This year we have a new strategy, a new focus, and a new plan to get there!

In this episode, I break down our big rocks, and how you can help!

Worse, what can we do when they've decided it's us they no longer trust?

Let's talk about how to lead through self-preservation and resistance, and make an impact that could alter the course of their life FOREVER!!!

Listener Question:

The stuff you talk about is pretty obvious, isn't it?

Often the things we talk about seem obvious, but the problem is they are not common language!

Our work is simplifying common leadership problems and providing a common language that can make tackling problems and scaling solutions across our organizations easier!

We cannot diagnose, improve, or pass on principles we cannot articulate with common, simple, language!

This week I am taking a break from the regular format to simply say thank you for everything you and your families do to advance the cause of LIBERATION across the world.

My family and I wish you and yours a wonderful thanksgiving, no matter what version of the holiday you choose to celebrate. 

I hope that you have the opportunity to take time away from work, free your mind from the burdens of day-to-day life and show the people around just how much they truly mean to you.

For those standing watch at their posts this week, I wish I could be there in solidarity with you, but this year the best I can offer is my heartfelt gratitude and appreciation.

From the bottom of my heart, from my family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving.  See you soon!

Listener Question:

I believe in fighting for the highest possible good of others, but how do I stop feeling like such a hypocrite?

Hypocrisy is not having high standards and making mistakes. Hypocrisy is not struggling to attain perfection, rather it is holding others to a standard you make no effort to attain yourself.

Owning our mistakes, our imperfections, and our inadequacies shows our humanity and creates an environment where our teams can fail forward without fear!

Listener Question:

No one has ever done this for me, how can I be expected to do it for anyone else?

When we experience hardship, it can be difficult to break the cycle, especially when we have no model for what right looks like.

Breaking the cycle and changing our family trees means identifying what went wrong, what we wish would have happened, and closing the skills, emotional intelligence, or self-awareness gaps we have!

Today I tackle a listeners question:

"I am not sure I want to be that vulnerable with the people who work for me."

Vulnerability drives engagement and engaged employees fight for the org's highest possible good!

In a Gallup study "The Relationship Between Engagement at Work and Organizational Outcomes.” Gallup.com, 25 May 2016

Two questions were asked, centered on how comfortable people felt asking their boss about non-work-related issues, and asking their boss ANY question.  

The impact of those two factors on employee engagement was beyond any correlation I have ever seen.  

To get an assessment of where your team is right now, rate yourself 1-10 based on the following three questions:

1 - On our team, we admit mistakes easily
2 - On our team, everyone openly shares their ideas
3 - On our team, we rely on common knowledge, rather than exploring new ideas

E-mail me at [email protected] with your scores and then ask your teammates to rate the team.

Sometimes we undermine our influence without knowing it, and the way we speak to people can have a dramatic impact on how they receive us!  

Leading, and coaching people through these blindspots is a critical skill to both our success and theirs!

"If you're the one person to stand up in a culture where things are out of control, it'll cost you something, but what is more important, keeping your mouth shut or making a change?"

All of us should have ZERO TOLERANCE to any form of sexual assault, sexual discrimination, sexual jokes, and even racism. These kinds of behavior should not be in any way accepted in our community.

Above anything else, we should be the vanguards of this ideology. Let us lead our pack to the right path and hone them to become future leaders who exuberate RESPECT in everything they say and do.

In this episode, we'll talk about why we should all stand up against any negativities that we encounter around us and how important it is for us to be the catalyst of change!

Today we share listener tips for leading up!

Have more tips you want the world to know:

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