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Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders to create significant impacts. This show aims to offer simple, practical strategies to help you live, lead, and learn more intentionally. You can listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube.
Leaders are always involved in a lot – decisions, organizational actions, processes, and even in peoples’ development and lives. And many leaders feel compelled to be present, be available, and be engaged in every opportunity that presents itself. It is hard for us to say no. We can experience stress and even guilt around doing so.
But there is a simple philosophy that has guided much on how I approach life and leadership, and it is a philosophy that started simply as a shirt that my wife bought:
You can’t pour from an empty cup.
So, this week, we dive into this philosophy and how it can shape how we live, lead, and remain resilient. We explore four questions that can help you apply it to your own life as well as use it as a developmental framework with others.
We are confident this episode can equip you to be more intentional in how you live and lead in any relevant role in life starting today. Thanks for joining us and for your support.
Related Episodes & Resources * Article referenced in the episode: Simplifying Leader Development * Article: Placing the Big Rocks First: Living & Leading with Intentionality * Podcast: #1: 3 Powerful Questions to Think, Communicate, & Lead Better
Discover More * If you found this helpful, others might as well! Please like and review the 3x5 Leadership Podcast. It’s not only encouraging to us, but it also helps others discover the show and see it as worth their time. * Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website at 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today! * Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Lear more about the Community and join at patreon.com/3x5leadership.
Take care friends and lead well!
Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders to create significant impacts. Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube.
“I wish my boss trusted me more.” “If only they would give me some decision authority and empower me to get the job done, we’d be able to avoid messes like this in the future.”
As a leader, how do you trust and empower your team responsibly and intentionally? This is a hard thing to do as a leader! Not only do people want to be trusted and empowered, but we as leaders should want to give that trust and empowerment! Unfortunately, this is easier said than done.
In this episode, we’re going to unpack the importance of taking a developmental approach when engaging with junior leaders. JJ explores a four-step cycle that can enable us to build capable, confident, and competent leaders within our teams and organizations. He outlines why it is necessary that we train and certify, then trust and empower our teams, and then closes with four questions that we must reflect on if we are struggling with managing the development of the junior leaders on our team.
Related Episodes & Resources * Article: Simplifying Leader Development. Leader development doesn’t have to be a complex process. This article breaks leader development into a three tiered approach that can simplify our approach and increase our efficacy. * Article: Three Ways Leaders Use Feedback to create Developmental Experiences for Others. Feedback is a critical element in building trust; it also is a necessary step in the training, certification, and empowerment of our team members. Are you using feedback effectively? * Podcast Episode #8: Giving Autonomy (Part 2 of the Motivation Series). In this episode, Josh unpacks the importance of deliberately giving autonomy to our teammates, doing so in a manner that deliberately develops them and increases their motivation.
Discover More * If you found this helpful, others might as well! Please like and review the 3x5 Leadership Podcast. It’s not only encouraging to us, it also helps others discover the show and see it as worth their time. * Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website at 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today! * Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Lear more about the Community and join at patreon.com/3x5leadership.
Take care friends, and lead well!
Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders to create significant impacts. This show aims to offer simple, practical strategies to help you live, lead, and learn more intentionally. You can listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube.
Our words matter. How we communicate with others shapes how they receive us, interact with one another, feel about their work, and ultimately our collective results. And it can all start simply with how a leader communicates with others.
So, in today’s episode, we explore 10 specific ways that we as leaders can be more intentional with our words. These strategies offer mental approaches to conversations, common dos and don’ts, and even some specific phrases to employ – all things you can begin to apply today.
To give a little insight into what we explore today, here are the ten strategies summarized:
- First seek to understand, then be understood.
- Ask yourself, “what need is this person satisfying through their behavior right now?”
- Focus on the topic at hand, and not on the other person’s character, intentions, or emotions.
- Avoid overgeneralizations like “always” and “never.”
- Use collective pronouns like “we” and “us,” over individual ones like “you.”
- Do not start conversations with “can we talk” or “come see me.”
- “The story I’m telling myself is…”
- “I feel…” and “how I see it is…”
- “Can I share some truth in love?”
- Listening affirmations like “I hear you,” “that’s valid,” “that makes sense,” and “that’s fair.”
We are confident this episode can equip you to be more intentional in how you communicate with others starting today. Thanks for joining us and for your support.
Related Episodes & Resources * Article: How to Ask Better Questions * Article: 5 Considerations to Communicate Better * Article: 3 Strategies to Communicate More Effectively (and Make Sense to Others)
Discover More * If you found this helpful, others might as well! Please like and review the 3x5 Leadership Podcast. It’s not only encouraging to us, but it also helps others discover the show and see it as worth their time. * Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website at 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today! * Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Lear more about the Community and join at patreon.com/3x5leadership.
Take care friends and lead well!