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Tackle Tuesday is a podcast series that tackles different issues in the workplace. Grab a coffee and join me on Tuesdays where we will explore topics such as, leading with emotion, diversity and inclusion, and how to create resilient and agile work cultures. Together we will explore issues people within organizations are tackling today and strategies that will support them in creating workplaces that are filled with possibility.
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Send us a text SUMMARY As more women enter the workforce and into formal leadership positions, we find ourselves searching for a way to lead that is authentic to our true selves. Authentic means to live your life according to the needs of our inner being, rather than the demands placed on us by someone else. Your authentic approach to leading yourself and others has to align with your passion and purpose. In my interview my interview with Emily Lopez, Global Head of Talent Strate...
Send us a text PODCAST STORY Welcome to Tackle Tuesday! My name is Johanna Pagonis and I am your host for this podcast series. I have am a founder, author, and international speaker, educating leaders of today and tomorrow. I see my role as educating organizational leaders about the benefits of creating positive and resilient work cultures. I call it leading with the heart. So, I thought that one of the best ways to educate is through a podcast! So grab a coffee, go for a run, or dri...
Send us a text SUMMARY Part of my role is to educate organizational leaders about the benefits of creating positive and resilient work cultures, which is the primary reason why I started Tackle Tuesday. My mission is to improve people’s lives by transforming one workplace at a time. Moving away from a climate of command and control, towards a climate of possibility. But how do you transform workplaces into environments that are inspiring, motivating, and engaging? Listen to find o...
Send us a text SMMARY For the first episode, I decided not to use this as an opportunity to formally introduce myself and talk about why I started this podcast series. Initially this was a live webcast, but I decided to convert it into a podcast to make it more accessible for my listeners. Some of the episodes you will hear are from the original webcast series and others will be new. At times I will be interviewing experts and entrepreneurs whose companies are leading the way in transfo...
Send us a text EPISODE CORRECTION "A person who takes our program does not qualify for an ICF credential. When they complete our program they have the training and mentoring they need to apply to the ICF to be considered for the ICF credential". For more information about CCA's program and the steps to become ICF certified, please visit https://www.canadacoachacademy.com/ SUMMARY Ever wonder why some people get stuck and challenged in moving their life and career forward? Sometimes,...
Send us a text SUMMARY Bringing someone in to simply fill a job isn’t enough. The contributions made by an employee's skills and experience will only get your organization so far. By developing a strong workplace culture, which involves knowing and communicating your company's vision and values, will help you achieve success in two bottom lines: people and profits! In this week’s episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Corina Ludwig, President of FunctionFox, where she shared ...
Send us a text SUMMARY In response to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements, we have seen a number of organizations rushing to tick the “Diversity & Inclusion” box, which mostly encompasses unconscious bias training. But when diversity and inclusion strategies do not go beyond basic compliance training, we miss an opportunity to truly to assess how diverse groups may experience our policies, programs, products, and services. The only way we can uncover inequities is to ensure we inc...
Send us a text SUMMARY Taco Tuesday is a special segment series devoted to highlighting women in business, leadership, and their efforts and achievements in creating inclusive and equitable societies. And yes, the double entendre is intentional. If you don’t want to miss out on the next Taco Tuesday episode, be sure to follow me on social media...links are below. SPECIAL THANKS I would like to give special thanks to my stepdaughter, Emily Nash, who came up with the idea of Taco Tuesday and ...
Send us a text SUMMARY This is our first episode in our special segment series, Taco Tuesday. Taco Tuesday is devoted to highlighting women in business and their efforts and achievements in creating inclusive and equitable societies. When reviewing stats on where the world is at with gender parity, we can see that no single society has achieved total equality between women and men. And although, women are increasingly entering the workforce, gender inequality still exists. It exists in ...
Send us a text SUMMARY How many of us actually explore why we want to become a manager before leaping into the role? In today's episode, we will explore five critical questions that we all need to answer before going for that promotion. FIVE CRITICAL QUESTIONS 1. I am an individual contributor who has fulfilled my potential and I am looking for a new challenge that will support my personal and professional growth. 2. I am someone who wants to inspire and motivate others in working together ...
Send us a text SUMMARY: Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, a YouTube channel he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication. He coaches purpose driven entrepreneurs on how to master their message and share their ideas with the world. When I met with Brenden, I thought our conversation would focus mostly on the skills and confidence to master the art of public speaking, but in actuality what we discussed went a lot deeper than that. Brenden expl...
