Given so many Covid calls, Zoom meetings, and screen watching, it's no wonder we are all suffering from brain fog. Zeina Ghossoub El-Aswad, Ph.D., will join us on today's show to talk about truly nourishing our bodies for the best brain before it's drained. Dr. Zeina Ghossoub El-Aswad, PhD in behavior and counseling, is a wellness and leadership coach and the president of the International Coach Federation (ICF) Chartered Chapter Lebanon. She is also a clinical dietitian and the founder and CEO of VieSaine, a wellness, leadership, and coaching center in Beirut, Lebanon. Zeina also practices Life, Wellness, and Leadership coaching in the U.S.A where she is a Partner and Chief Wellness Officer of her Coaching and Consulting company, Vital Signs Vital Skills (VSVS). As a professional certified coach, she has been coaching for over 16 years. Dr. Ghossoub El-Aswad has created a unique concept in wellness and health that targets individuals, families, corporations, and businesses on a personal and professional level. She has created a unique corporate Leadership Development Program, an integrated leadership, and wellness program that targets organizations and businesses throughout all levels of management and employees. She is the co-author of multiple best-selling books; she has lectured about coaching and wellness and dietetics throughout the Middle East and the continental USA. She has been and continues to be a pioneer in her respective fields where she develops research and applies up-to-date protocols and approaches. Her work has recently earned her the Middle East Woman Leader’s Award from the World Women Leadership.

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"Is Brain Drain Real?" with Dr. Zeina Ghossoub El-Aswad

The pandemic has changed our work world and has presented overwhelming challenges for leaders to be understanding, visionary, empathic and motivate a diverse workforce and stay focused themselves.More employers plan to add remote work options, too, with increased empathy for workers’ daily challenges. All told, major changes are here to stay, and employers think the future looks brighter. In fact, over one-fourth (27%) plan to hire at higher volumes than before the pandemic. So motivating yourself and the people you lead are critical for leaders. How do you do it? What do you focus on? Which competencies are most important to improve? We will share research on motivation that helps you and your direct report to be their best. Employees who feel their voice is heard at work are 4.6 times more likely to feel empowered to perform their best work (Salesforce). Go to www.eblifebook.com/academy for your free white paper template and more information.

Motivation to be Your Best

“It is people, not things, who nurture our souls.” Character is the root of leadership. A leader of character must establish a culture of trust. A leader grows trust by trusting others first, providing a vision, displaying integrity, leading by example, and sincerely caring about others. A leader must have more than values and principles. Join us for a fresh look at Character, Competence, and Resilience with author General John Gronski (recently retired) for insights into his forthcoming book, Iron Sharpened Leadership, Fidelis Publishing/Oley North. John Gronski is a proven combat leader with over forty years' service in the United States Army including active duty and is a nonresident fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. John is a leadership and peak performance expert, motivational storyteller, and a much sought-after speaker and leadership seminar leader. Go to john@Johngronski.com.

Iron Sharpened Leadership: John Gronski

Our emotions are heightened now with the what if's from the Coronavirus. How many of us know how and what to do with these emotions? Emotions influence our decisions, communications, and relationships. In this show, Drs. Greenberg and Nadler will share their model for Emotional Brilliance, the NAME process, and explain what is your Go To with examples of leaders doing amazing things during the COVID 19 pandemic.

Encore: America Copes Together

Cathy and Relly will share research from Indeed with 319 U.S. employers and how COVID 19 will impact work and hiring. The pandemic is still raging on. Vaccines are being distributed slowly. New highly contagious strains of the virus are spreading worldwide and all impacting work. More employers plan to add remote work options, too, with increased empathy for workers’ daily challenges. All told, major changes are here to stay, and employers think the future looks brighter. In fact, over one-fourth (27%) plan to hire at higher volumes than before the pandemic, and 20% anticipate hiring at the same, pre-COVID rates. Only 10% predict continuing hiring freezes, and a mere 4% think they will lay off employees this year. Although some research says only 16% of firms across the US say they will be giving a financial raise to associates in 2021. Will you qualify for a financial raise or just receive praise? What should you focus on to get a raise and be your best at work?

Raise or Praise: The 2021 Forecast for Workers

The first full week of the New Year has sent all of us spinning with the unthinkable DC riots and the breaking in of the Capital with our leaders hiding for their life in lockdown. Government officials have called it an “unprecedented terrorist attack.” Five people have died and many people are in disbelief that this is happening in the United States. What are some of the key virtues leaders can renew to center themselves and their direct reports and their organizations? We always say the leader is the “emotional thermostat” for others. How do you reset yourself so the temperature, culture, and environment can regulate to deal with external chaos, a pandemic on fire, and the uncertainties of your people? As a leader what do we know about the behaviors and values that leaders can use to navigate the most trying time for most of us in our careers. Emotions are teeming for all of us and your people are relying on you for some sanity and hope.

