Leadership Biz Cafe with Tanveer Naseer - Wanda Wallace | How To Lead Employees Who Know More Than You

Wanda Wallace | How To Lead Employees Who Know More Than You

06/10/20 • 33 min

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In today's increasingly complex workplaces, leaders need to be experts who can make the best decisions for their team. But how do you succeed at leadership over areas where your expertise is limited? That's what I'll be asking my guest, Wanda Wallace, in this episode of Leadership Biz Cafe.Wanda is the managing partner of Leadership Forum, where she coaches leaders and works with teams to improve leadership capability. Prior to founding Leadership Forum she was the executive Vice President at Duke Corporate Education, Associate Dean of Executive Education at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, as well as assistant professor in marketing.Wanda has worked with American Express, Deutsche Bank, Ford Motor Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan Chase, and has also written several academic publications.Wanda is also the author of several books, including her latest “You Can't Know It All – Leading In the Age of Deep Expertise”, which serves as the focus of this episode's conversation.Over the course of this episode, some of the things you'll learn include:What signs to look for to help you know when to rely on your own expertise and when you need to reach out and tap into the expertise of your employees.How leaders can redefine the value they create through their leadership when you need to lead a team of experts who know more than you.How to shift from doing things right to doing the right things (and knowing what those are).Why the idea of climbing the career ladder into leadership roles is actually misleading and can lead you to fail at leadership.Why it's critical for leaders to broaden their network beyond the people who rely on them for insights or answers.If you enjoy my conversation with Wanda, please do me a favour and share this episode with your colleagues and employees. You can also share with them our podcast page, where you can not only listen to every episode of my leadership podcast using the built-in player, but you will find links to subscribe to my show on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and more.https://open.spotify.com/episode/3QbFq9DzOpL5WsBSNeUbCq?si=241da1906f474a40Noteworthy Links:Buy Wanda's book “You Can't Know It All” on Amazon (or Amazon.ca for Canadian readers).Read my article mentioned in the episode - Are You Supporting Your Organization’s New Leaders To Succeed?Learn more about Wanda's work - www.leadership-forum.com

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Stephen M.R. Covey | The Power of Trust in Leadership

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When it comes to leadership success, a key foundational stone is your ability to gain and foster trust within the organization. So why are we continuing to see low trust levels for those in leadership positions? What's missing in our understanding about fostering trust? That's one of the questions I ask my special guest, Stephen M.R. Covey in this episode of Leadership Biz Cafe.Stephen is the cofounder of CoveyLink and the FranklinCovey Speed of Trust Practice, as well as being the former President and CEO of the Covey Leadership Center. Regarded as a global authority on trust, leadership and culture, Stephen has worked with leaders to help them understand what it takes to nurture, extend, and restore trust throughout their organization. Stephen is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “The Speed of Trust – The One Thing That Changes Everything”, which serves as the focus of my conversation with Stephen in this episode.Over the course of this episode, Stephen and I discuss:What's behind the current low levels of trust in today's leadership and what leaders can do about it.The four cores of credibility and how this impacts our ability to not only extend trust to others, but to extend trust to ourselves as well.How leaders can use results to build credibility in their leadership and with it, foster greater trust amongst their employees and stakeholders.The kind of transparency leaders need to demonstrate to build relationships built on trust.Why it's vital that leaders extend trust in their organization to avoid the growing divisiveness and fragmentation we see all around us.I can honestly tell you this is an episode that's worth listening to as Stephen offers a masterclass here on understanding the true nature of trust and how leaders can tap into this critical skill to strengthen their leadership and ability of their organization to succeed and thrive.And if you enjoy this episode, I'd appreciate it if you could share it with your colleagues and employees to help get the word out about our show so I can continue to get such thought-provoking guests as Stephen to help us all learn how to improve the way we lead. A great way to do this is just to direct people to the show's podcast page where they can find links to subscribe to my show, as well use the embedded player to listen to all episodes of this podcast to date.https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ExxC1ANTtJTrLmG06DdRH?si=43ca078701c04015Notable links:Buy Stephen's book “The Speed of Trust” on Amazon (and Amazon.ca for Canadian listeners)Learn more about Stephen's work: www.speedoftrust.comWhat Happened To Trust And Integrity In Today’s Organizations?What’s The Truth About Your Leadership?

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4 Lessons On Successful Team-Building | Leadership Espresso Shot 14

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One of the key metrics to gauge your success as a leader is how well you're able to get your employees to work together as a team. That's why in this latest Leadership Espresso Shot edition of my podcast, Leadership Biz Cafe, I share 4 lessons on successful team-building inspired from an unlikely source.Now there's no question team-building is both an important and often-discussion topic in the leadership space. In fact, doing a google search for team-building will give you over five billion search entries – evidently, there's a lot of team-building going on out there.Granted, most or at least the top search queries are for various team-building exercises and a lot of times that's what we think of when we think of team-building. Of how to create camaraderie amongst your employees to ensure they'll all work together.While this is important, it's not the only thing leaders should be focusing on in terms of not only building their team, but sustaining their ability to continue to collaborate and work off of each other's efforts to help move the team's collective efforts closer to achieving its goal or objective.To that end, I wanted to share 4 important lessons on team-building that will not only ensure team cohesion, but longevity in terms of your collective success. And these lessons were inspired, as I wrote above, from an unlikely source. What is it? Well, to find that out, you'll just have to listen to the episode.And as I mention at the end of this episode, if you enjoyed it and gain some insights from it as I know many of you have from my previous episodes (in fact, a few of you have written to me about how you find yourself taking notes while listening to my podcast), I'd appreciate if you would share it with others – either through your social media channels or emailing it to a colleague or friend who'd also enjoy learning about these 4 lessons.You can also direct them to my podcast page where they can listen to all past episodes of my show as well as find links to subscribe to my show on iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and more so they can be sure to get my latest episodes when they're released.I hope you enjoy the episode and do let me know what you think. I always enjoy hearing from my audience.https://open.spotify.com/episode/5OSuIc7ZeslrIu1Q5IYvte?si=430da81bee704c14

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