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Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_11- CFMA Annual Conference: Formal conversations with graceMax and Josh, in their second topic at the CFMA, discuss some valuable practices they've discovered and utilized over the years when dealing with situations that require some delicacy. Techniques range from prep to tone, and they cover a few questions from the audience to dive into specifics.2024-12-2246 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_10- CFMA Annual Conference: Leading your company cultureMax and Josh had the privilege of being invited to speak at a CFMA annual conference. In this episode they covered the topic of leading culture as a middle manager, how to deal with possible resistance to creating a great culture, and some methods on making your role easier by crafting an environment people like to work in.2024-12-121h 04Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_9- Is perception reality?Max and Josh explore this very common phrase in corporate America: Perception is reality. It can be used as a trope, a shield to hide behind for those that can't come up with something better to say. But with a slight twist and perspective and a few valuable added words, it's also a tremendous tool for development and communication.2024-12-0327 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_8- Interview: Daylin Boyd. Therapist, former Principal, friendMax and Josh sit down with an old friend of Max's; Daylin has lived a lot of lives and has found his home in psychology as a family therapist. The three discuss some therapeutic elements of leadership such as attachment styles, what happens when you’re a leader trying to make everyone like you, and how different kinds of questions suit different situations and the value of knowing when to use what.2024-11-261h 07Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_7- Enneagram wrap upMax and Josh talk about some of what they learned with Courtney through the series and focus on in what they learned about themselves, answering some prompts to explore some of the details. As an added bonus, Josh opens up about a book they read in their BDC days and the fellas offer it as a challenge to any team that thinks they're already bulletproof.2024-11-1948 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_6- The Enneagram Series with Courtney Feider pt 3; The Head/Thinking TriadMax and Josh get to wrap up the Enneagram Series with the final triad, which just happens to the one they both land in. This triad includes the Quiet Specialist, The Loyal Sceptic, and The Enthusiastic Visionary. They dive into some specifics about their main motivation (both Loyal Skeptics), how they are very different versions of the same number, and of course cover the other triads as well.2024-11-121h 48Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_5- OnboardingHow an employee enters an organization might be the single most pivotal experience you can have an influence over. Max and Josh discuss their findings on when and how to engage, the importance of timing, and how critically vital it is to a business or team on what to do in this crucial time period of an employee's tenure.2024-11-0538 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_4- Interview with the team: Scott PlumleyMax and Josh sit down with another teammate from their former team, this one mentioned a handful of times over the last year on the show. Scott has been many things in his lifetime including a regional manager, front man of a band, a wanderer, and will be much more before he's done as he talks about in this episode. They discuss "new rich" and steps we can all take to achieve it.2024-10-2959 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_3- Team Principle: Hold ourselves accountable and keep our promisesMax and Josh cover the 4th and final cornerstone of the Team Principles they adhered to in corporate. They share some stories of counterexamples that show what can happen when this principle is not in place as well as some anecdotes about how it impacts their lives still.2024-10-2238 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_2- Team Principle: ...The impact your behavior has on othersMax and Josh cover the third cornerstone of their former team principles: Recognize and Respect the Impact your Behavior has on Others. Wordier than some of the other principles, it's actually pretty straightforward as concepts go and invites us all to be self and socially aware.2024-10-1531 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2_1- Team Principle: Leave it better than you found itIn this season premiere of their second year recording Authority Optional, Max and Josh discuss their most heavily influential team principle, Leave it Better Than You Found it. They talk about how valuable it is when everybody buys in and, of course, tell some stories on how it works. If you've listened to our first season, thank you. If not, this season kicks off an attempt to get less high-level concept and more detailed, so it could be worth going back for some older episodes if you crave the background.2024-10-0852 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook52- Being unemployed can be difficultMax and Josh tackle the difficult subject of being an unemployed leader, what the market seems to bear these days, as well as how challenging it can be to get through the first few steps of applying to a new company- or even your current one if you’re being laid off. They share their experience with it and offer some suggestions for anybody in the position themselves.2024-10-011h 02Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook51- Team Principle: Eliminate AggravationMax and Josh discuss another one of the Team Principles utilized in their corporate life, one that Max admits contributing directly to their common language. Eliminating aggravation ranges from not dodging accountability to doing things outside the scope of your job role, and invites everyone to imagine a world where everyone else is trying to improve the lives of those around them.2024-09-2452 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook50- Should you take your