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April 12, 2023

Essentiality: An Undervalued Leadership Skill | On Connection

Essentiality is a powerful skill that helps you be clear, with yourself and with others, about what is most important. When you practice getting down to […]
April 3, 2023

Power & its Impact on Leadership, Inclusion & Value | On Connection

Our current working definition of Power is “the capacity or ability to direct or influence others or the course of events.” Power impacts the way organizations […]
April 3, 2023

Engagement in Decline | On Connection

According to Gallup, there has been a steady decline in employee engagement over the last few years, with only 32% of employees in the U.S. falling […]
April 3, 2023

Choice: The Victory of Commitment Over Compliance | On Connection

Most simply, choice means “an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.” In an organizational context, however, there’s a […]
February 20, 2023

Decision Making | On Connection

Decision making is a critical part of moving projects forward and leading success for any team or organization. While there are numerous frameworks, processes, and methods […]
January 31, 2023

Design Your Time: Put Purpose Before Method | On Connection

Time is something we all struggle with, and many battling stress and overwhelm feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day. We tend to […]
January 27, 2023

The Important Distinction Between Intent & Impact

We have all heard the adage “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. To make sure that our road leads us to where we […]
January 17, 2023

Curiosity & Leadership | On Connection

Dr. Debra Clary began passionately researching curiosity a few years ago after being asked if she thought it was something that can be learned. Since then, […]
January 4, 2023

A Recession of Connection? | On Connection

As leaders and businesses prepare for 2023, “recession” is on everyone’s minds. It’s a responsibility of leadership to consider what pressures and challenges may be on […]
December 15, 2022

Love & Leadership | On Connection

Talking about love in the context of leadership, organizational development, and strategy execution is not common, but we’ve decided it’s a worthy area of research. We […]
October 12, 2022

The Art of Adjustment | On Connection

Our Anniversary episode!! The first year of this podcast has been a great experiment and success, and we are so grateful to the community of people […]
September 14, 2022

Collaborating through Stress, Uncertainty, & Complex Challenges | On Connection

Most organizations in the world are experiencing dynamic change and facing uncertain futures. At the same time, their people are stressed, overwhelmed, and facing dynamic change […]
September 8, 2022

DEIJB: What Does It Mean? | On Connection

Michelle Wonsley joins us for our second episode on Inclusive Leadership Design! This time we ask, what do we mean when we say the words “Diversity, […]
August 17, 2022

Sponsoring Responsible Autonomy | On Connection

For many reasons, sponsoring an “ownership mindset” is a popular topic for organizational leaders. Increasingly, leaders want (and need) teams that can be self-supervising and take […]
July 29, 2022

What is Culture? | On Connection

It’s not uncommon today for leaders and employees to place a great deal of significance on workplace culture. Culture and work environment is a major deciding […]
July 13, 2022

Inclusive Leadership Design | On Connection

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion has made its way into the priorities and public commitments of countless organizations across the US and globally, with more and more […]
June 22, 2022

Get Re-enchanted with Your Work | On Connection

For any working professional there are times engagement and motivation are down, and calling it quits sounds like a good idea. Before we start editing our […]
June 8, 2022

Design Your Time: More Space, Less Burnout, Stress & Overwhelm | On Connection

We are living through a time of massive disruption, and one of the symptoms is what many are calling an “epidemic of burnout.” The term burnout […]
June 2, 2022

The Power of Language | On Connection

The work of linguists, sociologists, and psychologists reveals just how complex the science of language can be, but to be essential: it matters. It’s a powerful […]
May 11, 2022

Does Love Belong at Work? | On Connection

Love may be a many-splendored thing, but it isn’t something we often talk about at work. Love falls into that category of soft, personal things we’ve […]
May 10, 2022

Expectations, Accountability & Trust | On Connection

We hear from leaders and executives all the time that they want to increase accountability on their teams and across their organizations. Building cultures of accountability […]
April 13, 2022

How to Be Heard | On Connection

It’s not uncommon, both at work and in the rest of life, for people to feel like they aren’t being heard. We’ve all experienced that frustration, […]
April 4, 2022

The Younger Perspective: Millennials & Gen Z at Work | On Connection

Gen Z, which is usually defined as those born between 1997 and 2012, is expected to make up 27% of the workforce by 2025. And they’re […]
March 2, 2022

How to Disagree | On Connection

One of the hardest parts of human connection is managing disagreements. It’s easy to assume that a lack of disagreement or argument is proof of a […]
February 16, 2022

Alignment vs. Agreement | On Connection

Alignment is a term that gets thrown around a lot in leadership and org management, but how is alignment different than agreement? We think there’s an […]