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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.

Executive Leadership Podcast #89: Perspective Principles Part 3

We round out our three-part series on perspective by uncovering the last four of John Maxwell's 11 perspective principles.

Executive Leadership Podcast #88: Perspective Principles Part 2

In Episode 88 of our podcast, we continue exploring John's 11-part approach on perspective and share tips for choosing and changing your perspective.

Executive Leadership Podcast #87: Perspective Principles Part 1

In Episode 87 of our podcast, we provide important perspective principles that can help leaders in times of adversity and crisis.

Executive Leadership Podcast #86: Are you Condemning or Commending? Finding Benefits in Trying Times

How to leaders turn trying times into a better experience? The answer is being intentional.

Executive Leadership Podcast #85: A Leader's Best Friend - Your Personal Development Plan

We discuss the three key aspects of a personal development plan and the critical success factors for putting it into action.

Executive Leadership Podcast #84: How Are Insider/Outsider Dynamics Killing Engagement on Your Team?

In Episode #84 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, learn how insider outsider dynamics might be killing engagement on your team.

Executive Leadership Podcast #83: The Opportunity in Adversity

It's possible for two people to view adversity differently and have two completely different responses to that adversity.

Executive Leadership Podcast #82: Perspective - Turning Adversity into Opportunity

In the midst of an adversity crisis, we can find opportunity. It’s all about the power perspective!

Executive Leadership Podcast #81: The World Has Changed - From Optimal to Possible Part 2

Right now, more than ever, we need to be leaning in on that influence to help people through this time of change.

Executive Leadership Podcast #80: The World Has Changed - From Optimal to Possible Part 1

During the COVID-19 global crisis, leadership will be revealed and where leadership is most needed. Learn more in Episode 80 of our podcast.

Executive Leadership Podcast #79: Are You An Inspiring Leader? (Part 2) With Chris Fuller

In Episode #79 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we continue the conversation on what it means to be an inspiring leader with Chris Fuller.

Executive Leadership Podcast #78: Are You An Inspiring Leader? (Part 1) With Chris Fuller

In Episode #78 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we discuss what it means to be an inspiring leader and how to build an engaged workforce. 

Executive Leadership Podcast #77: Excuse Me, Your Attitude is Showing

In Episode #77 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we explore some of the triggers that can affect attitude and what leaders can do to improve.

Executive Leadership Podcast #75: If You Don’t Like Feedback, You’ll Like a Disengaged Team Even Less

In Episode #75 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we discuss the essential topic of feedback, and how to create a feedback culture for your organization.

Executive Leadership Podcast #74: Leadershift For Women With Stacey Speller - Part 2

In Episode #74, Chris and Perry continue speaking with Stacey Speller, and offer seven things that women can do to maximize their leadership.

Executive Leadership Podcast #73: Leadershift For Women With Stacey Speller

What's the roadmap for women to follow when it comes to authentic leadership?

Executive Leadership Podcast #72: I Think I Want To Think Like Successful Leaders Think

Good thinkers solve problems. They never lack for ideas, and they always have hope for a better future. In Episode #72, Chris and Perry explain how the way people think is the one thing that separates successful people from unsuccessful people.

Executive Leadership Podcast #71: Is Your Team Better Because Of You?

People are influenced by what you do for the organization. In Episode #71, Chris and Perry look at 7 ways you can increase your influence by making your team better.

Executive Leadership Podcast #70: Are You Telling, Teaching, or Coaching?

In Episode #70, Chris and Perry explain the 80-10-10 rule of telling, teaching, and coaching, and how applying it to your leadership can boost your team's performance and engagement.

Executive Leadership Podcast #69: What Would Last Year's You Tell This Year's You?

In Episode #69, Chris and Perry go over a few tips and habits to make yourself more accountable and find success in the new year.

Executive Leadership Podcast #68: Who Makes the Decisions Around Here?

In Episode #68, Chris and Perry discuss the importance of delegating problem-solving and decision-making so that your organization can thrive.

Executive Leadership Podcast #67: Five Hallmarks of Elite Performance

In Episode #67, Chris and Perry go through 5 key habits of elite performers and discuss how incorporating these habits will not only develop yourself as a leader but your team as individuals.

Executive Leadership Podcast #66: You Mean There's Another Level?

In Episode #66, Chris and Perry stress having a "growth mindset" and show us what leaders can learn from the performance habits of elite athletes.

Executive Leadership Podcast #65: Do I Really Need a Vision?

In Episode #65 of the Executive Leadership Podcast, Chris and Perry address the question, "Do I really need to have a vision?" Yes! Here's how you can make your team vision a reality.

