Hot Mess Hotline
Stefanie Krievins
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Remember the start of The Real World? "Find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting REAL." That's the inspiration behind this podcast. Leaders will learn from CEOs and others who've landed in a hot mess, and how they got themselves out.
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Solving the Right Problem with Change Management with Juan Betancourt
Solving the right problem with change management is a perennial problem for IT leaders. Juan Betancourt is a tech entrepreneur who is willing to keep looking in the mirror, ask the hard questions, and continuously improve until he gets it right. Our conversation focuses on how he led his team through massive business shifts because that’s what it takes to keep up in his industry.
Leading a team through change that is forced from external pressures (looking at you ‘rona) is different from leading a team through change because of internal pressures and business vision. Listen to this episode as Juan describes his leadership and company pivots when demand for their services went to zero.
About Juan
Juan Betancourt is the CEO of Humantelligence, an HR enterprise software solution like Grammarly, but instead of writing tips, it surfaces tips for communicating and collaborating. This major innovation, impacting the way distributed knowledge workers collaborate, earned HRO Today's Top HR Tech for Collaboration and TalentCulture’s Top HR Tech for Employee Collaboration awards.
Juan also founded Gonza Executive Search and served as a client partner for both Korn Ferry International and Heidrick & Struggles. He was an executive at Procter & Gamble, Decathlon, Siebel Systems, Reebok, and Puma. Recently named a Top 30 HR Tech Influencer, Juan is an expert in helping organizations build high-performing teams, while operationalizing inclusion & belonging.
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Sep 17, 2023
Leaders Aren’t Fortune Tellers, But They Are Risk Takers with Pamela Diaz
Leadership is about taking risks, not seeing into a crystal ball. Pamela Diaz is a leader that asks her team to trust her enough to take risks with her. And she returns that trust with empathy. Here at The Change Architects, we work with a lot of teams that demand all their questions be answered from their manager before they move forward with plans — which stalls progress and problem solving. And it’s simply impossible. Fortunately there’s another way and Pam knows what’s up.
This was a fun conversation. Listen in to this episode where I reference Indiana Jones and Turduckens. Pinky swear they’re both related to change management.
About Pamela Diaz
Pamela Diaz is CEO and President of Entara, a security-first eXtended Service Provider (XSP). Under her leadership, Entara has been recognized for several awards due to its forward-thinking and strategic security solutions by CRN, MSSP Alert, and Channel Partners. Pam is also the Co-Founder of Forecheck, an automated incident management, remediation, and resilience platform built for ingesting incidents from security providers.
Pam is dedicated to connecting organizations with the IT and cybersecurity solutions that their businesses need to thrive. She is passionate about building relationships and connecting with individuals that challenge the status quo and stretch to continuously improve our future. Through her dedication to building a great team and company culture, Entara has been recognized in both Chicago and on a national level as a Best and Brightest Place to Work.
Pam is on the Board of Directors of Bounce Children’s Foundation, an organization transforming the lives of chronically ill children, and serves as Chair of the Governance Committee. She is also on the Events Committee of the Female Integrator Mastermind (FIM), a peer-to-peer female mentoring group. Through FIM, she regularly presents about equality and female empowerment.
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Sep 1, 2023
Resistance to Change Isn't What You Think It Is with Jessica Carroll
Resistance to change doesn't always show up in your team like you think it does. Jessica Carroll is an executive who has driven multiple digital transformations as a CIO and Chief Customer Experience Officer. The same lessons that apply to "going to the cloud" also apply to digital transformation and how to use AI in 2023. In this episode we discuss how it's easy for the leader to think their teammates are resisting, but they really might just need more information; think about the problem from a different perspective; or need to wrap their head around the project in a way that's different from you.
Listen in to this episode where Jessica describes how you can move your team from needing more information to action.
See the full post at: https://stefaniekrievins.com/resistance-to-change-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-with-jessica-carroll/
About Jessica Carroll
Jessica Carroll is a speaker on the topics of client engagement, team culture, and digital transformation. She has been published in CIOInsight, BizTech magazine, among others, and was named a Computer World Premier 100 IT Leader. She is a contributing author to the book, Digital Transformation Demystified, in which she discussed client and employee engagement practices.
Currently Ms. Carroll is the Chief Experience Officer for Acuative, a global managed services provider. In this role she is responsible for guiding customers through their digital transformation, serving as their consultative advisor and advocate, and holds responsibility for enhancing the employee experience for the Acuative internal team. Prior to joining Acuative, Ms. Carroll was the VP, Customer Success at TenFour IT and had a noteworthy tenure in a variety of senior IT Leadership positions at the United States Golf Association, culminating in her role as the Managing Director for Information Technology where she led the infrastructure, business resilience, security, operations, and development disciplines.
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Aug 18, 2023
Deliver Results that Match Your Executive Compensation with Scott Couchenour
Have you ever felt like you weren't delivering the results as an executive that matched your compensation? Scott Couchenour is our faculty member who can tell you exactly why and how to get you focused on results, actions, and the mindset needed to do the strategic work necessary at your level. It's easy to get sucked into too many meetings, too many decisions, and too many tasks. As a senior leader you need to focus on delivering the value that only you can. Usually that means more time on strategic planning and execution, managing investments, aligning staff, and business development — not making a decision for a teammate who is abdicating responsibility to you!
Listen in on Scott's episode to learn why you need your very own "offensive coordinator" so you're being proactive, not reactive to whatever hits your inbox each day.
About Scott
About Scott Couchenour
Drawing from nearly 30 years of experience as a COO and CEO, Scott helps Gen X leaders who are successful yet dissatisfied with the uncertainty of where their life and business is headed. He concentrates on helping owners of small to midsize companies create clarity and design a comprehensive life and business plan. He helps not only with strategy but secures solid traction through an iterative approach. Scott’s clients are reaching new heights and accomplishing much more than they ever thought possible.
As a Pro Troublemaker, Scott focuses on creating clarity first, helping clients to reveal their many options when they might normally feel backed into a corner. Clients will find that Scott is genuinely interested in what they do, is committed to closing the gap between “where they are” and “where they want to be,” and that his goal is to create a fun and engaging experience during the important work of coaching.
Scott is a Certified through ILCT (Institute of Life Coach Training) and is proud of working with his long-term clients. One of his clients is on their second 5-year life plan and he loves to be there to witness their positive growth. He is also extremely proud of his husband, father, and “Pop Pop” to his grandkids. He loves to play piano, work on spreadsheets, and explore coffee shops.
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Aug 4, 2023
Action Can't Get in the Way of Empathy with Don Monistere
Action and empathy move at different speeds in companies. Don Monistere is a longtime IT leader who has driven a lot of change. He's led the acquisition and merging of several companies and freely admits that plans on paper sometimes sound great and play out in the real world in a terrible way. He cares deeply about his people and he has a strong bias for action. For those of us who have a bias for action (me included) it's easy for us to run over people, push them out of the way, or dismiss their concerns because it slows us or the result down. Bottom line is that we end up with less people following us because they don't want to keep up, can't keep up, or think we've lost our minds.
Listen in as Don describes how he now prioritizes listening and empathy over action and how that leads to more buy in.
See the full blog post at: https://stefaniekrievins.com/action-cant-get-in-the-way-of-empathy-with-don-monistere/
About Don Monistere
In his current role as CEO and President of General Informatics, an information technology company, Monistere is responsible for the strategic vision and day-to-day execution of their corporate plan to achieve the goal of organic growth as well as choosing the right acquisition partners that add value to the GI services portfolio and service delivery model.
