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SmikleSpeaks
Joanne L. Smikle, PhD is a respected authority on leadership and organization development. She provides learning that helps you soar! Each episode prepares you to lead in our ever-evolving world. Subscribe today...content is updated all of the time! Get more relevant tools from The SmikleSpeaks YouTube Channel and the library at smiklespeaks.com. Contact Joanne for assistance with your individual and organizational development.
Episodes
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Advancing Your Brand: Is your face in the place?
Is your face in the place? Part of advancing your brand means being seen in the right places by the right people. I’m not saying that you have to attend every…
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Get 'em, Grow 'em, Keep 'em
There’s so much talk about getting and keeping talent. It’s giving a lot of my clients heartburn…they’re having a tough time keeping their best people. I’d…
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Journeying Into Meditation, Featuring Dennis Courtney
This podcast will take you to a place of serenity as you contemplate starting a medication practice. Dennis Courtney, a certified yoga teacher and longtime…
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The What & Why of Meditation, Featuring Dennis Courtney
Have you ever wondered what mediation is all about? Dennis Courtney makes the concept and the practice accessible to all of us. Enjoy his insights!
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Advancing Your Brand: 7 Networking Sabotages
This short podcast is all about what NOT to do when networking. I want to share seven brand sabotage tactics that will kill your networking and self-promotion…
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Set Yourself Up for Success
This podcast draws on the wisdom of Scott LoCastro, my golf coach. Last week’s lesson was another great one! He started out by saying “Set yourself up for…
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The Potential in the Problem
I freely and willingly acknowledge that there are real problems in every area of our lives. There are times when those problems can be literally exhausting…
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Ready? Set? Go! Preparing for the Next Opportunity
It’s not as simple as ready, set, go…there’s a lot of work to ready, even more work to get set and strategize to go. You’ve got to pay attention to your brand…
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Advancing Your Brand: Influence
We’re going to look at influence from three different angles. The first is about you---who do you influence and what influence are you having. The second is…
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Gratitude on Dark Days, Featuring Linda Roszak Burton
We all have tough times, challenges and dark days. Linda Roszak Burton provides strategies for remaining grateful through the storms that inevitably come up…
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Advancing Your Brand: Self-Advocacy
Remember that Bob Marley song: Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights…Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up, don’t give up the…
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Do you really want to know? Cultivating a Curious Mind
This podcast is all about developing intellectual curiosity, about cultivating a curious mind. It’s my challenge to you and to myself to ask better questions…
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Advancing Your Brand: Self-Promotion
I’ve had a couple of conversations with my nephew about self-promotion. He didn’t get a promotion in spite of outstanding performance evaluations for lots of…
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Reimagining Organizational Culture
I get this question a lot: Joanne how do we change our culture? When I ask how do you want to change it the answers range from we need something different to…
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Why journal? Featuring Linda Roszak Burton
Linda Roszak Burton is back with us on the SmikleSpeaks Podcast Channel. She’s my go-to person for all things related to gratitude. In this episode she is…
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Are you promoting peace, progress, and prosperity?
As leaders, as people, we are all promoting something. We may not be fully aware of what we’re promoting but we’re advancing something. This podcast is my…
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Can we develop cultural competence?
Can we develop cultural competence? Of course we can! It just takes some work. This podcast gives the basics, a starting point for beginning the work. It’s not…
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Foundations of Trust
Do people really trust you? Do they trust your company? Questions worth considering, especially if you want to advance as a leader. Trust is one of those trite…
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Transformational Leadership
Of all the approaches to leadership, I find Transformational Leadership to be the most powerful. It has the potential to impact every element of the…
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Is gratitude contagious? Featuring Linda Roszak Burton
Linda Roszak Burton is back on the SmikleSpeaks Podcast Channel. She is going to share more of her insights on gratitude. Yes, gratitude is contagious! She is…
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Are you living a peaceful, passionate, purposeful life?
This one is all about life, about living on a deeper level. People talk a lot about living your best life. I’m kind of tired of that phrase. My question for…
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Look Good...Feel Good...Play Good
I started golf lessons last year…it was a good foray into the sport. After last year’s group lessons, I decided that I needed more individualized attention…
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What's your networking style?
Networking is vital for career success…I think it’s vital for success in life. You’ve got to know how to use yourself to advance your leadership brand. One of…
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The Commitment Conundrum
So many organizations are trying to figure out how to create higher levels of employee engagement and commitment. Some try quick fixes like employee…
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Developing Grateful Hearts, Featuring Linda Roszak Burton
Linda Roszak Burton provides practical strategies for developing a grateful heart, no matter the situation. She’s the author of Gratitude Heals, my favorite…
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Critical Leadership Responsibilities for Today & Tomorrow
There’s a classic Harvard Business Review article that’s a must-read for all leaders. The title, “The Work of Leadership,” sums up the theme of the article…
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Are you there yet? Measuring Emotional Intelligence
I use Emotional Intelligence in almost of my leadership development work. One of the questions that I often hear is “How do I know if I’m really Emotionally…
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Creating a Solution Focus
Just about anybody can spot a problem. It doesn’t often take a whole lot of skill. The real skill comes in creating a solution focus. And that’s what this…
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The Detox Decision, Featuring Diane Huey, M.Ac., L.Ac.
