In The Lead: Leadership for Everyday People

As we take some time to reflect on 2021, I wanted to spend some time reflecting on some of the conversations I've shared on the In the Lead Show this year. What a wild ride it has been. I launched the podcast in July 2021 with the intention of sharing my version of leadership. I have been inspired by the many conversations I have had over the last 6 months and have felt a deep sense of honor and appreciation for the willingness of so many to share their insights and perspectives with the listeners.

Here are links to the full episodes that I share on the best of podcast:

• Episode #1: How to Build & Cultivate Trust w/ Rebecca McNeill
• Episode #17: How to Use Positive Intelligence in Leadership w/Marie Logan, PCC
• Episode #15: Great Leadership with the Internal Family System (IFS) w/Susan Aiken, LMFT
• Episode #19: How to Tackle Conflict in Leadership w/Jennifer Tsang, PCC
• Episode #20: How Gratitude Makes You a Better Leader w/Jennifer Tsang, PCC

Thank you to every person who has taken the time to listen to an episode of the In the Lead Show. I have heard from many of you throughout the year and I look forward to sharing more guests with everyone in 2022.

Don't forget to check out the new In the Lead show website: www.intheleadshow.com and listen to your favorite episode, share it with your friends OR give me feedback/thoughts or ideas on topics you'd love to hear about.

If you're interested in being a guest on the show, you can go to the In the Lead Show website and fill out the form at the bottom of the page.

Go out and be courageous in 2022! Lets do it together!

Jennifer Tsang is an ICF Leadership Coach who partners with executives, leaders & everyday people to build more consciousness into how they lead their teams and most importantly, themselves. She believes that leadership is an inside out approach. As someone who has worked on her own personal development and self-leadership for over 15 years, she started her coaching practice in 2020 to help others discover how to lead themselves and grow professionally and personally. Today, Jennifer offers a wide variety of programs and services – from individual coaching, to group and team coaching and facilitated group conversations.

In this episode, I wanted to spend some time sharing a mindfulness practice of reflecting & setting new intentions. This has been a major key to my overall mental health and well-being, but it's also a really helpful tool for any leader looking to develop a deeper, more rich connection with their teams. I hope that you enjoy the final episode of 2021 & I wish you a Happy Holidays!

If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:

• Coaching Website: https://coachwithinsight.com/
• Show website: https://intheleadshow.com
• Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang  
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng

Follow the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 5pm PST/8pm EST #LeadersChat

Gratitude: During the Thanksgiving holiday, many of us in the U.S. will be thinking about gratitude & give thanks for what we have in our lives. But, what does gratitude really mean? How do you think about gratitude? For me, gratitude is more than something we think about once a year, or more than just some cliches we write inside of a journal. Instead, it can be used as a tool to learn from our experiences & to develop deep appreciation for the things we have been through in our lives. I use it as a daily practice to help me reflect & ground myself in the present moment. I use it as a way to honor the tools I have acquired, the lessons I have learned & give thanks to all of the things I have faced in order to make me a whole, resource & capable person. Gratitude isn't just something that we do, it's something that we are. Great leaders who practice gratitude are shown to be more successful in leading themselves & their teams. People want to work for humble leaders who appreciate them & value who they are as a whole person. This time of year is a great reminder for us to pause & reflect on our lives & the impact we are making each day. If you don't have a gratitude practice, now would be a great time to start.

I challenge you to re-imagine gratitude & to find a practice you can develop each day to make you a better parent, educator, leader & citizen of this planet.

Resources:

1. Research Reveals 3 Reasons Why Gratitude Is An Important Leadership Quality - https://www.forbes.com/sites/nazbeheshti/2019/11/19/research-reveals-3-reasons-why-gratitude-is-an-important-leadership-quality/?sh=28fc80c267b9
2. Gratitude at Work: How Giving Thanks Will Make You a Better Leader - https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/giving-thanks-will-make-you-a-better-leader/

If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:

• Coaching Website: https://coachwithinsight.com/
• Show website: https://intheleadshow.com
• Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang  
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng

Follow the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 5pm PST/8pm EST #LeadersChat

