In this episode of the Playbook for Performance podcast, host Shawna Corden explores the critical importance of building trust within teams. Trust isn't just about reliability; it significantly impacts productivity, engagement, and overall team dynamics. Key insights include: Definition and elements of trust: Consistency, competence, communication,…

Hello, and welcome back to another edition of the Playbook for Performance podcast. I'm your host, Shawna Corden. This month, we're talking all about team coaching, and specifically, today's topic is about the psychological safety of teams in team coaching. My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Find out more on my website…

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In today's podcast, we are discussing how to nurture our attitude during the holiday season. We explore the challenges that arise when our plans don't go as expected and provide strategies for maintaining resilience and a positive mindset. We also examine the importance of clear communication and honest conversations with loved ones. Join us as we …

In this episode of the Playbook for Performance podcast, we discuss strategies for enjoying the holiday season. We explore different desired outcomes for the holidays and how to eliminate obstacles that prevent us from achieving them. The episode emphasizes the importance of patience, relaxation, and self-care during this busy time. Listeners are e…

In today's podcast, I discuss how the DISC Personality assessment can help leaders understand their own style and the styles of their team members. By adapting their leadership style, leaders can effectively manage their teams. I also highlight the importance of change management exercises when a new leader takes over, as well as the impact of team…

In this video, I discuss the importance of adapting your leadership style to meet the needs of your team members, peers, partners, and even your children. I emphasize that there is no good or bad personality type and that adapting your style doesn't mean compromising authenticity. I provide examples of how adapting your style can improve retention …

Welcome back, folks. So, this is our last in the personality type series. As a reminder, if you're listening to this on your podcast platform, know that we have a YouTube channel and you can watch that. So let's get started. If you're just joining us, there are four different personality types. We're trying to help you understand the types so that …

Personality types are gauged by a couple of different factors, whether people are more outgoing or more reserved. Whether they're more warm and accepting or questioning and skeptical. Based on how you answer those questions, we will plot you on a four-quadrant system and each quadrant has a style name, a soundbite, a mantra, and an avatar to help y…

Hey, welcome back everybody. I hope your week is going well, and I've found you in a very good place. This month’s theme is about coaching your staff according to their style, and today, we're going to do a deep dive into the “I” type or the Influence personality type. So, just a quick recap, if you haven't been with us the last couple of weeks, th…

Last week, I discussed the importance of understanding different personality styles and how they can improve communication and collaboration in the workplace. I also introduced the DISC personality assessment, which divides individuals into four quadrants based on their dominant traits. For today's podcast, we will talk about coaching the dominant …

This month’s theme is about coaching your staff according to their style. In today's podcast, I am discussing the importance of understanding different personality styles and how they can improve communication and collaboration in the workplace. I introduce the DISC personality assessment, which divides individuals into four quadrants based on thei…

Today, we will talk about the second essential skill for an effective leader, and that is adapting your style as a leader. This means making sure that you are addressing each and every person that you interact with in a way that they can hear the message you're trying to deliver and delivering it in a way that matches their personality essentially.…

We are continuing the discussion about the essential skills for an effective leader. And today, we are talking about the first essential skill which is what leaders need to do when it comes to setting the vision. It is so important to know about vision because it's basically the leader's job to establish a clear expectation of where the team will g…

Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of the Playbook for Performance podcast. It's been a while since the last episode and we are working hard on some new changes to the website, our offers, and things like that. So today, I want to cover the essential skills of an effective leader. I've been doing some traveling lately and I've been running i…

So today, in the podcast, we continue with our theme about making the leader's life easier. And today’s topic is masterminding. So, we got a little follow-up from last week when we were talking about group coaching. Masterminding is probably my favorite form of group coaching so much so that I used to have a business that exclusively focused on mas…

In today’s podcast, we will talk about team and group coaching because we have emphasized so much executive coaching, where it's that one-on-one experience with a coach who works with you, gives you that time to think out loud, etc. Or we've been talking about the leader as a coach where they are exhibiting and practicing coaching skills with their…

To continue with this month's theme about making the leaders' life easier, we're going to talk about the applications of coaching. We've talked a little bit about the coaching conversation, and how it differs from performance management, but there are many ways you can use coaching that will really help you out. And again, make your life so much ea…

