The Complete Leader Podcast

In this episode, Host Dale Dixon and TCL Founder Ron Price discuss overwhelm and its connection to time management. Ron lists the common forces that contribute to overwhelm and the reasons that people fail to make progress in managing their time and priorities. He gives 3 keys for starting a new habit. Ron shares best practices and how good leaders can be great leaders when they shift their focus.

This week, Host Dale Dixon and TCL Founder Ron Price discuss decision making—particularly big decisions and their impact. They review the kinds of decisions that are critical and the ones that leaders may need new skills to make. Ron talks about big decisions that create focus, shape the future and impact people, and the skills leaders need to make better decisions. They also discuss the role of i...

What does leading others really entail? This second stage of your leadership career is when you begin to have a larger influence and to expand your impact as a leader. In this episode, host Dale Dixon and TCL author and advisor Ron Price discuss the 12 skills needed to transition from leading yourself to leading others. Ron suggests starting with empathy, gives five steps for delegation, and share...

Leading yourself emotionally begins with self-awareness. In this episode, host Dale Dixon and TCL author and advisor Ron Price discuss the role of emotions in leadership, unpacking the four primary emotions and exercises to grow awareness over time, including how to transition from stoicism to experiencing emotions. Ron talks about the positive and negative emotions that can put you at risk, the s...

A critical aspect of Leading Yourself is managing your time, starting with the first minutes of each day. In this episode, host Dale Dixon and TCL author Ron Price discuss the stages of leadership and the skills to focus on at each stage. Whether early in your career, in middle management or in a senior leadership role, managing your time and priorities is a key skill. Ron shares his morning routi...

Host Dale Dixon interviews Leadership and Change Management Advisor Lori McNeill about the components that make up effective Negotiation. Lori talks about everyday negotiation, the three styles of negotiation, and the importance of focusing on the problem not the person. She also lists the skills needed to be a good negotiator and the role of emotional intelligence in the process.

In this special episode of The Complete Leader podcast, Leadership Advisor and Author Ron Price interviews his son, Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments about leading during crisis, specifically what he and his company have done during COVID-19. Dan discussed the ways Gravity Payments is helping small businesses use technology to keep their doors open, even through stay-at-home orders and social dis...

Host Dale Dixon is with Holly Mitchell today, broadcasting live from the TTI Success Insights Conference. Holly is a sales trainer, team advisor and leadership coach, who had a successful 14-year career in big pharma sales. Holly shares the three things that teams need from their managers. She also talks about how she works with teams who are onboarding new leaders, shares some of the questions sh...

Host Dale Dixon interviews Jaime Lisk today, live from the TTI Success Insights Conference. Jaime is a leadership coach, team builder, and a certified facilitator for RealTime Coaching. She gives us tips on goal setting—and goal achieving—sharing the process she uses with her clients. Jaime talks about the power of self-talk, and she also shares the two aspects you might be missing in your own goa...

Is it possible to influence others authentically and with integrity? Ron Price, an internationally recognized business advisor, former CEO of a global company, and author of Growing Influence: A Story of How to Lead with Character, Expertise, and Impact, believes not only can you do it, you must act with authenticity and integrity to succeed today. In this CareerCast, Ron shares lessons learned fr...

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price discuss the role of the leader as an innovator. Ron tells the story of how he and Dr. Evans Baiya connected to write The Innovator’s Advantage and details the two types of innovation. He also shares steps for leaders to create a culture of innovation, and the impact of ideas as the currency of the innovation economy. Follow Ron @ronprice89 and Dale @...

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price talk about how the gig economy has changed the workforce, and therefore supervision and management. Ron discusses the opportunities and threats of this trend, and gives leaders tools to rethink supervision. He also lists the leadership skills that are critical for leading in today's economy, and gives leaders tips to grow along with this trend. Follo...

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price explore the leader's role in finding and developing great talent for his or her organization. Ron lists ways that leaders can keep the hiring pipeline full, and how to make sure that a candidate is a good fit for the job and the organization. He discusses the importance of systemically evaluating, challenging and reorganizing your team. And also shar...

Host Dale Dixon talks today with John Kerrick, a human development expert and coach who has spent much of his career teaching creative thinking. He shares the key principles for thinking creatively, and tells stories of his time working with brand managers at Quaker Oats and engineers at GE. He explains how creativity can begin with a simple idea and the benefit of changing one small thing at a ti...

Host Dale Dixon interviews special guest, Lori McNeill, a sought-after speaker and leadership advisor who specializes in helping companies navigate through change. Lori shares the importance of communicating the "why" of a decision, and how to determine who will need to be included in the conversation. She gives some tactical ways to foster buy-in, and ideas to help people understand the bigger pi...

Host Dale Dixon interviews Leadership Advisor Dr. Francis Eberle about his unique perspective on understanding and evaluating others. Dr. Eberle shares how being dyslexic impacted his education--and also the way he perceives others. He tells us why assumptions about people are detrimental for a leader, and gives simple tactics to be better at understanding and evaluating others. Follow Dr. Francis...

Host Dale Dixon interviews Business Coach and Strategist Padraig Berry, who is the CEO of One Focus Business Consultants and TTI Success Insights Ireland. On today's episode, Dale and Padraig discuss authentic empathy, and how it is a building block for many other leadership competencies. Padraig shares stories from his time working with Irish-American businessman and philanthropist Chuck Feeney,...

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price finish their discussion of the six stages by discussing stages 5 and 6. Ron talks about the leadership phenomenon of "getting into the zone," and gives some specific ways to actively measure your impact. He also explains how the leader's journey comes full circle, and how your leadership mindset shifts throughout your career. Follow @ronprice89 and D...

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price continue their discussion of the Leader's Journey, discussing Stages 3 and 4. Ron explains why the stages are not always linear and how multiple invitations each begin a new chapter of the leadership journey. He also talks about the variety of ways that leaders can develop themselves, what research shows about how people learn after they are in the w...

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price talk about the Leader’s Journey, starting with the first two stages. Ron explains how he discovered the stages, the role initiative plays in leadership, and the three functions of a leader. He also shares the three primary ways to develop self awareness and tools to evaluate whether a leadership opportunity is a good fit. Follow Ron @ronprice89 and D...

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price finish their conversation about leadership influence this week, as they dive into what it means to have integrity as a leader. Ron discusses how positional leadership impacts your followers, and how to develop integrity as a leader--both expert and character integrity--as well as three questions to ask yourself. Follow Ron @ronprice89 and Dale @DDixo...

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price continue their discussion of leading with character, based on Ron's recent book, Growing Influence. Ron gives the definition of integrity in expert leadership, and outlines the importance of continuous learning to maintain integrity of expertise as a leader. He also dives into what it means to create value for others as a leader, and how you can shif...

Host Dale Dixon and Leadership Advisor Ron Pice discuss the concepts from Ron's new book, Growing Influence, a business fable he cowrote with Stacy Ennis. Ron outlines the three different kinds of leadership, and their corresponding connections to integrity. He lists several ways to consider and define your own ideas of integrity and character, and to tie them to personal accountability. Follow Ro...

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price finish their discussion about project management in today’s episode. They discuss the people part of project management, including team morale in synergy. Ron shares one of his favorite project management tools, and gives five simple things to do to create a collaborative team. Follow Ron @ronprice89 and Dale @DDixonMedia

Host Dale Dixon and Executive Advisor Ron Price continue their conversation about Project Management. Ron explains why a project's success depends on outlining the desired results, and shares the questions he asks at the beginning of a project to help identify the outcome you want. Dale and Ron explore the connection between Goal Achievement and Project Management--and lay out how a project manage...