Send us a text SUMMARY Have you ever wondered what innovation actually is? Is it a big idea that transforms life as we know it, or can it be something small that makes life easier? My conversation with Simon T this week provides much needed insight into what innovation is and what it looks like at an individual and organization level. We explore the relationship between innovation, failure, and creativity, and what people can do to nurture their innovative side. LINKS YouTube: Simon T. - Ele...
Send us a text SUMMARY This week I had the opportunity to interview Paula Campkin, Vice-President of the Safety Centre of Excellence for Energy Safety Canada. Paula shares her experience as to what it is like to work in a male dominated industry, the challenges she faced and how she overcame them. Paula identified there was a gap, other women were experiencing it too, so she did something about it! Paula co-founded the Women in Occupational Health & Safety Society (WOHSS), an organization...
Send us a text SUMMARY What is transformational leadership versus transactional leadership? How do you measure employee productivity? How does leadership influence productivity? These are the questions I explore and answer in today’s Tackle Tuesday episode. I have received so many questions on this topic that I thought it would be best to answer them in one of my episodes. This conversation is the first part of a two-part series. In the first part we explore the balancing act mana...
Send us a text SUMMARY For this week’s episode I had the opportunity to interview Sheri Benson, who is the principal owner of Thrive Safety Consulting. From the beginning of her career, she believed strongly that a thriving health and safety system requires strong leadership, a clear culture, and the trust in management that comes from consistent support and development of employees. We had our conversation in October, but many of the concepts we discuss are especially relevant to what we are...
Send us a text SUMMARY How can we combine psychology and play in our lives and workplace? How do we find fulfillment in our lives, personal and professional? Is it possible to love what we do? How many of us can say that we do? How many of us see our job as a means to an end…collecting a paycheque? If you are seeking a dose of inspiration, motivation, wisdom, and fun, listen to my conversation with Jeff Harry from Rediscover Your Play. It couldn’t come at a better ti...
Send us a text SUMMARY In this week’s episode, I interviewed Dr. Robert Barrett and Dr. Louis Francescutti, who are the authors of Hardwired: How Our Instincts to be Healthy are Making Us Sick. The book focuses on how as a human species we have evolved to survive, but in our modern world our survival instincts have created a health paradox. The things that are meant to keep us alive are in fact killing us. For the first time in thousand years, Americans are experiencing a reversal in lifespa...
Send us a text SUMMARY One of the most positive experiences I had in 2020 was launching my podcast. It gave me an opportunity to meet with amazing thought leaders, executives, authors, and coaches who have dedicated their life to unlocking the human potential. That is why I was excited to interview Julian Roberts for this week’s Tackle Tuesday episode. Julian is an ICF trained Executive and Leadership Coach who loves working with people and watching them achieve what they can’t yet see, but d...
Send us a text SUMMARY For this week’s episode I had the opportunity to interview Christina Eanes, a former FBI violent crime analyst and senior manager. Christina is on a mission to help others achieve more in life – mainly by getting out of their own way. In the past, I have openly shared my struggles as a new entrepreneur and how important it has been to develop my resiliency. That is why I was so excited to have Christina on my podcast. Christina has a unique take on how to develop ...
Send us a text SUMMARY Succession planning involves having the right people at the right time to fill critical positions in your organization, but yet many organizations don’t have a succession management process in place. From my experience, I have witnessed organizational cultures degenerate to toxic levels because when the CEO left, they took their workplace culture with them. They didn’t think about or plan for a successor, which left the organization exposed to incompetent leadership. &n...
Send us a text SUMMARY Knowing what your values are and how they guide your leadership approach is a critical component in your leadership development journey. During my conversation with Justin Yaassoub, Director at All Around Consulting, we explore what values-based leadership is, how to identify what your core values are, and how they become a part of your identity. Justin and I also discussed how living your values contributes to developing an authentic and credible leadership style...
Send us a text SUMMARY This week I interviewed Cindy Clark who is one of the original members of the Women in Supply Chain (WISC) initiative. Cindy is now managing WISC as an independent not-for-profit initiative that supports individuals and organizations in the supply chain industry. During our conversation, Cindy shared her entrepreneurial journey and what it was like to be one of the only women to be a business owner of a logistics, procurement, and warehouse company. Cindy discusse...
