THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Learning To Trust Each Other Again
https://youtu.be/RWoytou45fE How in the world do we learn to trust each other again? That's a question that's been on my mind a lot lately, and I bet it's probably been on your mind. I've had high school teachers ask me this. I've had business owners ask me this. I've...
The Book of Beautiful Questions: Rooftop Podcast Interview with Warren Berger
https://youtu.be/66tawrO1Opk Want to build a leadership and communication skill that your competition doesn’t use? Become a “Questionologist.” In this time of Churn asking “Beautiful Questions” is a skill every Rooftop Leader MUST have. Join me on...
Leading Through Disengagement
https://youtu.be/XxPMdNd0cRI Today we're talking about disengagement. How do you as a leader, whether you are a community leader, a stay at home dad, whether you work in the corporate realm, a small business owner, maybe you're in the military, but how do you overcome...
Hard Conversations in the New Normal
https://youtu.be/sDtwnyaP0tY People are going to have to get furloughed. People are going to get laid off. People are going to get fired. You're going to have to tell vendors that you don't use their services anymore. It's not easy. Because we're meaning...
The Value of a Handshake
https://youtu.be/K9y9T_IPyH4 What's the value of a handshake? That's the question that's been on my mind for several days. Now, when this COVID pandemic kicked off, I started talking to leaders about my concerns around social distancing. I felt like we had...
Leading Our Teammates Back Into the Arena
https://youtu.be/LmZNE64iNeQ One of the biggest questions that we're going to have to ask ourselves, is how do I help my teammates get back into the arena? And what does that look like when they do it? I coach a lot of very high-level executives who cannot wait...
Getting Clear on Social Distancing
https://youtu.be/cM5if3RKFjg The question I'm asking is this, after these last nine to ten weeks of the pandemic and the social distancing, how do you feel about human connection right now? Have you asked yourself that open-ended question? How do you feel about...
Get Back Into the Game
https://youtu.be/w43pAIrU3nQ Everybody has challenges that have come out of this new time horizon. Even if you think you don't, when you have eight to nine weeks of mandated social distancing and isolation, it's going to have an effect on us as humans, right? So, the...
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...
