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How to Disagree with Your Boss Using These Problem Solving Skills

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Episode 299: How do you use your problem-solving skills to tell your boss no… without risking your job? David shares a key question to ask that sharpens your intent and strengthens your problem solving skills under pressure. Weve all been thereyour boss makes a decision that feels wrong, risky, or just totally off.

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When You’re the Scapegoat: Powerful Phrases to Address Unfair Blame

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Not only will you protect your reputation, but you’ll also foster a healthier, more collaborative team dynamic—and that’s a win for everyone. Why Scapegoating Happens When things go wrong, some people toss blame around like a frisbee in a windstorm—random, chaotic, and bound to hit someone who didn’t see it coming.

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How to Accidentally Sabotage Team Innovation

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How to Inspire Better Team Innovation and Problem Solving It’s tragic when your attempt to protect your team members actually sabotages team innovation. If you really want a courageous culture, that means you go first. Your team is watching both what you […].

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Pay It Forward Mentoring

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We have to continue mining the discipline to look for those key frameworks, those techniques, those tools, those mindset gems that allow us to learn and grow and create environments where problem-solving and effective execution strategies contain values needed by our customers.” – David E. “We The Mentorship Pedigre. “We

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Reduce Stress And Have More Influence With The Power of Improv

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How you respond to them can either add to your stress or unlock new levels of creativity, influence, and problem-solving. Avi explains how the phrase “Yes, but” creates barriers, while “Yes, and” opens the door to adaptability and better problem-solving. [10:06]

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Courageous Questions: How to Make It Easier to Get Better Insights

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Sample Courageous Questions (Specific courageous questions you can ask your team), How to “Respond With Regard” to what you’ve heard. Why Courageous Questions Matter. Laura, an IT vice president, was excited to spend some time with her teams, hold a few skip-level meetings, and see their new system in action. Wait, What?

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6 Overlooked Leadership Skills To Run Meetings That People WANT To Attend

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Clarify what kind of meeting youre having Be clear whether its an informational meeting or a decision-making/problem-solving sessiondont mix the two. Lets be honest: no one hates meetingsthey hate the ones that feel pointless. This episode gives you the tools to turn that around and lead meetings your team actually wants to attend.