What is the most hard-won, unglamorous, yet high-performance skill in leadership? It may be one that is almost never discussed: killing your darlings.

How do we recalibrate our bias towards adding? How do we accept, normalize and even grieve when it is time to let go of a beloved offering, product, department for the long-term health of the organization? What role does confidence play in creating elegant and enduring companies? How does 'killing your darlings' enable us to optimally direct the energy in our companies? How must humility evolve as we scale our organizations and movements towards even higher performance, greater impact and joy?

Join Kedren and Dylan to explore the art of shedding, pruning, and tailoring your organization through elegant leadership.

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Intuition is simply knowing without fully knowing how you know. We benefit from accessing ALL of our knowledge (both cognitive and intuitive), yet some of us have been encouraged to undervalue our intuitive knowledge. Join Kedren and Sarah to learn about the four types of intuition (Expert, Creative, Relational, and Temporal) as well as Kedren's top ten favorite techniques for developing your own intuitive skills so that you have more fruitful and joyful work lives. You already have this intuition; you just need to clear the obstacles to it. Choose a few of the techniques, experiment, and let us know how you are reconnecting to your own untapped resource.

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Inspired by the leadership book Extreme Ownership, Sarah *convinced* Nate Shea from SecureStrux to return to the podcast and dig into what Owning It means on our teams. “What’s rewarded is repeated.” In a recent March 2024 article by Zenger and Folkman, the research about the culture of empowered teams shows that if we want high engagement and productivity, we need to set the tone and help our teams by trusting them, encouraging them, and letting mistakes be opportunities to grow. It requires a fair dose of humility and willingness to let go of control. Nate and Sarah discuss the wins and the challenges of creating that culture and reveal what they think is the secret sauce to motivation and empowerment.

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Join Ryan Berardi, Mike Mason, and Kedren as they explore recent research documenting the shifts in what we truly want and expect from our leaders. The necessary and elusive role of 'Executive Presence' is evolving in significant and even some encouraging ways. What makes a leader now?  What skills should we hone to be a modern leader? Listen in to learn about both the changing and evergreen facets of leadership gravitas, communication skills, and the 'right' appearance.

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This week on The Behaviorist, join Sarah and Kedren for an impromptu discussion on how to build one's confidence. During this episode, you'll learn what mindsets, behaviors, and habits foster sustained, enhanced self-regard. Explore Work Wisdom's experience about the facets and building blocks of MODERN confidence, which include humility, polish, and deep listening.

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Join us as Janine talks with Liz Orr, creator of the Rude Ass Enneagram, about the best way to discern your number, Liz's process of writing her new book “The Unfiltered Enneagram, A Witty And Wise Guide to Self Compassion,” and how to recognize the negative patterns of your number and move toward Badass Pattern Breaking.

You can follow Liz on Instagram @rudeassenneagram and visit her website www.rudeassenneagram.com to preorder her book and get a personalized snarky message according to your enneagram number!

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We certainly needed to hear this right now, and we hope it’s perfect timing for you, too. This is possibly the most countercultural business podcast ever recorded.

What would our workplaces be like if we learned to love uncertainty? How do we double down on our inputs, our habits, our practices and let go of trying to predict the future? Why is our intolerance of uncertainty growing? How do we actually grow if we don’t expose ourselves to uncertainty?

Read this article for more context on this envelope-pushing conversation with Dr. Chris Peterson and Kedren. We challenge you to share this podcast with your teammates and discuss how this research could positively transform your organization’s culture.”

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Join us as Sarah talks with Alisa and Alex about three key ways of maximizing potential. If you’re interested in unlocking your potential or, as a leader, unlocking your team's potential, the following episode might interest you. We’re not getting anywhere fast sitting in Zoom meetings in our pajamas. How can we level up and get that boost of energy and performance that makes life exciting and worth getting up and dressed in the morning?! Tune in and find out.

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Join us as Work Wisdom’s Real-Time strategy associate, Mike McKenna talks with Work Wisdom Founder Kedren Crosby and Vanessa Philbert, CEO of Community Action Partnership, about lessons in growth mindset from one of Hollywood’s culinary anti-heros. Follow along as we slice and dice the journey of Cousin Richie from Hulu’s hit The Bear.

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We received too many requests for this content to wait until we could get into the studio. Are you burning out, or have you lost your spark?  If you’re trying to find your vibrancy, listen to Kedren as she shares her top twenty favorite ways to sustainably revive and renew in times of uncertainty or unprecedented stress.

