Peak Performance Leadership

'Quiet quitting' isn't really quitting, but it is forcing employers to adapt. What it mean is that employees are holding the employers to account for their job descriptions. The phrase — which isn't actually intended to lead to a resignation — exploded into the popular lexicon last week when a TikTok video went viral. 

Topics

During this episode I talk about the following topics:

• What "Quiet Quitting" actually is
• Why it has occurred
• Why "quiet quitting" is not actually a bad thing
• How to help your team members not need to "quietly quit."

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https://leaddontboss.com/234

Whether you’re a solopreneur, a small business owner, an emerging leader or in an executive leadership role, life in the 21st century dictates that you need to know your numbers and use them to enhance your impact. Increasingly, executives and board members around the world are held personally responsible for knowing the data – meaning that this understanding helps minimize and mitigate risk not only for businesses but for individuals. Whether you’re organizing your home budget and feeding your kids, or running a multinational, multi-million-dollar organization, it is no longer sufficient to say ‘but I’m not a numbers person’ and believe that it is someone else’s job to keep track of the numbers. We all need to be data literate and able to ask the right questions at the right time.

Dr Selena Fisk is a data expert and consultant who is passionate about helping others sort through the ‘numbers’ to tell the real stories and lead positive change. She fiercely advocates for a world in which we are all data-informed, not data-driven. Selena has mentored executive, senior, and middle leaders, as well as hundreds of others in data storytelling, which has positively impacted the organizations in which they work.

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During this interview Selena and I discuss the following topics:

• Why people become “non-numbers” people
• How people can get out of their fixed mindset of not being good at numbers
• How to identity the right early adopters
• What data storytelling is and how to use it effectively
• How use data to be informed and now driven
• How to start being a “data-informed” organization

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https://leaddontboss.com/233

In this episode I go solo and talk about three different types of leaders found in the world:

• The Boss
• The Imposter
• The Leader

I discuss these three but ask you "are you the leader in the arena?" This is an adjusted passage from Theodore Roosevelt's speech "Citizenship In A Republic" with this specific paragraph known as "The Man in the Arena." I've adjusted the paragraph to be inclusive to the female leaders here.

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https://leaddontboss.com/232

Paul is the No B.S. Workplace Development Coach who, for the last 30 years, has been assisting Leaders and their organizations to achieve their full potential. His approach is practical, hands-on, grounded in the realities of the real world of work and results oriented – all undertaken with a sense of humor and panache. He is also a "recovering trial lawyer", a Chicago Bears fanatic, an unabashed Starbucks addict, the author of WorkQuake™, a book dedicated to thriving in the Information Economy and a Member of the Forbes Coaching Council.

Topics

During this interview Paul and I discuss the following topics:

• Why a team becomes dysfunctional in the first place
• What is holding leaders back from transitioning to a new generation of leaders
• How to enable your teams to become self-organizing teams
• Why psychological safety is important for teams
• How to build relationships with your team members

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https://leaddontboss.com/231

Larry Yatch is an elite leadership strategist and the creator of the SEAL Success programs, a collection of skills-based training, workshops, and courses that enable high performers to find fulfillment, connect with their teams, and make a sustainable impact in their field. A graduate of the US Naval Academy and former ten-year officer in the Navy SEALs, Larry has spent nearly a decade since his retirement as a trainer and speaker, helping senior executives optimize their personal growth and leadership strategy for superior performance. In addition to numerous military honors, Larry is recognized as the go-to expert in leadership development, team performance, and project management.

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During this interview Larry and I discuss the following topics:

• What brought him to be an officer in the US Navy SEALs
• Why he would have not gone to officer training if he could redo things
• The hard lessons he had to learn as junior officer
• How to guide high-performing teams in the right direction
• How to create leaders across all the levels of an organization
• The different types of authorities
• How to effectively to coordinate your team into effective action
• How to ensure that you don’t burn yourself and others out in achieving success

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https://leaddontboss.com/230

This week's podcast episode, I go and answer your questions on leading! Here are a number of questions posed to me from members of our free Facebook Group and my answers to them. Have a listen because maybe, you're in one of these situations:

• Members asking about work-life balance
• A member believes that their supervisors are too busy fighting the close fires and not being pre-emptive
• Having to deal with a negative high-performer
• Dealing with an underperforming, high-performer

If you have situations you'd like advice on, don't be shy to reach out to me! 

