LeadershipSOPs

About LeadershipSOPs

LeadershipSOPs is a podcast for leaders who want to move beyond managing teams and learn how to create alignment, influence, and results across entire organizations. Hosted by leadership author, coach, and consultant Ed Tyson, the show explores the real work of leadership, especially in complex environments where success depends on collaboration across teams, departments, and stakeholders. Each episode breaks down practical leadership challenges and provides frameworks, tools, and insights to help leaders build stronger communities of effort, improve organizational effectiveness, and lead with greater clarity and consistency. Whether you're an executive, manager, or emerging leader, LeadershipSOPs helps you navigate the complexities of modern leadership and develop the skills needed to drive meaningful results through

Publisher

Ed Tyson

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jul 2026

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

11 of 14 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   The Great Flattening: Can Your Managers Manage the Heavier Leadership Load?

   Host Ed Tyson explores how organizational flattening increases leadership responsibilities and challenges leaders to manage the heavier load.

2. 

   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Multi-Site Leadership: Preparing Leaders to Lead Beyond Their Sight

   Host Ed Tyson explores multi-site leadership, revealing how enterprise leaders maintain effectiveness when physical proximity disappears.

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Have You Ever Found the Solution But Fumbled the Change?

   Ed Tyson shares the "diaper debacle" to reveal how leaders' failure to involve stakeholders early dooms even brilliant change initiatives.

4. 

   15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Is Your Difficult Team Actually a High-Performing Team?

   Host Ed Tyson explains how challenging team dynamics can signal progress toward high performance and greater ownership.

5. 

   8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Whose Perspective Are You Coaching From?

   Host Ed Tyson interviews executives on developing stronger leaders through curiosity, cognitive empathy, and intentional coaching across four developmental stages.

6. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Feedback You Don’t Want to Hear May Be the Feedback You Need

   LeadershipSOPs host Ed Tyson shares a personal story about receiving difficult feedback, revealing how to leverage uncomfortable truths for profound leadership growth.

7. 

   25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Politics of Leadership: How to Build Trust Without Playing Games

   Host Ed Tyson interviews himself on how leaders build trust by engaging stakeholders, not by avoiding organizational politics.

8. 

   18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Accountability Problems Are Often Leadership Problems

   Ed Tyson, a leadership expert, explains how leaders proactively build accountability by setting clear expectations and transferring responsibility upstream.

9. 

   11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Are Your Plans Emphasizing Hard Choices or Avoiding Structural Flaws?

   LeadershipSOPs host Ed Tyson explains how leaders' planning sequence critically impacts idea execution, revealing a key lesson from his career to avoid costly mistakes.

10. 

    4 Aug 2026

    Does Your Org Design Drive or Dam the Flow of Strategy?

    Executive coach Ed Tyson interviews host [Host Name] about how organizational design either enables or hinders strategic execution, revealing a common leadership blind spot.

11. 

    28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Do You Need An SOP For A Sexy Strategy?

    Host Ed Tyson explains how to move beyond tactics to strategic leadership, drawing on Sun Tzu's wisdom to clarify the purpose and direction strategy provides.

12. 

    21 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Is Leadership A Personality Or A Process?

    Host Ed Tyson argues leadership is a repeatable process, not a personality trait, offering actionable insights for lasting change.

13. 

    14 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Are Your Leaders Leading Or Busy Doing The Team’s Work?

    Ed Tyson explores how leaders often get bogged down in team tasks, revealing the crucial distinction between leading and doing to unlock true leadership effectiveness.

14. 

    7 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Is Your Team Enough To Win Big?

    Host Ed Tyson interviews himself on how leaders build a "Community of Effort" beyond direct reports to achieve significant organizational results.

Inside a recent episode

Multi-Site Leadership: Preparing Leaders to Lead Beyond Their Sight

Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And if you wanted to transmit the beliefs, customs, and culture of the community, you did so physically in their presence. Knowledge was demonstrated. Performance was observed. Relationships were established, developed, and maintained face-to-face. Stories were passed around fires, tables, workshops, temples, town centers, and barracks. And eventually, conference rooms and water coolers. Face-to-face interactions definitely give us access to aspects of communication that become reduced, altered, or absent through other media or when we are not physically present. All sorts of intangible signals that we just don't have if we're not there. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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