The Bill Perry Show

Is it possible that you are unintentionally sabotaging your own progress toward becoming a better leader? As we've written in this series, healthy teams require healthy leaders, so it's vitally important you take care of yourself. In this podcast episode, we'll talk about self-care in terms of self-talk, positive thinking and overcoming perfectionism. What you say to yourself is critical to the health of your leadership.

We all have foundational messages that tend to run through our minds on auto-play. Many of these thoughts are negatively oriented. For most of us, the process is so automatic that we often don't realize how self-critical we are. We can blame our primitive ancestors for these negative leanings. When facing great hardships and threats over time, our thought processes evolved to diligently consider dangers to our existence. In other words, we are actually hard-wired to yield to worry.

The good news is that you can rewrite the negative story you have written about yourself. In this podcast episode, I share my own experience in reversing negative self-talk. The first step was to acknowledge the dysfunctional thought process. I had to intentionally break ranks with my perfectionist leaning to say, "Just because I don't do something perfectly that doesn't make me a failure."

You have value and worth beyond your wildest imagination. Your previous failures and the messages of your past do not have to define who you will become.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• The research of Dr. Masaru Emoto, which explores how positive thinking impacts health and wellbeing.
• How I learned to approach daunting DIY projects with less dread and more positivity.
• Ways that you can offer hope and genuine kindness to those around you. (Hint: it starts by offering it to yourself.)
• The origins of our negative self-talk and how to change it at the core.

I'd love to hear your questions, thoughts and comments. If you have a minute drop me a line on social or email me ([email protected]) with your name and questions and I'll take some time in an upcoming episode to address some of your organizational and leadership challenges!

As always, my hope is to encourage you in the pursuit of a better you, better team, better business, better life!

We're continuing our leadership skills series, and we're focused on why you, the leader, need to take care of yourself first. Healthy teams require healthy leaders.

In this episode, we unpack leadership self-care tip #3: the critical importance of a good night's sleep.

Healthy, effective leadership depends upon your getting quality, neurochemical-reset sleep. Without it, certain biochemical balances in your body—balances that are strategic to your emotional capacity and critical thinking—are impacted.

Unfortunately, 60% of us report poor-quality sleep, and it's affecting our leadership.

Think you're good? Not all sleep is created equal. Research shows, to get the full health benefits of a good night's rest, you need to move through four complete sleep cycles, and you need a minimum of 6 to 6.5 hours to do that.

You can sleep eight hours and not move through four compete cycles. It's the quantity and the quality of sleep that are key to maximizing your internal reset and optimizing your brain function.

In this episode, we offer a few tips to help fix what's disrupting your cyclical sleep process. Good sleep goes a long way toward helping you be more aware of and present to those around you. That one thing will help improve your relationships in life and leadership.

I'd love to hear your questions, thoughts and comments. If you have a minute, drop me a line on social or email me with your name and questions, and I'll take some time in an upcoming episode to address some of your organizational and leadership challenges!

As always, my hope is to encourage you in the pursuit of a better you, better team, better business, and better life!

We're continuing our series on developing leadership skills, specifically focusing on taking care of yourself as a leader first. Why is this important? Because healthy teams can contribute significantly to your ROI and they require healthy leaders.

In this week's episode, we unpack leadership self-care skill #2: becoming chemically dependent!

Healthy chemical dependencies for leaders have nothing to do with caffeine, wine and alcohol—the great elixirs of truth—or mind-altering substances that eventually destroy the very faculties you desperately need to stay on top of your game.

I'm referring to the biochemical influences that influence self-regard and healthy interactions with your team.

I'm talking endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and melatonin, or collectively, EDSOM. These five naturally occurring chemicals set us up for success in creating highly engaged workplaces, families, and communities because they reinforce all the feel-good elements of safe relationships, achieving goals, and being a valuable team member. When these chemicals are in healthy balance, you are an amazing person to live and work with. When they are out of balance, it's a different story.

