Episodes
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We all know many of the Unspoken Rules of Leadership, but we don't always lead with them.
In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara covers a handful of these rules and why they are important.
Let's continually develop our leadership skills together.
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In this guest episode Tara is joined by Lauren Bayne, a Personal Brand Creative Director, as they discuss the importance of personal branding as a leader.
They delve into using our unique and creative minds to stand out with our brand as leaders. Why doing things differently then others is important, and tips to get started or to update our old brand.
Enjoy!
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Leaders, you know you need to fully understand what your organization or employees do in order to grow, learn and develop your team.
In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara digs into the idea of shadowing employees and how it can be very helpful in growing as a leader. She provide tips on how to make shadow days effective as well.
Remember, Leadership Matters!
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Join Tara and Ken Rusk, a best-selling author, entrepreneur, and blue-collar advocate showing that there’s no degree required for comfort, peace, and freedom in an engaging conversation about vision.
Ken covers how you can use your vision to create the path to get you there. Knowing the purpose or why behind it, to tips to help leaders overcome those barriers that could stop us from achieving our visions (and yes, this includes ourselves as barriers too). We also cover why having proper and supportive people or coaches is also a key to success in making our visions turn into reality.
Listen and discover how you can help your vision come closer and closer to you.
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We need to ensure that we do not only look at what our employees do correctly, their challenges or actions, but also ours.
In this Tip Thursday with Tara, we uncover why leaders need to do self-reflection as well as a way to get started and questions to ask yourself.
It's time to do your own self-review and create actions to be an even better leader tomorrow.
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Join Tara and Chelsea Ryckis, an entrepreneur and award-winning Founder and President of Ethos Benefits, as they discuss toxic positivity. They cover what this is, how inconsistent and unfair practices feed toxic workplaces, promoting healthy workplaces through gaining feedback to understand the needs of the organization. We also cover the importance of leaders development too. Enjoy!
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"It wasn't me, it was her fault."
If you have heard that in your workplace, that is a blame game. Leaders need to understand that blaming other people is normally not the best way to deal with errors, failures or issues.
In this Tip Thursday with Tara, she covers why blaming people is not always the answer and what to potentially blame instead.
Enjoy!
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Building a workplace culture can be challenging. In this episode, join Tara and Kristin Quattlebaum, who helps emerging and existing leaders develop their intuition, as we talk about culture and change. We cover tips that Kristin learned in the past, asking what you want as a leader and being aligned with your position, finding employees who are a culture fit through reviewing the position and the person for the job, updating job descriptions and even having a conversation for fit in an interview. Our discussion also includes how leading is not about checking boxes, but being open to change and our own self-awareness.
Enjoy!
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Do you and your team share your wins to help each other out? What about sharing lessons learned, not just from projects, but from day-to-day work?
In this Tip Thursday with Tara, we uncover some ways and reasons why, we should share our wins and even those lessons learned. And yes leaders, that means you too!
Enjoy the episode!
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Tara is welcoming back a previous guest, Richard Flint who is an international speaker, author and the CEO of Flint Inc. In this informative episode we uncover what Lead, Leader, and Leading mean, why work ethics, leading change and the need for clear communication are vital. We then get into who are Sponges, Spectators, and Camels and what it means as a leader.
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Sometimes it is fine to have an awkward silence in meetings or in 1:1s. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara digs into why the awkward silence is key in being creative, or allowing space for those who need time to process their ideas.
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Join Tara and guest Ruchi Pinniger, Founder and CEO of Watch Her Prosper®, as they talk financials and numbers. They discuss how understanding the financials is not only a mindset shift if you are fearful or just don't want to know, to being confident in understanding what you need to know. Ruchi shares many tips on being comfortable around the numbers, as well as cost saving tips, without having to cut people, just by being more effective and efficient. Enjoy this informative episode!
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In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara talks about how to be a great leader when change happens, whether it be good changes or negative changes. You can inspire and support employees for much better change management. Enjoy the tips!
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Join Tara and guest Britt-Mari Sykes, owner and career consultant at Canvas Career Counselling. In this episode they touch on stress and burnout for leaders and their teams.
Making sure we bring the topic to the table, creating awareness around it, and leading by example. They discuss stress versus burnout and the signs (physical, emotional, and cognitive) leaders should look out for, and those signs to watch for our team as well.
A few great work/life balancing tips as well are shared by Britt-Mari. Enjoy the episode!
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Is your calendar full and you just can't seem to get things done? Need a few tips to better manage your calendar and your time?
Join Tara in this Tip Thursday where she unveils some tips to help you better manage your calendar so you can get done what you need to...and be there for employees too!
Enjoy!
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Join Tara and Stan Gibson, a Corporate Executive turned Author, Speaker, Leadership Consultant and Coach, as they talk about Productivity and Time Management. Touching on self-reflection including strengths to help build productivity and time management. We discuss his Red, Yellow, Green productivity methods, to why scheduling can help make you more efficient and effective. This conversation is full of tips to help leaders be more productive.
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Whether as a leader you bring it in or others bring it in, in a culture of wellness, Candy bowls are not helping.
In this Tip Thursday With Tara, Tara goes through why a culture that has a focus on wellness as well, should not include the unhealthy snacks or candy bowls.
Enjoy the episode!
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In this episode, Tara is joined by Maria Maldonaldo Smith, the Chief Empowerment Officer of MMSConsulting and creator of the Executive Vision Imagery program, as they discuss all about goal setting. Learning from the foundations to today, building good habits for goals, the why behind the goal, how follow up is important, to a process to setting goals. Enjoy the episode!
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Join Tara and Laura Aiken, a Resilience Specialist and consultant at Thrive Leadership, as they discuss the challenges of feeling like an outsider, being a balanced and resilient leader, balancing being direct and emotional through self-reflection all while being authentic yet adaptable. We also have a couple tools for communication and stress to share too. Enjoy the show!
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Brainstorming is a common way to find various solutions to a problem or to achieve a goal. However, have you ever tried reversing it and coming up with ways to make the problem worse or all the ways to not meet your goal?
Tara covers what Reverse Brainstorming is and how it can benefit organizations in this short Tip Thursday with Tara.
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