Reboot Forward

Feedback.   Leadership Coach Dagmar Meachem joins me for a Courage Confab discussion on Feedback.  We look at creating a culture where feedback is welcomed, encouraged and trusted.  How to give good balanced feedback and strategies to incorporate feedback as a leader.

Randall Stutman founder and co-head of the Leadership Practice  the Admired Leadership Institute states that Balanced Feedback requires a person to give both positive and negative feedback in an equally vivid, elaborate, and detailed manner.

Radical Candor - 11 Ways to Get Feedback From Others:

Tip 1: Have a go-to question
A question like, “Is there anything I could do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me?”

Tip 2: Embrace the discomfort
After asking for feedback, stop talking and “embrace the discomfort.” Count to 7 and commit to allowing the other person to speak first.

Tip 3: Listen with the intent to understand, not to respond
Don’t interrupt or argue when someone gives you feedback. Just listen, focus on understanding what the person is telling you, and try to learn something from it. 

Tip 4: Reward criticism to get more of it
When someone provides feedback to you, treat it like a treasured gift!

Tip 5: Ask for public criticism
Another way to show that you appreciate the criticism you receive is to ask those who are most comfortable criticizing you to give the same feedback in front of others.

Tip 6: Criticize yourself in public
Criticizing yourself in public is a great way to show that you feel comfortable acknowledging that you aren’t perfect, that you have room for improvement.

Tip 7: Call out body language
Even if people aren’t telling you what they really think with their words, their body language may still be sending a more candid message.

Tip 8: Relish being wrong
Show people that you are happy when they prove you wrong.

Tip 9: Show that you care
When you show you care, you build a relationship and you build trust. People will stop seeing you as the “jerk in charge” and assuming the worst.

Tip 10: Don’t try to change your style
Figure out how to use your personal style, be it very vocal or very quiet, tough or gentle, approachable or intimidating, to invite criticism of yourself, to remind people that you want to be challenged. 

Tip 11: Get theatrical
Sometimes you have to be really over the top to get feedback.

Brené Brown: Engaged Feedback Checklist

Dagmar Meachem is an accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC), ICF and EQ-i 2.0 Certified.  She provides 1-1 coaching, group coaching and custom designed facilitated workshops. She has also worked in the area of personal and business development, health coaching and website design.

For more information on Dagmar visit her website: CourageSpace.com

For more on Barry Forward, his work as a Certified Executive Coach, Career Journey Specialist and past episodes of the Reboot Forward Podcast visit: RebootForward.com or email [email protected] 

Feedback.   Leadership Coach Dagmar Meachem joins me for a Courage Confab discussion on Feedback.  We look at creating a culture where feedback is welcomed, encouraged and trusted.  How to give good balanced feedback and strategies to incorporate feedback as a leader.

Randall Stutman founder and co-head of the Leadership Practice  the Admired Leadership Institute states that Balanced Feedback requires a person to give both positive and negative feedback in an equally vivid, elaborate, and detailed manner.

Radical Candor - 11 Ways to Get Feedback From Others:

Tip 1: Have a go-to question
A question like, “Is there anything I could do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me?”

Tip 2: Embrace the discomfort
After asking for feedback, stop talking and “embrace the discomfort.” Count to 7 and commit to allowing the other person to speak first.

Tip 3: Listen with the intent to understand, not to respond
Don’t interrupt or argue when someone gives you feedback. Just listen, focus on understanding what the person is telling you, and try to learn something from it. 

Tip 4: Reward criticism to get more of it
When someone provides feedback to you, treat it like a treasured gift!

Tip 5: Ask for public criticism
Another way to show that you appreciate the criticism you receive is to ask those who are most comfortable criticizing you to give the same feedback in front of others.

Tip 6: Criticize yourself in public
Criticizing yourself in public is a great way to show that you feel comfortable acknowledging that you aren’t perfect, that you have room for improvement.

