Zenger Folkman Leadership Podcast

In today’s special bonus episode, we will present Michelle Freiberg’s address, “The Evolution of Leadership at McKesson,” recorded live from our 2015 Extraordinary Leadership Summit held in July. Michelle is the Director of Talent Assessment at McKesson, a leading healthcare services and information technology company. We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

In this episode, we present Jack Zenger’s keynote address “8 Ways to Combine Development with Your Job.” This is a live recording from our 2015 Extraordinary Leadership Summit held in July.Leaders today are extremely busy getting their job done. At the same time, they also realize that investing effort in their own leadership development is important. The problem is that when faced with a choice, work seems to always trump personal development. Everyone runs fast and hard and personal development is put off as executives wait and hope for a break in their schedules. This a false dichotomy. In this speech, Jack Zenger reveals why work and development should not be seen as competing activities. The reason to combine them is simple. Doing one can accomplish the other. If you choose to do this, you will constantly improve your leadership skills while getting your job done. That, in turn, benefits your organization, your working associates, and most certainly, you. Listen to learn 8 specific ways you can bring personal development and your job closer together. Discover how you can transform your daily job activities into a practical leadership classroom and laboratory.

In this episode, we present Jack Zenger’s keynote address “8 Ways to Combine Development with Your Job.” This is a live recording from our 2015 Extraordinary Leadership Summit held in July. Leaders today are extremely busy getting their job done. At the same time, they also realize that investing effort in their own leadership development is important. The problem is that when faced with a choice, work seems to always trump personal development. Everyone runs fast and hard and personal development is put off as executives wait and hope for a break in their schedules.  This a false dichotomy. In this speech, Jack Zenger reveals why work and development should not be seen as competing activities. The reason to combine them is simple. Doing one can accomplish the other. If you choose to do this, you will constantly improve your leadership skills while getting your job done. That, in turn, benefits your organization, your working associates, and most certainly, you.  Listen to learn 8 specific ways you can bring personal development and your job closer together. Discover how you can transform your daily job activities into a practical leadership classroom and laboratory.

In this episode, Kevin Wilde, Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness and the Chief Learning Officer at General Mills, joins Joe Folkman in this installment of the Zenger Folkman Leadership Podcast series to talk about developing high potentials. Under Kevin’s leadership, Fortune, Chief Executive, and Leadership Excellence magazines have all recognized General Mills as one of the best companies in the world for its leadership development. A prolific author, Kevin is also an Executive Leadership Fellow at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.Kevin recently published an article on high potential talent in Talent Quarterly.Download a free copy of the eBook for this episode: "Cupcakes and High Potentials - The Recipe for Developing New Leaders"We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit  zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

In this episode, Kevin Wilde, Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness and the Chief Learning Officer at General Mills, joins Joe Folkman in this installment of the Zenger Folkman Leadership Podcast series to talk about developing high potentials.  Under Kevin’s leadership, Fortune, Chief Executive, and Leadership Excellence magazines have all recognized General Mills as one of the best companies in the world for its leadership development. A prolific author, Kevin is also an Executive Leadership Fellow at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Kevin recently published an article on high potential talent in Talent Quarterly. Download a free copy of the eBook for this episode: "Cupcakes and High Potentials - The Recipe for Developing New Leaders" We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit  zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

In this special episode, Dr. Michael Arena, who recently published an article in Talent Quarterly, joins Dr. Jack Zenger to discuss methods and strategies to help identify and select talent.Michael is the Chief Talent Scout at General Motors and an experienced executive and researcher in the areas of leadership, innovation, and transformation. He is responsible for enterprise talent management, strategic workforce analytics, talent acquisition, leadership development, and global learning.Download a free copy of the eBook for this episode: "Finding Tomorrow's Leaders - Lessons in Identifying and Selecting High-Potential Talent."We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events.To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

In this special episode, Dr. Michael Arena, who recently published an article in Talent Quarterly, joins Dr. Jack Zenger to discuss methods and strategies to help identify and select talent. Michael is the Chief Talent Scout at General Motors and an experienced executive and researcher in the areas of leadership, innovation, and transformation. He is responsible for enterprise talent management, strategic workforce analytics, talent acquisition, leadership development, and global learning. Download a free copy of the eBook for this episode: "Finding Tomorrow's Leaders - Lessons in Identifying and Selecting High-Potential Talent." We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

In this episode, Jack and Joe discuss how ordinary people can take leadership to another by developing boldness. They are joined by leadership expert Kevin Wilde. Kevin is the VP of Organization Effectiveness and Chief Learning Officer at General Mills, an Award-Winning Development Leader, and Columnist for Talent Management Magazine.  Most organizations find themselves either in competitive battles or with mandates to reduce costs and increase productivity. Those mild mannered, steady eddy, timid leaders of the past need to step-up and become BOLD.  We discovered that bold leaders exist in every company and every culture, but some cultures generate more bold leaders than others. Interestingly, there is a higher percentage of females that are bold leaders than males.  We have found that the most effective bold leaders combine their bold approach with other skills such as good judgement and relationship building. Alternatively, leaders who are bold with poor judgement possess a very dangerous combination. Learn how leaders in your organization can: Challenge standard approaches Create an atmosphere of continual improvement Do everything possible to achieve goals Get others to go beyond what they originally thought possible Are energized to take on challenging goals Quickly recognize situations where change is needed Have courage to make needed changes Read Joe Folkman's Forbes article on Bold Leadership. Download the "Bold Leadership" Infographic.We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

