The Tech Leader's Toolbox

Feb 15, 2021 • S01 E56 • 00:24:08

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 team memb...

Feb 08, 2021 • S01 E55 • 00:18:47

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 talks ab...

Feb 01, 2021 • S01 E54 • 00:17:25

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 maintain greater clarity.

Plus, a great recipe fo...

Jan 25, 2021 • S01 E53 • 00:22:34

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 also has to be prod...

Jan 18, 2021 • S01 E52 • 00:56:12

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 joins the Toolbox today to talk about why he is known as the "Master of Workplac...

Jan 11, 2021 • S01 E51 • 00:50:13

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 orders were being canceled. In this episode, Pangolin...

Jan 04, 2021 • 00:29:00

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 about four companies tha...

Dec 28, 2020 • S01 E49 • 00:25:45

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 you can...

Dec 21, 2020 • S01 E48 • 00:31:08

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 can employ f...

Dec 14, 2020 • S01 E47 • 00:30:02

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 annual performance...