The Hard Skills
autor: Dr. Mira Brancu
Najnowszy odcinek
Leadership Lessons From a Pop Culture Convention, with Brandon Peters
Leadership Lessons From a Pop Culture Convention, with Brandon Peters
O tym podcaście
Welcome to “The Hard Skills” podcast, a practical and research-driven show that explores the core leadership skills needed to fuel leadership to activate real change, such as creating inclusive and healthy workplaces.
Through expert interviews and live coaching calls, we challenge the notion of "soft skills," question long-held but inaccurate leadership development beliefs, and offer real, practical solutions for complex leadership challenges.
Hosted by Dr. Mira Brancu, a clinical and organizational development psychologist with extensive leadership experience, we’ll delve into topics of leadership identity, leading with uncertainty, navigating workplace politics, and creating critical organizational change.
This podcast will especially appeal to high-achieving leaders in healthcare, tech, and academic, industries. Whether you're seeking personal growth, looking to enhance your leadership abilities, or interested in Dr. Brancu's coaching services and membership community, join us as we unravel the complexities of leadership and inspire you to embrace the hard skills.
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- Leadership Lessons From a Pop Culture Convention, with Brandon Peters · 58 min · Sezon 13 Odcinek 148What can a pop culture convention teach you about workplace culture and leadership? More than you think. Brandon Peters shares the leadership lessons behind building a stage…
- 13 Leadership Mistakes That Are Easy to Overlook · 1 godz. 13 min · Sezon 12Is your team difficult, or are you misreading the signals? Build leadership skills by looking beneath workplace burnout and micromanagement. In this Season 12 compilation of The…
- 6 Reasons Bosses Micromanage (And How to Deal With It) · 14 min · Sezon 12Dealing with a micromanaging boss, or worried you're the one who can't stop micromanaging? The fix depends on why it's happening, and there's more than one reason. Micromanaging…
- The Unseen Iceberg Under Every Difficult Employee, with Emily Ambrose · 1 godz. 0 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 147Your team is grieving, even when nobody says it out loud. Dr. Mira Brancu talks with HR leader and coach Emily Ambrose about the organizational grief behind burnout and quiet…
- Why We Should Retire "Managing Up" (and What To Do Instead)? · 11 min · Sezon 12Managing up is broken advice. Dr. Mira Brancu breaks down the leadership skill that actually builds trust with your boss, and it isn't managing anyone at all. Most advice about…
- Situational Leadership 50 Years Later, with Dr. Sam Shriver and Suzie Bishop · 1 godz. 9 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 146Most managers are so afraid of micromanaging that they default to one leadership style. Then change hits, the team stalls, and nobody can name what went wrong. Dr. Mira Brancu…
- CEO EXPLAINS: How Grief Made Him a Better Leader, with James Dismond · 59 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 145Most leaders treat grief and burnout like a personal weakness. James Dismond thinks differently. James became a CEO for the first time in 2023. Ninety days in, his mother entered…
- Your Generation Explains Only 4% of Your Personality, with Dr. Ryne Sherman · 1 godz. 1 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 144Everyone says you have to manage each generation differently. The data says otherwise. Your generation explains about 4 percent of your personality. You explain almost 80…
- How to Manage High Performers · 8 min · Sezon 12Managing high performers takes a completely different skill set than managing low performers, and giving feedback to a high achiever the usual way can backfire badly. There is…
- From Expert to Leader: Being Right vs Being Effective · 8 min · Sezon 12You were right in that meeting and nobody listened. Dr. Mira Brancu breaks down what technical experts miss when they ignore workplace politics in favor of being right. Most…
- The One Thing AI Can't Fix for Leaders, with Drs. Ross Blankenship & Maggie Sass · 48 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 143Most leaders are told to stay logical and remove anything that feels like friction. But real emotional intelligence in leadership starts with reading that friction, not erasing…
- How Experts Become Micromanagers · 8 min · Sezon 12You did not set out to become a micromanager. But if you got promoted for being the best expert in the room, perfectionism is probably running your leadership now, and it might…
- How Great Leaders Master the Inner Game and Outer Game, with Jamie Ramsden and Dr. Suzie Burke · 56 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 142Even Einstein doubted himself. Meryl Streep still waits for the other shoe to drop. Dr. Mira sits down with executive advisors Dr. Suzy Burke and Jamie Ramsden to explore what…
- A Unique Way This Psychologist Helps Leaders Reduce Burnout in 52 Weeks, with Dr. Dana Gionta · 49 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 141Most leaders were taught that self-love is soft, or even selfish. It is actually the skill that keeps you from burning out. Self-love is the real foundation of sustainable…
- Stress, Burnout, Disengagement, vs. a Toxic Environment, with Dr. John O'Brien · 34 min · Sezon 12 Odcinek 140Most leaders spot rudeness or a toxic workplace and rush to shut the behavior down. But incivility is often a symptom of stress, burnout, and something deeper nobody names. Dr…
- The 13 Human Needs Your Workplace Forgot · 1 godz. 31 min · Sezon 11The modern workplace got great at performance and quietly stopped meeting basic human needs at work. This is a full season on those needs, and the leadership that brings them…
- The Succession Trap: Handoffs, Legacy, and Your 2,000 Weeks Left, with Dr. Mark L. Vincent · 59 min · Sezon 11 Odcinek 140Most leaders think succession is just naming the next person for the chair. It is not. Real leadership succession is about protecting everything you spent years building. Dr…
- Stop Calling It Imposter Syndrome (It's Making Things Worse) · 9 min · Sezon 11"Imposter syndrome" gets thrown around constantly in leadership spaces. But what if the label itself is doing more harm than good? Dr. Mira Brancu breaks down why the original…
- The Leadership Skill MBA Programs Don't Teach You, with Dr. David W. Robinson-Morris · 45 min · Sezon 11 Odcinek 138Imagination as a leadership skill? Most people wouldn't even put it in their top 10. But what if it's the one thing separating leaders who repeat old systems from those who build…
- Working Hard But Your Team Still Doesn't See It? (Here's Why), with Margaret Andrews · 52 min · Sezon 11 Odcinek 137You've been working so hard to be an effective leader, and somehow your team still doesn't see it. This episode shows you exactly why, and how to close the gap before it stalls…
