Do Good To Lead Well with Craig Dowden

If you’re passionate about mastering self-leadership, you’re in the right place. I’ve dedicated my career to understanding the science and practice of positive leadership. I Integrate evidence-based principles from the fields of positive psychology with those in leadership and organizational excellence that will help you develop real-life solutions to solve your greatest challenges. Each week I’ll bring world-class content with industry experts to help you use positive leadership to build a peak performance culture.

Latest Episodes:

Think Like a Rocket Scientist - Ozan Varol Jul 20, 2022

Show notes

Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and author dedicated to helping people reimagine the status quo. Rocket scientists have a specifically unique mindset and worldview that helps them succeed and Ozan's experience sparked the realization in him that with the right tools, the everyday person could leverage this way of thinking to take giant leaps. Ozan has been called a “true original” by Adam Grant and dubbed a “superhero” by Dan Pink. His work has been described as “must read” by Susan Cain and featured in the Wall Street Journal, Time, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, Washington Post, and more. Giant leaps in recent years are often attributed to the triumph of technology, but really the triumph is within the mindset that the impossible is possible. This week's episode discusses in depth the mindset changes needed to improve your problem solving, decision making, approaches to failure and more. Craig Dowden invites Ozan Varol to share what it means to think like a rocket scientist and practical ways to put this into use.

What You Will Learn:

1. What is Ozan's Scientific Method Mindset?

2. Living life as a series of hypothesis and trials

3. The importance of bringing an outsider into the conversation

4. Lean into uncertainty

5. All breakthroughs happen in uncertain times

6. Learn fast

Mentions:

https://ozanvarol.com

Anxiety at Work - Chester Elton Jul 19, 2022

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Mental health has been at the forefront of the workplace culture discussion the last few years and managing anxiety and stress is a top priority among the generation entering the workforce. The more we talk about it the more we can find solutions. Chester Elton joins Do Good To Lead Well this week to share his perspective on mental health practices and to ultimately normalize the conversation in the workplace. When you're in that dark place by yourself, it is dangerous. Reach out and find an ally. You are never alone. Chester Elton is the #4 leadership expert in the world and #2 among the world's top organizational culture experts. He brings world-class energy, insight, and passion to the conversation while maintaining a mindset of empathy and gratitude. Chester Elton has spent two decades helping clients engage their employees to execute on strategy, vision, and values. In his provocative and inspiring speeches, the #1 bestselling leadership author provides real solutions to leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation, and lead a multi-generational workforce. Elton’s work is supported by research with more than 1 million working adults, revealing the proven secrets behind high-performance cultures and teams.

What You Will Learn:

1. Empathy is the foundational piece to leadership

2. How to work together as a team to lift each other up

3. Over $60B in productivity is lost in America alone if anxiety and mental health is not discussed in the workplace

4. Navigating and protecting a strong culture in a remote work environment and how to improve if needed

5. How do we exhibit positive leadership and positive organizations

6. Leading with gratitude

Mentions:

https://chesterelton.com

The Power of Curiosity - Dr. Francesca Gino Jul 13, 2022

Show notes

How can you foster curiosity in your workplace and community? How can curiosity improve your relationships? In this episode, Francesca Gino answers these questions and more.

What You’ll Learn:

How mistakes can be turned into successes through curiosity.
Why it pays to break the rules.
How to keep curiosity high over time.
The importance of broadening your perspective by asking more questions.
Why you need to start engaging with ideas that make you uncomfortable.
How to foster conversational receptiveness.

Who is Francesca?

Dr. Gino is an award-winning researcher from Harvard Business School. She focuses on why people make the decisions they do and how people can have more productive, creative, and fulfilling lives. Her book, Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules highlights how curiosity can change the workplace for the better.

Francesca has been honored as one of the world's top 40 business professors under 40, and as one of the world's 50 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers 50. She's been featured in The Economist, the New York Times, Newsweek, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and NPR.

Mentions:

Conversational Receptiveness: Expressing Engagement with Opposing Views - Article - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=58026

Follow Francesca:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescagino/

More of Do Good to Lead Well:

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