Coaching your employees is something that does not come naturally for many manager.  Learn some quick and easy tips you can apply now to greatly improve your coaching skills to enhance others performance.

41: Simple Coaching Tips

Change is not something that happens overnight or as a result of one action.  It takes multiple actions and time.  Learn the 12 Principals of change to help ensure things move smoothly.

40: 12 Principals of Change

Helping teams to be more collaborative and grow is a challenge for everyone.  This show dives into a fabulous tool, the Generative Relationship STAR, which will give you new insights as to how to grow the productivity of a team.

39:  Building High Performance Teams

Every day we engage in some type of negotiation.  In this show you will learn some easy and useful tips and tools on how to improve your negotiation efforts.

38: Mastering the Art of Negotiations

Join me in this engaging interview with Rachel Pfeffer, Co-Executive Director of the National Training Lab Institute (NTL), as we discuss her insights on shared leadership.

37: The Pro's and Con's of Shared Leadership

Lee Caraher

Companies are suffering through tension and dissonance between Millennials and Boomers, and realize that they can't just wait for management to age out for the problem to go away.   On this weeks show I talk with Lee Carraher, author of Millennials and Management, on how to motivate, collaborate with, and manage the millennial generation, who now make up almost 50% of the American workforce.

36: Millennials and Management, Interview with author Lee Caraher.

Mark Goulston

You’ve got a business colleague who’s hostile…a client who’s furious…a staffer who’s deeply cynical – how do you get people to do what you want in tough situations.  Join me and my guest Dr. Mark Goulston, author of Just Listen, to learn the secret to how to get through to anyone, even when productive communication seems impossible.

35: How to Get Through To Anyone – Interview with Mark Goulston

Do you find that meetings tend to be dominated by a few people?  And, at times it can be difficult to hear what others really want to say?  This show will explore how to foster an environment that allows for everyones voice and opinions to be heard and included.

34: Fostering a Supportive Environment – Dealing with Dominate Personalities

Some leadership tools and advice are timeless - they hold strong even thought the environment or situation has changed.  This show  identifies what all leaders need to know to be an effective leader and some tools that have stood the test of time.

33: Oldies But Goodies – Leadership Tips and Tools

Mike "The Millennial" Mitchusson shares with us the top nine biases managers make when doing performance reviews or interviewing candidates.  And, more importantly, how you can put in safe guards to keep from making these rater errors.

32: The Top Performance Review or Interviewing Bias Errors Leaders Make

Leadership and Professional Development: Join organizational psychologist, Meisha Rouser, to learn how to overcome obstacles that keep you from success.  By listening you will become a more effective leader, manager, team member, and colleague.  Become an expert  in communication, change management, conflict resolution, employee engagement, emotional intelligence, productivity, and stress management.  Learn leadership development tools that will positively enhance your professional life, personal and family life as well. The Meisha Rouser show is your personal Master Business Coach.

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The Meisha Rouser Show : Leadership and Professional Development, with Organizational Psychologist and Master Certified Coach

In today’s work environment, mindfulness is a personal and professional strategy that will improve your performance and productivity.  Gain important insight to the many benefits of mindfulness.  Learn how you can decrease stress levels while improving focus and clarity, listening and decision-making skills, and your overall happiness and well being.

27: Developing Mindfulness To Enhance Performance

Saying what needs to be said in the workplace can be the kiss of death to your career.  Join me as we explore with Roslyn Erickson the right way to speak your truth.  Roslyn is the type of person who voices her opinion, many times evoking a lot of controversy or dissent --especially from management.  Regardless as being known as the person who can tear any proposal to shreds and her unwillingness to play the “political game”, over time Roslyn has gained credibility and is now recognized as a leader within her organizations as someone who will say what needs to be said.   Roslyn is someone who knows how (and when) to speak her truth.

4: The Do's and Don't of Speaking Your Truth Within a Professional Environment

Learn tips and tricks for how to deal with difficult people.  Who are difficult people?  They are the passive/aggressive types, bullies, the ones who are always complaining, those who never give their honest opinion …and the list goes on.  Are you dealing with any of these at work?  If so, this show is a great opportunity for you to get some new insight as to what might be going on and how to neutralize the problem.

