Playbook For Performance

Hey, welcome back everybody. I hope your week is going well, and I've found you in a very good place. This month’s theme is about coaching your staff according to their style, and today, we're going to do a deep dive into the “I” type or the Influence personality type. So, just a quick recap, if you haven't been with us the last couple of weeks, there are four major personality types, and I like t...

Last week, I discussed the importance of understanding different personality styles and how they can improve communication and collaboration in the workplace. I also introduced the DISC personality assessment, which divides individuals into four quadrants based on their dominant traits. For today's podcast, we will talk about coaching the dominant team member. There's a reason that the "D" persona...

This month’s theme is about coaching your staff according to their style. In today's podcast, I am discussing the importance of understanding different personality styles and how they can improve communication and collaboration in the workplace. I introduce the DISC personality assessment, which divides individuals into four quadrants based on their dominant traits. We can create a more inclusive...

Today, we will talk about the second essential skill for an effective leader, and that is adapting your style as a leader. This means making sure that you are addressing each and every person that you interact with in a way that they can hear the message you're trying to deliver and delivering it in a way that matches their personality essentially. What their preferences and tendencies are when it...

We are continuing the discussion about the essential skills for an effective leader. And today, we are talking about the first essential skill which is what leaders need to do when it comes to setting the vision. It is so important to know about vision because it's basically the leader's job to establish a clear expectation of where the team will go. It’s important for people to know and understan...

Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of the Playbook for Performance podcast. It's been a while since the last episode and we are working hard on some new changes to the website, our offers, and things like that. So today, I want to cover the essential skills of an effective leader.  I've been doing some traveling lately and I've been running into people,  hearing about the problems that they...

So today, in the podcast, we continue with our theme about making the leader's life easier. And today’s topic is masterminding.  So, we got a little follow-up from last week when we were talking about group coaching. Masterminding is probably my favorite form of group coaching so much so that I used to have a business that exclusively focused on masterminds, and shout out to Christina. I hope you'...

In today’s podcast, we will talk about team and group coaching because we have emphasized so much executive coaching, where it's that one-on-one experience with a coach who works with you, gives you that time to think out loud, etc. Or we've been talking about the leader as a coach where they are exhibiting and practicing coaching skills with their subordinates. But it doesn't always have to be th...

To continue with this month's theme about making the leaders' life easier, we're going to talk about the applications of coaching. We've talked a little bit about the coaching conversation, and how it differs from performance management, but there are many ways you can use coaching that will really help you out. And again, make your life so much easier because instead of doing all the work or bein...

In today’s podcast, we will be discussing the difference between using a coach approach as a leader or as a parent versus performance management. I know it's kind of tricky. We got a couple of emails about it so I want to get into it. Let's start from the very beginning. When talking about a coach approach, we're talking about using this methodology where you, as a leader, instead of having to do...

One of the follow-up questions that I got from the last podcast was, can you go into more detail about how I do that coaching conversation as a leader? And so what I want to do today is to give you an e- outline of what that conversation looks like and a couple of things not to do. But do recognize like the full training on this is, you know, two days. And then if you want to be a professional coa...

Today, we will talk about a common frustration among my clients which is this idea of why I am working so hard. It's this idea that as a leader, you feel like you need to do everything in your power to control the results of what your organization is producing. However, there are more efficient ways to go about it. So I like to call that process command and control. It's this idea that I'm respons...

This is our last in the series on business planning, and I hope you found it super helpful. As a recap, we started with the values for your company, team, and yourself. It's about how you're going to make decisions. Who is it that you're really serving, and then what is the vision? What do you want it to look like? Who are you serving? How are you serving them? All of those things are put together...

Hi folks, welcome back. Thanks for your patience with us. I know you were eagerly awaiting step five in the business planning process, but I took a little holiday over to the ranch, had some golf and some sun, and it was great. So I'm eager to get back to you and ensure you can progress on your journey with business planning.   So what we're going to do is we're going to do a quick review of the b...

We're in the middle of our business planning segment and have just cast the vision to know what the most beautiful business will look like. We've figured out our values. We're figuring out who we're serving, and now, we've painted the picture. What's it going to look like? Our next step is to chunk it down and bring it to life by translating that picture into actions that we can do daily. So let's...

This month, we're talking about the theme of business planning. And we've covered a couple of lessons already. So you can return to podcasts 84 and 85 if you missed the first few lessons. But today, we're going to talk about step three, which is casting the vision. So when we talk about casting the vision, we're saying, let's paint a picture that's so clear that all of our employees, stockholders,...

We are in the middle of a segment all talking about the general basics of business planning. So if you're an entrepreneur, you might be a little bit intimidated by this. I used to do business planning for a Fortune 10 company and now subscribe to a simplified version of business planning that'll get you through most of what you do.  And it really helps set a focus in terms of what needs to be done...

In today’s episode,  we're entering into a new theme for the next ten podcasts or so. It's all going to be about business planning. Whether you're a small team within an organization,  an entrepreneur, or the CEO, this set of business planning podcasts is all for you because it will take you step-by-step through how to do this. You're probably thinking, how does a coach know anything about busines...

In today’s episode, I'm reviewing my experience on 75Hard. If you're unfamiliar with 75Hard, you'll learn more about it. It is a program that builds mental toughness. Why are we talking about mental toughness when this podcast is about building better leaders? Well, sometimes leaders have to make tough decisions. It means they must be disciplined to make those decisions and not defer to the path o...

Congratulations, you have really done a great service for yourself and the rest of the universe because strong, resilient people really make a big difference in our world. Today, we're going to be talking about celebrating, and you might think, well, why is this a lesson in the 20-week challenge? How does this make us more resilient? Well, there are a lot of reasons why. So let's get started.   Wh...

We are on week 19 of our 20-week challenge, where we are building our resilience so that we bend instead of break when we face adversity.   Today we're going be talking about perfecting your present. So what does that mean? That sounds like it's such a strange thing. Well, the present is the current moment. So living in the now, and depending on what you did yesterday, you have today's situation a...

We are in the middle of our 20-week challenge to build resilience, and we're getting close to the tail end. In our lesson today, we're going be talking about attracting because the more we attract things naturally, the more ease and choice we have. So let's get started.    When somebody wants something different than what they've been getting, they need to understand the whole law of attraction. A...

We continue with our 20-week challenge to build your resilience. This week’s lesson is about building a reserve.    Now, you're probably familiar with this concept of building a reserve regarding emergency preparedness. In my area of the world, I'm in the Pacific Northwest, we are bearing up for a potential overdue earthquake that goes along the fault line that we have. So, both civic organizers,...

Did you know that there are three factors that really indicate the success of a change effort? If these three things are done poorly, the effort will fail. If they are done well, it will ensure the success of a project. Those three factors are:   - Number one is leadership. Have we painted the vision? Do we understand this change and why we're going about it? - The second is communication. Are we...

This week, we're talking about making your work an extension of yours. This is part of our 20-week challenge to build resilience, so let's get started.     So when do I suggest this lesson?  I suggest this lesson when…   - people feel like they're a cog and a wheel. - their work isn't really aligning with their values, and  - they want a bigger life.  So work can meet a lot more needs than just ea...