Growing Leaders ® with Kristen Walker

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Growing Leaders Episode 11: How to Better Support Yourself and Your Team Through COVID and Virtual Work

2020-08-1141:24

Kristen Walker interviews Catherine Morisset, A Personal and Organizational Resiliency Coach, Trainer and Speaker in a second podcast on the topic of supporting yourself and your organization more effectively through COVID and virtual work. This podcast dives into how today's leaders can offer the needed guidance and support teams require today. Many of us face new challenges, unique team dynamics and work/life balance concerns all while blending family and work simultaneously. Learn valuable tips and insight on how you can function more effectively through demonstrating self-leadership behaviors in order to create a more resilient team and organization during COVID and work from home challenges. You can reach Catherine Morisset at: www.ImaginePlus.ca for additional coaching opportunities for you or your organization. And as always, Kristen Walker can provide consultation, team and individual coaching at Info@clearviewbusinessconsulting.com or www.clearviewbusinessconsulting.com.

Improving Your Personal and Team Engagement in a Disengaged Time

2020-07-2633:04

How do you engage your team, your employees and even your family amidst COVID and typical day to day work and family challenges? Join Kristen Walker as she interviews Dr. Cheryll LeJewell Jackson, an industrial psychologist, author, public speaker and consultant who specializes in organizational and personal engagement, women business owners and leaders trying to balance and thrive in work and home life. Dr. LeJewell Jackson discusses how performance evaluations can negatively affect engagement and why the Millennial and Z generation's desire for fulfillment should be a top business priority. Kristen and Dr. LeJewell Jackson also examine the value of capitalizing on your own personal strengths and traits to develop and engage yourself and your team members in order to increase overall performance and productivity in any team environment.

Growing Leaders Episode 9: The 10 Spot. Grow Your Leaders While Growing a Plan

2020-07-2410:25

What's your organizational, team or personal plan for the next 'interrupter'? COVID-19 has taught us how quickly our home and work teams can be negatively impacted. Business loss is serious and for some can be unrecoverable. In the first of many quick ten-minute learning bytes called The 10 Spot, Kristen Walker, Business Consultant, Executive Coach and Owner of www.clearviewbusinessconsulting.com, discusses how to create your organizational, team or family emergency plan. Learn first steps to increasing personal and business effectiveness while minimizing stress and loss. Create team buy-in, shared responsibility and collaborative contingency plans while fostering growth in your leaders and team members. Kristen offers helpful insights in starting crucial emergency preparedness plans to build resiliency beyond COVID-19 while preparing for tomorrow's next crisis. We want to hear your suggestions for future topics on The 10 Spot! Send us any comments or feedback to: Info@clearviewbusinessconsulting.com

Growing Leaders Episode 8: Increasing Personal Resiliency to Build Leadership Skills

2020-07-1739:22

Part one of a two part series! Kristen Walker interviews Catherine Morisset, a personal and organizational resiliency expert, on the value of understanding the role resiliency plays in our work and personal lives. Understanding how resiliency differs from stress management and self-care concepts is discussed. Personal accountability, creating healthier daily practices and drawing boundaries is examined as a critical component in being an effective role model who is also a happier and healthier performer. Learn the value of making YOU a healthy, more resilient person in order to effectively lead yourself and others through challenging times such as COVID-19 and beyond. You can reach Catherine Morisset at www.Imagineplus.ca and Kristen Walker at www.Clearviewbusinessconsulting.com for personal and executive coaching and more. Stay tuned for Part Two of this series where we will focus on taking your new sense of self into your organization to create a more resilient team and overcome common organizational challenges.

Growing Leaders Episode 7: Leading Millennials and Gen Z Employees with Greater Success

2020-06-1730:15

Kristen Walker interviews Richard Pelay, an Organizational and Leadership expert, and they discuss how today's business owners and leaders can improve their understanding of common characteristics of Millennials and Generation Z employees in order to increase retention, connection and teamwork opportunities. Richard Pelay shares several leadership success stories and insights on how to drive critical team collaboration and performance as workforce demands continually change. Millennials and Gen Z listeners can learn quick tips on building better rapport with multi-generational leaders (Gen X and Boomers) in order to improve relationships and create career success. You can find out more about 1:1, Leadership Group and Team Coaching as well as HR Consultation Services by Kristen Walker at www.Clearviewbusinessconsulting.com. © Kristen Walker 2020

