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The Leadership Line — 248 episodes
Disagree Without Being Disagreeable
Stop Labeling Coworkers And Start Leading People
When Peer Leaders Stop Being A Team
Don’t Blame The Org Chart
You Can't Build Accountability Without This...
How To Build A Foundation For Constant Workplace Change
How To Question Assumed Truths At Work
What Made You Successful Will Not Scale Forever
A 65th Birthday Lesson
Rethinking The 40-Hour Week
Coaching Quiet Leaders To Be Heard
When CEOs Stop Delaying And Start Deciding
Six Weeks To Better Leadership Habits
Create For Meaning, Not Hype
Who Helped You: A Leader’s Most Powerful Question
Leaders Who Delegate Grow Faster
Turning Feedback Into Growth Without Fear
How Great Coworkers Step Up, Speak Up, And Grow Together
Commitments, Calendars, And Keeping Promises To Yourself
The Art of Saying No at Work
The Dangers of Me-First Culture
When Your True Self Shows Up at Work
What Really Drives Career Satisfaction?
The Art of Customer Follow-Up
The Myths HR Never Told You
The Hidden Cost of Leading: Understanding and Overcoming Decision Fatigue
Leading Through Change
The Double-Edged Leadership Sword
The Hidden Power of Embracing Failure
Scaling Up: Leadership Lessons from SHRM 2025
You're Wasting Excellence If...
Unmasking Our Mental Shortcuts: How Cognitive Biases Shape Our Thinking
Fostering a Culture of Thought: Tactics for Modern Leaders
Unmasking the HR Urban Legend That's Killing Your Culture
Can "Lazy Leadership" Help You?
There's Never Just One Right Answer: Moving Through Fear Together
Beyond the Easy Button
Are You Thinking Hardly or Hardly Thinking?
When Skimming the Surface Sinks Your Potential
Martyrs, Mind Readers, and Midnight Pizza: The Workplace Chaos Chronicles
Monkey Business: The Art of Avoiding Reverse Delegation
Are Scott and Tammy Meeting their Commitments?
Strategy Isn't Planning
What do you Create and Allow as a Leader?
What do I make as a leader?
Change is Hard - What is YOUR Role?
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions - What's my role?
Engaged or Not Engaged - who's Responsibility it is?
Big or Small - who are you the Hardest On?
What is your Personal Brand?
To PIP or not to PIP...that is the Question
Where are you getting Input?
Relationships at Work?!? That sounds squishy.
Start, Stop and Continue - The Impact of Small Incremental Change
What's In? What's Out? Employee Edition
What's In? What's Out? Inquiring Minds Want to Know!
Krampus vs Civility - Which Side are you on?
Customer States: We Need Team Building
Tools for Tools? Another Todd Saga
Nature vs Nurture - Are Leaders Just Born?
Soring with Eagles or Surrounded by Turkeys?
Who is Middle Management and What's Their Job?
Advice: What Advice Would you Give a Younger You
From Trust Falls to Teamwork: Practical Steps to Build Real Trust at Work
Working Through Subtle Defiance: Strategies for Effective Leadership
Navigating Tough Decisions: Compassionate Leadership in Employee Transitions
Unlocking True Customer Centricity: Are You Ready to Make the Tough Calls?
When Nice Meets Not-So-Truthful: The Hidden Costs of Executive Politeness
Bridging the Divide: Transforming Us vs. Them into Togetherness in the Workplace
Identifying Signs of a Healthy vs. Unhealthy Organization
What Makes Accountability Thrive: Common Practices in Leading Organizations
Accountabili-Buddies: The Secret to Success – How Many Do You Really Need?
From Talk to Action: Transforming Accountability from a Concept to a Practice
HR Challenges in 2024: What You Need to Know!
I Was Just A Hiring Manager. Here's What I Learned During The Process.
What Is An Outcome? Why You Shouldn't Do Anything Until You Have One.
How Do You Help Clients Solve Long-Standing Issues?
What Are Some Signs It's Probably Time For A Reorg?
When You're A Hiring Manager, What Are Some Ways To Be Sure You're Getting Someone Who's The Right Fit?
When You're A Candidate For A Job, What Should You Be Looking For And Asking To Determine A Good Fit?
What's The Story Behind BecomeMore Group Corporate Values?
What Are Your Favorite Questions For a 1:1?
What's The Deal With Terrible Customer Service?
How do I Know if I Need a Leadership Coach?
What Are Some Tools You Use on a Regular Basis?
What Did You Want to be When You Grew Up?
How do You Know When You Need a Break? And How do You Get it?
Truth Telling: What it Looks Like and Why it is Important
What's a Lesson You're Learned The Hard Way in The Last 6 months?
Change: What do Leaders Misunderstand About The Process Most Often - Part 2
Change: What Do Leaders Misunderstand About The Process Most Often - Part 1
What Are The Key Elements of Giving Feedback Well?
What Are The Best Questions For an Employee to Bring to a 1:1?
What Are The Best Questions For a Leader to Ask in a 1:1?
How Do You Stay Challenged in Your Job and Career?
How do You Create a Culture Where Feedback is Normal?
What is performance?
How Do You Want to Grow in The Coming Year? And How Do People Make a Plan for Accomplishing Their Own Growth?
What are the Biggest Mistakes People Make About 1:1 Meetings?
How Do You Increase Employee Engagement?
What's The Definition of Curiosity and Why is it So Important in How We Measure People's Ability to be Successful?
3 Ways to Be More Curious This Month
Finding More Joy in Your Life
How Do You Influence People When You Don't Have Authority Over Them?
