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 give listeners a preview of… Continue reading Season Two Teaser
“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 Granger Accountability — it’s what separates good employees, leaders and organizations from great ones…but just the word makes most of… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 18 – Accountability…Without Being a Jerk
“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 Granger When all stakeholders thrive, profits rise. And, in order for stakeholders to thrive, accountability is critical. However, what many people miss about accountability is the… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 19 – Getting Things Done Isn’t Accountability
“When each component’s working and working together, we have a condition that provides us with the optimal opportunity to perform.” – Kari Granger 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 party. The trouble is, this… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 20 – The Importance of Creating a Condition for Success
“Completion creates freedom, and accountability is all about creating a state of completion.” – Kari Granger 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 eating better or going to… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 21 – How to Free Up Your Brain and Your Life
“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 Granger Whether it’s in business, our personal relationships, or life in general, we all make mistakes. It… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 22 – How to Mess Up and Actually Improve Your Relationships
“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 Granger Others have expectations of us. Sometimes they are explicit and agreed upon, but — more often… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 23 – How to Deal with Others’ Expectations of You
“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 Granger What is your go-to under stress — anxiety… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 24 – Get to Know Your Default Escape Strategies
“The information must show up for you in a way that has you take the action when you need to take the action.” – Kari Granger How often do you count on your memory to record the tasks and activities you intend to do? Our short term memory only retains about seven pieces of… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 25 – Words Disappear; How to Make Your Commitments Concrete
“When you manage another person’s commitments for them, you rob them of the opportunity to manage their own.” – Kari Granger 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 line!” We’re left agitated and… Continue reading Season 2 Episode 26 – How to Stop Managing and Start Partnering
