the needs of the business.
1:04.0	How can a manager empathize with an employee while continuing to uphold the business needs?
1:09.0	The specific situation is an employee requesting a schedule change due to personal needs, but it is not in the best interest of the company and
1:16.7	Unrealistic giving the employee's position
1:18.9	Bonnie, what do you think? This one's so hard for me because there's so much packed into here and it isn't just the words Liz that you wrote but it's also then how I interpret them and some of the ways that I'm thinking about the world and
1:35.4	what's going on.
1:36.7	This is my preface to warn you that I may push you a little bit harder perhaps than even is
1:42.3	warranted.
1:43.6	There's a lot here that sort of locks me in
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