This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam is pleased to welcome Author, Speaker, Psychologist and Executive Coach, Dr. Mira Brancu.
Dr. Brancu helps executives and their teams lead well today and better navigate tomorrow, with specialties in team development and inclusive leadership.
Dr. Mira brings 20+ years of experience in healthcare and academia, including an award-winning leadership career at the US Department of Veterans Affairs and a faculty appointment at Duke University. Dr. Brancu is a contributor for Psychology Today and Thrive Global and author of Millennials Guide to Workplace Politics.
Dr. Mira is also the host of The Hard Skills, a new show on our network, TalkRadio.NYC that airs on Fridays at 1pm Eastern.
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In his usual manner, Sam begins this week's episode by introducing a passage from his book, "Everyday Awakening," titled “Being “a responsible human, means being responsible to life itself.” Sam asserts that it is our responsibility to treat the planet and all the life forms that reside in it with the utmost respect. However, there is not need to be overwhelmed as the responsibility is shared amongst humanity as a whole. Sam concludes by urging his listeners to be considerate of what the earth gives us. Sam’s book is available at www.everydayawakeningbook.com
Sam shares his point of view on workplace leadership. He motivates his audience to exhibit their distinct qualities and fully engage with the aspects of their jobs that invigorate them. Although challenges are to be expected, directing attention towards the positive aspects opens doors for making meaningful contributions.
Sam takes great delight in introducing Dr. Mira Brancu, an accomplished Author, Speaker, Psychologist, and Executive Coach. Notably, she also hosts "The Hard Skills," a fresh addition to our TalkRadio.NYC network, broadcasting every Friday at 1pm Eastern. Dr. Brancu shares her expertise on effectively navigating diverse workplace challenges. Sam and Dr. Brancu encourage leaders to embrace change and stay in the moment.
Dr. Mira elucidates the distinction between a real team and a pseudo one. A respected contributor to Psychology Today and Thrive Global, Dr. Brancu is also the author of "Millennials Guide to Workplace Politics." Additionally, she offers a preview of her upcoming guest for tomorrow. You can learn more about her on gotowerscope.com and connect with her on LinkedIn at @mirabrancu.
00:00:27.380 --> 00:00:42.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon, my conscious Co. Creators! Good morning. Good evening. Wherever you're tuning in from welcome to the conscious, consultant hour awakening humanity. I am very, very pleased that you are all here with me today.
00:00:42.990 --> 00:00:59.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: my last show on the road, and if you're wondering why I'm wearing something long sleeved in the the middle of the summertime, I'm up in a place known as Silver Thorn, Colorado, which is in the middle of the Rockies.
00:00:59.110 --> 00:01:18.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it's cold here. Oh, my God! It's like 60 degrees, which I'm sure, for our Canadian listeners it's probably nothing. That's 60°F. Okay, then that's integrate and it. It's chilly. But it's beautiful here, the mountains, the trees, the nature. Oh, and it's
00:01:18.850 --> 00:01:39.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know I'm I'm taking this break, because you know, New York kind of gets to you sometimes with all the sirens, the noise and the pollution and smog and everything. So I'm out here for a little while. This is my last show. I'm returning back to New York on the weekend. So, starting next week I'll be back. You'll see me with my big microphone and everything.
00:01:40.630 --> 00:01:58.569 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So my guest today I can't wait to bring my guest on surprise guest last minute fill in. But she's not gonna be here until halfway through the show. So of course, you know what that means. We need to get started with our little section from my book.
00:01:59.010 --> 00:02:11.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Everyday Awakening. And so let let's get started with that. And so today, this section of my book is entitled Being a responsible human
00:02:11.670 --> 00:02:14.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: means being responsible to life itself.
00:02:15.810 --> 00:02:19.069 Responsibility is a word that gets a lot of use.
00:02:19.110 --> 00:02:29.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We are responsible to our shareholders, our customers, our family, our society. We are responsible to provide value, to contribute, to be productive.
00:02:29.950 --> 00:02:37.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We are also responsible for being honest. having integrity and being true to ourselves.
00:02:38.170 --> 00:02:48.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Ultimately, though our greatest responsibility is to life. we are responsible for supporting life
00:02:48.970 --> 00:02:51.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and being supported by life.
00:02:52.190 --> 00:02:55.039 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We are responsible to the planet
00:02:55.490 --> 00:02:59.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and all the various forms of life on the planet.
00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.469 We are responsible for feeding ourselves.
00:03:03.570 --> 00:03:05.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not just our body.
00:03:05.650 --> 00:03:09.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but our spirit, our soul, our essence.
00:03:10.460 --> 00:03:16.199 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We are also responsible for the energy we bring with us throughout the day?
00:03:17.010 --> 00:03:19.829 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are we cheerful or depressed?
00:03:20.090 --> 00:03:23.820 Are we focused on solutions? Problems?
00:03:23.860 --> 00:03:30.669 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are we supportive of those around us, or only concerned about ourselves.
00:03:31.660 --> 00:03:36.289 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that said, there's a lot of responsibility to go around.
00:03:37.460 --> 00:03:40.569 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it's not all hours.
00:03:41.260 --> 00:03:46.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But what is ours, however, is no one else's.
00:03:47.510 --> 00:03:55.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Let's be a bit more responsible to life and a little less responsible for harming others.
00:03:56.490 --> 00:04:05.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Where can you be responsible to yourself and not others. So this this section of my book I wrote
00:04:07.160 --> 00:04:18.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because I heard someone talking about responsibility. And and oh, we have responsibility to our shareholders. We responsibility for this for that?
00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:27.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I thought. Yeah, okay, there's that kind of responsibility. But there's a greater responsibility.
00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:32.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What about our responsibility for taking care of our planet.
00:04:33.500 --> 00:04:42.049 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What about our responsibility for being good citizens of the world, not just our town, our city, or our country?
