The Tech Leader's Toolbox
The Tech Leader's Toolbox is for the those in technical-oriented organizations that face the daily challenge of leading others. This is the right place for you If you want to know the secret to teams that perform with excellence and go the extra mile. If you know that it starts with you then you are welcome here. If you seek to keep yourself open to being teachable and learning to make changes to get the results you want, then this is DEFINITELY the place for you. On the other hand, this is NOT the place for you if you aren’t ready to make your team members a priority. If you aren’t ready to change the way you do things to get better results then you may not get a lot out of this.
Episodes
56 episodes
How Leaders Deal with Social Media Fame
Social media can have amazing benefits and disastrous consequences for an organization or a team. It's a huge challenge for leaders that aside from a few brief paragraphs of policy most have never addressed. How do you handle the individual tea...
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Season 1
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Episode 56
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24:08
How Leaders Learn to Let It Go
The toughest thing for the entrepreneurial tech leader is when the business grows to where they can't be involved in everything. It's a transition many struggles to make.Take heart! In this episode of the podcast, Paul Simkins ta...
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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18:47
How Leaders Achieve Clarity in a Foggy World
Like driving a car through a heavy fog, the road ahead can elude us. In this episode (#54) of The Tech Leader's Toolbox podcast, Paul Simkins talks about four things you can do to attain and maint...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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17:25
Mastering the Tech Leadership Walk
Leadership from your butt just doesn’t work! The most effective leaders do more than just fill a seat in an office. If you want people to be following you, you need to be going somewhere. You need to be walking. Yet your walk als...
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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22:34
How to Avoid Being on the Bad Employer List with Jon Hyman
Sometimes it is tricky to navigate the landscape of being an employer. Yet many times it is the obvious things that trip us up the most. Ohio Employment Lawyer Jon Hyman join...
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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56:12
Pandemic Perseverance by Pangolin with Wiliam Benner and Justin Perry
When things go south, the values-driven organization finds a new direction. Pangolin Laser Systems was faced with taking a bit hit during the shutdown caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Shows and product...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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50:13
Companies that Lived Their Core Values in 2020 and Thrived!
Crisis can bring out the worst in many. We talked about that on a previous episode. Yet it can also bring out the best in people and organizations. In this milestone episode, Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, shares with you stories a...
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29:00
What to Do Instead of Making Resolutions
New Year's Resolutions don't work! It's proven time and time again. Occassionally you might get lucky but overall resolutions are simply a trail of disappointments. Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, talks about tools that leaders like...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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25:45
How to Be an Irreplaceable Crisis Leader
Several months into a world health crisis and many leaders still don't seem to have it right! What about you? Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, talks about leaders who have gotten it really wrong, some who have gotten it right, and how you...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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31:08
Why You Should Ditch the Annual Performance Review
Take all those annual performance reviews and throw them away and never look at them again! Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, gets on his soapbox and talks about one of the worst things we do to our employees (and ourselves). The dreaded a...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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30:02
Why You Should Talk More, Not Less
In an electronic world, we depend on it greatly to help us communicate. We text more, we talk less. We email more, we talk less. We video conference more and still talk less. In this episode, Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, shares how we...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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33:21
How Success Requires Building a Really Good Team with Ann Sieg
Author and online business build Ann Sieg talks with Paul Simkins about how she went from a failing business to building an online empire; and how she needed a powerful team around her to make it happen.Plus, Paul shares a...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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41:08
A Thanksgiving Tool Leaders Can Use
Here we are at Thanksgiving in the U.S. and we just finished a big election and we are in the second wave of the pandemic! How leaders choose to focus on and how they react sets the example for the team. In this episode, Paul Simkins, The Va...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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15:37
What Your Tech Employee Wants Right Now
After several months of pandemic shutdowns, #WFH, kids taking school from home, bad Wifi, election-year political turmoil, dealing with loved-ones with COVID-19, it's no wonder that stress is at an all-time high. Continued employment and workpl...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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22:58
Mastering Motivation for Your Tech Team
Great leaders are always working to get the most out of their team. Productivity matters. Effectiveness matters. And people matter most of all. You often hear people talk about motivating someone or motivating the team. What is that all about? ...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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23:34
Empowering Through Tech and Values With Chad Burmeister
CEO Chad Burmeister of Scalex.ai talks with Paul Simkins about how he uses cutting edge technology to empower sales teams and how it's true power comes through the values leaders place in...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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31:44
How to Be the Stand Out Employer with Dawn Sipley
Guest Dawn Sipley of Sipley the Best talks with Paul Simkins about what employers and candidates need to do during the hiring process, plus how to use social media effect...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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29:57
Three Rare Skills You Really Need Right Now!
Everyone (including us) talks about being a good leader and some of the facets of that. What often gets looked are some basic, learnable skills that set you up. In this episode, Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, talks three rare skills tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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29:37
Five MORE Reasons You Should Invest in Leadership Development NOW!
When times are critical, that's when leaders MUST be equipped with the skills to help their teams succeed! In a follow-up to Episode 37, Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, shares five MORE reasons why NOW IS THE BEST TIME to invest in devel...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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29:49
Five Reasons You Should Invest in Leadership Development NOW!
Now is not the time to pull back! It's time to surge forward! To navigate your team through the dysfunction and disruption, you and your leaders need to be fully equipped with the right skills. Leadership Skills! Paul Simkins, The Valu...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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24:11
Six Ways to Build Trust on Your Team
Trust is a lynchpin of building team rapport. Without trust, nothing works! Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, shares some ways you can build (or rebuild) that trust with your team or organization.Plus, Paul shares a recipe f...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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27:56
The Best Priority Management Tool You Have
TIME MANAGEMENT DOESN'T WORK! Instead, we manage priorities. Even that can be a challenge as we get more and more demands on our time because we are achievers. How do you deal with that? Learn about the highly effective tool you already ...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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21:39
What To Do Instead of Managing Your Time
Our time is in great demand and it can be frustrating to hit the end of your day and yet things are left unfinished. Yet, TIME MANAGEMENT DOESN'T WORK! Learn why and what you should do instead with Paul Simkins, Trainer and Coach....
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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28:13
Four Keys for Labor Worth Celebrating and My Ideal Hamburger
This episode drops on Labor Day 2020 in the United States during COVID-19 lockdowns and other events. Staying productive in this chaos is key. Paul Simkins talks about four keys to keep yourself productive and some ways you can help your employ...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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22:37
Showing Employees You Care - Work From Home Edition
The beginning of true engagement with your team starts with deeply caring for them. The new restrictions of working from home make that even more challenging. In this episode, Paul Simkins talks about some innovative ways you can show y...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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30:28