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Lead & FollowFollowership as Voluntariness – Maike KuglerSend Fan Mail by Text!Dr. Maike Kugler shares her research on followership as voluntariness, a specific way of understanding followership behavior. She also speaks on the need to both expand and deepen followership research to account for a wide range of cultural contexts, variations of language and meaning, and relational dynamics, in order to fully understand the phenomenon of followership in organizations and beyond. “[Followership] is not something that’s defined in a book, but it’s something that happens between people. It’s a social thing. So it really depends on the expectations that both part...2025-07-2346 minLead & FollowFollowership Responses to Destructive Leadership in the Tech Industry - Karen Perham-LippmanSend Fan Mail by Text!Dr. Karen Perham-Lippman shares her research on destructive leadership patterns in the tech industry, and the response of various types of positional followers in those companies. Her findings include the behaviors of Challenger followers and their communities of coping that give rise to positive acts of self-restoration and collective resistance.“Challengers were revealed not just as individual followers who wanted to resist destructive leadership as part of their personal integrity or their moral belief about a thing but as a social process.” “If you can find a group of folks who can hel...2025-07-0250 minLead & FollowCollaborationship is our Superpower - Chris MonöSend Fan Mail by Text!Chris Monö is an author and consultant based in Sweden known for his innovative concepts of "natural followership" and "collaborationship." He has spent nearly two decades exploring leadership and followership from a follower’s perspective, and in this episode we discuss several of the powerful ideas in his new book, Why We Follow: Natural Followership in a World Obsessed with Leadership.If you missed the first interview with Chris back in Season 2, I strongly encourage you to go back and listen to that one first, since it provides a lot of...2025-04-2046 minLead & FollowSharing Tango Beyond Social Dance - Thomas RieserSend Fan Mail by Text!Thomas Rieser is the owner of Nou Tango, a tango studio in Berlin, Germany that just celebrated its 20-year anniversary. In this episode, he shares his perspective on how simple yet powerful tango exercises, can be shared outside the world of social dance in supportive group settings to bring healing and joy in surprising and delightful ways.Over the past 20 years of teaching and organizing, Thomas has developed a focus on combining the individual development of each student with the requirements of a group. The individual person is at the...2025-03-1047 minLead & FollowAntiracist Followership in the Civil Rights Movement - Ashton R. CooperSend Fan Mail by Text!Ashton R. Cooper is an assistant professor of higher education in the School of Education at the University of Cincinnati. In this episode, he shares his research on the participation of White activists in the South in the Black-led Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, as well as insights into the lead and follow role switching of White activists from a recent paper titled "Antiracist followership: rethinking social justice leadership in education."Ashton's research and teaching seek to disrupt educational practices that are harmful to individuals and communities, and to...2025-02-1641 minLead & FollowLeading & Following in the Tango - Veronica ToumanovaSend Fan Mail by Text!Tango artist Veronica Toumanova shares her insights from 20+ years of learning, dancing, and teaching tango in both roles, how tango social dance communities are evolving in Paris, Europe, and beyond, and what tango has to teach about leading and following possibilities in life and work. Veronica has been dancing tango since 2000 and actively teaching and performing since 2007. She has Russian origins, but started dancing tango while living in The Netherlands. She has worked with different partners, performing and teaching in France, Sweden, Norway, UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Cyprus, Greece, Germany, C...2025-01-1251 minLead & FollowSeason 4 Preview + excerpt of my bookSend Fan Mail by Text!Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the need to get away from digital life and back to in person life, and as beautiful as it is to connect online with folks everywhere, it’s also really important to be in both the same time and the same place with others in a full body way. So in 2025 I’m planning to teach more in person tango classes. And for the podcast, I plan to bring you more interviews with tango artists sharing their wisdom on embodied leading and followi...2024-12-2015 min
Humans of TangoOur mentors, ourselves, with Aja FennAja Fenn on the value of committing to our teachers, the significance of the yin-yang symbol to tango, how performance culture has evolved since she started, her philosophy on social dancing, and what's inspiring her 24 years into her tango journey.
Producer/Host: Liz Sabatiuk | Music: "Duo de Amor" written by Astor Piazzolla, performed by Tango Bardo | Image Credit: Maurice Kaplan
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Learn more about Aja's current activities through Fabrica Tango's website or by perusing her YouTube channel, then watch Aja perform with Fabrica co-founder Masha Abapolnikova (in Philly, as mentioned in the episode).
