No Bullsh!t Leadership

By Martin G Moore

No Bullsh!t Leadership is a podcast for leaders who want to become truly exceptional. Each week, your host, Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Martin G Moore, shares the secrets of high performanc... more

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Number 1: How to Build a Team That Performs Without You: 16 Real Questions
We asked 800 leaders one question. What's actually hard about leadership right now? The answers were so good we decided to answer them live. No prep. No script. Em fires the questions, and I get two minutes on each. These are real questions from real leaders in our free Skool community, the No Bullsh!t Leadership Hub (https://www.skool.com/nblh). 16 questions, 16 answers. And every one of them comes back to the same thing: whether your team can perform without you. If your team faced a major challenge today and you weren't available, would they solve it? If the answer is "no", the issue might not be their capability. It might be your lack of leadership. Every time you step in, you rob them of a rep they needed. In this episode: 1. Are we building resilient teams, or creating dependence by stepping in too quickly? 2. I've gone from leading 14 people to 70. How do I let go of work I think I need to control? 3. Doing the task myself tells me if the workload griping is fair. Or am I rationalising dipping down? 4. My utilisation target is 92%. How do I defend leadership time in a billable hours culture? 5. Even when I'm on leave, I clear emails out of guilt. How do you actually switch off? 6. If you stepped away for a week, would your team respond effectively, or fail? 7. My team says green, then it's suddenly amber. How do I assess progress without micromanaging? 8. We've slipped from action takers to explainers and complainers. How do I reset this? 9. I was promoted from within. How do I set expectations with people who are my friends? 10. One of my leaders has micromanaged staff out the door for four years. Can someone like that change? 11. I had to let a new hire go and it took an emotional toll on me. Does this ever get easier? 12. An employee used company systems for personal gain. The investigation will take months. What now? 13. We had a death at work. What can I actually do to help my people through it? 14. Do I push my team to use AI now, or wait for the tools to mature? 15. Four weeks acting up. Does that deserve a pay bump, or is the opportunity enough? 16. They hired an external into a role I'd been acting in. That person failed, so they've asked me to fill in again. Recognised or used? ---------- EPISODES REFERENCED: Ep.411: Stop Rescuing Underperformers https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode411 Ep.374: The Biggest Killer of Empowerment https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode374 Ep.351: 5 Rules for Leading Without Over-Functioning https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode351 Ep.264: Controlling Without Micromanaging https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode264 Ep.65: How Do You Make Someone Change? https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode65 Ep.13: Managing Up and Not Over-Functioning https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode13 Ep.2: Building a High Performing Team https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode2 MOMENT REFERENCED: Moment 187: How to Lead People Who Are Your Old Mates https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ilsk2Zxs7CexSfzGAAkcU Leadership Beyond the Theory https://www.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com ---------- FREE WORKSHOP: STOP RESCUING YOUR UNDERPERFORMERS Friday 28th August, 12 to 2pm AEST. Two hours, free. We walk through all seven leadership blind spots, you score yourself, and you leave with your Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard. REGISTER HERE: https://workshop.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com ---------- Every question came from our free No Bullsh!t Leadership Hub on Skool. Want yours answered on a future episode? Em's in there every single day. JOIN THE HUB HERE: https://www.skool.com/nblh ---------- Connect with me: Website: https://www.yourceomentor.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentor LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop. Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team. Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Join the October cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 25, 202634min
Number 2: How to Hold Your Team Accountable: 6 Signs Nobody Owns Anything
Somewhere on your team right now there's a person who isn't delivering. You thought of their name before you got to the end of that sentence. Over the next seven days, I'm going to show you they're probably not your problem. They're a symptom of it. This is Day 1 of a seven part series, recut from a live workshop I ran called Stop Rescuing Your Underperformers. One leadership blind spot a day, for seven days. Today it's number one, and it's the big one. Accountability. I've taught this for almost a decade, and if you did nothing else at all, this is the one that lifts team performance more than any other. Here's the part most leaders miss. Every time you step in and do an underperformer's work, every time you make a decision for them, take a meeting yourself, or fix the thing before it goes upstairs, accountability shifts from them to you. So you probably haven't got a person who won't take accountability. You've got a person who doesn't need to. In this episode I walk you through the rescue cycle, the six signs of an accountability vacuum so you can score yourself out of six, and the night at a social function when I found out two teams inside the same bank were building almost exactly the same thing. The overlap number still makes me wince. I also answer two questions that came in live. Christina asks how you get someone to see their failures when they refuse to. Dylan asks how you motivate people with no ambition, who just show up and do enough to get by. Grab a pen. You'll want to keep score. ———————— GET YOUR SCORE ON ALL SEVEN Scoring yourself on one blind spot is useful, but it's a seventh of the picture, and the one costing you the most might not be this one. The free Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard runs you through all seven, the same way we did it live. ✨ 10 minutes. Your results on a wheel, ranked from your biggest blind spot down to your smallest. Nobody else sees it. GET YOUR BLIND SPOT SCORECARD HERE: https://score.