00:04:43.060 --> 00:04:46.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And what about our responsibility to ourselves.
00:04:48.200 --> 00:04:51.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I find it so funny that
00:04:52.580 --> 00:04:54.509 we're so quick
00:04:55.980 --> 00:05:00.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to pay attention to our responsibility to other people
00:05:01.900 --> 00:05:04.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and not the responsibility to ourselves.
00:05:07.050 --> 00:05:10.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How often are we responsible
00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:19.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to ourselves, to our bodies, to our souls, to our spirit, to our emotional state, to our mental state?
00:05:23.710 --> 00:05:28.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It. It's really quite interesting, because society likes to
00:05:28.450 --> 00:05:30.440 pressure individuals
00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to do what's best for society.
00:05:35.190 --> 00:05:41.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and not necessarily what's best for the individual by using this term responsibility.
00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:45.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And there are many responsibilities.
00:05:46.910 --> 00:05:55.419 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I guess what I'm trying to import this week. and what I would like you all to to think about
00:05:55.500 --> 00:05:57.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and consider
00:05:58.370 --> 00:06:01.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is not just your responsibility
00:06:02.630 --> 00:06:12.489 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to your customers, to other people, to your family, to to your friends, your neighbors.
00:06:15.500 --> 00:06:21.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, what about your responsibility to yourself? What about your responsibility to the planet.
00:06:26.820 --> 00:06:32.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: II have to admit that lately I've becoming more and more concerned
00:06:33.860 --> 00:06:41.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: with what's going on with our environment. with the ecology. with the atmosphere.
00:06:42.780 --> 00:06:46.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and for years I've heard people
00:06:48.050 --> 00:06:51.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: saying all kinds of excuses
00:06:51.540 --> 00:07:06.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to why we we we shouldn't change the way we live. Oh, it's just a geological thing. Oh, people are making it up. Oh, this is, you know, this is nonsense, people just using it as an excuse to control us.
00:07:10.670 --> 00:07:11.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, you know.
00:07:12.830 --> 00:07:14.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm sorry to say.
00:07:16.070 --> 00:07:21.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I will debate anybody on this. It is not a lie.
00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:31.459 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What's going on with this planet. the way we, as human beings, are affecting. What's going on around us
00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:39.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is evident. It's like you cannot deny the evidence. That's right in front of you.
00:07:40.840 --> 00:07:43.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Just the extreme temperatures
00:07:43.340 --> 00:07:58.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: th. The fact that I live in New York City, and for the first time I had smoke in New York City from Canadian wildfires. It's never happened before in my lifetime. I don't think that's ever happened in anybody's lifetime.
00:07:59.230 --> 00:08:18.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And now there's wildfires on Maui. I just read about this morning in Hawaii I mean one of the most lush tropical places in the United States, and because of of the drought they've been having because of the change in in the atmosphere and the climate.
00:08:20.500 --> 00:08:34.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm sorry you have got to be a freaking idiot if you're still saying oh, there's no such thing as climate change. Oh, this is all a plot for people to control you.
00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:45.859 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wake up. We've got to wake up. and we've got to demand from our leaders, from our representatives.
00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.250 Do something about this
00:08:50.400 --> 00:08:53.700 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and the doing something about this is not the
00:08:55.770 --> 00:09:06.499 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it it it's not the green washing, it's not that. Let's give tax incentives, you know. Let's give tax credits and and get allow people to buy the carbon
00:09:06.530 --> 00:09:09.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: credits. No, this is nonsense.
00:09:09.830 --> 00:09:15.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We're the most advanced technological civilization of recorded history.
00:09:17.090 --> 00:09:30.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We can come up with better ways, we can come up with better solutions. We do not have to be so reliant on oil and plastics. We do not have to be so reliant on things that pollute the environment.
00:09:31.550 --> 00:09:41.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And look, I, even if you can't agree that this is affecting the climate, look at the what it does to the environment
00:09:42.560 --> 00:09:53.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: by producing things that are toxic. We're just making the environment more toxic to ourselves.
00:09:54.610 --> 00:10:04.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Humanity humans are the only creatures on this planet that actually make the environment hostile for themselves to live in.
00:10:06.130 --> 00:10:07.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And this can't go on.
00:10:10.420 --> 00:10:13.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now look in my lifetime.
00:10:13.870 --> 00:10:20.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know. And and things. Am I going to be able to survive? Yeah, sure. But I have nieces and nephews.
00:10:20.350 --> 00:10:23.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I don't have children myself, but I have relatives.
00:10:24.520 --> 00:10:35.989 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There were kids being born every day. What about our responsibility to our descendants. toward grandchildren, great-grandchildren, their grandchildren?
00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:41.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Look, it's not gonna be convenient.
00:10:41.770 --> 00:10:43.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's not gonna be easy.
00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But if we don't step up
00:10:47.790 --> 00:10:51.859 and take responsibility for our choices.
00:10:52.830 --> 00:10:55.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for how we choose to spend our money.
00:10:57.030 --> 00:11:04.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how we choose to live our life in the example that we're setting for others. If we do not
00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:13.489 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: take full responsibility and use our voices to demand change.
00:11:14.300 --> 00:11:18.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we are headed down a path that is
00:11:18.530 --> 00:11:23.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: only going to make things more challenging, more difficult.
00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: literally more difficult to survive.
00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:34.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We are just barely beginning to see the effects of climate change.
00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:38.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There is so much more heading our way.
00:11:41.170 --> 00:11:47.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I just pray to the universe, to God, to whatever you want to call it, to spirit.
00:11:48.350 --> 00:11:52.169 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that enough people wake up on this planet
00:11:53.890 --> 00:11:55.660 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: before it's too late.
00:11:57.430 --> 00:11:59.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Because what are we gonna do
00:12:00.700 --> 00:12:05.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: once we've polluted the oceans so much that life can't live in the oceans.
