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Be a Coach: Why the Skill That Got You Promoted Makes You a Poor Coach

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 • Duration 04:12

Effective employee coaching requires leaders to stop solving every problem and start asking better questions.

Managing can produce compliance. Coaching produces growth that compounds over time—but the decisiveness and solution-oriented thinking that helped many leaders get promoted can also make them ineffective coaches.

David Turner explains five essential principles of leadership coaching: keep the conversation centered on the coachee, ask genuinely open-ended questions, secure permission, establish a consistent cadence, and balance challenge with praise. You’ll also learn how to separate coaching sessions from tactical one-on-ones and resist the instinct to provide every answer.

You were promoted for having answers. Now your job is to ask better questions.

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The Criteria Shift: Why High Performers Get Passed Over for Promotion

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 • Duration 05:09

Passed over for promotion despite strong results? You may be stuck in the Criteria Shift — the moment the unwritten rules for advancement change and no one tells you. What got you here won't get you there.

David Turner unpacks why high performers stall at the jump from Director to VP to the C-suite, the four traps that keep them stuck — the execution trap, the unspoken shift, the peer gap, and the feedback void — and the story of Jane: a genius passed over again and again for a single blind spot. Plus three questions to surface the real criteria before the window closes.

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Earned Blindness: Why No One Tells You the Truth Anymore (and What Each Promotion Really Costs)

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 05:25

Every promotion comes with a cost no one prints on the offer letter: the higher you climb, the less truth anyone will risk telling you. Honest feedback that found you unprompted at twenty-six now has to be commissioned, funded, and chased at forty-six — and it still arrives sanitized. In this episode, executive coach David Turner breaks down the truth tax rung by rung: at Director, peer candor goes first. At VP, execution reality two layers down goes dark. At SVP, you lose the read that matters most — whether you persuaded the room or just outranked it. The deference and the blindness aren't two transactions. They ring up together. Three coaching questions help you find out what's already gone dark on you.

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The Cost of Now, Later and Never - Deciding Too Fast, Too Slow, or Not at All

Monday, July 6, 2026 • Duration 04:53

Executive decision-making isn't only about making the right call — it's about making it at the right time. Every hard decision has a shelf life, and most leaders get the timing wrong in one of three ways: deciding too fast, sitting too long, or never deciding at all. Each carries a price that never shows up on a P&L.

This framework breaks down the real cost of Now, Later, and Never. The premature call that locks you onto the wrong path before the picture is clear. The delay that quietly compounds while you "gather more data." And the non-decision — the most expensive of the three — that hands the outcome to circumstance or to someone else.

If you've ever mistaken speed for decisiveness, or caution for diligence, this one is a mirror. Three escalating questions to pressure-test how you actually decide under pressure — and what your timing is costing you.

New leadership framework every week. Follow the show and the next one finds you.

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Start the Stops: Why Teams Can't Kill Failing Projects

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 • Duration 05:17

Your Start, Stop, Keep exercise keeps dying at one list — and it's costing you millions. Every offsite, the Stop list gets punted to the lowest-energy moment of the day, right before the taco buffet. Sunk cost, perpetual punting, and sacred cows keep dead projects alive while capital stays trapped. Here's how to weaponize math, enforce a real go / no-go line, and move Stop to the morning — so you finally free up resources for the work that actually has a chance.

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The Hamster on the Wheel - Why Stalled Growth Makes Executives Run Faster in the Wrong Direction

Monday, June 22, 2026 • Duration 05:21

Is there a fifty-tab pivot table somewhere in your organization right now — consuming hours, producing no incremental revenue? When your growth last stalled, did you look outward at the customer, or inward at the metrics? This episode names the reflex that feels like rigor and rarely produces a dollar, and gives you a way out of the cage. The growth answer lives outside the building, not inside the spreadsheet.

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Grade the Game - Why the best executives grade the game, not the scoreboard

Sunday, June 21, 2026 • Duration 04:45

You took the seat believing the formula was simple: work hard enough, hire the best people, run the playbook that never failed — and the win comes. Then the score won't move. The team is good. The execution is clean. And quietly, you start reading the scoreboard as a verdict on yourself. That's the most expensive mistake a leader can make in a valley — and it's the wrong column to be grading.

In this framework, David Turner draws the two columns every executive needs: the scoreboard you can influence but never own, and the scorecard you own completely. He makes the case that fit beats grit, that the middle of the room is where the myth does its damage, and that grading the game is the harder standard, not the softer one — it gives you nowhere to hide.

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T3Q - Tone, Timing & Tact: The Executive Communication Blind Spot

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 • Duration 05:14

When was the last time someone pulled you aside after a meeting to call you out on something you said? If the answer is never, that might not mean your communication is flawless. David Turner introduces T3Q — the most common executive blind spot nobody names — and the framework for finally seeing it in yourself.

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Building Your Executive Playbook - What Separates You From the Other Twenty-Five

Friday, June 12, 2026 • Duration 04:59

If someone asked you right now to describe your leadership philosophy in three sentences and back it up with specific and factual proof, could you do it? Most executives can't — and it costs them in interviews, in onboarding, and in the room. This episode shows you exactly how to fix that.

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Mentor. Coach. Sponsor. - Why a Mentor Won't Get You Promoted — but a Sponsor Will

Thursday, June 11, 2026 • Duration 05:22

Most executives have a mentor. Almost none have a sponsor. And the gap between those two relationships is exactly where careers slow or stall. David Turner breaks down the three development relationships that separate executives who build careers from the ones who just have them — and the one disciplined ask that changes everything.

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