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Do you have a leadership team bench, full of people who are ready to stand up and lead when you’re ready to grow that team, or replace somebody? Listen to this episode to find out why I think you should always think about that question.

Why should leaders care about well-being? Isn’t that every person’s job, to care about their own well-being. 

Assumption of negative intent. That’s what’s at the root of ALL harmful conflict and anger. The antidote to that is so simple, yet so powerful. Listen in to find out how I found this out the hard way.

Because you go looking for a coach, you need to ask yourself if you’re READY for it.

Are you:

• ready to read and learn the content the coach points me to?

• willing to be held accountable?

• willing to invest real dollars?

This is where you start, but there’s much more to it. Listen to the latest episode of the Better Leadership Show to learn more.

Do you follow the law of positive intent? When we’re in conflict, most of us forget all about it. But as leaders, we shouldn’t. I talk about it in the latest episode of the Better Leadership Show.

It doesn’t matter how strong or smart or resilient you are, or whether your genetics are top notch. When you get too much stress, you’re out. And as leaders, we flirt with stress all day long. Which is why I want EVERY LEADER to listen to the interview I did with Kevin Lawrence, author of the book Your Oxygen Mask First.

Are you still doing Annual Performance Reviews? Stop! They don’t work. I talk about the reasons WHY in my latest podcast episode.

You can’t be an advocate until you understand your jury, the way that they see the world and what their perspective is, so that you can change it. 

My guest on the podcast learned that in the courtroom. Tune in to listen to my conversation with litigator, speaker and coach Heather Hansen.

Without vulnerability we hide things: 

• We hide what we don’t know

• We hide our mistakes

• We hide from giving feedback

Hiding all those things…they kill a team. So vulnerability is crucial. You need to work at it every single day. 
But while you can’t work your way to vulnerability just through exercises, there is one exercise that could really accelerate things for your team.

My guest on the show thinks one of the greatest things a leader can do is admitting when they’ve made a mistake and apologizing. 

Listen to the interview with former Barack Obama advisor, Anton Gunn.

Everybody deserves coaching when they underperform. 

But let’s say quarterly assessments reveal no progress. That means the coaching is not achieving what you hoped it would. You still think the person needs more coaching? Then you might be the C player.

Yes, it has gotten worse. Our cultural disconnect. But there are easy things we can do to connect with another human. Particularly humans who may seem different from us.

Plans fail when the world changes. And the world changes all the time. But don’t give up on planning just yet. Plan quarterly instead.

When you have a culture of fear, of distrust, or simply of discomfort at speaking the truth within your company, there’s one sure way you can undo it: vulnerability. And it starts with you.

When you have a culture of fear, of distrust, or simply of discomfort at speaking the truth within your company, there’s one sure way you can undo it: vulnerability. And it starts with you.

Have you ever thought about your company culture as a culture of…love? My guest on the podcast, Jeff Ma, explains what a culture of love looks like, and it has nothing to do with romcoms.

Everybody’s doing their best. That’s great! But does that equal success? No, it doesn’t. The gauge to marketing success, for example, is not the new pretty website, but how often the phone rings with new leads on the line?

Of course leaders experience imposter syndrome so often: they push the boundaries on the daily, they are often put on a pedestal by the people around them, and they’re often in sales mode. That makes sense, but how can you overcome that paralyzing feeling?

Are you always frustrated with your team? People around are not willing to tell you the truth? Is your company not learning and growing? Guess where you should look for the solution to these problems?

My guest on the Better Leadership Show, Dr Jenny Susser, explains why burnout is just the result of being resilient for far too long. So, does that mean resilience is bad for us?