...2024-10-3035 minLead & FollowFollowership: Past, Present & Future – Ron RiggioSend Fan Mail by Text!Dr. Ron Riggio has a uniquely broad and deep perspective on the evolution of followership research over the past two decades. He is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and former Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College, where the very first followership conference took place back in 2006.In this episode, Ron shares his thoughts on where the followership community has been and where it is going, as well as his own current work to expand the research on followership and its relationship...2024-10-2139 minLead & FollowDestructive Leadership in the 2024 US Election - Alain de SalesSend Fan Mail by Text!Dr. Alain de Sales currently teaches at the Queensland University of Technology’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) in Brisbane, Australia. In this episode, he describes a recent educational project he coordinated for a group of MBA alumni, analyzing patterns of destructive leadership in the 2024 US presidential election cycle.Back in Season 1 of the podcast, I interviewed Alain on his then and still groundbreaking PhD research on how courageous followership actions can interrupt and prevent the worst outcomes of destructive leadership actions – that episode is called Courageous Followers can Stop Dest...2024-10-0745 minLead & FollowLeading & Following in Community Settings - Eric KaufmanSend Fan Mail by Text!Leadership Educator and Scholar Eric Kaufman shares his observations of leading and following dynamics in a variety of community and volunteer settings, from civic organizations like Kiwanis Clubs to parent-teacher organizations to church governance bodies.Eric is a professor at Virginia Tech, where he coordinates a graduate certificate in collaborative community leadership and supports an undergraduate minor in leadership and social change. He also has a partial appointment at Virginia Cooperative Extension, and that role has focused his attention on best practices for working with community members to guide educational p...2024-08-1835 minLead & FollowLeading & Following in Improvised Music – Jane BentleySend Fan Mail by Text!Dr. Jane Bentley is a percussionist and drum circle facilitator based in Glasgow, Scotland, specializing in rhythm, improvisation, group dynamics and communication skills. She completed a Ph.D on drum circle improvisation and facilitation, highlighting the effects of group music making on human wellbeing, and revealing its fascinating leadership and followership dynamics. Jane’s work as a facilitator has broken new ground in the field of health and wellbeing, through her long-term collaborations with mental health occupational therapy staff in the UK National Health Service. She has worked with children in hospitals; in...2024-07-2832 minLead & FollowThe 4 Tiers of Followership - Eric McDermottSend Fan Mail by Text! Eric McDermott shares a framework he developed through his decades of professional experience called the 4 Tiers of Followership (or the 4 Tiers of Help). By day, Eric is an equity partner at a financial services firm with more than 60,000 clients. But behind the suit, in his other company, Eric was named "Best Business Influencer of the Year" winning two Stevies (the Oscars of the business world) for his social media channels. Having amassed more than half-a-million social media followers in just two years, he educates in a unique brand of visual st...2024-07-0741 minLead & FollowFollowership at the Strategic Level – Paul McGacheySend Fan Mail by Text!Paul McGachey shares his theoretical research on Ira Chaleff's Courageous Follower model plus lots of terrific examples from his own professional work demonstrating what it takes to follow courageously at the higher levels of an organization, whether that's in the US military or in the business sector. Paul is a scholar-practitioner with 18 years of experience in the United States military and is currently pursuing a PhD in Education and Human Resources at Colorado State University. His primary research interests are followership and scenario planning, a tool that uses multiple future scenarios to d...2024-06-1640 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Focus Your EmailSend Fan Mail by Text!Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Focus your email.I recently received an auto-responder email message from a colleague that read, and I’m not kidding about this, QUOTE “I’m out of the office this week, and your message will be deleted. If you’d like a response, please re-send your message after next Monday when I return.” UNQUOTEYour message will be deleted. This is probably the most extreme example I’ve seen of email management, but I share it to illustr...2024-06-0304 minLead & FollowLeading, Following, and Polarity Thinking - Lindsay BurrSend Fan Mail by Text!Lindsay Burr shares the tools of Polarity ThinkingTM as a way to understand, identify, and refine leadership and followership dynamics in any group or organization. Lindsay is CEO of the Yarbrough Group and based in Washington, DC. Her career has focused on helping people clearly see and then navigate the systems that they're in. She has worked in international political spaces and in US policy and elections, and in all of her work over the last 15 years she has used Polarity Theory, a tool developed by Barry Johnson and expanded by multiple...2024-05-2738 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Visual FocusSend Fan Mail by Text!Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Visual focus. In most Western contexts, eye contact signals to the other person that you are paying attention to them. A lack of eye contact can signal the opposite: disconnection, dismissal, or disinterest. Just think about the last time you tried to share information or ask a question of someone who was looking at their screen, at their phone, or out the window. You may have had to repeat yourself because they literally didn’t hear you.On...2024-05-2103 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Take TurnsSend Fan Mail by Text!Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Take turns. One summer I attended a large afternoon bbq, and a person I’d just met walked over and asked me about my work. Perfectly normal, right? But then he interrupted me before I could finish, and asked me another question. So, I started answering the new question, and then he interrupted again. Another question. Finally, I had to not answer at all and instead ask him a question just to break the pattern. You might be a...2024-05-1504 minLead & FollowConnected Social Conversations – Dan IstrateSend Fan Mail by Text!Actor/Director Dan Istrate shares his thoughts on presence, connection, and social leading and following. Dan grew up in Romania and has lived for the past 25 years in the United States. He’s had thousands of both painful and hilarious experiences of language and culture translation and mis-translation, working on both stage and screen in a wide variety of creative collaborations.Socially, his way of being seems to invite other people to be more open, more brave, more playful, more free. It’s something that’s hard to describe in words b...2024-04-1339 minLead & FollowPower & Influence of Global Followership - Yulia Tolstikov-MastSend Fan Mail by Text!Yulia Tolstikov-Mast, Ph.D. shares the concept of a global follower and especially of global followership as a force of power that can and does influence the far-reaching decisions of global leaders. Yulia is a global leadership and followership expert, an award-winning international leadership scholar, and an educator. Her scholarship and training focus on the internalization of leadership and followership education, non-Western approaches to leadership and followership, global followership and citizenship behaviors, and leader-follower role switching. Her most significant contribution is the Handbook of International and Cross-Cultural Leadership Research Processes. The publication is...2024-03-2434 minLead & FollowFollowers Navigating Ethical Dilemmas - Kyle PayneSend Fan Mail by Text!Dr. Kyle Payne, a strategic talent development leader based in Chicago, describes his recent study exploring how professional engineers navigate ethical dilemmas. Kyle has fifteen years of experience driving process improvement and behavior change through training, coaching, and consulting. In his research, he focuses on unethical behavior at work and examines the behaviors of “ethical followers” who resist unethical behavior and call into question unethical thinking. UPDATE: Dr. Payne's article (discussed in this episode) will be published in the summer 2024 issue of the International Journal of Ethical Leadership. Upon...2024-03-0339 minLead & FollowSeason 3 Preview - Sharna FabianoSend Fan Mail by Text!Hi Everyone, this is Sharna. I’ve spent the beginning of the year in a resting phase with the podcast, letting the new season slowly take shape in my mind. New episodes are coming soon, in early March, and I’m hoping this little preview will give you a sense of how I’m thinking about season 3 as a collection of conversations.*Democrats Have a Better Option Than BidenThe Ezra Klein Show https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/democrats-have-a-better-option-than-biden/id1548604447?i=1000645559771Support...2024-02-2408 min
Let's Move - Health, Wellness and Fitness podcast seriesThe Tango of Life: Leadership, Followership, and Social Dynamics with Sharna FabianoDiscover the unexpected wisdom of tango with Sharna Fabiano, an renowned tango artist and author, who speaks on the dance's profound reflection of life's social intricacies and leadership roles. Your episode host, Ketil Hviding, reflects on his journey through martial arts and tango and what the dance has taught him about the subtle art of leading and following, a dance of skills that extends far beyond the dance floor and into the very fabric of our daily lives. Sharna's words, drawn from her book, Lead and Follow, resonate as a testament to the essence of partnership, revealing how this...2024-02-1926 min
Wellness MusketeersThe Tango of Life: Leadership, Followership, and Social Dynamics with Sharna FabianoSend us a textDiscover the unexpected wisdom of tango with Sharna Fabiano, an renowned tango artist and author, who speaks on the dance's profound reflection of life's social intricacies and leadership roles. Your episode host, Ketil Hviding, reflects on his journey through martial arts and tango and what the dance has taught him about the subtle art of leading and following, a dance of skills that extends far beyond the dance floor and into the very fabric of our daily lives. Sharna's words, drawn from her book, Lead and Follow, resonate as a testament to the essence...2024-02-1926 min