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/workshop ———————— The 7 Leadership Blind Spots, one a day: 1. Drive Accountability. Do people deliver for you, or do they make excuses? 2. Handle Conflict. Can you have the tough conversations that weak leaders avoid? 3. Work at Level. Are you leading at the right altitude, or stuck in the weeds? 4. Deliver Value. Are you focused on outcomes that matter, or just ticking boxes? 5. Make Great Decisions. Are you decisive when it counts, or do you overthink everything? 6. Master Ambiguity. Can you make decisions when you don't have all the answers? 7. Build Resilience. Do you stay calm when everything's falling apart, or do you crumble? Tomorrow, blind spot number two, and it's the reason this one is so hard to fix. Handling conflict. ———————— Leadership Beyond the Theory link: https://www.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ ———————— You can connect with me at: Website: https://www.yourceomentor.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentor Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop. Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team. Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Join the October cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
September 01, 202614min
Number 3: How to Stop Avoiding Difficult Conversations: 6 Signs It's You
When you have an underperformer on your team, but you haven’t given them specific performance feedback, you're reinforcing their underperformance. They may think that no news is good news, and they don’t need to do anything different. This is Day 2 of a 7-part series, recut from a live workshop I ran called Stop Rescuing Your Underperformers. I’m looking at one leadership blind spot each day. There's a person on your team who isn't delivering, and the premise I’m exploring this week is that they're more likely to be a symptom of the problem, rather than the root cause of it. Underperformers are made. They’re made by the things their leaders do, but can’t see the impact of. Yesterday was about accountability. Today is the one that stops you fixing accountability: can you handle conflict, or is this your blind spot? This one’s tricky, because it hides behind noble virtues. You tell yourself you're being kind. But in reality, you're not being kind; it’s more likely that you're protecting yourself from the discomfort of a difficult conversation. ———————— GET YOUR SCORE ON ALL SEVEN LEADERSHIP BLINDSPOTS, HERE: https://score.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/workshop ———————— The 7 Leadership Blind Spots, one a day: 1. Drive Accountability. Do people deliver for you, or do they make excuses? (Ep.418) 2. Handle Conflict. Can you have the tough conversations that weak leaders avoid? (Ep.419) Tomorrow, blind spot three, and it's my own. Working at the right level. ———————— Leadership Beyond the Theory link: https://www.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ ———————— You can connect with me at: Website: https://www.yourceomentor.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentor Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop. Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team. Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Join the October cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
September 02, 202617min
Number 4: How Do You Lead Your Old Team Mates? | Moment 187
Being promoted to a new leadership level is a difficult transition to make. But it’s even tougher when you’re promoted to lead the team you used to be part of. The biggest trap is that you might take the culture, the capability, and the performance of that team for granted. This Moment gives you some ways to combat your status quo thinking, and set the scene for meaningful performance improvement. If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can change the paradigm when you have to lead your old team mates, have a listen to Ep.269: Performing After Promotion. ———————— 🚨 Every time you rescue an underperformer, you teach them that delivery is optional. Free 2-hour workshop, Friday 28 August, 12pm AEST: the 7 leadership blind spots that created them, plus your own Blind Spot Scorecard! REGISTER HERE 🚨 ———————— You can connect with me at: Website: https://www.yourceomentor.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentor Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor ———————— Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop. Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team. Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Join the October cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 23, 20265min
Number 5: Your Ultimate Talent Identification Checklist
Every time you fill a vacancy, you have to make a choice: do you promote someone from within, who you may know quite well, or take a punt on someone you don’t? Over my corporate career, I made both calls frequently. Sometimes, I got to pat myself on the back for how brilliant I was, but occasionally the resulting hire was so disastrous that I looked like a complete muppet in front of my team (and my boss)! Most leaders have no real way of determining who might be ready for promotion… it’s all guesswork and gut feel. They rely on factors like a confident interview performance, a firm handshake, or a sharp dress sense… and then they’re completely mystified when it doesn't work out. In this episode, I show you how to tell the difference between someone who's performing well now, and someone who’s ready for more; and I give you a checklist to work out which leaders might be able to function at the next level up, and which leaders never will. 🚨 Every time you rescue an underperformer, you teach them that delivery is optional. Free 2-hour workshop, Friday 28 August, 12pm AEST: the 7 leadership blind spots that created them, plus your own Blind Spot Scorecard! REGISTER HERE 🚨 Links mentioned in this episode: No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes: Ep.231: Talent Management Ep.25: The Roadmap to Exceptional Leadership Ep.386: The Truth Doesn’t Travel Up Business Insider article: Chipotle's COO uses team dinners to spot potential leaders Carnegie Melon research: When Does Beauty Pay? Amazon link: Blink LBT link: Leadership Beyond the Theory ———————— You can connect with me at: Website: https://www.yourceomentor.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentor Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor ———————— Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop. Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team. Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Join the October cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 18, 202620min