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Hard Leadership….you know….the drill instructor kind….is actually lazy leadership.  Don’t get me wrong, there is a time and a place for very direct leadership.  Think about a fire department putting out a house fire.  You can’t have a development meeting or a long term sales strategy to put out a fire.  How about an emergency room trauma patient?  Same thing.  What is really hard about leadership is developing soft skills.  That takes time, investment in people, and you as the leader, actually caring to know about your team.

Developing soft skills is not just the way of the future for leadership, it’s needed right now.  The good news is, it really only takes a change of focus to start sharpening those soft skills.  It is harder it first, but the long term investment of positive return is undeniable.  Start small with the closest people around you and work from there.  Remember, at first, leadership is not about you, but later, it will be about you.

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Sounds a bit weird for a leadership podcast so imply you should put up with a bad work culture.  The fact is, just because you find out your work culture is bad, it doesn’t mean you can leave immediately.  Or maybe you were in a good work culture and a new leader took over and bam…..now it’s bad.  Either way, the worst thing that can happen is that you change who you are for someone you don’t like or respect.

When you think of it that way, it doesn’t make sense to be a different person because of a person you would not work for if it was up to you.  So…don’t.  On this week’s episode of the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast, learn some tips to survive a bad culture until you can work in a good culture.

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Nobody likes to be judged.  Many people swear that they don’t judge people.  The fact is, people do judge.  Sometimes for big reasons and sometimes for small reasons.  It’s pretty easy to get sucked into conversations like that.  Being judged can really change how you see yourself.  The next thing you know is you’re telling yourself those same things….even if they aren’t true.  What you need to do explore the truth of what you know about yourself.  Be so confident, that no matter what people say, you are good with you.

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Now more than ever, it can feel like you’re running out of bandwidth.  You only have so much energy and so much time.  Most of the time people are running out of bandwidth and don’t really realize it until they feel like they want to stop everything.  If you are living any life of value, constantly improving and moving forward, it will require more bandwidth from you.

On this week’s episode of the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast, learn the warning signs and more importantly, what to do about it.  You can’t do great things without giving more of yourself…..but don’t lose yourself in the process.

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This title might be confusing.  The ultimate gift of leadership is getting others to become leaders in their own right.  So why focus on getting people to follow you?  It’s really about building the highest levels of trust.  Getting people to follow you is what creates your ability to influence others.  Then, you have a massive responsibility to mentor others into becoming leaders themselves.  In this week’s episode of the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast, we’ll break down the process to help you understand why anyone would want to follow you and then, what you can do with that influence.

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