Built to Lead

In this episode of the Lippert Academy for Leadership Podcast, Trace Rorie speaks with Mike a member of our leadership development team who recently took a role in operations at Lippert. He is a very positive person who coaches and leads teams with a high degree of leadership expertise.

He talks about the difference between optimism and positivity and critical thinking and how to recognize them in your team as a leader. Listen in to learn the importance of bringing the best out of your team members whether they’re critical or positive and optimistic.

 

“If we’re going to pull the best out in people, I have to bring my best and the only way I can bring my best is that I take care of me.”- Mike [25:55]

What You Will Learn:

[3:03] How to shield yourself from ingestion and metabolization of negativity by being positive. Spending less time with negative people and situations.

[11:38] Why critical thinking is an option. The difference between a critical spirit and a critical thought in leadership.

[16:11] How to lead a team to pull out strengths and the best in each other as a recipe to get the right people the rightest seats.

[19:50] How to accept people and see the best in them when they lean more towards critical thinking and not positivity.

[24:50] Learning to have alone time to re-center yourself and also having someone to keep you accountable.

Relevant Links:

Website: https://www.lci1.com/academy

In this episode of the Lippert Academy for Leadership Podcast, Amber speaks with Jen Snyder, a leadership development director at Lippert Components.

She talks about the power of having an effective meeting that gets team members excited to be present and to take action when they leave. Listen in to learn how to utilize meeting preparation time to make it valuable even before it begins.

What You Will Learn:

[1:33] How to build trust in meetings by preparing it to be a safe space filled with engagement and accountability.

[4:49] The importance of setting time aside to prepare for a meeting to be high energized and effective.

[6:35] The difference that an agenda makes especially when you have time slots and a leader for each topic to give you a chance to refocus your energy. 

[10:27] Utilizing the idea of having a ‘parking lot’ 

[12:06] Giving people a compelling reason for having them want to be present for the meeting.

[13:32] The idea of the hook- the art of making people captivated to be in a meeting and leave excited to take action.

Relevant Links:

Website: https://www.lci1.com/academy

In this episode of the Lippert Academy for Leadership Podcast, Dr. Amber Selking speaks with Sandy Ellingson, the executive director of RVWA. She took a trip to Elkhart County to visit an RV manufacturing plant which has totally changed her perspective for the better.

Listen in to learn the role of the RV women’s alliance in empowering women to be stronger in pursuing careers in the RV industry.

“Our goal is to inspire the next generation of workers and people coming into the industry.”- Sandy Ellingson 6:27

What You Will Learn:

[0:55] She describes the purpose of the RV Women’s Alliance creation.

[2:31] How the men in RVWA champion for the women and how the alliance is transferring knowledge to the younger generation of both men or women.

[6:18] She explains what their goal is in inspiring the next generation of workers.

[10:01] How the RV lifestyle changed Sandy’s life for the better.

[13:40] She shares how her perspective changed after visiting the RV manufacturing plant to continue empowering women to get into the RV industry.

[18:43] Learning to have more perspective to become stronger and see more in others.

Relevant Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyellingson

How are you making your teams feel mentally safe, psychologically safe, emotionally safe to be themselves? And when they can be themselves, they will be at their natural best for your team and your organization. And that's what you need, right? That's what you need for your team to perform.

Go ahead and take action this week. Find somebody around you, ask them some good questions when there's a mistake that you might make fess up to it, own it. Talk about how you're going to be better because of it and continue to create the environment in which people can as well. 

[00:00:47] And today I want to have a conversation with you around safety. Now in today's day and age with the COVID-19 crisis, everybody is thinking about safety. Safety is at the forefront of everybody's minds, specifically people's physical safety, right? Leaders and organizations are spending so much time thinking about how.

[00:01:07] We can keep our people safe, especially as we ramp back up into our workplaces, as, as quarantines start to lift, as organizations start to ramp up their operations. Again, people's physical safety is, is an incredibly important issue because people need to feel safe when they come into work that they're not going to be put at risk so that they can perform at their best.

