2:37 Diving into today’s topic - Brad’s attempt
- Attempt to define what leadership is
- “Defining leadership has a whole bunch of grey area” -B
- A spectrum w/ layers
- “It’s important to define leadership for yourself” -B
- The book that Brad references: “Leadership Challenge” by Kouzes and Posner
- Studying leadership helps you become more self-aware
4:57 Michael’s thrust into leadership
- Took on a role at a company
- Supervisor (of everything)
- Managing supervisor vs. Leading by example (coaching, mentorship, inspiring)
- People are internally motivated
- “As a leader, you need to tap into someone’s internal motivation to align with the company to produce great outcomes” -M
- People often fall into the mindset where they separate how they want to be lead vs how they lead others
- “Great salespeople tend to make bad sales managers” -B
- In sales, you lead customers
- That doesn’t mean you’re good at leading salespeople
- Who is a leader to you?
- Why do they come to mind?
- “We realize what great leaders are because we’ve experienced being lead by a great leader” -M
- We can define leadership in reflection more easily than theory
9:00 Step further
- It’s important to be able to grow as a leader
- Without leadership growth, the company doesn’t grow
- Ways to define leadership:
- By experience - being led by a great leader
- By outcomes - a great leader making your life better/successful
- As a business owner, you want great leaders to make better outcomes for your company
- Leadership is not the ONLY way to grow a business, but it is definitely not the easiest nor hardest way to do so
- Great leaders need to have self-awareness
- Know yourself, the situation, and how to adapt the two together
- Leaders have a preferred style and a default style
16:44 Basics of defining leadership (Choosing to follow & more success & got what they need from you)
- “If you don’t have any followers, you’re not a leader” -M
- A great leader has followers that are choosing to be there
- You don’t choose to follow your manager, but you choose to follow a leader
- It May look the same day to day, but you’ll notice the difference when pressure is applied or in high-stress situations
19:40 Future topic?
- Are social media influencers considered leaders?
- Followers are choosing to follow them and can push their “leader” to better successes
24:00 Servant Leadership
- Asking people if they need help
- Car troubles - do you need a ride somewhere?
25:00 Styles of leadership
- You need to define what leadership looks like at your company
- Too many styles of leadership can cause problems
- Not necessarily bad leaders, just different styles of leadership
- Results-driven
- “If everyone were robots, management would be awesome” -B
- More consistency
- No feelings/emotions
- No work/life balance
32:12 Closing remarks
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