Episodes
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126. How to Use AI without Losing Critical Thinking
A friend from Brazilian jiu-jitsu asked me what AI platform he should use. That sounds like a software question, but the more I thought about it, the better question became: How do you use AI without letting it weaken your thinking? In this episode, I talk about using AI as a leader without...
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125. Leadership Burnout: Are You Carrying Too Much?
Capable leaders often burn out because they care deeply and slowly carry too much. In this episode, Kurt Kinnear uses the leadership backpack analogy to help leaders identify what they are carrying, what should be handed off, and how to shift from carrying everything to creating clarity…
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124. The Perils of Victim Mentality in Leadership
In this episode, we delve into the pernicious effects of victim mentality on leaders. We explore how this mindset drains energy, hinders personal growth, and stifles organizational progress. By succumbing to victimhood, leaders relinquish their power to shape outcomes and instead adopt a...
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123. How to Recover From Difficult Times 3 Strategies to Recover from Adversity and Thrive
In this episode, we explore how leaders can overcome challenges and setbacks in their personal and professional lives. We discuss how to create separation between yourself and your organization, how to make your goals more achievable during difficult times, and how to shift from a victim to an...
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122. The Icing and the Cake: How to Avoid Distractions in Your Business
Do you ever find yourself spending too much time on things that are not essential to your core business? Things that are interests for yourself, your team member or even your industry or its culture but not your clients? These are what I call the icing on the cake, but they are not the cake…
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121. Retirement? A Life Changing Perspective
From the Freedom 55 retirement ads in the late 90's to today my experiences have significantly changed my perspective on retirement in a way that has given me much more freedom than I ever expected well before 55! This episode walks through several life changing lessons that have occurred over 20...
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120. A Dangerous Response to Stress that all leaders need to know about
Have you ever heard about an amygdala hijack? I promise you have experienced it! The term was coined by Daniel Goleman book: "Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ" response has been experienced by everyone but very few understand this critical response and its impact on each...
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119. Busy or Productive: A Daily Challenge
How much clarity people have around the difference between busy and productive can be the difference maker for anyone who is trying to effectively lead a team. This episode provides an example of someone in a busy industry who is constantly challenging himself and his organization to strive to be...
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118. Becoming Stronger through Difficult Times
Everyone has faced difficulty in their lives. It is not the difficulty people face but how they process and move beyond tough times that makes the difference. This episode talks about some simple ways to process and then move beyond difficult times while growing stronger. It also provides an odd...
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117. 80/20 Principle: A game changer for your organization
The 80/20 Principle was first discovered by Vilfredo Pareto after he realized 80% of the land was controlled by 20% of the people. Hmm sound familiar? We think its new when so few have so much wealth but its been happening for years! This principle has been applied to work, leadership, investing,...
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116. Productivity: Closing the Gap Between Decisions and Their Outcomes
One of the most deadly gaps in organizations is the distancing that occurs between the decisions made and the consequences they result in. This episode discusses the ways organizations can become disconnected as they grow, the warning signs to watch out for, and simple ways to keep your...
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115. Personal Growth: Three key elements to grow yourself and then those around you
How many times have you stepped back and looked at the times in your life when you grew the most and became a stronger person? As a leader, you must keep growing and evolving who you are and how you work to serve your community. Throughout my experience I have found that growth comes in three…
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114. Welcome to season 2. You can lead!
I am very excited to be back for season 2. This season will be all about helping emerging nonprofit leaders get their organizations on the right track. This episode explains why this podcast is important and how we can lead your organization into a brighter future!
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113. A Gut Check
A previous episode about upholding values triggered a tough question for me. Am I upholding my values for me or am I spending too much time and energy on everything else.
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112. Creating Unbreakable Trust
Its not easy at first but in the long run this lesson can help you so much in your leadership journey and life.
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111. Why Values Can Save A Lot of Time and Energy
If you want to lighten your burden as a leader, this episode is sure to help!
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110. Going with the Flow
What started with a lesson in canoeing and then raft guiding shifted to leadership in a powerful way! This episode talks about the importance of leveraging the flow of your staff and their talents instead of resisting.
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109. Just Go For It
In this episode I discuss the main reason people hold themselves back when opportunities are right in front of them. Enjoy, Kurt
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108. Balancing your Energy
Life is not easy but you do need to find balance living it. This episode shares a simple reflective exercise that will help you measure and secure more balance in your life and make sure you are you...through and through.
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107. The Importance of Pacing in Leadership
Are you a followable leader? This is a question you always need to ask as you set goals and the pace for your team. This is a discussion around pace and how strategically pacing your goals can make things move faster and easier as you lead your team or cause.
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106. The Cost of Being Right
How much do you think being right can cost your organization? In this episode I am sharing an experience that made me realize that there was something far more important and valuable than being right.
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105. Making Organizational Culture Easy
We all know culture is incredibly important to organizational success. However figuring out what that culture should be seems far more complicated than it needs to be. This episode is all about how to simplify how to figure out what culture you should strive for.
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104. Can Loyalty be Dangerous?
It can be easy to see all the positive attributes that loyalty can create however, as a leader there may be a few areas that loyalty may become dangerous.
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103. Succes Can Suck
Too many times in our lives we drive to achieve something believing life will be great after that achievement. What happens when reality strikes and its not great?
