The Transformational Leader

When you're a leader providing support to your members, are you doing it to truly help them or are you doing it to meet your needs? This can be one blindspot many leaders don't often distinguish as there are various ways this can show up. This also becomes even more challenging when you truly believe you are serving others but you are actually serving your own needs. So how do you figure out what...

Simply put, declarations not only move leaders forward, it is also one of the most significant ways they can create possibilities. Leaders that can't or won't make declarations very rarely create breakthroughs. Even if they talk about what they are committed to creating, without declaration, they won't be able to create anything beyond the predictable. Since the hallmark of a leader is creating an...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam coaches Hannah Taylor live, around energetic boundaries and how to handle it when someone doesn't respect them.

This is another sandtrap that shows up out of the need to not fall behind or seem stupid. This sandtrap also develops when a person has no capacity to be mundane or mediocre. In other words, everything has to be profound for them. The problem with this kind of mindset is it feeds the ego more than it can help leaders (or those under them) create breakthroughs and move forward. So how do you distin...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam coaches Brooke Kalan live, around her desire to speak to/market to/date/network with the RIGHT people versus her old habit of dimming or dumbing down.

How people react to feedback is a huge factor in determining how much growth they'll have both as professionals and individuals. Feedbacks are usually directed by the leadership to point out how you're doing this and that while having improvement in mind. In this episode, Adam Quiney tackles receiving and reacting to feedback as a sandtrap in leadership. He discusses the different methods you can...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam coaches Sandra Possing live, around breaking through to her next level of visibility, impact, and leadership as well as how to facilitate a quantum leap.

To develop leadership and create breakthroughs, you have to be willing to let problems sit and allow yourself to sit along with them. Unfortunately, this leadership sandtrap robs you of the opportunity to sit with the problem as focus is placed on resolving the problem as opposed to understanding what is happening. So how is this sandtrap created? More importantly, how do you distinguish this sand...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam coaches Karen Scott Ozeri live, around creating what her and her husbandneed in order to take parental leave, which is $90K in three months.

At the heart of leadership is forging into the unknown, which by its very definition is unsafe. This leadership sandtrap is created when individuals raised in places where there was not a lot of safety develop this internal need for ever present safety. While it would seem like there is nothing wrong with seeking safety, it is the opposite of what transformative leadership truly requires. So how s...

At first glance, generosity in spades can seem like a great thing. After all, generous people are massively reliable. They are also incredible team players and are always taking care of the struggles everyone else is having. However, these people can also get overwhelmed easily when it comes to their own projects. This tendency robs them of their own breakthroughs. As a leader, how do you effectiv...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam coaches Mia Kielty-Bande live, around how she is sold on the idea she can create more but tells herself she doesn't know what.

In this episode, I talked about the first leadership sandtrap, TIMWATDIZZCRY, which stands for "Tell me what to do, so I can resist/resent you for it." If you are operating in this leadership sandtrap, you tend to be incredibly reliable in terms of what needs to be done and how to do it. However, there is also the tendency that you won't know what to do unless you are told. Also, if you have the T...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam coaches Ernest Barbaric live, around reconciling his role as a dad with the drive to rebuild his business.

In this episode I talked about a series that I'll be doing on the podcast called leadership sandtraps. Essentially, they are patterns that people have created that gets in the way for whatever is next in their leadership. I also covered all the basics about this concept—why they exist, why you can't avoid them, and how you can deal with them. My hope is that after listening to this episode, you'll...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam coaches Manoj Chugani live, around how to step out of his smallness and own his greatness.

As a leader, your ability to stand in the place of possibility is one of the factors that will determine if you and your team will create breakthroughs and generate the unpredictable. As soon as you lose sight of that ability to hold the possibility, everything can fall apart. But what does standing in possibility really mean? What does it require? And how will your inability to stand in the place...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam coaches Simran Sondhi live, around expanding her reach to a new audience when most of her business is online anyway, as well as how to reach a new higher ticket client base without too many marketing gimmicks.

What you know and what you don't know are the things that make up your entire worldview. What you think is impossible for you on the other hand is what's at the heart of transformation. To create the results you want, you need to work outside of the realm of what you already know. If you haven't been through it yourself, you'll never be able to lead others through it. So how do you support your te...

Whether you are aware of it or not, your humanity will always be an inextricable part of your leadership. While not really the primary source, it would be impossible to lead effectively once you've severed yourself from your own humanity. There are a lot of reasons why people pull away from their own humanity. Regardless of the reason, one thing is for sure—it can have a huge impact on your leader...

Most people will agree leadership is never easy. In some instances, leadership will require you to do something that's counterintuitive to your human nature. It will require you to step outside and beyond your human reactions and choose something higher. The need to choose beyond your comfort and step past the limits of your humanity will be called upon when dealing with victimhood. In this episod...

While it's easy to mistake teaching for leading, they are actually different. Knowing the distinction between the two is crucial. Otherwise, you'll end up doing more of the former while totally neglecting the latter. Let's face it, teaching can be seductive. If you're a leader, it puts you in a position of authority. If anything, teaching is a part of leadership. However, leadership requires so mu...

Many people have this misconception that insights and breakthroughs are one and the same. However, nothing can be farther from the truth. Insights and breakthroughs are two separate and distinct concepts. The inability to accurately distinguish one from the other can have people addicted to insights but not moving from there. While insights are powerful, it's basically useless without action. It i...

Many leaders buy into the belief that people in their position need to have everything all figured out. However, this concept of knowing it all is actually the opposite of what true leadership is. If anything, true leadership exists outside of the comfort zone, outside of the familiar. Because of this false belief, leaders avoid transparency, all in an attempt to stay safe and appear knowledgeable...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam coaches Kayla MacArthur live, around a story she has of being able to have some of what she wants, but not all, and how to create both.