Monistere’s tenure at General Informatics has been very productive. General Informatics has expanded their footprint from a Louisiana based business only headquartered in Baton Rouge, to a growing Information Technology company that serves the entire Southeast as well as portions of certain western territories such as Colorado and California, growing from less than 40 employees to more than 200 today.
Monistere has been a well-known executive for many years in the technology space and has been quite successful in his career as an executive in the Information Technology industry.
Don has a strong background in successfully leading information technology companies and his experience in sales, marketing, operations, and IT services helps organizations accelerate their growth trajectory, better serve their customers, and facilitate management frameworks that allow organizations like Vista, TekLinks, IBML and now General Informatics to scale their operations and prepare for hyper-growth
Monistere is also an author publishing “Enhanced Life Performance” in 2017 “Enhanced Executive Performance” in 2019 with his third in the trilogy “Enhanced Corporate Performance” that just came out in November of 2022.
All three books focus on an approach to life, career and business that allows you to achieve a flow state that Monistere describes as “Enhanced.” He has used many of the techniques in these publications to create the success that he has achieved to date.
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Jul 21, 2023
How to Come Back from Burnout with Jimmy Burroughes
How do you come back from burnout as a leader? Jimmy Burroughes was an overachiever who tried to prove himself for too long and burned out. In epic fashion. As someone who knows he's here to make a difference in this world, he wanted to do too much, be too much, and was burning the candle at both ends. One day in 2017 it all caught up with him and the life that he had unraveled.
Luckily for him and for us, he came back from being lost, feeling hopeless, and being unable to get out bed. He now uses his experiences to work with teams and leaders so they never get to where he was. My hunch is that you've been where Jimmy has been...or are on the brink of it...or have a colleague who is burnt out now. Listen in for real guidance to re-engage in life with joy.
See the full blog post at: stefaniekrievins.com/how-to-come-back-from-burnout-with-jimmy-burroughes
About Jimmy Burroughes
Jimmy Burroughes is a leadership expert on a mission to change the way we achieve results. With over two decades of experience as an Officer in the British Military and a track record of success as a people leader in top global organizations.
With an MBA and extensively qualified as a coach and facilitator, Jimmy has developed a passion for building high-performance cultures by making the complexity of better performance simple, and therefore easier to apply. He and his team have developed a proven facilitation-led approach and delivered in some of the world's largest organizations.
Jimmy hosts his own podcast and is also the author of Beat Burnout - Ignite Performance. It’s the leader's guide to building a high-performance team. The book was the product of multiple years of research, working with 7 to 12-figure businesses all over the world and taking those best practices and distilling them down into five simple variables. He can share insights incorporating elements of neuroscience, behavioral science, energetics, and a variety of standard leadership concepts.
Jimmy is a highly engaging guest, who is a specialist in simplifying high-performance concepts into a format that will both engage and encourage your listeners to try new things. Outside of work, Jimmy splits his time between living at the beach in Los Cabos scuba diving, or in central Mexico, hill running, whilst constantly searching for his next property project with his partner and dog.
You know firsthand the challenges of balancing higher performance expectations & avoiding burnout & high turnover. Jimmy's team helps high-performing senior leaders like you to create a team that achieves success, boosts your profile, & helps you all get your weekends and evenings back!
* Beat Burnout and your Competition
* Unique Approach
* Better Results and Happier Teams
* Personalized, Diagnosis-Based Service
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Jul 7, 2023
IT Needs to Say No Sometimes with Heather Darring
How to say "No" in IT is tricky. Heather Darring shares with us what's even trickier: saying Yes too frequently, projects going out of scope, and then reading an IT audit that says, "You suck." Okay, okay it didn't actually say that she and her 1 colleague sucked, but it described missed expectations and she took it personally. Years later she's able to share how that experience turned into an opportunity to reset expectations across the entire business, to grow, to learn, and ultimately expand her department and become the CIO.
Listen in to this episode with Heather, the CIO of an international nonprofit, as she shares what happens when IT doesn't say No to their business colleagues (and should) and how they're mortals like us not magicians! ha!
See full blog post at: stefaniekrievins.com/it-needs-to-say-no-sometimes-with-heather-darring/
About Heather Darring and Kappa Alpha Theta
Heather Darring is the Chief Information Officer for Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. A rising IT executive, Ms. Darring has worked in the industry for 15 years. After earning her master’s at Ball State University’s Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ms. Darring has worn many hats, including networking, database management, hardware and software support, and project management. She loves solving challenging problems and leaving things better than she found them. She champions change management and strives to support staff through meaningful and lasting change.
Kappa Alpha Theta is the first Greek-letter Fraternity for women. It was founded in 1870 just as women were allowed to seek higher education. The legacy continues today, leading every member to personal excellence through lifelong sisterhood.
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Jun 23, 2023
Courageous Leadership with Deseri Garcia
Courageous leadership is a choice. Deseri Garcia is a coach and faculty member here at The Change Architects. Because she's been in the trenches as a leader, she knows what it takes to have hard conversations, lead with clarity and vision, and adapt to those around you while maintaining authenticity. Deseri's experience is now in teambuildng and coaching. Specifically she creates teambuilding experiences that build connection, problem solving skills, and shared results.
Listen in to this episode to hear about Deseri's coaching success, approach, and how she gets as much as she gives as a coach, trainer, and facilitator. Also, you'll hear how we met and why everyone should have a happy dance!
See the full blog post at: https://stefaniekrievins.com/courageous-leadership-with-deseri-garcia/
About Deseri Garcia
Deseri Garcia works with top-level executives, directors, managers, and business owners to provide transformational coaching, team building support, and leadership development. Her goal is to genuinely connect with people and identify with them in an effort to improve both team and personal effectiveness. Deseri is an accredited facilitator of 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, certified in ACCT (Association for Challenge Course Technology) certified and holds a certificate from the Coaching Clinic–Corporate Coach U and Predictive Index. She has a bachelor’s degree in small business and entrepreneurship.
Deseri began coaching and leadership development work in 2004. Prior to that, she spent nearly 20 years in Corporate America, where she gained invaluable insight into the value of building relationships in the business world. She worked in International Business Development for Langham Transport Services for over 13 years and in operations and sales for Roadway Express for over 5 years. Her Pro Troublemaker skill is straight talk: “I won’t step over much. I make direct requests. I give straight advice and I expect your best.”
Deseri is a multi-sport adventure racer/endurance athlete and has completed seven marathons, including the Boston Marathon in 2000 and 2002.
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Jun 11, 2023
Challenge the Status Quo; Business as Usual is Dangerous with Wally Brant
"Challenge the status quo!" The executives we work with shout this from rooftops with their teams. "Business as usual" means a slow decline toward irrelevancy.
The reality is that a business that isn't growing in some way is in decline and shrinking the value it's bringing to the world. And "growth" doesn't always mean revenue, profit, and headcount. Growth in rate of change; growth in technical capabilities; growth in integration; growth in project management skills. These are all forms of valid growth too. "Growth" also means that some things do stay the same to create stability.
While we tend to encounter leaders who NEED and WANT growth, their everyday habits reward compliance — until sh*t hits the fan. Listen in to Wally's lessons as a longtime CEO to reward challenging the status quo now.
The full blog post can be found here: https://stefaniekrievins.com/challenge-the-status-quo-business-as-usual-is-dangerous-with-wally-brant/.
About Wally Brant and Indiana Oxygen
Wally Brant is the CEO and owner of Indiana Oxygen Company, a 108-year-old, four-generation, family-owned company. Indiana Oxygen manufactures and distributes industrial, medical, and research laboratory gases and related welding and safety equipment and has branch stores/production facilities in fourteen (14) Indiana cities and two (2) in Ohio.
