No More Bad Leaders

Serving 50 slices of bacon as a menu option made this restaurant stand out. What makes you stand out? 

I heard a couple leadership speakers recently, including a former CIA operations manager, and I thought I would share with you what they said. 

There are a lot of misconceptions about servant leadership - which then can hurt your ability to lead.  In this episode, we dive into those so that you can gain the perspective and serve the right way. 

In this episode, we talk about a view on serving and servant leadership that could have a tremendous effect on your impact as a leader. Listen to learn more. 

Appreciation is important, but when you do it wrong, it hurts instead of helps. Listen to learn this mistake that you need to avoid. 

You likely know what post-mortems are from TV shows, but have you ever heard of a premortem and how it can help make your decisions better? Listen to learn more. 

How do you lead without a position? How do you bee seen as a leader? Listen to this episode now to learn. 

It's easy to say you are taking ownership, but there are points you need to know about that could really help you do even better. Listen to learn more.

The actions we take can incentivize unethical or immoral behavior, or we can incentivize truth, integrity, and honesty. Which one does your organization promote?

Do you provide rules for your team or context? Which one you focus on can make a big difference in your company. Listen to learn more. 

Does being a bad leader make you a bad person? How you answer that question can determine a lot about you as a leader and how you act. Listen to learn the true answer. 

It can be easy to be the easy button for your employees, but it hurts them in the long run instead of helping. Listen to learn what to do instead. 

In this episode, we discuss steps you can take to get your team to take ownership of their work. 

Having your employees take ownership of their work can make a huge impact on the results you get from your team. How do you get them to take ownership? Listen to find out!

Giving purpose is important, but what does that really mean and how do you do it? Learn more in this episode. 

You've probably heard that leaders are supposed to be "decisive?" But what does that really mean? Find out in this episode. 

In this episode, we cover the last temptation from Patrick Lencioni's book The 5 Temptations of a CEO: invulnerability over trust. Learn how this temptation hurts you and what you should do instead. 

Some leaders are uncomfortable with conflict, so they focus on harmony versus having the discussions that can really help the team or organization. Listen to learn more about this temptation and what to do about it. 

Another temptation leaders face is wanting to be certain about their decisions, and because of that, they don't give clarity to their team. Learn more in this episode. 

The second temptation can keep us from speaking up when we should, and when we don't speak up, we end up hurting not only our team but the person. Learn why you may fall into this temptation and what to do instead. 

One of the deadliest temptations a leader can deal with is putting status over results. It can be easy for leaders to get the wrong motive or start focusing on protecting their status as a leader that results begin hurting because of it. Listen to learn more and what to do in it's place. 

One question people ask is, "How do I lead well?" Or even just "How do I lead?" In this podcast, we cover what it takes to lead well and what you need to do to be a great leader. 

Leadership is the #1 determining factor for success or failure in a team or organization, so it is important to raise up and build strong leaders throughout your organization. Whether you are looking to raise someone up to management as a manager or some other leadership-type position, this episode covers what you need to look for in those future leaders.

In this episode, we discuss a few of the promotion mistakes many organizations make that give us bad bosses. Listen to learn so you can avoid these mistakes. 

In general, no one thinks they are a bad leader. Even the worst of bosses, they think they are good at what they do. Why is that? We discuss that in this episode so that you can avoid falling into the same traps.  

Just like you may have been taught that you can't swim for 30 minutes after eating, you are taught many things about leadership that just aren't so - they are just repeated and believed because they are popular. In this episode, we discuss that leadership myths that may be holding you back as a leader. 

 This is a list of leadership mistakes that you might be making this is hurting your employees' motivation and employee engagement. Doing these keeps your business or organization from being productive and getting the results you want, and it can also lead to employee burnout, hurt employee morale, and increase employee turnover. Some of the mistakes include creating toxic cultures, maintaining ineffective leadership throughout the organization, a lack of trust, bureaucracy, a lack of appreciation, and more.

Try these meeting tips for better meetings. 

Too often leaders get motivation wrong, and they end up hurting instead of helping. In this episode we talk about what it really means and how to effectively motivate your team and the members of your organization. 

In this episode, we talk about what you shouldn't do when you give feedback. These are errors that many leaders make that hurt the feedback they give.

Meetings are important, but they often don't seem that way because there are too many of them or they are run poorly. How do you know if you have effective meetings? Here are 15 signs you have bad meetings. 

In this episode we talk about how to give effective feedback to your team and employees. 

In this episode, we dive into 7 ways to build influence as a leader. 

Trust is foundational for leadership. If you want to be effective as a leader, you must be a person people trust. In this episode, we talk about steps you can take to build trust as a leader. 

If your team or employees don't respect you, that's an issue, and you need to look at why so you can fix it.

A common piece of advice in leadership and life is to "be yourself." The problem is, in many ways, especially with leadership, that's bad advice. Listen to learn why. 

Sometimes people think you need charisma to be able to lead. Often they may think that because they think you need charisma to be able to inspire and motivate. It's just not true, though. Listen to learn why. 

If you want to be successful as a leader, you need to be a leader people respect. It makes sense, because if people don't respect you, then you won't have much influence with them. Without influence, you can't really lead. 

In this podcast, we cover steps you can take to build respect as a leader. 

Trust is vital in leadership. It's important that your team and employees can trust you. If they don't, that will highly limit your effectiveness as a leader. 
In this episode, we cover 10 ways that you destroy trust as a leader. 

Leadership styles are a lot like learning styles: they are widely believed, widely pushed, and also not quite true. 
Listen to learn more.