Built to Lead

Built to Lead

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Built to Lead episodes

  • Going Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams
    On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Kim Lisiak, Director of Leadership Development speaks with Laura Berger, Certified Executive Coach and Founder of the Berdéo Group, about going confidently in the direction of your dreams. Laura shares her journey about taking the unorthodox path and discusses how to make the choices in order to move forward in the direction of your dreams. Laura and Kim also discuss how this aligns with Lippert’s flagship program, The Dream Achiever Program.
     
    “The how is going to reveal itself to you. It’s the action of taking that step, so taking that life leap and then letting it unfold.” -Laura Berger [10:29]
     
    “We all have these dreams and they’re scary. It’s a lot easier if you have someone as an accountability buddy, a coach and a mirror along the way.” -Kim Lisiak [22:48]
     
    What You Will Learn:
    [02:28] Meet Laura
    [05:15] Why she focus on going confidently in the direction of your dreams
    [08:55] What brought her to action
    [11:42] How a leader or team member define their core values
    [22:57] Laura’s journey to follow her dreams
    [29:47] Core values are a compass, your lighthouse
    [31:11] What was the dream Laura was seeking
    [32:58] Imagine if everyone found their sweet spot
    [36:25] Advice for team members to build confidence
    [39:39] Becoming a board member for CED of The Conference Board
    [43:33] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Learn more about the Dream Achiever program to start with achieving and going confidently with your dreams.
     
    Resources:
    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy
    Visit Berdéo Group: https://www.berdeogroup.com/
    Radical Sabbatical: A Hilarious Journey from a Stifling Rut to a Life Without Boundaries by Glen Tibaldeo and Laura Berger
    46 min
  • Creating a Culture on Health and Well-Being
    With August being National Wellness Month, Sarah Rice, Corporate and Community Impact Specialist, speaks with Jaime Murphy, Director of Health and Well-Being, about health and wellness in this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast. Jaime talks about her role and how she came to be the first health and well-being director at Lippert. She shares some of the initiatives and programs she is providing to engage the team members and why now is the time to have this program.
     
    “Lots of times we focus so much on what physical health looks like. We’ve all been sort of conditioned into that that healthy looks a certain way, and we need to change that, because healthy doesn’t always look a certain way.” -Jaime Murphy [14:13]
     
    “When we care about our people, it does trickles down to our family life as well.” -Sarah Rice [20:05]
     
    What You Will Learn:
    [01:28] About Jaime Murphy
    [03:34] How Jaime became the first Health and Wellness Director at Lippert
    [06:45] Ways she’s providing resources to team members
    [09:28] Why is now the time to have this program
    [15:32] Events and programs that engages team members
    [19:56] Creating a work life balance
    [22:46] What they are focused on this year
    [26:24] How to get men to understand why health and wellness is important
     
    Resources:
    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy
    34 min
  • Igniting the Built to Lead: Season Seven Preview
    Dr. Amber Selking, VP of Leadership & Culture Development, and Edgar Cabello, leadership development director, share what listeners can expect during season seven of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast. This season will provide an extra dose of courage and inspiration to create action and bring leadership and culture to life.
     
    “If we can tap into creating environments that are conducive to creating high performance, everything else gets better.” -Amber Selking [05:17]
     
    “You and your people deserve great leadership, and when great leadership is in place, things happen. Business grows. People are in much more healthy frame of thinking and they go home happier.” -Edgar Cabello [24:39]
     
    What You Will Learn:
    [01:00] What is the Academy and how is this podcast structured
    [04:54] Why they are seeing the growth and progression
    [06:56] What impact and effect Amber sees from the stage
    [08:38] The Cultural Playbook
    [10:56] Who to expect to appear on the podcast
    [12:13] Why you should listen to this podcast
    [26:03] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Commit to getting coached, to be encouraged and to be challenged to find the next layer of who you are and how you can be built to lead.
     