Break Away: Leadership For A Sound Mind And BodyWhat does good followership have to do with good leadership?This interview was originally published on the Lead & Follow podcast, hosted by Sharna Fabiano, author of the book Lead & Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork. The episode is a conversation about integrated leadership-followership education featuring Fatema Haque, Academic Program Manager & LEO Adjunct Lecturer at the Barger Leadership Institute, and Dorine Lawrence-Hughes, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Michigan. Fatema and Dorine discuss how they are collaborating to introduce the concept followership to the Barger Leadership Institute curriculum and how reciprocal leadership and followership skills training is preparing students for professional success and positive community change. 2023-12-1438 minLead & FollowThree Compelling Ideas for 2024 - Sharna FabianoSend Fan Mail by Text!In this short, end-of year episode, host Sharna Fabiano reflects on season 2 and shares three compelling lead and follow ideas to try out in your own life and work in 2024. Please send feedback on Season 2 along with suggestions for Season 3 directly to Sharna at sharna@sharnafabiano.com.Special thanks to Glover Gill for providing our music.Lead & Follow, by Sharna Fabianohttps://www.sharnafabiano.com/book/ The FREE Lead & Follow Skill Sheethttps://www.sharnafabiano.com/book/Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Po...2023-12-1116 minLead & FollowToxic Followership and Definitions of Power - Wendy M. EdmondsSend Fan Mail by Text!Dr. Wendy M. Edmonds is Interim Chair of the Management, Marketing, and Public Administration Department in the College of Business at a Historically Black University, and Co-Chair of the Global Followership Conference 2024. Her research focus is on toxic followership (people following bad people). She is an author, and internationally recognized toxic followership expert with a passion for positive change. Dr. Edmonds describes herself as a Workplace Toxicologist whose mission is to dismantle toxic followership and foster healthier, more productive environments. Wendy shares the characteristics of this important - if darker - as...2023-12-0341 minLead & FollowLeadership & Followership in the British Army – Langley SharpSend Fan Mail by Text!Langley Sharp is the former head of the Centre for Army Leadership, responsible for championing leadership excellence across the British Army. After graduating from Sandhurst two decades ago, his career in the Parachute Regiment, which included operational command at every rank, saw him deployed to Northern Ireland, Macedonia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Among his many varied roles, he led a counter-insurgency Task Force operation, commanded a Parachute Regiment Battalion and delivered the Ministry of Defence’s training programme for the London 2012 Olympics venue security. He is the author of the British Army’s offic...2023-11-2642 minLead & FollowSmart Followership for Talent Development - David ElserSend Fan Mail by Text!David Elser, author of Doing the Chores, shares his concept of smart followership through personal stories of growing up on a small family farm in northwest Ohio. David is a learning and development professional based in Coldwater Lake, Michigan who has over 30 years of experience in the transportation industry. He works with employees at all levels, from essential front-line workers to executive leaders. David has a master's degree in organizational management and is a Certified Professional Coach. “[Smart followership] is having the willingness and ability to enthusiastically and effectively provide supp...2023-11-1927 minLead & FollowFollowership-Centric Organizations - David ScottSend Fan Mail by Text!David Scott is a PhD Researcher at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He is exploring Followership Salience as a factor of Leadership in Organisations, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Business at Leeds Trinity University. In this episode, he shares his concept of followership as informal leadership, and his view on how the universal practice of followership and followership-centric leadership within organizations can help diversify executive teams and boards to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals. David is a highly experienced Company Director and Charity Trustee wit...2023-11-1237 minLead & FollowNatural Followership - Christian MonöSend Fan Mail by Text!Christian Monö is a Speaker, Author and Sweden’s first and only followership expert. In this episode, he shares what he has discovered in more than 15 years exploring what he calls “natural followership." We discuss how our human ancestors self-organized in egalitarian band societies, and also how the leadership industry is affecting people, businesses and societies today. Among Chris' clients are the Swedish Armed Forces, and he has a new book coming out in English in 2024.