In this episode, Jeannette talks to Jan Mühlfeit, about his incredible career and life journey. He explains how he became the chairman of Microsoft Europe. Jan discusses how a life-changing bout of depression, which led to his being hospitalised, enabled him to eventually help other senior executives to achieve their full potential. Key to this is being aware of their mental faculties, understanding how to marshall them and use them in a healthy and effective way.

 

They also cover several other subjects including how to build strong teams, how to build success in emerging markets and how to move from the corporate world to working for yourself. Jan also runs seminars for children and parents that he and Katerina Novotna have developed to enable children to recognise and fully unlock their talents and potential.

 

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

 

• Be brave - move outside of your comfort zone.
• Be bold – never lose the winner mindset.
• Remember, even if you are not paying attention, your subconscious mind is absorbing what you are seeing and hearing, which impacts your mindset, hugely.
• Enabling people to be themselves, but channelling their efforts is key to building a strong team.
• Continually learn and make it possible for those who work with you to do the same.
• Everyone needs to develop several skills and talents to make sure they always have options.
• You can’t be good at it all, so hire a good team.
• Everybody has something unique to offer.
• You can put yourself under stress for a while to achieve something, but you also need to give yourself time to rest and recover mentally, afterwards.
• Be aware of your emotions, act in line with your values and do something you love.
• Understand the power of networking and work on building your network every day.

 

BEST MOMENTS

‘Acute stress is fine provided you have enough recovery time.’

‘Whatever you put into the system is what you get back.’

‘I help people to understand who they are, so they can figure out who they can be.’

‘Aim to the moon - if you miss the moon, you are still among the stars.’

 

 

This is the perfect time to get focused on what YOU want to really achieve in your business, career, and life. It’s never too late to be BRAVE and BOLD and unlock your inner BRILLIANCE. If you’d like to join Jeannette’s FREE Mastermind just DM Jeannette on [email protected] or sign up via Jeannette’s linktree https://linktr.ee/JLinfoot

 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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GUEST CONTACT DETAILS

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +420 724 357 060

Twitter: https://twitter.com/janmuhlfeit

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janmuhlfeit

Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/janmuhlfeit

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/muhlfeit

Website: Jan Mühlfeit - Unlock Potential Now (janmuhlfeit.com)

Book: The Positive Leader

 

ABOUT THE GUEST

Jan Mühlfeit is a global strategist, coach of executives, Olympic games winners and author of bestselling business book The Positive Leader. His personal mission is “helping individuals, organizations and countries around the world to unlock their human potential”. Jan has a proven track record in building and leading successful teams, acquired through an extensive 22 year career at Microsoft Corporation where he served in various executive positions. His last role with the high-tech giant was as Chairman Europe (2007–2014).

Jan has created a set of unique seminars – “Unlock Human Potential” and “Unlock Your Team’s Potential”. In these seminars, he coaches individuals, teams, high-level executives, Olympic games winners and artists on how to uncover their personal strengths and find the best in people.

He has worked with many prominent S&P 500 companies. Among his key clients are Exxon Mobile, GE, Dentons, Microsoft, Generali, UniCredit, Siemens, Bosch, Société General, Skoda, Skanska, Deloitte, Erste, Volvo, Total and many others.

Together with Katerina Novotna, Jan has created a special seminar for children and parents – “Unlock Your Child’s Potential” – which guides children on how to be more self-aware and find their personal uniqueness.  In his own words: “Every child is a genius; we just need to find in what”.

He is also an internationally renowned public speaker and has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows. Jan served on different advisory boards of several European governments in the fields of ICT, national competitiveness, and education. He also counselled on various projects for the WEF, OECD and EC.

ABOUT THE HOST

Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with over 25 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other business leaders to drive forward their strategies as well as their own personal development.

 

Jeannette is a down-to-earth leader, a passionate champion for diversity & inclusion, and a huge advocate of nurturing talent so every person can unleash their full potential and live their dreams. 

 

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PODCAST DESCRIPTION

 

Jeannette Linfoot talks to incredible people about their experiences of being Brave, Bold & Brilliant, which have allowed them to unleash their full potential in business, their careers, and life in general. From the boardroom tables of ‘big’ international business to the dining room tables of entrepreneurial start-ups, how to overcome challenges, embrace opportunities and take risks, whilst staying ‘true’ to yourself is the order of the day.

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