Tip 7: Call out body language
Even if people aren’t telling you what they really think with their words, their body language may still be sending a more candid message.

Tip 8: Relish being wrong
Show people that you are happy when they prove you wrong.

Tip 9: Show that you care
When you show you care, you build a relationship and you build trust. People will stop seeing you as the “jerk in charge” and assuming the worst.

Tip 10: Don’t try to change your style
Figure out how to use your personal style, be it very vocal or very quiet, tough or gentle, approachable or intimidating, to invite criticism of yourself, to remind people that you want to be challenged. 

Tip 11: Get theatrical
Sometimes you have to be really over the top to get feedback.

Brené Brown: Engaged Feedback Checklist

Dagmar Meachem is an accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC), ICF and EQ-i 2.0 Certified.  She provides 1-1 coaching, group coaching and custom designed facilitated workshops. She has also worked in the area of personal and business development, health coaching and website design.

For more information on Dagmar visit her website: CourageSpace.com

For more on Barry Forward, his work as a Certified Executive Coach, Career Journey Specialist and past episodes of the Reboot Forward Podcast visit: RebootForward.com or email [email protected] 

Accountability.  What does it mean to be accountable?  To ourselves, to our teams, to our company and organization.  Today Leadership Coach Dagmar Meachem joins me for what we have dubbed The Courage Confab for a discussion on Accountability.  Dagmar and I take a deep dive into what it takes to hold ourselves accountable, hold others accountable and create a space where accountability lives in our work, our lives and in all the activities and relationships we are involved with.  On this episode we unpack the entire notion of being accountable and discuss strategies to bring accountability into our work and our lives.

As Dagmar says, our hope with the Courage Confab is to lean in and discuss some of those sticky conversations that are typically uncomfortable for leaders, business owners, teams and individuals to have.  Our aim is to tackle things that are sometimes difficult to crack open, and have an open and honest conversation about them.  On this episode we explore Accountability. 

Dagmar Meachem is an accredited Professional Certified Coach by Erickson Coaching International, Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation and is EQ-i 2.0 Certified.  She provides one-one coaching, group coaching and custom designed facilitated workshops. Throughout her career, she’s also worked in the area of personal and business development, health coaching and website design.

Dagmar believes that obstacles can be an opportunity for growth and transformation and courage is a catalyst for change. For over 15 years, Dagmar has worked with leaders locally and internationally at all different levels of crisis and business models, coming alongside them through their change, growth and transformation as they take the next step in reaching their full potential. Her focus and methodology for change is to help create more courageous individuals, as she believes in courage as a catalyst for change, pushing us to act, move forward, and power through challenges. She is an accomplished leadership coach, facilitator, entrepreneur and change maker.

For more information on Dagmar visit her website: CourageSpace.com

 For information on Barry Forward, his work as an Executive Coach, Career Journey Specialist and past episodes of the Reboot Forward Podcast visit: RebootForward.com via email at [email protected] 

Accountability.  What does it mean to be accountable?  To ourselves, to our teams, to our company and organization.  Today Leadership Coach Dagmar Meachem joins me for what we have dubbed The Courage Confab for a discussion on Accountability.  Dagmar and I take a deep dive into what it takes to hold ourselves accountable, hold others accountable and create a space where accountability lives in our work, our lives and in all the activities and relationships we are involved with.  On this episode we unpack the entire notion of being accountable and discuss strategies to bring accountability into our work and our lives.

As Dagmar says, our hope with the Courage Confab is to lean in and discuss some of those sticky conversations that are typically uncomfortable for leaders, business owners, teams and individuals to have.  Our aim is to tackle things that are sometimes difficult to crack open, and have an open and honest conversation about them.  On this episode we explore Accountability. 

Dagmar Meachem is an accredited Professional Certified Coach by Erickson Coaching International, Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation and is EQ-i 2.0 Certified.  She provides one-one coaching, group coaching and custom designed facilitated workshops. Throughout her career, she’s also worked in the area of personal and business development, health coaching and website design.

