010: Leading By Design with Angela Summers




BE THAT 1% Podcast show

Summary: Angela Summers is a Recreation Services Manager with the City of Henderson in Nevada. And during her 20+ year career, she has worked for recreation facilities in California, Hawaii, Japan, and Nevada. She is a nationally recognized motivational speaker and has presented at various conferences across the country for the past 10 years. Her areas of focus include promoting positive leadership, strengthening workplace culture and relationships, and inspiring today’s “new age” workforce. Angela supervises over 250 employees, many of whom are of the millennial generation.<br> <br> “As leaders we have the ability to help motivate others to achieve their dreams.” - Angela Summers<br> <br> She and her husband Isaac have 5 beautiful children and she enjoys sharing openly and honestly about the trials and tribulations of motherhood and being a strong female leader. Angela believes that the key to building strong relationships is “working for it”, which is something she strives to do each and every day. <br> <br> Being exceptional at something requires dedication, commitment, passion and HARD WORK! <br> <br> And as you will see here through Angela’s interview her secret sauce to leadership is to lead through a positive vision, empowering and nurturing her team leader, and treating every employee as an actual person.<br> <br> “I am apart of that 1% because I am the 1% voice who will tell you, you can achieve it!” - Angela Summers<br> <br> FREE DOWNLOAD: FREE Personality Test available at bethatonepercent.com/personalitytest<br> We’ve put this one together to help teach you how you come across, how you interact with others, how others can work best with you and at the end of the quiz there’s an option to learn more about how your personality can work best with the other personality styles. <br> <br> <br> Key Episode Takeaways:<br> Having a growth mindset is imperative to an organization wanting to make a difference<br> Passion is deep rooted<br> With passion comes fire<br> How leaders make an impact <br> How leaders can become even greater<br> Being a servant leader and building up others around you<br> Treating people like people not just an ‘employee’<br> Being vulnerable is the real power of connecting with people<br> The language you speak isn’t the language other people speak<br> How to re-adjust when you’re having a disagreement and what to focus on instead<br> How she balances being a lady boss and full time mom &amp; wife<br> Concept of “dating your staff” <br> Be a voice to those who need encouragement<br> <br> <br> For full show notes, timestamps &amp; quotes mentioned visit bethatonepercent.com/010<br> <br> FREE Personality Test: bethatonepercent.com/personalitytest<br> To join our FREE online community visit facebook.com/groups/Bethatonepercentcommunity/ <br> <br> To Connect with Angela Summers<br> Email: angela.summers@cityofhenderson.com<br> <br> To Connect with Us<br> IG: @BeThatOnePercent instagram.com/bethatonepercent<br> FB: facebook.com/bethatonepercentshop/<br> Twitter: @BeThatOne twitter.com/bethatone <br> <br> We’re still building our social media on those outlets so if you’d like to connect with us individually you can do that too!<br> <br> To connect with James Silvas<br> IG: @james_silvas instagram.com/james_silvas<br> FB: facebook.com/silvasspeaks<br> YT: youtube.com/jamessilvas<br> Website: jamessilvas.com<br> <br> To connect with Amanda Silvas<br> IG: @doit_likeyou instagram.com/doit_likeyou<br> FB: Amanda Michelle Silvas facebook.com/amandamichellesilvas<br> <br> You can always reach out to us via Direct Message on any social media outlet that we use! We’d love to hear from you directly about where you’re at in your life and how we can help.<br> <br> If you liked this episode please make sure to leave us a review on iTunes