Its online subsidiary, weldingsuppliesfromioc.com, has consistently been voted top welding supply online store by Newsweek Magazine each of the past five years. Online sales account for 25% of Indiana Oxygen’s total annual revenue, which exceeds $90 Million.
A graduate of Purdue University, Wally served seven (7) years in the U.S. Air Force as a Navigator on a B-52 Combat Crew, flying missions in S.E. Asia during the Vietnam War. He later served in the Air Force Reserves, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In 1982, Wally was named CEO of Indiana Oxygen Company. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year” and is a “Purdue University Distinguished Graduate.” In 2018 at the age of 68 Wally graduated from the University of Notre Dame with his MBA Graduate Degree.
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May 12, 2023
Rich Leaders Have Rich Relationships with Jack Gibson
A little-discussed asset class known by rich leaders is to have rich relationships. Jack Gibson is a leader who values trust over money; friendship over revenue. Just a few short years ago, he was feeling hot, hot, hot about real estate investing with a business partner. He referred his friends to this person. Everything was great while everyone was making money together.
Until it wasn't and they were all losing money. Big time.
Jack put on his cape and saved the day. While he's learned since then that "saving others" isn't his job, he'll never regret saving a relationship at the expense of virtually everything else. Listen in to our conversation where lifelong friends have stayed trusted partners because he knows the value of the best investment out there: relationship capital.
The full blog post can be found here: https://stefaniekrievins.com/rich-leaders-have-rich-relationships-with-jack-gibson/. About Jack Gibson
Jack Gibson is an international, serial entrepreneur and financial thought leader. He began his journey at 19 in direct sales from his college dorm room in a nutrition distribution company, where he built a multi-million dollar venture before he was old enough to rent a car. After a series of stock market setbacks, he became obsessed with learning everything about Real Estate Investing and built another multi-million dollar portfolio generating passive income.
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Apr 28, 2023
Insights into Uncomfortable Race Conversations at Work with Danielle Meadows-Stinnett
Have you ever wanted insights into uncomfortable race conversations at work but didn't know who to ask? Our guest, Danielle Meadows-Stinnett, is generous enough to share a hot mess she found herself in as the CEO of her marketing company. She describes what it felt like when a client said to her teammate, "Do you even speak English?"
For those of us in more privileged positions in our American culture, we need to learn what it's like sitting in the chair across from us as a person of color, a non-native English speaker, someone without a college degree whose colleagues all have college degrees, etc. etc. Unfortunately we've created too many ways to outrank each other. This conversation is a great reminder that we all show up to work looking to make a difference as a fellow human. Not a fellow human with all the labels we put on each other and ourselves.
Danielle educates us on what it takes to partner with a supplier who brings diversity to your tables and how you can be an effective partner with them. Listen in, my friend.
The full blog post can be found here: https://stefaniekrievins.com/insights-into-uncomfortable-race-conversations-at-work-with-danielle-meadows-stinnett/
About Danielle Meadows-Stinnett
Danielle is owner of Octane Design Studios, a 12 year old branding and identity firm based in the heart of the Bluegrass. Danielle is a podcaster, wife, mama of 3, and lover of rustic cuisine, chai, cosplay, Star Trek’s Picard and live MMA.
With over 13 years of marketing and multimedia agency experience, Danielle is a Grassroots Developer & Curator, helping brand and launch over 100 local businesses across America; ⅔ in Kentucky.
Danielle is an advocate of non-traditional education leading online meetups and workshops for DIY marketing. Her latest education platform Q1 essentials is an online membership of 10+ mini courses to level up your digital marketing each year within the first business quarter of the year.
In 2021 Danielle launched Kentucky Creatives, an all new Kentucky-based membership community comprised of bloggers, photographers, copywriters, podcasters and more to help connect small businesses with influencers for their brand.
As much as Danielle is passionate about providing creative services she strives to be more than just the graphics she creates. Over the years her hashtag #MoreThanGraphics has become more than just a marketing slogan; it has become a life principle for herself that she executes through storytelling and life chronicle as producer and co-host of the #MoreThanGraphics podcast.
About OCTANE OCTANE is a 13-year-old, Black and Woman-Owned digital marketing and branding firm based in the heart of Kentucky. We’ve helped brand and launch over 100 local businesses across America; ⅔ in Kentucky. Over 60% of their clients are women or BIPOC owned businesses.
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Apr 14, 2023
How Small Tweaks Create Big Change with Nikki Evans
Big change is created by small tweaks. One of our faculty members, Nikki Evans, reminds us that change happens in small steps. Our brains are wired for overwhelm when we try to prioritize, do, plan, think through too much. Coaching reminds us to use our human superpowers of focus, critical thinking, and taking one step at a time.
Nikki shares her coaching perspective, why you might want to work with her, and what to expect. After listening I hope you’ll find her as amazing as I do and see why she’s a natural fit here at Stefanie Krievins & Co.
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Mar 31, 2023
Bring More Critical Thinking to Your Leadership Team with Steve Pearlman
Critical thinking in leadership teams is not the norm. Too many meetings are focused on who's winning, who has the best idea, who's talking the loudest, etc. Steve Pearlman, a critical thinking expert, makes the analogy to poker. We hold our cards close and jockey to win. But then tell everyone else to show their cards so the team can win.
I learned so much about how critical thinking is a bit more complex than I knew and yet there are some key tricks we can all use to be more present, aware, and unbiased in our thought processes.
About Steve Pearlman
Since 1992, Steve has taught critical thinking and writing in higher education, including elite liberal arts colleges and state universities. In 2011, Steve founded one of the United States’ first departments in higher education specifically focused on teaching critical thinking skills. His work resulted in something exceptionally rare in academia: documented, campus-wide improvements in critical thinking.
A premiere expert in crit…
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Mar 17, 2023
Old Habits Can't Create New Results with Tedra White
Change feels hard when we try to use old habits to drive new results. No one knows that better than our very own faculty member, Tedra White. On this episode of the Hot Mess Hotline, we talk through big career transitions; how bad employees create amazing results and how to turn them into great employees that create amazing results; what gets us stuck during transformation; and the power of coaching through all of this.
Tedra shares her coaching perspective, why you might want to work with her, and what to expect. After listening I hope you'll find her as awesome as I do and see why she's a natural fit here at Stefanie Krievins & Co.
About Tedra White
As a career and leadership development coach and expert, Tedra helps people be the best of who they have been called to be. She equips her clients with the tools and strategies that help guide them, as they take the consistent actions needed, to get to where they desire to be.
She uses her 20+ years of experience working and leading i…
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Mar 3, 2023
The critical difference between managing complexity and micromanaging with Bill Murphy
There is a critical difference between managing complexity and micromanaging that all leaders need to know about. Our Hot Mess Hotline guest, Bill Murphy, breaks down how to know when you've reached a ceiling of complexity that requires you to step back into the details of the work.
This is different from micromanaging, however. And if you're seeing the same mistakes over and over, yet your team is supposed to have a process in place, you need to lead in a new way.
Hear about Bill's inflection point as a CEO while in a hospital bed and how he became fearless.
About Bill Murphy
Bill founded RedZone Technologies in 2001 with the vision of deploying an elite team of experts, rigorous assessments, and dependable solutions to thrive in the “red zone.” Then with his team of experts, managing the most challenging IT security projects, and unlike many, consistently closing the gap on the final 20% of project deliverables.
He has recruited and trained an elite team of IT security spec…
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Nov 6, 2022
What's the Difference Between Orientation and Onboarding?
What's the Difference Between Orientation and Onboarding? And why does it matter?
With turnover and retention being very painful and expensive problems (especially right now!), leaders need every tool at their disposal to help the right people stay. Onboarding is an incredibly powerful tool and we have the stats to back it up!!
