Next Peak Podcast

Today Clint is joined by Dr. Parker, and they discuss how to create a  psychologically healthy workplace. Sometimes you create culture, sometimes you influence and change culture, but identifying the unhealthy aspects of company culture is the first step to any change. In today's episode, we lay our five research-based improvements that can help to create a healthy workplace.

1. Create a psychologically and physically safe environment. In general, most employees are afraid of their bosses. The best thing you can do as a leader is learning to be a great listener. 
2. Create team member involvement. People are more likely to get behind an idea that they helped create. 
3. Encourage work-life balance. Create an experience for your team where they're not burned out and overworked
4. Invest in team member growth and development. Top performers want to feel like they're growing and developing to become the best in their field.
5. Develop a consistent method of appreciation. Recognize that if your team is unappreciated, they are very likely to leave their job. People lose a lot of motivation when they don't feel like they’re being seen for their contribution in the workplace. If you receive more criticism than praise, then you’re out of balance. 

To brainstorm applications from today's episode, grab your journal and write out an answer to each of these questions:

• How do you provide more growth opportunities?
• What systems could you use to get more ideas and input from your team? 
• How could you regularly recognize and appreciate people? 
• What evidence do you have that you model a healthy work-life balance in your own life, and how do you reward employees that do this?
• How could you improve your physical or psychological safety in your workplace?

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life. 

Today Mollie Eliasof joins Clint to talk about how to get unstuck,  the difference between being and achieving, and how to confront negative self-talk.

Mollie Eliasof is a psychotherapist and private consultant that helps the world's most influential people get unstuck and unlock life's missing pieces. Mollie is also a successful entrepreneur, public speaker, and host of the More With Mollie Podcast. Her expert advice has been featured in national publications including NBC, Forbes, Forbes Women, Thrive Global, and more. 

Three steps to getting unstuck: 

1. Figure out where you want to go
2. Identify barriers that get in the way
3. Break it down to a small step that you can take forward 

How to stop negative self-talk: 

• Identify when and where it’s happening: How often does it happen, how long does it last, what does it sound like? 
• Understand where negative self-talk has infiltrated your mind.
• Dispel the negative thoughts by talking to a friend about them.

Connect with Mollie on Instagram

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life. 

You don’t have to be a runner to learn some valuable life lessons from running. This week Clint and Dr. Parker talk about the lessons learned from running and discuss how to apply them to your life. 

The five life lessons learned from running are:

1. Start slow: If you try to go too far too fast, you will burn out. So instead, learn to pace yourself and make incremental improvements. 
2. Don’s stop on hills: Embrace the suck. Complete the task you set out to without stopping when you encounter resistance. 
3. Metrics are great, but they don’t tell the whole story: Chase and celebrate incremental improvements but give yourself grace for the season of life you’re in. 
4. Run your own race: Control the things you can control
5. It can be fun if you let it be: Be present; you don’t have to go through life being miserable. 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

• Designing Your Life Book 
• Winning by Jack Welch Book 
• God and Money Book
• Talent Code by Dan Coyle Book

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life. 

Why would you leave your promising job to enter into uncertainty, uncomfortability, and potential insecurity? What are the six stages of relationships? How should you differentiate between complacency and contentment? What is the best salsa? These are perfect questions to listen in on, in a friendly engaging, encouraging, and thought-provoking conversation between Clint and Alex Judd the founder of Path For Growth.

Connect with Alex at www.pathforgrowth.com and check out the podcast

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life. 

What Stage Of Change Are You In?

Today Clint Herndon and Dr. Parker Houston talk about the predictable stages of change. 
There are six stages of change, and you typically can’t skip stages; identifying where you are and where others are will help you lead change in yourself and others.  The six stages are: 

1. Pre-contemplation: no intention to change, living in denial.
2. Contemplation: aware of the problem without a significant effort to change
3. Preparation: intending to take action
4. Action: active attempts at changing behavior
5. Maintenance: serious about change, behaviors showing the change 
6. Relapse: making exceptions, not as serious about sticking to the intended change

For most people relapsing back into old behaviors is a normal part of changing anything in your life. The goal of acknowledging relapse as a stage is to take advantage of admitting it and make it a short period of time. 

Application: 

• Identify the stage of change that you’re in
• Mentally place an employee in a stage of change
• Adjust how to approach the change in yourself or your employee
• Leverage strategies and energy appropriate to the stage of change
• Invest more time into people who are willing to change
• Give assignments as tests to identify what stage someone is in
• Demonstrate behaviors associated with a high stage of change 
• Give yourself grace, and extend grace to those around you 

Book Recommendations:
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life.