Episodes

May 14, 2024

Dealing with Workplace Conflict: Karin Hurt

Tell me about your workplace. Are you in a place where there is rarely ANY conflicts, things are good on the surface that is. Or are you in a place where there are multiple fights? Or perhaps, you are in a place where conflict, that is, different...

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May 7, 2024

How to Be a Geek with Empathy: Jeremy Adamson

Picture this, you are giving a presentation to a new customer about this app or this dashboard your team created, explained all the cool technical features at length. You feel good, you think you killed it since you prepared for so long, and at the...

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April 30, 2024

Building 'Soft' Skills with AI: Camilo Rojas, Ph. D.

Lets talk about AI, Artificial Intelligence. You are probably using itn right now to make your life easier, create transcripts, products, images… but are you really using it to make yourself a better person? Today you will learn how in this...

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Dec. 26, 2023

Soft Skills Coaching: How Can My Team Become More Agile?

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...

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Dec. 18, 2023

Skills Coaching: How Can I do a Self-Check?

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...

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Dec. 14, 2023

How can I increase my Value in a Team?

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...

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Dec. 12, 2023

Skills Coaching: How can I Deal with Difficult People?

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...

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Dec. 5, 2023

Skills Coaching: How Can I use my Body Language in Conversations?

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...

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Nov. 30, 2023

Skills Coaching: How Can I Shamelessly Promote Myself?

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...

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Nov. 28, 2023

Skills Coaching: How Do I Become More Productive?

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...

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Nov. 23, 2023

Skills Coaching: How do I Become a Better Leader?

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...

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Nov. 21, 2023

Skills Coaching: How to I Deal with Verbal Confrontation?

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...

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Nov. 14, 2023

Skills Coaching: How Do You Reflect 'Soft' Skills in Your Job Intervi…

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...

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Oct. 17, 2023

Decision Making: Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

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 ( founded Decisive, a decision sciences company that...

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Oct. 10, 2023

Coaching Yourself: Antonia Bowring

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...

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Oct. 3, 2023

Replay: Listening with Oscar Trimboli

This is a replay of an interview which aired in Nov 2021.      ---------------- My guest today, Oscar Trimboli ( ), shared some fascinating data that made me realized, we are barely listening to each other. Oscar is the author of Deep...

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Sept. 26, 2023

Skills Coaching: Why Do You Need Curiosity and How to Master It

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   Connect with me via LinkedIn at...

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Sept. 19, 2023

Skills Coaching: 8 Steps to Make Change Happen

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:   In this episode, we will review the 8 steps for change management from John...

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Aug. 15, 2023

Agility and Joy: Joshua Kerievsky

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...

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July 25, 2023

Agility and Optimization: Jon Kern

Today we feature Jon Kern ( , 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...

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July 11, 2023

Reinvention: Julie Jungalwala

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...

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June 26, 2023

Agility and Communications: Arie van Benekum

Today you'll hera my interview with Aarie van Benekum ( and ), one of the co-signers of the Agile Manifesto (  His career in software development started as developer and technical designer, and in the 90s, he switched from traditional...

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June 13, 2023

Team Coaching: Dr Krister Lowe

This episode is a podcast collaboration with the Team Coaching Zone 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...

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May 2, 2023

Replay: Agility with Jeff Sutherland

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...

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