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112 - Army Ranger Leadership with Stephen Morris
Rookie Leaders Podcast - September 14, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat is your perception of military leadership? Military leadership doesn’t come from rank. It also isn’t about barking orders or command & control type of authority. Stephen Morris joins us on the podcast today to share his experience in Army Ranger School and his time training leade...
111 - Positively Impacting the Lives of Those You Lead
Rookie Leaders Podcast - September 07, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat does it mean to you to positively impact the lives of those you lead? You’ve heard me mention before my mission to help you positively impact business results and the lives of those you lead. What does that last part of my mission mean? Do you have a strong desire to make a real d...
110 - How To Plan For Success In The Future
Rookie Leaders Podcast - August 10, 2022 20:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDo you have concerns about the future of your team? Does your company utilize succession planning that seems ineffective? Or maybe you’re feeling to need for additional leaders in your team, but uncertain how to develop new leaders. Succession planning is often neglected, maybe even ig...
109 - How To Minimize Negativity
Rookie Leaders Podcast - August 03, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDo you struggle with negativity in your team? Do you often hear comments like “that won’t work because…” from team members? Or maybe you feel a real struggle to energize or excite your team about the goal you're working to achieve. Negativity can be a cancer that robs your team of prod...
108 - How To Take A Proper Vacation
Rookie Leaders Podcast - July 20, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHave you ever tried to take a family vacation, but your vacation turned into a frustrating repeat of you responding to office emails, answering urgent phone calls, or trying to pull away from your laptop to spend time with your family? I’ve been there. I’ve done that. I’ve had family v...
107 - How To Be An Excellent Leader
Rookie Leaders Podcast - July 13, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEvery leader wants to be an excellent leader. But the loneliness and isolation of being at the “top” can make excellence feel like mission impossible. Aaron Walker has been in small business and community leadership for over 42 years. Aaron joins me on the podcast to share the secret t...
106 - Poor Performance Review
Rookie Leaders Podcast - July 06, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDo you have a team member that is underperforming, but you are afraid to give them a bad performance review? Giving performance reviews, especially for poor performance, are typically the first scary act for a new leader. But you can deliver a performance review that addresses poor pe...
105 - Dealing With A Workplace Bully
Rookie Leaders Podcast - June 29, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDo you have a workplace bully on your team? Have you dealt with that bully yet? Are you worried about the impact this bully is having on the rest of your team? Dealing with a workplace bully is difficult and scary - especially for a leader that doesn’t like conflict. But it doesn’t ha...
104 - Interim Leadership Positions with Deborah Coviello
Rookie Leaders Podcast - June 22, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAre you in a temporary or interim leadership position? This is often the pathway to a permanent leadership position. There are certainly nuisances to interim positions that can be difficult to navigate. In this podcast episode, we will be learning from Deborah Coviello. Deb Coviello is...
103 - How To Lead In Difficult Situations
Rookie Leaders Podcast - June 08, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI’m often asked leadership questions that follow the form, “how would you lead in a situation where ________?” And they fill in that blank with whatever difficult situation they are facing at the time - where you need to fire a team member, you have a team member destroying the morale o...
102 - Does Your Team Know You Believe In Them?
Rookie Leaders Podcast - June 01, 2022 18:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn a recent parenting failure, I learned a really important leadership lesson. This lesson is related to the question if your team knows that you believe in them. Do you believe in your team’s ability to succeed? Do they know you believe in them? Our youngest son just graduated from h...
101 - The Burden of Problem Solving
Rookie Leaders Podcast - May 25, 2022 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI often hear leaders complaining about the burden of problems. They are referencing the fact their team members are consistently bringing problems to them. I’m always quick to point out this is exactly what leaders are supposed to be. As a leader, you must welcome team members bringing...
100 - Rookie Leaders Story
Rookie Leaders Podcast - May 18, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt's a celebration! The Rookie Leaders Podcast hits 100 episodes! To celebrate the milestone, I revisit the story behind the podcast. Me Leadership credentials - listen to episode 1 Fear of rejection Dyslexic Maybe ADD Credible Leadership Group Purpose: Serve others with ...
099 - Imposter Syndrome with Olivia Carter
Rookie Leaders Podcast - May 10, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings“Free your inner critic to inner confidence so that you have more impact as a leader” - Olivia Carter Imposter syndrome impacts us all differently. While I’ve understood imposter syndrome for some time, I’ve never recognized how our individual personalities are impacted differently. ...
098 - How To Fire A Team Member
Rookie Leaders Podcast - May 04, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFiring a team member is a difficult situation, especially for a new leader that has never done it before. There is no advice I can give you that will make it easy, but there are ways to ensure you do it correctly. In this podcast episode, we will talk about why it’s important you fire ...
