Coach-on-Demand Podcasts™
by Gregory A. Ketchum, Ph.D.
Dubbed the “Frasier of the Cubicles” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Dr. Greg is a former clinical psychologist-turned executive coach and radio talk show host. His company, TalentPlanet, Inc., is an executive talent firm, providing coaching for executives and Fortune 500 companies. A unique mix of psychology and coaching expertise gives Dr. Greg a great understanding of people and what it takes for career success. Combined with his keen insight into today’s workplace, and infused with his trademark quick wit, Dr. Greg challenges his listeners and clients to reach for career success on their own terms—and to have a good time doing it.Dr. Greg's partner on the Coach-on-Demand Podcasts™ is Steve Kovsky, who is a technology journalist, an author, and is also a former talk show host.Dr. Greg formerly hosted a weekly talk show on CNET & XM Satellite Radio on the workplace and careers and was the CBS 5 Workplace and Career Expert for KPIX TV in San Francisco, CA.For more information go to
Episodes
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I'm Not Sure if You're Being Straight With Me or Engaging in a Little Political Sabotage
How To Deal With Someone Whom You Believe Might be Trying to Sabotage You Sometimes it’s difficult to determine if a coworker is out to sabotage you or if something else entirely is going on. In many situation our preconceived notions about someone can completely color the way we see them and…
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Conscious Leadership - And The Power Of Energetic Fields.
How to Become a More Conscious Leader and Create a Healthy, Energetic Culture for Your Team or Organization. My guest today, Rebecca Watson, has spent nearly 20 years coaching senior leaders on how to create high performing teams and a healthy, vibrant culture in their workplaces. She is a master...
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What Do Emotions Have to Do With Leadership? How to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence (EQ).
What Do Emotions Have to do with Leadership? Why Your Success Depends on Your Leadership EQ and Your Business Skills Talking about emotions at work has traditionally been discouraged. Dealing with feelings was often dismissed as “touchy-feely” or soft—certainly not in the same category as hard...
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I Am Not Sure That I Can Be Honest With You Or With Myself
What to do when you’re a good ways into a collaborative project and you realize in your gut that you're just not into it? Your ability to be truly honest with others is dependent upon your ability to be honest with yourself about your feelings. Taking your feelings into consideration when making...
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Is It Just Me or Do Most Online Zoom Training Sessions Bore You to Tears Too?
How To Do Training and Development Right In An Online, Zoom Work World. Whether you’re a provider or consumer of online training it’s important to understand how the online learning experience vastly differs from that of the in-person classroom. Taking material developed for the in-person…
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This Doggone Unrelenting Uncertainty of Today’s World Has Totally Scrambled My Leadership Compass.
Uncertainty has always been a part of our world, but with Covid 19 and all the disruptions it has caused it looks like uncertainty is now a permanent, unrelenting worldwide fixture rather than something that happens in response to a particular crisis and then recedes. Despite how much we may...
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Does Self-Coaching Mean That I’ll Finally Be Working With Someone Who Totally Gets Me?
It turns out that one of the absolute best coaches you can hire is yourself. If you'd like to learn some practical self-coaching skills give a listen to my interview with Mike Normant, the creator of Coach Your Self Up, a training program that teaches self-coaching skills to help individuals make...
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You Can't Handle the Truth! No, Actually It's Me Not You.
How to Be Honest With Others When They Let You Down Without Becoming Disrespectful. You know those situations where someone says they’re going to do something—and then they don’t follow through? It can be frustrating, right? The challenge is figuring out how to respond in a way that’s honest…
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Good Vibrations or How I Learned to Tap the Power of Resonance to Improve My Relationships
Give a listen to my conversation with Dr. Ginny Whitelaw in our new Interview series. Dr. Ginny is a Zen master and founder/CEO of the Institute for Zen Leadership. She holds a doctorate in biophysics, degrees in physics and philosophy, and a 5th degree black belt in Aikido, and was formerly a...
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The Journal You Should Be Keeping is Not the One From Wall Street.
How to Keep Your Self-Development on Track by Establishing a Daily Practice of Journal Writing. All personal change and development starts with self-awareness and to develop your self-awareness you have to establish a regular practice of self reflection and there is no better tool for doing that...
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Leadership Lessons From the Eye of the Storm.
Leadership Lessons Learned From Being Trapped in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina. It was the fourth day after Hurricane Katrina had struck New Orleans. As I stepped out of the elevator in my four-star French Quarter hotel, I was met with a scene that stopped me in my tracks: the lobby was...
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I Sense a Disturbance in the Force!
I Sense a Disturbance in The Force. How to Trust and Act on Your Intuition in Real Time When an Interaction Takes a Turn You Didn’t Expect. One of the most powerful communication skills you can develop is the ability to notice, trust, and act on your intuition in the moment. This skill moves you...
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That Whole Work-Life Balance Thing Was Never Going to Work. R2
It’s Time to Scrap the Idea of Balance and Instead Strive For Integration With the many changes Covid 19 is bringing to the way we work there's one idea in particular that the pandemic has shown us was never going to work. That is, the concept of work/life balance is both unrealistic and...
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It’s Past the Time to Think About What Your Employees Will Need When Workplaces Reopen.
Empathetic Understanding of Your Staff’s Psychological Needs Now Will Make Reopening Much More Successful. In this podcast we talk about reopening workplaces during this Covid 19 pandemic. In particular, we look at the psychological state of your employees and the very nature of the relationship...
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I Am Not Being Defensive! How Your Career Depends on Your Ability to Receive Feedback.
I Am Not Being Defensive! How Your Career Depends on Your Ability to Receive Feedback Listening to feedback about our performance, especially negative feedback, is difficult for all of us. In this segment we show you why your career success depends upon your ability to be open to and handle...
About this show
Dubbed the “Frasier of the Cubicles” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Dr. Greg is a former clinical psychologist-turned executive coach and radio talk show host. His company, TalentPlanet, Inc., is an executive talent firm, providing coaching for executives and Fortune 500 companies. A unique mix of psychology and coaching expertise gives Dr. Greg a great understanding of people and what it takes for career success. Combined with his keen insight into today’s workplace, and infused with his trademark quick wit, Dr. Greg challenges his listeners and clients to reach for career success on their own terms—and to have a good time doing it.Dr. Greg's partner on the Coach-on-Demand Podcasts™ is Steve Kovsky, who is a technology journalist, an author, and is also a former talk show host.Dr. Greg formerly hosted a weekly talk show on CNET & XM Satellite Radio on the workplace and careers and was the CBS 5 Workplace and Career Expert for KPIX TV in San Francisco, CA.For more information go to
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