[00:01:34] So leaders in organizations are spending a lot of time thinking about how they keep people safe. It's not just relegated to an EHS or a safety department or a safety leader. Safety is at the forefront of everybody's mind. But when it comes to creating high performing teams and having high performing individuals, you know, people that can perform at their best as often as possible and get the kind of results that we need, our teams to get the safety and physical safety specifically, isn't the only type of safety that people need to function at a high level.

[00:02:14] If you're listening to this, no doubt. You've experienced some type of working environment at some point in your life where you didn't feel"safe. I'm not talking about physical safety. What I'm really talking about is psychological safety, emotional safety. People spend so much time and effort and honestly wasted energy and wasted attention on things like office politics on trying to safeguard their job.

[00:02:40] Sometimes people spend more time trying to keep their job than actually just doing their job. And what we know about how human beings function is that when we're in a mindset where we're just playing, not to lose, to lose what we have, what we've worked so hard for when we're playing not to lose versus playing to win.

[00:03:04] Right. When we're playing not to lose, we do not function at our best, but when we're in a mindset where we're playing to win, right. Not just focusing on the mistakes we could make or how we might fail, knowing that those things are a genuine possibility, but being okay with it, because we're just focused on the winning aspect of human beings, then function at their natural best.

[00:03:32] So leaders. It is on you to create an environment in which your people feel safe, not just physically safe, but mentally safe, emotionally safe, psychologically safe, that they aren't always having to look over their shoulder, to the left and to the right worrying about who's coming to get them, or what kind of office politics or company politics or back fighting, or the meetings after the meetings or their water cooler conversations.

[00:04:02] They're going to come back to get them. You see teams that have a natural open and honest ability to trust one, another mistakes and all flaws and all that people can actually be like, like buck naked with each other, Patrick Lencioni. That's how he works at that. People can be just virtually buck naked with one another flaws, mistakes, and awe.

[00:04:27] We can come to the table being really vulnerable with each other about where we're good and where we're not. Those are the teams that actually function at the h

How to Be an Impactful Servant Leader

In this episode of the Lippert Academy for Leadership Podcast, we speak with Bill who is our leadership development director at Lippert Components. He took an operations role in manufacturing during the COVID-19 season.

He talks about the power of a true leader in driving productivity and creating meaningful relationships among people in a team. Listen in to learn what steps you can take as a leader to ensure that you create a better working environment for the people you lead.

What You Will Learn:

[2:09] The importance of going back as a leader and talking to the people that do the job daily to see the real roadblocks that exist as things continue to change.

[4:41] The true meaning of servant leadership- learning to be humble and coachable.

[6:52] Urgent vs important- the importance of teaching the tools, learning the tools, use the tools ourselves, and then showing the people how to use them.

[10:06] Why you need to praise people for specific tasks as a way to show they matter.

[14:14] How the COVID-19 situation changed the energy in the factory plant that Bill was working in.

[17:43] Questions to ask yourself as a leader to have the right mindset to truly serve others.

Relevant Links:

Website: https://www.lci1.com/academy

Welcome back to the Lippert Academy for Leadership podcast. In this episode, I am joined today by Kim Lisiak, the leadership development director for corporate and our after-market team. I’m really excited about where the conversation is going within LCI around high-performance leaders and that as a mindset for how we show up to everything we do, and how that translates to the rest of our daily lives. In my conversation with Kim, we discuss the tool that we are using with leaders internally to help prioritize our time and the changes we’ve experienced by implementing this tool.

 

Topics in this episode:

Why this is an important conversation to share on the podcast

Leadership discipline

Leadership competency as an internal focus

Being sensitive to the current state of the country during this time of a pandemic and social injustices

The Eisenhower decision matrix:

Quadrant 1: Urgent and important tasks

Quadrant 2: Important but not urgent tasks

Quadrant 3: Urgent but not important tasks

Quadrant 4: Not urgent and not important tasks

The moment of choice

Things can fall off our radar if we aren’t intentional about scheduling and planning for them

How to use the Eisenhower decision matrix:

Step 1: List all tasks

Step 2: Assign them to a quadrant

Step 3: Schedule the tasks in quadrant 2

Step 4: Delegate the tasks in quadrant 3

Step 5: Take action on tasks in quadrant 1

Schedule time to actually do this. Make a meeting with yourself.