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Join some Work Wisdom leaders to reflect on Adam Bryant’s new work on Leap to Leader. Adam Bryant has found that there are SIX focus areas when growing. 1. What do you stand for? Your values? 2. Hone your decision-making. 3. Setting the bar at the right level. 4. Compartmentalization 5. Self-awareness 6. Know and own your own story.            

Sit back and listen as Sarah, Janine, Kedren, and Matt discuss Freud, ponies, Taking the B, NOT oversharing, the Authenticity Paradox, when to recognize that you ARE a leader, and pony jokes.

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We need entrepreneurs everywhere. They’re gritty, take risks, inspire us, and solve problems. Join us as we dive into the ingredients of an entrepreneurial mindset with three entrepreneurs: Deb Brandt, founder of Fig Industries, Nate Shea, founder of SecureStrux and Andy Garman, founder of Pipedream. Find out what has inspired these leaders to do what they do despite the challenges and how their entrepreneurial mindset has influenced their leadership style. Be prepared to start adopting your own entrepreneurial mindset!

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Employee happiness has been in steady decline since 2020.

In an article in Fast Company earlier this week, CEO and author Jenn Lim asked, “Why are employees so glum? They’re no longer riding the ‘highs and lows’ of their roles but instead shifted to ‘resignation and apathy’” writes Lim. “The true problem with employee engagement isn’t a lack of motivation but a disconnect between the employee and the organization’s purpose.” 

Disengaged teams cost the global economy $8.8 trillion annually, but a massive individual cost exists, as well. “Workers aren’t feeling a sense of purpose in their work, unable to see the alignment between their values or connections to what matters most,” Lim says. 

As leaders, there are things we can do! Join Dr. Ryan Berardi and Kedren as they share tips, mindsets, and behaviors to shift The Great Gloom to The Great Flourishing.  Make your organization an outlier for positive engagement and happiness at work!

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Join us as Work Wisdom’s Real-Time strategy associate, Mike McKenna talks with Atomic Design’s CBDO, Joey McMonagle, about lessons of fatherhood that can strengthen your workplace leadership and help with effective, compassionate parenting, too.

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“Self-less leadership is bad for everyone.” Join us as Sarah talks with Kedren about the impact of selfless leadership on leaders and teams and the sustainable ways leaders can empower and invest in team members without burning out.

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The closing song is "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" by The Smiths.

It's crucial for leaders to become competent in guiding their teams through transitions. In this episode of The Behaviorist, Kedren Crosby shares evidence-based insights for leaders to effectively navigate the different stages of transition. A significant takeaway from this conversation? Embrace the fact that 'uncertainty is the only certainty'.

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Join us this week as Vanessa and Kedren explore Organizational Burnout. We can’t yoga and meditate our way out of an epidemic of burnout, but we can reframe the problem, lead courageously, and apply systems-wide interventions.  Listen in to learn about the mindsets, habits, and guardrails your organization can adopt to shield your teams from burnout.

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Join Kedren and Sarah on this episode of The Behaviorist as they delve into the pressing importance of trust in these times of uncertainty. With the pandemic and remote work, coupled with the phenomenon of the great resignation, the overwhelming presence of over-employment, and a sea of Instagram posts playfully mocking the predicament of being at Target while the boss is calling, It is abundantly clear that what we truly need is a remedy for the trust deficiency that exists. This is particularly crucial since cultivating a culture of high trust yields tangible benefits and gifts us the experience of genuine joy.

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From The Great Resignation to The Great Regret, leaders and teams have experienced epic challenges in recruiting, retaining, and engaging talent over the past three years.  Join Kedren and Sophie Nicholas, a recruiter at Siemens, as they discuss concrete, strategic, modern, and inclusive methods for attracting and empowering new talent to your team.  Tune in to learn Sophie’s tactics for deploying inclusive recruitment, leveraging smart technology, and shaping culture to win the long game.

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What is the difference between perfectionism and excellence? Maybe you’ve heard the line, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” Perfect is an ideal that is, by definition, unattainable. Many of us strive for a high standard beyond merely “good.” On today’s podcast, tune in to hear Mike, Vanessa, and Sara clarify key differences between the pursuit of perfection and the pursuit of excellence AND share concrete practices to meet high standards without the baggage.

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