9: Dealing with Difficult People

Sue McNab

Join Meisha and her guest Sue McNab, as they explore the primary elements for creating a workplace culture of inclusion and ownership.  Sue, a veteran VP, has helped organizations, such as Starbucks and Seattle's Best Coffee, maneuver through major change initiatives. Recently Sue helped turn the culture at Pemco Insurance from a hierarchal parent culture - follow the rules and do what management says -  to  a culture of involvement and inclusion - everyone is involved and responsible for taking ownership of their role.  Join Sue and I as we explore how anyone can create a wining workplace culture where individuals are inspired to be in service to one another.

3: How to Create a Culture of Inclusion and Ownership - Interview with Sue McNab

Giving feedback can either engage others or turn them off.  This show will focus on how to give positive and negative feedback that is effective, while nourishing the relationship.  During this hour we will also be exploring elements of not only how to engage others but also how to keep yourself engaged at work.

5: Engaging Others Through Feedback and How to Avoid Raising Defenses

Everyone is increasingly grappling with generational differences in their workplace.  Join me in this weeks show as we discuss the different mindsets, communications styles and motivations of workers born in different generations.

6: Understanding the Different Generations in the Workplace

An interview with James Kouzes, co-author of the bestselling book, The Leadership Challenge.  Join us as we explore his new book "Learning Leadership".  Kouzes shares his insights on a practical and proven framework that will enable you to develop your leadership potential as well as your emerging leaders.

30: James M. Kouzes and the Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader

Creativity and innovation in the work place is a must.  However, creating space for creativity is harder and harder to do as we get caught in the whirlwind of work.  Join me as we explore not only how to foster a more creative and innovative work place, but also how you can spark your creative energy as well.

8: Fostering Creativity - In the Workplace and for Yourself

In ancient Greece the Classical Elements of earth, water, air, and fire were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of the world.  Join me on this weeks show to hear how my guest used the concept of these elements at Boeing to help teams and individuals maneuver through change.

29: The Surprising Power of the Classical Elements to Help Move Through Change

Entrepreneurs have to wear many hats in order for their business to be successful.  Thus, it can be hard to select which activities you should be spending your time and energy on that will have the greatest impact.  This show will cover the fundamentals every entrepreneur should know to ensure their success.

28: The Fundamentals of the Successful Entrepreneur

Great Leaders practice the art of listening.  Listening is all about giving attention to what is happening in any given moment.   As a deliberate act of paying attention, mindfulness encourages leaders to center on what is actually happening in the present (ideally without judgement) and to be keenly aware of our inner responses to what is unfolding externally.  This insightful show will share how one can master the art of listening.

31: Fostering the Art of Listening: A Leaders Strongest Asset

In my work I hear the frustration from both sides: managers struggling with millennial employees, and millennials struggling with their managers…both feeling like they are not getting what they need.  This show will dive into this popular topic and explore insights towards building harmony.

7: Managing Millennials: An Exploration of the Millennial Generation in the Work Place

Dr. Shann Ferch, author, professor, psychologist, and consultant, joins me this week to talk about Servant Leadership.  We will explore a deeper understand of what it means to be a Servant Leader in todays business environment.  You'll love listening to Dr. Ferch share is vast expertise through fascinating storytelling.

26: Servant Leadership Within the Work Place

Leaders are measured on their ability to get things done, which requires time management, prioritizing, and effective productivity tools.  On this show I uncover one of  most effective productivity tools available and share my top 10 tips to becoming more productive to ensure your focusing on the right priorities.

25: Time Management, Productivity, and Prioritizing

Welcome back Doug Nathan who will be sharing with us the power of our voice to move us through change.  By understanding how we move through analytical, heart felt and emotion communication it will help us as leaders to not only understand others, but can also help leaders to inspire and connect with others.

24: Understanding the Power of Voice When Leading

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