Grow Great - A City Government Leadership Podcast

Grow Great - A City Government Leadership Podcast


Latest Episodes

Leading Through The Churn (Part 3)
August 30, 2023

  Today we wrap up our 3-part series on leading through the churn. We’ve discussed the need to figure out better ways to lead and manage through the churn, and how to assemble a team capable of effect

Leading Through The Churn (Part 2)
August 23, 2023

  Lisa and I continue part 2 of our 3-part series on leading through the personnel churn. If you didn’t yet watch or listen to part 1, do that before you progress to this one. The context of part 1 wi

Leading Through The Churn (Part 1)
August 16, 2023

Today we begin a 3-part series on leading through the churn. We make a distinction between churn and turnover. Be sure to watch or listen to all 3 parts of this series. We hope you find it helpf

Focus On Others To Improve Yourself
August 09, 2023

How can we improve ourselves and achieve greater success? One major contributor is our willingness and ability to focus on othersand how we can help them. Today we hope to provoke you to think abou

3 Things You Must Do To Build A High Performing Team
August 02, 2023

You, the leader, must have a clear purpose and mission. You have to know why youre in it and what IT is. High performing teams arent constructed based on pure logic or reason. They need an emotion

You Can’t Grow If You’re Planted In The Wrong Place
July 26, 2023

Older folks admonished me, Grow where youre planted. The wisest of old folks who surrounded me influenced me to be careful where I was willing to plant myself. They knew the soil of my life would

I Don’t Have Time To Grow My People
July 19, 2023

Busy, busy, busy! Its the battle cry in every city. The flow of work that must be done is often overwhelming. Managers lament, I dont have time to grow my people. Weve got too much work to do.

Own It: Individual Responsibility For The Outcome
July 12, 2023

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. Unknown Regularly I challenge my coaching clients with this question,

Leadership Is Doing What You Say You’ll Do
July 05, 2023

As consumer weve all experienced that awful time when people dont do what they say. Its frustrating. Sometimes infuriating. Because were on the receiving end of that experience. Truth is, were

How Do You Measure Leadership Success?
June 28, 2023

Many of us value popularity over influence. Some degree of fame over impact. I ran across a statement that I had to write down in my little notebook Others will attempt to get you to lower your st