Unafraid - Leveraging Mistakes

Making mistakes is an important part of the learning process. It's an opportunity to reflect on what you could have done differently and how you can improve in the future.

Even the most successful and admired leaders make mistakes. The key is to learn from those failures and grow from them.

Today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast features our guest, Michelle Reines. She will talk about the mistakes she made in her leadership in the past, what she learned from them, and how she leveraged those mistakes to become a badass leader today. 

Michelle Reines is the founder of MDR Coaching & Consulting and creator of the unconventional Badass Leader brand. She has a coveted reputation of exceeding expectations in a highly competitive, distressed or volatile business climate. Her strengths encompass extensive people aptitudes in leading and developing large, diverse teams. She possesses over 34 years of intense hands-on leadership, mentorship, organizational and operational expertise.

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In This Episode

2:50 - What led Michelle to strengthen her leadership abilities

5:53 - Michelle's style of leadership in the past

7:28 - What Michelle did to become a more effective leader

10:37 - How Michelle capitalized on her corporate experience to develop her team

14:18 - An overview to the book, From Bad to Badass Leader: 12 Leadership Lesson

15:49 - How to become an epic coach

19:49 - How struggle can lead to greater opportunities

24:39 - A fun way to develop leadership skills through bootcamps

Favorite Quotes

21:53 - "If I'm gonna take on something that feels scary to me, I don't use the word scary. I say 'that's exciting'. It's the same physiology. I just choose a word that's more supportive of an outcome that would help me 'propel' toward it instead of 'repel' from it. All day long I have stories about where people have been in a situation that they think is doom and gloom. Fast forward three years from now, they'll look back and say, 'oh my God, thank God that happened'. - Michelle Reines

6:47 - "I didn't make just one mistake. Even as I was trying to figure the leadership thing out, I would continue to have those rivalries, those competitive behaviors that are unbecoming of teamwork. I couldn't find my voice. And when I did it, it didn't land professionally." - Michelle Reines

7:04 - "So I didn't know how to communicate effectively up the channel. I certainly didn't play well on the sandbox with my peers, 'coz I played win-lose. I wanted to beat them. I wanted to win at all costs and I wanted my team to win. And I was righteous about protecting my team and righteous about my voice and I'm gonna do it sugar-free and I'm gonna be authentic and, and all this stuff. And there's a way to communicate that I learned a little too late."- Michelle Reines

8:19 - "I didn't make the same mistakes over and over again, but there was definitely a pattern. And the most important thing that I needed to do on this journey was to stop-drop-roll and discover the lessons so that I don't continue making those same mistakes." - Michelle Reines

18:32 - "Whether we like it or not, the first and most important order of business are the 'people' parts. If we don't get that right, it doesn't matter that we have all the best processes in place. If their skill sets are not fully developed, if they're not effectively coached, and if they're not highly engaged, we're gonna dilute our outcomes regardless. So, people priorities are your most important priorities. Performance outcomes are what we get to enjoy when we get the people parts right." - Michelle Reines

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