12 Ted Lasso Leadership Lessons

Bill and Ralph dissect and discuss the leadership wisdom of Ted Lasso. Whether you’re a fan of the eponymous Apple TV show or haven’t seen it, listen in for a fun analysis of Lasso’s approach and gain insights on principles and techniques you can incorporate into your own leadership.

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Bill Berthel: Welcome to the Get Emergent Podcast, where we discuss leadership concepts and best practices. We like to provide ideas, concepts, and pragmatic experiments to help you develop as a leader. I’m Bill Berthel.

Ralph Simone: And I’m Ralph Simone.

Bill Berthel: So Ralph, we’ve got a great topic for this podcast. Our business partner Kathy Gaynor, who happens to not watch the Great Show of Ted Lasso that you and I are big fans of.

I, I think she watches it vicariously through us, which, which is one way to consume a TV show. But Kathy found this great list, I think website on the internet, somewhere of these 12 leadership lessons of, you know, Ted Lasso wisdom that we’d like to talk about this morning.

Ralph Simone: Absolutely. I gotta be transparent here. I was a reluctant viewer initially.

Bill Berthel: Oh, me too. That’s interesting.

Ralph Simone: I had seen a couple of the commercials and I thought, this is corny. But I had heard from enough people, I respected that you gotta watch this show. And then once I started watching it, I was hooked. And you know, I’ve used.

Various lines from Ted Lasso. So this list I think is really powerful and we may or may not get through the whole list, but we ought start with the first one, which I think is a tenant for what we do in our coaching business. Believe in yourself. The importance of that when you’re leading people, right?

Believe in yourself.

Bill Berthel: Absolutely right. That’s a piece of credibility in your leadership. If you don’t believe in yourself, it’s going to be hard to follow that individual as a leader. So there’s credibility there. There’s also that realistic optimism that I can do this. We can do this. Being rooted in reality, but moving it towards positive progression in the work that starts with believing in yourself.

Ralph Simone: The belief causes you to take action. It encourages you to experiment. It encourages you to practice. I think it builds resilience and in the show they have the, the signed believe over his office and, you know, Napoleon Hill said, what the mine can conceive and believe it can achieve.

You know, helping people to believe in their potential, in their goals, in their dreams, and then supporting them. And I, and I think one of the things I like about the show is how supportive he is in this kind of folksy way of people continuing, you know, to believe in themselves.

Bill Berthel: Well, it’s not on the list, but as a coach, he empowers people to believe in themselves and he believes in others, which is really endearing in his character and certainly as a leader.

If our listeners don’t watch that show as the episodes continue, at least for me, his