00:12:06.330 --> 00:12:13.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What are we going to do when the environment is so hostile? You can't go outside.
00:12:14.380 --> 00:12:16.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What are we going to do
00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:22.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when the very things that we need to survive can no longer be grown.
00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:25.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What are we going to do?
00:12:28.860 --> 00:12:33.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I'm really speaking to the young people who listen to my show
00:12:36.340 --> 00:12:48.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that if you don't like the way your elders are doing things. it's time for you to step up. It's time for you to help make a change happen.
00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Don't leave it to others.
00:12:52.550 --> 00:12:55.419 It's our responsibility to ourselves.
00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:00.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And this is what this whole section of my book is about.
00:13:01.770 --> 00:13:04.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's our responsibility to ourselves
00:13:06.150 --> 00:13:19.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to see the situation clearly, to look around us and to do something about it. to not leave it for someone else to do. It is our responsibility.
00:13:21.020 --> 00:13:26.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It is our need for ourselves.
00:13:31.730 --> 00:13:32.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now, look.
00:13:33.980 --> 00:13:38.879 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, are are we going to put big oil out of business? Of course not.
00:13:41.560 --> 00:13:46.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But the more we make choices. to use less plastic
00:13:47.520 --> 00:13:53.449 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to stop supporting companies that do not have a socially responsible
00:13:53.740 --> 00:13:55.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a commitment
00:13:56.470 --> 00:14:00.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to vote with our wallets and with our votes
00:14:01.450 --> 00:14:05.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to support people and organizations
00:14:05.660 --> 00:14:09.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: who are about helping to change things.
00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:17.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It is up to us there is no one else.
00:14:19.170 --> 00:14:32.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: If you're listening to this show. if you are more conscious, individual, and I know I'm probably mostly speaking to the choir. I know that most of my amazing listeners
00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:36.839 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like like I know your heart is with me.
00:14:41.130 --> 00:14:46.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But are we having those hard conversations with our friends, with our relatives, with their business associates?
00:14:48.940 --> 00:14:54.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are we letting people know that? Hey. this is something that's important.
00:14:57.870 --> 00:15:02.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Look I I'm not saying I have all the answers.
00:15:03.380 --> 00:15:15.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: II don't need to have all the answers. There are millions of smart people who are way smarter than I am out there who can figure out how to change things, what we need to do.
00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:21.159 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We just have to be willing to support them. to step up for them.
00:15:22.900 --> 00:15:25.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We just have to say yes
00:15:25.800 --> 00:15:30.659 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to our responsibility to life itself.
00:15:35.190 --> 00:15:43.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know I saw something the other day it said something like 250 species of animal are going extinct every single day.
00:15:44.400 --> 00:15:48.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I bet you we don't even know what most of those species are.
00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:56.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So before it's too late for us before we go extinct.
00:15:57.490 --> 00:16:06.049 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: there is something we can do about it. I I'm a big believer in magic and miracles. But magic and miracles
00:16:06.790 --> 00:16:09.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: takes energy, takes belief.
00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:12.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I.
00:16:12.370 --> 00:16:19.099 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And the the more we put our action behind our belief, the stronger our belief comes.
00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:23.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:16:26.160 --> 00:16:27.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm begging.
00:16:28.810 --> 00:16:31.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I am begging you, my listeners.
00:16:34.170 --> 00:16:40.349 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to take this seriously. and don't take my word for it, investigate it for yourself.
00:16:43.330 --> 00:16:52.989 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but don't reject the claims of scientists just because it happens to be a little inconvenient or doesn't agree with what you happen to believe in.
00:16:56.820 --> 00:16:58.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Take a look around you
00:16:59.790 --> 00:17:02.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: take a look at what's happening in the world.
00:17:06.560 --> 00:17:10.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Believe me, the more you look into it, the more shocked you will be.
00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:13.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:17:14.349 --> 00:17:16.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: enough of my ranting.
00:17:17.530 --> 00:17:25.829 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's my section of the book being a responsible human means being responsible to life itself.
00:17:28.140 --> 00:17:29.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What does that mean to you?
00:17:32.060 --> 00:17:34.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I hope I pray.
00:17:35.700 --> 00:17:38.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this wakes up a little something within you.
00:17:39.860 --> 00:17:43.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So of course that's from my book. Every day awakening.
00:17:44.390 --> 00:17:50.299 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Please go to your local bookstore, and if they don't have a copy. Ask them to order it for you
00:17:51.190 --> 00:18:03.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: alright. So when we come back we're gonna take a quick break. But when we come back I'm gonna start talking about our topic for the day which is leadership in the workplace. And when when my guest.
00:18:03.780 --> 00:18:09.579 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm gonna surprise you, I'm gonna wait till she comes on. When my guest shows up, we're gonna dig deep into it.
00:18:10.930 --> 00:18:17.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And we're gonna see, what does it really mean to have leadership in the workplace. So
00:18:17.810 --> 00:18:30.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: thank you all for listening. You're listening to the conscious consultant awakening humanity. We do this live every Thursday 12 noon to one Pm. Eastern time right here on talk radio data. Nyc.
00:18:30.530 --> 00:18:34.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we will be right back in just a moment.
00:20:49.860 --> 00:20:54.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity.
00:20:55.110 --> 00:20:59.279 Thank you for indulging me on my rant on the first segment of the show.
00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:19.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Let's let's start talking about, and when my guest comes on we'll we'll we'll take the conversation to an even deeper place about leadership in the workplace. And you know, my loyal listeners know I'm an entrepreneur. II work with entrepreneurs. I don't often talk that much about.
00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:34.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, working in companies working in organizations. I'm I'm guess I'm more of an individualist in some ways. but I think it's time to have a little bit of a conversation about leadership in the workplace.
00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:40.199 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now, look, I worked for 9 years in corporate before it became an entrepreneur.
