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  • How to Leverage Mindfulness as a Leader | Lead From Here #80

    This weeks episode builds off a recent episode (https://youtu.be/X7OGbqQAmzk) where we covered the topic of "Maintaining Your Well-Being as a Leader". In that episode we talked about Self Care as one of the topics AND that caused a lot of questions...so no time like the present.

    What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present in full awareness of our surrounding, what we are doing and what is happening around us. Some people get there by meditation, others through walks in the wilderness and some by taking a break to just sit somewhere quietly.
    The benefits of mindfulness include, reduced stress, reduced anxiety and improved mental health. All things that when kept in check will differentiate a boss or manager from a great leader. Once you are comfortable having large blocks of time dedicated to mindfulness, you can really look at your situation with a new lens and problem solve in ways you could never imagine.
    So how do you practically make this focused time happen? Plan for it. Block time on your calendar, every day to just be with yourself disconnected from the world. Start small, 5 mins, then after a couple weeks go to 10 mins, then up it two weeks later...with the goal of getting to an hour a day of quiet time, alone with your thoughts.
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    5 min
  • The Concept of Compounding Works BOTH Ways | Lead From Here #79

    I honestly can't remember where I heard or read this topic...but I think it creates a very impactful picture. Simply put, compounding is the return earned on returns from your original investment.

    You are probably thinking, Jason, when did this become a finance channel? It's not, I am referring to your investment in you or your team or your company...compounding can be an exponential growth factor if used correctly. The other side of that coin is compounding can also be the path to a quick and painful death.
    Compounding works both ways, if you are continuing to elevate yourself of your team through development and learning, then you will over time, continue to get better together and the more you do it, the greater the outcomes will be on that learning and development. You will exponentially get stronger and more effective.
    If on the other hand you continue to reinforce bad habits, chase your tails or ignore growth opportunities and difficult discussions...you will be earning returns on your investment in the negative habits of your company, which will make you exponentially slower, more toxic and less effective.
    Simply put, you are either growing or you are dying. There is no world where you can just coast and be great at anything. Continually push yourself to get a little better each day...1% better...over time, you will see significant gains in your ability to lead, support, etc.
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    #leadership #leadercommunity #compounding #investment #leadershipdevelopment #leadershiptips

    5 min
  • How to Maintain Your Well-Being as a Leader | Lead From Here #78

    What does self care look like for a leader? The short answer is it looks very similar to most people's self care. Doing it or not doing it can have a profound impact on your ability to lead effectively and consistently.

    Why is it so important for leaders? Leaders that actually care about their teams and the business, strive hard to support both and are pulled in a lot of different directions. Late nights, long hours and a good amount of stress surrounding their day to day. That can build up and cause you to be sick, to be emotionally unstable or simply just be less effective at your job.
    Taking the time to reset and recover as often as possible is the key to a long and prosperous career for anyone, for a leader it is essential. Take the time to disconnect, exercise, meditate, read, write, whatever helps you take the focus off work/stress/issues and allows you to recharge your batteries.
    Lastly, for goodness sakes...take ALL your PTO. EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. It doesn't mean take a bunch of vacations (if you can, great, do it), it just means don't be at work. Disconnect and do fun things or things that excite you!
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    #leadership #leadercommunity #leaderselfcare #selfcare #wellbeing #balancedleader #leadershiptips

    4 min
  • Succession Planning is the Key to Healthy, Stable Teams | Lead From Here #77

    Succession Planning is one of those topics that MOST successful teams just don't think about...and they are a top resource or two leaving the company, away from a very unhealthy, ineffective team.

    Succession Planning is basically your way of shoring up the long term stability of your team. Leaders get into a mode where they think a top performer is just always going to stay, whether it's the money, the flexibility, the control...they just won't leave. Until they do. People getting promoted or switching teams or quitting is always a possibility...so being prepared for what happens if they do, is up to you as a leader.
    How do you success plan? Start very tactically and create a doc and put your irreplaceable people in that doc. Then right below their names, list the people that could replace them either now (ready) or later (needs development)...if you have an irreplaceable resource without a name under it, find that person now and create a plan with those people and anyone that is marked as needs development to start upping their readiness to take on the roles the irreplaceable people hold.
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    #leadership #leadercommunity #succession #successionplanning #nextup #peoplemanagement #leadershiptips

    5 min
  • Recovering From a MASSIVE Failure | Lead From Here #76

    We have talked about failure a great deal on this podcast, but I wanted to talk through an email I received from a listener. In the email he talked about a massive failure that he and his team suffered recently. I could hear the pain in his voice and what actually struck me was how much the failure hurt him and his team.

