59: Seven Principles for Leading People Older Than You, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 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*.
I heard throughout my life that I should always honor those who are older than me and I’ve always been asked to lead them. In this episode, Bonni and I discuss situations where we’ve both been asked to lead people older than us and identify seven principles that can help you do this successfully as well.
1. Everyone is your superior in some way.
“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Focus on the right questions instead of the right answers.
3. Befriend people who are older than you are – and younger too.
4. Remember each person will be very young and very old.
- Movie recommendation: “The curious case of Benjamin Button.”
5. Honoring and leading are not mutually exclusive.
6. Not everyone wants to lead.
7. You are there for a reason.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode number 59, airing on October 15, 2012. |
| 0:08.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Coaching for Leaders. |
| 0:18.0 | This is the show for leaders who want to improve themselves |
| 0:22.0 | so they can better engage and develop others. |
| 0:25.0 | Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time, |
| 0:29.0 | improving your leadership skills will drive your success, |
| 0:32.0 | and most importantly, the success of others. |
| 0:35.7 | This week's topic, seven principles for leading people older than you. |
| 0:41.6 | Well hello than you. Well, hello everybody and welcome back for another episode of Coaching for leaders. |
| 0:48.9 | My name is Dave Stahoviac and I am joined today by the smart talented and always engaging Bonnie Stahoviac. |
| 0:57.9 | I am so glad that you are back with us for another episode. |
| 1:01.7 | Well I'm glad to be back and I'm so grateful for the weather we have been having. |
| 1:06.0 | It's a little bit crisp, a little cool. |
| 1:09.4 | I've got kind of a little warm yoga sweatshirt on. It a great day it is a great day and it is getting to be |
| 1:16.4 | fall here in the states for those of you listening in the states and for our southern |
| 1:21.0 | hemisphere friends you are just getting starting to get ready for, |
| 1:25.0 | let's see, summertime starting to approach down there. |
| 1:27.2 | So, but either way, we are glad to be back with you and we're here today |
| 1:31.5 | with a new topic that has actually come by |
| 1:35.2 | listener request. And I do think it's interesting we did get some listener requests |
| 1:39.5 | in to talk about how to lead people who are older than you. |
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