00:21:41.430 --> 00:21:57.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I've I've seen it. I've been there. II know about the corporate politics. I know how challenging it can be. I can. I know how sole crushing sometimes. The environment can be in corporations
00:22:00.260 --> 00:22:10.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yet today, more than ever before. the opportunity for leadership in the workplace is tremendous.
00:22:11.310 --> 00:22:20.169 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Indeed we're we're seeing so many changes in the workplace and life itself, and how business is being done.
00:22:21.820 --> 00:22:25.529 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: When I'm talking about leadership in the workplace.
00:22:25.580 --> 00:22:37.649 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm not talking about the leaders. I'm talking about you as the individual. What you do in the workplace because anybody can be a leader.
00:22:38.080 --> 00:22:40.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Anyone can step up.
00:22:42.100 --> 00:22:44.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I know in some places it's not encouraged.
00:22:45.750 --> 00:22:47.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I know in some places.
00:22:47.850 --> 00:22:55.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: if if you're not a Vp or you're not in charge of a team.
00:22:56.060 --> 00:22:59.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it may not feel like you're in any position
00:22:59.330 --> 00:23:01.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to be a leader. But but you are.
00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:03.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you are
00:23:05.600 --> 00:23:11.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: cause. Look, what are companies? What are organizations? There are groups of people that come together.
00:23:12.370 --> 00:23:21.469 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or a common cause. Now I know some of you out there may be. Hey, look, I'm just got this job. Just it's paying the bills. It's not my passion.
00:23:22.590 --> 00:23:23.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: maybe.
00:23:25.250 --> 00:23:34.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But why are you at that job? Then? A different job? Oh, it pays better. Yeah. But I'm sure there are other jobs that pay just as well, that you could have gotten
00:23:34.890 --> 00:23:39.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that you didn't get or you didn't see, or you weren't attracted to.
00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:45.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: If you're in a certain place doing a certain job.
00:23:46.570 --> 00:23:51.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it's because there's something energetically that drew you there.
00:23:52.630 --> 00:23:56.269 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's something for you to contribute. There's something
00:23:57.840 --> 00:24:01.889 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for you to to have an effect there.
00:24:03.600 --> 00:24:11.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And look, II know there can be challenging co-workers challenging bosses. I've been there.
00:24:11.700 --> 00:24:21.199 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I worked for a year at a company where I when I first got there, I liked it, but then I got reorganized under somebody else, and I totally didn't trust this guy.
00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:36.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You could tell. This was the kind of guy who was like playing the politics moving up in the ranks, and he would step on you in a mode moments notice if it would help him. And I'm like, I can't stay here. There's no way. This is not the environment I was out of there.
00:24:37.330 --> 00:24:39.429 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It was a lesson for me, though.
00:24:40.790 --> 00:24:42.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so lesson in discernment.
00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:58.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But if you've been at your job, if if you're an employee and you've been there for a while there's something keeping you there. and if you've been there for a while, there is an opportunity for you to be a leader.
00:24:58.740 --> 00:25:07.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you're like Sam, but II all I do is this, I don't have much responsibility. How can I be a leader? You can be a leader with how you show up.
00:25:09.470 --> 00:25:14.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are you encouraging to those around you, even when people aren't encouraging to you?
00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:30.769 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are you allowing whatever negativity might be there to affect your your own energy, that. Then you start being more negative, and you just contribute to lack of morale, to the more challenges in the workplace.
00:25:32.860 --> 00:25:35.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You see, we all can be leaders.
00:25:36.370 --> 00:25:39.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We're leaders with our presence.
00:25:40.870 --> 00:25:52.099 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are you the kind of person that when you walk into the room people are like? Oh, look! John's here, or Jane is here for George is here.
00:25:53.190 --> 00:25:56.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and like they're they're just happy that you're around.
00:25:57.340 --> 00:26:06.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are you? The kind of person that maybe they don't even notice you when you enter the room. or maybe they notice you, but they don't have anything to do with you.
00:26:09.590 --> 00:26:13.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: True leadership is in how we show up in the world.
00:26:16.730 --> 00:26:20.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's in the difference we make
00:26:21.210 --> 00:26:27.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: every minute of every day. Do we have a kind word for somebody?
00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:32.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Do they feel supported by us?
00:26:34.370 --> 00:26:38.750 Now? Look, I'm I'm not saying we have to do everything for other people
00:26:38.820 --> 00:26:43.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and not get support ourselves. Of course we have to fill up our own cup.
00:26:44.600 --> 00:26:47.449 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that's where self-care comes into play.
00:26:49.650 --> 00:26:51.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But we can fill up our own cup
00:26:53.050 --> 00:26:54.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then show up
00:26:54.770 --> 00:26:58.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: as leaders with our presence in the workplace.
00:27:01.900 --> 00:27:06.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's not about the challenges that we're facing at our jobs.
00:27:06.560 --> 00:27:08.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There are always challenges.
00:27:11.450 --> 00:27:21.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: right? Maybe maybe you know, you got so used to working from home that that you don't want to go into the office. And now the boss is making you go into the office.
00:27:22.530 --> 00:27:25.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Look. we were doing it before.
00:27:26.850 --> 00:27:38.489 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I mean I again. I believe we can be very effective working from home. I've been working from home since pandemic, and I work from home a long time ago, back in the 2,000
00:27:38.530 --> 00:27:48.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: timeframe, I had a business. I was working from home. I'd been actually working from home. you know, a good part of my entrepreneurial life.
00:27:55.870 --> 00:28:05.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It is an opportunity. See, here's the thing. And this goes back to being responsible to ourselves of.
00:28:08.980 --> 00:28:14.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: are we focusing on solutions? Or are we focusing on the problem at hand?
00:28:15.050 --> 00:28:28.299 Are we focusing on what we can do to change things, to be better, to do better? Or we focusing on how this manager sucks, and this person's doing this. And oh, this is unfair, and all that kinds of stuff.
