12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are on a series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Timeleon and the Roman Aemilius. Highlights include:
· Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
· Lives of Timoleon and Aemilius.
· Comparison in the lives of Timoleon and Aemilius.
· Are they really tragic figures.
· The role of prominent citizens outside the capital cities of Athens and Rome.
· What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives Timoleon and Aemilius.
Resources
Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer
Tag: Leadership
Leadership is not position. Leadership is the ability to serve someone’s need and the choice to take action.
In today’s episode, you’ll hear a story about how one teacher stepped up as a leader and is now making an impact well beyond just my life in third grade.
If you’re needing inspiration and encouragement, listen up for the three ways I discuss to help you fill your cup and maximize your impact.
———-
If you’re looking for tangible action steps and refreshing insights to help ignite the power of your own leadership journey, sign up for my weekly leadership blog HERE.
If your business would benefit from higher-performing leaders, check out more information about the comprehensive leadership development training I do HERE.
If you want to reach out to me directly, email alyson@vanhooser.com.
If you enjoyed this episode, will you please subscribe and leave a review? Your reviews help this show get discovered by more incredible leaders just like you. I’m obsessed with helping leaders ignite their performance results and I’d love to have you help me make an impact! Thank you so much!
P.S. Share and tag me on social — @AlysonVanHooser — and I’ll share your comments and big takeaways on my feed!
Many leaders still believe in the never let them see you sweat mentality. And there are situations where I’d agree. But, at other times, I don’t agree.
It could be a leader’s vulnerability that starts the shift toward progress in an organization.
In today’s episode, we’re discussing what can happen when you choose to be open about your weaknesses rather than trying to cover them up.
———-
If you’re looking for tangible action steps and refreshing insights to help ignite the power of your own leadership journey, sign up for my weekly leadership blog HERE.
If your business would benefit from higher-performing leaders, check out more information about the comprehensive leadership development training I do HERE.
If you want to reach out to me directly, email alyson@vanhooser.com.
If you enjoyed this episode, will you please subscribe and leave a review? Your reviews help this show get discovered by more incredible leaders just like you. I’m obsessed with helping leaders ignite their performance results and I’d love to have you help me make an impact! Thank you so much!
P.S. Share and tag me on social — @AlysonVanHooser — and I’ll share your comments and big takeaways on my feed!
Leaders should talk with employees, not to employees, or at employees. But should leaders talk about employees?
The answer is: It depends.
In today’s episode, we’re discussing the ways leaders should talk about employees so employees feel they can trust and respect their leaders..
———-
If you’re looking for tangible action steps and refreshing insights to help ignite the power of your own leadership journey, sign up for my weekly leadership blog HERE.
If your business would benefit from higher-performing leaders, check out more information about the comprehensive leadership development training I do HERE.
If you want to reach out to me directly, email alyson@vanhooser.com.
If you enjoyed this episode, will you please subscribe and leave a review? Your reviews help this show get discovered by more incredible leaders just like you. I’m obsessed with helping leaders ignite their performance results and I’d love to have you help me make an impact! Thank you so much!
P.S. Share and tag me on social — @AlysonVanHooser — and I’ll share your comments and big takeaways on my feed!
In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:
- The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence by Frank Figluizzi
- Coaching: The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership by Ruchira Chaudhary
- The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, by Martin Lindstrom and Marshall Goldsmith
- Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking by Jon Acuff
Does confidence only come naturally to those lucky enough to “be born with it”? I don’t think so. That’s not my story!
You can build your confidence.
To do that, you have to take correct, calculated, and consistent action.
In today’s episode, we’re discussing three practical steps to take to build your confidence.
———-
If you’re looking for tangible action steps and refreshing insights to help ignite the power of your own leadership journey, sign up for my weekly leadership blog HERE.
If your business would benefit from higher-performing leaders, check out more information about the comprehensive leadership development training I do HERE.
If you want to reach out to me directly, email alyson@vanhooser.com.
If you enjoyed this episode, will you please subscribe and leave a review? Your reviews help this show get discovered by more incredible leaders just like you. I’m obsessed with helping leaders ignite their performance results and I’d love to have you help me make an impact! Thank you so much!
P.S. Share and tag me on social — @AlysonVanHooser — and I’ll share your comments and big takeaways on my feed!
If you want to hire the right people, get them to stay, and for them to continue to perform above expectations, start by learning their stories.
Stories unlock answers to challenges leaders must overcome.
In today’s episode, we’re discussing three stories every leader needs to know and tell.
———-
If you’re looking for tangible action steps and refreshing insights to help ignite the power of your own leadership journey, sign up for my weekly leadership blog HERE.