In today’s podcast, we will be discussing the difference between using a coach approach as a leader or as a parent versus performance management. I know it's kind of tricky. We got a couple of emails about it so I want to get into it. Let's start from the very beginning. When talking about a coach approach, we're talking about using this methodolog…

One of the follow-up questions that I got from the last podcast was, can you go into more detail about how I do that coaching conversation as a leader? And so what I want to do today is to give you an e- outline of what that conversation looks like and a couple of things not to do. But do recognize like the full training on this is, you know, two d…

Today, we will talk about a common frustration among my clients which is this idea of why I am working so hard. It's this idea that as a leader, you feel like you need to do everything in your power to control the results of what your organization is producing. However, there are more efficient ways to go about it. So I like to call that process co…

This is our last in the series on business planning, and I hope you found it super helpful. As a recap, we started with the values for your company, team, and yourself. It's about how you're going to make decisions. Who is it that you're really serving, and then what is the vision? What do you want it to look like? Who are you serving? How are you …

Hi folks, welcome back. Thanks for your patience with us. I know you were eagerly awaiting step five in the business planning process, but I took a little holiday over to the ranch, had some golf and some sun, and it was great. So I'm eager to get back to you and ensure you can progress on your journey with business planning. So what we're going to…

We're in the middle of our business planning segment and have just cast the vision to know what the most beautiful business will look like. We've figured out our values. We're figuring out who we're serving, and now, we've painted the picture. What's it going to look like? Our next step is to chunk it down and bring it to life by translating that p…

This month, we're talking about the theme of business planning. And we've covered a couple of lessons already. So you can return to podcasts 84 and 85 if you missed the first few lessons. But today, we're going to talk about step three, which is casting the vision. So when we talk about casting the vision, we're saying, let's paint a picture that's…

We are in the middle of a segment all talking about the general basics of business planning. So if you're an entrepreneur, you might be a little bit intimidated by this. I used to do business planning for a Fortune 10 company and now subscribe to a simplified version of business planning that'll get you through most of what you do. And it really he…

In today’s episode, we're entering into a new theme for the next ten podcasts or so. It's all going to be about business planning. Whether you're a small team within an organization, an entrepreneur, or the CEO, this set of business planning podcasts is all for you because it will take you step-by-step through how to do this. You're probably thinki…

In today’s episode, I'm reviewing my experience on 75Hard. If you're unfamiliar with 75Hard, you'll learn more about it. It is a program that builds mental toughness. Why are we talking about mental toughness when this podcast is about building better leaders? Well, sometimes leaders have to make tough decisions. It means they must be disciplined t…

Congratulations, you have really done a great service for yourself and the rest of the universe because strong, resilient people really make a big difference in our world. Today, we're going to be talking about celebrating, and you might think, well, why is this a lesson in the 20-week challenge? How does this make us more resilient? Well, there ar…

We are on week 19 of our 20-week challenge, where we are building our resilience so that we bend instead of break when we face adversity. Today we're going be talking about perfecting your present. So what does that mean? That sounds like it's such a strange thing. Well, the present is the current moment. So living in the now, and depending on what…

We are in the middle of our 20-week challenge to build resilience, and we're getting close to the tail end. In our lesson today, we're going be talking about attracting because the more we attract things naturally, the more ease and choice we have. So let's get started. When somebody wants something different than what they've been getting, they ne…

We continue with our 20-week challenge to build your resilience. This week’s lesson is about building a reserve. Now, you're probably familiar with this concept of building a reserve regarding emergency preparedness. In my area of the world, I'm in the Pacific Northwest, we are bearing up for a potential overdue earthquake that goes along the fault…

Did you know that there are three factors that really indicate the success of a change effort? If these three things are done poorly, the effort will fail. If they are done well, it will ensure the success of a project. Those three factors are: - Number one is leadership. Have we painted the vision? Do we understand this change and why we're going …

This week, we're talking about making your work an extension of yours. This is part of our 20-week challenge to build resilience, so let's get started. So when do I suggest this lesson? I suggest this lesson when… - people feel like they're a cog and a wheel. - their work isn't really aligning with their values, and - they want a bigger life. So wo…

