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Executive Leadership Podcast #189: Communicating with Clarity: A Leadership Game Changer

Today Perry and Chris discuss five ways you can improve your communication clarity.

Executive Leadership Podcast #188: Tasks Vs. People: How To Achieve Results

Today Perry and Chris talk about what task-based and relationship-based leaders need to know to achieve remarkable results.

Executive Leadership Podcast #187: The High Calling of Leadership

Today, Chris and Perry talk about what moves someone from being a proficient manager to a leader with a higher calling.

Executive Leadership Podcast #186: Character Traits Of High-Influence Leaders

Leadership is influence, and author Brian Tracy suggests there are 10 qualities that all influential people exhibit. From Brian Tracy’s book, “The 10 Qualities of Influential People.”

Executive Leadership Podcast #185: The Role Leaders Play In The Story Of Their Team

Today, Chris and Perry talk about the role a leader should play to empower their team for maximum results.

Executive Leadership Podcast #184: 7 Questions Leaders Ask When Improving Team Performance

Today Perry and Chris talk about seven ways to position your team as a high-performance team.

Executive Leadership Podcast #183: Increasing your Ability to Influence and Persuade

Today, Chris and Perry talk about energy a leader can possess in order to increase their ability to influence and persuade their team.

Executive Leadership Podcast #182: Coaching the Millennial in the Middle

Today Perry and Chris talk about how organizations can be led to success with the new millennium era now in leadership.

Executive Leadership Podcast #181: Your Negative Emotions Are Sinking My Boat

Today, Chris and Perry talk about what a leader can do, eliminating negative influences and how to grow their team.

Executive Leadership Podcast #180: 5 Ways to Increase Your Confidence As A Leader

Today, Perry and Chris talk about 5 ways to develop your confidence as a leader.

Executive Leadership Podcast #179: How to Create Loyalty

Today, Chris and Perry talk about things a leader can do to increase loyalty in their organization.

Executive Leadership Podcast #178: From Pop Warner to the Pro's - Talent Is Never Enough

Today Perry and Chris talk about what separates one talented person from another.

Executive Leadership Podcast #177: Can You Really Lead with Love?

Today, Chris and Perry talk about what it means to lead with love, especially when you don’t feel like it.

Executive Leadership Podcast #176: Your Vision Checkup

Today Perry and Chris talk about developing and communicating a vision that helps focus your team for success.

Executive Leadership Podcast #175: Your Perfectionism is Killing Your Connections

Chris and Perry talk about the importance of authenticity and not being so perfect that no one can connect with you.

Executive Leadership Podcast #174: A Leader’s Strength: Balancing Confidence with Humility

Today Perry and Chris talk about one of Tim Elmore’s Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: balancing confidence with humility.

Executive Leadership Podcast #173: Do You Have a Voice Your Leader Wants to Hear?

Chris and Perry talk about the importance of having a voice that your boss wants to hear.

Executive Leadership Podcast #172: How to Develop a Servant Leader Mindset

Today, Perry and Chris talk about the five components developing of a servant leader mindset.

Executive Leadership Podcast #171: Servant Leadership: Can You Lead and Serve at the Same Time?

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

Executive Leadership Podcast #170: A Leader's Approach to the Great Resignation

Today Perry and Chris talk about what leaders can do to ensure they retain their top talent during what has come to be known as "The Great Resignation."

Executive Leadership Podcast #169: Your Year End Leadership Checkup

Today, Chris and Perry talk about how you can assess your leadership journey and steps to take to ensure you are growing and developing as a leader.

Executive Leadership Podcast #168: Leadership, Service, and the Ryder Cup

In this episode, Chris and Perry talk about Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker and the power of servant leadership when leading high performance individuals.

Executive Leadership Podcast #167: What if I'm a Better Leader than My Leader?

Perry and Chris talk about the power of leading up in the organization and how you can increase your influence with a leader who’s not leading.

Executive Leadership Podcast #166: When Two Cultures Clash

Chris and Perry talk about what leaders can do to minimize or eliminate “culture clash.”

Executive Leadership Podcast #165: Are You Designing or Defaulting to Your Organizational Culture?

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.

Executive Leadership Podcast #164: Balancing the 4 Dimensions of Culture

Today, Perry and Chris continue their talk with Greg Cagle about having balanced and healthy dimensions of culture.

Executive Leadership Podcast #163: Discovering the 4 Dimensions of Culture

Chris and Perry talk with culture expert, Greg Cagle, and take a deep dive into the 4 Dimensions of Culture.

