Level Up Leadership

What can the beginning of a season or the beginning of a quarter mean for you and your mindset? If you think about the beginning of the year, often that we have this idea of a fresh start and a new chance to start things. We might have big goals for our life or for our business or for our job and full of fresh energy. But sometimes when we think about this as just happening once a year, it can easily fall down the slippery slide and we come to the end of the year feeling like we're just holding on. What today's episode is about running your quarter, like a CEO. Which means having a look at the quarter that's ahead. Doing a check-in of what has been and what's to come and how to use this final quarter the most effectively leading you into the year 2023. 

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• Join 1:1 Leadership Coaching/Mentoring for the final quarter (last chance until Q2 2023, April intake)
• Going from Solo to CEO? Read about the upcoming guided program 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.

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• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
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Negative feedback. Love it or hate it? It won't surprise you to know, most people hate it. In today's episode, we're going to be covering four key things about negative feedback. Number One: why negative feedback is so hard. Two: discover how open you are to feedback. Three: four quick ways to improve your openness for feedback, and Four: how you can give feedback to your team.

Links

• Going from Solo to CEO? Read about the upcoming guided program 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.
• Check out my Private 1:1 Leadership Coaching Program here 

Connect with Me: 

• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katepeardon/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithjourney/ 

Free References

• Book on giving and receiving feedback: Thanks for the Feedback

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In the movie Training Day, Denzel Washington plays a rogue detective character and he tells his new protege, in effect "this is chess, not checkers". He means the job is way more complicated than it seems. It's fast, dynamic and with lots of moving parts. 

This is a similar analogy for leadership. So how does thinking about chess help you as a leader? Wise leaders that think in the idea of chess, they manage relationships and connect with individuals based on their unique personality and strengths. 

This episode shares three actions you can implement straight away to move from playing Checkers to playing Chess. 

Links

• Going from Solo to CEO? Read about the upcoming guided program 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.
• Check out my Private Leadership Coaching Program here 

Connect with Me: 

• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katepeardon/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithjourney/ 

Free References

• https://5lovelanguages.com/
• https://www.viacharacter.org/  

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Have you ever asked a child “Did you make any friends at school today?” The reason we ask this question of children nervously is because we know that school without friends can be a lonely and hostile place. With friends and the other hand, it can be really good fun. And so you can work. But what are some of the common pitfalls that we can come across with friendships at work?  Are work friendships a good idea, or a terrible idea? 

With International Day of Friendship coming up on the 30th of July, today's topic is about friendships at work. We're going to be talking about: can you make friends at work? Is there benefits to having friends at work? Can you be friends with your boss? How do you make boundaries with your work friends? And last of all, if you wanting more work friends, how do you actually do that? So let's get stuck into today's episode about work friendships, the good, the bad, and the ugly. 

Links

• Going from Solo to CEO? Read about the upcoming guided program 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.
• Check out my Private Leadership Coaching Program here 

Connect with Me: 

• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katepeardon/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithjourney/ 

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Building a business often means building a team.  But sometimes when we hire people, we then realise our clients only want to work with us, not our team. Eek. Today’s episode we’ll go through five options that you can implement, today, to improve the relationship between your clients and your team, plus a few mindset blocks that can stunt our team growth. 

Links

• Going from Solo to CEO? Read about the upcoming guided program 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.
• Check out my Private Leadership Coaching Program here 

Connect with Me: 

• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katepeardon/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithjourney/ 

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One of the most common questions I get about leadership is this: Are leaders born, or made? It is the common "nature versus nurture" question, which we will be going through in today's podcast.  So in any good debate, you need to hear both sides. Side One: leaders are born, Side Two leaders are made. 

We’ll look at data from sport (do big feet mean you’ll be a good swimmer?), twin studies (if leaders are born, are identical twins with 100% of the same genes both good leaders/bad leaders?) are extroverts good leaders (and introverts a weak second), and data business psychology (what percentage can be learnt?). 

It’s a data rich episode, but as always, I finish with a tip for you to level up your leadership 1%, starting today. 

Links

• Going from Solo to CEO? Read about the upcoming guided program 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.
• Check out my Private Leadership Coaching Program here 

Connect with Me: 

• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katepeardon/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithjourney/ 

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Have you ever had the experience when you ask someone to do something they say yes, but it doesn't get done? Maybe you asked someone to do a report or perhaps you've asked someone to hang out the washing. But despite on the surface, they say, yes, it doesn't happen. Why is that? Today, we're going to talk about one magic word that can make a difference to how you phrase this question to get more action. It is something you can apply today that can make a small difference in your everyday. So, what is this magic word? Well, this actually fits into the steps of delegation…

 Links

• Going from Solo to CEO? Read about the upcoming guided program 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.
• Check out my Private Leadership Coaching Program here 

Connect with Me: 

• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katepeardon/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithjourney/ 

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The great thing about having your own business is that you get to design it. Hello, freedom. But sometimes we get so busy, we forget to make the most of this freedom.  Did you start your business doing “all the things”, and now working out how to grow so you have more freedom and flexibility?  Today’s episode is for you. 

There are three business models - Solo, Hero and Agency.  Where do you fit, and where do you want to be? Once you design your business this way, recruitment is a breeze because you know exactly where you’re going. Now.. time to book that holiday?

Links

• Going from Solo to CEO? Be first to hear about the upcoming guided program https://campus.zenithjourney.com/waitlistS2C 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.
• Check out my Private Leadership Coaching Program here! 

Connect with Me: 

• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katepeardon/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithjourney/ 

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What can we learn from dating that applies to leadership? The friendship ladder and the relationship ladder are two different things. You can’t move up the relationship ladder and expect the top rung to be a relationship.  It’s a completely different ladder, and you need to jump from the friendship ladder to the relationship ladder (at the risk of falling into the nothingness in between!)

Being technically great at your job is like being on the friendship ladder. The further you progress, we can sometimes think the top rungs are leadership positions. In fact, it’s not the case. Leadership is a whole different ladder! 

Have you (or can you) make the leap from the specialist ladder to the leadership ladder?

Connect with Me: 

• Check out my Private Leadership Coaching Program here! 
• Going from Solo to CEO? Be first to hear about the upcoming guided program https://campus.zenithjourney.com/waitlistS2C 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.
• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katepeardon/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithjourney/  

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In today's episode, we're talking about something that leaders tell me they do when they interview a potential candidate. And let me tell you, it seems like a great idea. But in this episode, you'll be understanding why this approach is not a great approach to have in your interviews.

A lot of leaders have said to me that during an interview with a potential candidate, they like to put their candidate under pressure to see if they crack. 

On the surface this seems like a good idea. If the candidate can keep their cool while you poke at them, then, you know you're likely to have someone who can handle pressure all around, but it doesn't work in practice. And do you know the reason why? Psychological safety. 

 
Connect with Me: 

• Check out my Private Leadership Coaching Program here! 
• Free mini-course: Time to Hire? 5 questions to ask yourself before hiring your first (or next) team member.
• Website: https://www.zenithjourney.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katepeardon/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithjourney/ 

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