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Thought Revolution

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Thought Revolution delivers leadership insights for anyone committed to bringing purpose to life. . . and work. This show is for leaders who want to learn how to lead and manage in a way that expands your impact and influence.

Learn from Chris Anibarro, founder of Impact Consultancy (www.impactconsultancy.org) and sought after consultant to a growing number of leaders and organizations.

In each episode, Chris shares his biggest "a-ha moments" and thought-provoking management concepts designed to free up your time, your team's capacity, and your ability to create impact in the world.
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Episode 32: Dealing with Toxic Employees

Thought Revolution Nov 27, 2018

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4 Elements that Build Resilient Leadership

4 Elements that Build Resilient Leadership

We cannot necessarily change our environment, but we do have the power to shift our response to that environment by building resilience.


In this episode, I had a lot of fun talking to Tracey Grove, author of the book, "Taming the Sabertooth: Resilient Leadership in a Stressful World."  She shares 4 powerful insights that WILL help you increase your resilience.  Some highlights from the conversation:

  • In a rapidly changing environment, resilience is the key to long-term sustainability
  • Resilience is a practice... it's a skill that you can GROW
  • Learn how to communicate for engagement
  • Leaders need to learn how to be an ally versus a hero
  • To harness motivation, we need to control distractions
  • The biggest thing we can nurture is our recovery...     


This interview will leave you with a LOT of new perspective.  Tracey's guidance will easily lead to personal action.


Tracey Grove is a high-performance coach specializing in leadership effectiveness and executive coaching. She founded Pure Symmetry in 2008 with the intention of helping people and organizations thrive. With over two decades of experience across both public and private sectors working on three continents, Tracey has benefited deeply from dealing with individual and interpersonal issues, communication challenges, and organizational shifts.  


You can find Tracey's book, "Taming the Sabertooth" at www.sabertoothbook.com.  You can learn more about her by visiting her website at  www.puresymmetry.com.  You can also follow Tracey on social media:

Apr 16, 201934:08
Building Trust Through Daily Leadership Process

Building Trust Through Daily Leadership Process

Every service that gets delivered comes down to the management of one thing: people's commitment to each other.  Commitment-management is the ONLY thing that can be managed.  


The foundation of commitment is trust.   And the best way to develop trust is by having a process that allows YOUR TEAM to SEE the work, SEE the performance, and SEE the culture MOVE.  When leaders give trust freely through a processes designed to allow for team-based problem solving, they get bigger productivity and commitment in return.  


In this short segment, Chris connects the dots of the podcast season and reminds us that process, commitment and trust are wed.  


Everything Speaks... Everything is on Purpose... and Everything is your to manage, mismanage, or not manage.  There is no excuse; just choice.

Apr 09, 201912:03
Tackling Resistance and Apathy for Change
Mar 26, 201929:49
Engagement and Change
Mar 19, 201930:13
You Can't Achieve Team Goals Without THIS

You Can't Achieve Team Goals Without THIS

In order to intentionally and reliably scale culture, you need structure.  It doesn't matter if you're scaling a "coaching culture" to a team of 10 people, you still need a "coaching structure" for those people to engage in a reliable experience... frequently... that creates the culture you intend.


Scaling culture comes down to 2 truths in organizations:

1.  Structure drives culture.  It's a major driver.  It drives a daily experience that informs how we act, interact, and think about how we work.

2.  Culture needs to drive structure.  We all have structure/systems/process in place, but do they create the explicit culture you want? 


If you take a close look at why your organization is having a hard time achieving its goals, you might find the root cause is because one of these is missing.  


Do you have a reliable way your organization approaches goal-setting, goal execution, and goal reflection?  If so, does it drive how you operate?  IF SO, are you operating the way YOU DESIGNED (innovative, responsive, strategic, etc.)?


Listen in to find out more... 

Mar 12, 201918:28
Building a Resilient Mindset
Mar 05, 201925:36
Episode 43: Daily Experiments
Feb 26, 201917:40
Episode 42: 56 Coaching Questions That Will Grow Your Team

Episode 42: 56 Coaching Questions That Will Grow Your Team

Most leaders want to coach their teams but they often lack time and practice.  Today we introduce a coaching model to help get you started.   


GROW is a widely used coaching model that provides a solid structure to learn how to be coach. GROW is an acronym that stands for:

· G for Goal setting: define the short- and long-term goals

· R for Reality: explore the current situation

· O for Options: identify and evaluate different action strategies

· W for Will: what will you do and by when?


