Lead For Clarity
Did you get into business to manage people and deal with communication issues? All leaders, crave practical advice to make leading their team and growing their business a positive experience. However, much of the experiences we hear from our clients is anything but positive. Clarity, is our way to diagnose and treat corporations for optimum communication health and satisfaction. We know what it's like to run an organization without Clarity, and once you do have Clarity it will change everything.
Episodes
78 episodes
Trust is Either Eroding or Growing
Trust is either growing or eroding. So let's talk about growth. When trust is growing, you are working at it. You are putting effort into it. You are, taking vulnerable chances. You are sharing your weaknesses. You are sharing your strengths. I...
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9:10
Leading Without Burning Out: The Importance of Prioritizing Balance
In this episode, Shandel and Melanie discuss strategies for avoiding burnout through effective time management and prioritizing what matters most. They explore an assessment tool for gaining clarity on life priorities across different categorie...
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Season 5
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Episode 23
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15:40
Mastering Your Time: Finding Balance Through Self-Awareness
Welcome to another episode of Lead for Clarity! Today Shandel Sutherland and Melanie Montgomery continue their discussion on mastering your time through a leadership approach to balance. They dive deeper into understanding personal...
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Season 5
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Episode 22
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21:20
Why Don't We Delegate? Navigating Trust Issues and Pride
In this episode of Lead for Clarity, Melanie and Shandel discuss the common challenges that prevent effective delegation in leadership. They share stories from their own experiences struggling to delegate tasks and identify issues like lack of ...
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Season 5
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Episode 21
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20:14
Taking Back Control: How Delegation Empowers Leaders and Teams
Shandel and Melanie discuss the importance of delegation for leaders and teams. They explore how to build trust and confidence through communication to build a foundation to delegate effectively. Learn how to avoid frustration when others do ta...
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Season 5
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Episode 20
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19:55
From Fear to Fulfillment: Overcoming Obstacles to Reach Your Potential
This episode features a conversation with Scott Sutherland about his experience going through Shandel Group's 12-week coaching program and achieving success in the "profit" stage of the Process of Sustainable Growth. Scott shares how he overcam...
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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23:59
Getting Back on Track: Listening to Your Internal Dialogue and Recognizing the Signs of Disconnect
Shandel and Melanie discuss the signs and dangers of falling into an "unhealthy cycle of misery" as a leader. They explore how fear, insecurity, and a lack of humility can disconnect leaders from their values and damage relationships with their...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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20:43
Pruning for Sustainable Growth: A Nonprofit's Guide to Healthy Change
This podcast episode features Nancy Bacon discussing the important process of "pruning" for nonprofit organizations to experience sustainable growth. The team provided helpful framing and strategies for nonprofits to thoughtfully prune in a way...
