The Lead Up Podcast

This week Mike is joined by special guest Beth Armknecht Miller. Beth shares about leading through empowering and developing others and letting go of the command and control method and how this really frees you up to be a better leader. She shares her top three skills that leaders need to improve on. Listen to learn these 3 C's. 

Beth Armknecht Miller is CEO of Executive Velocity, a top talent and leadership development advisory firm. Beth is a trusted executive consultant, Vistage Chair Emeritus, and committed volunteer. She is certified in Myers Briggs, Hogan, and Business DNA. And, she is a Certified Managerial Coach by Kennesaw University. Beth’s insight and expertise have made her a sought-after speaker on hiring, leadership development, and succession planning. Her book, Are You Talent Obsessed? was published in 2014 and is available on Amazon. She is a frequent contributor to Entrepreneur Online, About.com, and TalentCulture to name a few. She is a graduate of Babson College and Harvard Business School’s OPM program. To learn more about Beth www.Executive-Velocity.com.

Find Beth's book on Amazon Are You Talent Obsessed?

2020 has been the most unpredictable year in our lifetimes. As leaders, we must help our teams and followers move forward or we risk remaining stuck. Don't leave them where they are.

It is your responsibility to create a vision that is bigger than the current problems that you have. 

Leadership is influencing others to move from where they are.

Leadership is seeing something and creating that vision, and then implanting that vision in the hearts and minds of the people that you lead. 

You can have great values, but if you don't have a culture that drives that it is going to fall apart. 

People don't rise to the level of your expectations, they rise to the level of accountability for those expectations. 

Download The Daily Compass Tool to help you set daily priorities and use it with your team. 

In this episode, we welcome a special guest, Jason Benham. He and his brother David an identical twin are both former professional baseball players, best-selling authors, and nationally acclaimed entrepreneurs. 

The same timing, skill, & determination that once benefited them on the baseball field--with the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles--catapulted them to the top of the business world.

Their first company grew to 100 locations in 35 states and has been recognized by dozens of publications including Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and others. 

Jason and David's  rise to success earned them a straight-to-series reality television show with HGTV, called "Flip It Forward."

Yet it was abruptly canceled due to their commitment to biblical values. David and Jason hit the national scene as they stood by their convictions and were featured on nearly every major news network in the country, including Fox News, CNN, ABC's Nightline, and Good Morning America.

We talked with Jason about why values are so important as a leader and converting your values into principles. 

We discussed what happens when the dream has to change and how do leaders make that transition of choice.

Jason shares about Expert Ownership he and his brother, David launched in 2020. They also have a live event coming Oct 21 and 22nd that will be a great event.

You can find out more about Jason and the Benham Brothers by following the links below.

https://www.expertownershiplive.com/

https://benhambrothers.com/

In this episode, Mike is sharing with you four steps that he uses every single year, actually every month, every day, every year to win the fourth quarter.

This year is not over - the goals that you established at the end of last year, the beginning of 2020, there's still a chance to make progress on those. And I know, the pandemic put a damper on maybe some of your goals, maybe your ability to move forward. 

Quint Studer is a lifelong student of leadership. He is a businessman, a visionary, an entrepreneur, and a mentor to many. He has worked with individuals at all levels of leadership and across a variety of industries to help them become better leaders and create high-performing organizations. 

Quint was named in Florida Trend’s 500 Most Influential Business Leaders list for 2018, 2019, and 2020. He currently serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of West Florida, Executive-in-Residence at George Washington University, and Lecturer at Cornell University.

Quint books include The Busy Leader's Handbook and Building a Vibrant Community

Things you will learn more about in this episode. 

When a CEO or an executive team realizes that 85 to 90% of the people don't report to them or even possibly a person that reports to them. Then all of a sudden, you cannot train.

We owe our employees. A great place to work and good to give a great, great place to work the person that impacts them the most is their manager.

The problem is not too many meetings, it is too many ineffective meetings.

Whether it's perception or not and you could help our listeners with this, the perception is that people are busier today than they were 10 years ago.

Life is difficult, and once we understand that is not as difficult. I'm going to change that and say if you're a leader, you're always going to have a full plate. Once you accept the fact you're always gonna have a full plate, you can manage the plate. 

If you're in a leadership role and you look to your left and no one is there. You look to your right and no one is there, and you look behind you, and no one's there. It's called you have no followers. And if you have no followers, you are not a leader, even though your title, might say leader.

In this episode, Quint offered to share multiple leader tools. Please email [email protected] to request these tools for download. 