Executive Leadership Podcast #162: The Laws of Leadership for the Level 5 Leader

Perry and Chris look at the Laws that apply to Level 5 and help you as you develop your legacy as a leader.

Executive Leadership Podcast #161: The Laws of Leadership for the Level 4 Leader

Today, Perry and Chris look at the Laws that apply to Level 4 and help you as you move toward Level 5.

Executive Leadership Podcast #160: The Laws of Leadership for the Level 3 Leader

Today, Perry and Chris look at the Laws that apply to Level 3 and help you as you move toward Level 4.

Executive Leadership Podcast #159: The Laws of Leadership for the Level 2 Leader

In this episode, Perry and Chris look at the Laws that apply to Level 2 and help you as you move toward Level 3.

Executive Leadership Podcast #158: The Laws of Leadership for the Level 1 Leader

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.

Executive Leadership Podcast #157: How to Increase Your Influence Up, Down, and Across

Perry and Chris talk about how understanding the 4 Dimensions of Culture can help improve your communication.

Executive Leadership Podcast #156: How Courageous is Your Communication?

Perry and Chris talk about how understanding the 4 Dimensions of Culture can help improve your communication.

Executive Leadership Podcast #155: How Do You Build a Courageous Culture?

Chris and Perry talk about how understanding the 4 Dimensions of Culture can help you move your team from committed to courageous.

Executive Leadership Podcast #154: Are You a FOR or a FROM Kind of Leader?

Perry and Chris talk about the new FOR content from the John Maxwell Company and how being a FOR leader increases loyalty and engagement.

Executive Leadership Podcast #153: How to Develop Your Legacy as a Leader

Perry and Chris talk about the intentional actions you can take to develop a long and lasting legacy.

Executive Leadership Podcast #152: Are You Interested or too Busy Trying to Be Interesting?

Today, Chris and Perry talk about how you can increase your interest in others to drive more connection and engagement.

Executive Leadership Podcast #151: Leader Skill: Finding the Small, Yet Meaningful Moments

Today Perry and Chris talk about the importance of finding the small, yet meaningful moments that make a positive difference in the lives of others.

Executive Leadership Podcast #150: The Power of Observation for the Inclusive Leader

Today, Chris and Perry talk about how to use the skill of observation to increase your awareness.

Executive Leadership Podcast #149: Leader Skill: How to Deliver the Kind-Hard Truth

Perry and Chris talk about how to preserve relationships by delivering the kind-hard truth.

Executive Leadership Podcast #148: Questions Leaders Ask to Find or Create Margin in Their Life

Today, Chris and Perry talk about how you can find and create margin to increase your value to you team, organization, and your family.

Executive Leadership Podcast #147: How Does a Leader See the Future?

Today Perry and Chris talk about actions a leader can take to improve their ability to see the future so they can appropriately guide their business.

Executive Leadership Podcast #146: Do You Like Seeing it Work Without You, or Because of You?

Today, Chris and Perry talk about three things leaders can do to make sure things work without them.

Executive Leadership Podcast #145: Don't Look Now, but Your EQ is Showing!

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

Executive Leadership Podcast #144: Becoming a Coaching Leader

Coaching leaders make people development a part of everything they do. Today, Chris and Perry talk about how you can become a coaching leader.

Executive Leadership Podcast #143: Understanding a Leader's Role in Employee Wellbeing

In this episode, we discuss ideas and practical approaches to help leaders support employee wellbeing and overall team health.

Executive Leadership Podcast #142: A Leader's Challenge: Moving People from Busy to Productive

Today, Chris and Perry talk about some helpful ways to move yourself and your team from being busy to being productive.

Executive Leadership Podcast #141: Is there a Formula for Building Trust with Your Team?

Today, Perry and Chris look at some formulas for trust and discuss what it really takes to establish trust with those in your circle of influence.

Executive Leadership Podcast #140: Leadership Boundaries: Can You Be the Boss and Still Be a Friend?

Today, Chris and Perry discuss how leadership boundaries can help leaders be more effective and drive engagement with their teams.

Executive Leadership Podcast #139: Pulse Check for Your High Performance Team

Today Perry and Chris discuss how to check your team pulse and performance. Are they really a high-producing team or not?

Executive Leadership Podcast #138: Leading High Performance Teams

Today, Chris and Perry discuss how leaders set the vision and direction for high performance teams and develop influence with each member.

