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Season 2 Episode 33 – How to Structure Performance Reviews That Are Celebrated

 “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 Granger For many, performance reviews are nothing more than an end of year obligation that devolves into uncomfortable conversations about performance gaps and… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 33 – How to Structure Performance Reviews That Are Celebrated

Season 2 Episode 34 – Season Two Endisode

 “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 Ganger This season flipped the script on traditional thinking, causing a fundamental shift in the way we relate to accountability. In the old paradigm, accountability was… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 34 – Season Two Endisode

Season Three Teaser

 “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 would be nice to have… Continue reading Season Three Teaser

Season 3 Episode 35 – Taking the Trust Temperature in Your Organization

 “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 head off these bad behaviors… Continue reading Season 3 Episode 35 – Taking the Trust Temperature in Your Organization

Season 3 Episode 36 – The Limitations of Unconditional Trust

 “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 again!” In this episode,… Continue reading Season 3 Episode 36 – The Limitations of Unconditional Trust

Season 3 Episode 37 – How to Practice 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 he’s the one who… Continue reading Season 3 Episode 37 – How to Practice Trust

Season 3 Episode 38 – The Value of Trust in Chaotic Times

 “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 markets, and more broadly, with… Continue reading Season 3 Episode 38 – The Value of Trust in Chaotic Times

How Cultures Spiral Out of Control

 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 it, a snowball effect takes hold, and the whole organization can easily become engulfed in cynicism, antagonism, and territorial bickering. In this episode, Kari and Paul discuss how… Continue reading How Cultures Spiral Out of Control

Season 3 Episode 39 – How Cultures Spiral Out of Control

 “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 it, a snowball effect takes… Continue reading Season 3 Episode 39 – How Cultures Spiral Out of Control

Season 3 Episode 40 – Why Faking It Could Be Sabotaging Your Culture

 “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 advice just doesn’t work very… Continue reading Season 3 Episode 40 – Why Faking It Could Be Sabotaging Your Culture