In this episode I go over the model and provide you with 56 powerful questions for each stage of the coaching framework you can use to begin coaching your teams.


Go to https://www.impactconsultancy.org/the-revolution-1/ep-42-56-coaching-questions-that-will-grow-your-team to get your FREE copy of Chris' 56 Coaching Questions Checklist PDF

Feb 19, 201928:14
Episode 41: 5 Keys To Empathetic Leadership

Episode 41: 5 Keys To Empathetic Leadership

Many people think leadership is about rank, power and privilege.  Patricia Bravo offers a different point of view.  She believes that true leadership is the willingness to place others’ needs above your own. 


On a deep level, we need to feel that we and our work are valued by others, particularly those in our group.  Patricia share her 5 KEYS FOR EMPATHETIC LEADERSHIP on the podcast today for leaders everywhere to grow and be the leaders they wish they had.

 

Highlights from the episode:

- How you can be an empathetic leader even within a variety of complex work environments

- Why your team members may be craving an empathetic leader, and how being empathetic in the workplace can increase productivity

- How Patricia defines what empathy is, and what empathy is not

-What you can do and what signs you can look for in identifying what kind of empathetic culture your team is looking for

-How you can implement empathetic leadership throughout the hierarchy within a workplace


Patricia equips leaders with Empathetic Leadership techniques that drive team member engagement and increase business results. She does this by consulting with organizations and leaders through her company Bravo For You, where she helps organizations develop leadership programs and facilitates workshops that accelerate leader capability.


Patricia enjoys using her talent management experiences gleaned at Fortune 500 companies such as Starbucks to shape the leadership landscape of the future. She also teaches at UCLA Extension and is currently authoring a leadership book.


A transplant who adopted the Pacific Northwest as home, she fuels her love of travel by exploring new destinations and spending time in Southern California enjoying the sunshine. 

Feb 12, 201936:28
40: What New Leaders Need to Master to Succeed
Feb 05, 201912:10
Episode 39: The STARS Leadership Assessment Model

Episode 39: The STARS Leadership Assessment Model

Transitions into significant new roles are the most challenging times in the professional lives of managers.   Success or failure during the transition period is a strong predictor of overall success or failure in the job.


On this episode we explain the STARS Leadership Assessment Model.  First introduced by Michael Watkins in his book The First 90 Days, the STARS model is a simple way to assess the business situation you are entering as a new leader.  


STARS is an acronym that stands for Start-up, Turn-around, Accelerated Growth, Re-alignment, and Sustaining Success.  We explain each one and help you understand this model so you can be thoughtful about your next transition, your next hire, or even to assess what environment you're leading in today.

Jan 29, 201923:24
Episode 38: The 3 Leadership Processes Every Leader Needs To Grow Your Team

Episode 38: The 3 Leadership Processes Every Leader Needs To Grow Your Team

If you’re a business leader, you have an ENEMY.


Your enemy is BAD PROCESS, and it attacks everywhere—your meetings, your plans, your operations, your projects, your goals. 


You’re losing an enormous amount of time and energy dealing with BAD PROCESS.  Your teams end up confused, frustrated and burned out because BAD PROCESS robs them of alignment, clarity and engagement. In the end, it feels like you spend more time reacting to issues than driving your business. 


But 80% of the impact we feel from BAD PROCESS isn't from work processes... it's actually from leadership processes


There are 3 CORE Leadership Processes ALL leaders should make sure aren't being hijacked by BAD PROCESS


Good people shouldn’t fail because of bad process.   This episode will set you straight.


You can learn more about EACH of the Leadership Processes talked about in the episode by visiting www.impactconsultancy.org

Jan 22, 201932:13
Episode 37: How To Build Team Trust with Amy Leneker

Episode 37: How To Build Team Trust with Amy Leneker

The simple, often overlooked fact is this: work gets done with and through people. There’s nothing more impactful on people, their work, and their performance, than trust. But a lot of us are getting it wrong.


On this episode, Leadership Consultant and author Amy Leneker joins us for a fascinating look at how trust works in the workplace, how it’s changing, and what we can do to build it.


Episode highlights:

· Lack of trust is intangible, but creates tangible impacts (low performance, silos, work arounds, burn-out, etc.)

· When trust goes down on a team, everything takes longer and costs increase. When everyone is checking up on everyone else, it can cost our team more time, more energy, and cuts at our potential to take risks and innovate.