Executive Leadership Podcast #137: The Eight Values of Highly Inclusive Leaders

Today, Perry and Chris discuss eight things that inclusive leaders value and why these practices lead to more engaged teams.

Executive Leadership Podcast #136: The Power of Recognizing the Coaching Moment

Today, Chris and Perry discuss how leaders can recognize and leverage the coaching moment to improve team performance.

Executive Leadership Podcast #135: Changing the World by Changing Your World

Today, Perry and Chris talk with Tricia Gleghorn about the Change Your World movement and how you can participate.

Executive Leadership Podcast #134: 10 Lessons from 10 Years of the 5 Levels

Today, Chris and Perry discuss the impact that The 5 Levels of Leadership has made on them personally and on the leaders they work with.

Executive Leadership Podcast #133: The Inclusive Leader and the 5 Levels of Leadership

Today, Perry and Chris discuss how the 5 Levels of Leadership contain everything you need to be a more inclusive leader.

Executive Leadership Podcast #132: Ten Skills of the Highly Inclusive Leader

Today, Chris and Perry discuss ten skills you can develop that will lead to a more inclusive approach to leading your team.

Executive Leadership Podcast #131: Cultural Intelligence and the Inclusive Leader

Today, Perry and Chris discuss how to develop your Cultural Intelligence so you can relate to and work effectively with a diverse group of individuals.

Executive Leadership Podcast #130: Self-Awareness and the Inclusive Leader

Today Chris and Perry discuss what it takes to be an effective, inclusive leader.

Executive Leadership Podcast #129: The Communication Shift: Seven Ways to Connect and Not Direct

Today, Chris and Perry discuss seven ways you can shift in your leadership from directing people to connecting with people.

Executive Leadership Podcast #128: The Reproduction Shift: From Ladder Climbing to Ladder Building

Today, Perry and Chris reveal ways you can become a ladder builder for someone on your team.

Executive Leadership Podcast #127: Making the Relational Shift: From Pleasing to Challenging

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.

Executive Leadership Podcast #126: Moving From Soloist to Conductor: A Leader's First Challenge

Today, Chris and Perry discuss some ideas for making the leadership move from soloist to conductor.

Executive Leadership Podcast #125: Reinforcing a Leadership Culture: Leaders Leading Leaders

Today, Chris and Perry discuss the challenge of extending your influence through other leaders to those on the front line.

Executive Leadership Podcast #124: Securing Your Leadership Culture: Five Strategies for Leaders Growing Leaders

Today, Chris and Perry discuss how to secure your leadership culture by using five strategies to equip leaders to grow other leaders.

Executive Leadership Podcast #123: Twelve Things Leaders Model to Develop a Leadership Culture

Today, Chris and Perry discuss twelve ways leaders can model leadership that can lead to developing a leadership culture in your organization.

Executive Leadership Podcast #122: Developing a Leadership Culture: Leaders Learning Leadership

In today’s episode, Chris and Perry discuss the importance of a leadership culture and how they always begin with leaders learning leadership.

Executive Leadership Podcast #121: Strengthening Your Leadership Mindset with Executive Presence

Discover the three areas of Executive Presence and how developing yourself in these areas can positively affect your leadership mindset.

Executive Leadership Podcast #120: Five Lessons for Making or Breaking Your Leadership Credibility

Chris and Perry discuss five areas that can positively affect your leadership mindset if you attend to them properly.

Executive Leadership Podcast #119: How to Transform Your Leadership Mindset

We discuss five gaps that leaders must bridge in order to transform their mindset from individual contributor to leader.

Executive Leadership Podcast #118: Developing a Leadership Mindset: From Team Member to Team Leader

In today’s episode, Chris and Perry discuss how to develop a leadership mindset.

Executive Leadership Podcast #117: Leading Up: I Think My Boss Is Avoiding Me

Chris and Perry discuss how you can influence your boss through moving from managing to leading and developing a leadership mindset. 

Executive Leadership Podcast #116: Leading Down: How to Model Leadership For Your Team

Leaders at every level need to be intentional about how they influence and connect with those who report to them.

Executive Leadership Podcast #115: Leading Across: Expanding Your Circle of Influence

Today, Chris and Perry welcome the CEO of The John Maxwell Company, Mark Cole to the podcast to discuss increasing your influence.

Executive Leadership Podcast #114: Promote Me, or Else!

Today, Chris and Perry talk about how to develop leadership (influence) even if you don’t have the title of a leader… yet.

