Empowerment Minutes

Care to Lead: Leading Remote Teams Effectively with Maurine Kwende

As a leader, what are your employees, your remote or hybrid teams saying about you? How are you showing up as a leader? Do you care to lead? Why are you a leader? Are you just interested in the title, or the position? Leadership is not about titles, it's about service. Are you making the success of your teams a priority? In this week's episode, I discuss strategies to help leaders in L&D or any other field to care enough to lead their teams effectively.

How to Leverage your Strengths for Career Success with Maurine Kwende

"Our strengths are our tools, our reality, our weaknesses are only what we are not."-Joseph Batten. As a leader, do you use your strengths at work? Do you encourage your team to use their strengths? Recent research informs us that employees who use their strengths every day at work are six times more likely to be engaged on the job and it can lead to improved motivation and performance. In this week's episode, I discuss the benefits of focusing on our strengths, and how to identify, develop, grow and leverage our strengths for career and all round success. 

4 Keys to G.R.O.W and Thrive as an Independent Consultant with Maurine Kwende

Are you just started as an ID independent consultant, freelancer, or entrepreneur, or have you been in the business for a while? Running a business is not a walk in the park. About eighteen percent of businesses fail in the first year, thirty percent in the second year, and fifty percent in the fifth year. In this week's episode, I discuss 4 keys to help you G.R.O.W and thrive and a few additional tips.

How to Develop a Leadership Mindset with Maurine Kwende

Are you at the beginning of your journey as an ID, trainer, in HR, or any other field and belief that you're just getting started and so, you're not a leader? Or maybe you do not have any direct reports and so you think you are not a leader? Not having direct reports or just getting started in your field doesn't mean you are not a leader. If are you able to positively influence others and add value to them, then you're a leader and therefore benefit from cultivating a leadership mindset. In this week's episode, I discuss what is a leadership mindset, its benefits in the workplace and how you can develop a leadership mindset.

Coaching Insights and Tips to Help Aspiring Coaches Get Set, Thrive and Succeed with Nikki Ward

Are you a newbie coach, or aspiring to become a successful coach in L&D or any other field? Becoming a successful coach includes a combination of factors such as experience, skills, education, practice, and confidence. In this week's episode, our special guest and coach, Nikki Ward shares tips, and lessons learned to help coaches and aspiring coaches get set, thrive, and succeed. 
 

How to Stop Settling for Less and Live the Life you were Created for and Want to Be Known for with Maurine Kwende

Do you like what you do in L&D or any other field? Are you unhappy with what you do or where you are in life even though you have a choice to be somewhere else? Have you thought about why you are settling for less than you truly deserve? In this week's episode of the empowerment minutes podcast, I talk about settling, how it affects us and what can be done to stop settling.
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” Maureen Dowd.

Unlock Your Potential with Leap to Your Passion and Purpose Mastermind with Maurine Kwende

While COVID-19 has in some ways altered our ways of working which might be challenging yet this challenge presents a huge opportunity to improve digital practices and organizational learning & development opportunities through current trends such as masterminds, and podcasts that are already revolutionizing the way people learn and develop at work.
This week's episode is focused on one of those trends, "masterminds," the power of masterminds. Are you an L&D professional, entrepreneur, leadership expert, IT expert, healthcare worker, or transitioning from one field to another? Masterminds can benefit every professional and organization. In this episode I discuss how joining a mastermind can benefit you, what to expect from a mastermind, and invite you to unlock your potential by joining the Leap to Your Passion and Purpose Mastermind. 

Is There a Podcaster Inside You? with Maurine Kwende

Are you dreaming of starting a podcast? Learn the insider tips and tricks about podcasting from a podcast host. This episode of the empowerment minutes podcast is not the be-all and end-all of podcasting but will give you what you need to get started as a podcast host. You will also learn tried and true tips from the lessons learned section of the podcast.

Essential Questions to Ask at ID Project Kick-off Meetings with Maurine Kwende

This week's episode is focused on ID project kick-off meetings. Most IDs, consultants freelancers, work on projects on a regular basis. Asking the right questions is key to having a successful project kick-off meeting. One of my favorite books on asking the right questions is a book by John Maxwell titled 'Good leaders ask the right questions; your foundation for successful leadership.' In this episode, I discuss the essential questions you need to ask for a successful project kick-off meeting.

The Importance of Humility in Leadership with Mathew Sowcik

This week's episode of the empowerment minutes podcast is focused on leadership. As a leader how do you leverage gratitude, emotional intelligence, and even more so, humility in leadership? In this episode, our special guest Dr. Matthew Sowcik and I chat about leadership qualities and he shares key strategies that leaders can use to reach their full potential with humility in leadership.
 
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