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ChoinqueCast

Jim Emerick

Periodic interviews focused on goodness and leadership

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Coaching Story | Leaders Seek Abundance

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2018/03/01

The scarcity mindset. What is that? According to Whitney Johnson in Disrupt Yourself it is the failure to see the abundance in another person’s success and is actually a form of entitlement. Her antidote: A gratitude journal, or a written list of three things you are thankful for each day and why. To some degree, we all seem to be conditioned by this both destructive, and limiting, mindset. For example, in our Academy leadership Leveraging the Power of Conflict workshops, we learn that a win-lose

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Leadership Story | Leaders Share Vision and Purpose

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2018/02/22

Two recent client exchanges are worth sharing. The first was a visit to Tesla’s Gigafactory site in Nevada, the second a series of conversations with a director at a major health care consortium. Both on the drive to the Gigafactory site with a client and as a passenger on numerous Uber trips in Reno, discussion about the local area centered on the tectonic transformation occurring in the Reno/Sparks area. Viewing the corporate infrastructure footprint of not just Tesla, but other companies such as

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Episode 10 - Interview with “Working with Difficult...

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2018/02/15

Choinquecast ten introduces Dr. Amy Cooper Hakim, an industrial-organizational psychology practitioner and workplace expert. She is a speaker, author, and the executive consultant and founder of The Cooper Strategic Group. She helps employees and employers to get along better, and coaches leaders and employees to improve productivity, morale, satisfaction, and overall work-life balance. Her book, Working with Difficult People, recently hit #1 in sales at Amazon for Business Etiquette books and was

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Leadership Story | Leaders Make Time

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2018/02/09

It’s pop quiz time again. What are the four most dangerous words in a leader’s vocabulary? According to Kelly & Bobby Riggs — in their pathfinder book, Counter Mentor Leadership — the answer is: “I don’t have time.” Let’s do a quick self-evaluation: When is the last time you said that to yourself, or, even worse, when was the last time you told that to someone you are responsible for? What are we really telling someone when we communicate that, directly or indirectly? I don’t have time to

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Episode 9 - Interview with “Work Without Walls”...

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2018/02/01

In choinquecast nine we’re introduced to the power of attention management by Maura Nevel Thomas, an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and author on individual and corporate productivity, attention management, and work-life balance. Maura has trained thousands using her Empowered Productivity™ System, a process for achieving significant results and living a life of choice. She is a TEDx speaker, successful entrepreneur, and author of Personal Productivity Secrets and Work Without Walls

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Leadership Story | Leaders Manage Energy

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2018/01/26

Have you ever wondered why some days are exhausting and some days seem magically energizing? There’s no shortage of management and efficiency books and exercises offering advice how we may manage our time better. However, like the best athletes, the most effective leaders focus on energy levels, not time. In Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz’s marvelous book, The Power of Full Engagement, two paradigms are compared. In the Old Paradigm Manage time Avoid stress Life is a marathon Downtime is wasted

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Communication Story | Leaders Effectively Communicate

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2018/01/19

How well do you communicate with others? Do your subordinates and team perform as well as you would like? Have you thought about how you might improve your communication skills and raise your game? Christine Comaford, author of Smart Tribes, mentions five types of communication in her Clarity of Intentions and Energy section — Information sharing, requests, promises, sharing of oneself and debating, decision-making or point proving. Pop quiz time. Only two of these five types of communication

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Motivation Story | Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose

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2018/01/12

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, is home to an amazing collection of giraffes, seventeen in total. During a recent tour, my daughter & I noticed most of the giraffes were outside. Our tour guide Amy showed us the giraffe’s indoor facility where a training, or enrichment environment was set up. Four of the giraffes were here, performing specific, positive tasks for the trainer, and afterward were rewarded with food. Here’s the interesting part - the giraffes preferred choosing to

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Episode 8 | Interview with retired Motorola Senior...

