group leadership

Episode 62 – First Moves Matter: Helping a New Leader

Episode 62 – First Moves Matter: Helping a New Leader

Jennifer Long

New to the group, it’s episode 62 of Leadership Kung Fu!

Sandi and Jen are enthusiastic about today’s topic of new leaders and how you and your organization can set them up for success and if you’re a new leader, how to tackle that transition with flying colors. Listen in as they discuss:

  • common new leader hurdles and transition difficulties
  • how values shift in a new role
  • the art of letting go
  • what your leadership will look like as you make the shift
  • technical skills and relationship skills
  • how relationships evolve when new leadership occurs
  • where Imposter Syndrome can affect the new role and how limiting it can be
  •  Taming Your Gremlin by Rick Carson
  • troubles with the hand-off
  • trust during the transition
  • leadership groups for new-to leadership leaders
  • perks of being a brand-new leader

and much more!

Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the “Videos” tab!
Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at podcast@own-up.com or leave us a comment on LinkedIn! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

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Episode 61 – From Talking to Doing: Why Leadership Teams Stall

Episode 61 – From Talking to Doing: Why Leadership Teams Stall

Jennifer Long

Welcome to episode 61 of Leadership Kung Fu! Jen and Sandi are talking the talk and walking the walk to bring you today’s topic: why leadership teams can stall! Settle in as they chat about:

  • Words are nice, but action is important
  • Stalling due to fear of conflict
  • Feeling safe in the workplace
  • How multiple priorities can actually be a hindrance
  • Corporate whiplash and fatigue
  • Alignment vs. accountability
  • The Knowing-Doing gap
  • How to stop “The Stall”
  • The One Hard Question
  • What parts you actually play
  • 6 Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
  • Where your bias lives
  • Timeboxing
  • Meeting habits

and much more!

Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the “Videos” tab!
Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at podcast@own-up.com or leave us a comment on LinkedIn! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Jen’s Website

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Episode 60 – The Art of the Mid-Year Check In

Episode 60 – The Art of the Mid-Year Check In

Jennifer Long

Ready for some self reflection? Here’s episode 60 of Leadership Kung Fu!

Sandi and Jen are asking us to take some time and join them a moment as they chat about the importance of a mid-year check in, not just with our teams, but with ourselves too! Listen along as they highlight:

  • The importance of sense-making
  • Measuring your efficacy, not your results
  • How often are you getting feedback?
  • Your leadership “brand”
  • Behavior that reflects value
  • Reactiveness and the signs of burnout, physical and non
  • Intentional resets
  • A.I. in leadership styles and the most popular uses as of recording
  • Goals and the metrics of goals
  • Are your metrics just a sign of activity?
  • Driving focus
  • The weights of risk and opportunity

and much more!

Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the “Videos” tab!
Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at podcast@own-up.com or leave us a comment on LinkedIn! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Jen’s Website

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Episode 59 – Conscious Un-Bossing: The New Distaste for Managing

Episode 59 – Conscious Un-Bossing: The New Distaste for Managing

Jennifer Long

It’s a group effort over here on Leadership Kung Fu, so we’re glad you’re here for episode 59!
Join Jen and Sandi as they dissect the topic of Concious Un-Bossing, and listen along as they cover:

  • Jen’s NEW book Workers are the Solution, Not the Problem: A Guidebook to Leading Differently
  • how Gen Z is bringing changes to the workplace
  • conscious uncoupling
  • what it means to start to change a workplace culture
  • purpose over power
  • inclusivity is a power tool
  • trust at every level and how it becomes an operating system
  • mature accountability systems
  • how group leadership makes you a better person
  • how leading is a capability, not a title
  • what advantages your business can gain from this model
  • how shifting to a new cultural model takes time
  • the books Humanocracy by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini and The Social Leadership Handbook by Julian Stodd
  • what happens when human solve problems together

and more!

Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the “Videos” tab!
Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at podcast@own-up.com or leave us a comment on LinkedIn! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Jen’s Website

Sandi’s Website