Mazzi Podcast

Leaders and team members alike all experience times - in meetings or one-to-one conversations - where they are overwhelmed with emotions, especially negative emotions. Conversational Intelligence refers to these times as “amygdala hijacks.” We have each experienced the rush of cortisol within our brains causing us to either fight or run away. How can we learn to effectively navigate through these times without losing access to our power? Listen as Mazzi explores our own experience with these “oh crap!” moments.

How you talk with others matters. Knowing how to engage in powerful (vs. forceful) conversations can help connect or mend a relationship. This capacity can even propel a mundane meeting into a transformative meeting. In this podcast you’ll experience Mazzi discuss the distinction between these two types of conversation - powerful and forceful (or force-based). We’ll openly share our real-time evaluation of conversational tools and frameworks we use to transform a forceful conversation into a powerful conversation.

So often we find that the biggest challenge for companies or teams towards working effectively together is being able to talk about what’s really happening. Many companies have become skilled at solving the wrong problems - really well. If we could create an environment where leaders and their teams could openly discuss the undiscussables many burdensome and recurring challenges could be addressed quickly and effectively. Listen as Mazzi discusses how we create the space for our team, and our clients, to openly share and discover what’s really occurring.

Creating an operating system based on We versus a bunch of “I’s” has been a wonderful confronting adventure. Our Mazzi team discusses what it’s been like and the key choices, frameworks and practices we use to create a We-centered company.

We often confuse growth with transformation. So who cares? The reality is both are important but are distinctly different. Today the marketplaces needs leaders and organizations capable of thriving in a more competitive global business landscape. This requires a commitment for many to transformation, not just growth. Listen to Mazzi discuss the distinctions between these two important concepts.

Leaders and organizations around the world get stuck. When things don’t go our way or the way we have imagined many times we’re left responding out of historical personality patterns or blind spots. How can we transform these historical patterns and cultivate a new capacity, individually and collectively, to handle these “stuck times?”

Every organization (and hopefully every individual) plans. Continuing to plan from the same level of insight or consciousness creates more of the same - same thoughts, same actions and same plans. Listen to Mazzi discuss how to transform or access a powerful consciousness or level of insight (your remembered being) which can be used to direct your thoughts, actions and plans - creating more powerful living and thriving organizations.

Every business and leader within a business has a choice with respect to how to lead and service their team and the organization. We are all very familiar with traditional motivation strategies. But what about using the power of inspiration? We explore the distinction of inspiration versus motivation and share real-life examples including exploring the short-term and long-term impacts of this shared leadership strategy.

Every business has routine or mundane tasks that must be accomplished. And many times this routine work must be done in a particular way. As a leader and a team member how do you create and work within a shared leadership or a we-centered environment when the work itself isn’t creative and leaders need themselves or their team members to “just do it!”?

Many of our leadership models teach leaders and followers to use "power-over" strategies versus "power-with" strategies. How do leaders (owners, CEO, GM's, Equity Partners, Partners, Supervisors, Council Leaders, etc.) fulfil their roles and responsibilities while being a partnering or sharing power with others on their team? This is the first recording where Mazzi explores key distinctions and practical experiences relating to this topic.

What's the relationship between building a company on purpose and meaning and our individual and collective desire to make money and be financially successful? Mazzi explores this complex and seemingly conflicting quest.

We are all busy! We have things that must get done! But accomplishing our tasks at the expense of a relationship with a partner, co-worker, or friend isn't productive. But how do we place relationships at a premium and still get work done? What if doing this actually made the work product more effective, creative or meaningful? Could this be true? Listen to Mazzi's experience with this aspect in a real life situation.

What does the distinction between being versus doing look like? Why is it important?

What is the distinction between I-Centric and We-Centric thinking and behaving? What does accessing the "power of we" mean and look like?