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E53: Frank Levesque on The Five Crucial Tools for Sustained Leadership Behavior Change
Dr. Reda Othman sat with Frank Levesque, founder of Rockstar Training and Coaching, to explore what truly drives sustained behavior change in leaders and why so many well-intentioned development efforts fail to stick. Drawing on his experience as an HR leader, coach, and entrepreneur, Frank breaks down the gap between leadership training, performance reviews, and real, measurable change in day-to-day behavior.
Throughout the conversation, Frank shares concrete situations from his work—such as watching carefully designed annual review and goal-setting processes lose momentum within months, and realizing during an early coaching session that his own desire to relate was unintentionally taking the focus away from the client. These moments led him to refine a practical, evidence-based approach centered on self-awareness, assertiveness, resilience, and micro-habits that leaders can actually sustain.
Listeners will hear why assertiveness often masks deeper issues like perfectionism or people-pleasing, how conflict avoidance quietly undermines leadership effectiveness, and why resilience is not about burnout or “pushing harder.” This episode is especially valuable for executives, school leaders, HR professionals, and emerging leaders who want practical tools—not theory—to improve how they show up, build trust, and create lasting behavioral change in themselves and their teams.
Key Takeaways
1. Understand why sustained behavior change—not goal setting or training alone—is the true objective of leadership development.
2. Discover how low assertiveness often sits at the root of challenges like delegation, feedback, and performance issues.
3. Learn how conflict avoidance and people-pleasing can unintentionally make leaders appear passive and indecisive.
4. Apply micro-habits—small, repeatable actions—that make new leadership behaviors easier to practice and sustain.
5. Reframe resilience as agency and self-awareness, not burnout or “just pushing through.”
6. Use simple practices like breathing, counting, and daily self-check-ins to regulate emotions and improve decision-making.
7. Shift from looking backward at mistakes to using “feedforward” conversations that focus on growth and improvement.
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By Reda OthmanDr. Reda Othman sat with Frank Levesque, founder of Rockstar Training and Coaching, to explore what truly drives sustained behavior change in leaders and why so many well-intentioned development efforts fail to stick. Drawing on his experience as an HR leader, coach, and entrepreneur, Frank breaks down the gap between leadership training, performance reviews, and real, measurable change in day-to-day behavior.
Throughout the conversation, Frank shares concrete situations from his work—such as watching carefully designed annual review and goal-setting processes lose momentum within months, and realizing during an early coaching session that his own desire to relate was unintentionally taking the focus away from the client. These moments led him to refine a practical, evidence-based approach centered on self-awareness, assertiveness, resilience, and micro-habits that leaders can actually sustain.
Listeners will hear why assertiveness often masks deeper issues like perfectionism or people-pleasing, how conflict avoidance quietly undermines leadership effectiveness, and why resilience is not about burnout or “pushing harder.” This episode is especially valuable for executives, school leaders, HR professionals, and emerging leaders who want practical tools—not theory—to improve how they show up, build trust, and create lasting behavioral change in themselves and their teams.
Key Takeaways
1. Understand why sustained behavior change—not goal setting or training alone—is the true objective of leadership development.
2. Discover how low assertiveness often sits at the root of challenges like delegation, feedback, and performance issues.
3. Learn how conflict avoidance and people-pleasing can unintentionally make leaders appear passive and indecisive.
4. Apply micro-habits—small, repeatable actions—that make new leadership behaviors easier to practice and sustain.
5. Reframe resilience as agency and self-awareness, not burnout or “just pushing through.”
6. Use simple practices like breathing, counting, and daily self-check-ins to regulate emotions and improve decision-making.
7. Shift from looking backward at mistakes to using “feedforward” conversations that focus on growth and improvement.