Plus it's not really about the expense, it's about welcoming people into your culture, showing them a good time, giving them the tools and information to be successful, connecting them to their colleagues, and demonstrating that you want them to be successful in their role.
If you've ever wondered what you can do past the first 90 days to make it more like your people seen seen, heard, and equipped for the work ahead, this podcast episode is for you! Listen in for these lessons and so much more:
* Orientation is like inviting a dinner guest over but not serving them dinner
* Build an onboarding plan for much longer than you think
* It takes years befor…
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Oct 2, 2022
Hot Messes Make You a Stronger Leader with Jerry Jones
Stronger leaders are made through multiple hot messes. Jerry Jones, former president of Cannon IV, shares his decisionmaking, sleepless nights, and strategy pivots during some tumultuous times. In this Hot Mess Hotline episode, he shares how 50% of their revenue evaporated in 90 days because of a supplier's switch in sales strategy.
This episode is powerful for those leaders who feel fatigued by change or have teams who are complaining about too much change. "Why can't things just go back to normal?" When change is forced upon your team because of external factors, there is no going back to normal. There's a new reality which forces new ways of working and new needed results.
Listen in for these lessons and so much more:
* It's not a matter of IF a hot mess happens...it's a matter of WHEN
* External factors that you have no control over will disrupt your business
* Even if you're good at your game of business, it may not be your game to play
* During a Hot Mess, you must ans…
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Sep 18, 2022
When You Lose Your Job and It's Your Whole Identity with Steve Spiro
What do you do when you lose your job and it's your whole identity? Steve Spiro has been there and has some words of advice! Almost every successful leader I know has been fired from a job and/or had a crisis of conscious. They often go hand-in-hand because we over invest our happiness in the role we play at work, the title, the salary, the perks.
It's great to find purpose in our jobs. Our work can be the place where we make a difference and impact on the world. And at the end of the day, I hope you'll see that your humanity comes from just being the amazing, awesome, fully human person that you are. That's what Steve discovered too.
During this episode of the Hot Mess Hotline, Steve shares with us the power of mentorship, foresight, and what to rely on instead of your job for your identity. I also share what I went through when I lost my identity. If you're going through this time, please know I feel and see your pain. If someone you love is going through this too and/or just lost…
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Sep 2, 2022
Don't Do What You're Good At with Gary Hobbs
You've probably spent your entire life believing that you should do what you're good at. Surely, if you're a natural at something, then it's your life's calling, right? But what if you've been wrong all along? Gary Hobbs, electrical engineer turned entrepreneur, believes it's the challenges you face, doing what you love, and doing what you're GREAT at will drive your success.
In this episode of the Hot Mess Hotline, you will hear how important it is to weigh the risks of doing what you're good at when you're feeling unfulfilled. Can you find freedom by facing challenges and being fulfilled by chasing your passion? Gary took a leap that changed the course of his career. Although initially he felt like he made a big Hot Mess, what he really uncovered was his passion, his calling, and more success than he could have ever dreamed of. Exploring the tension of leaving a successful business for the unknown was a leap of faith, but it's usually the biggest leaps that have largest rewards.
Jo…
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Aug 19, 2022
Powerful Leaders Define Success for Themselves First with Karen Mangia
There's a balance in leadership success between being nimble and controlling the right kind of controllables. Karen Mangia is that leader who has found personal and professional success because she decided to prioritize — and control — what that looks like on a daily basis for her.
You'll hear in this interview how Karen was letting other people's definitions of contribution, meaning, and boundaries drive her. And it wrecked her body, mind, and spirit. Lucky for us she found her way out and even used the pandemic as her reset time. She has changed her relationship with her career and invites you to do the same.
Our episode brought tears to my eyes and I hope it touches you in a similar way with these lessons:
* Saboteurs will hold you back if you keep listening to them.
* Success doesn't mean more, more, more.
* Commitment to success can be toxic.
* Blending in to fit in will cause you to lose yourself.
* It's not other people's responsibility to meet your needs.
* D…
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Aug 5, 2022
How to Build a High Performing Team with Sean Murray and Doug Beal
High-performing teams are built when individuals go through challenges together. Sean Murray and Doug Beal bring us the real-life story of a gold metal Olympic team from the 80s who could barely work together in the beginning. In today's episode you'll learn that you actually don't need the smartest, most talented, highly skilled players for your business team to be high performing.
During much of the 2010s (and still today), there was a fixation on hiring "the best talent." We think if we just hire the Lebron James of business intelligence, or the Peyton Manning of sales leadership, then we'll have a high performing team. Yes a team can be better because of one superstar, but that superstar alone doesn't create a high-performing team.
For my fellow Hoosiers, you'll remember the Colts won 2 games in the season Peyton had to sit out. They had no back up plan or strength on the team without him and the ENTIRE team failed because of it.
The same is true for your team at work. Listen in…
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Apr 27, 2022
Rules to Live By for Good Leaders and Bad Leaders with Chris Clews
Chris Clews, speaker and author, bring us rules to live by for good and bad leaders straight from the 80s! Again! He has such a valuable perspective to share (and we have laugh so much when we're together), I just had to have him back.
This time we're talking about Road House and other 80s favorites. Plus if you're thinking about pivoting your career or there's a creative idea you keep thinking and dreaming about, Chris has some great advice on how to take action on it.
Here's just a snippet of all the lightbulb moments you'll get from this fun and insightful conversation:
* Don't underestimate your opponent.
* Continue to expect the unexpected.
* Take it outside...to have the tough conversation.
* You don't always have to be nice.
* Be the Cooler as a leader.
* Time will pass regardless. How you use it is what makes the difference.
* It's always the right time to reinvent yourself.
* A new tattoo suggestion
* Do what's right for you...not what's expected of you…
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Apr 15, 2022
Your Team's Long Term Growth Plan with Tony Newcome
Tony Newcome, CTO at ActiveCampaign, creates long-term growth plans with his team and has everyone working in the details, including himself. It's been instrumental to ActiveCampaign's success and certainly his track record as an award-winning technology leader. In this episode listen for Tony's leadership perspective and how he keeps cultures going in hyper growth mode while also staying focused. He believes the best in people and it shows through in everything he does and every conversation he has.
Some teams use 2-week sprints to get the right work done at the right time. I've taught 90-day sprints to my clients. Tony uses 6-week sprints. And it's working for them!
Here is just a snippet of all the insights you'll get from this humble leader who creates massive change:
* The highest need of any leader is to drive change
* Growth requires re-thinking alignment
* Your largest flaw is that your human; there's no escaping that
* Why a roadmap will connect functions and depart…
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Apr 1, 2022
Project Management Problems Always Have People Solutions with Charlie Garcia
Charlie Garcia, president of C Garcia and Associates, has learned that every project management problem really needs a people-focused solution. He grew up in the construction industry and learned early on to take responsibility for what's broken AND what's going right. In this episode, you'll hear Charlie describe a problem completely caused by other people but making him look bad. Like losing millions of dollars bad. He lost a lot of sleep fixing this hot mess, but didn't waste a second trying to blame others. He simply got to work. During this episode listen to Charlie tell how he solved an expensive problem by working with people, not against them. Plus many more insights like these:
* If you're growing and leading, hot messes are unavoidable
* If you can't figure out what's going on, go watch the problem in action
* A plan isn't the only thing you need to be successful
* Don't circumvent the process; running your ideas up the chain of command is essential
* Take responsi…
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Mar 18, 2022
Leaders Don't Judge with Joe Topinka
Joe Topinka, founder of CIO Mentor, shares his experiences learning that leaders don't judge and how to really lead by example through a tough moment in his career. A new CEO came in and he was removed from the executive leadership team. An average leader will let their ego take over. An exceptional leader will take another route.
