How do I  help my team become agile?   Hello and welcome to episode 100 of the HSS.  If this hapesn to be the first episode you lsten to, in each episode I discuss a difefernt essential skill with the help of an expert. I have spoken to globally recognized authors, Harvard professors, military leaders, psychologists, pscyhitiatrics, people who have done scientific reserahc on how to become better at the so called "soft" skills to help you thrive in your career. I want to thank you for...

It is time to take an inventory of your year, figure out what do you eally want: a new job, a new career, growth.  So I will replay an excerpt of my interview with executive coach and author Dr Gary Crotaz. He is considered one of the top coaching leaders in the world.  Listen to his model based on his book The IDEA Mindset where he breaks down how to conduct a good self assessments and define our true path.     

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.  To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter.  The feeling that management or even team members do not realize how much we contribute to a team is something I hear often. We usually hear the advice of ‘just put your...

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.  To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter.  If there is a skill I need help with, and I am sure you do to, is how to deal with difficult people. People who either may come at you screaming, or be condescending or...

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.  To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter.  In the podcast we talk a lot about communication skills and using our body language is a skill we neglect. We need to learn how to properly read our bodies and use them to...

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.  To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter.  One of my favorite guets was Peggy Klaus, and as you may know she is the author of multiple books including ‘Bragg: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It.'  ...

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.  To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter.  'Getting things done' is a motto I love and a book I enjoy from David Allen. He even created a whole method based on the book. So every time someone asked me ‘how can I...

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.  To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to my newsletter.  The key question that seems to come up regularly how can we be better leaders?  I have spoken about this to various guests in my podcast  and on of the epiodes that...

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.  To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to the newsletter.  One of the questions I get asked is how do I deal with confrontation?   One simple change we can apply is how we use our vocabulary. Listen to an excerpt from interview...

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team,     To get the details first of these limited opportunities, go to hardcoresoftskillsppodcast.com and sign up to the newsletter.  A key question you may have is “how do I demonstrate my soft skills in my job search?’   Thea Kelley will answer this question. Thea Kelley is a job search and...

Decision-making is a very necessary skill we need as leaders. In this episode, you will learn the best approaches to decision-making with a decision-making expert.  Cheryl Strauss Einhorn (https://www.areamethod.com/) founded Decisive, a decision sciences company that trains people and teams in complex problem solving and decision-making skills using the AREA Method. AREA is an evidence-based decision-making system that uniquely controls for and counters cognitive bias to expand knowledge...

If you lsten to this podcast, you are definitely into improving yourself. You read boks, listen to podcast, seek mentors, and you are loking for answers to help you get to a next level. You need coaching. Even if you have not yet hired the help of an actual coach, you can take steps to coach yourself. Coach Yourself us the title of the book of my guest Antonia Bowring (https://www.ab-strategies.com/ ). Antonia is a highly credentialed, top New York executive coach. She works primarily with...

This is a replay of an interview which aired in Nov 2021.      ---------------- My guest today, Oscar Trimboli (https://www.oscartrimboli.com/ ), shared some fascinating data that made me realized, we are barely listening to each other. Oscar is the author of Deep listening and Breakthroughs, professional speaker and host of the apple award winning podcast Depp Listening. This episode is a master class on listening. We talk about some fascinating concepts including listening villains...

Curiosity can save help your team and your job. In this episode, you will learn why this skill is so essential and how to master it.  If you want to receive more information, subscribe to my newsletter via https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/  Connect with me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadiraycaro/ or email me at [email protected]  Quick LinksGet Embed PlayerShare on SocialDownload Audio File  

One of the most popular episodes was the interview with John Kotter, author of multiple books and the authority of change management.  You can listen to it here: https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/managing-change-john-p-kotter/  In this episode, we will review the 8 steps for change management from John Kotter.  If you want to receive more information, subscribe to my newsletter via https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/  Connect with me via LinkedIn at...

This is the last episode of season 8 until we return in a few weeks.  I have been fcusing a lot this season on the topic of agility since this is a central skill to the way we work, even though  this concept is regularly associated with software or tech. Today, we will dig deeper into the skill of agility for our everyday life. The Joy of Agility is the title of the book written by my guest Joshua Kerievsky (https://www.industriallogic.com/people/joshua/)  We will talk about the true...

Today we feature Jon Kern (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonkern/) , one of the co-authors of the Agile Manifesto. His career has spanned jet engine R&D and flight simulators, to being an object-oriented and lightweight process evangelist through the 90s, authoring books, and contributions to Unified Modeling Language.  Jon also enjoys speaking and evangelizing about being agile at conferences around the world. Tday we spoke about his fascinating career, how agile came about and key...

In this episode I speak with Julie Jungalwala, a leadership instructor at Harvard, the founder of the Institute for the Future of Learning. Today we speak about her research on reinvention and what you can do to reinvent yourself in a competitive market.     For more resources, sign up for the newsletter at https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/     Connect with me via https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadiraycaro/ 

Today you'll hera my interview with Aarie van Benekum (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariev3/ and (https://arievanbennekum.com/bio ), one of the co-signers of the Agile Manifesto (https://agilemanifesto.org/)  His career in software development started as developer and technical designer, and in the 90s, he switched from traiditonal development to RAD or rapid application development, and DSDM, or dynamic system development method.  After becoming one of the cosigners of the agile manifesto in...

This episode is a podcast collaboration with the Team Coaching Zone Podcast (https://teamcoachingzone.com/team-coaching-podcast).   Dr. Krister Lowe is Co-founder and Chief of Innovation at www.6TeamConditions.com. He is the pioneer of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast and the Co-Editor of The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching. Dr. Lowe is an Organizational Psychologist by training and has deep expertise in coaching top and mission critical teams We talked about the fascinating field...

This episode originally aired in July 2021.    -------------------------------------------   As many organizations are talking today about becoming “agile” it is important to know what it really means. Dr. Jeff Sutherland (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsutherland/) is the ideal person to discuss this. He is the chairman and founder of Scrum Inc., a signatory of the Agile manifesto, coauthor of the Scrum Guide and the creator Scrum@Scale. He is also the coauthor of the best selling book...

Today is a fitting topic for those of us who are always eager to see ‘what's next’: Reinvention. This is a skill which requires us to cultivate curiosity and adaptability. My guest has done extensive research n the topic alongside one of my former Harvard professors Dr. Jenny Stine. I speak with Julie Jungalwala (https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliemargrettawilson/) , a leadership instcutor at Harvard, the founder of the Institute for the Future of Learning, President of the Academic Leadership...

When we think about leaders we think of those who have just the right answer to every situation, those who can move crowds, who can make or break a team. But what if we are looking at leadership the wrong way? Is a leader a creator of followers or is a leader a person who creates other leaders? My guest today knows what it takes to lead others to become leaders. L. David Marquet (https://davidmarquet.com/my-story/) is a retired United States Navy captain and the bestselling author of Turn...

Dr. Mark Goulston (https://markgoulston.com/about/)  is a psychiatrist and one of the world's leading experts on listening with his book, Just Listen, becoming the top book on listening in the world. He is also the author of Talking to Crazy and Get Out of Your Own Way.  He was selected to the World's Top 30 Communication Professionals for 2023 by Global Guros. He is a Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches member and hosts the My Wakeup Call podcast. In this eoisode we discussed various topics...