Dagmar believes that obstacles can be an opportunity for growth and transformation and courage is a catalyst for change. For over 15 years, Dagmar has worked with leaders locally and internationally at all different levels of crisis and business models, coming alongside them through their change, growth and transformation as they take the next step in reaching their full potential. Her focus and methodology for change is to help create more courageous individuals, as she believes in courage as a catalyst for change, pushing us to act, move forward, and power through challenges. She is an accomplished leadership coach, facilitator, entrepreneur and change maker.

For more information on Dagmar visit her website: CourageSpace.com

 For information on Barry Forward, his work as an Executive Coach, Career Journey Specialist and past episodes of the Reboot Forward Podcast visit: RebootForward.com via email at [email protected] 

Barrie Street.  "I am 84 and feel 48. I’m blessed to have a passion for fitness, which I would love to spread in my blog Over50andFit.ca.  I would also be delighted to reach folks who are less than 50. The message I am trying to impart is that ANYONE of ANY AGE can be fit and it is NEVER too late to start. I believe - indeed I know - that fitness can be inextricably woven into our fabric."

Teaching has been one of my major passions, mainly involved at the secondary school level.

I am entering my 57th year of teaching Math with the same passion as when I began. Spending so much time with young people – whether teaching or coaching them soccer, field hockey, tennis, cross-country running, cricket or ping pong – has kept me young in mind. Young people will always remain the back-bone of society and to help them grow and mature has always been a privilege.

Travelling has occupied a great deal of my leisure time, having visited some 50 countries – many  of which we erroneously call Third World nations – sharing their cultures and learning to appreciate their diverse lifestyles. Also learning to acknowledge how gracious and happy they are, despite often living in destitute conditions and being without the basic essentials of life. I have learned far more from them about the true values of life than I have from our own materialistic society. I have often encouraged my students to travel and acquire a better understanding of life.

Volunteering has probably brought me the most satisfaction. I have been able to teach teachers in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Jamaica and also teach children in Guatemala and Costa Rica. I have come away from all these experiences more enriched. Helping to build a village for abandoned children in Costa Rica 40 years ago – one of the boys I found living in a cardboard box on the street still keeps in touch with me – reminded me of my own childhood. My parents abandoned me when I was 6 and this experience gave me a compassion and understanding which otherwise I would never have acquired. Another exciting project was collecting a mountain of soccer equipment here in Vancouver – all of which would have been consigned to the garbage dump – and delivering it to a black South African township. This was gold to the kids.

Sports and exercise have brought me colossal fitness and health. I played team sports from the age of 10 to my mid-forties and then I began running, culminating in a marathon within a year. I was hooked. At 50, I graduated to triathlons and competed in my first Ironman, also within a year. From then on, I have been running, playing tennis and climbing our local iconic mountain – the Grouse Grind – which I have completed more than 2000 times.

Barrie Street's blog can be found at www.Over50andFit.ca

Barrie Street.  "I am 84 and feel 48. I’m blessed to have a passion for fitness, which I would love to spread in my blog Over50andFit.ca.  I would also be delighted to reach folks who are less than 50. The message I am trying to impart is that ANYONE of ANY AGE can be fit and it is NEVER too late to start. I believe - indeed I know - that fitness can be inextricably woven into our fabric."

Teaching has been one of my major passions, mainly involved at the secondary school level.

I am entering my 57th year of teaching Math with the same passion as when I began. Spending so much time with young people – whether teaching or coaching them soccer, field hockey, tennis, cross-country running, cricket or ping pong – has kept me young in mind. Young people will always remain the back-bone of society and to help them grow and mature has always been a privilege.

