Join Chris and me in welcoming Annie Hyman Pratt to the show this week! As the CEO of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, she grew the company from a small family business into an international brand, overseeing its high-value sale. Today Annie is the founder of Leading Edge Teams, one of the top leadership and team development consulting firms in the world. She has also been a member of my Platinum Plus Mastermind for years, and I've brought her on board time and time again to improve the way my team communicates and operates. In today's chat, she guides us through some of the key components of her approach. The central focus is how our survival instincts tend to cause problems in our businesses, and what we can do to mitigate those primal reactions. When it comes to conflict negotiation, team leadership, and organizational structure, Annie is the go-to expert.

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Key topics discussed:

• Self-Protection: Annie explains why employees sometimes act from a place of self-protection, which negates much of their critical thinking capacity.

• Building a Leadership Team: To ever have a chance of removing yourself from the day-to-day, you need to assemble a strong core of leaders across all departments..

• Organizational Simplicity: As Annie sees it, many companies try to do too much too soon, which sabotages their profits.

Key takeaways:

• Leadership starts at the top. As the founder of the company, you can't operate from a place of emotional reactivity.

• You can't do everything yourself forever. You need to build up a team that can actually do everything themselves, without any micro-managing or hand-holding.

• Give your employees an opportunity to impress you. If you're micromanaging them, they'll never be able to come into their own.

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Resources Referenced in the episode:

• "Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High" by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

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