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The Innovative Leader
by David Phillips & Christy Geiger
Welcome to The Innovative Leader with Christy Geiger, Master Certified Coach and David Phillips, Educator, Analyst & Consultant. Our mission to equip, inspire, and transform how we LEAD in life & work. Raising the level of leadership makes a difference! Be Equipped. Get Inspired. Transform The Way you Lead.
Episodes
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TILP #43: Automating Your Business
How do you empower your employees to make decisions without you? Spoiler alert…start small. Think about the decisions you are asked every day. In this episode, Christy and David interview a special guest, Tina White. Tina provides a unique perspective based on her business experience as a CPA...
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TILP #42: Having Tough Conversations
Are you ready to start having those tough conversations as a leader? Or are you still trying to avoid the conflict that comes with them? As a leader, you must learn to be courageous enough to have tough conversations that are of much interest to an organization’s operations. In this episode,...
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TILP39: Setting People up for Success
How do you as a leader set your people up for success? In this episode, Christy and David talk about how to make things clear and smoothen out the path for your team to reach their highest level of success as a leader. They explain the importance of defining goals and clarifying roles as a leader...
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TILP40: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
How do you understand emotional intelligence as a leader? Have you embraced it as a critical part of your 4.0 leadership? In this episode, Christy and David talk about the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership and how it improves communication effectiveness. They explain why soft...
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TILP #38: Vision Casting
What exactly is vision casting and do you need it in your organization? In this episode, Christy and David talk about the meaning of vision casting and how to build a vision within an organization. They explain why a vision is a function of a pain point and how to build stories of how it looks...
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TILP37: What is Reverse Mentoring?
In this episode, Christy and David talk about reverse mentoring and what it means in a 4.0 organization. They discuss what it means, its difference from traditional mentoring, and why you should practice it as a leader. What is reverse mentoring? Reverse mentoring is about creating space for the...
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TILP36: Lateral Thinking
In this episode, Christy and David talk about lateral thinking in a 4.0 organizational environment. They discuss how lateral thinking shows up in leadership, why it matters over linear thinking, and how to exercise it. What is lateral thinking? Lateral thinking builds on traditional logical...
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TILP 35: Curiosity Development: Building A Culture of Inquiry
n this episode, Christy and David talk about curiosity development in an organization. They discuss what shuts curiosity down, why being curious as a leader is important, and what cultivates curiosity in an organization. What shuts curiosity down. An organizational culture that is always right…
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Expanding Capacity: Maximizing your Time
How do you maximize your time? How do you get to do more done in less time? We’re living in the technological era where we have more tools and resources that we can utilize to make more use of our time. In this episode, Christy and David talk about how you can maximize your time by simplifying,...
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TILP #33: Three Things You Can Do to Get Yourself Back in The Game When You’re Struggling
How are you handling the unexpected change happening in 2021 as a leader? Exhaustion and overwhelm lead to unproductivity, and as a leader, you want to have the right tools to be productive. So, how do you get yourself in your right frame of self in 2021? In this episode, Christy and David talk...
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TILP #32: Two Critical Skills in Leadership in 2021
How are you as a leader communicating and engaging your team in 2021? Communication and engagement completely transformed in 2020, and you have to be more skillful to effectively do both as a leader in 2021. In this episode, Christy and David talk about the importance of skillful and effective...
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TILP #32: Liquid or Structured Leadership
Have you made the transition from a 2.0 leader to a 4.0 leader? We’re evidently living in very rapid times and change is inevitable, especially for organizations and teams. Transitioning from a 2.0 leader to a 4.0 leader is all about organizational structure and liquidity. In this episode…
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TILP31: 3 Different Ways to Assess Your Strengths as a Leader
When was the last time you self-assessed yourself to find out your strengths? Maybe it’s high time you did it together with your team and share the results to help you function better as a leader. There are many assessment tools available that you can use to find out your strengths and weaknesses...
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Goals and Resolutions, when they don't get resolved
We’re officially in February and you probably still feel overwhelmed from all of 2020’s baggage, right? Have you made plans for your business, what goals do you have to help you move forward? Because to be honest, 2021 doesn’t seem to be any better than 2020; but it is crucial you have goals even...