Listen in this episode for Joe's top lessons, his source of inspiration, and our top insights you can put into practice immediately.
* Your ego overreacts and lies to you.
* Not only step out of the drama triangle, but bring others along with you.
* When a phone call is better than in person or a video call
* Great self coaching question: "Are you who you think you are?"
* Leaders don't judge. They help solve problems.
* Why your team needs rules of engagement and how often to discuss
* Bring a brick, not a cathedral, to your team for new ideas
About Joe Topinka
Joe Topinka is a visionary Chief Information Officer, mentor, author, and speake…
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Feb 19, 2022
How to Lead Through a Crisis with Whynde Kuehn
Whynde Kuehne, founder and managing director of S2E Transformation Inc., teaches us how to lead through a crisis from her firsthand experience. She was having a normal, fabulous day when she receives a call from the big boss saying her boss was out immediately and she's now in charge of a 100-person team. Gulp.
In a matter of days she came up with a way forward for the entire team. Listen in for these key insights and so much more from our powerful conversation.
* Why a "bridge" is a powerful metaphor for leadership
* Technical, consulting, and thought leadership are different than people leadership
* Acknowledge the different roles you play in people's lives and work
* Leadership is a responsibility to your employees and their families
* Work is an ecosystem, not a place
About Whynde Kuehn
Whynde Kuehn is the Founder and Managing Director of S2E Transformation Inc., helping organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution. Whynde has extensive experience in en…
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Nov 28, 2021
Leadership Lessons from the 80s with Chris Clews
Chris Clews, speaker and author, brings us the top leadership lessons from the 80s in this Hot Mess Hotline episode. Combining his marketing leadership experience and love of Gen X culture, he's written a books series, "What 80s Pop Culture Teaches Us About Today’s Workplace." He travels the country sharing what we can all learn from our childhood favorites: movies that play on Saturday afternoon reruns and music originally released on vinyl.
Chris originally got inspiration for this work while at home on a mental health day trying to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up. As he revisited Gen X childhood favorites and translated them into contemporary leadership lessons, he found how much they resonated with his peers.
From non-skinny jeans (thankyoujesus) to Doc Martens and Stranger Things, nostalgia for the 80s and 90s have made a full comeback in our culture. Listen in for these key insights and much more from our fun conversation.
* There's a danger in nostalgia…
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Nov 14, 2021
The Ultimate Humble Leadership Style with David Fischer
David Fischer, chief revenue officer at Gregory & Appel Insurance, has always sought out challenges. As a marine, he learned the ultimate humble leadership style: leaders eat last. He continuously strives to grow himself, the companies he works for, and the people he leads. That hard work is rewarded with increasingly complex challenges to face, however.
He's a wizard when it comes to creating sales systems and structures to catapult a company's success. This problem he shares with us on the Hot Mess Hotline seemed to be a growth opportunity. And it certainly was. But not in the way he thought it would be.
David joined a company that couldn't make payroll the first 2 weeks he was there. His initial step didn't fix it, so he had to ask for help: from his team (but the whole team couldn't know), his vendors, his customers, his banker. Everyone.
There's a new kind of humility that is taught when you're introducing yourself for the first time by telling others how much trouble you're…
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Nov 1, 2021
What to Do When Hard Work Doesn't Pay Off with Blair Milo
Blair Milo, founding director of the Center for Talent and Opportunity, took on a huge career opportunity, drove innovation, and then confronted a problem she couldn't outwork. One minute into this episode and you'll know how hard Blair works. She went from distinguished naval officer to city mayor before the age of 30.
Like you, she's an ambitious, go-get 'em tiger, high achiever who does. not. shy. away. from hard work.
But hard work doesn't solve all your problems.
Gggggaaaaaasssssspppp. Did I just say that?
Yep. You can't outwork all of your problems.
Asking for the right kind of help can be the difference between an okay leader and a phenomenal one. Mayor Milo was driving a once-in-a-lifetime transition for her small town. They were all in and there was no going back. Think: this manufacturing plant that's been closed for decades needs a new life in a new century. She had 4 leadership team members' transition out in 6 months' time and she thought they were her ride-or-die gur…
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Oct 16, 2021
5 Steps To Take After Being Fired with Emil Ekiyor
Emil Ekiyor, CEO of Innopower, learned some tough lessons before finding his purpose. He came to America from Nigeria in high school, never having played football. He learned the game and earned his way into the NFL. He put his head down and got to work. Every. Single. Day. Working on his mind and body to always be competing against himself and the league's best with his speed, strength, and endurance.
One day it was just over.
After injury and an unexpected termination, his name was at the bottom of ESPN's screen and he was packing his bags to head home. If you've ever been fired, you know how Emil felt. If you've never been fired, it feels like that time you belly flopped off the diving board, smacking your whole front side and knocking the wind out of your lungs. Then trying to get back up to air as soon as possible.
Our conversation reminded me that we over-romanticize hard work. We forget that an amazing career has hard work, luck, serendipity, tears, setbacks, and maybe, somet…
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Sep 17, 2021
Why Mental Clarity is More Important Than a Business Plan with Jason Weddle
Jason Weddle, CEO of Hamilton, has been successful precisely because he's willing to answer the hard questions and have the tough conversations. Even with himself. For this episode of the Hot Mess Hotline, he shares the confusion that existed in the 6 inches between his ears and describes why mental clarity is more important than the business plan at certain times.
His willingness to answer these tough questions and wrestle with himself has led to his success so far. (I mean, "wrestle," figuratively of course. Otherwise that'd be weird.)
Jason is raw and vulnerable and wants you to know what it really takes to advance from manager to director to the C-suite. He reminds us that the grass looks greener until you realize how much manure makes that growth possible.
This succession plan was 5+ years in the making and full of hard work. And no one does this work alone. He describes the power of coaching, which you know if my favorite tool, and reminds us: "The moment it becomes uncomforta…
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Sep 5, 2021
How to Overcome Mistakes at Work with Jeff Ton
Jeff Ton has risen through the ranks of IT from manager to director to CIO. He's now bringing the wisdom he's learned to current IT leaders through a CIO networking group in Central Indiana. On this episode of the Hot Mess Hotline, he shares how to overcome mistakes at work through a gut-wrenching management and leadership experience.
He faced his 150-person team to explain himself and explain why they saw their names on the chopping block in a slide deck before the time was right.
It was tense. Seriously, my tummy gets flippy and floppy just thinking about how he felt in that moment as I write this.
His story is for you if you're looking for ways to respond better when tensions are high — to get out of your head and take the right kind of action. This episode has so many words of wisdom, including:
* How to overcome mistakes at work by learning the right lessons from oh shit moments
* What "owning up" looks like (it's not as scary as you think it is)
* A process to use whe…
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May 24, 2021
Resilience Examples from IT and Consulting Leaders
This episode is a replay of an IT panel that Stefanie Krievins moderated in April 2021 with successful IT leaders who also have remarkably diverse perspectives of this world and in their companies.
Diversity is strength. Strength is resilience.
IT leaders and consultants will be responsible for ever-increasing results because of the rate of change during the pandemic: our adoption of technology advanced 10 years in just 10 months.
Also those companies who can't attract, retain, and develop candidates with minority identities stand to lose out, BIG TIME. Listen in for compelling business research that demonstrates the link between profit and diversity in the C-suite.
This episode is for any leader who wants to take the lessons learned from 2020 and re-think how to approach diversity in IT or re-think the future of work at your company.