Conflict: I know what you're probably thinking, you handle conflict well, right? Or, you might be thinking, I try to avoid conflict like the plague. Whatever your feelings are, conflict is all around us. The world is filled with conflict, discourse & resistance. We can't really escape it. If we are able to embrace conflict & get really comfortable with being uncomfortable, we might not have to run from it or try to meet it head on. Instead, can we use it as an opportunity to learn more about ourselves? I believe that a lot of conflict we experience is actually a way of teaching us exactly where we are stuck & what we still have to learn about ourselves. If we can flip it into a powerful tool to discover deeper meaning, we can enrich our lives, while leaving people whole, resourceful & capable. In today's episode I discuss practices you can develop to support yourself & others during conflict. Use every opportunity in life to learn more about yourself.

Jennifer Tsang is an ICF Leadership Coach who partners with executives, leaders & everyday people to build more consciousness into how they lead their teams and most importantly, themselves. She believes that leadership is an inside out approach. As someone who has worked on her own personal development and self-leadership for over 15 years, she started her coaching practice in 2020 to help others discover how to lead themselves and grow professionally and personally. Today, Jennifer offers a wide variety of programs and services – from individual coaching, to group and team coaching and facilitated group conversations.

Show Highlights:

1. Discover ways that you can develop a new relationship with yourself & others.
2. Determine how you can use conflict as a tool to get a deeper understanding of yourself & how you want to lead.

If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:

• Coaching Website: https://coachwithinsight.com/
• Show website: https://intheleadshow.com
• Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang  
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng

Follow the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 5pm PST/8pm EST #LeadersChat

Change: Change is uncomfortable for most people. We've all been through it. At work, in our personal lives. It's a constant. We can experience a range of emotions from grief to excitement & anywhere in between. It can vary for most, but it's important to understand how to manage change effectively, especially if you're in a leadership position. It is your job to help define the 'Why' for your team and help them move through the change process, leaving them whole, resourceful and capable. We all need the time and the space to grieve change, and frankly, I don't think we do this well enough within organizations. We tend to look at change like a gender reveal party, where we develop creative ways to surprise people with the news when in reality, we need to be doing the oposite. We need to help people understand the change, give them time to process it and then help support them move through it. Change is not something that we just dump on people (or managers) & expect them to just be "flexible." In today's episode, I will explore this very important topic & use the question bank from our most recent #LeadersChat conversation on Twitter.

Jennifer Tsang is an ICF Leadership Coach who partners with executives, leaders & everyday people to build more consciousness into how they lead their teams and most importantly, themselves. She believes that leadership is an inside out approach. As someone who has worked on her own personal development and self-leadership for over 15 years, she started her coaching practice in 2020 to help others discover how to lead themselves and grow professionally and personally. Today, Jennifer offers a wide variety of programs and services – from individual coaching, to group and team coaching and facilitated group conversations.

Show Highlights:

• Discover ways you can help others move through change.
• Reflect on how change impacts you & how that might be impacting your decisions as a leader.

Resources:

If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:

1. Website: https://coachwithinsight.com/
2. Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang  
3. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang
4. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng

Follow the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 5pm PST/8pm EST #LeadersChat

Positive Intelligence: Positive Intelligence (PQ) is a set of practices that build mental fitness and help people to develop mastery over their own mind. It is used to shift your mind from self-sabotage to optimal performance using simple and proven neuroscience-based techniques. Developing this mastery is the greatest determinant for achieving professional success and happiness.

Jennifer Tsang is an ICF Leadership Coach who partners with executives, leaders & everyday people to build more consciousness into how they lead their teams and most importantly, themselves. She believes that leadership is an inside out approach. As someone who has worked on her own personal development and self-leadership for over 15 years, she started her coaching practice in 2020 to help others discover how to lead themselves and grow professionally and personally. Today, Jennifer offers a wide variety of programs and services – from individual coaching, to group and team coaching and facilitated group conversations.

Marie Logan is a certified professional coach and founder of My Coach Marie (www.mycoachmarie.com) who specializes in helping people build mental fitness and utilize their strengths to find greater success and personal happiness in service of more effective leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion. She has served in leadership roles in higher education for 30 years and now brings that wealth of insight to coaching. She utilizes the Positive Intelligence framework in her coaching practice and personally endeavors to practice the sage perspective, surfing that wave, every day.

