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How do I attract and keep the best employees? How do I create a workplace where people want to be, to stay, and beg their friends to join them? And how do I balance being a compassionate, thoughtful and fair leader while getting stuff done and making money? These are just some of the questions business strategist and master teacher Debbie Lawrence will dive into on The Compassionate Leader School podcast. Along with episodes that feel like you're sitting right there with her in the boardroom, Debbie's practical "Take Action Challenges" and valuable freebie resources will have you embracing your compassionate leadership style while building an amazing team and running a smart, profitable business!
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"I need grant reports 48 hours before the deadline." That was the whole email. My client rewrote it six times and never sent it. In this episode, I tell you about Patricia, who runs a 12-person advocacy organization and kept spending her nights rewriting grant reports that landed on her desk hours before they were due. She knew exactly what she needed to ask for but every time she typed the clear sentence, she added a cushion. "When you get a chance." "If it's not too much trouble." "No worri...
"I think I messed up the formula in cell F14. Can you fix it for me, please?" For three months, that email kept coming. Every time, I fixed it. It only took two minutes, and if I'm honest, it felt good. In this episode, I tell you about my client Courtney and the spreadsheet I built to help her track her projections against her actuals. Several times a month she'd break a formula, and several times a month I'd rescue her. Then one morning, three emails landed before 10:00 am, and I felt a sma...
You already know the answer. You've just been telling yourself you don't, because "gathering more information" feels safer than admitting you made this decision months ago and haven't acted on it yet. In this episode, I tell you about my client Elizabeth, who knew in month two that her new hire wasn't the right fit. Four months of performance plans, repeated coaching conversations, and quietly redoing his work every night followed anyway, because admitting what she already knew felt harder th...
Two people can hold the exact same title. Only one of them is quietly doing a second job no one put on the org chart. You plan the birthday. You read the room before the meeting starts. You carry what someone told you in confidence and can't put back down. None of that is in your job description yet, for women who lead, all of it is expected. In this episode, I tell you about a management meeting where I was one of six women left at that table following a call to exit for some of the attendee...
For years, across different roles and different managers, I kept getting the same note. Not the same words every time, but close enough that I started to hear it before it was said. "You're a perfectionist. You're intense. You'd go further if you loosened up a little." I remember sitting with that last one the longest. Loosen up. It was stated as if the thing that was responsible for the stellar work I produced, the thing I was actually being paid for, was also the thing standing between me a...
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