About the Hosts
This All-IT Community Panel was co-hosted by Indy's premier IT leadership associations.
* IT Leader Indianapolis
* CIO Network…
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May 6, 2021
A Real World Emotional Intelligence Test You Only Gain Through Experience with Leslie Murphy
Leslie Murphy is the owner of an association management firm with tenured experience in managing people, teams, volunteers, and herself.
She shares her stories about learning more about herself and how to navigate and negotiate change with others.
Leslie shares how her lack of emotional intelligence earlier in her career didn't taken into account others' perspectives or needs. And a few interactions where others were willing to teach her some painful lessons.
Now she knows herself well and knows how to work around her driven, check-the-box mindset to navigate tricky stakeholder relationships and get more out of entire groups.
Because she leads many trade associations, she also has some secrets to share on how to get ahead in your industry too.
About Leslie Murphy:
Leslie has been a leader in association management for more than 35 years, contributing to a variety of associations from professional, educational and philanthropic groups to an emerging trade association.
Bringing he…
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Apr 23, 2021
Transparency is the Only Option for Leadership If You Want Trust with Wayne Patrick
Wayne Patrick is a serial tech entrepreneur whose Hot Mess Hotline conversation is about his lessons learned during the Great Recession in 2008.
His "world fell apart," when he got a Monday morning call losing 10% of his sales. The firm was in hot water.
At the time, Wayne's company, PDD, was firmly entrenched in the automobile industry. Wayne's world was falling apart and he knew he had no choice but to trim his budget fast. The automobile industry was imploding and another 15% of his existing business was also at risk.
Wayne was dealing with multiple issues:
* What would he do about losing 10% of the company's revenue? How would they recover from that?
* What, if anything, could he do to not lose the other 15% of his existing business?
* What could he do to hold onto another automotive prospect he had in his pipeline? They had bet on the automobile industry and concentrated their business on two or three customers putting them at risk.
Wayne and his team were willing to…
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Apr 9, 2021
What Successful Leaders Do in Challenging Times with Mike Sipple Jr.
In today’s episode, Mike Sipple Jr. wants you to know that as a mid-level leader you are an inspiration!
It might not feel that way sometimes.
You may be asking, "How can I be an inspiration as a mid-level leader?"
Here's how:
It's through learning experiences and having to make decisions that we grow.
As a leader, you have a vision and you make decisions based on those long-rang planes. Sometimes these decisions create the outcome that is planned and sometimes they don't. Either way, you get to you learn.
So even when...
* an ad campaign goes wrong
* your messaging isn't right
* or a pandemic hits
You may be hurt emotionally, but you still have to lead.
Realize that when these things happen it hurts those around us as well. From your family to your team it's important to let them know that it hurts you too: share your energy, your experience, and your fear. Let some of it out.
About Mike and His Work
Mike Sipple, Jr. is known throughout the world by family businesse…
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Mar 26, 2021
Critical Decision Making Skills Every Manager Needs with Aimee Kandrac
Do you ever wish that you could see that your CEO is a human being? That they are vulnerable? That they can mess up?
In today’s episode, Aimee Kandrac, CEO and Founder of WhatFriendsDo, tells us about a time where her close friend’s son was diagnosed with a cancer.
As her friend’s family waited in isolation in the hospital for 100 days, many stories were shared and stored on Aimee's database. About 6-months into this journey the WhatFriendsDo website crashed and none of the backups worked, Aimee had lost their whole story. On top of that 10,000 other users all over the world lost their data as well. When anyone has a technology crash it sucks. Users are upset and people get frustrated and wonder “Why isn’t this working?” What Friends Do was holding people’s lives at a critical time for them. Losing this data was like losing their story - the story of the most intimate and critical times in their entire lives.
For Aimee, as a business owner, and as a friend personally i…
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Mar 12, 2021
Great adversity is a Great Business Opportunity with Kevin Berkopes
Kevin Berkopes talks about the Hot Mess that happened due to COVID which jarred schools: the largest healthcare, childcare, and food programs in the world.
Kevin and his company, Crossroads Education, work to support schools in parenting alongside parents to help create healthy kids by using relationship-based education. Kevin knows that "Everyone has a solidified opinion on what needs to be done in education." But no one has real solutions to improve equitable access and services, especially to balance out the trauma of poverty.
Kevin's company uses students as the co-creators of tutoring systems in schools so that tutoring becomes available for all. He also offers math departments as a service. You must listen in for this unique, simple business model that solves several problems at once.
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Feb 28, 2021
A CEO Answers The Question - How Do You Build Staff Resilience with Angela White
This episode reveals how a CEO learned powerful lessons during a staff tragedy and how it built resilience for 2020. While we'll never wish this trauma on your team, there are real lessons you and your staff can always take from challenges.
* Why everyone on a team needs to share responsibility for revenue generation
* Why having your people share in the spotlight is critical for succession planning
* How the more you invest in your people, the more it will pay off
* How to connect self care and stamina
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Feb 14, 2021
Take Control of Your Career by Taking Control of What You're Learning with Darren Reese
This episode discusses the limitations to passion, why being less intolerant can be a great thing, and tools to know people are doing their jobs. Darren Reese is the CEO of the SESCO Group and he is sharing his secrets to success as an unlikely executive, including taking control of your own learning and several key tools to trust your people are doing the right thing.
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Jan 31, 2021
The Business Strategy Questions the Pandemic is Forcing Leaders to Answer with Calvin Ellison
Stefanie Krievins and Executive Coach and Mastermind Host Cal Ellison discuss the deep questions that the pandemic forced business leaders to answer. The pandemic and economic shutdown forced CEOs and mid-level leaders to really evaluate why and how they were successful. This episode offers new tools to think about planning for and re-thinking growth in the future.
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Jan 18, 2021
Why Fast Business Growth Didn't Stop in 2020 but was Redefined Instead with Armando Lanuti
Last year, 2020, was the ultimate hot mess. And 2021 is also starting out with a bang. But there's always good that emerges during difficult times.
This episode features Armando Lanuti, the president of Creative Works. This company designs the backdrop and experience in family entertainment centers. Their primary customers' businesses closed up shop when COVID hit. They were on track for a blockbuster year and then everything came to a screeching halt.
But Armando's team demonstrated resilience in amazing ways. Listen in for how they pivoted, adapted, were optimistic, and came out of 2020 swinging for the fences.
See the full blog post and transcript at https://stefaniekrievins.com/there-is-an-i-in-team/
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Dec 21, 2020
A Mini Mess on Why There IS an "I" in Team!
We've all seen the inspirational placard "There's No I in Team!"
If you want to know how to improve communication within a team, the first thing that you need to know is there IS an "I" in "Team" - and no, asserting your "I"-ness does NOT necessarily make you an A-Hole.
I’m talking about how to build trust at work by bringing the personalities, individualism, and egos of your team away from the extremes and to a successful, productive place in the middle. Whether you've got the ultimate team player, yes-man who shows up for everything (but then can't or won't deliver) or the ultimate individual who does great work (but can't seem to get along with anyone else), THIS is for you, my friend!
See the full blog post and transcript at https://stefaniekrievins.com/there-is-an-i-in-team/
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Dec 7, 2020
A Mini Mess on Why Time Management is a Myth
Time management is a myth, and today, I’m going to talk about why – and what you should be doing instead to maximize the time you have, manage expectations at work and at home with the emergencies that inevitably arise, and get your best work done without the constant stress.
See the full blog post and transcript at https://stefaniekrievins.com/why-time-management-is-a-myth/
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Nov 23, 2020
A Mini Mess on Why Gen X is Awesome in the Workplace!