Understanding how these neurotransmitters and biochemicals can affect your interactions will make you more aware of the influence you're having on your team and will propel you to greater levels of presence in your work and your personal life.

Listen in for simple strategies you can implement today that will encourage healthy chemical dependencies for you and your team and strengthen the bonds of your organization.

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I'd love to hear your questions, thoughts and comments. If you have a minute, drop me a line on social or email me with your name and questions, and I'll address some of your organizational and leadership challenges in an upcoming episode.

As always, my hope is to encourage you in the pursuit of a better you, better team, better business, better life!

Healthy teams require healthy leaders.

If you aim to become a better leader and to develop a healthy organization that delivers results, then it's imperative that you focus on you first. It's leadership development 101.

Over the next few episodes, we'll discuss the absolute necessity of leadership self-care. Step one in improving your leadership and your team's experience: take care of yourself.

In this episode, we cover the leadership tool of mindful meditation. Before you think I've jumped ship, let me say this: Your best and most innovative ideas will emerge as you become more intentionally mindful.

Backed by centuries of practice and modern research, meditation can help you become a better leader by:

* Being more present with your team

* Making more mental space for creativity

* Developing stronger mental discipline

* Managing your own thought processes

* Growing in emotional intelligence

* Better managing your stress, anxiety, and depression

* Increasing your immunity and lowering your blood pressure

* Helping you sleep better

* Improving your happiness and general well-being

Listen in for simple and actionable steps that you can take to improve your emotional intelligence and grow in your leadership today.

Settled, but not satisfied. Everyone has moments where that feeling prevails. When you realize that you have settled without fulfillment for an extended period of time, that's when momentary despair becomes resignation!

In Episode nine we're wrapping up our conversation about the all-too-common pain of resignation. And the good news that you do not have to live in that pain...

More often than not, freedom from that pain comes down to leaders and teams willing to do the intentional, hard work of creating trust, practicing the art of healthy conflict, and extending appreciation for those in their workplaces and communities.

Adjusting numbers is relatively easy compared to the intentionality required to build healthier team and family relationships. I'd much rather reprogram my external systems than have to look at how my behavior is affecting my performance.

Behavior is almost always at the heart of engagement!

Life is meant to be lived, and vision realized within a community. Invite the people who have offered their strengths to your vision to work with you to realize the fruit of your dreams.

They will be happier at the end of the day, and so will you!

Let me know how I can help you! Connect with me on social media via DM on Instagram at : Instagram.com/thebillperryshow, or Schedule a conversation!

Resignation is the primary symptom of disengagement, both personally and professionally. We're continuing to look at the idea of resignation-the acceptance of something undesirable, but seemingly inevitable. And, the good news that you don't have to live with that pain.

Resignation and despair often find their conception in 'settling.' Settling is the idea of being okay with just being okay.

For many of you, in repeated bouts in the ring with resignation you have silenced the voices of dissension, those small signals from deep inside that tell you something isn't right. You're not satisfied. You might be settling... I see it every day. You settle for work experiences that are not fulfilling. You settle for relationships that are functional at best. And they keep pushing down the internal voices of dissent.

The problem with our silencing efforts is that they are often subtly self-destructive. We usually silence with some kind of addiction. Food, alcohol, re-doubling our efforts at work, affairs, television, fantasy novels. It doesn't have to be illegal to constitute a counterfeit.

In this episode, I share some of my own story of realizing that I had reached a place of settling, and the move I made to shift into a new role.

I offer you three strange questions, courtesy of my friend Mike Kim, that will give you resource for piercing the fog that is obscuring your passion.

Here's a link to Mike's podcast where he introduces those questions. You'll love his stuff too.

Rising from resignation means living from the inside out. Your actions are determined on deeply held convictions and values. It requires being willing to wrestle with the rumblings when something "just doesn't feel quite right."

