Evolve: Reinventing Leadership - Building Freedom Cultures

Six Tips for Improving Your Value with Your Employer

There are persons who link their value to their compensation of position. There are others who are valued because of their ability to play power games at work. These tips provide your with strategies you can use to improve your value to your employer and more importantly improve your value so you can achieve your career goals.

Neutralizing Bias When Making Decisions

Regardless of how vigilant you are when making decisions, sometimes we allow known or indiscernible biases to penetrate our decision making process, coloring it with assumptions, misinterpretations and opinions. In this episode you will learn how to neutralize bias when making important decisions.

Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf?

Are you working in a hostile environment? Is going to work difficult because you are being bullied? There are no limits to the tactics that bullies can employ.  They negate everything you say, tell lies, or ignore you. They practice unethical behaviour or harass you.  Whatever the case, you are invited to listen in to learn more about bullying and what can be done about it.

 

A Freedom Culture

Are you feeling stifled in a highly controlled culture? I often encounter various cultures that exhibit control in various ways.  In some of these cultures, employees are exposed to autocratic leaders whose leadership style ensures these employees will not take initiative.  In fact, in some highly controlled cultures, I have encountered leaders who go as far as saying “I don’t pay you to think, just do as you are told”. I invite you to listen in to learn more about freedom cultures.

 

Transforming Yourself As A Leader

Have you been putting off your development as a leader because you just don’t have the time?  Or do you feel you would like to sacrifice your development so members of your team can get the limited training funds?  Whatever the reason for delaying your development, this episode will show you the risks of making yourself a secondary priority and what you can do to enhance your leadership skills.

A Constructive Tone

Have you ever said something to someone and you were surprised by their reaction?  Tone is a powerful communicative tool.  It can support a conversation and connection or completely derail them without self-awareness.  Listen in to learn how you can master the art of using tone to build a strong, cohesive team.

Setting Healthy Boundaries at Work

Are you struggling with managing your boundaries at work?  Are there persons who just don’t respect your boundaries and want you to respect theirs?  Are you stressed by frequent interruptions when you have deadline pressures?  Whatever your boundary challenge, Yvette provides you with practical strategies you can use to immediately establish boundaries at work and decrease your stress levels.

 

Passionate Leadership

Do you describe yourself as a passionate leader and you  are struggling to build an engaged team?  Do you have team members who do not share their views with you?  Tune in for tips you can use to build your brand as a passionate leader.

 

How to Approach Unrealistic Goals

Are you stressed or overwhelmed because unrealistic goals have been set for you and your team without your input? Do you review your goals and feel a deep sense of dread because it is impossible to meet them? Are you anxious about going to work because your coworkers are willing to undermine you in order to achieve their unrealistic goals?  Listen in for tips you can use to decrease your stress.

 

Tips for Leading with Resourcefulness

In the modern workplace, leaders are expected to do more and more with less resources.  This is a stressful proposition because in some organizations this means the team complement gets reduced.  In other organizations there are insufficient tools available, and in others, employees are not properly trained.  As the ever changing external environment drives deeper and deeper cost cutting, resource availability can become an ongoing challenge.  Listen in to learn how you can improve your resourcefulness as a leader.