Best Kelly Bargabos Podcasts (2024)

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Troubleshooting is a Leadership Skill 31:12

1y ago31:12

31:12

Did you know troubleshooting is a skill? Because it is a skill, we can develop it. Also, it can be a lot like a game of Chutes and Ladders! You roll the dice and sometimes you get to the right place and climb a ladder, make progress, and sometimes you find yourself in an uh-oh moment, realize you’ve been wrong and slide down a Chute and have to go …

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How to Find the Sweet Spot of Work Life Balance 17:36

1+ y ago17:36

17:36

It's not what you think. Common misconceptions and stereotypes will tell you that all our teams want is more pay, less work, and more vacation time. But is that really what people want to find work life balance? Tune in to this episode to find out 3 ways you can find the sweet spot of work life balance for you and your teams. Visit www.kellybargabo…

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Go All In 14:57

1+ y ago14:57

14:57

Counterculture advice to leaders and non-leaders: Go All In. Just because corporate environments have an imperfect history or toxic track record doesn’t mean you should respond with an apathetic approach to your career. Of course you shouldn't tolerate hostile work environments, discrimination or harmful leaders. And yes, you can and should expect …

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The Unapologetic Leader 23:59

2y ago23:59

23:59

Have you ever had someone question you and your qualifications? Did you ever go to a private event where people look at you like you don’t belong? And the bouncer or security person walks over to let you know it’s a private event and only invited guests should be eating the caviar and drinking the champagne? It’s happened to me more than once, and …

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Coaching Question: How Do I Get to the C-Suite? 14:49

2y ago14:49

14:49

Have you ever wondered how you go from Controller to CFO? Or Director of IT to CTO? Perhaps, VP to Chief Operating Officer? In this episode we break down the three things you need to do to get to the next level in your career. Visit www.kellybargabos.com to listen to all past episodes and/or connect with Kelly.…

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Communication Matters: Buying Time 20:58

2y ago20:58

20:58

Whether you need a way to get out of conversations you’re not ready to have or don’t have time to have, or you’re not done with that project your boss gave you, sometimes the best thing you can do is BUY TIME. Buying time is an authentic skill and tool that allows you to disappoint someone in your circle of influence with grace, maturity and profes…

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Communication Matters: Begin With the End in Mind 26:34

2y ago26:34

26:34

In this series on communication, the first lesson is learning that the word (pronoun) you use to start a sentence matters and determines how the conversation is going to end and most importantly, how the other person is going to feel when they walk away from you. You can choose to tear down or build up. Tune in to find out how we can leverage the f…

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HERE TO LEAD: THE BOOK! 19:29

2y ago19:29

19:29

Leadership is an art and like most artists, our craft is a life-long study of trying different techniques that evolve with our experience, our situations and our culture. What works today may not work tomorrow. But the important thing is that we have tools, resources and examples to access when we need them. HERE TO LEAD: Mastering the Art of Leade…

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Buzzword Breakdown: Ownership 23:55

2y ago23:55

23:55

Corporate buzzwords. We love them, hate them, make fun of them, snicker, and shrug and sigh when we hear them. "Why don’t we circle the wagons one more time, peel back the onion, level set our expectations and touch base next week in order to leverage the synergies of our teams?" Sound familiar? While a lot of these expressions and words (buzzwords…

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Coaching Question: How do I Become Powerful? 11:03

2+ y ago11:03

11:03

Have you ever wondered, "How do I become more powerful?" Power, in and of itself, is not an attribute that you develop. Power is a by-product. Power is the sum or culmination of experience, craft (working on your art or leadership), skill, confidence, strength, knowledge, influence, connections, generosity, a track record. Those are the things you …

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Key Moments in Leadership 20:28

2+ y ago20:28

20:28

It is the choices we make in the key moments of our lives/careers that will determine whether or not we move forward and grow...or not. When it comes to key moments in our leadership, we need to: Be Aware of the Moments that matter Be Present in those Moments Embrace Reality Make the choice. Be a leader. When you are face with a key moment, what ne…

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Coaching Question: I'm spinning my wheels. How do I get unstuck? 16:38

