Melanie Parish, MCC

Listen to the podcast here Running Yourself Ragged I am really excited to be here with you today. And I want to talk for a minute about what happens to you as a leader when you’ve been running really hard, and you’ve been working really hard and trying to be the best that you can be. And you just keep going and going and going. And for a while, it might feel really good. Like, you feel important, and you feel like you’re not going to an out of the park-like you’re really you know, you’re really providing valuable work...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Kata As A Tool Hey everybody, I’m super excited to be here with you today. And I want to talk to you a little bit about a continuous improvement tool that I use called an experiment kata. A kata, it’s a Japanese word, and it means form. And it’s talking about a choreographed pattern of martial arts movements that can be practiced alone. So you’re practicing these in martial arts alone so that you can learn how to move your body, you’re doing it on a regular cadence, and that cadence increases your skill. And...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Values are the filter thru which the vision is executed by the mission Hey, I’m really excited to get to talk to you about values today. And the reason I’m excited to talk to you about values is we spend so much time creating our vision and our mission for our organizations. And that’s all great, we have to do that as leaders but I think of values as the filter that we put those things through because they’re really like the spice, and the flavor and the feel of the how of how you’re...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Feeling Good About Your Own Leadership Hey, everybody, I’ve been thinking about how leaders can feel good about their own leadership. And so many times, we’re in a learning mode or growing mode. And as soon as we start to learn some new things and try to implement them, we find ourselves sort of falling into some imposter syndrome or finding ourselves feeling uncertain about the path that we’re on. And I want to talk about the idea that there’s sort of three zones in your leadership or anything new that you’re learning. So, there’s...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Using The 5 Senses To Foster Creativity Hey, I’m really excited to be with you today. And I started to think about fostering creativity. And as leaders, we’re always fostering creativity on our teams. Helping them do things that haven’t been done before. And I was trying to think about how do people do that? Because I think it’s really important that we foster creativity. And then I also think that it can be kind of intentional. And I realized there’s some, you know, I got kind of enamored of the idea of thinking about...... Read More

​Leadership is both a gift and a challenge. As a leader, you are constantly pushed to your breaking point. You have to be disciplined, calculated, focused, determined, and find ways to break through the blockages. Adam Kreek, one of North America's top executive business coaches, joins Melanie Parish to talk about leadership and what people should be thinking about their own leadership right now. He also highlights the importance of getting clear about your leadership goals – what you’re driving towards. Adam founded KreekSpeak Business Solutions in 2008 and have been coaching, writing, speaking, and training ever since. His bestselling business book, The Responsibility Ethic, teaches us the “how” of self-leadership, driving personal and professional results in individuals and organizations.... Read More