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Leadership Gym
Learn the leadership techniques you need to help you thrive in your career, with your team, and at home.
When you have productive conversations, you become a leader that has a greater impact on everyone around you.
Bad bosses aren’t hard to find. Did you know that 76% of people say they have had or currently have a bad boss? Could you be one of them?
If you want to see real results from your leadership, there are 2 key components that must be the foundation for the way you lead.
Think about improving your happiness and becoming a leader that others can learn from and connect with and you'll make a positive difference
If your meetings are not productive, get creative and change that by taking a closer look at what it takes to have an effective meeting.
As a leader, the way you choose to communicate your responsibility, It’s also important to be mindful of how your message is received.
If you need more vulnerability in your world, start implementing these steps and watch how your team begins to evolve and trust you.
Put your tunnel vision aside when thinking about what success looks like for you in the future. You can envision more than one ideal.
One step at a time, building on what you want to accomplish or become better at is the best way to overcome your Insecurities as a leader.
Don’t compete with the things you’ve been teaching yourself for years. Consider the thoughts you need to have in order to have your best day.
Whatever you decide to focus on will expand in your life. And, there you’ll find learning, insight, possibilities, depth, and understanding.
A lot of people don’t plan their leadership, but instead they simply show up and try to lead. Here's how to change and start to plan well.
Often leaders believe that fear speeds things up. That it creates a sense of urgency or encourages their team to move in a certain direction faster.
Although being fulfilled can be very rewarding, it’s what that fulfillment can do for you as a leader that truly matters.
The way you communicate negative news impacts your team.When you must deliver negative news or information about things that are out of your control, it’s important be mindful of how […]
Organizational speed is paramount for leaders, and trust can either speed you up or get in your way of leading at your best and moving forward.
You can decide that the things from your past have helped you build strengths that will help you build your best future. Or you can decide that the things from your past define you and have trapped you in them.
When you have a better understanding of management and leadership, as well as what each looks like for your business, you’ll know which one you’re doing and understand how to do each one well.
It’s often thought that motivation can only be created by you for you. It is also possible to help others find their own motivation.
When you appear authentic to someone, they immediately know they can trust you. They can connect to and aspire to demonstrate authenticity themselves.
How you think about your team or yourself contributes to your ability to support others, grow your business, and build a stronger team and culture.
Think about your inputs as a leader that cause you and others to become more successful. Don’t focus on the outputs of the past as a reflection of your leadership.
Did you know that the amount of time someone spends in a role is unrelated to their ability to do it well? Their ability to learn, grow, and teach others will contribute to the success of your team.
Culture can be defined as the set of behaviors that are observable within an organization, that have the ability to change how other individuals think or behave themselves.
Effort can change a culture, change you, and change the people that witness it in action. See how you can inspire effort in your team.
It’s impossible for others to walk away from your conversation with a clear path or set of instructions, if they don’t completely understand the message you’re trying to convey.
Do you want your team to be accountable for what you want or what the business needs? Here are the main qualities of preferences and principles.
Like anyone else, I’ve made plenty of mistakes as a leader. My hope isn’t just that you can relate, but that you can make better choices that support your growth and development as a leader.
The way you show up each day can have a positive or negative impact on those you lead. How are you showing up as a leader?
Understanding how planning can make success a habit, not something that we hope we will do well when the time comes.
Leaders don’t always have the right answers. In fact, great leaders shouldn’t have all the answers. You can’t possibly understand the challenge someone could be facing if it’s a role you’ve never been in, or a challenge you’ve never faced yourself.
There are 3 things that all leaders should prioritize. Doing so will help you lead your team in an intentional way that results in real progress and improvement.
The people you hire can make or break your business. If the hiring process is the reason your organization is in trouble, then you have an opportunity to change it.
If you’re spending time talking about the mistake during your feedback process, you’re missing the value of time spent on what could be done next.
Everyone likes to hear they’re doing well in their role, but does it allow them to perform better and move forward?
Creating more insight for yourself and being a catalyst for more and better insights in others can significantly change the results you get as a leader.
Practice is when ideas meet action. New abilities are created, possibilities begin to take shape, and knowledge becomes more than an opportunity.
If you’re getting information that’s causing you to go down the wrong path, it will be near impossible to reach the destination you have in mind for your business, your team, or yourself.
You don't have to be exceptional at everything to be a great leader, and it doesn't have to be hard. Part of becoming a great leader is learned by messing up, trying, learning, and listening to everyone around us.
Leadership matters is because it gets multiplied in ways we cannot even comprehend. People are changing your life right now as you hear and consider this, and the way they lead matters to far more people than just the ones they work directly with. The way you lead will as well.
Saying people should never think I am unfair to them, is a lot like saying they should never think I’m unattractive, or they should never think I’m smart, or they should never think I’m helpful or they should never think I’m incorrect. It’s a perception, based on their lens, their beliefs, their history, their experiences and all the things that have happened to them in the past. Sometimes, you being unfair is about them more than you. They had expectations that were different than how you showed up. It doesn’t mean their expectations were correct, but they had them based on how they believed other people should act to them.
How can you help motivate the people around you to accomplish more? As a leader we want to help people do things differently, and more effectively. Things like the feedback you give to others, the autonomy of roles, and your willingness to learn from your team and support them along the way, can have a direct effect on their level of motivation.
In episode 4 of the Leadership Gym podcast, learn how changing your mindset as a leader can help others improve their performance. Unless you truly believe that someone is capable of shifting their behavior, you can’t effectively begin to lead or help them. Listen here.
Always having the right answer for your team doesn't help them much in the long-run. Your job as a leader is not to have all the answers, it’s to help others become more capable at exploring and finding their own answers.
Are we doing accountability wrong? If we are thinking about building a fully accountable team, does it mean finding and correcting mistakes? What if, instead, accountability happened before the mistake? Listen as Randy Hall explores the positive application of accountability.
What's your leadership style? Is it a set of characteristics, how you get things done, or how you freak out when you get stressed? There are many ways to describe how leaders work, and they aren't all complimentary.