Encore Renew, Reorient, and Rewire Your Focus

Happiest outdoors, Anna-Marie is a certified Performance Coach who loves to escape the confines of four walls and take conversations into nature. Former British Army Officer, she's worked in challenging environments from snowy Arctic tundra to hot & sandy deserts though currently resides within the rolling countryside of Wiltshire. She has an insatiable curiosity about the world and is a self-certified learning junkie with a Post Graduate Certificate in Applied Coaching from the University of Derby and a Master’s in Teaching from the University of Sydney; amongst other psychological and psychometric based coaching tools. Anna-Marie also has a severe ultra-running habit. She loves racing overseas and pre-COVID-19 regularly achieved podium positions on the international Ultra-Trail World Tour series, Marathon des Sables and other events. She is on a mission to encourage a different approach to work where our natural environment is valued and brought into the business world.

Break Out Into Nature

Renew, Reorient, and Rewire Your Focus

This show will explore how your hope, inspiration, acceptance, goals, and habits can help you navigate this uncertain future. How did you successfully get through 2020? Who are you grateful for? What are the key learnings for you? What steps do you need to take to be Emotionally Brilliant in 2021? How do you set realistic expectations for 2021 and sustain them? How do deal with your copious and intense emotions generated from the losses and uncertainties from the pandemic, divisive politics, and racial inequities? Being emotionally brilliant is pulling out of your bag of tricks the right response for you to get the right results for each particular situation. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler have helped thousands of leaders to be their best version of themselves. You can go to their website for free tools and resources to be more emotionally brilliant. www.eblifebook.com

Steps to be Emotionally Brilliant in 2021

How do we handle a COVID Holiday? This holiday time is full of high expectations and we are often let down. Why do we become our worst selves during the holidays? There are four reasons why this happens and four actions to go from holiday hurts to happiness, which we will highlight. Today 42.6% of us in the US are feeling either anxiety or depression because of COVID consequences. Now with the holidays here our emotions are even more intense. Add in loneliness, sadness, boredom, isolation, irritability, and more alcohol and drug use into the emotional cocktail from 9 months living with COVID. It’s a recipe for feeling empty, unfulfilled, and more depressed and hijacked where we become our worst version of ourselves? As we are limping forward to a hopeful happy time; is easy to project our disappointment on others. So, what are Four Holidays actions from Hijacks to Happiness to best manage this time? Join Cathy and Relly to explore tools to be more brilliant.

Encore Holiday Actions from Hijacks to More Happiness

Holiday Actions from Hijacks to More Happiness

Too many people who have been deeply traumatized by COVID, violence, cancer, bankruptcy or divorce will tell you that they got past it, but they never got over it. They're not the same person as they were before. They feel more tentative, have their guard up, and don't step into anything new with two feet. They'll tell you that coping is better than not coping, but it's not the same as feeling fully alive, solid, and secure. What if there were a way to not just cope, but begin to heal from trauma to feel fully alive? In his new book, Why Cope When You Can Heal?, co-authored with Dr. Diana Hendel, our guest Dr. Mark Goulston introduces the world and now us to Surgical Empathy an approach he invented and expanded to people with PTSD that helps them to finally begin to heal.

Why Cope When You Can Heal? Introducing Surgical Empathy

Steven J. Stein, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and CEO of MHS, a leading international test publishing company. MHS publishes the EQi, 2.0. He is a past president of the Ontario Psychological Association and a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. Dr. Stein wrote in 2017 The EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals and Building Meaningful Organizations Through Emotional Intelligence an outstanding book on Emotional Intelligence and the EQi, 2.0. He has a new book on Resilience due out at the start of the year. A leading expert on psychological assessment and emotional intelligence, he has consulted to military and government agencies, including the Canadian Forces; U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy; special units of the Pentagon; and the FBI Academy; as well as corporate organizations, and a variety of reality TV shows. He has appeared on over 100 TV and radio shows throughout Canada and the US.

Encore The EQ Leader

Dr. Marcia Reynolds, Master Certified Coach helps coaches and leaders make every conversation a difference-making experience. She has provided coaching and training in 41 countries and is recognized by Global Gurus as one of the top 5 coaches in the world. Dr. Reynolds is the Training Director for the Healthcare Coaching Institute. She was the 5th global president of the International Coach Federation. She is also faculty for the International Coach Academy in Russia and Create China Coaching in China. She speaks at coaching conferences globally and teaches leaders in multi-national companies how to use coaching skills in their daily conversations. Prior to coaching, she ran training departments and directed organizational change programs for two global companies. Her programs helped one company launch the most successful IPO in the United States in 1993.

Encore Coach the Person not the Problem

Encore America Copes Together

Leadership Development News: Provides listeners with practical, actionable insights on how to be and how to develop dynamic, effective leaders. Leadership is a vital skill set in this competitive global economy. Yet many of today’s most influential leaders still aren’t optimizing their skills and performance. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler know from extensive experience working with those at the top tiers of business and society how to coach good leaders to become great leaders and how to develop leadership skills among existing employees. Show topics will include work-life balance, the power of happiness, emotional intelligence, managing gender differences, recruitment and training, and self management. Small changes inspired by Drs. Greenberg and Nadler will make big differences in your leadership and your success. Tune in each Monday at 9 AM Pacific to Leadership Development News on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.

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