Daily Influence

Gregg shares her perspective on being Mindful, and it's an amazing perspective that has served her and those she influences well!

We revisit our biggest chapter issue from book one; Individual Influence, Find the I in Team...Slow Down.  This episode offers Gregg's perspective, which can add context because each of us faces different challenges in the 'go too fast' world we live in.  

Gregg continues to share her insight as she discusses her journey to being a Positive Influence, and what that looks like. Gregg has a journey we all can relate to!

Today, we introduce Gregg Koleno to the podcast.  Gregg is one of our partners at IA Business Advisors and leads our consulting operations in Illinois and Delaware.   Gregg is an active member of the Schaumburg Business Association and has recently been nominated Female Member of the Year for her work with the SBA and, specifically, in the empowerment of women in business.  

We have spent the last 7 days talking about values.  Values are built on a foundation of many things. We talked about Accountability, Humility, Trust, Stability, Kindness, Structure and Respect as the most important ingredients in building and maintaining trust within our areas of influence. 

What are values worth without respect? Respect is earned. And most of the time, the influence of our values support getting respect. We discuss the correlation between earning, keeping and losing respect as values can get challenged.

Values require structure.  When we have structure, we can build on that and we have something to measure with.  Structure also supports those times when our values are challenged. If you have built structure into your value system, you can have checks and balances.  

Some leaders fear that being kind will diminish their power or authority. Nope.  Being kind is one of the most powerful values we can have as humans. It sets a positive tone for all things.  Come listen to how kindness can be used, even in chaos and disappointment, to uplift and support a positive area of influence.  

Another key aspect of having values is stability.  Unless our value is instability, having and providing stability to yourself and your team within your area of influence is critical.  We discuss Maslow Hierarchy and how it can be used to provide stability in areas of influence.  Come listen to how stability is providing foundation for values in positive areas of influence.  

We begin our discussion about values and the first topic is Trust.  Trust can take a long time to earn and can be lost in a moment. Come listen and learn how to understand trust in your area of influence.  

Humility is being able to recognize one's self-worth without exaggeration or a need to be boastful.  Listen and learn how to employ more humility in your area of influence. 

Accountability is the thing that keeps humanity's tendency to do stupid things in check.  There are different types of accountability; Self-Accountability and Third-Party Accountability.  

Do you take the high road?  Did you know that the high road can be very subjective?  Let's review that path best traveled.  

Understanding how your composure influences us during communication can be a powerful understanding. Listen as we talk about how self-control and composure can help our influence.  

Do you know what your micro-communications are?  What do your tones and your body language tell?  We dive into how our micro-communication influences us and others.

One of the most profound understandings of our Influence is shared by Rene' in her forward to our second book, we share this with you as we launch our discussions about Being your best influence. 

Join us to review our first 50+ episodes and close out our first book; Individual Influence: Find the I in Team topics.  

Being situationally aware is more than knowing your surroundings. It's knowing yourself and those people in your area of influence to a point where you support them.  Being aware takes focus and (i)individuals that are situationally aware provide opportunities and advantages within their area of influence to be best-self.  

Earning respect can take a lifetime; losing respect can take a moment.   We are going to dive into the issue of respect and how important it is in our ability to be effective (I)individuals.  

Consistency in what we do can be another subjective aspect in our lives; be consistent in bad behavior or good and see what the consequences may be.  We will unpack being consistent and how we can work (I)individually to maintain consistency through all aspects of (I)individualism.  

Understanding what accountability is should be a mandatory lesson for everyone. There are two types, internal (self) accountability and outsourced accountability. And the understanding of what these mean and how they can be positive - negative and neutral - is important to being an amazing (I)individual.  

It's fitting that we would be diving into one of the cornerstones of our work this week on the anniversary of 9/11 -  Individualism.  9/11 defined for me the power of true (I)individualism, where the best individuals combined to be our best in situations all across our country.   Understanding the power of being best-self so when combined with other best-self individuals, we create a best-self...

Halfway to 100 episodes today!   As we enter the weekend, we reflect on the importance of Communication, the most important influence we have as humans.   Understanding how we communicate with self and use that to both uplift and deceive ourselves is important to have clarity with.   Using communication to justify poor behavior is generally a byproduct of not wanting to be held accountable and usi...

The written word is powerful.  One thing we can use the written word for that enables effective communication is clarification of context.   When we engage in conversations between people, using the written word to identify your understanding is a powerful tool in ensuring effective communication is happening.   Our discussion offers tips and examples of where the written word has become a powerfu...

One of the negative aspects of self-communication is self-deception. Humans often struggle with accountability and deceive ourselves and others with justification.  When we justify our actions, we are deceiving ourselves and creating an opportunity for negative influence.   We will dive into what self deception looks like and how to combat people in our lives who self deceive and justify poor beha...