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In Episode #11 of the Lessons on Leadership podcast we explain ways to create the right partnerships. Whether it be partnerships with vendors, colleagues or your supervisor, creating solid partnerships will help you excel in your career. These partnerships will shape the way you lead your department and guide you through leading your organization to success.You can find the Lessons on Leadership podcast online at www.leadershippod.com. You can also find us on iTunes and Stitcher or at www.facebook.com/leadershippod or www.twitter.com/atleadershippod.

Wisdom comes with experience and the greatest wisdom we accrue throughout our lives, is shaped by overcoming challenges. We’ve all been faced with challenges throughout our careers and throughout our lives. Challenges make us who we are. They shape the way we think. They contribute to how we lead.  Overcoming these challenges makes us better and makes us realize our own potential. Many times the biggest challenges we have in both our day to day lives and our career have to do with truly understanding ourselves. So today, we are going to do a retrospective look on the topic, What Do You Wish You Knew When You Were Younger. We’re not talking about regrets, mainly from our own insights, how would we help influence ourselves long ago to know what we know to be valuable leadership skills today.

Leaders are remembered for their accomplishments, not their dreams. Many people have big ideas, but end up never following through with them. A true, however, takes action on those ideas. Taking action on big ideas requires many leadership qualities like fearlessness, proper communication, being able to take criticism, making tough decisions and many others.Most of us have had bosses in the past that practice a do as I say not as I do type of attitude, but a true leader is never above jumping into a big project or big decision and taking action. Whether that is actually doing the work or delegating to the proper employees to get the job done, they are right there along side their employees willing to have their name attached to a big decision or big idea whether it is a tremendous success or a terrible failure.So today, we will take on the topic, actions of a leader.

This episode I am joined with special guest Anne Loehr. As a leader within your organization, you have to deal with different challenges every day. Unfortunately, most times, you do not see them coming. Our topic today, however, will deal with four key demographics that WILL have an impact on your organization and how to prepare for and manage through them.  These massive shifts in the workforce will not only test us as leaders, but challenge and shape the way we interact with others. We will be forced to evolve, forced to question ourselves, forced to grow. We will not just be challenged to manage difficult people through difficult situations, we will be leading and teaching in so many different ways, we will have to be masters of our craft.You can find Anne at www.anneloehr.com.

Decisions. Even simple ones can be tough, but a great leader is able to make the tough decisions. It’s the tough decisions that define us as leaders. When faced with a major decision, it can be incredibly difficult for people for many reasons, but the number one reason is fear. Dale Carnegie once said, “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” Today in the show, we will cover developing guiding principles to help you make decisions, overcoming fear, trusting others, indecisions, once in a lifetime decisions and much more.

This episode, host of LDRLB and author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies Generate Great Ideas joins me to talk about creativity.Challenging yourself to think differently is essential for moving forward not only in your career, but in your personal life. Too often, we become creatures of a routine that does not allow us to see or do things in a different manner. In addition, some of us may feel that doing something differently, more creatively, has to happen by some mysterious moment of inspiration. What if all of our feelings and ideas behind what it means to be creative or think differently about a situation were wrong?Visit David at www.davidburkus.com.

If you haven’t listened to episode #4, I highly encourage you to do so because last episode we talked about your personal brand as a leader, touchpoints, why to rebrand, Redbull and going to Mars. It was part 1 of this two part series. This show we will skip the monologue and get right into other dimensions of what goes into a brand including customer service and support, creating a demand, company culture, brand value and some of our personal good and bad experiences with brands.

When many people in business think of brand, a logo immediately comes to mind. They tend to think of a color palate, a tagline and perhaps a series of ads or even a “tone” that is set through advertising. However, when it comes to brand, anything having to do with advertising, a visual identity is only the marketing department trying to control a message. Your brand, however, is the experience a customer or employee has with your company. We'll go in depth into developing your personal brand as a leader, touchpoints, reasons to rebrand

This is episode #3. Asking the right questions. When dealing with this topic, it is so broad, yet fundamental to the growth of an individual, a team and an organization. Asking the right questions form the very foundation of a crucial understanding of how and why things work so that you can form educated strategies and execute well-informed decisions that will benefit you and everyone around you. Asking the right questions makes you smarter, more creative, better equipped and more confident in taking action to lead. Check us out on iTunes, Stitcher, Facebook and Twitter.

In baseball, the great hitters learn to hit curveballs. In business and in life, the best leaders know how to handle situations when they do not go according to plan. In this show, we will examine some ways to consider handling and dealing with the times when life throws you a curveball.

Welcome to the first episode of the Lessons on Leadership podcast with your hosts Andrew Evans and Darren Schulte. In this episode, we will explore the topic "Developing Trust in a Team". We talk about being transparent, giving and proving yourself, developing team dynamics and many other parts of building a strong team.You can contact the show by the following methods:Website:www.leadershippod.comFacebook:www.facebook.com/leadershippodTwitter:@atleadershippodiTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lessons-on-leadership/Email:leadershippod@gmail.comVoicemail:910-777-7092