The 60 Second Podcast
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The 60 Second Podcast
Tish Squillaro - CEO & Founder, CANDOR Consulting
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Most leadership breakdowns are not strategic. They are behavioral.
In this episode of The 60 Second Podcast, host Matt McCoy sits down with Tish Squillaro, CEO and Founder of CANDOR Consulting, to discuss why emotions, fear, and insecurity often stop leaders and teams from making the decisions they already know they need to make.
Drawing on more than 17 years advising executives and organizations on leadership effectiveness and organizational dynamics, Tish explains how self-awareness plays a critical role in decision making, communication, and team performance.
She shares why talented teams still stall, why difficult conversations rarely happen when they should, and how leaders can move past emotional barriers that quietly sabotage progress.
This conversation is a powerful reminder that the biggest obstacle to better leadership is rarely strategy. It is understanding ourselves.
00:00 Matt McCoy
When did you first realize that most leadership breakdowns are behavioral, not strategic?
00:07 Tish Squillaro
Right away because when I realized that people know how to make decisions and people know how to communicate and people can handle difficult situations, the thing that always got them stuck was their emotions and their behaviors and how they would answer it, when they would answer it, if they would answer it.
So I remember really strongly looking for a way to give people a better self awareness tool, an understanding of themselves because it wasn't a skill they necessarily had to learn. It was they had to learn more about themselves so they could be better prepared to make those decisions and have those difficult conversations.
And that's more emotional or personal, so it changed from person to person.
In individuals, a lot of their emotions stop them and put them in a stuck mode where they don't move forward.
And on teams, it's usually insecurity or fear where they're not willing to have tough conversations as a team to make decisions or make things better because no one wants to be the bad person.
When I started to really pay attention to how to help teams and individuals succeed inside companies, it was never their strategy.
It was never how they said something or when they said it.
It was what got them to actually do it.
And that always came down individually to their behaviors and emotions.