Show Highlights:

1. Discover ways to flip your thinking to develop new neural pathways for a more fulfilled life.
2. Learn how to do a PQ exercise to help lower your stress and develop more presence.
3. Discover how your saboteurs are your greatest strengths that are taken too far.
4. Understand ways to develop a deeper understanding of your saboteurs so that you can use them as an effective tool instead of as a way to protect you.
5. Cultivate your ability to discern and use it in powerful ways in your leadership.

Resources:

• Positive Intelligence Website: https://www.positiveintelligence.com/
• Take the Positive Intelligence Saboteurs Free Assessment: https://www.positiveintelligence.com/assessments/
• Know your inner saboteurs Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zdJ1ubvoXs

If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:

• Website: https://coachwithinsight.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang  
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng

Follow the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 5pm PST/8pm EST #LeadersChat

Legacy: What is your legacy? What does a leadership legacy mean to you? How do you want to be remembered? These are all questions I ask myself in Episode #16 of the In the Lead Show. We all have gifts. We all have talents. We all have immense value to bring to the world and I think it's important we explore with ourselves what that means to us and how we want to bring it forward. The way I look at legacy is like tiny fingerprints. Every moment, every interaction, every action is a fingerprint and we have the ability to constantly shape ourselves and others everyday and leave our mark (or our legacy) on the world. Don't wait until you're gone to be remembered, focus on things you can do now to leave that imprint and create your own living legacy.

Jennifer Tsang is an ICF Leadership Coach who partners with executives, leaders & everyday people to build more consciousness into how they lead their teams and most importantly, themselves. She believes that leadership is an inside out approach. As someone who has worked on her own personal development and self-leadership for over 15 years, she started her coaching practice in 2020 to help others discover how to lead themselves and grow professionally and personally. Today, Jennifer offers a wide variety of programs and services – from individual coaching, to group and team coaching and facilitated group conversations.

Show Highlights:

1. Identify ways that you can define and cultivate your living legacy.
2. Develop practices that will help you understand yourself better, so that you can manage and regulate yourself in a way that leaves you feeling whole.
3. Use the power of reflection, curiosity and courage to heal your own wounds and extend that healing to others.

If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:

• Website: https://coachwithinsight.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang  
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng

Follow the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 5pm PST/8pm EST #LeadersChat

Internal Family Systems (IFS): Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome.IFS is a movement. A new, empowering paradigm for understanding and harmonizing the mind and, thereby, larger human systems. One that can help people heal and helps the world become a more compassionate place.

IFS can be a powerful tool for all Leaders (in all capacities) to understand themselves better so that they can then lead others, better. Our own internal healing can have a profound effect on how we leads others & how others experience us. By untying the internal knot can help open the door for compassion, trust, empathy & support.

Jennifer Tsang is an ICF Leadership Coach who partners with executives, leaders & everyday people to build more consciousness into how they lead their teams and most importantly, themselves. She believes that leadership is an inside out approach. As someone who has worked on her own personal development and self-leadership for over 15 years, she started her coaching practice in 2020 to help others discover how to lead themselves and grow professionally and personally. Today, Jennifer offers a wide variety of programs and services – from individual coaching, to group and team coaching and facilitated group conversations.

Show Highlights:

1. How to find healing through witnessing our own experience.
2. How to work with IFS to develop a deeper understanding of Self & why it's important in Leadership.
3. How practicing acceptance can cultivate well-being.
4. The importance of belonging to people & organizations.

Resources:

• Find out more information on Internal Family Systems: https://ifs-institute.com

If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:

1. Website: https://coachwithinsight.com/
2. Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang  
3. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang
4. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng

Follow the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 5pm PST/8pm EST #LeadersChat

Unconscious bias: Unconscious bias is often defined as prejudice or unsupported judgments in favor or against something or someone. I see as simply the way in which we see & experience the world around us. It's our lens. Biases as they are do not have to be a bad thing. They can help us make sense of the world and develop a better understanding of ourselves. As with anything, biases also have a shadow side and often cloud or decision making or how we choose to interact with others. Unconscious biases can have a larger shadow because we may not even be aware of those judgements or prejudices when making decisions as a leader in an organization or in laws that shape our communities. We all have bias, and the sooner we can accept this fact, the easier it becomes to see them and understand how it might be impacting everything that we do. In today's episode, Drea and I explore what unconscious bias means, the impact that it has on others and how we can start to develop more awareness around them to make decisions that have a positive impact.