• Leadership Foundational Skills – Self Assessment

How people can connect with Quint Studer:

[email protected]

LinkedIn profile

Quint is always on the lookout for ways to share great learning tools. For example, he writes a weekly leadership column that runs in the Pensacola News Journal and several other daily newspapers across the country.  Now we’ve added a podcast that’s kind of an extension of his The Busy Leader’s Handbook called The Busy Leader’s Podcast – A Catalyst for Inspired Action. Click here to listen to or it’s also available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Podcast. We’ll release a new podcast every two weeks, with a variety of guests who will share their best practices.                                                                    

For more information on Entrecon go to  https://entreconpensacola.com/

BIO: Scott Becker previously served on the McGuireWoods LLP Board of Partners and served for nearly 15 years as chairman of the firm’s national Healthcare department. McGuireWoods has one of the best-regarded healthcare practices in the world.

"I started Becker's healthcare almost 30 years ago now I was a young lawyer, literally trying to build a reputation and brand in the legal business and started a small newsletter around surgery centers."- Scott  Becker

It's really been a labor of love to watch it grow. So much of life depends on the right people and building the right teams. And that clearly has been the, you know, the understanding of what can happen to the platform that can be built. But it was really the team of people that just organized, built, and recruited that made us into a serious very successful serious little media company and great, great fun.

There's, there's so many examples of magnificent frontline leaders out there that have just stayed so focused on their mission of keeping healthcare systems vibrant and doing great while dealing with the covid pandemic there's so many of them that it's hard to mention any specific ones if forced to out start mentioning a bunch of names because there's some that I've just been really blown away with by their efforts to this fantastic effort but there's so many of them that have just done remarkable work.

Becker Hospital Review

As a leader, if you don't stand true to your values, when you're faced with the difficult decisions,  when you're faced with crisis with chaos like we've been faced with for so many months now since March of 2020, you'll get pushed around.

Learn how my mentor and friend Paul Martinelli went from janitor to number 1 Coaching Guru in the World.

Some notes from our conversation. 

I was not programmed with prosperity consciousness. I was programmed with poverty consciousness, and I was raised by a single mom in a very abusive home, but both physically, emotionally, and verbally. And like all of us kind of on the playground of life...

In the 1970s a speech impediment was considered a learning disability.

I didn't understand at the time, my self-belief, my self-image, my self-esteem was being programmed, how I saw me, what I believed my worth was. And the power of that is twofold.

One is that our beliefs drive our behavior. You will never see somebody create results that are incongruent with what they believe. Now, they may act for a short period of time, you know, beyond their belief,  but this is why people self-sabotage.

The second power of this is not only do we not only sell, reproduce kind of who we are and what we believe, but it controls what we'll even think is possible. So, when somebody brings to you an idea that is far beyond what you believe is possible for your life, even if it's what you want, you will reject the idea. You will make an agreement with your self-belief limitation rather than your God gifted infinite potential.

With this limiting self-belief, I end up failing out of school. You know, I produced what I believed. I was considered learning disabled. I wasn't learning disabled until I was programmed. I mean, I got a brother who went to the same schools that I did live in the same house, same DNA, same environment, who's got a doctor degree from Carnegie Mellon University, a brother who was an Apache helicopter pilot, you're a military guy, don't pick dumb ones to fly those. I have a sister who graduated number one in our nursing school, you know, you got to be pretty sharp to be you know, number one in your nursing school, and I failed out of school. 

I was cleaning toilets because I thought any dummy could clean a toilet. And I was any dummy, right?

If I were a piece of marble, Michelangelo would still be chipping away at me.

Having worked his way up from mop bucket to millionaire, Paul has practiced — and proven — what he preaches. His thirst and passion for growth is evident in his desire to help others achieve success – the true mark of a great leader. Find out more about Paul here. 

In this episode, Mike talks with special guest Rachael Gillette, host of ENTRECON 2020. She shares how leaders need to be focused to create clarity on their team. The importance of communication not just speaking but listening. 

Oftentimes we thought we'd have communicated something and somebody is saying something completely different.

Whatever it is, we are operating differently, we have to think beyond the way that we're doing it. So now what we're talking about is saying, okay, we're in this situation we may not like it we may not have the tools to be able to deal with it effectively.

We're going to give you them, we're going to come together in November and we are going to bring thought leaders around the world, experts on various different topics at ENTRECON 2020.

Over the last four years, the community has transformed EntreCon® into a conference for not just entrepreneurs, but for business owners, leaders, and employees alike. EntreCon® provides attendees with a front-row seat to both local and national speakers, practical knowledge and tools, and first-class networking within our community.

Be a part of the movement: Let’s create great places to work together.

BIO: Rachael Gillette, Chief Leadership Development Officer

Rachael is the director of training and development at Studer Community Institute. She is responsible for the creation of new and evolving curriculum, and the implementation of leadership programs, customized training, and conferences designed to improve employee skills and business results, building organizations with aligned values and engaged employees.

https://entreconpensacola.com/

http://studeri.org/