00:28:31.850 --> 00:28:35.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There is always an opportunity to contribute.
00:28:36.380 --> 00:28:39.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we can contribute in many different ways.
00:28:40.700 --> 00:28:46.349 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: First and foremost, we always contribute with our energy, with our presence, with how we show up.
00:28:50.210 --> 00:29:01.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so my question to you, to my loyal listeners, to my audience. How are you showing up at your job in your business, at your workplace?
00:29:04.320 --> 00:29:06.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are you taking responsibility
00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:12.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for the energy you bring to to the work that you do.
00:29:14.030 --> 00:29:17.149 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And you know, here's the funny thing. Here's the ironic thing.
00:29:19.460 --> 00:29:22.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: When we bring more uplifting energy
00:29:23.600 --> 00:29:34.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to the situation when we bring more uplifting energy to a situation that maybe seems dark. Or maybe most people, or you know, don't like being there.
00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:44.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But if we're the one bright light. it lifts everyone up. and when we lift others up we are lifted up in the process.
00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:54.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Look if you don't want to do it for the other people in the office, because you don't like anyone else. Fine, do it for yourself.
00:29:54.270 --> 00:30:00.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: do it for your own spirit, for your own energy, for your own sense of of
00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:08.169 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: health and desire. and and for that your own habits.
00:30:09.820 --> 00:30:22.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe one day you're gonna leave that place and go to another place. That's that's an amazing job. And if you're in the habit of always uplifting others when you go to the even better place, how much better are you gonna be?
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:25.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Excuse me.
00:30:27.310 --> 00:30:32.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Look. we can all be leaders in the workplace.
00:30:35.170 --> 00:30:36.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It is up to us.
00:30:38.580 --> 00:30:41.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Excuse me. Okay, listen. We're gonna take a quick break.
00:30:42.330 --> 00:31:00.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and hopefully, by the time we come back my guest will be with us. II knew they weren't going to be here for the until the half mark. But I'm really looking forward to bringing her on. I'm very thrilled, and I hope you will be, too, and we will continue this conversation around leadership in the workplace.
00:31:01.330 --> 00:31:07.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And of course, if you're listening, live, if you're on the Youtube, live or the Facebook live. let me know. What do you think about
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:17.879 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: leadership in the workplace? Are? How do you feel? Are you a leader in your workplace? Not in terms of position or responsibility, but in terms of how you show up.
00:31:17.940 --> 00:31:22.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Let me know. Tell me your stories, and we'll include them in the show. So
00:31:22.760 --> 00:31:34.029 thank you all for tuning in. You are listening to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. We do this live every Thursday 12 noon to one Pm. Eastern time, and we will be right back
00:31:34.460 --> 00:31:37.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: with my guests hopefully in just a moment.
00:33:42.230 --> 00:34:02.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And now it is my extreme pleasure to welcome to the show author, speaker, psychologist, and executive coach. Dr. Mira Branku, Dr. Branku helps executives and their teams lead well today, and better navigate tomorrow with specialties and team development and inclusive leadership.
00:34:02.250 --> 00:34:19.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Dr. Miraa brings to over 20 years of experience in healthcare and academia, including an award winning leadership career at the Us. Department of Veterans Affairs and a faculty appointment at Duke University. Dr. Miraa is a contributor for psychology today and thrive
00:34:19.820 --> 00:34:27.199 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: global and is the author of Millennials Guide to Workplace Politics, which you can see there on the screen right behind her.
00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:32.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and also, of course, she is a a fellow host
00:34:32.290 --> 00:34:47.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of the show, our our newest show on the network, the hard skills. Yes. Which airs every Friday at one Pm. Eastern time. So make sure you catch her show tomorrow. One Pm. Dr. Mira. Welcome to the conscious consultant hour.
00:34:47.770 --> 00:35:03.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Thank you. Thank you. Thanks a lot for having me out. I'm excited to chat with you today. Yeah, me, too. Me, too. It's my pleasure, and thank you for taking the opportunity to come. So we're talking about leadership in the workplace. And then last segment. I really sort of
00:35:04.120 --> 00:35:21.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: pontificated on how we are all leaders in the workplace by just how we show up by the energy that we bring to any situation, that it's not about our job title or how much responsibility it we have. It's about who we are as a person and how we show up.
00:35:21.340 --> 00:35:36.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But I'm curious. You work with a lot of leaders in in the world today, in in in environments. What are the biggest challenges, you would say to people who are trying to be leaders, and maybe they're struggling in some way.
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:52.750 Mira Brancu: Yeah. And I will say that, I especially work in industries that I feel like have been the most disrupted. And so education, higher ed and you know, academic and healthcare industries?
00:35:53.070 --> 00:36:05.420 Mira Brancu: And then, you know, also some some tech industries to come, just massive disruptions to how they normally work people.
00:36:05.540 --> 00:36:09.320 Mira Brancu: And from a leadership perspective, understanding
00:36:09.350 --> 00:36:27.499 Mira Brancu: the fact that people want to work in a remote or hybrid environment more and more. But how do you do that in healthcare? Not all healthcare providers can do that right. It doesn't make sense. And then that causes disparities between who can and who can't?
00:36:27.570 --> 00:36:48.769 Mira Brancu: same thing in, you know, academic environments. And then there's just like a lot of constant reorganizations. Constant changes in how the organization is trying to work together. At changing departments changing? Who's under what department and what? Under what group?
00:36:49.750 --> 00:36:59.530 Mira Brancu: and just sort of like the legislation and policies that are impacting, how health care works.
00:36:59.750 --> 00:37:12.019 Mira Brancu: and how it's delivered, and how it's funded. Same thing for education, you know. Higher. Ed, all of these are adding so much complexity that I have a lot of leaders just wondering like.