“[Natural followership] is the process of how people instinctively follow each other without...2023-11-0542 minLead & FollowFollowership for Social Good - Fatema Haque and Dorine Lawrence-HughesSend Fan Mail by Text!This episode is a conversation about integrated leadership-followership education, featuring both Fatema Haque, Academic Program Manager & LEO Adjunct Lecturer at the Barger Leadership Institute at the University of Michigan, and also Dorine Lawrence-Hughes, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Michigan. They are both involved in the introduction of followership to the Barger Leadership Institute curriculum and I’m excited to have them on the show together to talk about that process and how it’s preparing students for both professional and community work. “It helps students to see...2023-10-2237 minLead & FollowFollowership in the Engineering Leadership Programs at Cornell University - Erica DawsonSend Fan Mail by Text!I speak with Erica Dawson, Professor of Practice and Nancy and Bob Selander Executive Director of the Engineering Leadership Programs at Cornell University.Erica’s Montana upbringing instilled in her a deep sense of connection to the mountains and outdoors. But her thirst for adventure was too big even for the Big Sky State, so eventually she made the leap to New York to pursue a PhD in Social Psychology at Cornell University. She went on to become a professor at the Yale School of Management, where her intellectual interests ex...2023-10-0941 minLead & FollowFollowership and Strategic Process - David LeitnerSend Fan Mail by Text!Dr. David Leitner has spent the last 15 years as a followership, leadership, and strategy educator. In this episode, he shares his passion and perspective on followership and leadership not only interpersonally but also as a way of analyzing relationships between states, communities, or companies.Dr. D not only teaches these topics academically, he runs workshops, seminars, and lectures on for multinational companies, the Israeli Defense Forces, Military Preparation Academies, Israel Gap Year programs, Youth groups and more. As an IDF disabled veteran suffering from CRPS, David has been an advocate f...2023-09-2439 minLead & FollowCelebrating Followers in Spiritual Life, Business, and Governance - Nixon JalloSend Fan Mail by Text!Nixon Jallo is Husband, Father, Chief Executive of FOLDEVIN Consults Ltd., Bishop of Supernatural Love Ministries, Rector of Agape Bible College, Writer and Researcher based in Jalingo, Taraba State, Northeast Nigeria. He speaks about teaching followership in both faith communities and business communities, how followership differs at each level of an organization, and why recognizing the value of followers and followership is critical to success in organizations of all kinds.Jallo completed a Master’s degree in Theology and is now completing another one in Organizational Leadership, and is the au...2023-09-1043 min
I Wanna Work There!Ep. 8: The Trouble with MicromanagementMicromanagement does no favors to employer branding. However, faculty and staff may be willing to be the brand ambassadors of their campuses if their leaders knew how to…dance? There is a practice called followership which is the set of employee behaviors that influence how leaders lead. So, what happens when leaders micromanage? Sharna Fabiano, a certified leadership coach, uses her experience as an internationally recognized tango artist to help leaders understand how to work productively with their people. As the chair of the International Leadership Association’s Followership Member Community, Sharna helps us understand what followership is, w...2023-08-2832 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Inner OrientationSend Fan Mail by Text!Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Choose an inner orientation. This technique is also called choosing a mindset or an intention. I’m calling it an inner orientation because I want you to use it as a deliberate and methodical way to orient to people and situations you are in.Most of the time, our inner state is reactive, and we’re not really choosing it. You like some people and dislike others. You feel comfortable or uncomfortable, inspired or bored, and you attri...2023-08-2803 minLead & FollowHR Perspective on Followership and Leadership Training - Julie NewmanSend Fan Mail by Text!Julie Newman, a Certified Human Resources Leader in Ontario, Canada, shares her experience coordinating a recent implementation of leadership and followership training for a nonprofit client.Julie is a well-rounded HR professional with 15 years of experience in all areas of HR, from building organizational culture, performance management, recruitment, employee relations, and health and safety. She’s really done it all! Prior to transitioning to HR consulting, Julie spent over 11 years in senior leadership within the non-profit sector. Since discovering followership several years ago, she has become an advocate for using the...2023-08-2130 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Deepen Your BreathSend Fan Mail by Text!Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Deepen your breath. Many of us are in the habit of shallow breathing, sometimes called chest breathing, where the collarbones and sometimes shoulders move up and down with each inhale and exhale. Because of tension in the muscles, or sometimes just because of the general speed of working life, our bodies can get used to a shallow, fast rhythm of breathing, using only a small amount of our lung capacity and giving us only a small amount of oxygen. S...2023-08-1404 minLead & FollowTraining Everyone in Both Leadership and Followership – Samantha HurwitzSend Fan Mail by Text!Together with her partner in all things, Marc Hurwitz, my guest Samantha Hurwitz is co-author of the game-changing book Leadership is Half the Story and co-founder of the innovative training and development company FliP University, based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Samantha and Marc are also co-founders of the Global Followership Conference, which is where she and I first met in 2019. She describes herself as a recovered corporate executive, and as Chief Encouragement Officer of Flip University, she and Marc are setting the gold standard for "pracademic" leadership and followership training...2023-08-0732 minLead & FollowSimultaneous Leading and Following in Complex Organizations - Chris FuzieSend Fan Mail by Text!Dr. Chris Fuzie, owner of CMF Leadership Consulting, talks through the development and delivery of his Effective Followership training program and how it works in combination with leadership training. We also discuss how most employees in large complex organizations are actually leading and following at the same time, whether they realize it or not! And how focusing more on consistent, desired behaviors can often be more impactful than focusing solely on leadership vs followership role awareness. Chris is a Leaderologist II with the National Leaderology Association. He is a...2023-07-1037 minLead & FollowFollowership Training in Healthcare Teams - Erin BarrySend Fan Mail by Text!My guest Erin Barry is currently working on her PhD in Health Professions Education focusing on leadership and followership within healthcare teams. She shares her observations of how meaningful and flexible followership impacts the quality of care delivered to patients, as well as the necessity of regular peer feedback and personal reflection.Erin Barry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Uniformed Services University (USU). She is a health professions education researcher who develops and delivers curriculum and education assessments, and conducts research and scholarship...2023-06-1933 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Tune InSend Fan Mail by Text!Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Tune in. You’ve probably heard many times that active listening is an important skill for just about anything, including leadership and followership. Tuning in does include listening with your ears, but it’s much more than that. It’s more like listening with your whole body, directing your attention with all of your senses open toward one person or one group of people. Think of the phrase reading the room. To do that well we need to do more th...2023-06-1203 minLead & FollowLeading and Following in 4-H Youth Programs (USM Part 2) - Maddie GraySend Fan Mail by Text!This week on the podcast, I speak with Maddie Gray, a Leadership & Organizational Studies major at the University of Southern Maine and a member of this year’s USM Collegiate Leadership Competition team. She has been involved with 4-H for fifteen years, competing in public speaking competitions and building her leadership and followership skills. Maddie speaks eloquently and candidly about supporting others, having difficult team conversations, and her experience leading and following as a member of the 4-H youth development program. This episode also has g...2023-06-0537 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Great Meeting AgendasSend Fan Mail by Text!Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is make meeting agendas and make them great. One reason we tend to complain about meetings is that they feel like a waste of time. I know that when I don’t have any meaningful way to participate, or the topic isn’t relevant to me, I can’t get out of the room fast enough, and if I’m required to be in the meeting, I start feeling resentful pretty fast, because my time is limited and I have things to...2023-05-2907 minLead & FollowLearning games for better leadership and smarter followership - Fran KickSend Fan Mail by Text!Fran Kick is an author, educational consultant, and professional speaker who works with corporate and educational organizations that want to develop better leadership and smarter followership for faster long-term results. As a company owner, entrepreneur, and consultant, Fran combines his master’s degree and clinical background in Educational Psychology with over 30 years in the K-20 education and business worlds. He has been inspiring people to KICK IT IN and TAKE THE LEAD since 1986 with convention and conference keynotes, breakouts, in-services, orientations, workshops, programs, retreats, consulting, and publishing. In 1999, Fran earned the National Sp...2023-05-2238 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Style Your LanguageSend Fan Mail by Text!If you’re a strongly narrative thinker, you may respond to any kind of question by telling a story. That usually starts by providing considerable background information and then describing what happened in chronological order. Stories are definitely a crucial part of how we learn, but they can also be time-consuming and therefore sometimes distracting.Abstract thinkers like me fall on the opposite end of the spectrum. If this is you, you probably tend to zero in on one specific detail that you feel is important, or provide the verbal eq...2023-05-0805 minLead & FollowLeadership and Followership at an Architectural Design Firm (JCU Part 3) - Michael ChristoffSend Fan Mail by Text!Michael Christoff, Senior Associate and Practice Leader for Architecture