50: Five Leadership Lessons Learned from Luke, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2012
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.
It’s been a full year since I launched Coaching for Leaders, so in this special anniversary episode, Bonni and I look at a more personal topic: what leadership lessons we’ve learned from our son Luke in the first six months of his life. As you’ll see, the lessons could apply to many relationships, both personal and professional.
What leadership lessons we’ve learned (or been reminded of) in our first six months of parenting:
- Sleep deprivation can take down anybody.
- Expectations are huge…and a bit of grace goes a long way.
- No matter how organized you are, you will get barfed on.
- There is true joy to be found anywhere and everywhere.
- It’s really not about you most of the time.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode number 50 airing on August 13, 2012. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to coaching for leaders. |
| 0:20.0 | This is the show for leaders who want to improve themselves |
| 0:23.4 | so they can better engage and develop others. |
| 0:26.3 | Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time, |
| 0:29.6 | improving your leadership skills will drive your success. And importantly the success of others. |
| 0:36.1 | This week's topic five leadership lessons learned from Luke. |
| 0:40.0 | Well hello everybody and welcome to our one-year anniversary show for coaching for leaders. |
| 0:49.2 | My name is Dave Stahoviac and I'm coming to you as always from her studio out here in Orange County, California and I am joined this week by Bonnie Stahoviac for our very special one year anniversary show and a very special topic. |
| 1:04.3 | Bonnie, I'm glad you're back. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm so glad to be back and for such a fun topic. |
| 1:08.8 | And it was probably a couple of weeks ago, |
| 1:11.4 | I think I may have mentioned on a previous show that I was |
| 1:13.7 | having coffee with one of our listeners and he suggested that it would be neat to |
| 1:18.5 | hear an episode about some of the leadership lessons we've learned as parents along the way and we have been |
| 1:24.5 | talking of course in the past few months those of you who are regular listeners |
| 1:28.3 | know we became parents in February for a little boy Luke and so he said hey it would be cool to hear an episode |
| 1:34.7 | of what leadership lessons you've learned from being a parent and since we have the |
| 1:40.4 | anniversary coming up this week we thought what a great time to jump in and talk about this |
| 1:46.5 | in some detail. |
| 1:47.4 | And I just wanted to make a couple of quick points |
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