This week Sara brings on Nathan, a Director of Specialized Behavioral Health Services. As a part of their discussion, they talk about how best to create safe spaces to provide feedback to clients, co-workers, and peers. When in a leadership role, it’s important to consider both relationship building and intention setting in the feedback process.
Read MoreThis week Sara takes a dive into The Thomas Kilmann Conflict Management Styles. People have different preferences around dealing with conflict. Rather assertiveness or cooperativeness each style that stems from that is neither good or bad. Sara talks about competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding and accommodating.
Read MoreThis week on “Can I Offer You Some Feedback?” Sara is joined by Director of Operations and Personal Coach, Amy Glazer. They talk about the importance of fostering feedback to empower people, for meaningful results. Removing defenses and setting clear expectations can lead to feedback that is transformational.
Read MoreThe Kozlowski Leadership Sequence has four distinct components. Leaders move through different parts of a sequence in their approach to the teams they work with. The four phases are acting as a mentor, an instructor, a coach and a facilitator. Sara breaks down the objectives and goals of each part of the sequence.
Read MoreFeedback should be a give and take in every conversation, with relevant information that can be applied. This week on the podcast Sara brings on Goren, a Senior Director of Workforce Development, as they talk about positioning yourself to receive feedback. It’s important to prepare yourself to listen just as much as you prepare to speak.
Read MoreThis week on Business Bites, Sara shares on Tuckman's Model for Team Development which explains 5 different phases all teams move through. This process is designed to help teams perform better, while moving through each phase. Forming, storming, norming and performing helps better understand team dynamics.
Read MoreThis week Sara brings on Sarah who’s an outdoor education consultant and frequent provider of feedback. Sarah reflects on an experience where meaningful feedback was given all the time through leadership. With everyone on board, a culture of feedback can be created both formal and informal.
Read MoreThis week Sara talks about Mentorship vs Sponsorship. Two ideas with similar end goals that often get used interchangeably. A mentoring relationship provides support and advice to help an individual grow over time. While a sponsorship relationship functions by someone in a position of power actively providing growth.
Read MoreIn this new episode Sara is joined by Anna, program manager at Case Western Reserve University. She shares her change in perspective on feedback, based on her experiences. Her once immediate reaction to “bad news” turned to expanded understanding around feedback. Resulting in a flow of not only being the giver of feedback, but an open receiver.
Read MoreIn this episode Sara shares the concept Managing Expectations, for an all new Business Bite! This is something that is crucial, rather being a manager, individual contributor or running a large unit of an organization. When thinking about managing and setting expectations, Sara talks about three elements to consider. Ultimately ensuring that expectations are behavior based, clear and culturally bound.
Read MoreIn this episode, Sara is joined by Health IT Senior Project Manager, Bronwen. They discuss how feedback is a constant series of transactions. Oftentimes, emotions typically come up first before we can internalize the feedback given. The better we can control how we process and give out feedback, the more effective it will be.
Read MoreIn this episode Sara shares a bite with us, Radical Candor. This is a newer concept developed in 2017 by Kim Scott, and is the idea of providing feedback to advance people towards growth. The primary aspects of Radical Candor are challenging directly and caring personally. The goal is to provide specific, clear and concise feedback that helps guide them along and be successful in their role.
Read MoreIn this episode of “Can I Offer You Some Feedback?” Sara chats with IT Executive Howard. Listen as they discuss the importance of having strong relationships in place before offering feedback. If you care about someone enough to help them improve, tailoring that feedback to the person makes it more effective.
Read MoreOftentimes organizations think about succession planning too late. Succession Planning is one of the tools we use when we think about replacing new positions and identifying the new talent in organizations. Having this organizational continuity can result in success over time.
Read MoreHost Sara brings education and non-profit leader Sarah to the podcast. They talk through the importance of giving intentional and thoughtful feedback. When an individual is provided a collaborative approach that is well timed and actionable, it goes a long way in being of service to them.
Read MoreThis week on the podcast Sara gives us a business bite, Transparency. This term is more complicated than meets the eye, but should be a business best practice. It’s a way of thinking about how information is shared within an organization. However, in reality people struggle with just how much they want to share. Ultimately transparency helps to build trust and improve team operations.
Read MoreThis week on the podcast Sara brings on non profit leader Tiffany. Over time her response to feedback has grown from anxious to excited for the opportunity to make changes. Her approach is to learn the person before jumping to providing feedback. Once that relationship is built, it’s more comfortable to get to a place of candid conversation.
Read MoreThis week on the podcast Sara talks about a Data Dictionary. It’s one of the critical tools used when thinking about organizing information. These can be used for a broad range of reasons for example, documenting or structuring data. The strength and structure of a data dictionary leads to success in the future.
Read MoreThis week on the podcast, Sara brings on Isaac, a public health leader focused on DEI integration. They discuss the importance of practicing how to give feedback. It’s challenging to be aware of other’s needs, demonstrate empathy, and integrate trauma-informed care into the feedback process.
Read MoreBusiness Continuity Planning is a subset of risk management planning when thinking about how to keep business operations going. There’s a life cycle when considering all components of the business. Any organization should have in place a version of business continuity planning, thinking about how it will continue its operations in the event that something occurs. Subscribe to this podcast today and so you never miss an episode!
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