49 - Leadership and Building Organizational Capacity with Todd Conklin
Release Date: 07/31/2024
59 - Conscious Un-Bossing: The New Distaste for Managing
Leadership Kung Fu
It's a group effort over here on Leadership Kung Fu, so we're glad you're here for episode 59! Join Jen and Sandi as they dissect the topic of Concious Un-Bossing, and listen along as they cover: Jen's NEW book how Gen Z is bringing changes to the workplace conscious uncoupling what it means to start to change a workplace culture purpose over power inclusivity is a power tool trust at every level and how it becomes an operating system mature accountability systems how group leadership makes you a better person how leading is a capability, not a title what advantages your business can gain...
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58 - Leading Hybrid and Remote
Leadership Kung Fu
Travel back in time with Jen and Sandi as they chat about a topic that's not necessarily new, but is certainly still a topic of discussion: working remotely and hybrid workforces! Whether you're taking a break in the breakroom or moving laundry inbetween meetings, listen along as Jen and Sandi discuss: The importance of asking questions and the weight of listening a brief conversation about how engagement surveys can fail you thinking about how your work is best done could influece hybrid work management what working in a conducive environment to the work you do can influence work output...
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57 - Reactive Fist, Broken Mind: The Cost of Fearful Leadership
Leadership Kung Fu
Don't be afraid, it's a new episode of Leadership Kung Fu! This episode is all about fearful leadership and what that can cost your place of business. Jen and Sandi waste no time diving into what can truly be at stake when leadership takes a reactive instead of a strategic approach. Listen along as they delve into: what can trigger reactive leadership how you show up and how that can impact your team and their action what short-term thinking means for long term effects how reactionary actions affect overall messages/goals of a company what drivers trigger responses/what leaders might be...
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56 - Deflect and Redirect: Handling Conflict Like a Kung Fu Master
Leadership Kung Fu
How to deal with conflict can be, well, confliciting! In this episode, Jen and Sandi tackle the topic of conflict and how knowing yourself can aid you in knowing how to conquer conflict! Listen along as they cover: why conflict can be good for leaders the different types of conflict how to identify what your own conflict behavior is what harm withdrawing from conflict can do the role of EQ (emotional intelligence) in conflict and the weight it carries the gift of considering different perspectives and the ability to get out of your own head how engaging with others is NOT a weakness in...
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55 - Leading with Clarity-Debunking Leadership Myths
Leadership Kung Fu
Welcome to Episode 55 of Leadership Kung Fu! Jen and Sandi are back after a shiny new rebrand and a first episode of 2025! To start out this year, listen along as they tackle topics such as: what has changed within things you subscribe to and how the workplace is different than what it was 10/15+ years ago how "no" is not a bad word in the workplace vulnerability is a good, healthy thing not all leaders are charismatic results vs. relationships and the importance of workplace connections how relationships ≠ "liking" someone how our words set us up to show up time and energy...
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54 - The Art of Goal Setting, Keeping, and Achieving
Leadership Kung Fu
Happy holidays from Organizational Transformational Kung Fu: The Podcast! Jen and Sandi are looking to the future this week and talk about goals and how to set them, keep them, and meet them! Follow along as they chat about: their year in review what reflection can do for you and writing vs. typing/digital record keeping hard vs. soft transformations the role of practice and support in discipline what we're really doing when we "let ourselves off the hook" the importance of the set up short term does for long term how we are influenced by the number of goals we set considering a "shift"...
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53 - Listening as a Leader
Leadership Kung Fu
In this week's episode of OT Kung Fu, Jen and Sandi revisit the types of listening they talked about with author Sean Grace and ponder how the listening types affect us in the workplace. Join them as they cover: how virtual calls have affected listening the importance of body language what curiosity really does for you conversational blindspots levels of learning Neha Sangwan's book and more! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab! Connect with Jen...
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52 - Say What? The Art of the Question with Author Sean Grace
Leadership Kung Fu
Welcome back to OT Kung Fu: The Podcast! Sandi and Jen are joined this week by the incredible author Sean Grace! From Sean's website: "Sean Grace is a communication consultant, author, coach, and speaker, with over 25 years of experience developing and training sales, marketing, and leadership talent across diverse industries. His unique brand of business consulting is forged from his long career in media, advertising, and the creative arts. Sean studied music performance at the Juilliard School and SUNY Purchase, and finance at Wharton. As an award winning musician and...
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51 - Conversations on Change with Curtis Bateman
Leadership Kung Fu
Welcome to Episode 51 of OT Kung Fu: The Podcast! Joining Jen and Sandi this week is Curtis Bateman, co-author of Change: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity and vice president of direct international offices for FranklinCovey. From the FranklinCovey site: "With over twenty-five years of experience in the training industry, Curtis is an internationally recognized presenter, content developer, change consultant, business leader, and coach. His passion for enabling organizations “at change” resulted in the co-creation...
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50 - Thinking About Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
Leadership Kung Fu
It's OT Kung Fu's 50th episode! We have another book review episode, this week featuring Hidden Potential by Adam Grant! Join Jen and Sandi while they cover topics like: -Performance Reviews and how they have changed from potential to goal-oriented -How imperfect leaders are more beneficial than "perfect" leaders -How meeting folks where there are at instead of where you want them to be cultivates a better workplace culture -High potential compared to related experience -Why learning agility is more valuable as a leadership predictor -Why self-reflection is such an important tool -Learning...
info_outlineYou made it to the end of July, and we have a new episode of OT Kung Fu for you to celebrate and gear up before a new month begins tomorrow!
Jen and Sandi are joined on this episode by Dr. Todd Conklin, author of Pre-Accident Investigations: An Introduction to Organizational Safety as well as host of his organizational safety podcast of the same name. From his website:
"Todd Conklin spent 25 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Senior Advisor for Organizational and Safety Culture. Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the world’s foremost research and development laboratories; Dr. Conklin has been working on the Human Performance program for the last 15 years of his 25-year career. It is in this fortunate position where he enjoys the best of both the academic world and the world of safety in practice.
Conklin holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of New Mexico. He speaks all over the world to executives, groups and work teams who are interested in better understanding the relationship between the workers in the field and the organization’s systems, processes, and programs. He has brought these systems to major corporations around the world. Conklin practices these ideas not only in his own workplace, but also in the event investigations at other workplaces around the world. Conklin’s best selling book, Pre-Accident Investigations: An introduction to Organizational Safety is a best selling book on safety. Conklin has several other books and a huge podcast following for his twice-weekly podcast of the same name. Conklin defines safety at his workplace like this: 'Safety is the ability for workers to be able to do work in a varying and unpredictable world.'"
Listen along as they talk about the 5 HOP principles mentioned in Dr.Conklin's book and how leadership mindsets can flourish within those principles, what simply having confidence can do for you, "why?" versus "how?" and what kind of leader flocks to each question, and more! Thank you so much for joining us on this episode, Dr. Conklin!
You can find all of Dr. Conklin's books and his podcast on his page on HOP Hub here.
Dr. Conklin and Jen will be speaking at the next Conklin Conference in Santa Fe, NM from September 10th-September 12th 2024. You can sign up for the conference HERE.
Thank you so much for listening! Make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab!
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