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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21:28
The Importance of Employee Experience in the Progress Stage of Sustainable Growth
As companies hit the progress stage of growth, it's important not to get complacent and assume the hard work is over. In this episode, Melanie, Shandel and guest, HR consultant Skye Mercer, discuss strategies for acknowledging success, getting ...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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21:59
Overcoming Obstacles and Evolving Your Leadership: Lessons of Accountability, Communication, and Progress
Shandel and Melanie interview Aliza Brown about her experience navigating the Plant stage of growth. Aliza discusses shedding old mindsets of overcommitting and multitasking in favor of consistency, accountability, and communicating clearly. Sh...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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21:59
Building Trust and Connecting with Your Team: An Executive's Perspective on Shifting from Boss to Coach
Shandel and Melanie welcome a special guest, Ed Wickman, to discuss his experiences with the Purposefully Connect stage of the Process of Sustainable Growth. The team explores the concepts of the healthy cycle of growth versus the unhealthy cyc...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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19:17
Focusing Your Fire: Using SMART Goals to Achieve What Matters Most in 2024
In this episode, hosts Shandel and Melanie provide listeners with strategies and tips for effectively setting goals for the new year 2024. The team talks through digging into the "why" behind goals and drivers, what success specifically looks l...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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19:59
How Navigating Discomfort Leads to Trust and Connection: A Naval Officer's Journey of Self-Reflection and Team Development
This episode of Lead for Clarity focused on the "pain stage" of the Process of Sustainable Growth. Shandel and Melanie interviewed their guest, Rob Shipp, about his experiences in the Navy and how he has worked to develop trust with his team. R...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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21:41
Clarity, Confidence and Opportunity: What Happens When You Focus on Your Values
Shandel Sutherland and Melanie Montgomery welcome back guest Lydia Faitalia. Lydia shares how centering her values helped bring balance and opportunities in her life as a working mom. She shared her story of centering her life around her values...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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19:59
Truth, Trust, and Humility: Keys to Escaping the Cycle of Misery and Reconnecting to Values-Based Growth
In this episode, Shandel Sutherland and Melanie Montgomery discuss the dangers of "off ramping" from sustainable growth and entering an "unhealthy cycle of misery." They provide frameworks to identify unhealthy vs. healthy leadership cycles and...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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20:56
Reaching Profit: Celebrating Success and Tackling New Challenges
This episode of Lead for Clarity focuses on the final stage of the Process of Sustainable Growth - Profit. Shandel and Melanie discuss what profit means beyond just monetary gains, emphasizing things like team morale, effectiveness, and clarity...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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19:59
Pruning for Progress: How to Thoughtfully Trim the Excess to Focus on Long-Term Growth
In this podcast episode, Shandel and Melanie the important but often overlooked "prune" stage of the growth process. They explain why pruning is necessary for long-term sustainable growth and share tools and strategies for effectively pruning a...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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19:56
Celebrating Milestones: A Key to Sustainable Growth
In this episode, Shandel and Melanie discuss the key stages of the growth process model, with a focus on navigating the Progress stage. The team stresses the importance of celebrating milestones to maintain motivation as changes start to take s...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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19:09
Leading Through the Plant Stage: Investing in Training and Development for Lasting Change
In this episode, Shandel and Melanie discuss the third stage of the Process for Sustainable Growth - the Plant Stage. This stage is all about doing the hard work of implementing changes after an initial period of excitement. Lasting change requ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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19:55
Living Your Values: Commit to It & Do It
Shandel shares the "Commit to It and Do It" framework she presented in Germany for living according to one's core values. She outlines the six steps using the acronym COMMIT: Clarify values, Organize life around them, acknowledge Misery as a si...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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19:55
Navigating the "Purposely Connect" Stage of Growth through Effective Alignment, Communication and Trust-Building
Shandel and Melanie discuss the "Purposely Connect" stage of the business growth process. They explore how teams can effectively align around purpose, mission and values through communication. They share tools like DISC assessments, Enneagram a...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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19:27
Embracing Discomfort, Assessing Pain & Uncovering Opportunities for Growth
Embracing discomfort and assessing pain points is necessary for growth as an individual, team and organization. In this episode, Shandel and Melanie discuss the first stage in the Process for Sustainable Growth, which is Pain. The ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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19:58
Discovering Your Values: The Key to Sustainable Growth
Shandel and Melanie dig into what's at the center of the Process for Sustainable Growth - Values. Living our values (even when it's hard) keeps us in the healthy cycle of growth and moving in the right direction. Values evolve when...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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19:59
The Process for Sustainable Growth
The Shandel Group team is back for Season 5 to discuss the Process for Sustainable Growth, a framework developed to support sustainable growth of organizations, teams and individuals. It's important to remember that growth is uncomfortabl...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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19:41
Harness Your Meetings to Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness
In this season's final episode, Shandel and Melanie describe meetings that bring efficiency and effectiveness, instead of wasted time and frustration. The team discusses the difference between strategic meetings and tactical meetings and the im...
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Season 4
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Episode 54
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19:40