Friends, growing up Gen X meant growing up in a really interesting time. We were independent, sometimes latchkey kids, bridging genres, friend cliques, interests, and more.
This independence didn’t go away when we entered the workforce, either! It made us confident and awesome.
See the full blog post and transcript at https://stefaniekrievins.com/why-gen-x-is-awesome/
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Oct 23, 2020
How this President and Founder used her strategic plan to change everything
If you’ve ever asked yourself, “So why is strategic planning important to a small company?” Sam Julka has your answer.
As Sam discusses in this episode of the Hot Mess Hotline, she and her team had to figure out how to use tools in new ways, provide clients with a needed service, and keep their doors open despite everything changing.
Listen to this episode now.
See the full blog post at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-this-president-and-founder-used-her-strategic-plan-to-change-everything
Find Part 1 of Sam’s interview at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-a-network-of-trusted-advisors-helped-this-ceo-pivot-to-a-new-strategic-plan
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Oct 23, 2020
How a network of trusted advisors helped this CEO pivot to a new strategic plan
For Sam Julka, the President and Founder of DORIS Research, 2020 proved that strategic planning can sometimes have unintended or unexpected benefits, such as finding yourself with a team of great advisors during a global pandemic.
As a business that revolves around researching the physical office space of other companies, Sam faced immediate client loss and hard decisions.
It was clear that their 2020 strategic plan wasn’t going to happen, and instead, Sam needed a new plan.
See the full blog post at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-a-network-of-trusted-advisors-helped-this-ceo-pivot-to-a-new-strategic-plan
Find Part 2 of Sam’s interview at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-this-president-and-founder-used-her-strategic-plan-to-change-everything
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Oct 8, 2020
How 1 Powerful Question Changed an Entire IT Team
In Part 2 of Mike Loggins’ interview, we’re going behind the scenes to learn how Mike, a global vice president of IT, and his team changed their communication style by completely changing their workspace, and how “What can we do to make this work?” became the innovative question they needed to succeed.
See the full blog post and transcript at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-1-powerful-question-changed-an-entire-it-team
Find Part 1 of Mike’s interview at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-this-it-team-couldnt-change-their-culture
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Oct 8, 2020
How This IT Team Couldn’t Change Their Culture and Communication Until They Changed Where They Sat
Mike Loggins, a global vice president of IT, and I discuss how to improve communication within a team on this episode of the Hot Mess Hotline. When it came to team communication strategies, Mike had some ridiculous ambiguity on his hands.
Mike used to believe that if he just designed the best processes and bought the newest technology then, voila, there will be transformation and cultural change.
Here’s what it really takes: thinking from a new perspective. Mike and his team figured out that those beliefs were short-sighted.
See the full blog post at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-this-it-team-couldnt-change-their-culture
Find Part 2 of Mike’s interview at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-1-powerful-question-changed-an-entire-it-team
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Oct 5, 2020
How a Nonprofit CEO Learned to Overcome Change Management Challenges and Experience Opportunity in the Pandemic
Coming into 2020, when you thought of how to overcome change management challenges, you didn’t have the fallout of a global pandemic on your radar. If you’re Jim Morris, CEO of the Greater Indy Habitat for Humanity, you’re also facing the recent merger with another nonprofit.
And this is after a nearly 8-year competitive struggle with the board and staff of an organization that you lead. My interview with Jim Morris has so many relevant lessons learned on how to overcome change management challenges. How could it not when you’re facing THIS much change!
Part 2 of my conversation with Jim Morris includes keeping perspective, what he’s learned from the pandemic, improving team communication, and what he’d like his legacy to be.
See the full blog post at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-a-nonprofit-ceo-learned-to-overcome-change-management-challenges
Find Part 1 of Jim’s interview at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/complex-conflict-this-ceo-found-himself-in-for-8-…
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Oct 5, 2020
Complex Conflict This CEO Found Himself in for 8 Years
Typically when I talk with a client about how to manage conflict, it’s within an organization. On this’s episode of the Hot Mess Hotline, Jim Morris, the CEO of Greater Indy Habitat for Humanity, and I discuss conflict with an outside, competing nonprofit. Jim found himself navigating both internal and external conflict as he spent 8 years in this hot mess with an organization that was supposed to be a collaborator, not a distraction. Learn how he handled it and more in this episode!
See the full blog post at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/complex-conflict-this-ceo-found-himself-in-for-8-years
Find Part 2 of Jim’s interview to hear how he navigated this situation with perseverance, at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-a-nonprofit-ceo-learned-to-overcome-change-management-challenges
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Sep 28, 2020
A Mini Mess on What is Change Management Training
If you think change is hard, you’re doing it wrong. And you’re probably doing change management training wrong, too.
So what is change management training, and what’s the number one secret that every Pro Troublemaker knows about change? Friends, that’s what I’m talking about in today’s video!
I’m hitting three key points today in helping you to identify what change management training is best for your situation.
Pro Troublemakers know that successfully answering “What is Change Management?” is critical for leaders. If you haven’t seen my Pro Troublemaker series, I encourage you to go back and watch these videos! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoGtE7Z43284OEl8NjI4l-FduwmnOYJ6D
See the full blog post and transcript at https://stefaniekrievins.com/what-is-change-management-training/
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Sep 21, 2020
What is Coaching? A Mini Mess on How to Find A Great Coach
Over the years I’ve learned that when people ask me what I do for a living, they always have a follow up question! For some, it’s how to deal with *that* coworker or boss: managing conflict within a team, what to do when you report to several people, and so on. For others, it’s how to reach that next level in the workplace, whether seeking a promotion, finding a new job, or beginning to think about how to start the succession planning process.
But the biggest question is “What IS coaching, anyway?” I love this question, because it lets me share the story of how I discovered coaching (hint: like many of my clients, it was when I needed to get out of a stuck place!) and my process for working with clients now.
See the full blog post and transcript at https://stefaniekrievins.com/what-is-coaching/
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Sep 14, 2020
A Mini Mess on Why You Don't Cut Your Professional Development Budget
Leaders, it’s time to budget for 2021 and today I’m here to say don’t cut your professional development budget!
I know it can be tempting, or even seem reasonable, to make cuts here. We’re approaching the recovery phase of COVID-19, you may be tasked with cutting costs in your budget, and you may not even be sure how much to budget for professional development!
Despite the uncertainty, I’ll say it again: don’t cut your professional development budget!
I’ve got three tips to share with you today. Then, it’s on you as a leader to recognize that professional development for each person brings benefit to your entire team, your team communication strategies, and your overall success. So don’t cut your professional development budget – refine it and put it to work for you!
See the full blog post and transcript at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/dont-cut-your-professional-development-budget
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Sep 7, 2020
How to Develop Connection in a Virtual and Uncertain World: A Hot Mess Webinar with Motivosity
As a leader, it's not up to you to keep everyone happy and motivated all the time. But it IS up to you to lead the way on creating a culture where employees motivate each other, where healthy conflict is encouraged, and where social and emotional connections are built even without physical proximity.
The webinar starts off with two participant questions,
"What's the #1 impact you've seen on your team because of COVID-19 and the sudden shift to working remotely?" and "What's the most important corporate value you want your team to adopt into the next normal?"
Consider these as you listen to Steve Johnson from Motivosity and I talk about building connections!
Find the full blog post at https://stefaniekrievins.com/how-to-build-trust-in-a-virtual-team/
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Aug 31, 2020
A Mini Mess on How To Improve Communication
Want to talk about the biggest factor in your team’s success?
Want to talk about what success factors are important to small business owners?
Want to talk about how to improve change management?