3y ago16:38

16:38

I've got my foot on the gas but I'm not going anywhere. Ugh! Sound familiar? We've all seen it, experienced it and had to overcome it. Spinning your wheels is exhausting and frustrating. As leaders, it is our job to know when the wheels are spinning and to help our teams get out of the mess. Tune in to find out three things you can do to get unstuc…

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Building Beautiful Cathedrals: Clarity of Culture and Purpose 40:01

3y ago40:01

40:01

Purpose Matters and if we don't intentionally focus on and build culture in our organizations, one will develop by default. Wouldn't you rather take the lead and determine what that looks like? Tune in to learn what purpose is, why we need it and most importantly how we get it. Visit www.kellybargabos.com to listen to all past episodes and/or conne…

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Coaching Question: What do I do if I don't want to be a leader anymore? 16:40

3y ago16:40

16:40

Tune in as we unpack this question that many of us ask ourselves at one time or another in our career. Visit www.kellybargabos.com to listen to all past episodes and/or connect with Kelly.By Kelly Bargabos

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Guardrail: Reduce The Noise So Your Message Is Heard! 39:54

3+ y ago39:54

39:54

In order to influence our leadership teams and our organization like we need to, it is critical that our messages are heard above all the NOISE. In this episode, we discuss practical ways to reduce the NOISE so our message is heard. N - need to know O - own your message I - look in the mirror S - speak their language E - eliminate noise when you ca…

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There Is No Leadership Hack! 17:20

3+ y ago17:20

17:20

If you're like me, you love a good life hack. Whether it is a shortcut on how to peel garlic or open a beer bottle, hacks save us time, hard work and often times they provide a solution when we don't have everything we need to accomplish the task at hand. Unfortunately, there is no leadership hack. In Season 1 of Here To L.E.A.D., we've learned the…

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Drive Results: Engage Your Audience 42:19

3+ y ago42:19

42:19

The ABCs of Driving Results -Assign -Beware -Communicate The final key to success for us as leaders in driving results is to COMMUNICATE. Communication is a powerful, dynamic, two-way force that is vital and necessary. The life of your organization, your team, and your success depends on it. Communication sets the tone, determines culture, it can m…

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Drive Results: Beware 29:35

3+ y ago29:35

29:35

The ABCs of Driving Results -Assign -Beware -Communicate The next key to success in driving results is for us as leaders to BEWARE. Any good driver knows that you need to keep your eyes on the road. Why? So that we can see what’s coming and be on the lookout for any flying mattresses or other debris, danger, weather (hail, snow, ice or tornado funn…

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Drive Results: Assign 36:37

3+ y ago36:37

36:37

The ABCs of Driving Results -Assign -Beware -Communicate As leaders, we can do a great job at developing vision, setting strategy, figuring out what needs to be done, and then leaving the details to our staff while we move on to something more worthy of our time and amazing leadership skills. We can view this level of detail as below our pay grade.…

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Drive Results: Are You In The Driver's Seat? 25:23

3+ y ago25:23

25:23

We’ve developed our elevator pitch and have a better understanding of who we are as a leader, we’ve learned what it takes to execute strategy and affect change. You’d think that the hard work is done and now the results, the outcomes, the goals we were trying to achieve, should just come naturally as a by-product of all that work. Unfortunately, th…

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A Crossover Event: What the World Needs Now 16:32

3+ y ago16:32

16:32

Tune in to an episode from my other podcast, All There Is, for some relevant thoughts on leadership and why it is the thing we need most right now. Authentic Leaders provide Vision, Unity, Inspiration and Strength, and we all know it when we see it. What the World Needs Now, is Leadership, sweet Leadership, it's the only thing that there's just too…

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Advance Change: Guardrails 22:31

3+ y ago22:31

22:31

Leading your teams through Change is a daunting task. Tune in to discover some suggestions on how to make it a successful endeavor. It is a powerful thing to have your team use their own words to describe how they feel about their work, what they value, and how they want to be seen and known by others. This is a great starting point for implementin…

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Advance Change: Give It Time 24:33

3+ y ago24:33

24:33

How long will it take to advance the change I need? Well that depends. In the context of advancing change, we need to understand two things: 1) That Time is Relative Just like boiling a pot of water...it depends on the temperature you're beginning at, the size of the pot, and how intense the flame is. 2) We must be willing to Go The Distance What d…