    Resources:
    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy
    29 min
  • To lead is to listen with Edgar Cabello and Patrick Quigley
    In the season finale of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Edgar Cabello, leadership development director, and Patrick Quigley, one of the leaders at the Plant 85 in Goshen. Patrick shares his approach to leading his team of engineers and how it all comes down to communication. He talks about how he learned how to talk and listen to engineers so he can set them up for success.
     
    “Learning how to kind of listen to what the engineers are saying and not dismissing small comments, I think is a huge lesson learned.” -Patrick Quigley [09:27]
     
    “If you’re going to come to work, like let’s have a good time doing it. Let’s build some strong relationships as a result of it, and let’s genuinely care for each other. And let’s care for our community, and let’s care for our customers and everybody that we come in contact with” -Edgar Cabello [??23:52]
     
    What You Will Learn:
    [01:20] Meet Patrick Quigley
    [02:24] What is a slide-out system and a slim rack
    [03:04] What’s been happening at the engineer front at Lippert
    [05:29] The cultural nuance with leadership development and technical teams
    [14:59] The effort he encourages his team to put forth
    [21:32] His passion for leaderships
    [24:24] Final thoughts about leadership for listeners
    [26:10] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Pay close attention to the people around you that speak a different language than you do.
     
    Resources:
    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy
    28 min
  • GRIT and Gratitude: Leading through Adversity with Angie Sokol and Austin Hatch

    In this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Dr. Angie Sokol, director of the Lippert Academy for Leadership, speaks with Austin Hatch, a motivational speaker. Austin shares how two tragic plane crashes affected his life and his four years in The University of Michigan basketball program. He also shares the lessons he learned from Coach John Beilein’s leadership.

     

    “If making a commitment is a common thing, but following through on a commitment, especially when there’s a change in circumstance is an uncommon thing, I believe following through on a commitment when there’s a change in circumstance is doing a common thing in an uncommon way. It’s doing a common thing in an uncommon way, and the result of doing the uncommon thing in an uncommon way is that we’re going to leave people and places a little better than we found them.” -Austin Hatch [21:04]

     

    What You Will Learn:

    • [00:59] Meet Austin Hatch
  • [01:48] What it took Austin to be a great basketball player
  • [03:42] The two tragic plane crashes that affected his life
  • [06:19] What he went through after the second plane crash
  • [09:27] How Coach Beilein showed his leadership
  • [13:08] What it takes to overcome adversity through grit
  • [15:15] The key components in the word GRIT
  • [23:46] How his role on the team was to encourage, inspire and motivate others
  • [24:33] How to contact Austin Hatch

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    Resources:

    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy

    Visit Austin Hatch’s website: https://austin-hatch.com

    Email Austin: [email protected]

    27 min
  • Getting your employees to deliver the best customer experience with Bill Coughlin and Jeff Wysong
    In this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Bill Coughlin, Director of Leadership Development, speaks with Jeff Wysong, Vice President of Sales - Marine at Lippert Components. They talk about what they do as leaders to encourage their team members to bring out the best of themselves every day.
     
    “I look at some of the greatest leaders, some of the greatest coaches, and I think there’s two things that always come to the top. 1. Their humility, right? And who they are. And the other thing that I see fascinating is they always want to serve others. It’s never about themselves. They’re super humble and it’s always about their team members and what they see in others.” -Bill Coughlin [09:48]
     
    “If you want to grow, you have to grow your team so you can grow. Because if you leave and your department fails because you left because you left, you went on to the next level, what good did you do at yourself?” -Jeff Wysong [21:06]
     
    What You Will Learn:
    [01:03] Meet Jeff Wysong
    [02:48] If there’s a difference between leadership and coaching
    [04:24] How to get the best out of your players
    [06:52] Ways to go after that excellence every day
    [10:48] The three C’s
    [14:02] Engaging online
    [18:15] Being a coach is asking the right questions
    [20:07] One of Jeff’s success stories
    [24:07] Have an intense focus and radical execution
     
    Resources:
    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy
    26 min
  • Being a Leadership Enigma with Edgar Cabello and Brian Edwards
    In this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Edgar Cabello, leadership development director, and Brian Edwards, general manager, talk about Brian’s leadership skills. Brain shares why feedback is critical in how he leads and how he uses feedback sessions with his team members.
     
