Inside Job Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson

In one of our recent debriefs of how things are going with our coaching practices, we realized at least two sessions in the span of one week focused on the theme of it’s not me, it’s you when it comes to our clients dealing with the leadership teams at their organizations.
We’ve all thought someone else was responsible for things going wrong, negative feedback we’ve received, deadlines getting missed, etc. when the real responsibility lay with us. It’s just the nature of being human.
Our Inside Job, is to take a deeper look at why we’re casting the blame on someone else, what our resistance to taking responsibility means, and how we use that information to grow in the future.
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Even though we only just met our guest for the first time a few weeks ago, we’ve quickly discovered we have a lot in common and knew we just had to have him join us on the podcast.
Jeff Wetzler has been on a quarter-century quest to transform learning opportunities. Blending a unique set of leadership experiences in the fields of business and education, he’s pursued this quest as a management consultant to the world’s top corporations, as a learning facilitator for leaders around the world, as Chief Learning Officer at Teach For America, and most recently, as co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization.
Jeff is also the author of Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life.
Jeff is on the show this week to share his book and his philosophy and framework for making all of us better askers so we can tap into the hidden wisdom of the people around us.
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Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.
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Have you ever thought to yourself, “This job would be so much better if it weren’t for the people?”
When one of Eric’s clients jokingly said this in a recent discussion, they shared a laugh about it. However, Eric later realized it’s not only something he hears often from his clients, but something he’s also said himself in the past.
We thought it would be a good idea to dig deeper into this sentiment on the podcast, but we want to look at it from the perspective of having customers or clients. Businesses need them to be successful, but so many of us wish we could do business without them and the negative things they bring to our workday.
Since we can’t all pull a Henry David Thoreau and live alone in a cabin for years at a time, let’s explore how we can protect ourselves from the naysayers.
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Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.
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We’re delighted today to be joined by a guest who is going to help demystify the world of executive search and recruiting. This is an area that we hear from you guys about with questions all the time, and it’s an area that we honestly feel we could use a little more education in as well.
Tory Clarke is a Founder and Managing Partner of Bridge Partners, a retained executive search firm. UK-born Tory has lived in New York for twenty-four years and fell into the world of executive search after graduating with an MA from the University of Edinburgh.
Whether you’re part of an organization looking to hire or you’re an individual looking for a new role, this is one episode you don’t want to miss.
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Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.
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Is it possible to change someone’s perspective of you?
If so, how do you do it?
Nayla’s recently had conversations with several clients about changing other people’s perceptions of us and we’ve realized this comes up a lot in our coaching practices so it’s time we covered it on the show.
Nayla even gets vulnerable and shares an example of feedback she received early in her career that she avoided addressing at first and what she learned from that experience.
If you’ve ever been given less-than-ideal feedback and you want to change what people think of you, or you’re responsible for providing feedback to members of your organization, this is one episode you don’t want to miss.
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Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.
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We’re pleased to be joined today by Lesley Jane Seymour who’s going to be talking to us about the concept of reinventing yourself.
Lesley has been the Editor-in-Chief of multiple magazines including More, Marie Claire, and Redbook. When her illustrious career in the magazine world came to an end, she was forced to reinvent herself.
Lesley has since turned her reinvention story into a company called CoveyClub, which supports women with both their career and personal reinventions.
It’s easy to see just from this quick bio exactly why we thought she would be the perfect person to talk to about the reinvention of self and we hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.
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Inside Job is brought to you by Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson.
To learn more about the ideas and resources discussed in this episode, us and our work, and to join our mailing list, visit the show notes at insidejobthepodcast.com.
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