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2018/01/06

Choinquecast eight showcases one of the finest examples of leadership, program management, and innovation you may not know about. Durrell Hillis had responsibility for the research, design, and development of advanced communication and electronic systems for a host of domestic and international commercial users, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense, and a variety of other local and national government agencies. Our choinquecast focuses on the story of

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Leadership Story | Leaders Set Expectations

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2017/12/30

During the second of three coaching sessions following an Academy Leadership Excellence Course, a client in a highly technical profession critical to national defense shared an uncomfortable decision made since our first coaching call. Turns out the client fired a team member, who was described in our initial discussion as a “challenge employee.” Chances are you may have a similar term for someone at your workplace. While sharing the history leading to this event, the client revealed that

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Episode 7 - Interview with HGTV Co-founder Susan Packard

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2017/12/22

For choinquecast seven we connect with Susan Packard, who helped to build powerhouse media brands like HBO, CNBC, and HGTV. She was the co-founder of Scripps Networks Interactive and former chief operating officer of HGTV. Under Packard’s helm, HGTV became one of the fastest growing cable networks in television history. Today HGTV is available in more than 98 million U.S.homes and distributed in over 200 countries and territories. She is also the author of “New Rules of the Game” - 10 Strategies for

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Coaching Story | Leadership Means Connecting

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2017/12/14

In a recent coaching session following an Academy Leadership Excellence Course, a client in the construction industry shared his action plan progress. One of his documented leadership lessons was: “I have no idea if the people on my team are motivated and need to get to know them better through some motivation assessments that will allow me to understand them better.” The client then described a particular “sit down session” with a staff member who had been working in the office as a Project

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Episode 6 - Interview with “Work Simply” author...

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2017/12/07

Our sixth choinquecast kick-starts our productivity with Carson Tate, creator of the Productivity Style Assessment® and the Work Smarter, Not Harder program. Carson is an internationally-renowned productivity expert and coach with strategies featured in top-tier business media including Bloomberg Businessweek, CBS Money Watch, Fast Company, Forbes, The New York Times, Shape, USA Today and Working Mother. What energizes Carson most is the unique privilege and opportunity to coach clients in the art

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Leadership Story | Leadership Produces Results

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2017/11/30

While recently journaling and reading over Thanksgiving in the Galapagos Islands my thoughts turned to recent Leadership Excellence Course attendees who described performance issues within their organizations. Specifically, some of them asked "How do I get people on my team, who don't work directly for me, to get more done?" As leaders, rather than just managers, we should strive to create alignment & common purpose. About the same time, I was reading a blog by Victor Davis Hanson, referencing his

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Episode 5 - Interview with “Conscious Communications”...

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2017/11/23

Our fifth choinquecast takes us on a powerful journey of positive personal transformation with Mary Shores. She is the author of Conscious Communications: A Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life. Mary is a recognized leader of innovative thought, and has spent over a decade teaching businesses and individuals how to identify their goals, create new ways of thinking, and take action to create meaningful results.

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Coaching Story | Never Stop Leading

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2017/11/12

How many of you are looking forward to retirement? Or just wondering what’s next? In a recent coaching session with a highly educated scientist near the end of his career, he mentioned that he wants the freedom to explore stuff on his own time & further if he had to live life over again he would go into the State Department and help our country overseas. Keep in mind my scientist colleague is a deep thinker. He thought deeply when composing his leadership philosophy during our Academy Leadership

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Episode 4 - Interview with “step up” author Michelle...

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2017/11/09

Our fourth choinquecast persuasively argues that finding our purpose and happiness first leads to success, rather than the opposite. Distinguished keynote speaker, advisor, facilitator and executive mentor across the Asia-Pacific region and author of “step up” Michelle Gibbings shares her personal discovery that being known for getting things done, often by leaving her comfort zone, is far more important than being the best at just one thing.

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Episode 3 - Interview with "The New IT" author Jill...

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2017/10/26

Our third choinquecast reminds us that corporate purpose is more significant than corporate goals. Vice President of Best Practices for SAS and author Jill Dyché shares her stories from “The New IT,” written for the IT professional who wishes to connect with their overall enterprise and for the executive who wishes to understand what innovation looks like within their corporate culture.

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Episode 2 - Interview with "Lead From The Heart"...

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2017/10/12

For our second choinquecast, we'll interview Mark Crowley: Speaker, change agent for culture & engagement and author of Lead From The Heart. Mark shares his powerful personal journey confirming that the more we help others find fulfillment and purpose, the more effective leaders we actually become.

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Episode 1 - Interview with former Navy SEAL Jeff Boss

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2017/09/28

For our inaugural choinquecast, we interview Jeff Boss, former Navy Seal, author of Navigating Chaos, co-founder of Chaos Advantage, and a choinque business partner. Jeff shares how his unique experience as a Navy SEAL applies to our roles as leaders in business and life.

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