If your business would benefit from higher-performing leaders, check out more information about the comprehensive leadership development training I do HERE.
If you want to reach out to me directly, email alyson@vanhooser.com.
If you enjoyed this episode, will you please subscribe and leave a review? Your reviews help this show get discovered by more incredible leaders just like you. I’m obsessed with helping leaders ignite their performance results and I’d love to have you help me make an impact! Thank you so much!
P.S. Share and tag me on social — @AlysonVanHooser — and I’ll share your comments and big takeaways on my feed!
Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I am pleased to host Thomas Gelmi. Gelmi is a world-renowned executive coach and leadership trainer. In this episode, he explains why he is so passionate about leadership and executive coaching. Highlights include:
- What is the difference between executive coaching and executive sparring?
- Why do you maintain that leadership in the 2020s requires a stable personality, someone who knows their own strengths and limitations and who deals with these in an authentic, relaxed and open way?
- How do you coach leadership development?
- What Cabin Crew can teach you about Leadership, Teamwork and Customer Contact?
- Why did you write this book?
- Who is its target audience?
- Why use the analogy of the cabin crew to teach leadership?
- Favorite real-life story from the book?
- How has the Coronavirus health crisis over this year changed your approach to leadership?
- What do companies and individuals need to be thinking about regarding leadership into 2025 and beyond?
To find out more about Thomas Gelmi, check out his website by clicking here.
Check out his LinkedIn profile here.
For a copy of his book, go to What Cabin Crew can teach you about Leadership, Teamwork and Customer Contact
In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:
- Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sanderson
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell
- Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Brené Brown
Obviously, in every compliance program, the ethical tone of a company and accountability all starts at the top and, most specifically, senior management. The 2020 Guidance stated, “Beyond compliance structures, policies, and procedures, it is important for a company to create and foster a culture of ethics and compliance with the law at all levels of the company. The effectiveness of a compliance program requires a high-level commitment by company leadership to implement a culture of compliance from the middle and the top.” This requirement is more than simply the ubiquitous “tone-at-the-top,” as it focuses on the conduct of senior management. The DOJ wants to see a company’s senior leadership actually doing compliance. The DOJ asks if company leadership has, through their words and concrete actions, brought the right message of doing business ethically and in compliance to the organization. How does senior management model its behavior on a company’s values and finally, how is such conduct monitored in an organization?
Senior management must share these same values through operationalizing compliance going forward. Lynn Paine, in her seminal article “Managing for Organizational Integrity”, laid out five factors, which can be used as guideposts to not only to set the right tone from senior management on doing business ethically and in compliance, it can lay the groundwork for senior management to model appropriate behavior and then have it monitored by the company going forward.
- The guiding values of a company must make sense and be clearly communicated by senior management in a variety of settings, to the entire company workforce.
- The company’s leader must be personally committed and willing to take action on the values. This means that management must not simply ‘overlook’ the transgressions of top producers.
- A company’s systems and structures must support its guiding principles and these internal systems and structures cannot be over-ridden by senior management without both justification and Board approval.
- A company’s values must be integrated into normal channels of management decision-making and reflected in the company’s critical decisions. Sometimes a company must turn down business if there are too many red flags present or by engaging in such behavior the company’s value and ethics will be violated.
- Managers must be empowered to make ethically sound decisions on a day-to-day basis. This means senior management must fully support and back-up such decisions.
I once had a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), observe the following, “You want me to be the ambassador for compliance.” I immediately said yes, that is exactly what I need you to do. A CEO, as an “Ambassador of Compliance”, can fully model the conduct that senior management engage in going forward. Another area a CEO can forcefully engage an entire company is through a powerful video message about doing business the right way and in compliance. A great example was a CenterPoint Energy video put out in 2015 after the Volkswagen (VW) emissions-testing scandal became public. The video featured Scott Prochazka, CenterPoint Energy President and CEO. He used the VW scandal to proactively address culture and values at the company and used the entire scenario as an opportunity to promote integrity in the workplace. But more than simply a one-time video, the company followed up with an additional resource, entitled “Manager’s Toolkit – What does Integrity mean to you?”, which managers used to facilitate discussions and ongoing communications with employees around the company’s ethics and compliance programs. Finally, the cost for the video was quite reasonable as it was produced internally.
Three key takeaways:
- Senior management must actually do compliance; walk-the-walk, not simply talk-the-talk.
- Use your CEO to talk about current events and how those ethical failures are lessons to be learned for your organization.
- CEO as Compliance Ambassador.
