Great leaders don’t just focus on climbing their own ladder for advancement, they also hold a ladder, extend a ladder, and build a ladder for the next generation of leaders in their organization. Today, Perry and Chris reveal ways you can become a ladder builder for someone on your team.

#128 – The Reproduction Shift: From Ladder Climbing To Ladder Building

Can you learn to be a more inclusive leader? Is there an inclusive leader skill set? Today, Chris and Perry discuss ten skills you can develop that will lead to a more inclusive approach to leading your team.

#132 – Ten Skills of the Highly Inclusive Leader

Is leadership mostly about your IQ or your EQ? Today Perry and Chris talk about the importance of Emotional Intelligence in leadership and how you can improve yours to better influence your team.

#145 – Don't Look Now But Your EQ Is Showing

Do you book every minute of your day? Do you have time to think, reflect, and renew? Today, Chris and Perry talk about how you can find and create margin to increase your value to you team, organization, and your family.

#148 – Questions Leaders Ask To Find Or Create Margin In Their Life

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell may be almost 25 years old, but they apply to our leadership journey today more than ever. Today, Chris and Perry look at the Laws that apply to a Level 1 leader and how they can help a leader move to Level 2.

#158 – The Laws Of Leadership For The Level 1 Leader

Today we continue our look at how the 21 Laws of Leadership apply to the 5 Levels of Leadership. Today, Perry and Chris look at the Laws that apply to Level 2 and help you as you move toward Level 3.

#159 – The Laws Of Leadership For The Level 2 Leader

Today we continue our look at how the 21 Laws of Leadership apply to the 5 Levels of Leadership. Today, Perry and Chris look at the Laws that apply to Level 3 and help you as you move toward Level 4.

#160 – The Laws Of Leadership For The Level 3 Leader

Today we continue our look at how The 21 Laws of Leadership apply to the 5 Levels of Leadership. Today, Perry and Chris look at the Laws that apply to Level 4 and help you as you move toward Level 5.

#161 – The Laws Of Leadership For The Level 4 Leader

Today we continue our look at how the 21 Laws of Leadership apply to the 5 Levels of Leadership. Today, Perry and Chris look at the Laws that apply to Level 5 and help you as you develop your legacy as a leader.

#162 – The Laws Of Leadership For The Level 5 Leader

Culture is the life blood of your business––it determines everything. Today, Chris and Perry talk with culture expert, Greg Cagle, and take a deep dive into the 4 Dimensions of Culture.

#163 – Discovering The 4 Dimensions Of Culture

What’s more important: having a Courageous Culture or balancing the three positive dimensions of culture? Today, Perry and Chris continue their talk with Greg Cagle about having balanced and healthy dimensions of culture.

#164 – Balancing The 4 Dimensions Of Culture

Your culture affects everything your organization is doing. Today, Chris and Perry conclude their talk with Greg Cagle about the 4 Dimensions of culture and how you design, deploy, promote, and protect the culture you desire for your organization.

#165 – Are You Designing Or Defaulting To Your Organizational Culture?

Are you a Servant Leader? Today, Chris and Perry talk about the challenge of leading and serving at the same time. Is it even possible?

#171 – Servant Leadership: Can You Lead And Serve At The Same Time?

Servant leadership and traditional leadership require different mindsets. Today, Perry and Chris talk about the five components of a servant leader mindset.

#172 – How To Develop A Servant Leader Mindset

Are you improving your team’s performance? Today Perry and Chris talk about seven ways to position your team as a high-performance team.

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#184 – 7 Questions Leaders Ask When Improving Team Performance

Communicating with clarity is a leadership skill that is often overlooked. When you can develop this skill, you will increase the effectiveness of your team and improve results. Today, we discuss five ways you can improve your communication clarity.

#189 – Communicating with Clarity: A Leadership Game Changer

Having a difficult conversation or confronting someone is not something to be avoided, it's essential to great leadership. These 10 commandments of confrontation can help set the environment appropriately to ensure that the outcomes of these confrontations are positive.

#192 – The 10 Commandments Of Confrontation

Most leaders have heard the adage, "Praise In public, but critique In private." But Is this always true? Are there times when you should critique In public?

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#202 – Should Leaders Critique In Public?

Today we are talking about the characteristics of high impact players. Some of these traits are natural giftedness and some can be developed. As a leader, you should look for and promote these skills and attributes as you look at developing the next generation of leaders.

