Passing The Baton Leadership Podcast

Today we continue with our second of two parts around inclusive leadership. During the show, we'll provide you with actionable tips and strategies to assess your own leadership and how to accelerate positive change in your team and influence those that you work with.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

When many people think of diversity and inclusion they gravitate toward demographics. While that may be a good starting point to begin the journey, we unpack ideas, strategies and self-reflection questions to take the idea further and deeper as you work with others.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

Happy new year! Today we focus on practical tips to help you as you take on a new year and a new set of goals that you want to accomplish in your personal and professional life.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

Today we cover 3 common mistakes that leaders make. (and maybe a bonus tip!)    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

There are some people that are really good at calling others out. They masterfully slay their opponents with clever comebacks and pointed wit.  Should we live our leadership walk that way? Today we'll focus on ways to call your people instead of out and you gain alignment, build trust and work towards shared success.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

Most part people want to put their best foot forward and show the best version of themselves when they are in the interview process. It's part first impression, expertise, good storytelling/communication, and embodying the role to some degree. Today we'll cover answers and responses to interview questions that fool no one and can harm your chances of getting that role that you are aspiring towards.  For other tips on ways to ace the interview check out (EP 113 & EP 217)   Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

Have you ever worked with, or done life with, someone that made a decision that you knew that they would later regret? Today we dive into those situations to help you with tips on how to support the person during those times.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

There is no better time to prepare your successor than today. On today's show, we give you an exercise to determine where you are the most vulnerable when it comes to succession planning, ways to check the readiness level of the individual, and areas to focus on as you prepare them for the future.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

A great listener question prompted the topic for today's show. Can you turn into a bad boss? Today, we unpack how a person moves from good intentions to a leader that no one wants to follow.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

Everyone has some level of desire to be accepted and affirmed by others. Going deeper than friendship, we'll talk about common mistakes that hold back your relationship potential and how they impact both your personal and professional life.   Today we'll cover tips to help you avoid some self-sabotage as you build relationships with others.   Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

We again open up the PTB mailbox to answer your questions rapid-fire style! Topics include Avoiding the ego trap Working through a traumatic experience at work.  How to have a productive morning routine Business vs people in a new role.  Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

It's often said that a leader's main job is to be a problem solver. You're hired to fix problems that pop up in your business. While it's a little bit more complex than that, you would do well to equip your teams to be great problem-solvers themselves.    Today we'll cover tips to help your team reframe and approach problems differently.   Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

We've all felt the lasting impact of the last few years. A study confirmed it, we've gotten more stressed and feel a high level of anxiety these days.    Today we'll help you how to stay close to your people while giving them the space that they need. We'll also discuss other supportive behaviors that you can put in place to help your team stay on track in a healthy way.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

"How are you?" It's a worn-out question that is part of a transactional greeting in many cultures. It's even often said with no expectation for a real answer and when a real answer is given, it can often throw off the person that asked the question in the first place.   Today we'll help you with conversation starters that will that your relationships and conversations deeper in an authentic way.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

No matter what you do, the ability to think critically will serve you well.  Good critical thinking skills push you to think about things objectively and without bias and consider different perspectives.    Today, we'll help you discover and consider new paths to follow in order to expand your horizons and strengthen your critical thinking.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

Leaders may be one of the groups in the workplace that need the most self-compassion. Affording yourself self-compassion as a leader is essential for your personal and professional growth.   On today's we'll breakdown:  Understanding the roadblocks to self-compassion Mindfulness and Compassion Putting it into action Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

We sometimes think of fairness and equality as the same thing, and even with the best intentions, we will lead ineffectively, if we get the two confused.    Today we talk about the idea that equal doesn't always mean fair and how tuning into each person's individual needs ultimately leads to everyone having a fair shot at career growth.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

Today, employees and customers are demanding transparency from organizations and leaders alike. Portraying an exaggerated level of strength and power will not connect in a lasting way. Leaders and companies can longer hide behind policies and procedures without relational consequences from others.    Zack gives us tips on how to be more vulnerable and the impacts that it has on your life.    Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!

It's our 7th anniversary! Mike, Neha and Zack get together to discuss the year, preview some topics for Year 8 and answer your questions from our mailbox.  Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!  

When it comes to leadership, what's true and what's a myth when it comes to a person's conception of what leadership is? We dive into 4 myths of leadership: The position myth The contentment myth The freedom myth The all-or-nothing myth Join Zack Hudson as he helps you grow your leadership skills weekly. Passing the Baton podcast is hosted by Mike Floyd & Neha Shingane. Visit our website!