00:37:12.100 --> 00:37:13.680 Mira Brancu: not just
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:23.769 Mira Brancu: How do I navigate? But do I want to navigate this? Am I ready? Am I willing to be too exhausting? Is it? Gonna suck up
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:44.920 Mira Brancu: everything I have? And that's kind of what they're facing now as well, I see. I see? Yeah, so it it any. So it's sort of organizational changes. It's technological changes. I mean, technology now is developing at such a rapid pace. It's affecting almost every aspect of society is changing.
00:37:44.930 --> 00:37:51.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and now, with artificial intelligence, and all the money being invested in that, and and who knows
00:37:51.300 --> 00:38:14.049 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what the world is even gonna look like a year from now or 2 years from now. I mean back I mean when when I was much younger, maybe, let's say, when I was graduated college like you could make a 5 year plan. And you could be, you know, fairly accurate. Today. You can't even make a 6 month plan, can you? No, not only that.
00:38:14.050 --> 00:38:22.719 Mira Brancu: I still have some leaders saying, like, Okay, I wanna get started on the right track. And I want your help with a 90 day plan
00:38:22.720 --> 00:38:43.350 Mira Brancu: like this is the thing from like 1990 Mba books. You know, the 90 Day plan right? That doesn't work anymore. How can you possibly assess the level of complexity and what people need, and then devise a vision? That carries you through within the first 90 days.
00:38:43.540 --> 00:38:45.010 Mira Brancu: you know it.
00:38:45.180 --> 00:38:47.690 Mira Brancu: It's it's assuming
00:38:47.720 --> 00:38:49.820 Mira Brancu: static
00:38:50.060 --> 00:38:52.320 Mira Brancu: controlled
00:38:52.350 --> 00:39:16.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: stable environment. When that's not what we're working within anymore. Right? Cause it's a dynamic environment, right? There are so many factors that coming into play sociologically, technologically, a a. And you know, even generationally, that are coming into play that. That's sort of changing how we do things
00:39:16.940 --> 00:39:18.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we need to be.
00:39:19.200 --> 00:39:23.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I guess. I mean, it's beyond flexible.
00:39:23.540 --> 00:39:36.569 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's really I from my perspective, it's really just being present to the present moment of of what is happening right here right now. And how can we best deal with what's going on in the moment.
00:39:37.110 --> 00:39:39.380 Mira Brancu: Yes, and
00:39:39.580 --> 00:39:44.740 Mira Brancu: The other thing that I've been thinking a lot about related to this is
00:39:44.850 --> 00:39:58.469 Mira Brancu: We still have. This vision of a leader is supposed to not just come in with a 90 day plan or a 5 year plan and a vision of change. But that it needs to be
00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:11.509 Mira Brancu: number one focused on change and number 2 focused on decisiveness and action and immediacy. And whereas when you have this much chaos and upheaval.
00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:17.669 Mira Brancu: sometimes the best balance to that is a leader who can offer stability.
00:40:17.850 --> 00:40:24.160 Mira Brancu: a leader who can offer calm in the chaos, who can offer?
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:31.809 Mira Brancu: You know, connection in a sea of disconnection and instead of
00:40:31.860 --> 00:40:49.129 Mira Brancu: let's add to the chaos. Let's add to the change. Oh, that leader added. Change. I'm gonna add change, because I'm a leader, too, and I'm you know, and and there. But there is no balance against that. And so there's all of these people who don't see themselves as leaders.
00:40:49.150 --> 00:40:57.110 Mira Brancu: who actually are exactly what we need right now, because they're the ones who can offer that kind of stability.
00:40:57.380 --> 00:40:58.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I mean.
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:28.319 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when someone comes to you and they're like, Oh, my God! Things are changing so quickly. I feel like I'm fighting fires all day long that all I'm doing is like having to to to solve problems. And I don't have any time to really focus on on on the vision, or on taking care of people. What do you tell them? How do you? How do you advise them, and how to deal with such a chaotic situation.
00:41:28.430 --> 00:41:41.849 Mira Brancu: Yeah. Well, the first thing is reassuring them that every leader feels the same way. You know. That that is the the crux of the challenge for every leader, and no leader feels good
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:50.730 Mira Brancu: in that situation where they feel like they're constantly just putting out fire after fire and chasing, you know.
00:41:51.020 --> 00:42:12.060 Mira Brancu: you know the the thing down to Tampa down, you know. That's exhausting, and that's not why they entered leadership. In the first place, a leadership role. They entered a leadership role cause. They wanted to make a change. They wanted to make an impact. That means you need time to be strategic and thoughtful and intentional and planful. And so
00:42:12.390 --> 00:42:14.129 Mira Brancu: what I offer
00:42:14.140 --> 00:42:37.130 Mira Brancu: like a lot of coaches do is time for reflection time to slow down in order to speed up right? Time to prioritize what is most important and what seems like important. But really you can let that go, and you don't have to hold on to all of the things you don't have to chase all of the fires down. You don't have to do it all alone.
00:42:37.380 --> 00:42:57.200 Mira Brancu: I help them build the kind of team around them that helps support each other. So I'm very big on let's let go of this like one hero, one leader model. That has all of the answers, and does all the things by themselves. And let's embrace the fact that
00:42:57.270 --> 00:43:01.960 Mira Brancu: leadership teams each person with their own role.
00:43:02.190 --> 00:43:10.479 Mira Brancu: can help. You know, sort of each of them leaning into their very best strengths, and each of them leaning on each other.
00:43:10.710 --> 00:43:32.389 Mira Brancu: That kind of support is really important for leaders. So we talk through all of the sort of systems that you put in place, and how you can slow down, how you can prioritize and manage your time so that you can finally feel a little bit more strategic, more agentic.