Executive Leadership Podcast #64: Are You Working IN Your Business Or ON Your Business?

In Episode #64 of the Executive Leadership Podcast, Chris and Perry explain the importance of working ON your business and how you can shift your focus to the big picture to improve your organization.

Executive Leadership Podcast #63: Is It Really My Job to Motivate You?

In Episode #63 of the Executive Leadership Podcast, Chris and Perry explain 3 strategies for facilitating motivation that will create a workplace where your team values working.

Executive Leadership Podcast #62: Ten Strategies For Becoming A World-Class Networker

In Episode #62 of the Executive Leadership Podcast, Chris and Perry lay out 10 strategies for connecting with others that will turn you into a world-class networker.

Executive Leadership Podcast #61: Moving From Rules & Regulations To Standards & Expectations

In Episode #61 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, Chris and Perry examine the key differences between rules and standards and regulations and expectations, and how making the switch will boost your organization's satisfaction, independence, and overall excellence.

Executive Leadership Podcast #60: Leader Challenge: Building Bench Strength

In Episode #60 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we discuss the importance of having a succession plan and building a strong bench.

Executive Leadership Podcast #59: Leadership Decision Time - Be Vulnerable or Armor Up

In Episode #59 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we discuss a tough decision we face as leaders--to be vulnerable or to armor up.

Executive Leadership Podcast #58: You May Have Presence, But Is It Executive Presence?

In Episode #58 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we discuss how to strengthen your executive presence and potential pitfalls to avoid.

Executive Leadership Podcast #57: I'm A High I, Networker, ENFJ, Blue, What Type Are You?

In Episode #57 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, Chris and Perry discuss various behavioral and personality assessments.

Executive Leadership Podcast #56: The Approachable Leader - Engagement on Steroids

In Episode #56 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, Chris and Perry discuss how to make sure that "the door is always open" is not just a slogan but a reality for your team members.

Executive Leadership Podcast #55: The Teachable Leader - Engagement on Steroids

In Episode #55 of John Maxwell's Executive Leadership Podcast, we challenge you to ask your team 10 questions about your leadership that can tell you whether or not you are a "teachable leader."

Executive Leadership Podcast #54: Questions I Ask Myself as a Leader

In Episode #54 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we challenge you to better yourself as a leader by asking yourself 5 key questions.

Executive Leadership Podcast #53: Dare To Be Dumb – The Power Of Questions

In Episode #53 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we challenge you to "Dare to be Dumb" by asking more questions.

Executive Leadership Podcast #52: Leaders Secret Weapon: Developing Your Team

In Episode #52 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we discuss the important steps that leaders should take in order to successfully develop their team.

Executive Leadership Podcast #51: Hanging Around The Hoop

In Episode #51 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we discuss how you can "hang around the hoop" as a leader to achieve results. 

Executive Leadership Podcast #50: A Lesson in Persistence, Consistency and a Few Catchy Titles

In Episode #50 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, consider ways in which we can support persistence and consistency in our organizations and in ourselves.

Executive Leadership Podcast #49: Taking Your Team To The Next Level

In Episode #49 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we discuss how you can take your team to the next level.

Executive Leadership Podcast #48: A 4 Phase Approach To Leading Leaders

In Episode #48 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we explore how you can become an effective second, third, or fourth-line leader.

Executive Leadership Podcast #47: How Can I Lead Without A Title? A Listener Question

In Episode #47 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we explore how you can become a leader in your organization without a title. 

Executive Leadership Podcast #46: Tuesday Is Coming – What Do You Have To Show For It?

In Episode #46 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we explore how leaders can intentionally and attainably set goals that work towards the big picture. 

Executive Leadership Podcast #45: Setting Priorities – Are You a Visionary or a Vision Caster?

 In Episode #45 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we examine how a leader can grow from being a visionary to a vision caster for their organization.

Executive Leadership Podcast #44: Setting Priorities – Rising Above the Noise of the Urgent

In Episode #44 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we how leaders can begin setting priorities by rising above the noise of the urgent.

Executive Leadership Podcast #43: 3 Sets Of 3 – An Employee Engagement Mini-Course

In Episode #43 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we explore 3 sets of 3 tools that leaders can use to drive employee engagement.

Executive Leadership Podcast #42: Not So Secret Agents of Change

In Episode #42 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we explore how leaders can become agents of change for both themselves and for their organizations. 

Executive Leadership Podcast #41: Listening– A Leader's Tool for Showing Value to People

In Episode #41 of our Executive Leadership Podcast, we explore how to use listening as a tool for showing value to people.