154 - Want to Reduce Turnover?
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
Release Date: 05/12/2025
165 -Received Feedback? Now What?
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
Receive Feedback? Now What? Gratitude - thank the individuals for their time and feedback Analyze and Reflect - look for big themes and trends. How will this behavior change affect my overall leadership? Plan - write it down what you are going to do Listen as I share some examples of feedback and how to work through the above. Have you done a 360° lately? Or received any feedback? How can you be intentional with making the changes you need to make?
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164 - Leadership Goals: Mid Year Check In
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
Leadership Goals Check-In: We set goals for a reason. Where are you with the goals you have set? Let’s look at three areas. Revisit - Are your goals still valid? What has changed? Where are you on the trajectory? Recalibrate - If you’re ahead great, set a new goal. If things have changed, what do you need to do to recalibrate? Communicate - Who do you need to communicate the above with? Yourself? Your board?
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163 - Do You Need a 360° Evaluation?
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
Want to Level Up as a Leader but Don’t Know Where to Start? Start with a 360° Evaluation. It’s not just feedback—it’s a mirror, a megaphone, and a map. 🔍📣🗺️ Here’s why it matters: 1️⃣ You connect with the people who matter most—your team, peers, and leaders. 2️⃣ You control the narrative of your leadership journey. 3️⃣ Your change becomes visible, and others will notice—and echo—it. Yes, it takes vulnerability and courage. Yes, you’ll hear things you’d rather not. But you’ll also gain something powerful: clarity. Before you start, ask: 👉 What do...
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162 -Your Values Impact Your Leadership
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
Suppose you have a boss, who is type-A and driven, always about the metrics, very few meetings outside a work agenda. What does that tell you about that leader’s values? Your values impact your leadership in these four areas. Motivation Fit Leadership Style Biases What is your top value? Define it. Now let’s look at the above areas and how they impact your leadership
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161 - Inspiring or Infuriating
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
Inspiring or Infuriating According to Adam Galinksy leadership can be categorized as inspiring or infuriating based on 3 universal characteristics. Visionary Example Mentor Put in your head the most inspiring leader you have encountered, now think about yourself and where you land. Let’s walk through the above areas and then choose one area you can improve.
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160 - Healthy or Unhealthy Conflict Culture
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
Conflict! Every organization has it, but it can be healthy or unhealthy depending on your culture. Let’s walk through an example of what that looks like. 3 Elements that Create a Culture of Unhealthy Conflict Polarities Humiliation Negative Culture Does your work place have any of these? How can you change them?
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159 - What Must End?
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
“Bob was a great program manager and he is not thriving in his new director role.” What is up? I think he has not ended in his mind his previous role as program manager. Could this be you? Is there something you haven’t ended that is holding you back? Let’s look at three areas: Pruning - what needs to go? Choosing - how do you choose what to prune? Executing - be deliberate and clear What is the last transition you made? Are there things you need to end? Flesh out the details of each area and see if there is something...
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158 - Do You Need Help With a Goal?
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
I need help getting my goals on track this year. Can you help me? I have a methodology that I want to share with you. Vision Assessment Creating a Path Think of your goal. Think about your vision and assess where you. Then look at creating a path. There are three parts to the path: state your why, decide on a small incremental step to help you make progress, what obstacles are in the way?
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157 - True Meaning of Memorial
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
What is the true meaning of Memorial Day. Only 63% of a recent group of American adults surveyed thought Memorial day’s prime purpose was for recognition and remembrance. There was a difference among those in the baby boomer generation and later, let’s connect with these three questions. What’s its origin story? What is its true purpose? How can you connect? Answer these questions for yourself. How can you continue to honor those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice?
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156 -Are You Unintentionally Disengaging Members of Your Team?
Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman
Are you unintentionally causing disengagement with your team? Today as leaders, keeping your workplace engaged is one of the greatest tasks you have. What does the data say? As I go through Gallup’s think of your team. fully engaged dropped 5% actively looking for jobs up 6% feeling respected in workplace drop in 7% not getting good feedback; 16% on site not getting feedback; 20% remote; 24% hybrid Workers are feeling…disrespected, lack of communication, lack of clear expectations and lack of feedback. How can you as a leader ensure your people are engaged? What is the solution? Is there...
info_outlineDo you want to retain those you lead more than your competitors? Have a conversation about the follow two areas:
- Current job performance
- Career progression
Have these conversations with those that are you leading you and those that you are leading.
A few numbers:
- 28% who left voluntarily over the last quarter did not have a conversation with their leadership about their future with that organization.
- 28% did not have a conversation about their job satisfaction.
- 18% did not have a conversation about their current performance.
- 42% never tell their leadership they are leaving until they do.
- About the same amount as above say their organization could have done something to keep them there.
How can you and organization be intentional and different?