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Leadership GPS

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Let father-and-son program hosts Tony Jackson and Alan Jackson "guide" you on the topic of leadership. Each episode is a discussion of an aspect of leadership, how to do it right, what to av...

Episodes

16 episodes

Leadership GPS: Teams - Are They Really All That Important?

There can be many similarities between the business world and the sports world, especially when it comes to the concept of “teams”. What doe...

84:04Dec 30, 2014

Leadership GPS: Leading through the ”Trash Days”

We’ve all had those “Trash Days”… days where things are not going as you’d planned, things are not working as they should, and you could fin...

65:35Sep 4, 2014

Leadership GPS: Shaping Corporate Cultures

Tony and Alan Jackson are back after a hiatus to record a new episode of “Leadership GPS”! In this episode, the Jackson boys discuss how to...

48:51Aug 5, 2014

Leadership GPS: Communicating Decisions…That You Don’t Agree With

In light of the Yahoo CEO's decision to stop all remote employee working arrangements, Alan poses the question to Tony: "If you were a mid-l...

24:54Apr 10, 2013

Leadership GPS: Leaders and the other ’L Word’ (Likeability!)

Tony and Alan Jackson discuss the concept of "likeability" when it comes to those in leadership positions. Some people say that for a leader...

55:45Apr 4, 2013

Leadership GPS: Leading Well When People Meet

We all have meetings. Meetings with clients, meetings with staff, meetings with teams… as much as we say we don't care for them, we end up u...

65:38Nov 19, 2012

Leadership GPS: Hickory Young Professionals

Tony and Alan Jackson are visited by members of the Hickory Young Professionals to talk about the definition of leadership, challenges, obst...

56:21Aug 16, 2012

Leadership GPS: All About Leadership Assessments

We are surrounded by a variety of leadership assessment tools - self-assessments, 360-style evaluations, personality tests - all designed to...

57:27Aug 3, 2012

Leadership GPS: The Nuts and Bolts of Feedback

As a follow up to last months episode on “Constructive Feedback”, Alan and Tony now address the “nuts and bolts” of giving feedback properly...

43:08Jun 8, 2012

Leadership GPS: Constructive Feedback

Your father-son duo, Tony and Alan Jackson, join us on our newest installment of Leadership GPS to discuss the importance of constructive fe...

57:16Mar 22, 2012

Leadership GPS 6: The Dark Side of Leadership

On this episode of Leadership GPS, join your favorite father-son team as Alan and Tony Jackson discuss the dark side of leadership. Is the d...

46:58Feb 8, 2012

Leadership GPS 5: What Do Leaders Expect?

When you are working for an organization in a mid-level leadership / management role, do you know what your own "leaders" expect from you? D...

51:57Dec 14, 2011

Leadership GPS 4: Satisfaction vs. Engagement

We hear the words "employee satisfaction" used a lot to describe how employees feel about their workplace and the organization where they wo...

54:06Nov 17, 2011

Leadership GPS 3: Leadership and the Written Word

Whether it be a letter or an e-mail, leaders have to be effective in their written communications just as in any other forms of communicatio...

55:12Sep 22, 2011

Leadership GPS 2: The Abnormal Side of Leadership

Alan and Tony welcome you back to the second episode of "Leadership GPS"! This month, the Jackson boys talk about how, despite the fact that...

50:04Aug 23, 2011

Leadership GPS 1: Getting Started

Alan and Tony Jackson start the show off, on its first episode, with a little personal background, thoughts on how leadership has evolved ov...

33:27Jul 8, 2011