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035: Becoming a Better Leader, Step One - Choose Transformation

The Bill Perry Show

Release Date: 08/13/2019

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The Bill Perry Show

As a leader, are your attempts at intended appreciation with your team falling flat? Maybe it's because you're not speaking their language. Today, I'm talking with the man who literally wrote the book on appreciation at work, Dr. Paul White. He is the co-author of the book, Five Languages of Appreciation in The Workplace. It is hands down one of the best books that leaders can utilize in order to grow their sense of effective communication with their teams. 

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It is a new year. It's a new decade. Welcome to 2020! With these moments on the calendar, there's always the hope of great change. But the reality is the movement of dates on the calendar doesn't create change, something else has to happen. Very little change occurs until you make a significant change in the way you see the world. And this is the topic of this week’s podcast episode.

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Ho, ho, hold on…you don’t like Christmas? I understand this season can be painful for some. It can be a season where depression and suicide rates are on the increase. Or perhaps, as you get older the events of Christmas don’t match the warm, sentimental memories you carry for the season. Today, I want to offer you a message of kindness and hope.

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Do you know how much it costs an organization when employees are not engaged? It can be very costly to the bottom line. Employee engagement is a vital piece to any organization and effective coaching on the part of your management and leadership can be a solution to engaging employees. 

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Emotional intelligence is a skill that is so important to everyone, including those in leadership. My guest this week is Teresa Quinlan. She has over two decades of experience in learning and development, and she has spent the last 15 years training leaders and their teams, giving particular attention to the area of emotional intelligence. On this episode, she helps us understand why we need to develop that area of our lives and how to go about doing it. 

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Today I’m talking with Jennifer McClure, a former executive recruiter and HR executive who offers a wealth of knowledge on the subject of corporate leadership. Jennifer is here to talk to us about developing corporate leaders and the importance of employee appreciation.  

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The holiday season is my favorite time of year. I grew up in a great family situation where holidays were marked with extended family time together with good food and great family engagements. However, there is a lot of pressure attached to the holidays. This year, I would encourage you to take a step back and relieve some of that stress during this busy season.

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Today I welcome friend and business leader, Charles Weathers to the show. I've known Charles for some time, and I've benefited from his extensive knowledge of leadership development.  Charles spends time working with nonprofits and faith-based organizations. He loves working with them because they share his heart for the community. He has worked to help these companies with board development, governance, leadership development and strategic planning. 

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I am so pleased to welcome Laurie Ruettimann to the show. Laurie had spent many years in human resources leadership and realized she hated her job. She left her position in HR and is now on a mission to fix work. She has some ideas about what is currently wrong with work and some steps we can take to fix those problems; not only in our workplaces but in our lives as well.

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This week I am pleased to have Danny Ozment of Emerald City Productions on the show. Danny is the producer of this podcast and always works hard to make me sound good! Danny and I talk about the creative potential for leaders and human resources teams to utilize the medium of podcasting to drive vision, values and policies through every level of your organization! 

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Often prospective clients ask if I can guarantee improvement in their leadership and work experience. They want to become a better leader, and they recognize the need for change in their business culture or personal life and leadership skills. I’ll tell you what I tell them: If you want different results, you must overcome the resistance to change, invest energy to breaking unproductive patterns, and choose transformation. 

Step one to improving your leadership is to say yes to the invitation for growth.

The Invitation to Becoming a Better Leader

What I offer and recommend in the way of improving your life and business is simply an invitation. What you choose to do with what you are given will determine your growth and experience. That is the case with all of life. A better you, better team, better business, and better life is possible, but the choice is always yours.

Much of life seems to be contingent on our conformity to an established hierarchy or compliance with existing structures. While adjusting, conforming, or complying, never forget that you have a choice. There are costs and consequences to every choice you will ever make, but you still get to choose.

Positive change is determined by your intentionality. A better experience and a better life are the result of accepting the invitation to do something different in order to get a different result.

Information Is Not Transformation

We live in information overload. One of the more significant challenges in our culture is the temptation to substitute the acquisition of information for the work necessary to experience transformation. Information is not transformation. Transformation occurs when you apply appropriate information. It’s not what you’re given; it’s what you do with what you’re given!

Breaking Bad (Patterns)

There is a lot of energy required to break bad behavior patterns and unproductive work practices. It is so much easier to stay in an unproductive pattern. You don’t have to do anything if you don’t want to. You also don’t have to experience the recognition and reward attached to new and better opportunities. If you want different and better results, you are going to have to change the way you are doing things.

Change Is Not a Command but an Invitation

Change is not a command. It’s an opportunity. In my client work, I occasionally meet individuals who hold everyone and everything around them responsible for their success. The way that I recognize them is that they blame everyone and everything around them for their failure. At the end of the day, recognition and promotion are not inalienable rights. They are the fruit of offering yourself to the invitation to grow and become.

You May Need to Find Another Garden

If you can’t bloom where you are planted, you may need to find another garden. Every work experience and every relationship is not going to offer you the culture and the affirmation you need to become the best version of you. Don’t stay where it isn’t working. But if you find that you are moving from garden to garden, relationship to relationship, job to job, the problem may not be with the garden, the companion, or the employer. It might be you!

Reframing

What would happen if you began to look at the events of your life as an invitation? What if your difficult work experience is simply an invitation to become a better communicator? Change and growth are not requirements that you have to obey. They are opportunities. You can stay right where you are in life, work, and relationships. Or you can see opportunity as an invitation to become a better version of you.

Where Are We Going?

Over the next few episodes, we are going to talk about what it looks like to respond to life’s invitations, what it may cost you, and what you will face in terms of resistance to growth. Here’s a secret: Even resistance is an invitation. It all depends on how you respond.

Until next time, lead well!

Bill

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