company's engagement survey?Max and Josh field a question about taking an employee engagement survey, whether one should bother or, if bothering, the merits of answering truthfully. They cover the ins and outs of making the best decision for yourself by way of their own experiences with surveys in a BDC, and explore the options.2024-09-1747 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook49- Team Principle: Fight for the moral high groundMax and Josh discuss a principle that was part of their team culture when they worked together in a BDC. Fighting for the moral high ground captures both being imperfect humans and trying to do the right thing. They provide the backstory as to where it came from, explore the benefits of utilizing it, and finally offer some implementation tips if you find you’d like to see this in your own culture.2024-09-1046 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook48- The Enneagram Series with Courtney Feider pt 2; The Heart/Feeling TriadMax and Josh continue the series on Enneagram with Courtney returning as a registered IE9 practitioner and guide. In this episode they cover the Heart/Feeling Triad. Numbers 2, 3, and 4: The Active Controller, The Considerate Helper, Competitive Achiever, and Intense Creative, respectively. The fellas identify some traits they've seen in others and dive in with some questions to tap into Courtney's knowledge. Enneagram is an extremely comprehensive and nuanced look into our core motivations, how it looks when we're healthy and unhealthy, and includes methods to be the best version of yourself.2024-09-031h 31Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook47- Increasing your hourly rate when you can't change your salaryMax and Josh break down a process where they worked shorter weeks without taking pay cuts, and were even more productive than teams working standard or longer weeks. There's some high level concepts as well as pinpointed steps in this retelling with the idea that some of it could still be useful to others.2024-08-271h 01Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook46- Buzzword Breakdown: Workplace WellnessMax and Josh break down “Workplace Wellness.” They go into what it actually means as well as some steps frontline and middle managers can take to implement productive methods of increasing wellness. Specifically they dive into Holistic Wellness with some stories of their own to show ways they’ve excelled in creating excellent work environments.2024-08-1347 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook45- The Enneagram Series with Courtney Feider; the Action/Body TriadMax and Josh launch a series on Enneagram with Courtney returning as a registered IE9 practitioner and guide, in this episode diving into the Action/Body Triad. Numbers 8, 9, and 1: The Active Controller, The Adaptive Peacemaker, and The Strict Perfectionist, respectively. If you've been a listener so far you know that the fellas are very on board with assessments that help people learn about themselves, Enneagram is an extremely comprehensive and nuanced look into our core motivations, how it looks when we're healthy and unhealthy, and includes methods to be the best version of yourself.2024-08-061h 41Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook44- Interview with a mentor: Rob Cole, multi-unit franchise owner pt 3In the third and final part of their interview with Rob, they explore the value of going outside of the team whether it's for new ideas or fresh perspective, both for a single challenge and to improve the ongoing strength of the team. They discuss how leadership is a craft and should be treated accordingly, how much of it is talent acquisition, and wrap up with leveraging strengths to optimize a team and ourselves.2024-07-301h 04Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook43- Interview with a mentor: Rob Cole, multi-unit franchise owner pt 2In part 2 Rob answers our story-based questions starting with the hat trick and tells some interesting stories about ideas, leadership, and values. They move on to bad bosses, misconnected teams, and who should (and shouldn’t) work remote.2024-07-2344 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook42- Interview with a mentor: Rob Cole, multi-unit franchise owner pt 1Max and Josh sit down with a man who's been mentioned in several other episodes, Rob Cole helped Max define his leadership style very early on. In the first of this 3-part interview they discuss the value of seeking out side-hustles, war stories of Max in his earlier leadership days, and the value of making way for good ideas.2024-07-1656 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook41- Interview: Courtney Feider returns, pt 2!Max and Josh continue the conversation with Courtney. With the basics of Enneagram covered as well as some of its awesomeness, they move on to asking their more story-based questions so we all get some peaks into Courtney’s origins as an expert in the field of connected leadership.2024-07-091h 40Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook40- Interview: Courtney Feider returns!Courtney returns! She talks to Max and Josh about the core basics of Enneagram, the core types, sub types, wings and more. The fellas have completed the basic free version and express how just the high-level overview of those seem dead-on accurate and how they’ve played into their lives. This will be a 2-parter and in round 2 Courtney fields our updated questions for leaders.2024-07-0257 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook39- Core Principle StoriesMax and Josh share some stories around their Core Principles. Ranging from origin stories to tales on how they’ve implemented them in life, they cover why these can be so important to know, how pivotal instances in life can shape them, even how they can translate to skills not commonly acknowledged in the zeitgeist.2024-06-2542 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook38- Interview with the team: Aidan LaighleisMax and Josh finally get to talk to an old teammate from their days in corporate. Aidan was the first leader Max promoted towards the dream team and joins the fellas in some reminiscing about what made the team