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Advance Change: Courageous Decisions 41:55

3+ y ago41:55

41:55

Change is necessary. And hard. It takes Courageous Decisions to ignite change, but the small, day by day choices are the fuel that keep the fire of change burning. Courageous Decisions are achieved with these three steps: 1) Decisions: Make the right decision to begin with. Quality decision-making is a skill that must be developed at the leadership…

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Advance Change: Operational Excellence (Pull the Weeds) 46:50

3+ y ago46:50

46:50

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE What is it? Why do I need it? How do I get it? We’ve established that change is often a reaction to internal or external forces. But it can also be purposeful and intentional and part of the culture of the organization, department or team. The term operational excellence by itself sounds abstract and lofty. Here’s how I defin…

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Advance Change: Why is it so hard? 24:18

3+ y ago24:18

24:18

What does Change mean to you? Change is one of those words, like leadership, that has many different definitions depending on who is discussing it and the context around it. For me, I’ve come to realize that Change is the intersection of discernment, discovery and determination, or for my accountant friends, Change = Discernment + Discovery + Deter…

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Execute Strategy: Guardrails for Quality Decision Making 20:58

4y ago20:58

20:58

The Red Light Green Light Decision Matrix and the Crossroads 2 x2 graph are practical and useful guardrails for quality decision making and will help you and your team execute strategy. These tools will give you the courage, the platform and the support you need when the answer is no, and they will also give you the confidence and courage you need …

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Execute Strategy: Do The Right Things 25:02

4y ago25:02

25:02

When it comes to executing strategy, one of the challenges or road blocks we can encounter is that we spend our precious time and resources doing the wrong things. How does this happen to good leaders? 1) We get distracted by good ideas 2) We are often unwilling or unable to pull the plug when a project isn't performing like we thought it would 3) …

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Execute Strategy: Protect your time! 33:57

4y ago33:57

33:57

The second reason we fail to execute strategy is we let the day-to-day priorities, fighting fires and too many meetings steal our time. We need to protect our time by not ignoring the reality of our day-to-day needs and the impact and load on our resources, reacting appropriately when fires do flare up and limiting the amount of time we spend in me…

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Bonus Episode: Interview To Get The Offer 35:31

4y ago35:31

35:31

Megan Ahn, President and Founder of an Executive Search firm based in San Diego, CA, gives us her insight and expertise into the Interview process with practical tools to help you nail your next interview and get the offer! In this episode we learn that a successful interview is all about asking questions and listening in order to find out how we c…

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Execute Strategy: Don't blow a circuit! 25:45

4y ago25:45

25:45

Resist the urge to do too much. One of the reasons leaders fail to successfully execute strategy is because we try to do too much, which will overwhelm the resources of an organization to the point where nothing gets done. Visit www.kellybargabos.com to listen to all past episodes and/or connect with Kelly.…

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Leadership Is ________ 22:23

4y ago22:23

22:23

What is Leadership? There are as many answers to this question as there are books written about this topic. The truth is, there are many definitions. Sure, they have some common elements and attributes, but at the end of the day, how you define leadership is always personal. What's your definition of leadership? The next question, after we figure o…

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The Elevator Pitch of Leadership 23:15

4y ago23:15

23:15

The Elevator Pitch of Leadership An elevator pitch can be relevant in many situations or applications. As a writer, for every book, novel, play, or project I’ve written, I’ve developed a two to three sentence summary that I can rattle off to anyone who asks the fated question, “What’s your book about?” or “What do you write about?” This type of sum…

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The Fancy Living Room 8:21

4y ago8:21

8:21

Make sure your leadership avoids the fate of the fancy living room! Visit www.kellybargabos.com to listen to all past episodes and/or connect with Kelly.By Kelly Bargabos

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Intro: You're a leader, so what? 15:38

4y ago15:38

15:38

What good are leadership skills if they are not applied consistently on a daily basis to execute strategy, advance change, and drive results? What good are you to yourself or anyone else if you are not effective in getting things done? This first episode introduces the podcast HERE TO LEAD as well as the host, Kelly Bargabos. Visit www.kellybargabo…

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