Send us a text SUMMARY For this week’s Tackle Tuesday episode, I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Dan Edds who is the CEO of Praxis Solutions, a management consulting firm. Dan is the author of Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership - Cracking the Code of Sustainable Team Performance. Dan’s book reveals a new approach to leadership development, which some have called revolutionary. I have read his book and I can attest that it is definitely an amazing book! During o...
Send us a text SUMMARY For this week’s Tackle Tuesday episode, I was joined by Life & Wellness Coach and Yoga & Meditation Instructor, Elyse Cathrea. Elyse helps folks go from feeling disconnected and stuck, frustrated in life, wondering things like “is this what it’s supposed to be like” to feeling excited about creating a life they are connected to. Through yoga and mindfulness Elyse helps clients reconnect to their bodies and themselves in order to build a life they love. In...
Send us a text I remember when I decided to launch my podcast. I wasn’t sure what I was doing or if anyone would actually listen to it. Over time I not only got the hang of it, but I also discovered I had a true passion for interviewing thought leaders and experts in the field of leadership and organizational learning. When it came to selecting content for the show, I reached out to others to ask what they wanted to learn more about. So, it goes without saying that as my team and...
Send us a text SUMMARY In this episode, we dove into the difference between compliance and commitment and the importance of creating a culture of commitment to achieve due diligence in our safety management systems. We touch on some key points for how employers can get at the heart of culture to nurture a safety-orientated workplace. Chris and I have been working together over the past two years developing a revolutionary program that give supervisors the skills in creating a culture of comm...
Send us a text SUMMARY Over the last year and a half, women have made important strides in gaining representation in senior leadership, but the pandemic continues to take a toll as women are significantly more burned out than their male counterparts. In this month’s episode of Tackle Tuesday, I discuss some of the challenges I faced as a female leader in a male dominated industry and how that led me to designing the Woman Up! program. I also discuss the confidence gap and imposter synd...
Send us a text SUMMARY On this month's episode of Tackle Tuesday, I invited professional speaker Jeff A.D. Martin onto the show to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Jeff is familiar with loss and hardship due to the tragic death of his cousin Omar, who was killed in 2005. Today, he is a community advocate who provides programs on self-worth, leadership, diversity, and inclusion. Jeff and I discussed how you can foster an inclusive atmosphere in the work...
Send us a text SUMMARY In this month’s episode, I hosted a round table style interview with Mohammad Anwar and Jeff Ma, senior leaders at Softway Solutions a software tech company and co-authors of the bestselling book, Love as a Business Strategy. Mohammad and Jeff shared that after years of continued growth and success the company reached a point where their aggressive growth strategies failed them, and they began to lose clients and profits in an almost fatal downward spiral. ...
Send us a text SUMMARY We are thrilled to launch our third season of Tackle Tuesday! This season, we will be exploring the topic of “Creating Brave Spaces” and how leaders can facilitate difficult conversations, work through conflict, and foster psychological safety. We will be exploring research and theory, sharing personal experiences, and providing leaders with practical steps in fostering a brave space. In the first episode, Katie Allan and I unpack the term “safe space” and ...
Send us a text SUMMARY What do you think emotional intelligence is? How does it manifest in your experience as a leader? In this month’s episode of Tackle Tuesday, we are talking about self-awareness and emotional intelligence. Tune in to explore how self-awareness and emotional intelligence are connected, what the four domains of emotional intelligence are, and our response to a critique of emotional intelligence. Support the show Woman Up! Ignite the Leader in You Cohort 7: Us...
Send us a text SUMMARY In the third episode of the third season of Tackle Tuesday podcast, we delve into how connecting with others is part of creating brave spaces. We connect the concept of emotional intelligence, which we discussed in episode two, to embracing diversity, demanding inclusion, and building belonging In this episode, we discuss identity, different dimensions of identity, and the visible and invisible factors that make up who we are. This discussion ties to unders...
Send us a text SUMMARY In the fourth episode of this season of the Tackle Tuesday podcast, we explore part two of how to connect with others. Specifically, we will talk about psychological safety and the differences between diversity hiring and diversity hire. When discussing psychological safety – we talk about what it is and how to build it with the teams you work with. We also reflect on how psychologically safe are the teams you work with? Why is it sometimes hard to achieve ...