at Vocon, shares his insights about leadership and followership roles in the flow of organizational work and on design projects specifically. Michael graduated from Kent State University with his Master in Architecture and from John Carroll University with his MBA. Throughout his career, Michael has worked on various project types, developing expertise in both corporate headquarters and mixed-use/multifamily projects. When he is not at the office or spending time with his family, Michael is immersed in the local creative community. H...2023-05-0133 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Stretch Before MeetingsSend Fan Mail by Text!Your lead & follow coaching tip for today is Stretch Before MeetingsPre-meeting stretches, especially if you can stand up to do them, wake up your body so that you can connect more easily and more quickly to other people. Just 15 seconds is enough!One the reasons the quick stretch works is that when you sit still for long periods of time, whole sections of your nervous system kind of go to sleep. Without your physical senses active, you’re actually less aware of your own body an...2023-04-2404 min
Lead & FollowQuick Tips: Dress ComfortablySend Fan Mail by Text!Your lead & follow coaching tip for today is Dress ComfortablyThis tip comes straight from my training as a social dancer, which includes a big focus on subtle non-verbal communication. To understand why this might be important in a professional context, think about communication in a very broad sense, not only as the words you speak or write, but also as the non-verbal tones and qualities you transmit to another person through your whole presence, through your body language, through your expression, your emotional state. And this is...2023-04-1704 minLead & FollowIntegrating Followership into Leadership Education Programs (USM Part 1)- Dan JenkinsSend Fan Mail by Text!I speak with Dan Jenkins, Professor of Leadership & Organizational Studies at the University of Southern Maine about his collaborative work integrating specific methods for training followership into leadership programs, and tracking the impressive results!Dan received his doctorate in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis in Higher Education Administration from the University of South Florida. He is co-author of The Role of Leadership Educators: Transforming Learning and has published more than 40 articles and book chapters on leadership education. As an award-winning international speaker and facilitator, Dan has engaged thousands of leadership e...2023-04-1740 minLead & FollowLeadership, Followership and Emotional Intelligence (IWU Part 3) - Yolonda Tonette SandersSend Fan Mail by Text!I speak with Dr. Yolonda Tonette Sanders, who shares her recent dissertation research on connections between followers' emotional intelligence and their followership styles, and what this means for leaders in organizations of all kinds.Dr. Sanders is an Ohio native, co-founder of Traction, an organizational change consulting company, and of the Faith and Fellowship Book Festival. She is also the author of six novels, and her hometown of Sandusky, Ohio attracts millions of visitors each year because of the Cedar Point amusement park! Upon graduating from high school...2023-03-2736 minLead & FollowReciprocal Leadership and Followership Keeps us Human (JCU Part 2) - Grace WrightSend Fan Mail by Text!I speak with Grace Wright, board president of the Euclid Hunger Center and community resource manager at University Settlement, a social service agency serving the Slavic Village neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. She has worked in hunger relief services for the last 12 years, managing hunger centers in the Greater Cleveland area. She has an undergraduate degree in social work and nonprofit management and in August of 2022 she completed the John Carroll University MBA program. In her free time, she is an avid music lover and enjoys spending time with friends and family. T...2023-03-1327 minLead & FollowCreating Great Teams by Following as a Leader (IWU Part 2) - Chad BennettSend Fan Mail by Text!I speak with Chad Bennett, Director of Technology for Sturgis Public Schools in Michigan and Tech/Production Director for Radiant Life Church. Chad will complete his Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University in April 2023, and in this episode, he shares his experience in the program learning leadership and followership together, and how that double lens is guiding his current work.This episode is Part II of the Indiana Wesleyan University series, so be sure to go back and listen to Part I, featuring Professor Michael L...2023-02-2734 minLead & FollowTeaching Purpose with a New Textbook: Essentials of Followership (IWU Part 1) - Michael Linville and Mark RennakerSend Fan Mail by Text!I speak with Michael Linville and Mark Rennaker about their new textbook, Essentials of Followership: Rethinking the Leadership Paradigm with Purpose, and about the Division of Leadership and Followership Studies at Indiana Wesleyan University. The textbook is an absolute game-changer and every leadership education program in the country needs it!“Why are we even together as leaders and followers? It’s not for no reason. It’s purpose. Therefore purpose must be what defines us, refines us, and drives us.”“Once our students begin to learn that a proper und...2023-02-1346 min