Prepare Your Leadership: What Kind Of Leader Are You?

Hello, hello. Happy Monday. Hope you all enjoyed 4 July weekend. Got some days off. Hello. Just saying Happy Monday. Back from the 4 July weekend. Hopefully got some much needed time off. Probably before we head back into another long stretch for another holiday or day off or anything. Give it about one more minute for more people to join. Hopefully at a safe 4 July, too. And all the fireworks in my area were going off crazy from Wednesday night all until last night. Hi, Cindy. Hello, weatherly.

Hi. Happy Monday afternoon now. Hello, everyone. So today we're talking about what kind of leader you are and want to be. Peter Drucker, Erie, Pennsylvania. How's the weather out there? I know here. I'm in Duluth, Minnesota. It hit 80 on Saturday and that meant beach time for us. That was the warmest it's really gotten all year. Hopefully it's nice out there, not rainy or anything. So what kind of leader do you want to be? Peter Drucker, famous educator, consultant and leader in leadership of research and management.

Research said that we can't manage others unless we learn to manage ourselves first. So remember, when talking about leadership, and when I talk about leadership, I like to say that to be a leader, to lead a whole organization, to lead a whole team, or to lead just another person, it starts with leading yourself first. So a real leader is leading yourself first. So some key areas in research is self awareness, and that's what I look at as well. So today we'll kind of go into a reflective exercise about self awareness and the leader you want to be 90 degrees.

I can't tell you the last time I heard about 90 degrees in Duluth, Minnesota. I wouldn't even know what to do. I'm from Minneapolis, though, so I've had my plenty of nineties, but I can't. I can't imagine it up here. So hopefully you stay cool there. So for exercise, I want you first to kind of reflect on the people in your life or the people who were in your life who had a major impact on you. What did you learn from them? How did they shape the leader you are today? This could be high school band directors, could be teachers, could be youth coaches, could be the leaders that you have right now.

What did you learn from them? How did they shape who you are and how you work? Take a moment. Consider whether you selectively live by or shape these lessons. Yes, mosquitoes is. Yeah, mosquitoes are not fun. Lucky this year. It hasn't been too bad unless I go out in the forest, but at least where I'm at, the mosquitoes haven't been too bad yet. So once you kind of think about those people in your life reflects on those specific talent and skills that they might have had or talents and skills that you just admire in other people as well.

What behaviors, traits or qualities do you want others then to admire in you? So take a moment. What skills and qualities did the people who had a major impact on your life transform who you want to be? Again, this could be coaches, teachers, you know, Boy scout leaders, girl scout leaders, anyone in your life. And then what kind of skills do you want others to look at yourself? Is it the same skills? Or maybe they're different. Maybe you see those skills and you, well, I don't really have, like, the traits.

Maybe it's just a trait that somebody has something that you think that you won't be able to attain at some point, but what's something small that is close to that that you could maybe build? Supervisor who never micromanage the staff. Instead he would allow, would often say, go out into deeper waters. Go out into deeper waters. Think creatively. If you get in too deep, I love it. I love it. Let people learn and then come back and ask questions. And then that way people are learning how to do it on their own and taking chances safely.

It's a safe way to take risks and grow without really feeling that concern about failing coaches in my coaching profession who are so good. Yes. So what kind of traits and skills and qualities do they have that makes them so good? What sets them apart? Maybe so take a moment, think about that. And then knowing these traits and skills that the people you admire, the people that you look to, take a look at those skills and now set goals to improve in those skills. I like a quote by Oprah saying that we can't become what we need to be by remaining where we are.

So you gotta keep on growing. You need to go faster. There's a famous chinese proverb that says, be not afraid of growing slowly, but be afraid of standing still. So their vocabulary and their questions. Questioning is amazing. And coaching, I know it's asking the right questions and when to ask it. So studying that and asking them questions, that can be another goal is going and asking them questions. Fun staff meetings, we got a lot done, but in the context of blast, yes. Building positivity and positive environment broadens people's emotions and their minds and makes them feel safe.

And, you know, that allows people to explore and be innovative. I love it. Yeah. Making it more and not formal origami in a meeting, that's awesome. It's a great team building exercise too. So think of all these skills and qualities or things that they've done and think, how can I start implementing this in my life? What are the steps and goals that I can do? And then remember that growth is continuous process that requires that commitment and self reflection. So it's not going to change overnight or it might feel like it changed overnight, but then there's going to be hiccups along the way.

So remember that just like a river flowing back and forth and you're going to hit some rapids and then maybe a dam. But when you hit a dam, you're going to go over that dam and you're going to fly past it, remember? So growth is just like that. You're going to up and down, ebbs and flows. So think of this qualities and traits and set some goals towards it. So remember that it's a journey. It's all about self awareness and who you want to be as a leader, how you want to show up for others and really pushing everyone.

Or maybe it's just yourself and your own role. Maybe you're not a leader. But remember that leaders aren't the titles, they're the people. You can lead from the bottom just as much as leading from the top. So embrace all this journey with enthusiasm, commitment and continuous improvement. I hope you have a great rest of your Monday. We got JC going on at 1230 in about 20 minutes here and you can check out the whole schedule of all our Cadre people right here on the app with the calendar icon. So have a great rest of your Monday.

I'll see you next week. Bye.