THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
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...
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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 what...
read moreClosing 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, or...
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The Power of Story
https://youtu.be/opIx_z6WNSQ Narrative competence is one of the best ways to make a human connection. Inside narrative competence, lies the integration of storytelling, high-stakes listening, and then nonverbal skills for deep human connections to help you achieve...
Narrative Competence
https://youtu.be/RluH61HI1VM Narrative competence, Whether you are a senior leader in a Fortune 100 company, whether you are a speaker, whether you are a small business owner, a nonprofit owner, a warrior, or a transitioning warrior, pretty much anything where you...
Squirrel
https://youtu.be/qc-CxcMHiao Anytime there's somebody that's losing me, that can't stay focused for more than three seconds, I say, "Squirrel!" That's kind of the thing that we use these days to illustrate somebody who can't stay focused, and I believe that is...
No Rocket Fuel – No Moon Landing
https://youtu.be/4pbMa3_jG-w As you think about leadership today in your organization, in your household, in your community, do you see lots of motivation? Do you see lots of engagement? Do you see a lot of collective energy, or do you see evidence of apathy,...
Life Without Trust
https://youtu.be/NcPjWtG6t-o Community trust, the ability to trust your neighbor, is going down. This is not a doom and gloom thing. I mean, we've actually been here before. Trust can be restored. I saw trust restored in some of the most trust-depleted villages on...
Well Dressed Neanderthals
https://youtu.be/phJ3maN-knA So when's the last time you thought about revenge? In modern society, in daily life, things like thoughts of ‘revenge’ show up that have been around for a hundred thousand years. Things like when you think that your resources might be...
Personal Ethos
https://youtu.be/QvYS5l-QrzE Two core questions that every human asks themselves at night when everyone else is asleep, who am I? And why am I here? These are questions that we are seeking answers to our entire life. And I don't know that we ever truly find the...
Resistance Countermoves
https://youtu.be/m3Zn37Yh_s0 This month our theme is, Know Thyself, so now we're going to start getting clear on what are the countermoves that you can use to overcome resistance. This is what professionals do. Amateurs don't do this. Amateurs just succumb to...
Personal Superpowers
https://youtu.be/epRQdMpVmDI How do I define a 'Personal Superpower'? It's those traits and characteristics that you can bring to bear externally that add value to the lives of others. How about that? Did you write that down? Those traits and characteristics that...
Tracks and Torches
https://youtu.be/dqau3BVFPVY My dad, Rex Mann has always said, "Leave your tracks in this world." He described tracks as those indelible impressions that we leave in the Earth that serve, not those around us necessarily, as much as they serve those who follow you....