· There are 13 behaviors that you can adopt/expand on now that lead to greater trust for our teams, our relationships, and our organizations


Amy Leneker is an optimistic, joy-seeking, recovering perfectionist. She is a sought-after leadership consultant and coach who is known for her trusted advice and her track record of delivering results.
 

After spending two decades in the public sector climbing the career ladder to executive positions, Amy began a soul-searching, gut wrenching journey to get clear about what she really wanted to do and more importantly, who did she want to be? In stillness, she found the answers.
 

Because of her ability to engage and energize audiences, Amy has had the opportunity to appear before hundreds of audiences as a keynote speaker and presenter. She has also designed and delivered training to thousands of leaders and practitioners.
 

As the first person in her family to go to college, Amy believes in the power of education. She holds a Masters of Public Administration and teaches graduate level courses in leadership development.


You can learn more about Amy and her work by visiting www.amyleneker.com 


You can download her leadership journal here


Amy offers great insights, which you can get FREE by following her on LinkedIn

Jan 15, 201936:18
Episode 36: How To Grow As A Servant Leader with Christine McHugh

Episode 36: How To Grow As A Servant Leader with Christine McHugh

“Grow… By Growing Everyone Around You.”


In early 2017, Christine McHugh made a dramatic midlife career transition, leaving Starbucks Coffee after over 27 years to join a small start up, Tangelo Manual Therapy


During her tenure with Starbucks, she rose through the ranks from a part-time Barista to Vice President, reinventing herself at each transformational stage of the company while still staying true to her core. Christine has led teams across broad geographies, up to 100 people in size. Along the way, she learned that one of her top strengths is creating culture and developing people.


On today’s episode, Christine shares her insights on developing new leaders. If you are new to a leadership role or are just seeking powerful perspectives, THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU.


You can learn more about Christine at https://www.christinemchughconsulting.com/ 


Christine often publishes leadership articles on LinkedIn. You can follow her on LinkedIn here 

Jan 08, 201938:34
Episode 35: How To Create a Team Culture People Will Love
Dec 18, 201827:54
Episode 34: Building the Culture You Want By Modeling the Way

Episode 34: Building the Culture You Want By Modeling the Way

Most of us want to build teams made up of people that love what they do and feel empowered to make things better. This doesn't happen on it's own. As a manager, YOU have immense power to influence the team culture.

Today's podcast will talk you through how to model the change you want to see to drive the culture you want to lead in, and be a leader that builds great teams.

Highlights from the episode:
- You are the architect of your team's culture. If you haven't thought about it that way, it's not too late to start

- In order to change a team culture, the team has to see you AS the cultural change you want. If you want a culture of accountability, your team needs to see you as accountable. If you want a culture of openness/coachability, then your team needs to see you as open to coaching.

- 5 steps to effective change-modeling:
1. Determine the aspect of culture you want to drive (accountability, innovation, coachability)
2. Define 2-4 behaviors that people on the team would be doing to live the culture
3. Reflect on how your team sees you in relation to the behaviors. Confirm with them how accurate you are.
4. Act by committing to a 2-4 week period of actively engaging in the behaviors with your team.
5. Ask your team how they "see" you now... after 2-4 weeks of engaging in the behaviors.

You are modeling the change. You are modeling being open to change. You are beginning to ramp up the change that everyone can engage in that will eventually shift your culture.

Read more at
www.impactconsultancy.org/the-revolution-1
Dec 11, 201831:46
Episode 33: How to Use Laws to Drive Culture
Dec 04, 201833:26
Episode 32: Dealing with Toxic Employees
Nov 27, 201830:11
Episode 31: New Manager's 3rd Month

Episode 31: New Manager's 3rd Month

Nov 13, 201833:04
Episode 30: New Manager's 30-60 Day Plan
Nov 06, 201831:04
Episode 29: The Manager's 1st 30 Days

