The Ultimate Leadership Podcast

One from the archives – This show was originally posted on June 19th 2018   Are you aware of the habits that are limiting your career advancement? If you want to have more influence and more power, it’s time to put an end to certain patterns of thinking. To help you achieve that, I’ve invited someone I truly admire: author and executive coach Marshall Goldsmith. On today’s podcast: The profile of the leader of the future Don’t always add value and listen to your people Don’t sacrifice your career for your job Become aware of what is limiting your career and start making changes Links: How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job The profile of the leader of the future The leader of the future has to have four attributes, according to Marshall: The ability to think globally and being able to manage people in a global setting. Cross-cultural appreciation. Diversity is not just about dealing with minorities in the US, but also about dealing with different cultures all around the world. Being tech-savvy. We can no longer hide from technology. Being able to build alliances and partnerships. Nowadays leadership is much more across, instead of being top-down. Shared leadership. In the past, leaders assumed they knew more than the people they led. Today the leader is no longer superior. Leaders of the future have to quit being the smartest person in the room. Don’t always add value and listen to your people In his job as an executive coach Marshall gives people a lot of feedback. His clients pick the areas in which they need to make the most changes, and he helps them with that. He says that managers have a constant tendency of giving too much value. It’s very hard for smart, successful people not to constantly add value. Your suggestions as an executive become orders and you can end up diminishing the ideas of your employees. Before you speak, breathe, and ask yourself, “Is it worth it? If I am not the expert on this topic, why am I speaking? Anything I say will probably end up doing more harm than good.” Don’t sacrifice your career for your job Marshall’s latest book, “How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job”, is a collaboration with Sally Helgesen. The idea was to create a book for any woman who is ready to advance to the next level. One of the brilliant concepts in the book is sacrificing your career for your job. Women are much more likely to do this than men. They can get so wrapped up in doing a great job, that they don’t really invest in their career. They tend to have this naive assumption that if they do a good job, it should be the best thing to advance their career. What you should be doing is always looking at that next job. If you’re not careful, you can become indispensable. Then you’re really stuck. Indispensable means, “We can’t get rid of her, she’s adding too much value.” Become aware of what is limiting your career and start making changes Women are much better than men at giving credit to others and saying we instead of I. This is generally a good thing. The only problem is that sometimes you need to get promoted. If you want to make a bigger, more positive difference in the world, you need to have more power. You can’t influence people with no power. If you want more power, you need to be aware of the things that stop your career. If you think, “I love my team so much, I’m ashamed to be promoted”, you ultimately limit your career and the influence you can have in the world. We hold on to mental models too much. If we say, “That’s the way I am” with no intention of changing anything,

Podcast Host and Coach Tony Martignetti is this weeks guest on the show. Tony share his thoughts on how to make a splash in this virtual world, and growing your reputation. Tony also shares his expertise on how leaders can use their skills to bring out the very best in your workers in the virtual world. Using Compassionate Accountability to develop and deliver a personal touch virtually. The conversation then switches to Tony’s upcoming book, Are You Climbing the Right Mountain. What happens when you find yourself at the top of your career and you realize you may not like the view? Tony shares his expertise on how to reframe your current job to find more joy.

One from the archives originally posted on February 21, 2018 Keynote speaker and business strategist Sharon Lechter believes that financial education should start at an early age. She also wants to empower women to take control of their lives and explore a myriad of business opportunities. On today’s podcast: Are you feeling stuck? Take control of your life and commit to it Stop complaining and focus on the progress you’ve made Fear will always hold you back A board game for teenagers can teach them about finances Links: Think and Grow Rich Think and Grow Rich for Women Outwitting the Devil ThriveTime for Teens Board Game – The Money and Life Reality Game Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast Feeling stuck? Sharon wrote a book inspired by Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, but oriented towards women. Her book is called Think and Grow Rich for Women. In another of his books, Outwitting the Devil, Napoleon Hill focuses on the things that hold us back, on the obstacles that we create in our own minds. Outwitting the Devil and Think and Grow Rich helped Sharon transform her mindset. If you feel stuck, you should go and read Outwitting the Devil, with Sharon’s annotations. Take control of your life and commit to it Sharon believes that the steps to success are the same for men and women, but we tend to approach them differently. She asks women how much money and impact they want to make, and what is their deadline. Sharon was getting frustrated with the conversation about work-life balance for women. When you start striving for success, you are ashamed of losing your balance. However, nobody is in balance. Women have so many more components in their lives, besides work and life: their financial, physical, spiritual, business, family and friends sides. If you feel guilty about what happened yesterday, you will waste precious time today. Just acknowledge it and spend today differently. Take control of your life and commit to living one big life. Women should stop complaining, and focus on their progress instead More and more women are coming to the business table. When men and women are both at the table, you have the best of both worlds. Sharon was getting frustrated with all the negativity, with women complaining about the men holding them back. Complaining attracts negative things. Instead, women should earn their status, and celebrate the progress they’ve made. If women focused on the positive, they would see more change quicker. Sharon’s goal was to change the dialogue towards positivity and celebration. Fear will always hold you back At the end of the day, we have things that are embedded in our psyche that create fear. This fear holds us back from achieving the success that we deserve. It’s not just fear of success, it’s also fear of poverty, illness, criticism. When you think about the subject of money, what did your parents say about it? Most likely they’ve made negative comments on it. As a result, it’s no wonder that we grow up with this fear of money, of scarcity.

