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Episode 32: Onboarding + Career Pathing in Healthy Workplace Cultures

Brain Chatter

What impacts do effective onboarding and career pathing have on the health of a company culture? And what does such onboarding and career pathing look like? Patrick Frazier, Director of Organizational Development at ME Global (Tempe, Arizona) discusses the culture inside their foundries in Arizona and Minnesota. Working in metal foundries is hard, hot work. How do you continue to find, keep, and provide advancement opportunities for team members? How do you ensure you attract and retain team …

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Episode 31: A Playbook for Success: Tim Duncan

Brain Chatter

KC&A’s David Stanfield explores the life and career of one of the NBA all-time greats, Tim Duncan (San Antonio Spurs). The focus in this episode is on the ‘walking the talk’ examples Tim Duncan provided throughout his basketball career, by focusing on wins for the whole team and other teammates, cool-headed calmness, sharing credit, being coachable, accepting accountability and mentorship, and showing gratitude to teammates, fans, family, and coaches. All the while, consistently being hum…

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Episode 30: A Bull in the China Shop & Emotional Intelligence

Brain Chatter

Whitney Tate and Delcia Petersen explore the practical side of Emotional Intelligence as it is most often encountered in the workplace. What is the cost of being ‘A Bull in the China Shop’ as it relates to EIQ? How do we each avoid being that bull in the china shop in our own workplace, dismissive of competence about it at our own immense personal cost? If Emotional Intelligence is arguably the greatest predictor of success in a leader and in success within any given career, then …

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Episode 29: Stuckeys: A Story of Grit and Brand Revival

Brain Chatter

Stephanie Stuckey recently released her book “UnStuck: Rebirth of An American Icon”. In this interview she discusses reviving and rebuilding one of the most iconic American roadside brands, “Stuckeys.” This 25 minute episode explores grit and how it can be contagious in organizational leadership. We look at the history of the brand, the various pivots that allowed it to survive and then thrive to its height of having 368 locations in 40 US States, why Stuckeys was able to weather so man…

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Episode 12: Through The Looking Glass

Brain Chatter

Dr. Ken Chapman discusses the imperative of accurate self-reflection in organizational leadership and success. In fact, at the heart of almost every leadership issue in an organization, is the lack of accurate self-reflection on the individual level. What is practical self-reflection? Why is it important? What are best practices? What tools and strategies are helpful? How do you self-reflect accurately without doing so neurotically? How can one help a leader who is unaware of the…

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Episode 8: The Challenge of Change in the Workplace

Brain Chatter

Debra Miller examines why change implemented in the workplace is often difficult, resisted, and costly. She provides a clear 7-step process for leading change management effectively, replete with examples. Where must a leader start? What must be done along the way? Deb is the Managing Principal and Chair of the Board of Ken Chapman & Associates, Inc. She has managed numerous large change initiatives throughout her career. She assists and advises clients on how to map and lead thoughtful …

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Episode 4: Remote Team Leadership in the Zoom Era

Brain Chatter

Cherri Lee, Director of Human Resources at Automation Personnel Services, Inc., shares takeaways from years of working with and leading remote teams. Automation is an industrial staffing company with thousands of team members based out of over 30 locations across the US from the Atlantic to the Pacific. How directly accessible should a director or manager be to team members on the front lines, remotely or otherwise? Why is trust in an organization important to making problems less expensive a…

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Episode 1: Debunking The Myth That Leaders Are Born

Brain Chatter

Whitney Tate tackles the perplexing myth that leaders are born, and not developed. She takes a look at all the negative and damaging implications for individuals and for organizations who operate under the assumption that people are either ‘naturally born leaders’ or ‘not.’ Where does this come from? When people are asked to identify a leader they admire, why is a distant celebrity so often a response, instead of a leader they know personally who lives next door? Is the myth perpetuated by mo…

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