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TILP29: 3 Questions to Discover the Next ...
In this episode of The Innovative Leader we explore 3 Questions to Discover the Next .... fill in the blank! Pivot. Great idea. Innovation. Activity. Etc. Whatever you are working on, these questions can help exercise that curiosity muscle to brainstorm and explore. It is important that we…
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TILP28: Leading Change in Frenetic Times
We have noticed that not only has 2020 been this time of uncertainty and unknown, between COVID the United States elections and whatnot. But really, as we move into 2021, it seems like a lot of people maybe felt like 2021 provides fresh start. We talked about goal setting and planning for success...
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Leaders Roadmap for the New Year
As we move to new year, Christy and David look at how to put together a roadmap for success in 2021. reflect & assess set goals & mindset design activity and measurable
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2021 Possibilities: Things for Leaders to Consider
It would sure be nice to have a crystal ball and know what is coming in 2021! Today, Christy and David take a look at the possibilities that could be there for leaders in 2021. It's also the wrap-up podcast of the year!
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TILP25: How 4.0 Leaders Work with Others Who Have a 2.0 Mindset
Building on the current era of Industry 4.0 and Web 4.0, we frequently talk about 4.0 Leaders. This is a leader who has the skills to navigate the demands of this 4.0 era. Because we are really evolving from many years of productivity and production, we refer to this era and time period of...
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TILP24: Proactive planning for Covid Phase 2
This week moving to the end of November 2020, there are more states in the USA that have announced “shut down” and “closure” of gyms, restaurants, etc. It is difficult because most have not experiences a “relief” since COVID started and if they were “going out” might have just started to feel a...
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TILP 23: Growing Intuitive Leadership Skills
During industry 2.0 we relied on information, data and analytics in order to make decisions. However, as we move into this new era, we realize that while there is huge value in analytics, our intuition is imperative. Coming into the industry 4.0 leaders need their intuition more than ever. Your...
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Master Dynamic Decision Making
Welcome Leaders! Thank you for joining the Innovative Leader Podcast. Each week we share thoughts for leaders to equip, inspire and transform how we lead in life and work. Today we are looking at to topic of Dynamic Decision Making! In the evolving world of Industry 4.0 complexity is increasing....
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How the Web Impacts the Way we Lead
Today David and I jump into a topic to provide some context of where the term Leadership 4.0 comes from. I am not familiar with anyone else really using that term, but we are using it to match the current status and changes that are happening and influencing leadership today. We are currently in...
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The Ability to Lead Strong
2020 has been a really interesting year with a lot of ups and downs and challenges and leaders are really being called to lead to their highest potential. So today we're talking about four things that are really critical and important for leaders to continue to grow and demonstrate strength as a...
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Leverage the Next 90: Goal, Grit and Grind
How do you leverage the next 90? In the Innovative Leader Podcast today, we are focusing on three keys to get and stay in action. 1) Have Challenging Goals: The Good to Great concept of the BHAG What goal will challenge us? What activates you to drive or push forward? What is so big you will not...
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Leveraging the next 90 days
After an unpredictable and ever changing year (2020), many leaders and business have found themselves adapting for the majority of the year. With the unknown of COVID and other challenges around us today, it can be tempting to wait until things settle down before really getting traction on goals....
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Three Leadership Keys for Hiring Great Talent
Often when we have challenges with a underperforming team member, we can quickly feel frustrated at the gap. When team members are struggling in their role it can drain time and energy from the team. It limits productivity, progress and results. It takes organizational resources trying to get a...
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4 Leadership Skills for a VUCA World
VUCA is an acronym that was developed out of the leadership theories by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus in 1987. The acronym is used to help describe and reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations in the world “today”. While aspects of the...
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Lead Through the Mess with Less Stress
How does stress show up? Why is it a problem? Ineffective leadership Overwhelm/overloaded Can’t make decisions confusion Leaders do the right things (walk, foods, water, fitness....) Sleep Body · #1 - TAKE CARE OF SELF: SLEEP: Tylenol, melatonin, (sleep tracker) PHYSICAL: get outside DIET:off...