#203 – How Leaders Find Their Eagles

Leaders need to be aware of the possible negative effects new hires can have on the culture of the organization. If you are not intentional about how you communicate culture, adding new people can dilute the culture and allow other ideas to surface.

#204 – How Leaders Embed Culture In A New Hire

Most of the time people want to talk about leading OTHERS with integrity, but they don’t really think
about how they lead themselves. Integrity starts with how you lead yourself. It can be easy for a leader
to try to do the right thing for others yet shortcut their own integrity when leading themselves.

#205 – Leading Yourself With Integrity: A Leader's Trust Multiplier

Quiet Quitting is term that describes someone who has decided to limit their job output to only those things strictly stated in their job description. They do not take on additional assignments, in fact they have decided to look for ways to do the absolute minimum to complete their job responsibilities.
Is this an employee problem or a leadership problem?

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#206 – Quiet Quitting Is A New Name For An Old Problem

“Power dynamics” describes how power affects relationships. Power affects all aspects of social life, from the workplace to the home. Power can affect how followers see and interact with leaders.

#207 – How To Manage Your Own Power Dynamics

John Maxwell says: “The position doesn’t make the leader. The leader makes the position.” Many
leaders get the title and think very little of define the type of leader they will be. When you
intentionally define your leadership, you take leading to a new level. Learn five questions that will help you define your leadership.

#208 – 5 Questions To Help You Define Your Leadership

There are currently four to five generations in the workforce. While this may seem to be a leadership challenge, it’s actually an opportunity to gain competitive advantage if you know how to leverage the contribution that each generation brings to the workplace.

209 – Generational Diversity In Your Workforce with Dr. Tim Elmore

There are currently four to five generations in the workforce. While this may seem to be a leadership challenge, it’s actually an opportunity to gain competitive advantage, if you know how to leverage the contribution that each generation brings to the workplace.

Part 2 of an interview with the author of, A New Kind of Diversity - Making the Different Generations On Your Team a Competitive Advantage, Dr. Tim Elmore.

#210 – Generating Competitive Advantage Through Generational Diversity with Tim Elmore

When we teach that leadership is influence––nothing more, nothing less––this generates questions from those trying to grow as leaders. They often ask, “How do you grow your influence?”

People are watching your actions, reactions, interactions, and behaviors. Every follower is trying to determine if they want to give you PERMISSION to influence or lead them. This is Level 2 of the 5 Levels.

#211 – 12 Choices Leaders Make To Fuel Their Influence

An overview of the 5 levels of Leadership, a fundamental concept in the works of John C. Maxwell.

#1 - The 5 Levels of Leadership Introduction

Chris Goede and Perry Holly discuss how to move from level 1 leadership (people follow you because they have to) towards level 2 (people follow you because they want to.

#2 - Congratulations, now get busy!

In this episode Chris and Perry discuss steps to take to make sure you grow -so that your team can grow with you. They key to personal development is committing to it - and sticking to it. Start with making small changes.

#3 - You cannot give what you do not have

In this episode, we look at the three questions that every employee will ask their boss or leader. Can you help me,-can I trust you and do you care about me.

#5 - Three questions every team member will ask their leader

Chris and Perry discuss best practices for having difficult conversations, like finding the balance between care and candor.

#16 - Difficult Conversations

Chris and Perry talk about delegation. How to make others in your team successful and grow everyones leadership.

#26 - Delegation basics

Chris and Perry discuss the importance of authenticity for leaders. Authentic leadership is at the core of business culture. How to be authentic - and what not to do to foster authenticity.

#29 - Authentic Leadership Is The Core Of Any Business Culture

#32 First Things First - It's All About Priorities

Chris and Perry discuss the difference between presence and executive presence. Everything we do as a leader as part of it - like it or not.

#58 - You May Have Presence, But Is It Executive Presence

Today, Chris and Perry welcome the CEO of The John Maxwell Company, Mark Cole to the podcast. Mark is an expert at connecting with people and expanding his network, something leaders at all levels need to be doing if they hope to increase their influence.

#115 - Leading Across: Expanding Your Circle Of Influence

Some leaders find themselves caught in a pattern of pleasing others versus leading others. Pleasing does not equal leading. To lead, you must challenge others to a higher level of performance. Today, Chris and Perry discuss ways you can move past the tendency to be a pleaser, and challenge each person on your team to take your business to the next level.

#127 – Making the Relational Shift: From Pleasing to Challenging

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