6 - Ann Bares - Managing Compensation in a Pandemic World
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Welcome to Best Boss Ever, the podcast dedicated to helping you develop managers who build great teams. In this episode, Kris Dunn talks about the issues with Managing Compensation Strategy in a Pandemic World with Ann Bares, his favorite industry compensation expert at Altura Consulting Group and writer at Compensation Force.
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5 - Choosing Members of your Leadership Team To Drive Culture with Dawn Burke
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Welcome to Best Boss Ever, the podcast dedicated to helping you develop managers who build great teams. In this episode, Kris Dunn talks about the power of Choosing Members of Your Leadership Team To Drive Culture with Dawn Burke, master facilitator at the BOSS Leadership Training Series.
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4 - Being an Authentic Leader with Lisa Higgins from APQC
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Welcome to Best Boss Ever, the podcast dedicated to helping you develop managers who build great teams. In this episode, Kris Dunn talks with one of the most authentic leaders he has ever encountered - Lisa Higgins from APQC.
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3 - Patrick Lynch - Looking at Outplacement During COVID
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Welcome to Best Boss Ever, the podcast dedicated to helping you develop managers who build great teams. In this episode Kris Dunn talks with Patrick Lynch, President of CMP’s Southeast Region, to talk about the current state of outplacement during COVID-19.
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2 - What’s Your Brand as a Manager of People?
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Welcome to Best Boss Ever, the podcast dedicated to helping you develop managers who build great teams. In this episode Kris Dunn talks with colleague and friend Dawn Burke, facilitator for BOSS Leadership and senior consultant at Recruiting Toolbox, about managing people and the six types of manager brands.
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1 - An Introduction to Best Boss Ever
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Best Boss Ever with Kris Dunn gets kicked off with this mini-episode describing what the podcast is about, who he'll talk to and why it matters. Start here if you want the Jerry McGuire-like mission statement from KD.
info_outlineWelcome to Best Boss Ever, the podcast dedicated to helping you develop managers who build great teams. In this episode, Kris Dunn talks with one of the most authentic leaders he has ever encountered - Lisa Higgins from APQC.
Truth-teller and Force of Nature. Add Empathy and Listening and you've got today's authentic leader, which Lisa 100% is!
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Show Highlights:
5:15 - Kris gets right into it to help listeners understand more about APQC, because in a lot of ways Lisa started there and never left. Why was she locked into one company in this way?
7:20 - KD and Lisa talk about their definition of Authentic Leadership. #trust
10:00 - Kris talks about being locked into a conference room with Lisa and her team for full days at a time, and gives Lisa some adjectives and phrases that come to mind and she reacts to them, talking about whether she grew into these traits or if they’ve always been a part of who she is:
Truth-Teller
Coming in Hot/Force of Nature
Listener
Authentic/Believable
Getting Out of the Way for Direct Reports
23:00 - Lisa adds empathy to the list for discussion as mandatory for the authentic leader.
23:55 - Lisa and Kris discuss the biggest reason managers of people don’t gel with their teams. What’s the best way to overcome/prevent these stumbling blocks with new managers of people? What’s are the keys to develop high levels of trust with direct reports?
29:00 - Lisa talks about how she stays current and relevant in your industry and beyond. What tells her to Zig at the right time?
30:05 - Kris asks Lisa for a KSA that she picked up during her time at APQC that’s had the most value for her as a leader?
31:10 - And now for the close – Lisa describes her best boss ever. It's Jack Grayson, founder of APQC. Among countless positive attributes - many of which Lisa describes, it's notable that he was comfortable hiring someone who was very much different than him - and provided room and support for Lisa to grow. He ended up with a great employee and a future leader of his organization. So cool and so true.