10 Minute Leader

When put in a boiling pot of water, a carrot becomes soft, an egg becomes hardened, but a coffee bean changes the entire pot of water. We all want to make an impact in the world around us. But, it isn’t easy. This month Ronnie is joined by Damon West, the keynote speaker at the Elkhorn Leadership Breakfast. Damon shares with us from his experiences, how to be a coffee bean.

Great leaders ask the questions they have. Great leaders get asked questions by the people they lead. In order for leaders to be equipped with the tools to lead well, we need to be in the know. For this month’s podcast, we gave our Leaders the opportunity to “Ask Ronnie” your questions. Join us as Ronnie answers the questions you asked.

We all want to lead great teams or groups. No leader has ever said, “I want the people I lead to be mediocre.” We want to be as effective as possible and reach our goals. One thing that will determine if our teams and groups are winning or not is the dreaded “A” word…accountability. It is typically seen as a bad word, but it determines the level of our performance because what we tolerate determines what we create. This month, Ashley Wuthrich joins Nick and Ronnie for a discussion on accountability.

As Leaders, we often see where things could be better, but we don’t always know what to do about it. In this episode, Nick and Ronnie are joined by Matt Paddack to discuss how as Leaders, we can make our group or team better. They give some practical tips of how to take Extreme Ownership in your leadership and “Make It Better.”

Description: One of the most important things in any leadership context is “The Why”. In this episode, Nick and Ronnie are joined by John Schluchter to discuss knowing “The Why” and communicating “The Why”. They give some great insight through practical experiences for why this is so import for all of us in becoming Highly Effective Influencers.

Most people’s good or bad experiences of the church are because of good or bad leaders. But leadership is not always easy. In this episode, Nick and Ronnie discuss why good leadership is so important, what extreme ownership is, and how to have extreme ownership when things go wrong.

Ronnie and Nick are joined by Joe Slabaugh, a Community Counselor with CityCare Counseling. Joe gives great insight on how to recognize if someone is struggling with suicide, what to do when someone you are leading is contemplating suicide, and how to lead your team or group when someone has died by suicide.

Part 2 of Ronnie’s interview with Rich Diviney, a retired Navy SEAL commander who completed more than 13 overseas deployments, and now works as a speaker and leadership consultant, and is a best-selling author. Rich joins Ronnie to talk about leadership lessons that he learned over his more than 20 years as a Navy SEAL.

Part 1 of Ronnie’s interview with Rich Diviney, a retired Navy SEAL commander who completed more than 13 overseas deployments, and now works as a speaker and leadership consultant, and is a best-selling author. Rich joins Ronnie to talk about leadership lessons that he learned over his more than 20 years as a Navy SEAL.

Part 2 of Ronnie’s interview of his mentor Bo Boshers, a former leader of one of the largest Student Ministries in the U.S. and now President of Lead222, an organization that coaches Student Ministry Pastors to lead healthy lives, families and ministries. Ronnie asks Bo how to live out the 4 elements of being a “Highly Effective Influencer”.