Intentional Leaders Podcast with Cyndi Wentland

Intentional Leaders Podcast with Cyndi Wentland

Hosted by: Cyndi

Welcome to the Intentional Leaders Podcast with Cyndi Wentland. Where we’re all about creating confident, successful, and focused leaders who manage with purpose and impact. I’m Cyndi Wentland, the founder of...

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My Top 10 Leadership Insights for Building Effective and Impactful Leaders (Part 1)

Episode #79

Top 10 Leadership Practices 1.      Goals & Expectations: The foundation of performance  2.     Self-Management:  Is a key to credibility, be composed 3.     Accountability:  Starts with responsibility  4.   ...
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Leadership Lessons: An Interview with Melissa Hunt, CEcD, EDFP

Episode #78

Melissa Hunt,  Municipal Services Manager at Vierbicher AssociatesListen as Melissa shares her lessons learned around:Communication, how to find your voiceDecision MakingGrowth MindsetLeadership in lifeIn Business...
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The Power of Assertive Communication to Speak Your Truth with Confidence

Episode #77

Assertive communication means finding our own voice and speaking from our individual perspective. Which surprisingly is very difficult for many of us. We’re not used to speaking this way, expressing our own point of...
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Mastering Boundaries: Protecting Your Health, Happiness, and Integrity

Episode #76

Today let’s explore this concept of boundaries. Because it is about your state of well-being, confidence, health and happiness. And it’s about being in integrity with yourself. Honoring the things you believe in and...
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How to Transition from Peer to Boss and Lead Your Team Effectively

Episode #75

We get promoted to a manager for two reasons. One is we were an outstanding individual contributor, and someone (or us!) thinks we’d be a great manager, or we’ve been at an organization for a long time, have a depth...
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Leadership Lessons: An Interview with Ryan Festerling, Pres QPS Employment Group

Episode #74

Meet Ryan Festerling, President of QPS Employment Group.Hear his lessons and leadership insights.  He went from being a VP in a very large organization (Kohls) to being the President of a (relatively smaller) one, QPS...
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Overcoming Team Conflict and Unlocking Collaborative Potential

Episode #73

In the last episode, I explored Tuckman’s team development model. A way to consider how effectively a team is functioning and it’s stage of development (with the aspiration of becoming high performing). In working...
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Unlocking Team Success with Bruce Tuckman's 4 Stages of Team Development

Episode #72

Bruce Tuckman's Model: Most of us realize that a common goal is foundation to differentiating a group and a team. Not all groups are teams, and that is okay.   1.      Form: the group is immature; shared goal,...
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Leading with Compassion: How Empathy Enhances Leadership Impact

Episode #71

I sometimes wonder if a day goes by that we don’t encounter someone who is hurting (and in this context, I’ll talk about emotional hurt).  And we’ll never really know because our encounters are so varied, work and...
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Leadership Lessons: An Interview with Dr. Shenita Brokenburr

Episode #70

Lessons Learned by Shenita Brokenburr, Ph.D.https://www.linkedin.com/in/shenita-brokenburr-phd/Bridge Braintrust is a human resources advisory, coaching and consulting firm that helps individuals and organizations...
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Leveraging Expert Power and Personal Influence for Leadership Success

Episode #69

If you are a leader, you have power. If you are an aspiring leader, or informal leader, you will need it. Power is about influence. It is about achieving results. Expert power is a lifelong commitment to knowledge or...
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Harnessing the Power of Influence to Achieve Leadership Goals

Episode #68

If you are a leader, you have power. If you are an aspiring leader, or informal leader, you will need it. Power is about influence. It is about achieving results. Sometimes it difficult to consider power without...
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