work and how it's impacting job environments since then.2024-06-1858 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook37- What's your Wall?Max and Josh discuss an amorphous concept on what’s holding you back, the psychological obstacle that stops you or slows you down from achieving your goals. Or, in other words, what’s the thing that constantly stands in your way that you may have built yourself. They talk about the need to be able to understand and analyze it to be able to get over it in order to be successful. They both get vulnerable about their own walls and attempt to give advice to each other based on their collective experiences.2024-06-111h 06Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook36- Buzzword Breakdowns: Communication ModelsMax and Josh start a new series in the ongoing effort to help you streamline your life as a leader. The series takes words and phrases that turn into buzzwords and explains them with the hope that it makes sense out of it and, as always, tries to provide something useful to you in the process. This one is Communication Models, what they are, some examples, and what might be handy to try in your own experience.2024-06-0440 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook35- The Sinister WindowMax and Josh talk about an area on the continuum of knowledge that Max has coined, "The Sinister Window." We know what we know, and often we're also pretty sure of what we don't know. What's in between those two areas? Tune in and hear about it. Trigger warning: we use a pretty dark example to showcase how bad it can be, but we do bring things back around to work and leadership.2024-05-2850 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook34- Interview: Nicholas Whitaker; Executive Coach, Conscious Leadership Activist, and co-founder of Changing WorkMax and Josh interview Nicholas Whitaker, an Executive well-being and performance coach, Conscious Leadership Activist, and the co-founder of Changing Work. We hypothesize on the current cause of destructive work environments being largely due to laziness and inherited broken systems, our collective efforts to create and maintain conscious leadership, and how as our generations progress we, as a species, seem to have a better handle on what we’re about and, therefore, what we should or shouldn’t be willing to tolerate. Nicholas provides an overview about his process of self-awareness, leadership training, the courage to stand out as a di...2024-05-211h 00Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook33- Interview: Jeremiah Hammon pt 2, PMP, Business Transformation Trainer, Project Revolution Co-founder, and authorContinuing their interview with Jeremiah, the three get into more effective ways of helping other humans be better, managing up when the circumstances call for senior management to be coached, how powerful music can be, and just how valuable it can be to truly get to know your people.2024-05-1445 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook32- Interview: Jeremiah Hammon pt 1, PMP, Business Transformation Trainer, Project Revolution Co-founder, and authorMax and Josh interview a true visionary in the field of turning work environments into places that don't suck. Jeremiah has written and co-written a few books, worked for some extremely high value entities, and delivers a ton of excellent information in our two part episode where we cover everything from abstract thinking and leveraging seemingly disparate skill sets to actually treating people like what they are, a company's greatest asset.2024-05-0750 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook31- Neuro-associationsMax and Josh talk about the way feeling or pattern can creep up on you and how it can impact relationships. This is particularly relevant in leadership as it is their belief that working towards optimal relationships on a team is part of the job. After some stories and examples they provide some tips and suggestions on reversing unproductive neuro-associations.2024-04-3044 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook30- Interview: Courtney Feider, Executive coach, Enneagram Strategist Max and Josh interview an expert on building cohesive cultures people ACTUALLY want to work in. Courtney Feider (say it like "fighter") utilizes over 25 years of experience in corporate business focused in the areas of leadership development, organizational strategy, behavioral development, and business communications/marketing. She talks about addressing the common bifurcation of work from who we are as humans, challenges of middle managers leading well but not collaborating well and some tools to improve that, the undeniable value of assessments and some options, and overall acknowledging the pure fact that we’re working with humans and some opportunities to...2024-04-231h 01Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook29- Engagement pt 4: DevelopmentMax and Josh wrap up the series on engagement with the biggest and best part: development. Starting with their intent, being super explicit about what excellence means which can mean gaining clarity from your own leadership, leveraging what they’re good at often discovered by assessments, and having the tough conversations when necessary are all part of strong development.2024-04-1649 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook28- Engagement pt 3: Decentralized LeadershipMax and Josh define this concept for the purposes of what is meant by it when they're talking and asking about it, how it impacts a quality team, and how to go about implementing it.2024-04-0947 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook27- Engagement pt 2: AutonomyMax and Josh continue with the series on Engagement, now moving on to providing your team with autonomy. Hire the right people to do the job, then get out of their way. In addition to providing some steps that can aid this journey they discuss the importance of failure and how powerful it can be for someone to learn it's allowed.2024-04-0253 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook26- Interview: Joel Ballezza , Brand strategy and marketing leader for BECUMax and Josh interview Joel about an interesting transition in his life where he could have gone to a dark place but instead turned it into enlightenment, a fulfilling career, and strong leadership. They pick his brain on getting connected to his people, remote team building, and how he maintains psychological safety.2024-03-2651 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook25- Engagement pt 1: InquiryMax and Josh launch a series on Engagement, a critical component of creating an environment people actually want to work in.  