Travelling has occupied a great deal of my leisure time, having visited some 50 countries – many  of which we erroneously call Third World nations – sharing their cultures and learning to appreciate their diverse lifestyles. Also learning to acknowledge how gracious and happy they are, despite often living in destitute conditions and being without the basic essentials of life. I have learned far more from them about the true values of life than I have from our own materialistic society. I have often encouraged my students to travel and acquire a better understanding of life.

Volunteering has probably brought me the most satisfaction. I have been able to teach teachers in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Jamaica and also teach children in Guatemala and Costa Rica. I have come away from all these experiences more enriched. Helping to build a village for abandoned children in Costa Rica 40 years ago – one of the boys I found living in a cardboard box on the street still keeps in touch with me – reminded me of my own childhood. My parents abandoned me when I was 6 and this experience gave me a compassion and understanding which otherwise I would never have acquired. Another exciting project was collecting a mountain of soccer equipment here in Vancouver – all of which would have been consigned to the garbage dump – and delivering it to a black South African township. This was gold to the kids.

Sports and exercise have brought me colossal fitness and health. I played team sports from the age of 10 to my mid-forties and then I began running, culminating in a marathon within a year. I was hooked. At 50, I graduated to triathlons and competed in my first Ironman, also within a year. From then on, I have been running, playing tennis and climbing our local iconic mountain – the Grouse Grind – which I have completed more than 2000 times.

Barrie Street's blog can be found at www.Over50andFit.ca

Michael Puldy is the CEO of Puldy Resiliency Partners, and has built a 30-year career dealing with disasters, crisis’, and crazy adventures. He recently launched his own podcast series – Risk Stories – where Michael and his guests discuss how people confront risk, and have successfully, and sometimes not so successfully, navigated the never-ending and challenging maze of chance.

In his business life, Michael has helped hundreds of companies navigate through business disruption, computer infrastructure failures and data loss, caused by a broad brush of reasons including human mistakes, natural disasters, and all out cyberattacks. Michael was Director of Global Business Continuity at IBM and has focused the majority of his career on business resiliency. 

At IBM Michael was responsible for long term guidance and governance for business continuity management and resiliency programs across the globe. Prior to this role, Michael was a services and solutions executive where he managed all presales activities associated with IBM Resiliency Services business in the United States. These activities included technical architecture design and deployment, contracts and associated terms and conditions, and pricing strategies for customized, cloud, and shared resiliency solutions. Michael is a creative leader able to develop strategy, flawless execution, and the need to transform chaos into positive function and profitability.

Michael Puldy is a technology executive, photographer, writer and world traveler. Between travels for business and pleasure, he has visited over 45 countries across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.

Michael Puldy is the author of The Millennial’s Guide to Business Travel: Lessons from the Next Generation of Road Warriors.  He has an incredibly impressive resume of travel including visiting all 50 states, 50 countries, has flown 3 million air miles, and is a member of the Circumnavigators Club.

Michael Puldy: puldy.com
Puldy Resiliency Partners: http://www.puldypartners.com/
Michael Puldy LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mpuldy
Michael Puldy's Risk Stories Podcast: Apple Podcasts
Michael Puldy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blinknbreathe

Michael Puldy is the CEO of Puldy Resiliency Partners, and has built a 30-year career dealing with disasters, crisis’, and crazy adventures. He recently launched his own podcast series – Risk Stories – where Michael and his guests discuss how people confront risk, and have successfully, and sometimes not so successfully, navigated the never-ending and challenging maze of chance.

In his business life, Michael has helped hundreds of companies navigate through business disruption, computer infrastructure failures and data loss, caused by a broad brush of reasons including human mistakes, natural disasters, and all out cyberattacks. Michael was Director of Global Business Continuity at IBM and has focused the majority of his career on business resiliency. 

At IBM Michael was responsible for long term guidance and governance for business continuity management and resiliency programs across the globe. Prior to this role, Michael was a services and solutions executive where he managed all presales activities associated with IBM Resiliency Services business in the United States. These activities included technical architecture design and deployment, contracts and associated terms and conditions, and pricing strategies for customized, cloud, and shared resiliency solutions. Michael is a creative leader able to develop strategy, flawless execution, and the need to transform chaos into positive function and profitability.

