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June 27, 2022

Are You Stuck? (Challenge #21)

Today’s challenge is a hypothetical scenario, one that I’m sure hasn't happened to anybody listening to this episode. But it will teach you the one skill that is necessary to making powerful leadership decisions that move you...

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June 20, 2022

Kind Leadership Secrets for Keeping your Cool (Kind Leadership Challe…

I was skimming through my emails looking for something else when I remembered it. Between the amazon receipts and updates from my favorite newsletters, I saw the three-week old order confirmation for a free tee shirt. I got t...

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June 13, 2022

Why Are Challenging Conversations Challenging? (Kind Leadership Chall…

Why is a Challenging Conversation challenging? Well, as we’re going to discuss today, challenging emotions make for challenging conversations. That’s probably not surprising to you. But what’s the cause of all of those challe...

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June 6, 2022

Can a Layoff ever be Kind? (Kind Leadership Challenge #18)

So here’s a tough question for you. Is it possible to conduct a mass layoff in a kind manner? If you are an educational or library leader listening to this episode, you have either already ended the employment of a …

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May 30, 2022

How can I Master Challenging Conversations? (Kind Leadership Challeng…

The Free Mastering Challenging Conversations Guide is Live! Get it now at https://kindleadershipchallenge.com/conversations . ~~~ Show notes and Transcript: https://kindleadershipchallenge.com/17 Join the Challenge Community:...

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May 23, 2022

How to Cure Your End-of-Year Burnout (Kind Leadership Challenge 16)

As I record this, the 2021-22 school year is winding down at my place of work. It’s definitely been the most “normal” year we’ve had in a while, but it’s still been exhausting in ways big and small. As I …

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May 16, 2022

How to see Leadership Problems in a New Way (Kind Leadership Challeng…

In August of 2011, I started one of my favorite PhD classes, Organizational Theory. I learned something in my first evening of class that deeply informed the way I see leadership, and the daily ins and outs of conflict and …

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May 9, 2022

How to Enforce your Expectations--Kindly! (Kind Leadership Challenge …

Most people will live up to your expectations--as long as you're clear on what they are, the rewards for meeting them, and the consequences for violating them. But it often feels like a struggle to hold people accountable to ...

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May 2, 2022

Why Listening Solves almost all Leadership Problems (Kind Leadership …

The solution to essentially all leadership problems can be found on the other side of an uncomfortable conversation. And believe it or not—the best way to have a successful conversation that solves your problem is… to stop lo...

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April 25, 2022

What are your Leadership Values? (Kind Leadership Challenge 12)

What are your leadership values? No really, I want to think about it. what do you believe, and how does those beliefs influence the decisions you make as a leader? ~~~ Get Early Access to Mastering Challenging Conversations: ...

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April 18, 2022

How Silence Kills Organizations (Kind Leadership Challenge 11)

Picture it: Tulsa, Oklahoma, early 2001. I was an eager young marketing associate in my first job out of college, at a telecom company with a stick price soaring up the dot com boom’s exponential growth curve. The executives ...

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April 11, 2022

What my Peloton Taught Me about Control (Kind Leadership Challenge 10)

It was day six of owning my shiny new Peloton. Being a gadget loving middle aged lady on something of a health kick lately, I was loving the heck out of my 45th birthday gift to myself, which I’d saved …

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April 4, 2022

Why Anger is a Kind Leader's Superpower (Kind Leadership Challenge #9)

It was the middle of March 2020, and I was livid. I sat in our apartment complex’s parking lot, one hand clenched around my phone, the other slamming into the side of my steering wheel over and over... ~~~ Reserve …

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March 28, 2022

Listen to your Shadow (Kind Leadership Challenge #8)

My fellow library and educational leaders, I come to you today with an uncomfortable truth. It’s time to listen to your shadow. We all have things about ourselves we don't like, or try to ignore. And us leader types we …

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March 21, 2022

When is Being Helpful UNHELPFUL? (Kind Leadership Challenge 7)

Education and libraries are helping professions! A lot of us go into these fields at least in part because we want to do work that has the potential to make the world a better place. And a few of us …

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March 14, 2022

How can you achieve your Vision? (Leadership Challenge 6)

How can we achieve our big visions? In the leadership world we talk a lot about Vision. How I understand how vision works in the kind leadership model is that our vision is sort of, well, our understanding of the …

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March 7, 2022

Does my Team REALLY Trust Me? (Leadership Challenge 5)

Here’s one of those ugly truths about leadership that a lot of the gurus gloss over. You can only be as good a leader as your relationship with your team is, and your relationship with your team is only as …

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Feb. 28, 2022

Why The Only Way Past It is Through It (Challenge #4)

You have it. I have it. We all have it. The nagging problem with our team our or boss or a stakeholder that we’re too scared to face. Or maybe the change you see needs to happen, but doesn’t seem …

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Feb. 21, 2022

How to Be a Powerfully Kind Leader (Challenge #3)

How can we as leaders wield our power in a kind manner? Ultimately we’re the boss, the head honcho, the big cheese. Heavy is the head that wears the crown and all that, especially when you’re juggling lockdowns, mandates, a …

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Feb. 14, 2022

How My Cardiologist taught me about Kind Leadership (Challenge #2)

Why is Kind Leadership all about healing? Most Leaders think the answer to creating a better school or library is fixing stuff. And every once in a while, things are that simple! But that’s why focusing just on fixing can …

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Feb. 7, 2022

How to get started with Kind Leadership (Challenge #1)

What’s the first step to becoming a Kind Leader? Everyone likes the idea of being a Kind leader, but unfortunately they rarely see it in action. The good news is the first step I reveal in today’s challenge will automatically...

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Jan. 10, 2022

Why the Kind Leadership Challenge? An Origin Story

Learn about Sarah Clark, and why she launched the Kind Leadership Challenge. ~~~ To listen to more episodes or subscribe in your favorite app, head to kindleadershipchallenge.com ! Connect with the Guild: Join the Facebook Co...

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