Today, we're talking about investing in your life. This is part of the 20-week challenge on how you can build your resilience in 2023. The goal is to make it so that you bend like a willow in strong winds versus breaking like an oak when things get tough. We are now on lesson 14, so let's get started. When do I suggest this lesson?: Whenever I hear…

We're in the middle of our 20-week challenge to building your resilience so that you bend instead of break when facing adversity and tough times. And I think we've got some tough times. Well, on the way for a lot of people. Layoffs are happening in the tech sector and people are struggling a bit. We are also struggling with inflation and recession.…

So we're in the middle of our 20-week challenge. We are at episode number 12 of 20. Today, we're talking about being a problem-free zone and just being problem free in general. We're doing this to build our resilience and part of being so strong and resilient is that when we have problems, they don't have to be this giant pothole. They're more like…

If you've been around for a while, you know we're in the middle of our 20-week challenge. This is week 11. And this 20-week challenge is all about building your resilience. This week we're gonna be talking about preparation and protection. But before I jump into that, I wanna let you know that my new book entitled “ Meet Me in the Middle” is alread…

For the past few weeks, we've been focused on building up your resilience. This is still part of our 20-week challenge. Building up your resilience makes you flexible, where you bend instead of break when you're faced with challenges, and this is one of the top three elements that affect an organization's change success rate. So we look at the stre…

This week, we're talking about strengthening your family. For the past couple of weeks, we've been talking about the who in coaching. It's the innards of yourself, the stuff that's timeless, that has to do with your values, your boundaries, your standards, and family is a big component of that. Now, not everybody has grown up in a family that's rea…

Today specifically, we're gonna be talking about personal standards. Now, if you're just joining us for the first time, do know that on our website you can, or in the show notes, you can download the personal theme sheet that will help you set some goals around this 20-week challenge. You can do them in any order whatsoever. It may be based on what…

We've been talking about planning to build your resilience in 2023. The purpose of resilience is so that you can bend instead of break when you're under pressure, and we want to help you accumulate the tools to do that. Today, we're going to be talking about boundaries. I love this topic because I think it's probably the one that propels people the…

For 20 weeks, we are addressing a challenge that builds your resilience. Resilience helps us bend in a storm instead of breaking. We are all facing storms of different sorts, whether it be an illness, travel, pressures at work, or tough challenges. We want to be able to handle those with grace and confidence, so we're tackling 20 lessons that will …

Why do we want to restore our integrity, or why do we want to build our resilience? Well, resilience helps us bend instead of break when times get tough. We want to create resilient people who can bounce back from adversity, whether it's stubbing your toe or losing your job. So the more we can work on the skills to do this, the equivalent of weight…

We're in the middle of our 20-week challenge to build your resilience. So what is resilience? Resilience means that when times get tough, you bend instead of break. And how do we build resilience? We build a strong foundation. To do that, we've got 20 weeks of tips and tricks that will help you take action, and build that resilience. This week, we'…

When we talk about resilience, we really mean that we want you to be flexible and bend like a willow does in the wind versus break like an oak. We've had some tough times making strong people. But if you feel like maybe you're not as strong as you'd like to be, this is a great way to build that. So let's get started on today's lesson, 10 daily habi…

Part of making work fun again has to do with building our personal resilience. As you've heard me say in our previous podcast, three things determine a successful change effort, first has to do with leadership, leading yourself and others. Second is communication, being clear and succinct with expectations. And then, finally, personal resilience. H…

This month, our theme is about planning 2023 to build your resilience. So the mission is to make work fun again and work is not fun. If we're depleted and we feel like we don't have any energy, we know that success in a change effort is really dependent upon good leadership. That means leading ourselves and others. It means good communication. Are …

This month's theme is about planning 2023 and here's how we got there. There are three things that really affect the success of a change effort. And since we're all going through change pretty dramatically, I thought we'd hit those. Those are leadership, communication, and employee resilience. I've talked about the first two a fair amount. I haven'…

Today, we're going to be talking about the scary outcomes in the gist of Halloween. The scary outcomes of a polarized society. So let's get started. So what's so scary about it? Well, all humans have a need for certainty. They also have a need for novelty, but when we are in a polarized society, we are requiring that things be certain, so that redu…