Executive Coach and Founder of TGN Consulting, Kari Granger and CEO of Sound Financial Group, Paul Adams, bring a fresh take to the executive conversations on performance and leadership. This show supports executives to achieve bold commitments and empower workforce performance. Leadership Impact engages listeners with new insights and practices for recurrent leadership challenges such as retaining talent, penetrating new markets, increasing accountability, developing leadership, taking a stand without losing your job, post-M&A culture clash, and more. Join us to expand your own leadership impact. Paul also hosts Your Business Your Wealth where Kari periodically makes guest appearances.
Welcome to Leadership Impact – the podcast for modern executives reinventing leadership. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA Granger), and Sound Financial Group CEO, Paul Adams, this podcast aims to address the topics of performance and leadership through real life examples. In
“When you, as a leader, neglect to impact the way in which you and the people you lead are … relating to the situation, you’re missing the point.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive performance
“We want to start creating delegates in our people. That means that we’re creating someone who can see what we see.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari
“We actually act and interact with the subject of reality. So, the real access point to reality is what we’re going to call ‘assessments.’ It’s not the facts and data.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted
“There are historical forces in our lives that shape the very way that we see, comprehend and interact with what’s in front of us.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of
“Where performance starts is the very way we see. How we relate to ourselves. How we relate to situations.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller
“Moods affect the very way that we see, comprehend, interpret and interact with the situations around us.” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA
“Move from resignation, resentment or even fear, to ambition…you can get there by way of acceptance.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA Granger), and
“When we look at it from the perspective of conversations, identity consists of the assessments that we have about ourselves.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari
“Her receptiveness to think strategically changes wildly when I don’t have her in front of a computer.” – Paul Adams Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA
“Leadership is all about bringing a new future into reality.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA Granger), and Sound Financial Group CEO, Paul Adams,
“If you can’t decline, you can’t accept. If you can’t say ‘No,’ you can’t say ‘Yes.’” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA Granger),
“We often think that leadership is where the leader declares the vision. Leadership is really about co-creation.” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA
“Don’t just begin with the end in mind. Begin by ending something before you start something new.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA Granger),
“What does a non-acceptance look like? It looks like rumination. It looks like looking backwards. It looks like gossip. It looks like ‘shoulding.’” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO
“These five modes [of listening] can shift just about anything, and they provide a great framework for business development.” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari
“A new vision may sound very inspiring to you, but it will sound a lot less inspiring to your team if there were four previous visions that never fully bore fruit.” – Paul Adams Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their
“What’s required to fulfill on a promise, is to first make the space, and then to really put in the time to follow through with specific actions and coordination.” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted
“It’s easy to collapse people’s mood of willingness with a commitment that they will act on something.” – Paul Adams Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA
“When we don’t realize we made promises and people are counting on us for those promises, it makes for sloppy coordination.” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN
“Complaints are great news. I would much prefer complaints over apathy. Apathy is like they don’t even care! There’s nothing to work with there.” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO
“A meaningful offer is about identity. It’s about a different future. It’s about resolving conflicting values. It’s about life changes. It isn’t about products or services.” -Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach
“At the core of the entire first season is the thing we started out with in our very first episode: rather than focusing on the action to produce the result, focus instead on how the way we are observing the whole situation.” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact,
“There’s never a self-only invention; there’s only ever co-invention.” – Kari Zeller Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of TGN Consulting, Kari Zeller (FKA Granger), and Sound Financial Group CEO, Paul Adams,
What if you didn’t have to “hold people’s feet to the fire” to have extraordinary things happen? Season Two of the Leadership Impact podcast will introduce a whole new model of accountability. Get a taste in this short teaser! In this special Season Two “teaser” episode, Kari and Paul
“Leadership, at its core, is about achieving futures that weren’t going to happen anyway. This requires new actions, bold actions, coordinated actions…and underneath all of this is a healthy relationship with accountability.” – Kari Zeller Accountability — it’s what separates good employees, leaders and organizations from great ones…but just
“The payoff of simply checking things off our list, is feeling productive; the cost, is not feeling truly fulfilled or achieving the future we committed to.” – Kari Zeller When all stakeholders thrive, profits rise. And, in order for stakeholders to thrive, accountability is critical. However, what many people
“When each component’s working and working together, we have a condition that provides us with the optimal opportunity to perform.” – Kari Zeller Most of the time, we think of accountability as what happens “after-the-fact” — once something has gone wrong and it’s time to ferret out the responsible
“Completion creates freedom, and accountability is all about creating a state of completion.” – Kari Zeller Life is full of incompletions — open loops of unanswered emails; vague coffee invitations; big projects we need to ‘get to’; kids’ recitals; the nagging awareness that we really should be should be
“Our mess ups are an opportunity to connect with and address the fundamental cares of the people we’re connected with. And, if that’s not foundational to leadership in our lives, I don’t know what is.” – Kari Zeller Whether it’s in business, our personal relationships, or life in general,
“Our common sense way of dealing with others’ expectations of us is based on fairness, yet it often leaves us kicked out of roles and feeling dejected, powerless, confused, resentful, righteous, or defensive. It isn’t workable.” -Kari Zeller Others have expectations of us. Sometimes they are explicit and agreed
