Captain's Corner

One of the best ways I learned or improved a skill during my time playing sports was through this principle. My trainer or coach would show me how to do a certain drill, then we would do the drill together, then he would empower me to do the drill on my own, then I would show a teammate or another person the drill. This is how you multiply your leadership.

I found this is crucial if you want to scale your business quickly and create a leadership culture!

In my experience Servant Leadership is the best and most effective way to lead. From witnessing impactful leaders during my college baseball career to witnessing leaders in the career world, the most impactful leaders have embodied servant leadership. In order to be a great servant leadership there are 3 key components:

1.  Sacrifice- this is absolutely crucial to servant leadership. Sacrifice grows your discipline and develops your character. Additionally sacrifice earns you trust and respect of those around you.

2.  Vulnerability- as you go first in being vulnerable, your relationship grows, deep relational connections form and influence grows. People will be impressed with what you know but will connect with you on your weaknesses.

3.  Lead by example- You can’t lead people places you aren’t willing to go yourself. If you tell people how to do something but never show them your influence is capped and respect is not easily gained!

Knowing your why is vital to your pursuits in your life. From college to my career there were several times where I realized my why was not strong enough to get me through the tough seasons in my life. Below are the 4 categories of questions I asked myself to help me uncover my why.

1. What makes me sing? What things do I do that make me happy and joyful?

2. What makes me cry? What event occur, situations happen that break my heart? When certain songs come on or things happen in a movie that make me cry, why?

3. What makes me dream? What inspires me? What do I see/do/experience that fuels my tank?

4. What makes me come alive? What do other people see me do that inspires them? What do I see/do/experience that feeds my soul? What am I passionate about? 

Once I uncovered my why, I could formulate my habits, and disciplines that aligned with my why!

This is the start of a 5 part series on leadership. This episode Jordan dives into self-leadership.

If you can't follow yourself, why else would anyone else follow you? Self-leadership is one of the key pieces to success. Through past experiences Jordan learned 3 key parts to self-leadership:

1. You have to have a strong why and remind yourself of it daily.

2. You can't allow your circumstances to rule your world.

3. You can’t let what people say about you to get in your head.

Captain's Corner is hosted by Jordan Eckley. Jordan shares lessons learned through personal sports stories and analogies and how he applied those to business and life. The hope is that his content helps athletes transition into the business world and for current professional individuals take a step into their potential. 

This episode gives insight into Jordan's transition story from baseball to business. 3 questions Jordan asked himself were:

1. What was it about baseball that filled my cup? What did I enjoy aside from the successes? What moments or memories stand out to me the most and why?

2. What EQ skills did I offer the team? What were my strengths relationally?

3. What opportunity is out there that will allow me to experience these two things the best? What opportunity or career can I pursue that will allow me the opportunity to live in these the most?