Bros Before CEOs

When facing uncertainty, how can you make the right decision every single time?

Welcome BBCEOs, The podcast that believes you can love your job by increasing your career capital through learning rare and valuable skills - today’s skill is clarity in decision making through a new way to think about what is a right or wrong decision… let’s go!

Think of right decisions as decisions that followed a sound process of information gathering. Understand the odds. Understand the risks. 

Gather feedback to refine your decision making process and improve for the next decision. 

Network: People that would take your call that could benefit you professionally. 

Intro what you’re going to learn: 

Welcome to  BBCEOs, The podcast that believes you can love your job by increasing your career capital through learning rare and valuable skills. This week we’re talking about total motivation.. Which is actually a scientific quantifiable thing you can measure now.. So if you’re wondering the psychology behind high performing teams and how you can tap into this… stick around for this episode of BBCEOS. 

We’ll talk about: 

-How great teams deal with chaos

-How to balance job description with dealing with unknowns

-How to incorporate healthy “play” into work

-How to future proof your team against disruption

-What really brings motivation

Take the ToMo Test! 
https://app.vegafactor.com/take_the_survey

The podcast that believes you can love your job by increasing your career capital through learning rare and valuable skills. Join us this week as we discuss the first 6 months of leadership:  Look - If you are a new leader you don’t need to reinvent the wheel to win over your team or accomplish your new managerial goals! These are the 3 MUST DOs for every new leader in their first 6 months.. I wish I knew these when I was starting out...

1. Understanding positional leadership
2. Leadership is an action 
3. What is servant leadership?
4. Taking blame giving credit
5. What got you there won’t keep you there
6.  Structuring 1:1s, team meetings, performance reviews 
7. How to get buy in early from ex peers

Suggested Book: 5 levels of leadership by John Maxwell

The podcast that believes you can love your job by increasing your career capital through learning rare and valuable skills. Join us this week as we discuss hiring: if you’re about to make a hire or you think you may be hiring soon we have collected some of our best hiring interviews and will reveal all to help you all choose the best candidate to your role. 

Talking Points:

1. Forecasting the hire
2. Missing persons report: what is that?
3. Job Description tips
4. Where to source hires (local vs national)
5. Sticking to a process
6. Interview questions:  
7. Life story 
8. Motivation interview
9. Career consulting vs interviewing to sit in a seat
10. Next steps to learning more: 

What happens when you miss a goal?   Most of us just try again and set new goals but what if there are ways you can set smarter goals that increase the likelihood that you actually get traction? We’ve diving deep into goal setting in todays episode “how to set goals that actually grow your team” 

• What are the basics of setting goals? 
• How do you step your goal setting game up? 
  • Set goal - get out of the business
  • Do key actions - have accountability
  • Measure results - face reality
  • Evaluate process - learning phase
  • Make adjustments - growth phase
  • -repeat process. 

Book Inspiration:
Traction:  Wickman
Four Disciplines Of Execution

 We are back with season two - bringing you real life application of business concepts and ideas so we can grow together. --so join the conversation today where we discuss what to do when you don’t know how to advance yourself or feel stuck, and how learning how to learn is possibly the greatest skill of all. 

Book Inspirations We drew on for this episode: 

The E Myth by Michael Gerber
So Good They Can’t Ignore Ignore You By Cal Newport 
Limitless By Jim Kwik

We're wrapping up season 1 and discussing what's working well and what can be improved from this podcast. We'll be back mid March with Season 2! You can expect:

1. Defined episode format where we discuss Topical learnings from specific book vs entire book reviews. 
2. Focus on target audience of Small Business Owners
3. More guests on our podcast. 

Be back in a few weeks!

We’re wrapping up the book "The Ruthless Elimination Of Hurry" and deep dive into the art of silence and solitude: how alone time and de-digitizing can skyrocket your productivity and mental health. 

We're diving deep into Houston's background and personal life by asking him the following questions:

• What is the hardest leadership lesson you’ve had to learn?
• What is your biggest career mistake? Biggest career win? 
• What is your life’s purpose?
• What in your life do you feel most proud of?
• What’s the last text message you sent?
• What’s something you wish you could change about yourself? Something you wish you could change about the other? 
• What’s the biggest sacrifice you’ve ever made?