This is a show is from the archives originally posted on January 17th, 2018. On this episode of The Ultimate Leadership Podcast, publisher and speaker Steve Piersanti shares his new leadership paradigm, an essential and timely change in today’s leadership environment. On today’s podcast: Leading to serve your people Why you should your company as a network Moving towards more egalitarian structures Why transparency matters The mindset of serving other purposes, not just yourself Links: Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results Berrett-Koehler Publishers Leaders should serve their people Servant leadership is an important factor in today’s leadership environment. Management expert Ken Blanchard emphasized that: “The world is in desperate need of a different leadership role model. People have been conditioned to think of leadership only in terms of power and control”. We need to have leaders who lead by serving their people, rather than through power and control. Organizing your company as a network Rather than perceiving the organization as a pyramid, you should perceive it as a network. People at every level of the organization should be making decisions, not just people at the top. In their monthly staff meetings, any staff member can add an agenda or propose an initiative to change something. This keeps everyone engaged. More egalitarian structures within your organization If you want to move your organization into a more servant leadership model, you should change your systems and structures. You have to move from class systems to egalitarian structures. Decision-making is important. If decisions are made by the people at the top and the staff doesn’t know how to push an initiative, then it’s a hierarchical system. You need to set up your decision-making so that everyone can enter into the process. Many organizations have two compensation systems: one designed to pay executives as much as possible, and the other designed to control employee cost. You should have only one compensation system. Everyone should be on it and it should be transparent. Transparency makes a big difference The approach in many organizations is that information is restricted. In Steve’s company, information is shared broadly. Everyone knows the salaries of everyone else. The more people know about the organization, the more trust there is going to be in it. The employees will raise more issues the managers might not have thought of. The management team invites staff members to join them during their meetings and discussions. A new way of planning The traditional approach to change is: an outside consulting group will take the executives to a retreat for a few days, and they will craft the strategic plans. The approach Steve uses: they will bring together 50 or 100 people representing their stakeholder groups in an interactive means of planning over a few days where everyone has a voice. The implementing is happening on the spot. Leaders who serve their people Steve doesn’t think that their approach can work for leaders who are only concerned about their own advancement or prestige. It really only works when leaders are trying to serve others. There is a mindset that has to go underneath that. The mindset of having the purpose to serve other purposes, not just yourself.

Behavioral Psychologist Dr. Denise Dudley take the guest chair and joins Chris on this weeks episode. Denise outlines a snap shot of passive, aggressive, and assertive people. She then adds some advice for leaders in knowing the best way to interact with these personalities. Denise then shares her definition of passive aggressive people and how to talk to an assertive person if they need to receive some corrective feedback. This show really outlines the information needed to interact with these 3 personalities. This is a must listen show.

UFC Hall of Famer and 4 Time UFC Champion Ken Shamrock joins Chris on this weeks show. Ken discusses how he kept his focus during is long career knowing that he was an inspiration to many people, as he had to balance physical strength with his mental toughness. The discussion then focuses on how best to keep yourself on the direction of reaching your goals when distractions try to derail your process. Ken then shares a great piece of wisdom from his mentor that gave him the drive to overcome his own adversity. Finally Ken shares who was the best fighter that allowed him to develop his skills and become the legend he is today. This is a great show, filled with tons of leadership lessons, some truly learned the hard way. Check out Ken’s show the World’s Most Dangerous Podcast Look for Bare Knuckle Fights from the Valor Bare Knuckle website Ken’s Official website www.kenshamrock.com

In this episode of the Ultimate Leadership Podcast, Chris is joined by Executive Coach and Podcast Host Tom Henschel. Tom discusses the four elements leaders need to have to ensure they are ready to enter into a coaching relationship. The four elements are: * Curiosity – Outlining if there is a natural shift from being a leader to being a learner * Self-Reflection – How important is it for the leader to develop a habit of looking at themselves? * Self-Responsibility – This is where the leader needs to be responsible for their own accountability * Resilience – Tom lays out the need for the being resilienant and the importance to achieve your Ultimate Success. Here is a link to download the info graphic covering these four elements. https://essentialcomm.com/resource/ReadinessInCoaching Join Tom on The Look & Sound of Leadership Podcast.     

