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Partnerships and Possibilities is a podcast about leadership in organizations. Listen in as Sharon and Diana discuss issues of leadership at all levels.
“It’s not just enough to get people in the pipeline. You have to make it worthwhile to get them to stay.” In what ways doe...
“A team is more than just the sum of a bunch of individual contributors’ thinking together. A team’s primary work is learn...
“We’ve been making these issues [of women in the workforce] explicit at least since ’70s. Forty-five years is a long time to tal...
“There is not much that is specific to a virtual team, that couldn’t apply to almost any team.” Are you on a virtual team...
“Everybody is saying we need to strive for servant leadership, but nobody seems to know what that looks like.” What is your styl...
“We’ve been ranging over a lot of current topics lately, and for so many of them we feel we’ve visited them before – everything old is...
“At one point during the ‘Women in Agile’ presentation, a man sat down to join the mostly female audience. One of the presenters thank...
“When I see inequity, here is how I’m responding to it, here’s how I’m trying to shift the behavior, both in myself and in creating the cond...
“Do we need managers? It depends.” What role(s) do managers have in your organization? How are managers viewed in your place of work? What d...
“Technological and philosophical progress happens because it builds on the work of previous folks …we’re all part of a continuous stream.” W...
“There are people who fundamentally believe that competition is the way to get the best out of people, and there are people who fundamentall...
“Retrospectives help us define and examine a body of work, what we can learn from it, and what that tells us about going forward and then ch...
“There is a cost to setting up a system where people feel less connected to your company.” Have you had any experiences with the untethered...
“The mission and the culture need to be embedded in every single process that touches a prospective employee.” Have you observed a company o...
“Do the thing to learn the thing.” Do you work in a learning organization? Has it been effective in building your capabilities and enhancing...
“Simple rules need to be scalable and generalizable, they have to be action-oriented, and they’re always stated in the positive.” Has your o...
“A mentor helps you understand how to navigate your organization, a sponsor helps advocate for you, and a coach is there to help you develop...
“The more things change, the more our objections to change stay the same.” – Bill Taylor Are you a middle manager whose organization has gon...
As a leader can you acknowledge what is going on with the people that you’re dealing with, do you see them? Do they feel seen when they are...
“Some of the highest performing companies in the country have the culture thing figured out, they nurture their internal brand as a strategi...
“You cannot be a good contributor if you never look away.” Have you read any of the recent articles published in the September 2...
“There’s a lot in the zeitgeist right now that’s looking at the differences between how men and women lead, how those differences in leaders...
I think that we have a culture, right now, a business culture, a larger social culture that has so much rigidity around scarcity and fearful...
HR typically has been set up in the past and has been staffed by people who saw it as their role to protect the organization… but there is a...
“It’s how we respond to the changes, it’s how we think about them, it’s how we interact, how we deal, how we cope, how we make meaning of th...
“It’s really about stepping into your power, and believing that you have more power than many women typically do.” Have you read Lean In? Or...
“The meetings you do have you want them to be a good use of everybody’s time but there is also ‘do we really need to have a meeting every si...
“ More often the same person who is convening the meeting is expected to lead and facilitate it. Leading it is making sure the right content...
“It is not only new information coming in all the time that needs to be learned. But old assumptions are being challenged, so everything we...
“Lean is about being accessible to and more influenced by the voice of the customer and having the flexibility to adapt and adjust as you mo...
“In a team situation, having a star performer becomes a threat and an opportunity. If a person is a star performer, their job is to spread t...
“Using self-awareness and self-knowledge for self-management seems to be key in becoming an effective leader.” What instruments have you exp...
“Membership in the secret club carries with it the need to behave in certain ways that may not be your personal inclination. My advice would...
“Leadership really comes from the nature of the questions you ask rather than the statements that you make.” What questions have been partic...
“One of the guiding thoughts about simple rules is that not only are they pretty short and action oriented by starting with a verb, but they...
“How can a leader be an innovator or expect innovation in their own organization if they’re not willing to experiment with the idea of innov...
“To really accept that the world and change are emergent is to accept a kind of stance that says ‘I really can’t know the future and I reall...
“You can’t really be a good negotiator if you can’t hold boundaries …And to hold the boundary you have to be able to see it, you have to be...
“We become somehow acculturated to making do with what we’re given rather than asking for what would make things better.” What are some of y...
“If we admit that we can continually improve, we somehow think we’re admitting we’re not enough right now. And I don’t think of it that way,...
“Vulnerability is really about allowing ourselves to be seen… there are ways of being seen a little more clearly in places that actually hel...
“The need to have more women involved in software development, since women are at least half of the consumers of software development … does...
“Stories can be very powerful, [but] it’s not enough to just have a story to tell, it has to have relevance, it has to have meaning, to you...
“Politics is really how we get things done – it’s the networks, it’s the interactions, it’s who talks to who, who influences who.” What kind...
“If you use the credibility that comes with your job title, once, and then people discover that it really wasn’t authentic then you’ve broke...
“Effective persuasion becomes a negotiating and learning process through which a persuader leads colleagues to a problem’s shared solution”...
“Our influence is a source of power; the way we influence is unique to each of us.” What is your unique source of influence and how are you...
“Once you define a problem differently, it opens up different solutions and the possibility then of influencing the patterns becomes much gr...
“Leaderful organization…It’s collective because it involves lots of people and it disburses the leadership throughout. It’s collaborative an...
“The essence of leadership; it’s about who you are and being clear about your values.”