647: Holding People Accountable Without Authority, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 36 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
Lisa asks about the best ways to hold others accountable when you don’t have positional authority.
John wonders about our perspective on dealing with narcissists in the workplace.
Patrick is curious how we might (or might not) mediate a conflict between two employees.
Priya notices the focus on underperforms in organizations and asks how this tendency might get shifted a bit.
Resources Mentioned
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People* by Stephen R. Covey
The Success Factor* by Ruth Gotian
The 6 Types of Working Genius* by Patrick Lencioni
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How to Lead Meetings That Get Results, with Mamie Kanfer Stewart (episode 358)
How to Lead and Retain High Performers, with Ruth Gotian (episode 567)
How to Help Team Members Find the Right Work, with Patrick Lencioni (episode 610)
How to Start Better With Peers, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 635)
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| 0:00.0 | Bonnie is back with me today and we are responding to your questions. |
| 0:03.9 | This is Coaching for Leaders Episode 647. |
| 0:08.4 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:16.7 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:19.4 | This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahovjak. |
| 0:24.3 | Leaders aren't born. |
| 0:25.8 | They're made. |
| 0:26.8 | This weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. |
| 0:32.4 | A few times a year, we set aside our normal format of bringing in a guest expert and respond |
| 0:38.8 | to the questions that have come in from you. |
| 0:41.9 | If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future episode, go over to CoachingForLeaders.com-feedback |
| 0:48.7 | and join me for this conversation, as always, is Bonnie Stahovjak. |
| 0:53.9 | Bonnie, hello. |
| 0:55.3 | Hey, Dave, we've got some really good, good thought-provoking questions today. |
| 0:59.2 | Just like always, I'm excited to engage. |
| 1:01.3 | We do, and we both have our reading slash computer glasses on, so we are ready to take on the world. |
| 1:08.4 | I went from one pair of glasses, 30 days ago, Bonnie, to now three pairs of glasses. |
| 1:14.1 | I've got the reading glasses upstairs. |
| 1:15.8 | I've got the computer glasses for the computer, and then I've got the regular glasses. |
| 1:19.6 | And apparently, this is the reality that we all emerge into at the stage of life. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm down to two, so I have a progressive glasses where I can see far away. |
| 1:28.8 | I can see at the computer, and I can read. |
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