If you'd like to connect with me elsewhere, you can DM me on Instagram at: instagram.com/thebillperryshow

If you need some help getting clear on your passion, vision, and values, use this link to schedule some time to talk with me.

Resignation is the primary symptom of disengagement, both personally and professionally. We're continuing to look at the idea of resignation-the acceptance of something undesirable, but seemingly inevitable. And, the good news that you don't have to live with that pain.

Resignation generally presents in diminished productivity, a withdrawal from communication, and a lack of passion and enthusiasm.

Healthy teams are the product of healthy leaders. If your team is trending towards disengagement, the first position to consider is your own.

Assuming you are not personally lost in the weeds, here are a few questions to ask concerning your team:

1. Does everyone understand why we are doing what we are doing? The number one need: be in on things...
2. Is everyone clear regarding their role in the vision?
3. Do we have clarity and agreement around how we expect each other to behave in the pursuit of the objective?

Alignment always begins with clarity. Disengagement begins with a loss of clarity around why we are doing what we are doing.

If your team is exhibiting the signs of resignation and despair, don't offer directives, ask questions!

Every team member deserves the right to the pursuit of happiness. While their overall emotional state is not your personal responsibility, it is your responsibility as a leader to ensure that they have every resource and opportunity at your disposal to experience that within the boundaries of your influence.

How to Retain Top-Shelf Talent - https://www.theinnovatusgroup.com/employee-retention-checklist-download/

Resignation is the primary symptom of disengagement, both personally and professionally. Over the next few episodes, we're going to look at the idea of resignation-the acceptance of something undesirable, but seemingly inevitable. And, the good news that you don't have to live with that pain.

Typically, resignation is marked by thoughts like, "life hasn't become _______", or "if only ______".

Most of the time it's a function of a lack of alignment either internally, or externally with your team.

Here's some advice. Get outside. Often it helps to get out of the mundane, routine operations that pull you away from vision and values.

Ask yourself a couple of introspective questions: "Where have I moved away from integrity?" "Where did the train leave the tracks of vision and purpose?"

Get help! It's not always a great idea to navel gaze alone. Get a coach to walk you through the process of getting back to passion and purpose.

In this episode, I talk about the path a leader has to take to create a culture that will engage, empower and inspire every team member and allow them to express their unique potential.

The path starts with clarity and alignment. Clarity and alignment represent the foundation organizational health. For a leader to experience maximum impact, their vision has to be clearly defined and they also must be aligned with their vision. People want to know that what they are waking up to do matters and why it matters. Team alignment around a shared vision is a primary component of a healthy organization. Clearly defined values, behaviors around which your team is aligned, become a backbone of a healthy organization. When this is realized, this is the point where drama and toxic company culture begins to fade.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• How processes can create clarity and alignment within organizations

• The importance of creating a clear company vision

• Vision alignment and organizational health 101

• Core values and their development

Resources mentioned:

"Start with Why" TedTalk by Simon Sinek

Retain Checklist - https://www.theinnovatusgroup.com/employee-retention-checklist-download/

A more rewarding and engagement work experience always begins in the heart of the leader. In fact, building a healthy team rests on the foundation of growing yourself as a leader. As a leader, you have to, "Put your own mask on, first." It will enable you to survive, thrive and serve in seasons of stress, chaos and confusion.

In this episode, I talk about the priority of self care and emotional intelligence. As a leader you have to be willing to make time and room to develop yourself first. And, highly developed emotional intelligence is the secret sauce to great leadership.

If you want a healthy and highly engaged team, you have to do the intentional, hard work to become a more healthy and highly engaged leader.

"A better you makes for a better team, makes for a better business and makes for a better life."

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• Leadership and the priority to self care

• Self care is a foundational component of your emotional intelligence

• Emotional intelligence and your emotional quotient

Resources mentioned:

Retain Checklist - https://www.theinnovatusgroup.com/employee-retention-checklist-download/