The series starts with Inquiry, Max and Josh talk about some of the best questions they’ve found to ask in order to get engagement started. Additionally they provide examples for how those questions tend to pan out and how to leverage what you learn about the person so you can help them grow. 2024-03-1949 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook24- Q&A: Creating your culture amid resistance pt 2This is the sequel to last week's topic, Max and Josh reveal the last 3 steps to finding a way into crafting that culture you're after despite being in a business or work environment that may not be receptive to it.2024-03-1251 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookQ&A: Creating your culture amid resistance pt 1First a big thank you to you guys for sending us questions, today's was regarding how to create a culture that makes sense to you in an environment where doing things different might not be welcomed. Max and Josh get into 2 of the 5 steps they've taken in just such and environment, completing the last 3 steps in next week's show.2024-03-0552 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook22- Q&A: Handling terminations with graceTerminating somebody's employment can be tough to handle, Max and Josh might even argue that it should be. They discuss the methods they've found that makes it as close to smooth as possible, share some sticky ones, and even go into philosophies that can help with this often complicated part of being a leader.2024-02-271h 05Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook21- Q&A: Time management and PrioritizationHow do you decide what to focus on first, or most? Max and Josh share some of their best practices and even go beyond the corporate experience to provide some tips and tricks on helping you decide what your priorities truly are and how to arrange them in ways that make sense to YOU.2024-02-2038 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook20- Interview: Special Guest Cary JuddMax and Josh interview a local creator, Cary Judd. Cary is a musician, a photographer, a filmmaker, and more. The three explore what makes a great team regardless of industry, what it means to have teammates that will be honest, and what Cary learned in the making of his documentary, 828, which can be found on Amazon Prime and Tubi.2024-02-1343 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook19- Obsessions, weird but productiveMax asks Josh if he has any obsessions that turned out good for leadership. Josh's answer is spot on, exactly what somebody interviewing a prospective leader would want to hear. Max's answer is a little cloudier...2024-02-0639 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook18- Tough times in leadershipMax and Josh talk about what to do, what they have done anyway, when times were very difficult in a leadership position. Max reflects on one of his harder instances, the valuable resource that pulled him through it, and both discuss some ways of finding resources if you're looking. And of course, we're happy to be that resource if you want to call in or write us a question! authorityoptionalpodcast@gmail.com2024-01-3044 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook17- Q&A: Sales Goals and BehaviorsMax and Josh field an audience question that inquires about their thoughts and opinions on sales goals, how to handle them, experiences on coaching to certain behaviors, etc. They discuss having seen the worst versions, add some thoughts on how to deal with that, as well as provide some coaching tips regardless of what level of leadership you're in.2024-01-2350 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook16- Interview: Mac Christian, CMO of National Land Realty pt 2In the second part of our interview with Mac we explore his opinions on decentralized leadership and working remote. We wrap up on some parting wisdom Mac has for leaders looking to craft their own culture.2024-01-1634 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook15- Interview: Mac Christian, CMO of National Land Realty pt 1Our inaugural interview with Mac Christian, who has his own podcast: The National Land Podcast, was fun and informative. In part 1 of our chat with Mac we cover how he creates his culture, how he knows it's working, and some serious counterexamples of culture where he learned what NOT to do.2024-01-0942 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook14- Q&A: Same team, new dynamicMax and Josh get their first non-caller question from a new leader who just leap-frogged her old boss. They get much more into detail about how to handle the boundary-pushing that happens sometimes when one of the team gets promoted to run it.2024-01-021h 02Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook13- Caller: Connection through looming layoffsMax and Josh get a call from our audience and have a hybrid interview/Q&A session. We talk Servant-based and Situational Leadership, the value of connection, and how to navigate the impacts of a rough economy. 