57: Six Mistakes That I Made in Podcasting
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2012
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
It sure would be nice if we could all learn to be more effective leaders without making any mistakes. However, while none of us would wish for mistakes, many of us learn the most from past missteps. In this episode, I talk about the value of mistakes and highlight six mistakes that I have made as the host of this show.
I discuss the mistakes that I made in starting my first business many years ago and what I learned from these mistakes.
I the more recent past, here are the six mistakes that I’ve made hosting this show:
1) Being too structured
I mention the book Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank Barrett that was featured on a recent HBR Ideacast.
“If you’re not making a mistake, it’s a mistake.” -Miles Davis
One of my mentors once said, “Any strength overused, becomes a liability.”
2) Assuming everyone listens the way I do
We have listeners on Zune, iTunes, Stitcher, and BlackBerry – and even more places than those.
3) Forgetting the reason behind the goal
4) Driving the agenda myself
Upcoming shows on mentoring, lessons from changing companies, and stories about great leaders are all listener suggestions
5) Not sharing enough specific stories
I started to turn the corner a bit with episode #48: How to Lead When Someone Is Driving You Nuts
6) Not being engaged with people
Why the list of 100 is gone
What others mistakes have I made? Tell me. What mistakes have you made? Share in the comments section below.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody you're listening to coaching for leaders this is episode number 57 airing on |
| 0:05.7 | October 1st 2012 produced by Innovate Learning |
| 0:11.5 | Maximizing Human Potential Innovate learning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to coaching for leaders. |
| 0:20.0 | This is the show for leaders who want to improve themselves so they can better engage and develop others. |
| 0:27.0 | Whether you're a seasoned leader or leading people for the first time, improving your leadership skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others. |
| 0:37.0 | This week's topic, six mistakes I've made in podcasting. |
| 0:46.8 | Well hello out there everyone and welcome to coaching for leaders. If you have never listened to the show before I'm so glad to |
| 0:51.4 | have you my name is Dave Stahoviac and I'm the host of the show and come to you every Monday with some tools, resources, interviews, guidelines, tips, just all, anything that I can really resource that will help you |
| 1:10.5 | to become more effective as a leader. |
| 1:13.9 | And the way that all of us can be more effective as leaders, |
| 1:17.7 | I think, probably the biggest way, |
| 1:20.4 | is first looking in the mirror and becoming more effective ourselves. |
| 1:27.0 | And we just can't lead other people effectively if we're not leading ourselves well first. |
| 1:32.0 | And that really is the goal of this show is to give |
| 1:36.1 | you an opportunity to really look in the mirror and to become more effective yourself and that's |
| 1:41.6 | something that I am trying to do every |
| 1:43.7 | single week when I bring this episode to you on Monday mornings and as I was |
| 1:50.3 | doing some thinking over the last few weeks about topics and looking at our |
| 1:54.8 | editorial calendar I started to realize you know I'd made some shifts in the way that |
| 1:59.7 | I'm bringing the show to you and I was starting to think about what are some things |
| 2:04.0 | that I'm doing differently that I haven't done before and what are some things that I feel |
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