    “If you don’t know where you’re at, you don’t know where you’re heading.” -Brian Edwards [05:33]
     
    “You can’t really care about somebody, I think, in a holistic way if you’re not willing to tell them the truth.” -Edgar Cabello [06:35]
     
    What You Will Learn:
    [01:08] Meet Brian Edwards
    [03:46] How his personal history informs his work
    [05:04] Why feedback is critical in how he leads
    [06:55] What a feedback session looks like
    [11:29] When feedback wasn’t there and when it was strong
    [16:28] What he’s seen in his 12 years at Lippert vs today
    [22:17] Where he finds joy during difficult days
    [26:48] What he does when someone doesn’t buy into his leadership
    [30:46] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Seek honest feedback from somebody that you trust and respect.
     
    Resources:
    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy
    33 min
  • Being Prepared in Chaos with Bill Coughlin and John Vermeesch
    In this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Bill Coughlin and John Vermeesch, both leadership directors, talk about organization and leadership resilience. They discuss how to lead during times of difficulties and crisis and how to help keep the team members in order as they face the unknown.
     
    “We have to adapt our leadership style to the operational context we find ourselves in.” -John Vermeesch [11:52]
     
    “I’m a believer in this: that true leaders are developed, and it is training. And there are things and experiences that you can go through that help develop you to handle those difficult times or even celebrate. I don’t want to make it all in difficult times. Good leaders celebrate the great times too. And the more they celebrate the great times, the more great things come to them too.” -Bill Coughlin [16:46]
     
    What You Will Learn:
    [01:27] Meet John Vermeesch
    [04:54] How to keep organization sound through a crisis
    [11:01] How those types of training transfer to the business sector
    [16:42] Nature vs nurture
    [17:48] Organizational resilience
    [24:06] Resilience in the big moments
    [26:49] Tools and must things to help prepare for the unknown
    [29:12] How to roll forward
     
    Resources:
    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy
    32 min
  • Process Documentation with Kim Lisiak and Michelle Shattuck
    In this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Kim Lisiak, director of leadership development, and Michelle Shattuck, personal and professional development coach from the Corporate and Aftermarket divisions, talk about the importance of having documented processes and how cross training can be a game changer. They share tips on how to develop a cross training plan that include 10 minute trainings. They also discuss the importance of having a skills matrix that captures the skills the team does on a day to day basis.
     
    “Try to tap into as any learning styles as possible in order to ensure whoever is reading it can really adapt to it and understand and do the right way the first time.” -Kim Lisiak [13:42]
     
    “(If) they have a bunch of these folks who can’t take vacation and are high stressed every time I call, what does that do for the customer?” -Michelle Shattuck [17:49]
     
    What You Will Learn:
    [01:33] Why process documentation important for leaders
    [05:39] Ways to help team members and leaders grow into their role
    [12:07] How to document the standard operating procedures
    [13:27] Tap into as many learning styles as possible
    [16:00] How to ensure team members and leaders are able to breathe and take breaks
    [22:09] Cross training approach
    [27:43] 10 minute trainings
    [30:15] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Ask questions to your leadership and teams. What else can we document? What kind of skills should we start documenting? Who could the subject matter experts be?
     
    Resources:
    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy
    37 min
  • Listening with Edgar Cabello
    In this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Edgar Cabello, Leadership Development Director for Lippert’s operations teams, talks about listening. He explains why listening is more than just being quiet. He shares some ideas that will help us become better listeners and what we can watch out for that might get in the way of that.
     
    “I believe that… as you do become a better listener, the people around you will thank you for it and your relationships will go deeper and they’ll just be better.” -Edgar Cabello [13:23]
     
    What You Will Learn:
    [02:03] Things to do to get beyond the words
    [03:27] 12 blocks to listening
    [10:07] Some things to become listeners
    [13:18] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Go home and be kind to somebody. Be disciplined in your listening. Try not to redirect the conversation. Help somebody open up and tell you what’s on your mind and in their heart.
     
    Resources:
    Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy
    15 min

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