Friends, that’s what you’ve got to do: TALK! Today’s Mini Mess is all about how to improve communication within your team. And while there’s no Golden Ticket to communication, there is a Golden Idea, and I’ll share it with you today.
Then, I’ll give you three of my favorite resources for improving communication, including one you can download right now at https://stefaniekrievins.com/how-to-improve-communication
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Aug 24, 2020
A Mini Mess On Setting SMART Goals
Here’s the thing about SMART goals: they’re here to stay.
Look no further than a quick Google search to tell you that SMART goals are an essential part of strategic planning for any workplace that wants to be successful in reaching their quarterly, annual, or multi-year objectives.
In today's Mini Mess episode, originally recorded in January 2020, I'm talking about how SMART goals can help create focus and clarity. So why, when they’re introduced in a meeting, are your coworkers’ eyes more glazed over than the last donut lingering in the middle of the conference room table?!
See the full blog post and transcript at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/smartgoals
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Aug 17, 2020
A Mini Mess on How To Build Trust
When I start working with a team, the issues that I hear most often are trust, communication, and other problems that are rooted in trust and communication.
Today, I’m focusing on how to build trust at work. Leaders, trust starts with you, and what I have to say about what you need to share and what you need to say may make you a little nervous. But ultimately, developing this skill will allow your team to trust you more. This trust will spill over into how they trust and communicate with each other.
See the full blog post and transcript at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/how-to-build-trust
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Aug 10, 2020
A Mini Mess On Setting SHIFT Goals
If you've been here awhile, you know I'm a person who likes to get the real shizz done. I love talking sales, strategy, stakeholders, small business and salsa (so if you decide to conduct a goal-setting strategy session over chips and dip, I just might join you).
In today's Mini Mess episode, originally recorded in January 2020, it’s time to talk about how to set meaningful, motivational goals to best align with not only your project management needs, but with what really, REALLY inspires you to get your best work done. And we’re going to do this with one of my favorite "s" words- SHIFT!
See the full blog post and transcript at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/shiftgoals
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Aug 3, 2020
A Mini Mess On What's Holding Gen X Back In The Workplace
Gen X is often called the sandwich generation, and while that phrase is certainly true on the home front, it's applicable to the workplace as well. My fellow Gen Xers are sandwiched between Baby Boomer CEOs and leadership and managing Millennial team members, and frankly, we're burning out.
In today's Mini Mess episode, I'm talking about Generation X motivation in the workplace and THEN, I'm talking about what to do about it, and why it's so important to take that step!
See the full blog post and transcript at https://www.stefaniekrievins.com/whats-holding-gen-x-back-in-the-workplace
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Jun 19, 2020
A Conversation with Doug Miller
In this episode, Stefanie talks with Doug Miller, the Owner & CEO of Brightworks, about his company’s experience with the COVID-19 pandemic and how his advanced-preparedness mindset helped his team immediately and seamlessly transition to an entirely virtual office while continuing to provide customer support.
Pro Troublemaker Nation founder Stefanie Krievins draws on conversations with guest CEOs and leaders, her own clients’ experiences, and the expertise of leading change-management professionals to provide tools for mid-level managers who want to learn to think like entrepreneurs.
Mr. Miller has extensive information technology operations experience in manufacturing, financial services, and health care, as well as a deep consulting background in many more industries. He is adept in roles requiring diverse skill sets that allow him to function effectively in deeply technical roles while also serving as a project manager, a business process consultant, and a leader of technical…
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Jun 19, 2020
Keeping Your Team Excited For Change
In this episode, Stefanie discusses when it’s time to challenge the status quo and how to harness the energy of your team when they’re excited about change. Leaders will also learn what to do when a new corporate culture begins emerging as the result of change initiatives, and how that happens.
Pro Troublemaker Nation founder Stefanie Krievins draws on conversations with guest CEOs and leaders, her own clients’ experiences, and the expertise of leading change-management professionals to provide tools for mid-level managers who want to learn to think like entrepreneurs.
Find “Leading Change,” by John Kotter, and the original Harvard Business Review article, here.
Find more information on Jim Collins’ flywheel of success here.
Stefanie Krievins is an executive coach based in Indianapolis, Ind., specializing in leadership and change management.
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Jun 19, 2020
Setting Goals and Celebrating Success
In this episode, leaders will tackle the obstacles that keep their teams from changing. Stefanie discusses the art of delegating as part of the change management process, then addresses how to break down your vision story in to multi-year, annual, and six-month goals. Listeners will learn why to set benchmarks for success, as well as how to celebrate the wins along the way with their teams.
Pro Troublemaker Nation founder Stefanie Krievins draws on conversations with guest CEOs and leaders, her own clients’ experiences, and the expertise of leading change-management professionals to provide tools for mid-level managers who want to learn to think like entrepreneurs.
Find “Leading Change,” by John Kotter, and the original Harvard Business Review article, here.
Find “The Leadership Challenge” by James Kouzes and Barry Posner here.
Stefanie Krievins is an executive coach based in Indianapolis, Ind., specializing in leadership and change management.
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Jun 19, 2020
Vision Stories and How To Communicate Them
In this episode, Stefanie Krievins discusses why leaders need more than just a vision for their team and why you need to communicate significantly more than you think you do. Key takeways include how to create a vision story, how to communicate that story to your team with tools that you may not have considered, and how everyone at your company ultimately plays a role in the change you want to see. Leaders will gain a list of internal communication tools to begin using immediately.
In the first six episodes, Pro Troublemaker Nation founder Stefanie Krievins draws on conversations with guest CEOs and leaders, her own clients’ experiences, and the expertise of leading change-management professionals to provide tools for mid-level managers who want to learn to think like entrepreneurs.
Find “Leading Change,” by John Kotter, and the original Harvard Business Review article, here.
Find “Traction” by Gino Wickman with EOS here.
Stefanie Krievins is an executive coach based in I…
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Jun 19, 2020
Sustaining Change Within Your Team
In this episode, leaders will learn how to integrate urgency and accountability into business models; why your team needs radical personal responsibility; and what you need to truly sustain major changes. Stefanie also discusses the need for guiding coalitions within your organization and what a successful coalition looks like.
In the first six episodes, Pro Troublemaker Nation founder Stefanie Krievins draws on conversations with guest CEOs and leaders, her own clients’ experiences, and the expertise of leading change-management professionals to provide tools for mid-level managers who want to learn to think like entrepreneurs.
Find “Leading Change,” by John Kotter, and the original Harvard Business Review article, here.
Learn more about Cy Wakeman, referenced in this episode, here.
Stefanie Krievins is an executive coach based in Indianapolis, Ind., specializing in leadership and change management.
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Jun 19, 2020
The Change Curve, Disaster Planning, and your 90-Day Sprint
Pro Troublemaker Nation founder Stefanie Krievins draws on conversations with guest CEOs and leaders, her own clients’ experiences, and the expertise of leading change-management professionals to provide tools for mid-level managers who want to learn to think like entrepreneurs.
In this episode, Stefanie shares the 4 steps to disaster planning, discusses the 90-Day Sprint tool, and introduces the concept of John Kotter’s “Leading Change” 8-step change management program.
Find “Leading Change,” by John Kotter, and the original Harvard Business Review article, here.
Stefanie Krievins is an executive coach based in Indianapolis, Ind., specializing in leadership and change management.
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May 26, 2020
Hot Mess Hotline Preview
Pro Troublemaker Nation founder Stefanie Krievins shares conversations for mid-level managers who think like entrepreneurs.
Find out what happens when CEOs, leaders and others start getting real, from the hot messes they've found themselves in, to how they got out of them, and everything in between.
Stefanie Krievins is an executive coach based in Indianapolis, Ind. specializing in leadership and change management.
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