“In an effort to survive the constant inbound and to deal with unreliable others, we fall into a default escape strategy — an automatic mood, assessment, and pattern of behavior — that likely won’t get us to the future we want to create.” – Kari Zeller What is your
“The information must show up for you in a way that has you take the action when you need to take the action.” – Kari Zeller How often do you count on your memory to record the tasks and activities you intend to do? Our short term memory only
“When you manage another person’s commitments for them, you rob them of the opportunity to manage their own.” – Kari Zeller Sure, we’re happy to engage in partner-based leadership when things are going well…but as soon as something goes wrong we slip right into managing the issue “back into
“Stop holding people accountable and inspire accountability.” – Kari Zeller What if there were a way to have your team’s performance improve without “holding them accountable” or “holding their feet to the fire” or “enforcing standards”? There is a more effective and less painful way to generate results. Join
“With a request, you can decline freely. With a requirement, you can decline, but there will be a significant cost.” – Kari Zeller Fundamentally, humans are not awesome at distinguishing between requests and requirements. That point of miscommunication easily erodes trust in relationships and undermines a team’s focus on
“People hear curiosity differently. It’s biological.” -Paul Adams How do we create a breakthrough with anyone, anytime, anywhere? How do we have tough conversations? How do we get out of tough situations that are intractable? It all starts with one key — and with it, we suddenly start to
“’Why’ questions get us to the outcome or purpose. ‘What’ questions get us to the action.” – Kari Zeller Curiosity levels up any professional’s ability to address problems without causing others to become defensive. And, it turns out what we get curious about makes a difference! Different questions trigger
“If I think loyalty is only to a person, then it’s always going to show up as a conflict for me.” – Kari Zeller Like curiosity, loyalty is another key to accountability. This may seem counterintuitive — afterall, isn’t our loyalty to others what makes holding them to account
“The difference is in how we operate — with the accountability spheres mindset, we ensure high levels of communication and coordination.” – Kari Zeller “It’s not my job!” When silos run workplace dynamics and the “not-my-job” mantra leaves projects disconnected, the likely culprit is the “hierarchy mindset.” For many
“Think about performance reviews as an opportunity to have a strategic conversation, to align a colleague’s performance with the ultimate contribution that they’re hired to make in the organization.” – Kari Zeller For many, performance reviews are nothing more than an end of year obligation that devolves into uncomfortable
“The whole season is flipping the script from, ‘accountability is explaining a lack of performance,’ to ‘accountability is ensuring success, it creates the condition for performance.’” – Kari Zeller This season flipped the script on traditional thinking, causing a fundamental shift in the way we relate to accountability. In
“Companies with high trust outperform the S&P 500 by a factor of three!” We’re back! Welcome to Season Three of the Leadership Impact podcast. In this “teaser-isode,” we set the stage for this season’s topic: building and sustaining trust. So many of us think of trust as a luxury—it
“What’s in the background when choosing whether to trust is: ‘Will this person support or harm what I value—now and in the future?’” Blaming. Complaining. Gossiping. Justifying. Avoiding. Defending. So often, these harmful behaviors seep into our everyday interactions at the office. As leaders, we do our best to
“When people make trust so significant, it limits them in being able to move powerfully and navigate violations.” When it comes to trust, people are prone to “either/or” thinking. Either “I trust you 100%” or, once that trust is compromised in any way at all, “I can never trust
“You can choose not to trust—but you cannot opt out of the consequences of not trusting.” When it comes to building trust, we often turn it into a waiting game. “I will get around to trusting her…but she needs to prove herself first.” “Why should I re-engage with him
“If I choose to live in trust, I have a vastly different experience of this uncertain time, and I show up as a completely different person.” We are living in frightening, unprecedented times. Now more than ever, it’s easy to fall out of trust—with society, the government, the financial
“When I have a mood of distrust, my actions become consistent with not trusting. That is the lens through which I see everything.” Distrust often starts innocuously enough. A bit of gossip. A smidge of dissent. But as the saying goes, “When it rains, it pours.” Before you know
“When everyone is faking trust, it wears on the capacity, productivity, effectiveness, enjoyment of the entire organization.” “Fake it till you make it.” That’s advice we often hear for how to step up our game at work. But as it turns out, when it comes to building trust, that
“One of the core strategies for building trust is giving and receiving negative assessments. And for many of us, that alone occurs as a threat.” Feedback. Many of us cringe at even the thought of giving it—let alone receiving it. But navigating feedback is an absolutely critical skill for
“So often we identify with our beliefs and strongly held opinions. We’re not even consciously aware of what’s driving our distrust or aggravation. We can increase our awareness by asking, ‘What do I really care about in this situation?’” Whenever we get stuck in a downward cycle of distrust,
“Understanding the anatomy of trust allows you to diagnose where it’s missing, and take a big statement like ‘I can’t trust this person’ to a much narrower scope, that you can actually take action around, in the form of a conversation.” We often think of trust as a binary
“Moods predispose us to the actions we take; they color the way we see others and the way we tune into the world.” Moods are everywhere! We are always in one mood or another. In a way, they are the background tone of our existence, the lens through which
“One of the things we should do in any interaction is picture who is going to do what and by when. And if we can’t picture that, we’ve got to ask the question and get clear.” How often do we think we are on the same page with our
“Violations can be used as an opportunity towards personal growth and leadership.” When we think of a “betrayal,” we often think of an earth-shattering, personally-devastating, stabbed-in-the-back sort of deception. But betrayals come in all shapes and sizes. And failure to acknowledge and deal with the “little betrayals”—such as routine
“Acceptance is not tolerance; it’s not saying it’s okay; it’s not resisting; it’s not saying ‘it should be another way but I guess it’s this way’; rather, it’s simply allowing what happened to be the way it is. For the rest of your life this will have happened…and nothing
“Without an ending, we don’t have the space to create something new.” The end of an era! In this special “end-isode,” Kari and Paul look back not only on this season in which we’ve explored trust, but on the past one-and-half years of Leadership Impact. In This Episode: 0:56