Clay Scroggin, Author, Pastor of North Point Community Church
Clay Scroggins talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about the principles and pitfalls of how to lead when you're not in charge.
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Interview Insights
Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:
The risk of leading by authority or title, even when you're the CEO, manager, coach, or parentHow Clay defines influence and its relationship to leadershipThe 4 behaviors that allow anyone to lead without authority.The one characteristic to develop to help others see you as a leader.How to become less defensive and more open to feedback.The importance of uncovering someone's true motivation because we're not all motivated by the same incentivesThe relevance of the GPS message that "the map will appear when the car is in motion."When you can have time to pursue your most important objectives, without interruptions from the phone, staff, or outsiders.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
2:28 Clay explains why leadership and authority don’t always go hand in hand.3:32 How an internship at the Georgia State House crafted Clay’s young understanding of leadership and decision making.4:43 “When you believe that you have to be in charge in order to lead, that even when you are in charge and you try to leverage that authority to try to get people to move, it will work in the short term, but it does not work long term.”5:09 The essence of leadership is influence. - “[Leadership is the ability to inspire people to move in order to accomplish something that they may not even realize that they want to accomplish.”5:52 “Because leadership is influence, some people are born with more instinctual traits that give them influence.”6:30 “What are my behaviors today that is gaining my influence? And what am I doing that’s costing influence?”8:15 First of the four big behaviors to cultivate more influence.8:41 “The easiest way to lead yourself is to ask others exactly where you are…You can’t get to where you wanna be unless you know exactly where you are.”12:21 “There are things about yourself that everyone else knows,