Jennifer Tsang is an ICF Leadership Coach who partners with executives, leaders & everyday people to build more consciousness into how they lead their teams and most importantly, themselves. She believes that leadership is an inside out approach. As someone who has worked on her own personal development and self-leadership for over 15 years, she started her coaching practice in 2020 to help others discover how to lead themselves and grow professionally and personally. Today, Jennifer offers a wide variety of programs and services – from individual coaching, to group and team coaching and facilitated group conversations.

For over 25 years, Andrea (Drea) Villeneuve has consulted and advised businesses in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom on start-up, culture, and growth planning. She’s been a partner in an IT and digital branding company for 22 years, with multiple nominations and awards for women in business/technology. She has over 30 years of Board Leadership in the not-for-profit sector. 

Seeing a gap in current needs, Drea was one of the principal developers of a transition program for autistic youth to train into IT sector employment. Her passion for inclusion stems from personal experience and has included advocacy in education, employment, and community.

Check out her recent Ted Talk, 'What If?' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3OCvJUX0Y

Show Hightlights:

1. Discover ways to develop consciousness around your unconscious biases.
2. Define your why to help you uncover your unconscious biases.
3. How do we shift our mindsets and assumptions around biases?
4. Identify ways to challenges yourself to step outside your comfort zone to notice your assumptions and biases.
5. There is massive organization impact when we are unconscious about our biases.

Resources:

• Unconscious bias in the workplace: https://www.td.org/atd-blog/unconscious-bias-in-the-workplace

If you want to connect with Drea, visit:

1. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreavilleneuve/

2. Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreaVilleneuve

If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:

1. Website: https://coachwithinsight.com/  

2. Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang  

3. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang

4. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng

Follow the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 5pm PST/8pm EST #LeadersChat

Well-being: What does well-being mean? Most organizations talk about it a lot & say that it is something that is important & that they take it seriously. This might be true, but often times, it is not felt across the organization. The meaning of well-being is actually multidimensional. It includes, physical, social, emotional, intellectual & spiritual balance that creates a sense of safety and empowerment. It's not something we just talk or write about, instead something we practice and feel. Additionally, it's a fluid experience and can mean something different from one person to the next. If we ask our employees to bring their whole selves to work, we must also acknowledge this requires being mindful of and cultivating well-being on a daily basis.

Jennifer Tsang is an ICF Leadership Coach who partners with executives, leaders & everyday people to build more consciousness into how they lead their teams and most importantly, themselves. She believes that leadership is an inside out approach. As someone who has worked on her own personal development and self-leadership for over 15 years, she started her coaching practice in 2020 to help others discover how to lead themselves and grow professionally and personally. Today, Jennifer offers a wide variety of programs and services – from individual coaching, to group and team coaching and facilitated group conversations.

Resources & How to Connect with Deb:

• http://TheDEBMethod.com
• http://TheDEBMethod.com/KEEP
• https://LinkedIn/in/coastbunny
• https://Facebook.com/TheDEBMethod
• https://Twitter.com/TheDEBMethod
• https://Instagram.com/TheDEBMethod
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBdIBzyikSLARwLFlzuaPkA
• https://www.amazon.com/Your-Goal-Guide-Planning-Achieving/dp/1642501506/
• https://Facebook.com/Groups/YourGoalGuide
• https://Facebook.com/WriteOnOnline
• https://Facebook.com/Groups/WriteOnOnline

If you want to contact Jennifer Tsang, visit:

1. Website: https://coachwithinsight.com/
2. Twitter: https://twitter/com/jenntsang  
3. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-tsang
4. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH82NqeTJPyr3Yi_saY3Ng

Follow the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 5pm PST/8pm EST #LeadersChat