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102. Are you Trustworthy
How vulnerable and open are people with you? This is a very important question if you truly want to make a difference in your organization and the lives of those around you and is the topic of todays Episode.
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101. Understanding a Fundamental Human Response
I am very excited about this episode and hope it changes how you think about a fundamental human response to life. Enjoy
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100. My 10 Minute Rule
First of all thank you to everyone participating in our leading lightly community. We just made it to episode 100 and I can promise, I could not have made it without you! This episode discussed a simple rule I have implemented that has saved me hours to months of work and I know it can do the…
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Where are you focusing for the New Year!
This episode discusses some considerations that should occur when deciding where to allocate your invaluable time and energy.
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DO NOT FORGET THEM!
While hunting for a new senior staff member I remembered an incredible lesson that no leader should forget. I hope you enjoy! K
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A Lesson in Creating Momentum
What do you do with your time. How do you think your can build momentum in your life. In this episode I share a lesson A lesson on building momentum that I learned after realized while watching my son complete a project.
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Don‘t Bite on this Bait
What you do when a community member publicly accuses or discredits someone under your leadership is critical to leading lightly and this episode will discuss why.
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Tips for Great Speeches
How many times are you blessed with the opportunity to serve a large audience? After years of public speaking, including many mistakes and successes I will be sharing a few key considerations I have to ensure a memorable impactful speech.
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Making to Most of Resignations
What do you do after someone resigns? Do you see a resignation as a threat or an opportunity? In this episode I break down a few key steps I take before refiling a role.
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Rethinking Resignations
When good staff leave it can hurt, but that resignation is also an excellent opportunity to evaluate and grow which is what this episode is all about!
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How to draw a line in ethics
In a world where work and personal cross so often how do you draw the line for your ethics around meals, hours, phone use/billing, office supplies, and so many other considerations that can get gray very quickly. In this episode I spend more time breaking down ethical boundaries. After years of...
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Integrity in Leadership
In a day and age where words like integrity do not seem to be a staple or a focus, I am going to discuss its importance in your role as a leader and share a little trick to consider while being tempted to compromise.
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Turning thing off and Resting
I struggle with is turning things off and taking a rest. This episode discusses a few little things I have done that help.
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Does Who Matter More Than What?
How many times do you calculate what matters more to you as a leader who does something or what someone does? I have found where you weight your focus between who and what makes a big different on the results you obtain in your leadership role and the burden you care.
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Standing Up for What You Know is Right
While reflecting on Remembrance Day it is easy to take for granted the freedom and safety each one of us has. In todays episode I will be reading a post I wrote as encouragement to stand up when we know we need to in order to support all of the sacrifices those who have served have made for us.…
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The Long Term Cost of Accommodation
How do you strategically add or change a staff members workload without causing long term pain for you and your organization? This episode talks about what I have commonly seen done with good intent that leads to bad outcomes for your organization.
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Language for Urgency
How many times do we find ourselves using the same language when stressed? I do this all the time and after a little experiment getting our kids ready for school, I finally found a creative solution that works in the workplace. This episode discusses the challenges of urgent situation and a…
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Avoiding Organizational Politics
Lets face it. Politics have always existed and will always exist within earth dwelling humans. Its a part of life despite the pain and lack of clarity they can create. This episode is all about ways to understand politics so you don't get caught up or caught by politics and some key ideas for...
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There is ALWAYS a 3rd Option
How many times have you felt like the situation you or your team is facing is a lose lose situation? If you are a leader and you are pushing forward...you will commonly face difficult situations and I am telling you that there is always a 3rd option however it takes a few key steps to free your...
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Scope Creep Sucks
Have you ever had a simple solution and instead of doing it you over think it and never get it done? Do you know what scope creep is? Well this happens to me all the time and I will share some ways I attempt to clarify it so I can catch it at the right times and move quickly forward.
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My 90 Rule to boost your day
Do you ever slide into that non stop grind of work and next thing you know its the end of the day and you don't even know what you got done? If this happens to you sometimes, you are not alone. In this episode I share a simple and fun way to get more out of your day and come out of the other end...
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Clarifying Teamwork
I have always struggled to create an simpler way to describe how to asses how staff and teams work together and own their work. Yesterday I finally thought of a new way to simplify what so many of us are experiencing but cannot describe easily enough to find a way to identify what is working well...
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Just Celebrate
Do you find it hard to enjoy those success as a leader? After failing to celebrate for my first 14 years in leadership, I was gifted with an opportunity to learn how while getting a new company started and now I have a little trick that makes all the difference to me and I hope it will for you!...
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Unwanted Guest
Recently its been a rough week but as you know that comes with the territory...so today I am sharing a story that will hopefully bring a smile to your day. Enjoy, Kurt
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Stop Stealing the Solution!
How many times do you have a solution but wont be the one to carry it forward? To many leaders this predicament happens often. When I started I always thought my job was to push my team all the way to the solution but then I realized that approach yielded poor results and cost me more time and...
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3 Powerful Tools for Leaders
Have you ever considered the differences between consultants, leaders, and guides? All three are very powerful supports for you and your organization, yet all three need to be used in strategic ways as we grow and attempt to mover our organizations forward. I hope you enjoy!
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