102 episodes

[Previously Culture by Design] The leader is the #1 factor in determining organizational success. If you want to become an effective leader, you have three objectives: First, learn to lead yourself. Then, learn how to unlock the full potential of your team. Finally, build a business where culture is your competitive advantage and innovation is the status quo.

The Leader Factor LeaderFactor

    • Business
    • 5.0 • 29 Ratings

[Previously Culture by Design] The leader is the #1 factor in determining organizational success. If you want to become an effective leader, you have three objectives: First, learn to lead yourself. Then, learn how to unlock the full potential of your team. Finally, build a business where culture is your competitive advantage and innovation is the status quo.

    How to Build Contributor Safety

    How to Build Contributor Safety

    Can you create value for your team? Contributor safety satisfies the basic human need to make a difference and offer meaningful contributions. When we create contributor safety for others, we empower them with autonomy, guidance, and encouragement in exchange for effort and results. 
    Listen in as hosts Tim and Junior discuss how to build Stage 3: Contributor Safety individually, within a team, and throughout an organization.
    For the full learning experience, watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCijFFN7t5w
    Download the episode resources: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/how-to-build-the-4-stages-of-psychological-safety

    • 37 min
    How to Build Learner Safety

    How to Build Learner Safety

    We can either cultivate or crush, nurture or neglect, stimulate or stifle learner safety, the second stage of The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety. When we have learner safety we feel safe as we ask questions, give and receive feedback, experiment, and admit when we don’t know.
    As the highest form of enterprise risk management, learner safety opens the door to innovation. Leaders committed to safeguarding learner safety know that learning is the source of competitive advantage.
    An emotionally bruised learner is a cognitively impaired learner. An emotionally empowered learner is a cognitively enabled learner. The choice is yours: What kind of risk will you entertain in your culture? The risk of learning, or the risk of not learning? 
    Listen in as hosts Tim and Junior discuss how to build Stage 2: Learner Safety individually, on a team, and in an organization.
    For the full learning experience, watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bND6XuFrEVQ
    Download the episode resources: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/how-to-build-the-4-stages-of-psychological-safety

    • 28 min
    How to Build Inclusion Safety

    How to Build Inclusion Safety

    This episode is the first in a four-part series on How to Build The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety. Listen in as hosts Junior and Timothy R. Clark, author of The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety book, share in-depth insights into the thinking behind the 4 Stages framework. The episode covers the history behind psychological safety as a concept, what psychological safety is not, where vulnerability fits into the equation, and how to activate the power of diversity through inclusion. As always, they also share 3 practical ways to create inclusion safety on your teams.
    To see the slides and host annotations for the episode, watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zDDBkfA0BFk Or download the resources from the episode here: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/how-to-build-the-4-stages-of-psychological-safety

    • 48 min
    Micro-coaching Pt. 3: The Coaching and Accountability Matrix

    Micro-coaching Pt. 3: The Coaching and Accountability Matrix

    In this final episode of the Micro-coaching and Accountability series, Tim and Junior take the previous two frameworks, The Coaching Continuum and The Three Levels of Accountability, and put them together into the ultimate diagnostic tool for leaders. Think of this matrix as a model to operationalize coaching on a dynamic team.
    Your objective? To move the individuals you work with up and to the right. To transfer critical thinking and ownership and increase their capacity through coaching. Leaders who coach their people all the way to box nine end up with a team of full thinking partners who are highly skilled, think critically, and take ownership of their roles. They’re encouraging outcome-oriented, future-focused employees who thrive in autonomy and accountability.
    For the full learning experience, watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Uwf4uMvsavs
    Download the resources from the episode: www.leaderfactor.com/resources/micro-coaching-and-accountability

    • 41 min
    Micro-coaching Pt. 2: The 3 Levels of Accountability

    Micro-coaching Pt. 2: The 3 Levels of Accountability

    Accountability means being answerable for performance. The scope and levels to which we are held accountable vary based on role, willingness, skill, and need. But we can all agree that organizations function based on shared accountability. This means that as teams increase their capacity for accountability, organizational function will also increase.
    So how do we become accountable to the unenforceable, ourselves? Here’s another diagnostic tool that you can use to determine where your people work currently, and where they want to be. The 3 Levels of Accountability illustrate the relationship between autonomy and accountability and help us set our sights on the ultimate goal: Outcome-level accountability.
    For the full learning experience, watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jMBu1jgo8vE
    Download the resources from the episode: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/micro-coaching-and-accountability

    • 26 min
    Micro-coaching Pt. 1: The Coaching Continuum

    Micro-coaching Pt. 1: The Coaching Continuum

    In this first episode of a 3-part series on Micro-coaching and Accountability, Tim and Junior introduce us to The Coaching Continuum, a framework that can be used to identify coaching patterns in leaders. It runs from “Tell” on one side to “Ask” on the other. 
    A leader has one primary objective: To expand the capabilities of the people they lead by increasing their ownership and critical thinking skills. There are two levers that a leader can pull to do this. They can model, or they can coach. Those who rely on directive, one-sided interactions to manage their people will breed dependency and learned helplessness. Those who use inquiry-based conversation in their management will create facilitated self-discovery. Effective leaders use both ends of the spectrum. Where on the continuum do you fall?
    For the full learning experience, watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4jOPXTMT8M
    Download the resources from the episode: www.leaderfactor.com/resources/micro-coaching-and-accountability

    • 25 min

Customer Reviews

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29 Ratings

29 Ratings

TeriSchmidt ,

Thought-provoking and actionable

Excellent podcast! Dr. Clark and Junior tackle tough leadership topics with well-compiled research, expertise, and wisdom. I enjoy the thought-provoking conversation and the actionable tips shared.

bhokey ,

Foundational Principles for Life

Dr. Clark and Jr. discuss ideas that go way beyond our professional or leadership sucess. These concepts and principles are foundational to making life enjoyable, not merely educating us on how to progress in our careers. They explain ideas in a way that help me make connections between areas of my life that usually don’t collide. Like how I deal with communicating with someone at work who is very set in their ways and unwilling to see things through a different perspective to how I work with my children to see the value in studying math concepts “that I will never ever use ever again” If the measure of a person’s life is determined by the quality of the the relationships they have, then ideas Dr. Clark and Jr. teach in this podcast is the key having the best life.

Tonettesocal ,

BEST Human-Centric Leader Blueprint

I’ve been listening to this podcast and following LeaderFactor on LinkedIn for about 2 years. The frameworks provided are incredibly relevant tools, especially during a time where culture is completely transitioning do to the Great Resignation etc. These insights are about teaching leaders how to truly unlock talent by peeling back deep layers of unconscious behavior, usually stemming from the leaders themselves!

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