THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Speed of Trust: Bridging the Gap
https://youtu.be/QReDK4t_yRw We have an epic erosion of trust. At the institutional level, we don't trust the media like we used to, we don't trust politicians. We don't trust bankers, we don't trust the mortgage industry. All of these pillars of leadership that once...
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Loneliness of Command: The Weight of Leadership
https://youtu.be/cDc8HMfEbTk I think in this day and age, one of the things that we fail to teach our young leaders as they are coming up in the ranks, is that there is a “Loneliness of Command”. There is a weight of leadership that one must bear when going...
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Rooftop Rally Point – Battle Buddies: Getting Out of Your Own Way
https://youtu.be/9ax5E3FXV-s The subject of this particular video clip on the Rooftop Rally Point series is, “Battle Buddies: Getting Out of Your Own Way”. I thought telling the story of my Ranger Buddy, Cliff would be very appropriate because Cliff taught me...
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Battlefield To Boardroom: Leadership Philosophy
https://youtu.be/LYPthuWZ48A As I moved on through my career, I saw leaders good and bad who would put out their leadership philosophy. It was something that I started to do myself as a team leader, as a company commander, and I saw the value in it because what it...
Pictures in Their Head
https://youtu.be/JYO4fAVE0jA Stuart Diamond tells us to, “See the pictures in their head”. If you can do this, let me tell you something, you have a serious leadership advantage in life and business because when you see the pictures in their heads, now you know where...
Understanding the Emotional Atmosphere in the Room
https://youtu.be/YGTheEjJGjQ Assess and understand the emotional atmosphere in the room. It’s critical in your boardroom, with your kids, with your associates, your prospects, your clients. There is an emotional climate always around us, because humans are the most...
Power Of Leveraging a Committed Network
https://youtu.be/nXeNKAeYu9c One of the first steps that I want to go into for meeting people where they are, one of the first tools is to leverage the network. Leverage a powerful network. If you can do this, you can move people to take action. You can create a...
Meet Them Where They Are
https://youtu.be/n7CSwx5LI6s How do you go from 75 people who are committed to something, to 15,000 in less than 18 months? Would those numbers make a difference in your business? Would those numbers make a difference in your association or your organization? Would...
High Stakes Listening
https://youtu.be/1kR2gtx4Kaw Isn't it interesting that although we know listening is such a powerful thing, we know that biologically it validates us at an identity level and it endears and creates relevance and reciprocity. Yet so few of us do it. It's...
Lean In
https://youtu.be/DKBuGYMJML8 There are a lot of studies that show your body language, your physicality in an interpersonal engagement, is up to 60% of the human connection. Another 30% is voice tonality and maybe 10% is the actual spoken word. But where do we spend...
HWBL
https://youtu.be/pfJlVWFsxs4 Homework Before Leg Work. Our monthly theme this month is ‘Owning the Room’. Achieving a level of relevance so that people follow you, buy from you, invest in you, believe in you. How do you do that? You achieve relevance, you become the...
Own The Room
https://youtu.be/IRinaen9NfU Today we will discuss the desire to “Own the Room”. The desire to make powerful connections, so that the people sitting across from you, feel inspired and compelled to follow your lead, to proceed with that transaction. To engage in...
Closing The Gaps with Story
https://youtu.be/jg_hnApj9TE This month we're talking about the power of narrative and the theme this week is closing the gap with storytelling. When you think about your skill as a storyteller, whether you're a business leader, a veteran, a nonprofit leader,...