Growing Leaders Episode 6: Managing and Leading Through Conflict in 2020

2020-06-1334:27

Conflict is everywhere in 2020- A global pandemic, a civil rights movement, unemployment challenges, protests, and 'typical' conflict within our personal and work lives. Kristen Walker of ClearView Business Consulting and Beki Fraser of Focus For Growth discuss their experiences as coaches, consultants and HR experts in effectively and collaboratively managing conflict in order to grow leadership skills. Terminating employees as a source of conflict is discussed. Learn useful conflict management tips for your personal and professional life to improve relationships, outcomes and business success. Find out more about how Kristen Walker can provide additional trainings and coaching services to reduce organizational and personal conflict at www.clearviewbusinessconsulting.com. © Kristen Walker 2020

Growing Leaders Episode 5: Growing Your Leadership Potential Through Leadership Coaching Opportunities

2020-05-2726:14

Kristen Walker discusses the value and importance of successfully coaching others and being coached to develop leadership skills, improve performance and relationships, achieve goals and identify your authentic self with Dr. Pat Williams, an author, international speaker, psychologist and professional coach. Learn valuable skills needed to be a successful leader and coach and how it can improve relationships, performance and satisfaction in your personal and professional life. © Kristen Walker 2020

Growing Leaders Episode 4: Improving Communication Strategies for Leaders in COVID and Beyond

2020-05-2236:28

Kristen Walker interviews communication and leadership expert, Susan O'Connor of Paradise Workplace Solutions, a Florida-based consulting and coaching organization, how on leaders can improve their communication strategies during and post COVID. Susan and Kristen review common communication challenges leaders face today to include how to create an effective communication plan during environmental and organizational uncertainties. Increasing employee engagement, overcoming communication obstacles and creating opportunities for growing your leadership potential is discussed. For additional communication trainings and team coaching development you can reach Kristen at www.Clearviewbusinessconsulting.com © Kristen Walker 2020

Growing Leaders Episode 3: Managing and Creating Change For the Life You Want

2020-04-3024:59

Kristen Walker interviews Kathleen Pickrel, LMSW, Author, Public Speaker and Transitions Coach, on common obstacles that prevent achieving organizational and personal goals. Effective tips to actively work through and overcome common obstacles, including those led by fear and resistance to change are discussed in order to quickly grow your leadership potential. Kathleen discusses how you can improve your life by implementing desired change by using her book, It is What it is....Now What?! A Guide to Getting From Where You are to Who You Want to Be, which is an active workbook to quickly move to needed change. You can reach Kristen Walker to experience individual and group coaching opportunities to create organizational and personal change at www.Clearviewbusinessconsulting.com © Kristen Walker 2020

Growing Leaders Episode 2: Demonstrating Effective Coping Strategies Through COVID-19

2020-04-2227:07

Kristen Walker interviews Jennifer Marshall, business owner, Licensed Therapist and Clinical Social Worker, to assist organizational leaders, professionals and everyday people in creating effective coping strategies to better manage the effects of COVID-19 such as isolation, job loss and stress. Understanding the impact, shock and significant changes within the pandemic are explored in order to understand how to better manage others and one's self. Achieving increased happiness through mindful practices, self-care and improving workplace and personal relationships are explored. Kristen can be reached for additional information, trainings or coaching with regards to improving workplace wellness to increase productivity and satisfaction at www.clearviewbusinessconsulting.com© Kristen Walker 2020

Growing Leaders- Episode 1: Preventing Workplace Violence and High Risk Terminations

2020-04-0821:41

Kristen Walker, Business Consultant and Leadership Coach, interviews John Walker, CEO of Protection Strategies Group and subject matter expert in Security Administration and Workplace Violence Threat Assessments. Kristen and John discuss how leaders can actively respond and heighten awareness around workplace violence prevention and high-risk terminations. COVID-19 concerns are addressed as workplace stress, terminations and layoffs continue. Learn how to be a proactive not reactive leader, and minimize organizational and leader risk with security expertise and best practices. You can reach John Walker at ProtectionStrategies.net to find out more about protecting your workplace employees and your bottom line. © Kristen Walker 2020.

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