Leading Strong Podcast

In this episode, we will cover:

The 8th Manager Intelligence Skill – Intentional

• Intentional managers make sure each team member knows how their individual contribution benefits the organization's mission and purpose.
• By growing in your skill to be intentional, you will see your team rise to the occasion and sustain their efforts.

Key Words: Arrange, Deliberate, Planned, Thoughtful, Purposeful, Efficient

Why is it so important to develop Intentional as a skill?

• Intentional Effort will align your team toward transformational outcomes

The Highs and Lows of the Intentional Skill

High: I make sure that each team member knows how their individual contribution to our team benefits our organization's mission and values. I am purposeful in my connection to the team, how I assign work to team members, plan, design, and think through desired outcomes.

Low: My team does not know how their job impacts our mission and purpose. They just feel like they are getting a paycheck.

How to grow the skill of Intentional and strengthen your team…

Strong Intentional Skill: Deliberate with your words, Explicit with your expectations, Thoughtful with your responses to questions and challenges, Purposeful with your body language and tone of voice, Considerate with your praise and recognition

Weak Intentional Skill: Careless with your words, Unclear with your expectations, Thoughtless with your response to questions and challenges, Aimless with your body language and tone of voice, Inconsistent with praise and recognition.

Book Recommendation of the Week

The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Key Questions

1. How are you being deliberate with your words. How are you being explicit with your expectations?
2. How can you commend the common?

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Diving into the 9th Manager Intelligence Skill – Interdependent

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The 7th Manager Intelligence Skill – Innovative

• Able to create an environment where people can be innovative, try new things, and come up with fresh ideas.

Key Words: Inventive, Creative, Risk-Taking, Cutting-Edge, Imaginative

Why is it so important to develop Innovative as a skill?

• Leads to a collaborative team – where a manager wants to hear the ideas of the team members. This creates the innovative capacity of the entire teams, by allowing for differing ideas to lead to the best outcomes.
• Increasing this skill will allow you to pull forth the genius found within your team and provide you with the platform to credit team members for their brilliance.

How to grow the skill of Innovative and strengthen your team…

1. Culture of Courage
2. Culture of Creativity
3. Culture of Collaboration
4. Culture of Cooperation
5. Collegial Culture

The Highs and Lows of the Innovative Skill

High: I like to bring new ideas and validate new ideas to the team and validate new ideas that come from my team. I challenge my team to think outside the box and welcome their opinions to improve processes and performance.

Low: I like to keep things running the way they are. New ideas waste everyone's time. If my employees want to learn and grow, they do it outside of work.

Key Question

1. How are you showing up to create a culture of courage?

Book Recommendation of the Week

The Seagull Manager by Travis Bradberry

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Diving into the 8th Manager Intelligence Skill – Intentional

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In this episode, we will cover:

The 6th Manager Intelligence Skill – Investment

• The Best Bosses invest in our advancement and growth
• This is a leader who will help you become the best version of yourself during the season you are working together.

Key Words: Growth-Mindset, Self-Less in the development of others

Why is it so important to develop Investment as a skill, beyond a value?

• That level of investment is a leader who is unwilling to settle, and will call you to your best version of yourself.
• Willingness to step into greatness for your organization. There is an unwillingness to allow mediocrity to grow.

The Highs and Lows of the Investment Skill

High: I consistently develop my employees using different tools and strategies. I devote my time, talent and energy intentionally to my team for the purpose of achieving their personal growth and our organizational objectives

Low: I don't have any time or energy to spend on employees

How to grow the skill of Investment and strengthen your team…

1. Celebrate growth with your team
2. Commend the common

Book Recommendation of the Week

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
• One of the greatest gifts you can give to your kids is the gift of grit. Gritty people are resilient. With our teams, we want to develop the mindset that failure isn't final, we readjust and keep moving success forward.

Key Question

1. How are you investing in your team? Consider your previous managers who have invested in you.

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Diving into the 7th Manager Intelligence Skill – Innovative

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In this episode, we will cover:

The 5th Manager Intelligence Skill – Inclusive

• An intentional behavior that draws people in that allows people to feel a part of a team
• Brings a sense of stability, and a willingness to open, learn and grow as a part of a whole

Key Words: Personable, caring, non-judgmental, caring, safe, bridge-builder

Why is it so important to develop Inclusive as a skill?

• This will help create a culture where people feel like they can share their perspectives can create stronger teams and create resilience
• Greater unity within a team

The Highs and Lows of the Inclusive Skill

High: I make sure every member of my team feels like they are part of a tribe, all voices are heard and validated. I am sensitive to those who could feel left out.

• Validated, Valued, Vulnerable

Low: My team has silos, communication is secretive or exclusive, team members don't feel appreciated.

• Silos, Secrets, Shunned

How to grow the skill of Inclusive and strengthen your team…

1. Celebrate the diversity of people, ideas, and talents - everyone is equal but not the same
2. Encourage with specifics of how members of your team are contributing to the whole to make everyone better
3. Be open to other's ideas - amplify new voices

Book Recommendation of the Week

Leadership and Self-Deception by Arbinger Institute

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Diving into the 6th Manager Intelligence Skill – Investment

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In this episode, we will cover:

The 4th Manager Intelligence Skill – Inspiration

• As a manager, one of the most important roles is to be a source of inspiration for the team
• We have the ability to uplift others by our mission, the words we say
• Inspiration sparks emotion and generates new ideas, making us feel that all things are possible
• Inspiration is expressed in different forms for different people

Why is this important?