00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:47.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Over over what you you know you're focused on. So it it kind of what you're saying reminds me of like years ago, when I read Stephen Covey's book, The 7 Habits of highly effective people, and he had that chart of like urgent versus
00:43:47.060 --> 00:44:11.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: right. And and there's so much stuff that's urgent, but it's not necessarily important. And there's stuff that's not urgent, but is important, but because it's not urgent, it doesn't get done. And so it sounds like you're saying, it's like finding the balance of reminding ourselves that just because it's not urgent, but it is important. We want to be mindful of that. And just because something is urgent, if it's not important.
00:44:11.190 --> 00:44:17.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But it's urgent to find ways of minimizing that. So you do have time to focus on the important stuff.
00:44:18.190 --> 00:44:45.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And then the other thing I'm hearing you say is sort of this flattening of the organization where it it's it's not so hierarchical anymore. But it's more, I guess they call it like matrix in a way where where people are more peers. And and it's not this hierarchical type of mindset, I mean Le, regardless of the org chart of the company. It's more the mindset of the people involved.
00:44:45.850 --> 00:45:06.440 Mira Brancu: Yes, and I do think matrix organizations which is mostly, you know, in healthcare and academic environments, actually add more complexity. But there's there's a way to give people more agency in those informal, you know, leadership roles. And there's a way to
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:22.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: leverage a team to function effectively as long as they're functioning as a real team and not a pseudo team. okay, let's talk about what the differences between a real team and a pseudo team. When we come back from this break.
00:45:22.900 --> 00:45:29.389 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What can somebody do to be a leader who's not in a leadership position in their environment?
00:45:29.550 --> 00:45:35.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Alright like, how do we empower people who don't feel like their leaders, but in actuality they are
00:45:36.070 --> 00:45:51.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: okay. Sounds good, alright great. So everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant hour awakening to humanity. My guest is Dr. Mira Branku, and we will be right back in just a moment.
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00:47:58.130 --> 00:48:06.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: alright, Dr. Mira. So last segment you talked about the difference between being on a real team and a pseudo team. What's a pseudo team.
00:48:07.080 --> 00:48:26.669 Mira Brancu: Yes, and before I start it looks like we have somebody, Patty Brand, who found us listening to us in Washington. Hi, Patty! Every week. I'm so grateful for Patty. Awesome. Yeah. So pseudo team versus real team.
00:48:27.190 --> 00:48:31.049 Mira Brancu: There's a lot of people that are working together.
00:48:31.260 --> 00:48:38.969 Mira Brancu: Thinking they're a team. But they're not really a real team. And there's 4 criteria for a real team.
00:48:39.020 --> 00:48:44.319 Mira Brancu: One is that they have a shared goal or mission, and they all agree on that shared goal or mission
00:48:44.880 --> 00:49:00.600 Mira Brancu: as opposed to a pseudo team where there's an as many goals as there are members of the team. Right. Everyone has a different goal. The second is interdependency.
00:49:00.830 --> 00:49:14.169 Mira Brancu: Can they do their work alone, or is it required for them to lean on each other to coordinate in order for the work to get done better, faster, more effectively and efficiently.
00:49:14.340 --> 00:49:24.500 Mira Brancu: If they're interdependent, it's a real team. If they can get the work done by themselves in silos and never talk to each other. Then it's not really a real team.
00:49:24.580 --> 00:49:28.779 Mira Brancu: And most higher level.
00:49:29.140 --> 00:49:44.150 Mira Brancu: Strategic goals, plans, tasks require interdependency. You can't get it done individually, separately. From each other. The third is do you know who's on the team and who's not on the team?
00:49:44.240 --> 00:49:55.919 Mira Brancu: Or is it like different people? Come and show up at different meetings, and you don't know whose role is what, and you have a lot of like sort of confusion about role clarity and things like that.
00:49:56.200 --> 00:50:00.190 Mira Brancu: and then the the final one is
00:50:00.220 --> 00:50:07.910 Mira Brancu: reflexivity. Do they spend time reflecting on how they work together, how they communicate, how they approach their work.
00:50:07.940 --> 00:50:15.309 Mira Brancu: how they make decisions, so not just reflecting on the content of their work, but also the process of how they work.
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:26.570 Mira Brancu: Improving their their communication effectiveness, their conflict, resolution, effectiveness, their decision making processes so that they're more and more effective over time.
00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:29.190 Mira Brancu: That makes up a real team instead of a 0 team.
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:49.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Beautiful, beautiful. Yeah. So it's kind of like, is it really people working together for a common goal, and and and and truly together. Or is it just a bunch of individuals doing individual things, but being but calling it a team. That's right. So so let me ask you if you're an individual
00:50:49.850 --> 00:51:05.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you're not a manager. You're not a supervisor. Nobody reports to you. but you're in this environment. How can you show up and be a leader in your own right, even though you don't necessarily have the title?
00:51:05.700 --> 00:51:24.089 Mira Brancu: Yeah, and I, we call that in an informal leadership role, right? Instead of a formal positional leadership role that has authority over something or people. And I actually think this is probably
00:51:24.110 --> 00:51:26.289 Mira Brancu: a very powerful
00:51:26.370 --> 00:51:48.560 Mira Brancu: role to have in an organization cause. Once you're in a formal leadership role with positional authority, your hands are actually more tied than you realize. You have to follow certain policies. You have to. Say, the party line you have to sort of agree with things you don't actually agree with. It gets more complicated, more political.
00:51:48.740 --> 00:51:58.140 Mira Brancu: So as an informal leader, you don't actually have to do all of that and instead, you can. You can influence
00:51:58.340 --> 00:52:14.949 Mira Brancu: through lots of ways. For example, there's something called structural holes within an organization. If you think of an organizational chart. And you see all of these positions, and you see all of these departments. Sometimes there are holes.
