THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Leading Through the Churn: Webinar
https://youtu.be/xKudi-4sXXM These last six months have been unprecedented, but the churn in the next six months is going to pose more challenges to us than at any other point in our history as human beings. Regardless of your discipline, regardless of your party,...
Knowing When to Pivot
https://youtu.be/uuJOVrZzbQ8 I still remember the day that Wes and I made the decision to pivot. It was right after the pandemic had begun. The first speaking event that I was supposed to do was canceled, and Wes and I were already talking about what was coming....
Connecting With Prospects in the New Normal
https://youtu.be/PuFX1Ek1pgo How in the world are we going to maintain a face-to-face interaction and rapport with prospects and then bring them over to our side to inspire them to buy from us, when there's all this social distancing and we're wearing PPE. We've...
What’s Changed in Your Arena?
https://youtu.be/xM211qjehQc In Special Forces, Special Operations, we have these things called imperatives. These are the guidelines that move us through complexity, crisis, ambiguity. A lot of the same things that you're facing. The number one Special Ops...
Mistakes Leaders Make During Crisis
https://youtu.be/1wI_fVNDWX0 We all face crisis as leaders, as organizational leaders, certainly. We live in a dangerous world. We may think we're super sophisticated and we've got everything going on, but as we're seeing today with the coronavirus, with 9/11, with...
Leading Through Fear
https://youtu.be/43asgb1o9Cw We need leaders who can lead through fear because the reality is, fear is a normal human function. It kept us alive for hundreds of thousands of years. It is a fight, flight, or freeze thing. It is a primal reality. Fear motivates...
Self Sabotage: No One Wants to Hear This
https://youtu.be/t1dS7yxM-s4 We've talked about things that are too daunting. Overwhelming. We've talked about the “Imposter Syndrome”, talked about being “Too Busy” and now we're talking about, “No One Wants to Hear This”. That's another form of self-sabotage. It's...
Self Sabotage: Too Busy…
https://youtu.be/fNQqd_B0anw The “rat race”, the operational tempo that will dominate you, own you if you're not careful. It can make it very difficult to do what Rooftop Leaders are supposed to do, which is to play a bigger game. To serve a purpose bigger than...
Imposter Syndrome: Who am I to Do This?
https://youtu.be/QxAse1y2Jlg Who are you not to do it? What happens if you don't write your book? What happens if you don't put your music out there? Your art, your movie, your ideas. Who are you not to share the lessons you have learned? Who are you not to do...
Self-Sabotage: Do What Scares You
https://youtu.be/2lkJZ7UwTbQ Welcome to 2020! This year I am going to talk about pain points that leaders just like you who are playing a bigger game, who want to do something bigger than themselves, who are creating movements, who value connection and impact are...
Manage Your Anxiety: What if My Nerves Get in the Way?
https://youtu.be/7tEK-NB-Ua4 We all have to manage different kinds of rooms don't we? Some of us find ourselves on the stage. Some of us are in board rooms or meeting rooms. Some of us are asking donors to invest in our nonprofit to make a difference in the community...
Relationships Before Transactions: What Makes Clients Loyal for the Long Haul?
https://youtu.be/mSvCmNGza4Q One of the challenges that we face today as rooftop leaders, whether we own our own business, or maybe we work in a corporation or a midsize company as leaders and we do sales or we're relationship managers, how do we keep our clients, our...
Making Human Connections: How Do I Overcome Skepticism?
https://youtu.be/jtrkpZ8jYgg When you think about a tough negotiation or a tough client, the first thing is you've got to make a human connection. If you just roll in with the agenda, if you just roll in with the transaction, if you're just rolling with the PowerPoint...