Getting Quiet Promoted—Pros and Cons
My Coworker Doesn't Do a Good Job. What Should I Do?
Employee Retention in the New Year
Performance Appraisals—What makes a good manager appraisal?
Performance Appraisals—What makes a good self-appraisal?
Down Time—A Must or a Myth?
Workplace Myths: Which Should Go Away?
Do Leaders Have a Responsibility to Help Their People Work Past the Seven Deadly Wounds?
Jumping to Solutions Instead of Identifying the Problem
Culture of Urgency
Gratitude At Work
What's an unwritten rule in your org that's unforgiveable?
How to quit (and offboard) gracefully
How do you tell if a potential new job is a good fit?
Employee Experience Manager. Should your company have one?
Capacity—How do you know if you are truly at your limit?
Employees want flexibility. What does that mean besides remote work?
How do you make remote work, work?
What's the Most Recent Skill You Learned, and Why Do You Love Lifelong Learning?
We've talked about analysis paralysis. But what about the opposite?
You get reorged into a job that’s not a good fit. Have you been Quiet Fired?
Signs it might be time to look for a new job
Bad Bosses from the Movies: What can we learn from them?
What do you do when you inherit an underperforming team?
What is a big professional mistake you made, and what did you learn?
Indecision. What makes people spiral and how do they get past it?
What is that last step in leadership and planning that often doesn't quite come together?
It's all about me vs It's all about we. Are these goals mutually exclusive?
What responsibility do managers have for employee's mental health? How to lead for wellbeing.
Employees want bonuses: CEO says suck it up. Who's out of touch?
How Can Leaders Become Better Decision Makers? Especially in a Team Setting.
Being ready to learn and saying Yes
Should leaders trust their team members?
Question from a plane: What's the thing leaders get wrong most often?
Why questions are more important than answers
Customer service: Are you making moments of magic, or moments of misery?
Benefits of Internships
AI: How Does It Change the Face of Work?
What does it mean to Stay Curious Longer?
Your first job, and what did you learn from it?
Finding and Hiring Great People in a Tough Market
Performance reviews: Pro or Con?
What role does kindness play in leadership?
What's the difference between a manager and a leader?
Terrible hiring decisions. What's the worst hire you ever made and what did you learn from it?
Jerks at Work: Tattletale Tashas and Timothys
Jerks at Work: Negative Neds and Nancys
How do you Maximize and be Purposeful when Traveling?
Better to have to Nudge or Slow Down?
Should your Job Love you Back?
What should you expect for engagement at work? Discretionary Effort
Do you NEED to Love your Job?
Get the right fit for your organization
Things to look for in a Job Change
How long do I wait?
Planning for the Future?
Let's Talk About Ego
Allowing Brilliance
Out of Capacity?
How to Work in Groups
What is Organizational Maturity?
Succession Planning vs. Progression Planning
Transparency vs. Translucency
Trusted Truth Teller
How to Grow!
Vampires in the Workplace
Micro vs Macro Decisions
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Pitfalls of Organizational Change
Is There a Correct Way to a Promotion?
What is Quiet Quitting?
Curiosity Turns Into Potential
How Important is Profit?
Interviewing? Be Your Authentic Self!
How Do You Know a Candidate is Right for the Job?
How Do You React to Constructive Criticism?
How Should You React to Change?
Are You Self-Aware?
Intrinsic or Extrinsic Motivators Part 2
Utilizing Your Full Potential
Want to Boost Engagement? Be Purposeful
Would You Rather? Intrinsic or Extrinsic Motivators
Quick Quick Project Management
Life's Biggest Lessons (so far)
Jerks at Work
Four Day Work Week Study
Scott and Tammy's Entrepreneurial Stories
Open Jobs + Recession on the Horizon = ???
Which comes first, confidence or competence?
Emailing and our Tendency to Interpret
Handling Conversations around Politics, Laws and Opinions in the Workplace
Failure's Important Place in Progress and Success
Is it time to switch up employee engagement measures?
Battling Perfectionism
Building Trust and Keeping It
Behavioral Assessments in the Workplace
Feedback: It's Not Personal
Horrible Bosses
Creating Virtual Psychological Safety
Feeling like a Fraud: Fighting Imposter Syndrome 101
Do we need managers?
Company Culture: Do you pass gas at your office?
Ignoring Distractions at Work
Forgiveness In the Workplace
What are the best new hire traits to look for?
Scott's Productivity Pet Peeve
Don't Make These Common Hiring Mistakes
Should I stay or should I go?
Who Moved my Cheese? Coping with Change as an Employee
Best Practices in Termination
Gaining Support for Big Change
Motivating VS Inspiring
Favoritism at Work
Let's Get Candid on Coaching
What's a leader's main work product?
Cringey Critique
Say to Do Ratio
The Importance of the Interview Process
Ending Meeting Fatigue
Negotiating a Job Offer 101
Handling Fears and Anxieties as a Leader
So There Aren't Coffee Making Elves?
People Problems vs Process Problems
The Importance of Questions
9-5 is Over
Respecting your Coworkers: Are they Difficult or Just Different?
Growing People or the Organization; Which Comes First?
Lessons from Scott's Prison Time
Leading Tough Change
Decision Delegation
Work is Back in Session
Optimizing Outlook
Work-Life Balance is BS
Bossing your Boss
Top Talent Turnover
The Recipe to Resilience
Midwest Nice in the Workplace
Managing Boundaries
What does a leader owe you?
Are you self-aware?
Meaningful Meetings
Leveling Up High Potential Employees
Gaining Confidence in the Workplace
Intro Time at The Leadership Line