Melanie Parish, MCC

Listen to the podcast here Barriers, Bottlenecks, and Breakdowns Hey, everybody, I am really excited to be here with you. And I want to talk about bottlenecks, barriers and breakdowns today. So, when I think about bottlenecks, I really think about Eliyahu Goldratt. And the Theory of Constraints. So Eliyahu Goldratt, was an Israeli physicist, and he worked a lot in manufacturing. And if you think about a factory floor, where you’re producing something like automobiles that flows through an assembly line, for example, then we think about throughput. And we think about the amount of work that is produced...... Read More

  Listen to the podcast here Empathy Improves Productivity Hey, everybody, I’m super excited to be here with you today. I think it’s really important when we’re thinking about making our teams more productive, that we also think about empathy, that we also think about what our teams need what they’re experiencing at any given time that we respond to them first, as human beings. We don’t see them as machinery to extract value from, but real people who we can help find fulfilment, and help them have an excitement about the work they do to feel proud of the...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here How To Pick Your Leadership Icons Hey, everybody, it’s great to be here with you today. And I’m super excited to talk to you about your leadership icons. It’s so interesting when we think about who we want to emulate when we become leaders, we want to think about, we want to think about choosing people to emulate who aren’t really our natural first choice. You see, we all have these personality types. So, someone who is more dominant might really love the idea of power in leadership, or someone who’s more of a charismatic...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Three Tips For Leading A Team That Rocks Innovation Hey, everybody, I’m super excited to be here with you today. And I want to give you some tips that’ll help you. When you’re leading innovation. There’s something really hard about creating alchemy in a business or an organization when you’re trying to do something that’s never been done before. It can feel like a slog, it can feel like you’re kind of trying to push through sand or move fast through the water. It isn’t always apparent why it feels so hard, because you think,...... Read More

No leadership is ever the same. They vary according to the organization, the people, the goals, and more. In this episode, Melanie Parish takes us into the world of a different kind of leadership. She sits down with Daniel Edds, a Practicing Management Consultant, to talk about his books, Transformation Management and Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, where he looks at how elite organizations approach the practice of leadership. He lays down how they differ from what the average organization is doing and how you, too, can apply some of their strategies and practices to help you improve your leadership skills. Follow along with Daniel in this conversation as he shows how he is trying to radically transform leadership and more.... Read More

If we are going to experience change at all (which we’re bound to, whether we like it or not), we might as well change confidently. Senior change management professional, Phil Buckley drives this message loud and clear in his award-winning book, Change with Confidence. Having managed 32 large-scale change projects all over the Anglo-American world, Phil inspires leaders to embrace change as an opportunity to grow. In this conversation with Melanie Parish, he discusses the role of experimentation in managing change, especially in these fascinating times. He also discusses the value of feedback and co-creation in effective leadership. Phil is making a new book set to come out next year as well. Find out what to expect from it!... Read More

Many of us miss out on living the life of our dreams because we’re so caught up with work that does not fulfill us anymore. Teaching you how to create the life of our dreams without sacrificing what we love, Melanie Parish interviews TEDx speaker and Life Mastery Coach, Laura DiBenedetto. Here, Laura talks about leadership and the fine line between when a leader needs to be patient and when a leader needs to be a little bit impatient. She also discusses the imposter syndrome and how people can get out of it when it shows up. Not forgetting herself in the equation, Laura then shares the things she does to take care of herself and rejuvenate. Tune into this conversation as she shares more about her life and how she came back from retirement better than ever.... Read More

One of the most booming industries globally, the construction industry is, without exception, fraught with many challenges. It’s a long-term game, and that is why it’s essential to work alongside people who understand the process and see the results. Joining Melanie Parish on the show today is Elinor Moshe, a mentor, speaker, and the host of the podcast called Constructing You. Elinor shares how industry professionals and future leaders can construct their careers in construction to achieve more recognition, higher compensation, and faster career progression.... Read More

 Being a leader is lonely work, none more so than today. As an executive coach, I hear it from leaders often. They say, “I was doing a good job as an individual contributor, but now I’m not sure what I should be doing after my promotion. I feel really alone.” They find themselves in a leadership role, running a remote company, isolated from their team, without much guidance and they aren’t sure how they can “skill up.” Every leader has to find their own way of doing the work of leadership. They have had a variety of bosses in their career but they aren’t sure who to emulate, and they may feel like they aren’t providing any real value in the organization any more. Some get sucked into a spiral of trying to do more and more work, while missing the real work of leading.... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust many of us into being our experimental selves. What we're all used to is now far from the current environment's vocabulary of social distancing, isolation, and remote work. For many businesses, this poses a number of challenges on the leadership front, especially with how you can maintain the connection with your people and, more importantly, reach out with more compassion. Bringing in an expert around that, Melanie Parish talks to Nate Regier, PhD, the CEO and founding owner of Next Element. Nate helps us understand what compassion mindset is all about, how it helps people in a different way than emotional intelligence, and how it can be built into the culture of an organization. Join him in this conversation to learn more and where he also discusses compassion fatigue versus empathy fatigue.... Read More