Episode 29: The Manager's 1st 30 Days

As a new manager, what's your plan for the first 30 Days? If you are supporting a new manager, how do you set them up for success? Too often we treat the shift into a leadership role as an "art form"... as something people should either know how to do ("that's why I hired them") or can easily adapt to. Too much is at stake to be lax about this. The success of your new manager, of the team, of your future successor, and your customer's experience ride on YOU performing your best. This episode Chris shares his take on the 3 most important elements to construct a plan around for the 1st 30 Days. Some highlights from the episode: - Assess the Pains. New managers need to be given a method to learn the BIGGEST pain-points for their team, their boss, and on their own growth - Assess the Culture. What are the unwritten rules that the team operates from. How does that impact how people approach their work? This is huge because it sets a manager up to declare the culture they want. - Assess your People. Who are likely to support the culture you want to drive? Knowing your early adopters and influencers will help you understand who best to leverage changes. - Develop Systems. This is your 30-90 day plan. A system to see & alleviate pains (not fixes...systems)... A system to see & move performance... A system to plan & progress YOUR growth. - There should be a method or toolkit do each of the recommendations above. Connect with Chris if you want to learn what he uses/shares. Listen and let us know what "a-ha moments" you have. Learn more at www.impactconsultancy.org.
Oct 30, 201830:08
Episode 28: Being a New Manager

Episode 28: Being a New Manager

Being a new manager is hard. Life comes at you fast and the expectations to perform are high. It's also one of the most fun & rewarding experiences; being manager and leading a team. This episode Chris shares his thinking about being a new manager, including what his first experience was like. Some highlights from the episode: - There are 2 million people promoted into new management positions each year (in the U.S.). - 47% of new managers receive no training and tend to under perform, which impacts their leadership style moving forward - 2 million people leave their jobs each month largely because they don't feel valued, cared for or recognized by their leader. - New leaders deserve 4 major development opportunities to support their success, to enhance their team's success, and to give them a shot at loving what they do Listen and let us know what "a-ha moments" you have. Learn more at www.impactconsultancy.org.
Oct 23, 201831:23
Episode 27: Building Success Habits
Oct 16, 201814:23
Episode 26: Personal Accountability
Oct 09, 201828:43
Episode 25: Your Ideal Week
Oct 02, 201825:09
Episode 24: Grow Your Personal Effectiveness
Sep 25, 201829:00
Episode 23: Making the Process Speak

Episode 23: Making the Process Speak

This week Chris interviews Andy Scheffer, Director of Facilities & Maintenance at Seattle Parks and Recreation. Some highlights from the episode: - Starting out as a new leader I had access to data & our outcomes, but I couldn't see how the process was performing or the issues - We had a reporting system, but it was hard to sufficiently get my staff's attention using it - It became imperative to see the Work in Process, Priorities, and Issues... DAILY - Today we meet face to face. . . in front of a visual board. . .and go over 40 projects in 15 minutes. - Managing this way gives more of my team responsibility and builds leadership. I NOW have a routine to build their leadership. - There is a BIG difference between having data & making the process speak! Listen and let us know what "a-ha moments" you have. Learn more at www.impactconsultancy.org. Follow Chris on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/christian-anibarro-321451114 or on Facebook www.facebook.com/thoughtrevolutionpodcast
Sep 11, 201831:50
Episode 22: Building Mindsets
Sep 04, 201820:51
Episode 21: Taking Total Responsibility
Aug 21, 201822:26
Episode 20: Create a Culture of Ideation

Episode 20: Create a Culture of Ideation

Is your team coming to you with problems or ideas? How are you taking responsibility for generating continuous idea sharing? Today, Chris introduces a simple method for teaching teams how to generate ideas that has a BIG impact. The goal is to drive your culture; one that is based on DAILY TEAM-BASED PROBLEM-SOLVING & EXPERIMENTATION. Some highlights from the episode: - You can't improve what you can't see. The foundation of improvement is being able to see your process AND your problems. - There will always be more problems than you have capacity to solve. Do you have a way to prioritize your most pressing issues? - Ideation can be taught. This is the job of a leader. But leaders need systems to teach. Chris shares his simple system to teach Ideation. Listen and let us know what "a-ha moments" you have. Learn more at www.impactconsultancy.org. Follow Chris on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/christian-anibarro-321451114 or on Facebook www.facebook.com/thoughtrevolutionpodcast/
Aug 14, 201824:01
Episode 19: Leadership Needs Management

