Lead From Here

This weeks episode builds off a recent episode (https://youtu.be/X7OGbqQAmzk) where we covered the topic of "Maintaining Your Well-Being as a Leader". In that episode we talked about Self Care as one of the topics AND that caused a lot of questions...so no time like the present. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present in full awareness of our surrounding, what we are do...

I honestly can't remember where I heard or read this topic...but I think it creates a very impactful picture. Simply put, compounding is the return earned on returns from your original investment. You are probably thinking, Jason, when did this become a finance channel? It's not, I am referring to your investment in you or your team or your company...compounding can be an exponential growth factor...

What does self care look like for a leader? The short answer is it looks very similar to most people's self care. Doing it or not doing it can have a profound impact on your ability to lead effectively and consistently. Why is it so important for leaders? Leaders that actually care about their teams and the business, strive hard to support both and are pulled in a lot of different directions. Late...

Succession Planning is one of those topics that MOST successful teams just don't think about...and they are a top resource or two leaving the company, away from a very unhealthy, ineffective team. Succession Planning is basically your way of shoring up the long term stability of your team. Leaders get into a mode where they think a top performer is just always going to stay, whether it's the money...

We have talked about failure a great deal on this podcast, but I wanted to talk through an email I received from a listener. In the email he talked about a massive failure that he and his team suffered recently. I could hear the pain in his voice and what actually struck me was how much the failure hurt him and his team. Failure is absolutely a part of EVERY highly effective team. You are going to...

There is no shortage of press and youtube videos talking about artificial intelligence, so I am going to keep this brief. I personally wouldn't go ALL IN on AI yet. I would learn it, because it's definitely NOT going anywhere and the people that can leverage it the most effectively, will find success! The thing to be careful on, is make sure before you share proprietary data with these companies,...

Rumination from a mental health perspective means involves repetitive thinking or dwelling on negative feelings and distress and their causes and consequences. Reflection means serious thought or consideration. It's important to make sure you understand what you do in times of chaos, pain and just your daily interactions and situations. If you are ruminating, you are focused on the negatives and t...

Flipping the script a bit here, instead of know whether you have trust or are trying to build trust...what about when you know you broke your teams trust and now you know they don't trust you and you want to rebuild trust. The first part is the hardest part...you have to just listen and take the heat from whatever happened to break the trust. There could be a lot of frustration and blame and finge...

You have talked with your people, asking what is working, what isn't working, how you can help them, etc...if you don't know what I mean, watch/listen to the last episode. Now it's important for you to get to work on those items. Consistent action and doing what you said you were going to do is the fastest way to build trust. The next biggest piece of building trust is around how you talk about th...

I am getting a lot of emails talking about distrust in peoples teams and asking how to build trust and how to know if your people trust you...so this week will be Trust Week!🙂 Let's start with how do you know if your people trust you? It's important to keep in mind that if you don't have trusting teams, it will be difficult to get a clear answer. You might have a person that will just say what th...

This is building off of episode #67 (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leadfromhereco/episodes/How-to-Drive-Change-in-Your-Company--Lead-From-Here-67-e2eljk5) as I got a couple emails from people saying that they have tried change and it didn't work. First off, depending on your company and leadership culture...you may not be able to drive change. If that is the case, it's up to you to eithe...

I received an email from a listener and I thought it would be a good topic to cover on today's episode. This person's team had just suffered a major failure. The team is struggling to cope with it, people are wondering where to go from here and ultimately...they want to know how to restart this team effectively. I am going to sound like a broken record here, but you start with listening and empath...

In Episode 27 we talked about Executive Presence, this video is a follow up based on a conversation I had in response to the original video wanting me to dive deeper into the layers of communication and how they differ. The three main areas of communication are to your leaders/executives, your peers and finally the people that report to you. They all have differing levels of nuance depending on th...

Driving change at a company can vary depending on the size and maturity of a company. If a company is a small startup, it's likely that change is a part of their DNA. When you are small and just starting out, you are usually more nimble and people have a higher failure rate tolerance than at a major corporation! On the other hand, if you work at a massive corporation, change will be a much more pa...

It's important to bring the right attitude and tone to an interview with a potential next boss. If you get the opportunity to interview your next boss, it's important to not make the same mistake I made 10 year ago. I had been working at a company for a couple years and had seen a few bosses leave in my time at the company...they all flamed out and I carried the flame while they were there and aft...

The biggest issue I see amongst leaders as they look at hiring...is wanting to be too involved in the technical details of an interview. You are leader, you aren't in the team. Your job is to figure out if the candidate is the right fit culturally and more generally as a person. Focus on their work ethic, how they learn, their appetite for growth, fixed or growth mindset, what motivates them, who...

Interviewing is something that a lot of people stress over. I am here to tell you that it is important to do your best to hire the right candidate...with that being said, it's ALWAYS a guess. Take the ego out of it and just make the best call you can. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it crashes and burns. When it comes to leaders, it's important to remember that they are also a guess...there is j...

Uncertainty as a leader can feel confusing and frustrating, especially when you are new to leadership. When you are in uncertainty or ambiguity as a leader, it's important to protect your team from that. It's your job to understand where the company is going and while there my be uncertainty, understand what you need your team to do in this moment. You won't always be able to keep uncertainty and...

If you work in a company of any size above 20 or 30 other people, you have almost certainly heard people talk about the need for a focus on collaboration, or breaking silos...or whatever business buzz word they like. This can make this topic feel a little cringey to some. The reality is collaboration is the key to moving quickly, solving big problems and creating really healthy teams that are less...

Failure is proving to be a topic that isn't going to go away on this channel. People seem to have a lot of concerns about it and how to communicate it. I got an email recently asking for guidance on how to navigate a very large failure by him and his team. They had a big goal that they all set together and they missed in a big way. He wanted to know, how do I communicate the failure and help them...

The topic of work/life balance tends to start a multitude of conversations depending on who you talk to. Some may say there is no such thing, some may say you gotta hustle until your face falls off...others may say that capitalism is unhealthy and we should all live in harmony. I don't like absolutes, generally, and that goes for this topic as well. My main focus is to help you navigate the realit...

As we get into the new year, it's important to lay a path for yourself and then share that with your people. It's easy to take the goals handed to you by your leaders or executives and focus solely on those, but it's important to do the same thing for yourself and push beyond your current situation. A great way to do this is to ask those around you. Maybe it's your people, maybe it's best friends,...

Just wanted to take a quick minute on this New Years Eve and say thank you to everyone that has joined in the first few months of Lead From Here! 2023 has been a big year of growth in my life and Lead From Here is a big part of that. 2024 will be more of the same! Growth and expansion, especially on Lead From Here. I have heard you, you have asked that I improve production quality, go deeper on to...

The best way to know if you have recovered from burnout is have you felt the pain of self reflection? Pain, why pain? Whatever happened, lost your job, took a sabbatical, kept working at a slower, less effective pace, that reality, your burnout...was all because of your actions. That is a tough thing to hear, you may work for a hard company that doesn't value their employees and you felt that you...

Continuing to build off of the last episode, I want to talk about how to you begin the recovery process with regards to burnout. You have now communicated that you are burned out and have gotten to the point where you can focus on your recovery. If you quit or lost your job, then the first part should be much easier...if you are on a sabbatical or just taking a chunk of PTO, it will be a bit harde...