Send your ideas to https://www.lci1.com/academy,  [email protected], or on LinkedIn at Lippert Academy for Leadership. We hope you stick with us as we continue this miniseries on authentic leadership and have more courageous conversations about work, life, and culture.

In this episode, Amber speaks with LCI leadership development experts Edgar Cabello and Trace Rorie, who discuss the importance of casting vision in order to build high-performance leaders. LCI’s leadership model defines great leaders as those who lead themselves, lead their teams, and lead their teams well. Edgar and Trace speak on the competencies that make up the high-performance leader and, by extension, the high-performance organization. In addition, they cover the tools that help to build these competencies.

 

Listen in and learn how to optimize your unique strengths in order to grow into a high-performance leader!

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WHAT TO LISTEN FOR

 

How to inject an exciting feeling of momentum in your team as you grow your leadership

 

What is vision casting and how can you use it to build on your leadership competencies?

 

Why it’s important to capture the heart of your people as a leader

 

Important considerations when training for skills competencies

 

A primer on the rally cry tool

Share Your Vision

Are you discovering something new about your vision? Let us know what you’re learning at https://www.lci1.com/academy,  [email protected], or on LinkedIn at Lippert Academy for Leadership.

Leadership podcasts, programs, and books. 

 

Some people consume and consume and consume content on leadership and eliminate the time and conscious thought required to put the ideas they hear into practice. 

 

We call that leadership gluttony. 

 

Today, Trace Rorie (Director of Leadership Development - Interiors at LCI) and I are looking at how to turn leadership gluttony into a balanced leadership “meal plan.” 

 

As you listen, make a list of the leadership content you’re consuming. Then, be prepared to answer some hard questions about whether it’s enough, whether it’s too much, and whether your leadership diet is making a difference in your performance and translating to results. 

Share Your Leadership Nutrition Methods 

Like Trace mentioned, there are a lot of different leadership “diets” to go on for different purposes. Share what’s worked for you at https://www.lci1.com/academy,  [email protected], or on LinkedIn at Lippert Academy for Leadership.

Based on who you are and what you do, have you found your sweet spot in life? 

This question applies to your work life, personal life, parenting life and more. 

Allowing employees to find and live their sweet spots in and outside of work is a leading part of increasing satisfaction, performance, and positive culture at work and in their personal lives. 

Discussing how to lead people to their sweet spots are four Lippert Components all-star leaders.

Kim Lisiak - Director of Leadership Development - Aftermarket 

Amber Selking - Vice President of Leadership and Culture Development 

Trace Rorie - Director of Leadership Development - Interiors 

Bill Coughlin - Director of Leadership Development - Window Division 

 

Join in to learn more about how to find a sweet spot and how to engage yourself and your teammates at work and at home. 

Share Your Sweet Spot 

Are you discovering something new about your sweet spot(s)? Let us know what you’re learning at https://www.lci1.com/academy,  [email protected], or on LinkedIn at Lippert Academy for Leadership.

Coaching to promotions is part of our work as leaders, but it can come with good, bad, and ugly outcomes. Today we’re anchoring our conversation on the three stakeholders involved in promoting and the good, bad, and ugly to be aware of with each. 

Three Stakeholders Involved in Promoting 

The Company 

The Leader 

The Person Getting Promoted 

 

Conversation topics today include the advantages of promoting from within, developing talent, encouraging promotions (and what stops leaders from promoting), tips for working toward promotion and so much more. 

Meet the Directors of Leadership Development (DLD) at Lippert Components Who Are In on The Conversation 

 

Mike Brouillette -- DLD for Aftermarket and Chassis Divisions 

Edgar Cabello -- DLD for the RV Products Division 

Bill Coughlin -- DLD  for the Windows Division 

Become Part of the Discussion 

Have you ever promoted an employee? Or has a leader ever developed, promoted, or coached you toward a promotion? Share your promotion culture low points and success stories at https://www.lci1.com/academy,  [email protected], or on LinkedIn at Lippert Academy for Leadership.