ToddCast - Weekly Leadership Nudge
Weekly leadership topics to help you be a confident and discerning leader.
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Cultivate - Defining Leadership - Episode 33 (opens the original)
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In this week’s Toddcast, Todd explores the meaning of “cultivating” in his definition of leadership: cultivating an environment where people thrive and produce good results. Using the analogy of tending a garden, Todd unpacks four essential leadership practices: till, inhabit, nurture, and protect. He shares practical ways to understand people’s strengths and motivations, build meaningful relationships, provide balanced support, and protect teams through truth and clarity. Listeners are challeng
Defining Leadership - Episode 32 (opens the original)
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What is your definition of leadership? After a white-water rafting adventure in Montana, Todd reflects on how his river guide demonstrated leadership by preparing, guiding, connecting, and caring for the people in his boat. Todd explores several well-known definitions of leadership before sharing his own. This episode challenges you to think critically about leadership, develop your own definition, and consider how that definition shapes the way you lead. (ChatGTP generated and edited by Todd Lo
Time Tips - Time to Lead - Episode 31 (opens the original)
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In this final episode of the “Time to Lead” series, Todd reflects on the many ways we’ve experienced and measured time. He then shares 15 practical time-management tips leaders can put into action immediately, including creating a simple system, prioritizing, protecting focused time, leaving margin, taking breaks, identifying time leaks, and learning to say no. The episode concludes with a challenge to choose one or two tips and practice them for two weeks. (ChatGTP generated and edited by Todd
9 to 5 - Time to Lead - Episode 30 (opens the original)
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What can Dolly Parton’s iconic song “9 to 5” teach us about leadership and how we invest our time? In this episode of the Toddcast, Todd Long explores the song’s themes of work, frustration, dreams, hope, and possibility—and connects them to the choices we make with our own time. You’ll discover four simple ways to invest your time well: start your day well, find joy in your work, keep learning, and have fun. Todd also challenges you to create a weekly time chart and decide what you want to star
Mantras of Time (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Toddcast, Todd continues his “Time to Lead” series by exploring the mantras we use about time—the phrases we repeat to ourselves and others that shape our thinking, emotions, behaviors, and even organizational culture. Through personal stories and workplace examples, Todd highlights how phrases like “I’m too busy,” “Time is money,” or “Good things take time” can reinforce the way we experience and use our time. He introduces seven categories of time mantras—value, limits,
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