Sal Silvester on the Future of Leadership

How to be a Mindful Leader In a Distracted World

As our world grows in complexity and the pace of change increases, it will be incumbent upon leaders to be mindful. To be aware of how they feel internally so that they can show up in life and in leadership externally with more intention and purpose.

In this episode, Sal Silvester interviews best selling author and global business thinker Achim Nowak about the importance of mindfulness to the leader of the future.

You can download our Change The Way You Think toolkit to help you implement the concepts we discuss in this episode. It’s free. Just go to our podcast and episode page at www.512solutions.com.

The Future of Work - Are You Ready?

Today’s episode will help you think differently about how our society and our future of work is changing. As Sal Silvester interviews his special guest Heather McGowan, a Future of Work Strategist, you'll gain insights into how we all need to evolve our thinking so that we create a society and a workplace that actually works for more people.

The bottom line is that we all have to think differently about the future if we want to remain competitive and create businesses that will thrive in our rapidly changing world. This interview will blow you away and provide a better understanding of some of the things that are happening in our society and workplace.

You can download our Change The Way You Think toolkit to help you implement the concepts we discuss in this episode. It’s free. Just go to our podcast and episode page at www.512solutions.com.

How to Reset Your Business Strategy (and Emerge Stronger!)

Business conditions have changed dramatically since January, and the strategic priorities you defined at the beginning of 2020 may now be temporarily or permanently obsolete. 

We aren’t going back to the way things were, and as we approach the end of Q2, this is the perfect time of the year to consider the current state of your business and the gap between where it is and the original aspirations for the year.  For most businesses, it’s time to make new choices - choices about what to do and choices about what not to do. 

During this episode, Sal Silvester and John Wittry explore how leaders need to reset their thinking, business strategy, and culture to emerge stronger in the second half of 2020.  

You can download our Business Reprioritization toolkit to help you implement the concepts we discuss in this episode. It’s free. Just go out our podcast and episode page at www.512solutions.com.

How to Connect with Different Personality Styles in a Virtual World

We are into our third month of working virtually and different personality styles are responding very differently to our new way of working. Some team members are absolutely thriving, working independently, and with less distraction at home. Others are only surviving, missing out on the connection and community that comes with being in the office.

In this episode, Sal Silvester connects with top DiSC expert Tammy Krings to talk about the four primary personality styles in the workplace using the DiSC model and how to connect with each style in a virtual environment. During this episode, you'll walk away with insights on how to remain a caring and connected leader while adapting your style to what others need as you drive performance and productivity.

You can download the Using DiSC to Connect Virtually Toolkit on our website. It’s free. Just go out to our podcast and episode page at www.512solutions.com.

How Managers Can Address Loss and Grief in the Workplace

It is normal to not feel normal during this time. Our grief may be a response to losing our familiar way of living and working. As we enter the third month of this crisis, the topic of mental health is arising more often in the workplace. The challenge for leaders is knowing how to respond effectively as a manager and coach without stepping into the bounds of being a counselor or therapist. During this episode, Sal Silvester speaks with executive coach and psychotherapist Barry Shapiro about (1) a normal reaction to trauma, (2) what managers should do and not do in response to trauma, and (3) how can you take care of yourself so that you can be there for others.

To help you implement ideas from this podcast, download the Manager's Guide to Surviving the Pandemic Toolkit on our website. It’s free. Just go out out our podcast and episode page at https://512solutions.com/category/future-of-leadership-podcast/.

How to Lead with Deep Humanity

We are interrupting Season 2 to provide tangible and actionable tools to help leaders during these difficult times.I know that many of you are feeling isolated right now. You are probably trying to work productively from home, maybe with a spouse or partner who is also trying to do the same. And on top of that getting your kids through their homeschooling class.

Ultimately, we all want to emerge from this crisis stronger and more united in our common goals. To do that, leaders at all levels have to recognize that what we are all going through a deeply human experience. And we can thrive and we can help our team members thrive if we truly recognize the humanity in all of this.

This episode provides some strategies based on our Human Workplace Needs model - it’s a model we created long before this crisis that enables a deeper level of your humanity to shine through to your people and your organization.

You can download the Leading with Deep Humanity toolkit on our website. It’s free. Just go out out our podcast and episode page at www.512solutions.com.

How to Communicate During Crisis

If you think it feels a little chaotic right now, you are not alone. Part of what contributes to the noise and instability during significant periods of uncertainty is haphazard communication from leaders. A few tweets or off-handed comments, pictures of empty shelves showing up on feeds and the unnerving sense of an invisible airborne threat and suddenly we’re buying dozens of rolls of toilet paper and gallons of hand sanitizer.During this episode, Sal Silvester shares a practical and tangible tool to help you and your leaders communicate with intention and purpose during any crisis.

And, you can download our Lead Through Crisis communication framework in the episode notes on our podcast page at www.512solutions.com to help you and your leaders communicate and lead with with intention through any crisis.

Deep Belief in People and Leadership

My guest today is a leader who knows how to create healthy and aligned executive teams and organizational cultures that truly believe that people matter. His name is Pat Risner. I first met Pat when he was President of BHP Billiton’s US coal business. That was over five years ago. To this day, I haven’t met a more integrity based, purpose driven leadership team than the team I saw Pat lead at BHP Billiton. 

In this interview with Pat, you are going to hear about the key ingredients needed to create a healthy, aligned and more human work culture.

Don’t forget to check out our episode notes on our podcast page at www.512solutions.com, where you’ll find additional resources to apply the frameworks that we talk about in this session, including a Leadership Alignment tool and a link to our 39 page goal setting guide.

How to Use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to Align Your Team

In this Episode, Sal Silvester and Doug Gray explore how OKRs - Objectives and Key Results - can help you create focus, accountability, transparency, and, most importantly, agency with your team members. OKRs are the "secret sauce" with Silicon Valley tech companies for creating alignment. This is a very practical episode tied in with our theme this season of organizational and cultural alignment.

Don’t forget to check out our episode notes on our podcast page at www.512solutions.com, where you’ll find additional resources to apply the frameworks that we talk about in this session, including a Leadership Alignment tool, a link to our 39 page goal setting guide and other resources that Doug has provided to learn more about OKRs and aligning your team.

An Aligned People and Culture Strategy

In this episode, Sal Silvester interviews Courtney Graham, the Chief People Office2 at Four Winds Interactive, a global technology company headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Sal and Courtney explore alternatives to the traditional employee engagement measurement approach, talk about the power of transparency, and how to build community in the workplace. You will be inspired by how gamification, AI and creative approaches are reshaping how Courtney and her team build healthy workplace cultures.