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What you allow, you promote
There are several versions of this adage: "What you celebrate gets repeat." Or, "What you reward gets repeated". Well here's another to consider: What you allow, you promote! So the question is, what are you allowing to just happen in your organization? When you let other people do whatever they...
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Leading with Uncertainty as the Norm
Covid is pushing organizations to live and function within uncertainty. We don't know when restrictions will end, when people can congregate again, when it will all be over (if it ever will be). Leadership 4.0 can help us function and lead during this time. In this episode of The Innovative…
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Leading when your team is in survival mode
The Covid pandemic has made life difficult for so many. It's emotionally and mentally tiring. We have to worry about the health of our family and friends. But there are other stressors too, such as finances, and school, and our social connections. Many of us are trying to lead teams who are in...
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Leading Better with the Healthy Mind Platter (Part 3)
The Healthy Mind Platter is a brain health model developed by David Rock and Dr Dan Siegel. It describes seven daily essential mental activities to optimize brain matter and create well-being. In this episode of The Innovative Leader, we look at the three additional activities, Time In, and Down...
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Leading well using The Healthy Mind Platter (Part 2)
The Healthy Mind Platter is a brain health model developed by David Rock and Dr Dan Siegel. It describes seven daily essential mental activities to optimize brain matter and create well-being. In this episode of The Innovative Leader, we look at the three additional activities, Connecting,...
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Leading well using The Healthy Mind Platter (Part 1)
The Healthy Mind Platter is a brain health model developed by David Rock and Dr. Dan Siegel. It describes 7 daily essential mental activities to optimize brain matter and create well-being. The first two are: Focus Time - When we closely focus on tasks in a goal-oriented way, we take on…
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When Things Go South
What do we do when things go south? Emotions are real, and play a very powerful force in leadership. As such, we need to learn how to recognize them, address them in a kind way, and lead through them. The human tendency is to rationalize, and minimize emotions. But emotions are the basis for all...
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How 4.0 Organizations Get Things Done
Here’s the struggle: How do we get things done? Why do some companies get things done and others struggle? On this episode of the Innovative Leader podcast, we compare the 4.0 organization and the 2.0 organization, looking specifically at how they execute and get things done.
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Moving Forward when your Team is Stuck
The challenge: How can leaders navigate forward with innovation while followers not ready to move forward. Leaders can help themselves in 3 ways: 1. Awareness: interact in real, human and casual meetings. Talk about life with your team, not work. 2. Communicate & Empathize: Tell stories that...
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Leadership 2.0 vs Leadership 4.0
In this episode of The Innovative Leader, we look at the differences between leaders with a 2.0 framework and leaders in a 4.0 framework in these three areas: 1. How we work, act, and set up processes 2. How we make decisions. 3. How we communicate. We also explore a brief understanding of what...
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Leadership 4.0 vs 2.0 in Planning and Decision-Making
Leaders have to deal with planning and decision-making during challenging times. In this episode of The Innovative Leader, we look at the differences between 4.0 leaders and 2.0 leaders in these two areas.
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Applying Organizational Change Theory to support leaders to innovate and adapt in challenging times
In this episode of Innovative Leaders, we look at how we can apply Organizational Change Theory to support leaders to innovate and adapt in challenging times The steps to this process include: Step 1. Gather Group/Team Step 2. Define current reality: Step 3. Develop a new adapted strategy…
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Innovation in Times of Crisis and Pandemic
During this period where everyone is telling us to be patient, that doesn't mean we have to hit the pause button on innovation. In fact, in some areas, there has never been a better time to innovate or a more captive audience for innovation. In this episode of The Innovative Leader, Christy and...
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What Leaders Need to Focus On Right Now
As April 2020 opens, and the Covid-19/Corona virus pandemic has unleashed its global impact, Christy and David consider the 5 P's that leaders need to focus on during this time. 1. Presence 2. Perspective 3. People 4. Pivot 5. Planning
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Welcome to The Innovative Leader with Christy Geiger, Master Certified Coach and David Phillips, Educator, Analyst & Consultant. Our mission to equip, inspire, and transform how we LEAD in life & work. Raising the level of leadership makes a difference! Be Equipped. Get Inspired. Transform The Way you Lead.
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