Hosted by Wanda Wallace · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 572 episodes
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There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way. For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone?
Wanda Wallace hosts Out of the Comfort Zone, a business show with 572 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail All of us are influenced by others in what we think is the right way to lead, collaborate, team up or even ask for help. Some of those influencers are other people in life, particularly in early life. So
Send us Fan Mail There is never enough data to be certain any given decision is a good one or not. The more senior you become, the harder it is to be sure. Data is incomplete and unclear, there are competing interpretati
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the choices we make work out brilliantly, for the “greater good”. Sometimes the choices we make do not work out so well. And sometimes those choices are a slippery slope that puts you making mo
Send us Fan Mail A Nightmare Scenario: You have a massive project to deliver, you and your team are just barely managing the tasks, and an important team member resigns unexpectedly. It’s more common than you might think
Send us Fan Mail One day, something happens and you snap. Maybe you loved your work yesterday, but today you are ready to just walk away. Maybe it’s a new manager you are not happy with, maybe it’s some other change, may
Send us Fan Mail You think you can handle the stress in your life. Your team will tell you otherwise because they live with the consequences. As a leader, you cast a long shadow that destroys the team’s productivity. An
Send us Fan Mail Breaking out of your comfort zone is breaking away from the need to know everything about the work your team is doing. It is also about breaking away from the familiar, the known, the day-to-day and faci
Send us Fan Mail AI will force us to be “more human or be obsolete”. So what does it mean to be more human as a leader and still drive results, get great performance, keep a team engaged and motivated? Especially in a wo
Send us Fan Mail To lead well, you must maintain some degree of emotional balance. Otherwise, people stop wanting to tell you the things you most need to know and they stop creatively solving problems just to name two co
Send us Fan Mail Thriving at work sounds like a pipe dream. The question for the day is what you can do as a manager to create the conditions for each of your team members to feel that they can truly thrive at work. ⬇️ C
Send us Fan Mail Too often leaders create more problems for themselves and for the team by being the one who solves problems, is in the middle of KPI’s, juggling multiple priorities. It’s a well-intentioned trap but a tr
Send us Fan Mail Suppose you are charged with a challenge and you know there are obstacles that are not being addressed. How can you speak out to your leaders without risking it all? How can you encourage your team to sp
Send us Fan Mail Women are struggling at work for a host of known reasons: volume overload, creating visibility, responsibilities outside work and much, much more. However, men are struggling too for a host of unexplored
Send us Fan Mail We often talk about the importance of caring for your employees – leaving them feeling that they matter more than for just the output they produce. In this episode, we hear from one of the few leaders wh
Send us Fan Mail The better you as a leader understand your personal drivers, preferences, values and the story you hold about what it means to lead; then, the better you will be at working with a range of people and get
Send us Fan Mail Leading requires that you not only get out of your comfort zone and lead without being the expert but that you also learn to build trust with people you don’t necessarily appreciate immediately. Those mi
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we can learn a lot about leading a business team by stepping outside the business world and examining a successful sports team. In sports, if you want to win at the top level, there are so many
Send us Fan Mail Many managers/leaders are stressed, frustrated, and sometimes even angry when they think about what the youngest generation is expecting from their careers. However, the experiences of Gen Z are not like
Send us Fan Mail If you are leading a team, most likely you have team members in different countries with different cultures, traditions and expectations about what you should do as a manager. What do you need to know to
Send us Fan Mail Meetings are using an enormous amount of time with little reward. Too many meetings creates overload, stress, no time to think, long hours to make up the work that couldn’t get done because of meetings.
Anthony Klotz
professor of organizational behavior · UCL School of Management
1 appearance on this show
Amy Clark
Trauma Coach, Hypnotherapist, Blue Mind Facilitator and Founder of Break the Surface · Growth Minded Leadership Group
1 appearance on this show
Aoife O’Brien
autistic/ADHD founder, workplace culture expert, host of Happier at Work
1 appearance on this show
Josh Block
Senior Attorney, National LGBTQ and HIV projects · Block Imaging
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Natalie Pickering
psychologist, TEDx speaker, executive coach
1 appearance on this show
Robert Glazer
5x entrepreneur, #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, author of The Compass Within · Acceleration Partners
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Wanda Wallace
Dr.
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Jon Rosemberg
author of "A Guide to Thriving: The Science Behind Breaking Old Patterns, Reclaiming Your Agency, and Finding Meaning" · Anther Global
1 appearance on this show
Scott Anthony
strategy professor and author · Innosight
1 appearance on this show
Tim Elmore
The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace · Growing Leaders
2 appearances on this show
Zach Mercurio
researcher with a Ph.D. in organizational learning, performance, and change; leadership development facilitator specializing in purposeful leadership, mattering, and meaningful work; author of The Power of Mattering
1 appearance on this show
Israa Nasir
author of Toxic Productivity: Reclaim Your Time and Emotional Energy in a World That Always Demands More
1 appearance on this show
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