097 - How To Recognize Good Leadership
Rookie Leaders Podcast - April 27, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI’m often asked to identify the best leaders I’ve worked for. I’ve been very fortunate to work for some really good leaders. Additionally fortunate, I’ve also worked for some really bad leaders. So I can easily tell the difference. Good leadership isn’t identified by a title, position,...
096 - Are Politicians Good Leaders?
Rookie Leaders Podcast - April 20, 2022 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsStudents of our Leadership Accelerator course recently brought up a question about politicians. The question was essentially, “should we view politicians as examples of good leadership?” “Well, no.” While my response to the question is definitive, it needs a little explanation. While...
095 - First Action For Every New Leader
Rookie Leaders Podcast - April 13, 2022 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings“I’ve just been promoted to a leadership position. What is the most important thing I should do first?” I get this type of question all the time. Now that I’m a leader, what do I do first? I’m always glad to see new leaders asking themselves such questions. Almost without exception, h...
094 - Unique Challenges Women Face In Leadership
Rookie Leaders Podcast - April 06, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI am obviously unqualified to tell you about the unique challenges that women face in leadership. But that is certainly not the case with my guest, Nichole Harrop. Nichole is a leadership and career coach. She is a wife, mother of two daughters, and most important to this episode, a fe...
093 - Does Appearance Matter?
Rookie Leaders Podcast - March 30, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsVery early in my corporate career, I went to my boss to request some leadership training. I was the new leader of a small group of software developers and I wanted to be the best leader I could be. My boss seemed excited that I was asking for training and was eager to send me to what h...
092 - Why Do You Need To Be In A Group?
Rookie Leaders Podcast - March 23, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSmall groups of like-minded people have been a huge influence on my leadership journey for many years. Are you in a small group? Maybe you call it a support group, accountability group, or mastermind group. It doesn’t matter what you call it, you need to be in one (or several). My good...
091 - Marine Corps Infantry Officer's Lessons on Leadership
Rookie Leaders Podcast - March 16, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsYou probably have a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings about military leadership. You don’t want to miss today’s podcast episode. We have Mike Ettore on the podcast to clear up all your wrong views of military leadership. Mike’s distinguished record of providing effective lead...
090 - Relationships
Rookie Leaders Podcast - March 09, 2022 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRelationships are the most important element of effective leadership. Good relationships will help you overcome any shortcomings you have in other areas of your leadership. In today’s podcast, I’ll describe what type of relationships you need as a leader. I’ll discuss why relationships...
089 - Motive
Rookie Leaders Podcast - March 02, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhy do you want to be a leader? The answer to this question will greatly impact your leadership effectiveness. Your team members are constantly questioning your motives for being a leader. Their questions are answered by their perception of your leadership motives being selfish or self...
088 - Competence
Rookie Leaders Podcast - February 23, 2022 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDo you have the skills necessary to lead your team well? Your team members have this question swirling around in their minds. Leadership is a learned skill, just like sales skills, plumbing skills, roofing skills, or engineering skills. In today’s podcast, I’ll introduce you to leader...
087 - Credibility
Rookie Leaders Podcast - February 16, 2022 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDo you have a track record of success? Do you have some type of history that makes your team believe you can lead them to success? One of my favorite leadership books, The Leadership Challenge, suggests that credibility is the foundation of effective leadership. Credibility is that tra...
086 - The Leadership Equation
Rookie Leaders Podcast - February 09, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHow do you measure leadership? This is the second question I ask all my clients and I’m yet to receive a good answer. The answers range from “we don’t” to woefully inadequate answers like “attrition.” Why would anyone use attrition to measure leadership? That’s like trying to change th...
085 - Taking A Stand
Rookie Leaders Podcast - February 02, 2022 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI’m violating one of my core principles here, but I believe the exception is warranted. Though the topic of this episode is both politically and emotionally charged, there are great leadership lessons to be learned from it. The core principle I’m violating is publicly commenting on a t...
084 - The Big Leap - Member To Leader
Rookie Leaders Podcast - January 26, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI suddenly found myself in the position of boss over a team member that just yesterday was my boss. The leadership journey for many goes through the tricky transition of team member to team leader. My journey is no different. I left the office one day as a team member and returned to t...
083 - You're A Leader, Now What?
Rookie Leaders Podcast - January 19, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHave you ever had the question running through your mind, "I'm a leader, now what?" In today's podcast episode, we have Mick Speirs join us to help you with that very question. Mick Spiers is the founder and principal of The Leadership Project. He is an experienced executive with ...
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