Diane Huey will help us understand what it means to detox and the reasons for making that decision. She’s a wellness expert, acupuncture practitioner and…
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Are you listening as an Ally or as an Adversary?
I want to quickly focus your attention on listening. It is, in my opinion, one of the most essential competencies of skillful leadership. It’s certainly an…
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Change the Way You Change...Appreciative Inquiry
Most of us use deficit-based approaches to change. Another way to describe what we’re most accustomed to is problem-centered change. This approach is so deeply…
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Appreciative Inquiry...A Fresh Approach to Strategic Planning
Strategic planning helps the organization move towards its most powerful, positive potential. Of course, the process is entwined with mission, vision, and core…
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Have No Fear
This is the first podcast that I was initially reluctant about recording. Let me tell you the backstory and then I’ll tell you about my reluctance. In the Fall…
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Continuous Quality Improvement---LUTIE
Most of us need a quick refresher on how we can stay on track on our personal improvement path. And that’s what we’re going to do in this short podcast. Years…
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Communicating Through Conflict
This podcast focuses on communication checkpoints that can help you develop acceptable, effective tools for dealing with conflict. We all face big and small…
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Wellness...More Than Multivitamins, Featuring Diane Huey, M.Ac., L.Ac.
Diane Huey will move us beyond the fad-of-the-week to guidance that will help us focus on core principles of wellness. She’s a wellness expert, acupuncture…
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Action Planning for Innovation
Most leaders don’t want things to stay the same. They want to see momentum and progress. Most leaders recognize the need to lead with a forward focus. This is…
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Leading the 7 Dwarves...It's Tougher Than You Think!
This podcast, Leading the 7 Dwarves, is a bit different from what you’re used to hearing from me. Many years ago a client asked me to develop an unusual…
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Problem Solving
We all face problems, issues, annoyances, dilemmas. That’s just part of life. And if we’re honest we admit that there are times when we can’t figure out…
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Do you have an allergy to innovation?
I wrote an article titled Diagnosing an Allergy to Innovation. This podcast is based on that article. Ultimately what I wanted was to help leaders begin to…
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Sparking Innovation
Innovation can be a major reboot, a radical redefinition, a phenomenal transformation. Innovation can happen at the individual level, at the team level, at the…
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Making Meetings Matter
We’re going to spend time on making meetings more meaningful, especially since most of us are drowning in them. Let’s save ourselves from being slayed by…
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The Well Leader, Featuring Diane Huey, M.Ac., L.Ac.
Leaders in every industry sector have so many pressures. Those pressures undoubtedly impact their health on many levels. Diane Huey guides us in exploring how…
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How innovative are you? Really?
Most, if not many, of us like to think that not only are we imaginative, creative, innovators, but that our teams are too. A lot of us also like to think that…
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The Courage to Try Again (and Again)
This episode is all about strategies to build the courage to try again. This courage starts in our minds and moves to intentional action. This podcast is for…
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Coaching Cautions and Boundaries, Featuring Teresita Brritton
Teresita Britton is back with us on the SmikleSpeaks Podcast Channel! She’s one of my favorite special guests because she’s a colleague and a friend. Teresita…
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Are you a listening, learning leader?
I spend a lot of time working with one-on-one leaders who are moving on up and committed to their individual development. They are taking on larger roles…
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Your Trajectory
Have you stopped to reflect on your career trajectory? I mean seriously reflected on where you are, how you got here? Have you stopped to think about your…
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Strategic Planning, Part 2
In Part One of this series on strategic planning we laid the foundation for a pretty good process. Let’s move forward to formulating your plan. Like the…
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Strategic Planning, Part 1
I’ve done podcasts on elements of strategy. I think it’s time that I address strategic planning. It’s so important in making an organization maximally…
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Beating Burnout
This whole idea that people burnout is real! It’s not just people whining, moaning and groaning. We’re going to talk about how we beat burnout. I wanted to…
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Coaching Readiness, Featuring Teresita Britton
Teresita Britton is an ICF certified Professional Coach. She has more than 20 years of experience guiding leaders in their career development. Terry coaches…
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Barriers to Effective Communication
We want to communicate effectively. We start our communication, written or spoken, with the best intentions. And yet, there are still communication breakdowns…
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Deep Dive Development
I know it’s tempting to ignore your own professional and growth and development when facing crises, challenges and endless uncertainty. I also know that this…
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A Reason, Right & Responsibility for Creating Inclusion
This podcast addresses three things: our reason, our right, and our responsibility to create inclusion in our homes, our workplaces, our houses of worship, our…
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Are you ready to write your next chapter?
You may be yearning to design an innovative future. You may be nearing retirement. You may be seeking a second career. You may want to do something really…
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Maximizing Virtual Leadership Learning
Whether we like it or not, whether we’re prepared as individuals and organizations or not, if we’re continuing our leadership development, the education that…
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Teaching Leaders How to Coach, Featuring Teresita Britton
We have a special guest on this episode. Teresita Britton is an ICF certified Professional Coach. She has more than 20 years of experience guiding leaders in…
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Self-Care Check-up
How are you treating you? You’re in a leadership role so I know that you’re probably taking care of everyone else in your world. But, how are YOU treating YOU?…
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Connecting in a Disconnected World
I’m tired of zoom, go to meeting, teams, web ex, webinars and all of these other virtual things. I’m even tired of virtual happy hours…if you know me, you know…