Hosted by Dr. Mira Brancu · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 140 episodes
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Welcome to “The Hard Skills” podcast, a practical and research-driven show that explores the core leadership skills needed to fuel leadership to activate real change, such as creating inclusive and healthy workplaces.Through expert interviews and live coaching calls, we challenge the notion of "soft skills," question long-held but inaccurate leadership development beliefs, and offer real, practical solutions for complex leadership challenges.Hosted by Dr. Mira Brancu, a clinical and organizational development psychologist with extensive leadership experience, we’ll delve into topics of leadership identity, leading with uncertainty, navigating workplace politics, and creating critical organizational change.This podcast will especially appeal to high-achieving leaders in healthcare, tech, and academic, industries. Whether you're seeking personal growth, looking to enhance your leadership abilities, or interested in Dr. Brancu's coaching services and membership community, join us as we
Dr. Mira Brancu hosts The Hard Skills, a business show with 140 episodes published.
How do you think strategically when it feels like all you do is put out fires? It's a common challenge among all leaders a in this episode, we'll be learning about how to tackle this from a very unlikely and different pe
What's the missing gap between the promise of AI in the future of work and its actual adoption? What is the difference between the organizations that spend millions on technological advances that ultimately fail and thos
When everything feels like it's falling apart—restructures, burnout, losses you can't quite name—most advice tells you to push harder or rest more. But what if the answer lies in between? In this episode, you'll learn ab
How do you live a fulfilling life? It’s not riches, it’s impact and legacy. In this episode, you will learn how you can quantify mentoring, volunteering, and philanthropy so you can better understand how much impact you
How does it feel to be in a space where everyone offers belonging to themselves and others? In this episode, we will learn about Dr. Otito's Belonging Framework. Belonging is a universal human need, yet not everyone feel
We often talk about boundary setting and leading with authenticity and integrity as ways to create healthier work cultures. But why? What is the deeper reason behind this and how can leaders, especially those holding mar
What makes diversity and inclusion—seemingly so simple—also so complicated and difficult to achieve? Truly bringing inclusion to life can sometimes feel quite challenging, especially when there seem to be forces pulling
What is a thought leader? And why is is important even when you are happy in your job and have no interest in becoming a social media influencer or starting your own businesses? Do you ever get frustrated by how some peo
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: Is this the right time for me to invest in executive coaching? Do I need an executive coach? Why or why not? And how do I find a good one that is also right for me and who can help me make a greater
In work and life, many of us encounter groups with different norms, expectations, and beliefs. As we navigate the workplace, this flexibility can be helpful, except when it causes us to lose touch with our truer selves o
What is intersectionality, and why does it matter when it comes to leadership development? And how might things like mental health, body autonomy, reproductive health affect our success as leaders and the success of orga
Leaders want high-trust teams, but their daily actions might be actively destroying them. Most leaders believe they’re building trust and leading the right way, but their teams quietly experience the opposite. Are you ex
Most people think being a "good follower" means staying silent and obeying. In reality, your silence might be the very thing destroying your organization from the inside out. In this episode of The Hard Skills, D
Your team isn't resistant to change. They're grieving, and most leadership training never names it. That's why every "move on" conversation backfires and every engagement initiative fails. In this three-part comp
Most leaders know they should be more approachable and develop trust, but nobody tells you that humor might be the fastest way to get there. In this episode, Dr. Mira Brancu sits down with Dr. Paul Damiano, executive coa
Is workplace tension draining your team's energy? Discover how a well-timed humorous comment might resolve issues faster than another difficult conversation. And when it doesn’t. In this powerful episode of The Hard Skil
Tired of over-proving yourself and still feeling like it’s "never enough"? It’s time to stop reacting and start leading with a 5-stage strategic framework that actually sticks. In this final part of the "Lead
Most high achievers don’t fail because they’re lazy, they fail because they’re doing too much of the wrong things. Are your best leadership traits actually stress responses keeping you exhausted? It is time to break the
What if everything you were taught about success and leadership was causing you to abandon your own needs? This conversation will completely change how you see work, identity, and what it means to truly win in life. In t
This episode will be part celebration, part reflection, and part insight. We will be celebrating what we learned from 1 year of hosting a live radio show and podcast, looking back at some of the highlights, and also shar
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