Michael Puldy is a technology executive, photographer, writer and world traveler. Between travels for business and pleasure, he has visited over 45 countries across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.

Michael Puldy is the author of The Millennial’s Guide to Business Travel: Lessons from the Next Generation of Road Warriors.  He has an incredibly impressive resume of travel including visiting all 50 states, 50 countries, has flown 3 million air miles, and is a member of the Circumnavigators Club.

Michael Puldy: puldy.com
Puldy Resiliency Partners: http://www.puldypartners.com/
Michael Puldy LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mpuldy
Michael Puldy's Risk Stories Podcast: Apple Podcasts
Michael Puldy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blinknbreathe

Shaneel Pathak, CEO, Cofounder - ZoeInsights 

Shaneel cofounded ZoeInsights with the goal of empowering people with the resources, knowledge and tools they need to mobilize their own personalized health data, to connect meaningfully with the wisdom of the global health community, and to spend less time on health care and more time living their best possible lives. 

Shaneel'spassion came from the challenges his late-wife experienced after diagnoses of Stage-4 lung cancer. During the four-year journey, Shaneel realized there were limited digital tools to consolidate and collate the scattered information for himself, family and their care-team.   ZoeInsights was born from a desire to improve how patients and their caregivers use data to optimize their health.

Shaneel has a degree in Computer Engineering and a M.A Political Economy. He has worked overseas as a management consultant in England and Australia and volunteered for the World Wildlife Fund in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea.   In 2015, he became a patient advocate and speaker on the power of health data in your hands at conferences across Canada.

He is an avid traveller, pilot and loves the outdoors. Shaneel and his schnoodle, Zoey live in Calgary, Alberta

ZoeInsights has partnered with:

The Alberta Cancer Foundation:  https://www.albertacancer.ca/for-patients/patient-journal-app/
The MitoCanada Foundation: https://mitocanada.org/about-us/our-foundation-and-milestones/
Wellspring Calgary: https://wellspringcalgary.ca/
The Canadian Fabry Association: https://www.fabrycanada.com/about/

To contact Shaneel Pathak:  [email protected]
To download the ZoeInsights application or for more information on ZoeInsights: https://www.zoeinsights.com/zoeinsights

Shaneel Pathak, CEO, Cofounder - ZoeInsights 

Shaneel cofounded ZoeInsights with the goal of empowering people with the resources, knowledge and tools they need to mobilize their own personalized health data, to connect meaningfully with the wisdom of the global health community, and to spend less time on health care and more time living their best possible lives. 

Shaneel'spassion came from the challenges his late-wife experienced after diagnoses of Stage-4 lung cancer. During the four-year journey, Shaneel realized there were limited digital tools to consolidate and collate the scattered information for himself, family and their care-team.   ZoeInsights was born from a desire to improve how patients and their caregivers use data to optimize their health.

Shaneel has a degree in Computer Engineering and a M.A Political Economy. He has worked overseas as a management consultant in England and Australia and volunteered for the World Wildlife Fund in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea.   In 2015, he became a patient advocate and speaker on the power of health data in your hands at conferences across Canada.

He is an avid traveller, pilot and loves the outdoors. Shaneel and his schnoodle, Zoey live in Calgary, Alberta

ZoeInsights has partnered with:

The Alberta Cancer Foundation:  https://www.albertacancer.ca/for-patients/patient-journal-app/
The MitoCanada Foundation: https://mitocanada.org/about-us/our-foundation-and-milestones/
Wellspring Calgary: https://wellspringcalgary.ca/
The Canadian Fabry Association: https://www.fabrycanada.com/about/

To contact Shaneel Pathak:  [email protected]
To download the ZoeInsights application or for more information on ZoeInsights: https://www.zoeinsights.com/zoeinsights