Sal Silvester on the Future of Leadership

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.

How to Create Focus and Accountability: A Strategic Planning Approach for 2020

Continuing with our season 2 theme of organizational and cultural alignment, Sal Silvester and John Wittry explore a strategic planning framework that you can implement to create more focus, accountability and better leadership in 2020. This is the same approach that Sal and John use in their strategic planning and team acceleration sessions with clients.

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 Business as a Platform for (Human) Growth

Season 2 is all about organizational and cultural alignment so that you start the next decade with intention. 

In this episode, Sal Silvester talks with Eric Remer - an incredibly successful entrepreneur who has started and sold three businesses over the past 20 years and whose current venture, EverCommerce, was valued at close to $2 billion in its most recent round of financing. Eric and Sal talk about how to create a platform that enables people to thrive and the direct correlation between business results and enabling people to be more of who they really are in the workplace.

Season 2 Trailer: Organizational and Culture Alignment

Sal Silvester, host and executive producer, kicks off Season 2 of the podcast to help leaders think differently as they respond to the increasing complexity and pace of change of our workplace and world.

Season 2 will be focused on organizational and cultural alignment so that you can kick-off the new year with everyone in lock-step. This season is going to provide you with practical and actionable tools and best practices from our thought leaders. With almost every episode, we’ll have a framework or a toolkit that you’ll have access to so that you can actually apply the tools in the workplace that we discussed in the episode. Additionally, our blog posts at 512solutions.com will provide further content and resources to help solidify your learnings.

Questions that will Change Your Thinking (and life)!

In this Episode we hear from all of our special guests that appeared throughout Season 1. They share their "go to" questions that transform their thinking and drive better business results. You'll love this unique format!

Hiring Top Talent

In this episode Sal Silvester talks with author, speaker and expert Beth Smith about trends in hiring practices today, mistakes leaders make in the hiring process and 7 critical steps to making the right hire.

Agile, Open Minded and Open Space

Sal Silvester and Suzanne Daigle strategize about how an agile approach to leadership and an open mindset will be critical to success in the future.

The Future of Leadership: Trends and Mindset Shifts

This episode explores some of the trends impacting leadership effectiveness today and the mindset shifts leaders will need to make to be successful.