Social media can have amazing benefits and disastrous consequences for an organization or a team. It's a huge challenge for leaders that aside from a few brief paragraphs of policy most have never addressed. How do you handle the individual tea

How Leaders Learn to Let It Go

Feb 8th, 2021 18m 47s

The toughest thing for the entrepreneurial tech leader is when the business grows to where they can't be involved in everything. It's a transition many struggles to make.Take heart! In this episode of the podcast, Paul Simkins talks about a sim

How Leaders Achieve Clarity in a Foggy World

Feb 1st, 2021 17m 25s

Like driving a car through a heavy fog, the road ahead can elude us. In this episode (#54) of The Tech Leader's Toolbox podcast, Paul Simkins talks about four things you can do to attain and maintain greater clarity. Plus, a great recipe for Gr

Mastering the Tech Leadership Walk

Jan 25th, 2021 22m 34s

Leadership from your butt just doesn’t work! The most effective leaders do more than just fill a seat in an office. If you want people to be following you, you need to be going somewhere. You need to be walking. Yet your walk also has to be pro

How to Avoid Being on the Bad Employer List with Jon Hyman

Jan 18th, 2021 56m 12s

Sometimes it is tricky to navigate the landscape of being an employer. Yet many times it is the obvious things that trip us up the most. Ohio Employment Lawyer Jon Hyman joins the Toolbox today to talk about why he is known as the "Master of Wo

Pandemic Perseverance by Pangolin with Wiliam Benner and Justin Perry

Jan 11th, 2021 50m 13s

When things go south, the values-driven organization finds a new direction. Pangolin Laser Systems was faced with taking a bit hit during the shutdown caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Shows and product orders were being canceled. In this episod

Companies that Lived Their Core Values in 2020 and Thrived!

Jan 4th, 2021 29m

Crisis can bring out the worst in many. We talked about that on a previous episode. Yet it can also bring out the best in people and organizations. In this milestone episode, Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, shares with you stories about four co

What to Do Instead of Making Resolutions

Dec 28th, 2020 25m 45s

New Year's Resolutions don't work! It's proven time and time again. Occassionally you might get lucky but overall resolutions are simply a trail of disappointments. Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, talks about tools that leaders like you can use

How to Be an Irreplaceable Crisis Leader

Dec 21st, 2020 31m 8s

Several months into a world health crisis and many leaders still don't seem to have it right! What about you? Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, talks about leaders who have gotten it really wrong, some who have gotten it right, and how you can em

Why You Should Ditch the Annual Performance Review

Dec 14th, 2020 30m 2s

Take all those annual performance reviews and throw them away and never look at them again! Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, gets on his soapbox and talks about one of the worst things we do to our employees (and ourselves). The dreaded annual p

Why You Should Talk More, Not Less

Dec 7th, 2020 33m 21s

In an electronic world, we depend on it greatly to help us communicate. We text more, we talk less. We email more, we talk less. We video conference more and still talk less. In this episode, Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, shares how we can ma

How Success Requires Building a Really Good Team with Ann Sieg

Nov 30th, 2020 41m 8s

Author and online business build Ann Sieg talks with Paul Simkins about how she went from a failing business to building an online empire; and how she needed a powerful team around her to make it happen.Plus, Paul shares a recipe for PBJ French

A Thanksgiving Tool Leaders Can Use

Nov 23rd, 2020 15m 37s

Here we are at Thanksgiving in the U.S. and we just finished a big election and we are in the second wave of the pandemic! How leaders choose to focus on and how they react sets the example for the team. In this episode, Paul Simkins, The Value

What Your Tech Employee Wants Right Now

Nov 16th, 2020 22m 58s

After several months of pandemic shutdowns, #WFH, kids taking school from home, bad Wifi, election-year political turmoil, dealing with loved-ones with COVID-19, it's no wonder that stress is at an all-time high. Continued employment and workpl

Mastering Motivation for Your Tech Team

Nov 9th, 2020 23m 34s

Great leaders are always working to get the most out of their team. Productivity matters. Effectiveness matters. And people matter most of all. You often hear people talk about motivating someone or motivating the team. What is that all about?

Empowering Through Tech and Values With Chad Burmeister

Nov 2nd, 2020 31m 44s

CEO Chad Burmeister of Scalex.ai talks with Paul Simkins about how he uses cutting edge technology to empower sales teams and how it's true power comes through the values leaders place in front. Chad professes to be a Believer, Husband, Father

How to Be the Stand Out Employer with Dawn Sipley

Oct 26th, 2020 29m 57s

Guest Dawn Sipley of Sipley the Best talks with Paul Simkins about what employers and candidates need to do during the hiring process, plus how to use social media effectively, and the challenges facing employers today.Plus, Dawn shares a recip

Three Rare Skills You Really Need Right Now!

Oct 19th, 2020 29m 37s

Everyone (including us) talks about being a good leader and some of the facets of that. What often gets looked are some basic, learnable skills that set you up. In this episode, Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, talks three rare skills that allow

Five MORE Reasons You Should Invest in Leadership Development NOW!

Oct 12th, 2020 29m 49s

When times are critical, that's when leaders MUST be equipped with the skills to help their teams succeed! In a follow-up to Episode 37, Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, shares five MORE reasons why NOW IS THE BEST TIME to invest in developing y

Five Reasons You Should Invest in Leadership Development NOW!

Oct 5th, 2020 24m 11s

Now is not the time to pull back! It's time to surge forward! To navigate your team through the dysfunction and disruption, you and your leaders need to be fully equipped with the right skills. Leadership Skills! Paul Simkins, The Values Coach

Six Ways to Build Trust on Your Team

Sep 28th, 2020 27m 56s

Trust is a lynchpin of building team rapport. Without trust, nothing works! Paul Simkins, The Values Coach, shares some ways you can build (or rebuild) that trust with your team or organization.Plus, Paul shares a recipe for Easy Chicken Fricas

The Best Priority Management Tool You Have

Sep 21st, 2020 21m 39s

TIME MANAGEMENT DOESN'T WORK! Instead, we manage priorities. Even that can be a challenge as we get more and more demands on our time because we are achievers. How do you deal with that? Learn about the highly effective tool you already have in

What To Do Instead of Managing Your Time

Sep 14th, 2020 28m 13s

Our time is in great demand and it can be frustrating to hit the end of your day and yet things are left unfinished. Yet, TIME MANAGEMENT DOESN'T WORK! Learn why and what you should do instead with Paul Simkins, Trainer and Coach.Plus, Paul sha

Four Keys for Labor Worth Celebrating and My Ideal Hamburger

Sep 7th, 2020 22m 37s

This episode drops on Labor Day 2020 in the United States during COVID-19 lockdowns and other events. Staying productive in this chaos is key. Paul Simkins talks about four keys to keep yourself productive and some ways you can help your employ

Showing Employees You Care - Work From Home Edition

Aug 31st, 2020 30m 28s

The beginning of true engagement with your team starts with deeply caring for them. The new restrictions of working from home make that even more challenging. In this episode, Paul Simkins talks about some innovative ways you can show your empl