• Motivated workers are significantly more productive

The Highs and Lows of the Inspiration Skill

• High: I take the time to motivate every member of my team through words, acts of service, and rewards. I connect their work outcomes to the bigger picture purpose.
• Low: I struggle to motivate the members of my team. I think if a person cannot motivate themselves it is not my problem.

Key Words Associated with Inspiration

• Motivation, recognition, coaching, encouragement
• Recognition = Reinforcement, requires repetition
• Repetition = Success

Key Questions

1. What are your recent successes?
2. What are you the most proud of?
3. Where do you feel the strongest in your role?

Stay Tuned

• Diving into the 5th Manager Intelligence Skill – Inclusive

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• 34 Strong Overview video
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The 3rd Manager Intelligence Skill – Influence

• The capacity to have an effect on someone's behavior, character, morals, etc.
• Allows you to know if what you have done will lead to a positive reaction in a workplace setting.
• They connect through people to the outcome, impacting the way people are feeling.

Practical Application: Well-Being and Welfare Checks

• Well-Being Check – (How are you doing at work? What do you need from me?)
• Welfare Check – (How are you doing? How are things unfolding in your life?)
• Cactus vs. Orchids

The Highs and Lows of the Influence Skill

• High: My team follows my lead. When setting direction, they are engaged and go with me. I am outcome-driven and create forward movement toward the achievement of our organizations key performance Indicators
• Low: My team is not motivated to follow me, I get push back, low participation and disengagement.

Key Words to Describe Influence

• Movement – we are making progress
• Achievement – we are getting something done

Influence Errors

• Proceeding with business as usual in a crisis situation
• Leaving your team to fend for themselves

Key Questions

1. How will you get the person you selected to like you and trust you more? (Select one person from your team)
2. How will you make sure this person you selected knows you are listening to them when they speak and share?

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• Diving into the 4th Manager Intelligence Skill – Inspiration

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In this episode, we will cover:

The 2nd Manager Intelligence Skill – Integrity

• A vital skill that can be developed and grown
• Key Words: Accountability, Trust, Forthright, Honesty, Straightforward

Why is it so important to develop Integrity as a skill, beyond a value?

• An employee wants someone who keeps their word

How to grow the skill of Integrity and strengthen your team…

1. Keep your word
2. Keep your calendar
3. Keep your cool
4. Keep your commitments

The Highs and Lows of the Integrity Skill

• High: I am honest and hard-working, I do not think I am better than anyone else on my team. I hold myself and my team accountable for my actions and admit when I am wrong.
• Low: I am dishonest and loyal only to myself, I manipulate others to get my way and hold others responsible for my actions.

Key Questions

1. How often do you set and keep appointments? Are you reliable with your calendar as often as possible?
2. Are you skilled at saying no, more than you say yes? You measure your commitments carefully and you know saying "yes" too often can overburden a team and lead to personal fatigue or burn out.

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• Diving into the 3rd Manager Intelligence Skill – Influence

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In this episode, we will cover:

The 1st Manager Intelligence Skill – Individualize

• This is the foundation to all Manager Intelligence skills
• Where do we lie on this scale?

Why is it so important to understand the individual needs of team members?

• Each person is uniquely shaped by their experiences and will approach and receive information differently
• Leaders must pinpoint their approach to each of their team members

How to grow the skill of Individualize and strengthen your team…

3 Learning Styles

1. Visual
2. Auditory
3. Tactile

The 4 Needs of Followers

1. Trust
2. Compassion
3. Stability
4. Hope

The Highs and Lows of the Individualize Skill

• High: I value the contribution and needs of each team member. I customize my communication to fit each team members style of learning and development.
• Low: One size fits all and I expect you to adapt to me. I place the needs of individuals over the needs of the group.

Key Questions

1. What is your preferred way to receive information?
2. How do you learn best?

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• Diving into the 2nd Manager Intelligence Skill – Integrity

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In this episode, we will cover:

4 Styles of Management

1. Authoritarian – Command and Control
2. Permissive – Non-directive and Unclear
3. Uninvolved – No control or Boundaries
4. Authoritative – Assertive and Invested (Strengths-Based Style)

The Greatest Single Trait of Best Leaders

• Self-Awareness
• They know who they are, and who they are not

Evaluate Yourself Using These Styles

• What are the habits that we are developing?
• Where do we lie on this scale?

Intro to the Manager Intelligence Skills...

1. Inspiration
2. Inclusive
3. Investment

Stay Tuned

• Diving into the 1st Manager Intelligence Skills – Individualize

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In this episode, we will cover:

What is Employee Engagement?

When people are engaged at work...

• their eyes are shining
• they are valued for being valuable
• their contributions are seen and their needs are met so that they can show up strong.

3 Types of Employee Engagement

1. Engaged – Love what they do, why they do it, and who they do it for
2. Disengaged – Malleable Middle – Exchange Time for $
3. Actively Disengaged – CAVE Dwellers (Consistently Against Virtually Everything)

4 T's of Best Bosses

1. Technical Abilities
2. Tenure
3. Talent
4. Training

Genesis of Manager Intelligence

• What are the skills that we have observed through years of research that the Best Bosses have?
• These skills are broken down into the 12 Manager Intelligence Skills

Intro to the First 3 Manager Intelligence Skills..

1. Individualize
2. Integrity
3. Influence

Stay Tuned

• 4 Styles of Management
• Diving into the 12 Manager Intelligence Skills

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