Growth and Freedom: The Leadership Podcast

No matter how good of a leader you are, mistakes will be made at work. The question is, how are you going to handle it. Ineffective leaders use control when things don't go their way at work and end making the problem worse. Great leaders solve work problems at the root with the five step process Brandon takes you through in this weeks episode. _____________________ For more listening options and...

The primary reason that meetings suck is that leaders suck at least facilitating them. Having a healthy flow of communication in your organization is important. It helps people to understand what is going on and furthers the experience that you are trying to create for your team. This week I share some simple yet powerful tips to ensuring that you run your next meeting like a boss. _______________...

Putting together a vision can be challenging between knowing what to include in your vision to assessing if you are actually going to achieve it. This week, Brandon breaks down 5 personal life questions and 6 business questions to help you put together a vision that gives you a clearer picture for where you are headed in business and in life. Ready? Let's dive in!  _____________________ For more l...

Growth in uncertain times? This seems relevant to what we are going through today. We brought in growth expert Tony Guarnaccio to share his steps and approach to growing with limited resources and amid uncertainty. Tony grew up in entrepreneurship his whole life and has learned from the ups and downs of that experience to help business owners unlock the growth they need to sustain their business....

There's no value in pursuing your purpose if the destination you envision is merely one of personal understanding.   The true power of purpose is in understanding your purpose and developing an understanding around how that purpose can be utilized to solve problems and benefit the world around you. This weeks podcast gives you three insights into developing your purpose in a practical and producti...

Leaders spend a lot of time wondering about team motivators and very little time actually talking to their employees about what they care about. Even when leaders do try, they haven't done the necessary ground work to have a productive conversation. This week's podcast lays down the prerequisites for motivation to occur and what things you can do as a leader to keep the motivational fire burning....

If you want to create an environment where people are motivated at work, there are a few things that you can do to create the intrinsic motivation that people need to stay dialed into their work in a powerful way.   This process starts with you and your understanding of your purpose and how you show up in your purpose for the people around you.   This week's podcast has a little bit of everything:...

Intentional businesses need intentional leaders. Intentional leaders are conscious of the world around them and what that world needs. This week, Brandon reviews the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership.   This book is loaded with content that will get you thinking about your leadership differently and ultimately improve your leadership as well. What's your big take away? Let us know! __________...

Leaders can be so driven in their desire to achieve that they spend day after day driving towards results while never actually checking in with themselves about how they are doing. Rather than thinking of feelings as a sign of weakness to be avoided how can you use feelings to guide you and your team in a productive way? Let's discuss.  Let me know if it was helpful.   _____________________ For mo...

Do you have the discipline to double your revenue in the next 90 days?   I talk with the CEO of Strategy Sprints, Simon Severino as he walks through his process of assisting businesses grow in a short period of time. We talk about metrics and what most business owners do wrong with metrics. As well as freedom and what owner needs to do about their time to execute serious growth.   Lastly, we talk...

Growth can happen by leaning into areas that we know we can grow in.   It can also come from a blind spot. Something I didn't know I need to learn but now is brought to the surface for me to examine. How are you working through your own growth? Are you staying open to what's possible? This weeks podcast guides you through some specific, actionable tips to help you in your own growth process. _____...

The past few months you will notice that our society isn't necessarily on the same page or working together to solve problems. In fact, there appears to be a significant amount of division that exists.   Whether it's a challenge with a work strategy or issues with race relations in the United States, finding places where we are on the same page can seem challenging.   This week Brandon sat down wi...

Vision is easy to understand and hard to create.   The abstract and large nature of a 20 year vision creates varying reactions to doing it.   Either you don't do it at all.   Perhaps you set the bar ridiculously high.   Or you are somewhere in between. This week's podcast shares the story of what happens when you   achieve everything you ever wanted as well as gives you five questions to build out...

Great leadership creates clarity for the team on what to get done. Great management creates the best environment for to accomplish the work.   For better or worse, kore teams are working remotely.   This weeks podcast dives into create a winning remote environment for great work to happen. _____________________ For more listening options and several FREE resources provided by New Work Revolution,...

If you are a team builder like me, you can use all the help that you can get to build a great team to support your mission and vision. This week's podcast brings to you talent optimizer, Amber Hurdle.   Amber and Brandon break down why great companies are built from the inside out and how to use data and branding to build great teams. Team building is always a big need for our listeners and this e...

Leaders make handling employee issues harder than they need it to be.   There is one thing that you can do as a leader to better handle employee issues that come up. The best thing about this tip is that you have absolute control of it and it makes confrontation and problem solving much easier for you. Check out this weeks show for the tip. _____________________ For more listening options and seve...

You are well aware if the fact that the world has changed. As the way we interact and do business changes, what will your customer want and need from your business? Brandon recently "sat down" with the CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane to talk all things branding. Leslie has down brand work for some of the most recognizable brands in the world and she shares practical tools and tips that a business of...

In sharing my leadership philosophy at an event recently, it became apparent that the connection between the experience you create in your business and the experience you deliver as a leader is way more powerful than I initially thought.   This weeks podcast looks at what the culture of your Looks like with the different Leadership approaches and how to uncover where you fall in the conversation....

How do you solve problems at the root? What if I told you the biggest issue with solving root issues is that we don't reward people for solving these types of problems. In this episode, Brandon reviews the impactful book by Dan Heath; Upsteam.  Upstream tackles how to solve root cause problems. Today's podcast breaks down some of the highlights of the book that create an environment for root cause...

JT McCormick is an American author, public speaker and businessman. In 2016, author Tucker Max hired McCormick as CEO of Scribe Media,  formerly known as Book in a Box. In this episode, Brandon sits down with JT to discuss how and why writing and publishing a book could be the missing piece to your success.  So many great take-a-ways! Listen in.  _____________________ For more listening options an...

What would it look like for you to have true freedom in your business?   Free from the day to day work.   Free to take a vacation while your business still achieves high level results? This is the entrepreneurial dream.   To make that dream a reality, there are a few things you want to have in place to support you.   This weeks podcast goes over those things to help you achieve true freedom. _____...

There is so much learning that can be taken from deconstructing times when you failed. It will give you all the information needed to not re-live that experience in your business.  However, most business owners are reluctant to have a critical eye after failure. In this episode, Brandon deconstructs this process of learning from failure and offers insights you can use today.  Let's dive in.  _____...

Are You a Leader or Manager? People use manager and leader interchangeably.   Not all managers are leaders and not all leaders know how to manage. This weeks podcast draws the distinction between the two and breaks down why you should care about both. Let's dive in.  _____________________ For more listening options and several FREE resources provided by New Work Revolution, please visit GrowthandF...

In today's episode Brandon shares how he once had someone criticize him for having someone cut his lawn. The reason for the criticism was that he was not being "manly".   He had two choices in this moment, live in fear other someone's opinion or live the way he wanted to live based on the clarity of his own vision and values.   You have the same choice.  Let's dive in.  _____________________ For m...

In business there can be so many things to do that it's hard to know where to start. For some business owners, they just shut it down and do nothing. Other business owners commit to a frenzy of activity that keeps them busy but doesn't get them to where they really want to go.   There is a better way and Mike Michalowicz lays this out simply and plainly in his new book, Fix This Next.   Check out...