Executive Leadership Podcast #113: Turning Watchers into Rowers

Chris and Perry talk about the difference between equipping and developing and why developing someone has a long-term positive effect on your business.

Executive Leadership Podcast #112: I'm Winning But Not Making Any Progress

In this episode, Chris and Perry talk about ways you can complete versus compete with your peers to develop positive influence.

Executive Leadership Podcast #111: How Do You Lead Up Without Sucking Up?

Today, Chris and Perry talk about investing in relational chemistry as a way of increasing influence with your boss.

Executive Leadership Podcast #110: Leading Without a Title, But I Really Want a Title!

When leading from the middle of the organization, it’s tempting to think that you don’t need to learn to lead until you get your leadership title. Today, Chris and Perry talk about things you could be doing to overcome the "Destination Myth."

Executive Leadership Podcast #109: Are You Influencing or Just Being Bossy?

A 360-Degree Leader must be able to lead up, down and across. In this episode, Chris and Perry share two strategies for influencing down in the organization.

Executive Leadership Podcast #108: Why Do My Peers Never Listen to Me or Follow My Lead?

Today, Chris and Perry talk about a structured approach to developing influence with your peers.

Executive Leadership Podcast #107: Am I Really Supposed to Influence My Boss?

In this episode, Chris and Perry talk about ways people in the middle of the organization can develop more influence with their leaders.

Executive Leadership Podcast #106: Leading From the Middle: I'm Not the Boss! You Do the Leading!

In today’s episode Chris and Perry discuss ways to develop influence to help you lead without a title.

Executive Leadership Podcast #105: From Good to Great Through the Valley of Feedback

In this episode, you'll learn how to reduce the potential for conflict when sharing feedback with your team.

Executive Leadership Podcast #104: Five Strategies for Upping Your Conflict Game

Today, Chris and Perry discuss the ability that great leaders have to see, embrace, and diffuse conflict before it can disrupt the team and derail progress.

Executive Leadership Podcast #103: If You Don't Step Up to Conflict, Conflict Will Step Up to You

In this episode, Chris and Perry discuss several key strategies in handling and diffusing conflict.

Executive Leadership Podcast #102: Why Can’t You Just Like Me and Do What I Say?

Today, Chris and Perry reveal three strategies for leaning into conflict that often arises from difficult conversations.

Executive Leadership Podcast #101: Are You as Inclusive as You Think You Are?

Today we talk about three questions every follower is asking about you to determine if you are an inclusive leader.

Executive Leadership Podcast #100: Values that Drive a Diverse and Inclusive Culture

Today we examine how your values determine your approach to having a diverse and inclusive culture.

Executive Leadership Podcast #99: Designing a Diverse and Inclusive Culture

Today, we discuss how leaders can intentionally design a diverse and inclusive culture in their organization.

Executive Leadership Podcast #98: Flattening the Hierarchy Curve Through Diversity and Inclusion

Today we talk about flattening the hierarchy curve and inviting others' opinions and points of view to help you open the door of possibilities in your organization.

Executive Leadership Podcast #97: Leaders Leading Leaders of Change

We discuss five questions to help you equip and empower your team to think and act like change agents.

Executive Leadership Podcast #96: Leading in Times of Great Change

As businesses begin to reopen, how can a leader use this unique situation to restart or reshape their team and corporate culture?

Executive Leadership Podcast #95: Change Agent Challenge – Are People Following Your Lead?

As businesses begin to reopen, how can a leader use this unique situation to restart or reshape their team and corporate culture?

Executive Leadership Podcast #94: Change Agents – Talking Change or Making Change

As businesses begin to reopen, how can a leader use this unique situation to restart or reshape their team and corporate culture?

Executive Leadership Podcast #93: Leadership Culture – Train Them Up In the Way They Should Go

As businesses begin to reopen, how can a leader use this unique situation to restart or reshape their team and corporate culture?

Executive Leadership Podcast #92: Leaders, Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

As businesses begin to reopen, how can a leader use this unique situation to restart or reshape their team and corporate culture?

Executive Leadership Podcast #91: Reclaiming Your Culture as We Reopen Business

As businesses begin to reopen, how can a leader use this unique situation to restart or reshape their team and corporate culture?

Executive Leadership Podcast #90: Avoiding the Intention/Perception Gap when Reopening your World

As businesses begin to reopen, it's an excellent opportunity for leaders to lean into their communication style.