THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Decisive Point
https://youtu.be/82p47ZdmKAM We are going to talk about how to use a “Decisive Point” to arrive at a solution for a complex problem. Now, in the last Vlog you heard me talk about “Unity of Effort”. It's taking all of the different participants in your organization,...
read more
Battlefield to Boardroom: Unity of Effort
https://youtu.be/bxLoCuwvtcE One of the lessons that I talk about a lot in corporate America and in organizations from nonprofits to small businesses is this notion of what we call “Unity of effort”, in the military world. “Unity of Effort”, this timeless principle of...
read more
Battlefield to Boardroom: METL “Mission Essential Task List”
https://youtu.be/pjs0BMDPer8 What is it that rings the bell for Your Organization? What are the things that if you don't do money doesn't come in, you don't achieve your mission? These thoughts took me back to a term that we use in the military. We call it METL....
read more
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,...
The Art Of Practice
https://youtu.be/z2PwyuX37-E Whether it’s Army Rangers, Navy Seals or Green Berets, the reality is the same, they train. They have a deeper and better relationship with practice than anyone around them. They are able to get into a state of flow that is...
Gifting Your Story
https://youtu.be/caP6mbJ8wPY Stories are purposeful. They are designed to serve other people. They are gifts and when you use them as gifts, a certain thing called reciprocity occurs where the audience or the listener of the story is connected or is...
Birthing Your Story
https://youtu.be/zzpnrCaeN_Y Our theme this week, as we go into our second month of narrative competence, is “Birthing your Story”. It is a hard process. It is a challenging task and it comes from within us, and that's why you'll often hear authors and...
The Hero’s Journey
https://youtu.be/Uu1TikZpCQI The Hero's Journey is a timeless story, it is one of the oldest forms of story in the world, it is a structure that can really serve you well when you are leading with story. The Hero's Journey framework, was really codified...
Essential Elements of Story
https://youtu.be/44l3iUEawHg So, what is it about story that makes it so powerful? In this month of July, we're focusing on Narrative Competence, Part One. And before I get you on your feet, and start having you develop your story, I want to talk about,...
Busting The Myths of Story
https://youtu.be/55zITQpxU0Y I learned storytelling in one of the hardest environments in the world which is tribal society, at-risk, and under-governed, and really on the edges of tribal warfare. That's where I learned storytelling as a Green Beret, to...
How Story Works
https://youtu.be/TrTSKyslv7g Kendall Haven calls us “Homo-Narratus”. Storytelling has become an evolutionary tool in our survival and why we sit at the top of the food chain. This is why story is so powerful. It's 100,000 years of hard wiring in every...