In this episode, Jack and Joe discuss how ordinary people can take leadership to another by developing boldness. They are joined by leadership expert Kevin Wilde. Kevin is the VP of Organization Effectiveness and Chief Learning Officer at General Mills, an Award-Winning Development Leader, and Columnist for Talent Management Magazine.  Most organizations find themselves either in competitive battles or with mandates to reduce costs and increase productivity. Those mild mannered, steady eddy, timid leaders of the past need to step-up and become BOLD.  We discovered that bold leaders exist in every company and every culture, but some cultures generate more bold leaders than others. Interestingly, there is a higher percentage of females that are bold leaders than males.  We have found that the most effective bold leaders combine their bold approach with other skills such as good judgement and relationship building. Alternatively, leaders who are bold with poor judgement possess a very dangerous combination.  Learn how leaders in your organization can: Challenge standard approaches Create an atmosphere of continual improvement Do everything possible to achieve goals Get others to go beyond what they originally thought possible Are energized to take on challenging goals Quickly recognize situations where change is needed Have courage to make needed changes Read Joe Folkman's Forbes article on Bold Leadership.  Download the "Bold Leadership" Infographic. We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

This episode is a conversation with Dr. Jack Zenger and Dr. Matthew Holland.Matthew is the President of Utah Valley University and the author of the book, “Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America.” He will discuss his views on the importance of having strong leaders at all levels in both the academic and corporate world as well as sharing lessons he’s learned throughout his career.Download a free copy of the eBook for this episode: "Leadership Lessons from Academia".We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

This episode is a conversation with Dr. Jack Zenger and Dr. Matthew Holland. Matthew is the President of Utah Valley University and the author of the book, “Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America.” He will discuss his views on the importance of having strong leaders at all levels in both the academic and corporate world as well as sharing lessons he’s learned throughout his career. Download a free copy of the eBook for this episode: "Leadership Lessons from Academia". We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

Ask 100 people if they have good common sense and more than 95% will tell you they do. Similarly, if you ask 100 managers if they are good coaches the number may be lower, than 95%, but not by much. The managers we talk to assume that if they are a good manager, being a good coach is like your shadow on a sunny day. It just naturally follows.Today, more and more top executives expect their managers to coach their subordinates. One newly appointed CEO of one of the nation’s largest banks announced that he expected managers in that company to spend more than one-half of their time coaching subordinates.Why? The empirical evidence is clear. Effective coaching makes a difference in employee commitment and engagement, productivity, retention, customer relationships, and how the upper levels of leadership are perceived.Please join Jack and Joe to learn how to become a better coach. You are also invited to participate in our Coaching Attributes and Perspectives Assessment at no cost. This self assessment will help you see how you compare to the scores of outstanding business coaches. It will measure:how strong your collaboration and directive skills arehow prone you are to giving advicehow effective you are at enabling other people to discover answers for themselveshow apt you are to exert your expertise and treat everyone as equalsDownload the slides for this episodeWe’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events.To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

Ask 100 people if they have good common sense and more than 95% will tell you they do. Similarly, if you ask 100 managers if they are good coaches the number may be lower, than 95%, but not by much. The managers we talk to assume that if they are a good manager, being a good coach is like your shadow on a sunny day. It just naturally follows. Today, more and more top executives expect their managers to coach their subordinates. One newly appointed CEO of one of the nation’s largest banks announced that he expected managers in that company to spend more than one-half of their time coaching subordinates. Why? The empirical evidence is clear. Effective coaching makes a difference in employee commitment and engagement, productivity, retention, customer relationships, and how the upper levels of leadership are perceived. Please join Jack and Joe to learn how to become a better coach. You are also invited to participate in our Coaching Attributes and Perspectives Assessment at no cost. This self assessment will help you see how you compare to the scores of outstanding business coaches. It will measure: how strong your collaboration and directive skills are how prone you are to giving advice how effective you are at enabling other people to discover answers for themselves how apt you are to exert your expertise and treat everyone as equals Download the slides for this episode We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

In this presentation, Joe will share new research and give actionable steps you can take as a leader to keep the employees in your organization engaged and satisfied with their jobs – none of which involve money. Years ago when employees became dissatisfied with their organization they would quit and get another job. Today, with placement opportunities low and unemployment high, very few people opt to quit and leave. Something much worse is happening —employees “quit,” but they stay. In the last year, overall job satisfaction in the U.S. has declined significantly. Employees feel stuck in their current jobs and their dissatisfaction with the organizations they work for has increased. However, not all organizations are experiencing these dismal results. A recent assessment of employee engagement by one of our clients showed a significant improvement over past years, though this company was not immune to the effects of the recession. Examination of the data showed 7 factors that created this positive increase in their satisfaction and commitment, even during the economy’s poorest times. Please join us to learn 7 ways to increase employee engagement without giving a raise!We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.

In this presentation, Joe will share new research and give actionable steps you can take as a leader to keep the employees in your organization engaged and satisfied with their jobs – none of which involve money. Years ago when employees became dissatisfied with their organization they would quit and get another job. Today, with placement opportunities low and unemployment high, very few people opt to quit and leave. Something much worse is happening —employees “quit,” but they stay. In the last year, overall job satisfaction in the U.S. has declined significantly. Employees feel stuck in their current jobs and their dissatisfaction with the organizations they work for has increased. However, not all organizations are experiencing these dismal results. A recent assessment of employee engagement by one of our clients showed a significant improvement over past years, though this company was not immune to the effects of the recession. Examination of the data showed 7 factors that created this positive increase in their satisfaction and commitment, even during the economy’s poorest times. Please join us to learn 7 ways to increase employee engagement without giving a raise! We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you.  We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.