Send us a text SUMMARY In the fifth episode of this season of the Tackle Tuesday podcast, we explore part one of responding to challenges. Specifically, we talk about conflict. We discuss the importance and inevitability of conflict in the workplace, and in our lives. We discuss the need to get to the root of the issue, and then we do a deep dive into one popular tool, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) to understand the different ways we respond to conflict. &nbs...
Send us a text SUMMARY In the sixth episode of season 3 of Tackle Tuesday podcast, we explore part two of responding to challenges. Specifically, we talk about difficult conversations. The episode focuses on the science of mindfulness and encourages listeners to consider the effects of simply taking a few breaths before beginning a difficult conversation. When we are in a highly stressed state, the part of our brain responsible for rational thinking is impaired and may impact how we re...
Send us a text SUMMARY In the seventh episode of this season of the Tackle Tuesday podcast, we explore the need for boundaries when creating and maintaining brave spaces. The episode defines boundaries, discusses why they are important to implement in our work and personal lives and explores the impacts of not having boundaries in place. We unpack why it can be so difficult to articulate and stick to our boundaries and share pesonal examples throughout the episode. We delve int...
Send us a text SUMMARY In the final episode of this season of the Tackle Tuesday podcast, we reflect back on the concepts covered throughout the last 7 episodes (of this season) and connect it back to the notion of creating brave spaces. The episode provides a brief recap of the rationale for creating our online course, creating brave spaces, and then we review the topics covered throughout this season of the podcast: Intro to creating brave spaces – we explored how the con...
Send us a text SUMMARY Exciting News! 🚀 We're thrilled to announce the kickoff of Season 4 on Tackle Tuesday Podcast! 🎉 This season, we're delving deep into the world of Change Management – a crucial topic for every organization navigating today's dynamic landscape. 🔍 In our first episode, we break down the essence of change management and its pivotal role in organizational success. From planned transitions to unexpected shifts, we explore the myriad reasons behind organizational cha...
Send us a text SUMMARY Describe your personal experience with change in one sentence or less. Can you do it? Not so easy is it!? We kick off the episode by reflecting on this question to situate ourselves and our mindsets as we consider the change management process. In this episode, we break down the change management process into its key phases and explore real-world examples to illustrate each phase and its significance. We also introduce various change management models and framewor...
Send us a text SUMMARY Are you struggling to embrace change, whether at work or in your personal life? Dive into this enlightening episode of Tackle Tuesday, where we peel back the layers of resistance to change. What's Inside: Understanding Resistance: Explore the roots of resistance and why it's a natural response to change. The Impact of Resistance: Uncover the costs associated with resistance, from reduced productivity to the potential failure of change initiatives. ...
Send us a text SUMMARY This month, we’re turning the spotlight on how effective leadership can make or break organizational change. We're unpacking insights from three vital Gallup articles: 1️⃣ How Leaders Can Communicate Change to a Burned-Out Workforce (Article link) 2️⃣ Successful Organizational Change Needs a Strong Narrative (Article link) 3️⃣ Disruption Gives You Momentum for Change -- Don't Waste It (Article link) We kick off with a fun icebreaker to get everyone thinking about the...
Send us a text SUMMARY Case Studies: We examine a case study highlighting aspects of resilient and non-resilient organizations. Article Review: We highlight and discuss two key articles: Agile Transformations Start With the DNA of Your Workplace (2020 Gallup Article): Discover how workplace DNA influences agility. 4 Ways to Build a Culture of Change Management and Adaptability: Learn actionable steps to foster a change-ready culture. Listener Engagement: Join in on the conve...
Send us a text SUMMARY Welcome to the final episode of Season 4 of Tackle Tuesday, where we wrap up our exploration of "Navigating Change: A Season on Change Management." This episode dives deep into the critical aspects of measuring and evaluating change within organizations. 🔍 Highlights: An in-depth discussion on the DICE framework (Duration, Integrity, Commitment, Effort) and how it predicts the success of change initiatives. Reflection questions to engage our listeners o...
Send us a text SUMMARY The first episode of Season 5 dives into the evolution of female leadership, discussing the historical progression and the challenges women face today. It engages listeners in reflection on leadership dynamics and emphasizes the importance of inclusivity across all genders in this ongoing conversation. HIGHLIGHTS • Examining the historical context of women's rights and leadership • Discussing the waves of feminism and their relevance • Highlighting leadership styles mo...
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