The StrongLead Podcast with Chad Hall

Great leaders take care of business, and one of the most important but overlooked ways to be successful is your surroundings. In this episode, Chad shares the power of surroundings and five specific areas of life where you can leverage the power of surroundings. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Strong leaders leverage the power of habits to not only be their best, but to grow into even stronger, better leaders. In this episode, Chad shares six habits that will help you keep growing. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Strong leaders are good at relationships, which requires them to be good at boundaries. When we're not good with boundaries, we create problems. In this week's episode, Chad shares four kinds of boundary problems from the best-selling book, Boundaries ( https://amzn.to/3yLbGBj) . Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Your personality is both your biggest strength and your most significant liability as a leader. In this week's episode, Chad shares some common mistakes to avoid when it comes to your personality, along with how to make the small adjustments that get the biggest positive returns. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

The podcast title this week says it all. Listen and learn how being nice is sometimes the worst thing you can do for a relationship. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

If you want to get leadership right, you have to get yourself right, which requires getting your relationships right. In this episode, Chad shares how beliefs are the highest leverage change you can make to get your relationships right. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

To be a great leader, you need strong, solid sources of influence. This means you need quality relationships with the people around you. In this week's episode, Chad shares four questions to help you evaluate your relationships. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

If you want to get leadership (and life) right, you want to get your relationships right. Strong leaders don't just accept the relationships they have, they exercise intentionality to get the relationships they need. In this week's episode, Chad shares four relationship moves that will help you make the most of your relationships. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

You can't be an authentic leader without knowing who you are and what drives you. Without this level of self-awareness, leaders stumble. In this week's episode, Chad explores three areas where inauthentic leaders are susceptible to weak leadership. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

There is a maturity milestone that every leader has to reach in order to be a truly great leader. In this episode, Chad shares how leaders balance and blend the external pressure to be fake and the internal pressure to serve ego. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Putting up a skyscraper or a mansion or even a toolshed on a shaky foundation is not a good idea because the final building is only as strong as its foundation. The same is true for leaders. In this episode, Chad shares how self-awareness is the foundation for all truly strong and capable leaders and illustrates the four things you need to know about yourself to be strong in your foundation. Audio...

The best techniques cannot overcome the challenges of having the wrong tool for the job. And if you're the wrong kind of person, all the leadership techniques in the world will be of little value. In this episode, Chad examines three aspects of your being that will determine your potential in leadership (and in life). Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Sometimes we make things too complicated, and it's great to get back to the basics. In this episode, Chad shares the three essential elements of leadership. These three ingredients will support strong leadership wherever you're leading. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Where is leadership needed? Pretty much everywhere. In this episode, Chad shares four places to look for the opportunity to lead. You'll be a stronger leader when you learn to spot these opportunities and step up to provide leadership. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

We can learn to be strong leaders by noticing the consequences and causes of weak leaders. In this episode, Chad discusses the results of weak leaders and four kinds of weak leaders. Don't be weak! Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Sometimes different people bring different meaning to the same word. When it comes to leadership, there are two popular but very different ideas about what leadership means. In this episode, we'll get clear on which of these definitions best fits you and your approach to leadership. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Are you "emotional"? The answer is yes. Everyone has emotions. Leaders don't try to eliminate their emotions, instead they seek to domesticate them. In this episode, Chad shares some practical ways to get your emotions working for you, not against you. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Leadership is a relationship between leader and followers, which is why credibility is the foundation of leadership. Without it, nobody is going to follow you. In this episode, Chad unpacks the four characteristics that followers look for in a leader to know he or she is credible. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

At our recent leadership conference, one of the speakers used a wall as a metaphor for community strength. In today's episode, Chad builds on that metaphor by describing the importance of having a wall to (re)build and three things it takes to build your wall as a leader. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

It's the leader's job to help drive performance. In this week's episode, Chad discusses the many things that can get in the way of performance and why it's the leader's job to reduce these interferences . Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

If you're in any kind of leadership situation--either formally or informally--one of the items on your job description is to challenge. In this week's episode, Chad shares why challenging is so important and four people every leader must challenge. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Vision is a good thing, and any good thing can be overdone. In this episode, Chad shares how vision is essential to great leadership and three ways it can be overdone. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

A big mistake we can make in life is to think life should be frictionless. Instead, we need a philosophy of pain that helps us make the most of adverse events. In this episode, Chad shares such a philosophy and how you can apply it in your life and leadership. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Leadership starts with you, and there's nothing you can do to earn people's respect more than modeling what really matters. In this episode, Chad shares the three aspects of modeling the most important values and how you can start modeling the values you expect to see from those you lead. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

Hopefully this week's episode doesn't apply to you, but chances are it does. One of the toughest things about leading is letting someone go or weighing in on that kind of decision. In this week's episode, Chad covers a handful of conditions that indicate it's time to fire someone. Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com