    Failure is absolutely a part of EVERY highly effective team. You are going to fail. Don't get caught up on the failure. Make sure you learn from the failure and keep moving and growing!
    If you keep failing in the same way, the failure isn't the problem, it's your response to the failure. The problem is, you aren't learning from it.
    Utilize the data you get from failure and use that to grow and learn, from there, just keep moving and don't focus on the failure itself.
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    6 min
  • Leveraging AI as a Leader | Lead From Here #75

    There is no shortage of press and youtube videos talking about artificial intelligence, so I am going to keep this brief.

    I personally wouldn't go ALL IN on AI yet. I would learn it, because it's definitely NOT going anywhere and the people that can leverage it the most effectively, will find success!
    The thing to be careful on, is make sure before you share proprietary data with these companies, there are very black and white terms on where your data will end up. A lot of people will tell you, it's segmented from the data models...but there is still a lot of gray areas and those can get you in trouble if you aren't careful.
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    5 min
  • Rumination VS Reflection | Lead From Here #74

    Rumination from a mental health perspective means involves repetitive thinking or dwelling on negative feelings and distress and their causes and consequences. Reflection means serious thought or consideration. It's important to make sure you understand what you do in times of chaos, pain and just your daily interactions and situations.

    If you are ruminating, you are focused on the negatives and the things that cause the most stress. If you continue to ruminate, it can cause tunnel vision on just the negative, which can have an impact on your ability to effectively understand the whole picture. This makes you vulnerable to making decisions based on the wrong things.
    Reflection on the other hand, allows you to see the good, the bad, the ugly in any situation. The thing that causes the most headache for leadership, might be a non-issue to the actual project. Sure, you probably want to deal with it at some point for your own sake, but there may be things that are significantly more important and reflecting on the entire situation, not just the bad.
    Keep your mind in check. Reflect on things, make a decision and keep moving. Don't ruminate.
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    5 min
  • How Do I Rebuild Trust? | Lead From Here #73

    Flipping the script a bit here, instead of know whether you have trust or are trying to build trust...what about when you know you broke your teams trust and now you know they don't trust you and you want to rebuild trust.

    The first part is the hardest part...you have to just listen and take the heat from whatever happened to break the trust. There could be a lot of frustration and blame and finger pointing, mostly at you, and you just need to be a sounding board for now.
    The second part depends on what happened to break the trust, but it goes back to building trust...leading by example, doing what you say you are going to do. Then it's up to you to just be patient and be supportive. Set boundaries and hold people to those, but trust is a very delicate feeling and can take significant amount of time to rebuild.
    Patience is the most important characteristic when you are going through this process. It will take time, every time.
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    5 min
  • How to Build Trust in Your Team? | Lead From Here #72

    You have talked with your people, asking what is working, what isn't working, how you can help them, etc...if you don't know what I mean, watch/listen to the last episode. Now it's important for you to get to work on those items. Consistent action and doing what you said you were going to do is the fastest way to build trust.

    The next biggest piece of building trust is around how you talk about the team outside of team meetings, their successes, their failures and everywhere in between. A great leader that has trust of their team, gives credit and takes blame. If you are always finger pointing or talking bad about your team, you will never build trust.
    I got pushback in one of my email responses to getting in action and solving problems and/or putting ideas in place. The leader said it was a terrible idea and wouldn't make things worse. Which brings me to my next point, you are the leader, if you ask for ideas or problems and you think the person is way off base, it's important to help them understand why, that also builds trust.
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    6 min
  • How Do I Know if My People Trust Me? | Lead From Here #71

    I am getting a lot of emails talking about distrust in peoples teams and asking how to build trust and how to know if your people trust you...so this week will be Trust Week!🙂

    Let's start with how do you know if your people trust you? It's important to keep in mind that if you don't have trusting teams, it will be difficult to get a clear answer. You might have a person that will just say what they really think, but MOST won't. Which means, you can't ask "Do you trust me as your leader?" because someone that doesn't trust you won't be honest, they will tell you what you want to hear.
    It's better to approach it with questions like, "What is working in the team?", "What isn't working in the team?", "Is there anything I can help you with?"...etc. From there, you take their suggestions and ideas and simply get to work. The best way to build trust is to be in action.
    From there, you have to ask yourself if you are worthy of trust. Do your actions that happen with your leaders or peers that don't involve the team, make you trustworthy? Do you take or give credit? Are you the teams advocate and protector or are they just cogs in a wheel? You have to be really honest with yourself here...otherwise, you aren't putting yourself in the space of gaining and building on someones trust.
    I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
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    6 min

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