In this episode of the Ultimate Leadership Chris Cebollero is joined by Speaker, Author and Coach Bo Brabo. Bo stops by to share his leadership expertise regarding the importance of After Action Reviews and how they are essential for the growth of a team, and organization. He discusses how best to cultivate a value based organization and the keys to use those values to inspire and motivate the workforce. Bo shares his thoughts about his book From the Battlefield, to the White House, to the Boardroom. Bo had the opportunity to work at the White House during President Bush and President Obamas administration. What was the biggest lesson Bo took from that experience? Join the discussion to find out.

In this episode of the Ultimate Leadership Chris Cebollero is joined by Business and Leadership Coach Eleanor Beaton. Eleanor brings her expertise in discussing how leaders are feeling disassociated with this workforce, organization and responsibilities. This pandemic is causing leaders to fail like they re failing in their responsibilities. Eleanor outlines tips to overcome these feelings, how to reconnect with a virtual workforce, and how using the power of storytelling and ice breakers make a big difference in bringing the team back together. Eleanor Beaton is the host of the Power, Presence, Position Podcast heard by listeners around the world.

In this episode of the Ultimate Leadership Podcast, Chris is joined by Author, Speaker and Coach Tracy Bianco. Tracy outlines the 5 Choices a leader needs to make when they are focusing on employee engagement. These 5 choices tip the scales and deal with the growth of the leader and what the leader needs to know before they begin the employee engagement process. Developing the workforce is an important component of developing a highly engaged workforce. The missing component is the internal focus of the leader in this engagement process. Join the discussion as we take a microscopic deep dive into the 5 Choices a leader needs to make to truly engage the workforce.

Dean Graziosi joins Chris Cebollero on this weeks episode of the Ultimate Leadership Podcast. Dean outlines the Digital Information Business, and the course Tony Robbins and he created called the Knowledge broker Blueprint. This course is a science that pulls outlines the secrets of over 60 years of experience that Dean and Tony share. The course is made up of 6 modules, and over 21 topics that teaches the science of developing your own Mastermind Classes, or allows you the ability to Broker and develop Mastermind courses for others. Dean discusses the catalyst for developing the course, a brief journey as to the development of the course, the motivation for bringing this course to light, and some of the high points as to what the course can do for your personal and professional development. On a personal note, Dean also shares a bit on his passions for two important charities Operation Underground Railroad, and Feeding America. This is one show that will outline and define your professional and personal development journey. In these times of uncertainty and frustration, if you are looking for a new direction, this is the show for you.

In this episode of the Ultimate Leadership Podcast, Chris is joined by Author, Speaker and Coach Rocky Romanella. Rocky shares his expertise on what organizations need to do to prepare for life after Covid. We are living the new normal during this pandemic, but organizations have now think about the future when the pandemic is over. How do you develop a go forward strategy? How best do we deal with mistakes and shortfalls? Who is the best person to guide us in developing a go forward plan? These are just a few of the questions that get answered on this show.

In this episode of the Ultimate Leadership Podcast Chris Cebollero is joined by Transformation Specialist and Author Lynn Scheurell to discuss her new book. Lynn shares her thoughts and guidance on how to understand the energy of money, and the best ways to develop the best relationship with your money. Lynn shares the common misconceptions of money, and how best to understand the common money saboteurs that people have right now concerning money. If you are interested in purchasing Lynn’s new book Click Here

In this episode of the Ultimate Leadership Podcast, Chris Cebollero is joined by the show’s Resident Video Strategist Sheryl Plouffe. In the times of Covid-19 more and more people are turning to using video to get their messages across. Sheryl breaks down her ACE method for the best way to create outstanding content. Are you using video more now a days? Then join the discussion.

The Serial Salesman Steve Nudelberg stops by for a conversation with Chris Cebollero and shares his expertise on Modernizing the Sales Process. In this time of pandemic how so sales professionals need to change their focus on how they are doing business, Steve shares his knowledge and experience on the topic. Steve answers the questions on How will interpersonal relationships change in a virtual world and What is the best way to be anticipatory to a customers needs? Steve also gives his opinion of how the customer of tomorrow needs to react to their sales force in this new environment. Come on in and join the discussion.