We learn from our guest today what emotional intelligence is, why it matters, and the effect it has on your bottom line. Mary Pat Knight is the CEO and Founder of Leaders Inspired (www.LeadersInspired.com/), where she trains leadership teams and coaches individual executives on emotional intelligence. 

Mary Pat has an upcoming book entitled The Emotionally Intelligent Leader, coming this summer, and you can get updates on that by taking her quiz available at www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeader.com. 

In this interview, we covered what Emotional Intelligence and how it affects your bottom line, how to win more and avoid banging your head against the wall by customizing your communication to meet people where they are, and how to spot and break the "drama triangle" cycles we all see in the office of Villian, Victim, and Hero.

Listen in wherever you ge your podcasts or on the web at http://winwin.cast.rocks/.

We learn from our guest today about the systems for success in entrepreneurial organizations and the skills necessary to thrive at each stage - the startup phase and the "second stage," aka the growth or scale-up phase. 

Dr. Dino Signore, of the Signore Group (www.SignoreGroup.com) holds a PhD in Business Psychology, consults with second stage entrepreneurs, and is a sought-after facilitation coach by EOS Implementers and executive coaches. He is also the Education Manager at the Edward Lowe Foundation, which helps second stage entrepreneurs and the organizations that serve them, to get better and be more successful because of a recognition that they are the biggest job creators.

Dr. Dino also shares a couple of fundamental aspects of the skill called facilitation, how he uses them in sessions with leadership teams, and how listeners can incorporate some of those techniques into their leadership style.

Jill Young, our guest today, is a Certified EOS Implementer with Traction First in Dallas, TX and is the author of a new book, In Courage - How Entrepreneurs and Their Leadership Teams Can Experience Less Pain in Growth Mode. 

Jill takes us through the three main "courage mindsets" that she's discovered (through over 600 session days with clients) make the difference between the leadership teams who succeed versus those who don't. 

We also cover why she uses Strategic Coach, founded by Dan Sullivan, for her own coaching and personal development. Definitely worth a listen!

You can learn more about Jill on her website, www.TractionFirst.com and you can get her book at Amazon (an Audible version is also available): https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Entrepreneurs-Leadership-Experience-Growth/dp/1684704413.

We learn from our guest today how to make your organization *great*, rather than just *big*. Rob Dube, co-founder and President of Image One, is just about the earliest Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) company working with Gino Wickman, author of Traction. 

We cover what it means to focus on being a "Small Giant" company, what EOS allowed him to accomplish in his business, and how meditation and mindfulness became a critical part of his success, not only as a human being, but as a business leader. 

Rob is the author of donothing: The most rewarding leadership challenge you’ll ever take (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1544510020/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_7W-5Db7AYVN36). You can learn more about his mission to help leaders become more mindful, as well as about the retreat he's hosting in Colorado in April 2020 on his website: www.DoNothingBook.com/.

In this episode, we learn from a cognitive neuroscientist who works with business owners how to  avoid disasters based on their own cognitive biases. We cover common errors and how to mitigate them when it comes to formulating bids, strategic planning, setting quarterly goals, and avoiding common errors when performing a SWOT (Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats) analysis.

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, from Disaster Avoidance Experts, is the author of a new book, "Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters" (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1632651629/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0), has been interviewed on ABC, NBC, and CBS, and has written numerous scholarly and mainstream mainstream articles in, among others, Inc.com, Scientific American, and Psychology Today.

You can learn more about Dr. Tsipursky's coaching consulting, as well as access many of his articles on his website, www.DisasterAvoidanceExperts.com/.

Our guest today, Jonathan Smith, shares how business owners frustrated with their people, processes, or profits can break through the ceiling their businesses have hit.

Jonathan is co-founder and CEO of Optimize for Growth (https://www.O4G.com/) where he is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps post-startups successfully scale-up. He is also the author of Optimize for Growth - How to Scale up Your Business, Your Network, and You. You can get that on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692485317/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_zN.1DbZTE6CHX.

But perhaps his most important claim to fame ;-) is that Jonathan is my personal mentor and the EOS Implementer at the company where I was on the leadership team during a period when we grew the company from startup to the largest and fastest-growing organization of its type in the State of New York.

Highly recommended listening!

In our newest episode, you'll learn how to take the managers and executives you elevated in your organization because they were good at their jobs and (1) recognize that the skills that made them good at their jobs are very different from the skills necessary to be good leaders and managers and (2) help them maximize your most important resource - your people.

Our guest, Michele Rebetti of Crestcom, is a leadership and development expert and adjunct professor at Farmingdale State College in Long Island, NY.

Michele teaches leaders and managers how to maximize themselves and their teams for the greater good of the organization and with an eye on improving the bottom line. You can learn more about her at https://crestcom.com/leadership-trainer/michele-rebetti.

Alexandria Joy ("AJ") shares useful tools and ideas on how to shed unnecessary fat from our business and personal lives, inspired by her own experience downsizing her own life, including letting go over 75% of her belongings and moving into a "tiny house."

AJ is based in Australia and does trainings and serves as a coach for organizations and leaders/managers looking to improve their culture and develop their people. You can learn more about her work at https://www.UQPower.com.au/. You can also download a free tool to assist with applying some of the advice from this episode at https://www.alexandriajoy.com.au/giveaway.

Listen in and scale down!

In this episode, we learn what an Integrator is in a business, what a Visionary is, how they interact with each other, and how the synergy between them can truly supercharge an organization.

Our guest today is Kristie Clayton, Integrator (COO) and Chief Compliance Officer at BCR Wealth Strategies (www.BCRWealth.com) and Founder of Female Integrator Mastermind - FIM (www.IntegratorMasterMind.com).

Kristie shares what a revelation it was to discover her innermost identity described to a "T" in the book Traction, by Gino Wickman when she first joined BCR, as well as the "Rocket Fuel" (to use the terminology coined by Mark Winters in his book by that name) her company experiences by having a good Integrator/Visionary duo.

Enjoy the listen. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review wherever you listen to this podcast.

In honor of tomorrow being Halloween, we have a special [satire] interview today with an industrious young woman who has managed to turn her hobby into an entrepreneurial enterprise. Leveraging lessons from her beloved parents and a savvy approach to social media, she monetized homicide by taking her side hustle and turning it into a full time career.

In this episode, you'll learn how Tequila Mockingbird put the "hoot" into shoot, the play into slay, and the thrill back into kill. Not only that, by breaking the gender barrier, she took the man out of manslaughter, the butch out of butchery, and the him out of mayhem.

You can learn more about her business at HowToMakeAKillerLiving.com. Enjoy, and happy Halloween!