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https://leaddontboss.com/229

Kevin is a senior leader who likes to use data and analytics to transform, innovate, and continuously improve organizations to make them the best they can be. His passion is the intersection of business, technology, learning, and psychology. Kevin believes the world is constantly evolving and we should always be evolving and improving ourselves in business and in our personal life. Through many years of working in a variety of businesses and industries, Kevin has been able to leverage technology and psychology, along with data and analytics, to improve organizational performance and transform businesses into high performing organizations. Kevin frequently speaks and writes on topics of data-informed decision making, the future of learning, and growth mindset.

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During this interview Kevin and I discuss the following topics:

• The good and bad about our data hunger in this day and age
• How to avoid data analysis paralysis 
• How to use data in the decision making process
• Different biases found in data-informed decision making
• How assumptions are crucial to planning and proper data analysis
• The 5 Phase process to data-informed decision making
• Where leaders fault in applying the model

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https://leaddontboss.com/228

Nick Jonsson is the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia’s premiere networking organizations, Executives’ Global Network (EGN) Singapore — a confidential peer group network providing more than 600 senior executives and business owners a safe haven to share their challenges, receive support, and learn from each other. Nick has been featured in more than 30 newspapers and magazines including a 4-page feature in the Business Times and a full page in the Straits Times, as well as on TV including Channel News Asia (CNA), and is passionate about bringing the discussion to the forefront. Nick has worked across Asia, Australia and Europe representing major international firms, and is active in charitable and fundraising organizations to give back and support his local community, along with volunteering and fundraising for the Samaritans (SOS) – a suicide prevention hotline in Singapore.

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During this interview Nick and I discuss the following topics:

• How loneliness even starts for leaders
• How to recognize the signs of leader loneliness 
• How to identify when our judgment is clouded
• What it took to begin to turn his life around
• How support networks help you as a leader to avoid leader loneliness

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https://leaddontboss.com/227

Bill Coletti is a reputation management, crisis communications, and professional development expert. Additionally, he is a keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panelist, and best-selling author of Critical Moments, The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for both Fortune 500 companies and winning global political campaigns. Bill has provided senior counsel in crisis management, corporate communications, and reputation defense to numerous clients including AT&T, Target Corporation, American Airlines, The Home Depot, Xerox, Nuclear Energy Institute, Cargill, as well as major universities and global NGOs. Previously, Bill served in the Republic of Bulgaria as Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister, Council of Ministers, and the Labor Minister. He was the first Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria.

Topics

During this interview Bill and I discuss the following topics:

• What a trusted advisor is
• What qualities a trusted advisor should possess
• Three different leader types
• How to balance the use of a trusted advisor
• How a leader of a smaller organization can use a trusted advisor
• How to ask better and bolder questions

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https://leaddontboss.com/226

Recently I saw an add that someone said that they would turn you from a follower to a leader in 90 days or less! I was absolutely floored, irate, and embarrassed as a coach! This ideology means that leadership is a destination. That it has a start and end point. Which, yes I will agree that at some point you started leading and at some point you'll stop leading, but that was not the meaning of this message. Rather that within a specific period of time you can become a leader and say that's all folks! I've made it so I can stop trying now. THIS IS WRONG!

Through this episode, I get a little ranty, a bit fired up. It's likely different than anything you've heard from me to date. But I am passionate to say that leadership is a journey. We must continue to develop, evolve, learn and grow as leaders to remain effective. That is why, leadership is a journey and not a destination. Enjoy!

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://leaddontboss.com/225