28: What's New in Season 3?

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Welcome to another episode of (Re)Learning Leadership, where we explore a specific leadership challenge and break it down to help improve your leadership, your organization, and possibly your personal life.

I’m Pete Behrens, and today I have absolutely NO challenge for you. That’s right. Today, I want you to SEE what’s new. See, you said? I did!

For those of you listening to this podcast, thank you for your loyalty and support, because likely that means you found us a season or two ago and have been following us along our podcast streams. We are going to continue releasing on our podcast streams throughout Season 3. 

But some of you are watching me! That’s right! You have found our YouTube Channel through Agile Leadership Journey, where all (Re)Learning Leadership podcast episodes are going to be streamed. Now, for you, if you want to look back, we have 27 episodes from our audio podcast that are available on the website and through the podcast platforms.

So whether you’re joining me new (thank you!) or whether you’ve been with us for quite some time (thank you!), I encourage you to go to our YouTube channel at Agile Leadership Journey and subscribe to receive all new (Re)Learning Leadership podcast episodes on video as well. That way you get a chance to see not only my beautiful face, but the beautiful guests that we have and the introduction of some cool graphics.

BUT WAIT! THAT’S NOT ALL! WE HAVE MORE!

We can’t just stop at bringing video. We’ve got to change a few other things as well. “But Pete! Can’t we just leave things good enough alone?” No! That would be too easy.

But first, a couple things we are NOT changing. We’re not changing our maniacal focus on relearning leadership. We’re not going to change bringing awesome leaders with amazing stories and experts along to help us understand some of the stuff. That’s going to stay. And we’re going to continue to get some awesome music from Joy Zimmerman and our production from Ryan Dugan. Thank you, team!

So, what is changing? We've really got four things that are changing.

#1. Focus! This season, I want to start with a topic. I want to start with that focus and allow our guests to really zone in on that. So you’re going to find our stories and episodes this season to be a lot more narrow and topical. Not tropical, although that might be an interesting one for Season 4. We'll have to look at that one.  :) Okay,

#2. Shorter! If we have more focus, let’s pick it up as far as timing. I mean, who has time anymore for a 90-minute interview, or 60-minute interview, or even kind of where we’ve been in that 30-minute range in the past two seasons! Your time is valuable, and the pace of change is picking up. So our target this season is the 15-minute sweet spot. We hope that we can give you a solid chunk of information, focused on a topic, in that time frame.

#3. Faster! In the past, we’ve released at about a two-week cadence. And that was required because we had a lot of production stuff going on. Curating that story and editing and finding that sweet spot and pulling all of that together took a bit of time. When we go shorter, we’re also going to be a bit more human. We’re going to have fewer cuts and allow some of the errors and scars to show through. Pardon our humanness as we go forward, but we think it will make it a little bit more interesting. And finally,

#4. Series! Because we’re bringing these down into short, focused episodes, we’re going to be bringing together common, related episodes into series. Now, these are going to be released interchangeably throughout the season, so we’re not going to release it that way, but we’re going to be connecting them later into series you could binge, watch, or listen to. And then we’ll be pulling these together into some self-paced programs that are going to be provided for additional opportunities for learning and growth.

So whether you’re new into our program or whether you’ve been with us for a couple of years now, thank you! We’d love to have you with us along this journey. But I don’t want you to be silent! I want this to be a dialogue. I want this to be an exchange. If you have a story to share, I want to hear about it. If you have a topic you want to hear about—and maybe even talk about with us—I’d love to get you on the show. Or, just share with us how these episodes might be impacting your leadership.

Thank you for joining us, and enjoy the Journey!