Quick Hits

What is the difference between proving and improving yourself?

This is another conversation where at first the answer seems straight forward. But as we dove in the nuances of the English language and how we interpret the words is more nuanced than we first thought. If you enjoy conversations that make you think and exercise your brain, this one is for you.

 

Thank you to Kristin Bainger, Tim Hawkes and Bill Lindquist to being game to join me in thought experiment.

 

If you would like get to know the panelists, please visit their LinkedIn profiles:

Tim Hawkes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhawkes/

Bill Lindquist: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamslindquist/

Kristin Bainger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-g-bainger-she-her-6aa5866/  

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

 

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects.

#selfimprovement #selfworth #braintraining #thoughts

How do you hold someone accountable without blaming?

Accountability, responsibility, authority, power and even blame. All pieces of the puzzle of getting things done or are they individual aspects that can (should?) be looked are separately? Kristin makes the point about blame being emotion and everything else is just the facts.

 

Listen in as Karen Loomis, Wayne Buckhanan, Kristin Bainger and I talk through the need for accountability and how to do it without blaming someone. I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

 

To learn about the panelists, please visit their LinkedIn profiles:

Dr. Wayne Buckhanan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynebuckhanan/

Karen Loomis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kloomis/

Kristin Bainger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-g-bainger-she-her-6aa5866/

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects.

#accountability #blame #leadership #responsibility #authority

Might you be thriving and not realize it?

What does it mean to thrive versus survive? I've been thinking about this a lot since Simon Coles, Rowley Maggs, Rick Alcantara, and I had this conversation. Something that has come up for me since is that thriving might be having the mental and emotional space to make choices/decisions rather than feeling completely overwhelmed and having to dash from thing to thing on autopilot.

 

Take a listen and then let me know what you think. How would you know if your were thriving or just surviving? Where is the line between them?

 

To learn about the panelists, please visit their LinkedIn profiles:

Simon Coles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjcoles/

Rowley Maggs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowleymaggs/

Rick Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickalcantara/

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

 

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects.

 

#thrive #survive #overwhelmed #podcast #wellbeing

Is saying ”I‘m sorry” useless?

"I'm sorry" could be empathic, sympathetic, apologetic, manipulative or meaningless. This conversation has made me much more aware of how "I'm sorry" is used in everyday interactions and where I use it. I said "sorry" to my husband just this morning when I stepped in front of him as he was heading to the coffee pot.

 

Listen in as Kristin Bainger, Wayne Buckhanan, Tim Hawkes and I try to sort through what "I'm sorry" actually means and if it is a useful piece of communication or if we should remove it from our conversations. We didn't even get into the use of #SorryNotSorry

 

To learn about the panelists, please visit their LinkedIn profiles:

Tim Hawkes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhawkes/

Kristin Bainger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-g-bainger-she-her-6aa5866/  

Dr. Wayne Buckhanan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynebuckhanan/

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

 

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects. 

#sorryday #sorryday2021 #apology #apologetics #apologize

How to forgive someone who isn‘t sorry

Do you have to forgive someone to let go of something? Should you forgive someone who isn't sorry? Does letting something go mean "forgive and forget?"

 

What I can say for sure after this conversation: English words mean very different things even among native English speakers. Listen in as Tim Hawkes, Kristin Bainger, Wayne Buckhanan, and I try to sort through what forgiveness means, touch on what it means to be sorry and try to figure out where we stand on releasing bitterness versus forgiveness. 

 

To learn about the panelist, please visit their LinkedIn profiles:

Kristin Bainger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-g-bainger-she-her-6aa5866/  

Tim Hawkes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhawkes/

Dr. Wayne Buckhanan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynebuckhanan/

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

 

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects.

 

#forgiveness #forgiveandforget #podcast #relationships

How to remember to celebrate small wins

The small stepping stones are an important part of any big success. But they are easy to move through like they don't matter. As a recovering "box checker" I am certainly guilty of it.

Listen in as Kristin Bainger, Karina Hulstrom, Wayne Buckhanan and I share best practices, what we tell clients and what we do (maybe not so well) ourselves.

 

To learn about the panelists, please visit their LinkedIn profiles:

Karina Hulstrom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karina-hulstrom-720a0149/

Dr. Wayne Buckhanan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynebuckhanan/

Kristin Bainger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-g-bainger-she-her-6aa5866/  

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

 

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects.

#motivation #celebrateyourwins #celebratesuccess #celebrate

Getting over the end of a friendship.

Friendships end, sometimes with a fight, sometimes with ghosting but often they just fizzle. Is there a gender difference in how much thought goes into the end of a friendship?

Listen in as Karen Loomis, James H. Lee, Rowley Maggs and I tackle this challenging subject and share our experience with having people we cared deeply about no long be part of our lives.

 

To learn about the panelists, please visit their LinkedIn profiles:

James Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jleeadvisor/

Rowley Maggs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowleymaggs/

Karen Loomis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kloomis/

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

 

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. #friendship #friends #loss #sadness

What to do when you realize you weren‘t listening

This conversations started with the question, "How do you notice you haven't been listening" but very quickly became about how to recover from the realization that you had lost the thread of a conversation or that your mind had wandered off.

 

Listen in as Karina Hulstrom, Kristin Bainger and I talk about how to make conversations work.

 

To learn about the participants, please visit their LinkedIn profiles:

 

Karina Hulstrom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karina-hulstrom-720a0149/

Kristin Bainger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-g-bainger-she-her-6aa5866/

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects. If you have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me.

 

#activelistening #listen #YoureNotListening #communication #conversation

How do you know you‘re listening?

This subject turned out to be quite complicated. Sure there are elements of listening. I've written about them in my books and Tim shared them at the start of this conversation. Active listening is a pretty common idea. But if you start thinking about those things during a conversation you most certainly are not listening.

 

Listen in (no pun intended) as Karina Hulstrom, Kristin Bainger, Tim Hawkes and I try to put words to how we know we are listening without thinking about while doing it.

 

To learn about the panelists, please visit their LinkedIn profiles:

Karina Hulstrom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karina-hulstrom-720a0149/

Kristin Bainger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-g-bainger-she-her-6aa5866/  

Tim Hawkes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhawkes/

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

 

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects. If you have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me.  #activelistening #listeningskills #listening #listentounderstand

Why does bad news get buried?

Good news stays good. Bad news gets worse. But humans tend to bury bad news and share good. Why do we do that? When I proposed this topic I was thinking about "news" as happenings within a business or relationship. The idea that leaders never hear how bad things really are until they explode onto their desk. But other people in this conversation thought about how the press only shares bad news.

 

Listen in as James H. Lee, Sara Oblak Speicher, Steve Thomson and I talk through this odd human behavior.

 

To learn about the panelists, please visit their LinkedIn profile:

Steve Thomson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevethomsoncoach/

Sara Oblak Speicher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saraospeicher/  

James Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jleeadvisor/

Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

 

#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects. If you have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me.

 

#conflictresolution #conflictmanagement #conflictavoidance #gossip