638: Giving Up on Getting It All Done, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
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*.
Listener Questions
Jose asked about how to balance professional and personal responsibilities and get it all done.
Jordan mentioned getting passed up for a promotion twice and wondering what suggestions we have on the feedback they have received.
Ahmad asked us about resources for supporting high performances and team members who are struggling.
Jenna shared a distinction between tuition reimbursement and tuition assistance that Dave expanded on.
Resources Mentioned
Getting Things Done* by David Allen
Leadership Story Deck* by David Hutchens
Start With Why* by Simon Sinek
Hope for the Flowers* by Trina Paulus
The Empowered Manager* by Peter Block
Kim Scott’s distinction on Superstars vs. Rock Stars
CliftonStrengths by Gallup
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Getting Things Done, with David Allen (episode 184)
Five Steps to Hold People Accountable, with Jonathan Raymond (episode 306)
The Way to Stop Spinning Your Wheels on Planning (episode 319)
Finding Joy Through Intentional Choices, with Bonni Stachowiak (episode 417)
The Way to Make Sense to Others, with Tom Henschel (episode 518)
The Four Storytelling Mistakes Leaders Make, with David Hutchens (episode 553)
How to Lead and Retain High Performers, with Ruth Gotian (episode 567)
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| 0:00.0 | Bonnie is back with me, and we are responding to your questions. This is Coaching for Leaders |
| 0:04.6 | Episode 638. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:13.4 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your |
| 0:20.8 | host, Dave Stahovjak. Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show helps you |
| 0:27.4 | discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. Just every once in a while, |
| 0:33.8 | we air an episode to respond to questions that have come in from you since our last Q&A |
| 0:39.6 | episode. If you have a question, you would like us to consider for a future episode. Go |
| 0:45.0 | over to Coaching for Leaders dot com slash feedback that is the very best way to get |
| 0:50.3 | it to us. And Bonnie is here with me to help and responding to questions. Hello, Bonnie. |
| 0:55.6 | Hey, Dave. Thanks for having me back. Always fun to have you here. I'm thinking about house |
| 1:00.1 | keeping, Bonnie, for two reasons. One, we just had our house cleaned. Oh, yes. Thankfully, |
| 1:05.6 | this week, thankfully, we have the financial means in life to have someone else clean our |
| 1:10.2 | house, which I'm so grateful for. And so it is clean around here. And there's some house |
| 1:14.1 | keeping for Coaching for Leaders too that I want to mention really quickly up front. A |
| 1:18.9 | whole bunch of people have emailed me in the last few weeks and have said, why did you |
| 1:24.0 | remove the episode numbers from Apple podcasts? So if you use the Apple podcasts app and |
| 1:30.5 | you're wondering, why did the episode numbers vanish? It wasn't us. Apple decided to change |
| 1:35.6 | the format of Apple podcasts. We haven't changed anything on our end. If you use other apps, |
| 1:40.6 | you haven't noticed this because it's still working. But if you use Apple podcasts, the |
| 1:44.4 | episode numbers are still there. But when you scroll through the list, you have to actually |
| 1:48.8 | click on the episode and then you find the episode number in really small font. This |
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