2023-12-2651 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook12- BDC Trends pt 2: Tropes, clichés, and T.O.S.Are there required activities in your job that don't make sense or produce results? Do people tend to say the same things in every email? Max reveals some of his favorites (said extremely sarcastically), Josh is politely quiet through some rants, then they both discuss some options for what do to with things big companies do that don't matter.2023-12-1951 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookWe want to help! Callers needed- the sequelWe are ready for you to call! In case you've been waiting because we mentioned we were still setting up the tech capability, we are officially good to go. Reach out to us at authorityoptionalpodcast@gmail.com and please follow us on Instagram @authorityoptional.2023-12-1501 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook11- BDC trends pt 1: Team Building Icebreakers... suckMax and Josh start this series off with 2 things so common they are almost universally made fun of in pop culture: Team Building exercises and Icebreaker activities. They talk a lot of trash about how these things are often abused but, of course, offer up some ideas on how to ACTUALLY bond your team.2023-12-1243 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook10- Caller: Culture between HQ and Field TeamAuthority Optional gets its first caller! Max and Josh hear out the challenge of having two teams of ideologically and geographically disparate positions, posing some ideas to create a common culture and bridge the gap between a headquarters and the field team.2023-12-0551 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook9- Could Adam Grant finally be wrong?After listening to a recent Adam Grant podcast: Why meetings suck and how to fix them, Max and Josh go head to head on their different takes of it because even though they both listened to it, they heard two different podcasts. Later they discuss meetings they used to conduct and their own versions of how to make them suck less.2023-11-2856 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook8- The Team Focus to Individual Focus SpectrumThrough thoughtful discourse, Max and Josh talk about the spectrum of Team Focus to Individual Focus, where they land on that spectrum (spoiler alert: they skew different directions), and even go into a case study in which they would have handled things differently. Neither direction is bad, this show was about exploring where you might land on the spectrum and how you can leverage that information for your benefit.2023-11-2153 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook7- Peers seeking adviceIf you're crushing it, sometimes other leaders will come to you in an attempt to find out what you're doing so well. Beware the search for "the cheat," as is all too common in these cases. Max and Josh talk about how to separate the real advice-seekers from the "cheat" divers and how to handle peer-to-peer mentor relationships.2023-11-1446 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook6- MentorshipMax and Josh discuss the realities of being and utilizing a mentor. Just because you're a leader doesn't necessarily mean you're the right fit to mentor those reporting to you. They discuss why that's okay and how you can lead yourself by always having mentors yourself, you may need more than one.2023-11-0749 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook5- Leadership beginnings pt 5: Failure and VulnerabilityMax and Josh talk shop about the importance of Psychological Safety, a phrase coined by Amy Edmondson, about what it is and isn't, and why it's critical to a high functioning and creative team. Epic Fails are also explored and why they are invaluable to share with the team. Appropriately, we published the wrong episode initially, so some of you go to see our first public Epic Fail! 2023-10-3145 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook4- Leadership beginnings pt 4: Team CohesionNow we're getting somewhere! Getting that team to like each other isn't always easy (maybe it's never easy), so Max and Josh discuss some methods that have shown effective like being a realist (instead of a corporate shill), how people tend to prefer to work, and start to touch on creating a common language (super important).2023-10-2456 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookWe want to help- calllers needed!We're shifting gears. Instead of two guys agreeing with each other all the time, and risk boring the s*** out of you, we're going to take calls and try to help you, our listeners, solve your team, leader, or coworker challenges! We're still working out the bugs (after all, we're still new to this), but if you'd like to be on the show please reach out. We can't promise the advice will be what you want to hear... or even good... but we can promise to be fully invested in finding you a workable solution or at least point you...2023-10-1801 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook3- Leadership beginnings pt 3: Truly get to know your teamYou may hear, especially in corporate "culture," that you should keep your team at arm's length; don't get close because it compromises your ability to lead. This is total crap. We talk about the benefits of genuinely getting to know your team, methods for doing so, and the leader's responsibilities in this kind of effort. We even talk about what happens when you feel you've tried everything. We're attempting to create a common language to make our ideas comprehensive so watch out for the specifics in the section on helping them know themselves.2023-10-181h 08Authority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook2- Leadership beginnings pt 2: Start building trust with intentionsWhen working to build trust, it's imperative to know and illustrate your own intent because it informs your actions. Do you know why you're a leader and what caused you to become one (because those can be 2 different things)? Be prepared for some strong opinions on why some people put themselves in positions to lead. We move on to discovering the intents of your teammates and embracing them where they're at (figuratively, of course- not everybody is in to hugs). We wrap up with our own whys in getting into leadership.2023-10-1049 minAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the RulebookAuthority Optional: Leadership Beyond the Rulebook1- Leadership beginnings pt 1: Where to beginMax and Josh make their wobbly start into actually recording their thoughts on leadership and how it can be better. It's not pretty but it's honest, if you like that kind of thing. If you're a front-line manager that is new to your role or taking over a new team, or even just getting a new person on your team, this episode goes over some great first steps to take toward building a team that takes care of each other even while taking care of the job.2023-10-041h 07