Amplifying Leadership

Amplifying Leadership

di Tara Lehman

Tip Thursday with Tara - Habit Stacking for Leaders

Creating great habits isn't just for home. Building habits and routines can move the needle forward in business too. Habit stacking is a great way to start to build new habits, such as adding 30 mins a day after your morning email check, to open your door for employees. Some habits we can stack can also help with actions, improving communication, and engaging employees. In this Tip Thursday with Tara episode, she uncovers what Habit Stacking is and why it is important for leaders and business owners. Enjoy!

Making Space for Everyone with Guest Froswa' Brooker-Drew

Are you sponsoring or mentoring others in your organization? Who are you helping grow? In this guest episode of Amplifying Leadership Tara and guest Dr. Froswa' Brooker-Drew, Founder of Reconciliation and Restoration Foundation and President of Soulstice Consultancy, discuss why investing in others by mentoring or introducing them to those who can help them grow is important. They also discuss how we should not "despise our small beginnings" by using experiences from our past (even the bad ones) to helping us recognize our when our values match and don't match our organizations. They also cover how advocating for yourself is sometimes the way to grow, as is finding those people who can affirm and challenge us to become who we want to be. Enjoy this engaging conversation!

Tip Thursday with Tara - Leadership Starts With Service

Leadership means serving others. It is not about your title. It is about your actions. In this Amplifying Leadership Tip Thursday with Tara episode, Tara discusses some misconceptions around titles equating to leadership, why your team needs you to focus on them, and the all important skills all leaders need; Active Listening. Leadership is about the people you lead. Remember, Leadership Matters.

Passion and Strategy with guest Leah Frazier

Do you lead more with passion or a strategy? What if we told you, you need both? In this guest episode of our podcast Amplifying Leadership, Tara is joined by Leah Frazier, who helps businesses create their brand presence and achieve their goals. They discuss why you need to lead both with passion and a strategy. They then delve into tips towards moving to a balance between passion and strategy, using your story and your why to create a great company, why planning is very important, and even how to create a great and empowered team. Enjoy the episode!

Tip Thursday with Tara - G.O.A.L. Acronym to Achieve Your Goals.

G = Goal, O = Opportunity, A - Apply/ Action, L = Learn This is our acronym for creating, planning, taking action and learning from our goals. Goals are more then writing them down and creating a SMART goal or SWOT analysis. In this Tip Thursday with Tara on our podcast Amplifying Leadership, Tara explains our acronym so you can achieve those leadership, business or or any other goal you have in life or career. Enjoy the tips!

Language of Leadership with guest Andy Weins

The language you use can affect the outcome. So what are some of the words we could use differently...or not at all? In this guest podcast episode of Amplifying Leadership, Tara and Andy Weins, a fourth-generation entrepreneur who supports Veterans, entrepreneurs, community engagement, individual empowerment, and the environment, talk about how language affects how we lead. How changing just 1 word, such as saying Get (to) instead of How or changing If to When can change the narrative and outcomes. They talk about moving from words like Hope and Wish to Having the Courage To, why apologizing can be unproductive, to aligning to our company values. One thing to remember though is we all do it...use words that can create a closed mindset over an open one. Enjoy the episode!

Tip Thursday with Tara - Wanting Great Leadership is Only Step One

Do you have that poor leadership story you experienced and share? What if that could be a great leadership story to share? In this Tip Thursday with Tara episode, Tara shares why she loves to learn more about leadership and why she wants to continue to develop new leaders. No more hating to show up to work. Instead, let's create great leaders and company cultures we want to be part of. For more information on our leadership services, please visit amplifyingleadership.ca. Enjoy the episode!

Chronic Health in the Workplace with guest Rhonda Nelson

It is our bet you or one of your employees have a chronic illness. Do you have open communication around this? Join Tara and Rhonda Nelson, a patient advocate, as they talk about how chronic illnesses can affect the workplace and leaders. From how to manage it affecting performance, lost time to letting go of the fear around sharing when we or employees have illness. It starts with open communication and a place where employees feel safe to privately (or publicly if they wish) share information around chronic illness so there is an understanding and willingness to be empathetic to even creating accommodation plans. Almost everyone knows someone or actually has a chronic illness. It's time to talk about it.

Tip Thursday with Tara - Achieve Your Goals!

You set your goals, now it's time to achieve them. But... However... Not this year! In this Tip Thursday with Tara, she uncovers some key words and motivation that can help you not only create a goal this year, but keep you motivated to keeping it too. This can be your New Year's Resolution, your daily habit goal, to saving to buy a house. Whatever it is, you and your mindset are key players to achieving it. Enjoy the tip!

Guardians of Our Business with guest Ashlee Thomas

You have the safety policy and evacuation process out there, but do you have a workplace violence risk plan or policy in place? If not, you should. In this episode Tara has a very important safety conversation with Ashlee Cervantes Thomas, a Chief Executive Officer at Guardian Protection Force Inc. where she is passionate about all things related to Security Solutions, Physical Risk Mitigation and Management. They discuss the importance of awareness of workplace violence, creating risk plans to help be proactive or perhaps mitigate the risks of violence against your workforce or your business. Using empowerment and communication is also key to preventing or being more proactive against the worst case scenarios around this. Ashlee shares numerous key point and a few tips to help organizations get started.
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