00:52:14.980 --> 00:52:40.330 Mira Brancu: or lack of connection between one department and another department. For example, this department is doing this thing. This department is doing their thing. They never talk to each other right, and yet they can really help each other. The person who can fill in the structural hole by becoming a liaison, the linchpin between the 2. Hey? You know. The tech department is working on this, and they figured out a new way to do XY, and Z,
00:52:40.880 --> 00:52:55.250 Mira Brancu: or hey? The Education and Research department is learning that our customers need more of this? Can we get together and create a plan that brings these 2, you know resources together.
00:52:55.590 --> 00:53:22.079 Mira Brancu: that can be incredibly powerful. Because now you've increased everybody's knowledge, you have more knowledge than the other 2 separately do, and you have a wider perspective of what's happening across the organization. That's one way. To make a huge impact without ha needing any formal leadership role to do that you know the other is
00:53:22.080 --> 00:53:42.789 Mira Brancu: are you the kind of person that helps people resolve conflicts, you know. Are you the the person who makes it easy easier for people to come together and talk. I have a lot of those roles where my actual job was. One thing like ma, you know, managing the research.
00:53:42.990 --> 00:53:58.880 Mira Brancu: My like unspoken role was bringing all of these researches together to talk about. You know, common procedures that they could implement and create so that they could function better together.
00:53:58.910 --> 00:54:21.780 Mira Brancu: And the influence that I had created a a much more positive working environment for all and more effective and more supportive for everyone. Instead of like these sort of ongoing tensions, because people didn't know how to to talk with each other or implement something. So all of these ways can
00:54:22.130 --> 00:54:30.580 Mira Brancu: help you be seen as someone who can move things forward, be more effective, have an impact on the organization.
00:54:31.200 --> 00:54:35.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I I'm curious over the years that you've been doing this work.
00:54:36.270 --> 00:54:51.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How have you seen leadership change? And and what do you feel is really essential for for someone to be an effective and successful leader moving forward like, like, where do you see the future of leadership going.
00:54:51.890 --> 00:55:10.259 Mira Brancu: Yeah. So I mean, I think the biggest thing is that we've moved so much farther away from the command and control type of leader. The leader who knows all, the leader who directs, you know, and everybody steps up and says, Yes, sir, you know. Yes, ma'am, and
00:55:10.530 --> 00:55:21.850 Mira Brancu: now, the kind of leader that is needed is somebody who can navigate complexity, navigate constant upheaval?
00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:30.049 Mira Brancu: who can have enough emotional intelligence to understand when what to do when people are upset.
00:55:30.110 --> 00:55:35.960 Mira Brancu: People are no longer just agreeing with
00:55:36.120 --> 00:55:44.679 Mira Brancu: supporting what the organization is doing. They're challenging, they're questioning. They're expecting much more of their leaders, and a leader who can
00:55:44.870 --> 00:55:55.219 Mira Brancu: step into that and say, I can be receptive to feedback. I can then take that and adjust how we work.
00:55:55.230 --> 00:56:03.320 Mira Brancu: I can help create a healthy work environment where people are happy to come and work.
00:56:03.340 --> 00:56:15.149 Mira Brancu: I'm willing to engage in the idea that maybe not. Everyone has to be in the office at all times. You know, or that I'm not gonna judge.
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:40.460 Mira Brancu: you know. Ho! How or where people work like the amount of clocking in and clocking out, but really like there, you know their output. All of these things are required of leaders these days, that adaptability, the flexibility, the emotional intelligence, the sort of team mindset and the focus on how to create a healthy, inclusive environment is really where it's at. Right now.
00:56:40.940 --> 00:56:45.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a very, very different than it was
00:56:46.650 --> 00:57:01.329 Mira Brancu: 5, 10 years ago. Absolutely. Yeah. And even knowing that people are not gonna stay in their jobs for 30 years any longer. People move around like crazy. So you really need to be thinking about. How do I, retain our talent?
00:57:01.350 --> 00:57:05.770 Mira Brancu: How do I get people, you know, staying engaged and enjoying their work.
00:57:05.780 --> 00:57:21.810 Mira Brancu: you know that's a question that I don't think was asked 30 years ago, or care, yeah, exactly which you don't like it. Here, go not anymore. So we just got a minute left once you let our audience know, what are you gonna be talking about on your show tomorrow?
00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:33.680 Mira Brancu: Oh, yes, on the hard skills show tomorrow at Friday, at one pm, Eastern, we're gonna be talking with Jesse Janelle and she's gonna talk about self trust
00:57:33.740 --> 00:57:55.370 Mira Brancu: within leading within uncertainty. So this the entire season is focused on leading with uncertainty or through uncertainty, which is what we, you and I have been chatting about a little bit. This particular show is focused on. How do you identify self trust? Trust in yourself. And how do you use that to lead through uncertainty?
00:57:55.500 --> 00:58:25.039 Mira Brancu: Wonderful! Wonderful! Well, Dr. Miraa, thank you so much for coming on my show today, and and for contributing. I truly appreciate it. Just let people know if they want to learn more about you if they wanna find some value. What's your website? Where can they have? So my website is, www.goerscope.com. And you can also find me online. On. You know, social media Linkedin is where I live most of the time. So at Mira Bronku.
00:58:25.040 --> 00:58:36.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Alright wonderful, Dr. Miraa. Thank you so much. II look forward to your show tomorrow. Make sure you tune in Fridays at one Pm. For the hard skills. It's gonna be a great show.
00:58:36.600 --> 00:59:00.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and of course, thank you, my loyal listeners, especially Patty, because Patty is always there for tuning in today. If if you missed any part of today's show know that you can always catch the replay on talk radio data. Nyc, and we're up on all the majors, podcasting platforms, apple Google stitches, spotify Pandora Iharia. We're everywhere. You listen to podcasts, you can find us
00:59:01.010 --> 00:59:05.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and thank you all for tuning in. We will talk to you all next week.
00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:08.399 Mira Brancu: Thank you
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