Episode 19 - Interview with Glain Roberts-McCabe
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Glain Roberts-McCabe is aFounder and President of the Roundtable, an organization that helps leaders navigate change, disruption and growth by building the coaching and collaboration skills required to be successful. The Roundtable offers group and team coaching programs that emphasize behavior and mindset shifts and create a lasting impact.
Glain launched the Roundtable in 2007 in order to provide a space for leaders where they can cultivate their leadership skills together. The Roundtable received a Gold Award from the Canadian Awards for Training Excellence in 2014 for its peer coaching and mentoring program. In 2016, it was named the Best External Consulting Advisory in Canada by the Canadian HR Awards.
With over 25 years of experience in executive roles and helping groups of leaders take control of their careers, Glain is a multiple-time nominee for the RBC Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. She also writes columns for The Globe and Mail and Realizing Leadership magazines, and was a former Leadership Guru for BizTV Canada and Arlene Dickinson's "YouInc." She holds a Diploma in Creative Advertising and completed advanced Improv Training through The Second City, and is a volunteer mentor with the Institute for Performance and Learning.
Glain is the author of several books: "Did I REALLY Sign For This?!: #leadershiptruths on How to Drive, Thrive... and Survive" and “The Grassroots Leadership Revolution.”
In this episode, we talk about the critical behaviors of leaders who are going through a crisis and how to change our mindset towards growth and opportunities to impact people’s lives. Glain cites that adaptability, agility and long-term thinking are some of the behaviors that leaders need to cultivate in navigating instability and uncertainty. She says leadership is all about self-awareness, which means knowing our tendencies and which ways we are leaning so that we can find the balance to become effective.
Glain emphasizes that instead of being hung up on the “little stuff” such as performance reports, it is better to step back and find the opportunity now to impact someone’s life. She says it is important to recognize our derailing behavior and to know when our “right approach'' is not working in the current situation.
“Your role as a leader is to keep the team functioning without you,” she says. If you want to know more about how your team can together unpack values that align with your organization, then this episode is for you!
Find out more about Glain’s work at her company’s website: https://goroundtable.com/