Episode 19: Leadership Needs Management

This episode explores the difference between Leadership & Management. Chris poses that management DOES NOT need leadership, but leadership NEEDS management. What does he mean? Listen in to find out! Some highlights from the episode: - Leadership is a creating a future that otherwise would NOT have happened. 1. It's always about the FUTURE. 2. That future is CREATED. 3. That future is CHOSEN. - Most of us, most of the time just live into the next moment without choosing it. That's existing. - When you choose a future and have a big goal, you are creating an imbalance for you AND your team. You have to let go of being "balanced" or for things to go back to being "normal." Instead you have to redefine what your new "normal" is and "choose" it. Listen and let us know what "a-ha moments" you have. Learn more at www.impactconsultancy.org. Follow Chris on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/christian-anibarro-321451114 or on Facebook www.facebook.com/thoughtrevolutionpodcast
Aug 07, 201826:06
Episode 18: Breaking Limits (Commitment-Based Leadership)
Jul 31, 201818:58
Episode 17: Your Lasting Legacy
Jul 24, 201824:30
Episode 16: Breaking Down Silos
Jul 17, 201830:52
Episode 15: Managing Daily Alignment

Episode 15: Managing Daily Alignment

Are you becoming the team you were meant to be? It's not easy, but it's possible! Today Chris interviews Adrienne Easter from the City of Seattle to explore how she is applying the 4 Disciplines of Daily Management and the impact it is having on her team and their performance. Some highlights from the episode: - Seeing hidden work = Freeing hidden capacity. - The key to continuous team alignment is SEEING the work. . . together. - Adrienne's team went from a 16% on-time rate to 82% on-time rate WITHOUT having to engage in large scale improvement workshops, forming committees, or death by meeting. Just a daily commitment to making the work visible, making it move, making obstacles visible. . . and holding fast & focused meetings to align & improve. Listen and let us know what "a-ha moments" you have. Learn more at www.impactconsultancy.org. Follow Chris on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/christian-anibarro-321451114 or on Facebook www.facebook.com/thoughtrevolutionpodcast/
Jul 10, 201843:37
Episode 14: Rewriting Future Performance
Jun 26, 201820:06
Episode 13: Mastering Context

Episode 13: Mastering Context

Leading change isn't just about changing processes and systems. The most misunderstood variable is the POWER OF CONTEXT. Here are some of the frameworks Chris introduces: - What limits us is not our circumstances, but what we SAY about our circumstances - We don't say what we see. . . We tend to see what we say [in our minds] - We can't create new ways of seeing our situation (new possibilities) with our teams until we "complete the past" - Leaders need to master keeping the drumbeat of possibility steady. One way is to see when we are losing our sense of possibility. Chris calls this the "Danger Zone" and explains how to see it & remove it. Listen and let us know what "a-ha moments" you have. Learn more at www.impactconsultancy.org. Follow Chris on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/christian-anibarro-321451114 or on Facebook www.facebook.com/totallypossible/
Jun 19, 201828:29
Episode 12: Principles & Performance
Jun 12, 201826:04
Episode 11: Driving Team Culture
Jun 05, 201829:21
Episode 10: Creating Continuous Accountability With Your Goals
May 29, 201834:35
Episode 9: The Results Episode
May 22, 201811:60
Episode 8: Executing Strategy in the Midst of Daily Urgencies
May 15, 201824:40
Episode 7: High Impact Leadership
May 08, 201818:41
Episode 6: How Purpose Drives Performance
May 01, 201825:57
Episode 5: Improving the Work IS the Work!
Apr 17, 201814:57
Episode 4: Five Time-Killers that Strip Your Capacity & Time
Apr 17, 201815:22
Episode 3: Ending Daily Firefighting and Crisis Mode

Episode 3: Ending Daily Firefighting and Crisis Mode

Are you spending more time managing crisis instead of being strategic? Chris shares the 4 Disciplines of Daily Management. This is a MUST LISTEN for any manager. By the end of this podcast you'll know what steps to take to begin freeing up your time and to build a team culture that is predictive instead of reactive. Here are some of the frameworks Chris introduces: - Make the Work VISIBLE- When teams see the work together, they can learn and act together. - Make the Work MOVE- We want teams to see work-in-process, unplanned work, dependencies, conflicting priorities, and bottlenecks - Make your Obstacles VISIBLE- See them quickly and while they are small. . . before they are a crisis - Initiate a Cadence of CONTINUOUS ALIGNMENT- Create frequent, fast&focused check-ins to integrate What were your "aha" moments? Learn more at www.impactconsultancy.org. Follow Chris on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/christian-anibarro-321451114 or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/totallypossible/
Apr 17, 201825:40
Episode 2: Creating Buy-In for Change
Apr 17, 201824:28
Episode 1: Rethinking Team Performance
Apr 17, 201816:28