Quick Hits

How do you identify fear?

Emotions are such weird things. How do we know if what we are feeling is fear or frustration or anger or...? If you can't identify it there is no way to understand it and you certainly can't explain it to someone else.

Wayne Buckhanan, Marie Wright, Karina Hulstrom and I spent ten minutes trying to untangle the nuances of fear, how to recognize it and then what to do with it.

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

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

Marie Wright: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariewright-boldbeancoaching/

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. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me.

Why do humans have a love/hate relationship with change?

Why do we want things to be different and also dislike change?

You have likely seen the comic where everyone raises their hand when ask if they want things to be different but no one does when asked if they want to change.

When I first proposed this topic a couple of people said the answer was straightforward and it wouldn't take us ten minutes to explain it. Turns out the conversation was much more dynamic and nuanced than it might appear at first glance.

Listen in as Marie Wright, Karina Hulstrom, Wayne Buckhanan and I talk about science, psychology, evolution and why humans have such a love/hate relationship with change.

Learn more about the participants by visiting their LinkedIn profiles:

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

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

Marie Wright: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariewright-boldbeancoaching/

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.

Why would you want to manage up?

This conversation stemmed from a comment on the Quick Hits conversation about How to manage up (https://youtu.be/-Xb2csvxNuo). Is managing up really something that needs to be done? Is it insulting?

Listen in as Elizabeth Jeffers, Steve Thomson, Tim Hawkes and I discuss when managing upwards might be useful.

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

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

Elizabeth Jeffers https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-jeffers-a00864b/  

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

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

 

#QuickHits are designed to make you think by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on various subjects

How do you notice thankfulness?

Gratitude is a huge part of life-satisfaction and fulfillment. But how often do you notice things to be thankful for? Is there a way to make yourself pay closer attention? Listen in as Sara Oblak Speicher, Steve Thomson and I discuss thankfulness, gratitude and how we make time to notice.

 

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

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

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

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.

How to protect yourself from an energy vampire

There are people in the world who feel like they are sucking the life right out of you when you are with them. If you have some sort of obligation to them (like family), it can feel like you can't just cut them out of your life.

So what can you do? I asked Karina, Rowley and Wayne exactly that. Do you agree with our ideas?

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

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

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

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.

 

Is empathy a positive or negative for leaders?

It sometimes feels like empathy and capitalism are in direct competition with each other. Can a leader put employees first and still be successful or is there a financial cost to empathy?

I posed this question to Sara, Catherine and Jim. Listen in to learn what they thought and then form your own opinion.

#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.

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

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

Catherine Daley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinedaley/

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

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

How to deal with someone to consistently complains

You know the person. The one you never ask how they are doing because you know the answer is going to be a list of complaints. I asked Karina Holstrom, Rowley Maggs and Wayne Buckhanan how they deal with people like that. Listen in as they share stories and ideas.

 

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

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

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

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

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

What leaders can do to create an environment of inclusion

This conversation dove-tailed from the previous one about how to accommodate differently-abled individuals without getting into their private medical business. Simply Summer and Mahna Campbell (Navbalsinder Sandhu) shared their thoughts on how to make inclusion the norm rather than the exception.

 

Summer asked that I not share her social media info.

If you would like to connect with Mahna: https://www.linkedin.com/in/candowithsandhu/ 

or myself: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

Does a business need to know how an employee is differently abled to accommodate them?

This conversation started in the comments section of a closed group on social media where a young woman was sharing the challenges she was running into in trying to get her company to accommodate her. Unfortunately the HR person in her company was dead set that they needed to know and verify the employee's medical diagnosis before they could discuss accommodations.

I posed the question the Simply Summer (who is on the autism spectrum, is an abuse survivor and a a proponent for all differently-abled people) and  Mahna Campbell (aka Navbalsinder Sandhu) to get their take on how businesses could accommodate without violating HIPPA.

 

Summer has asked me not to share her contact info.

To learn more about Mahna Campbell (Navbalsinder Sandhu): https://www.linkedin.com/in/candowithsandhu/

If you would like to connect with me on LinkedIn:

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

Is trying to create happiness from joy addiction?

This is a continuation of the conversation about the difference between joy and happiness. If joy is a short-term burst of neurochemicals and happiness is a longer-term contentment in life as we previously suggested, does trying to create happiness using joy lead to an addiction that isn't at all fulfilling?

Listen in as Simon, Steve, Robert and I talk though our thoughts.

 

To learn more or to work with any of the participants, please visit their LinkedIn profile:

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

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

Robert People https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-p-06019690/

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.