Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Hey, good morning, everybody. Happy, happy Monday. If you're in the States, happy Labor Day. One of those holidays that change the season, right? Even though summer still has 2020 days left before it's officially fall, it often feels like Labor Day is the beginning of a change. Joanna, nice to see you. Jamie. Oh, the crew is coming on in this morning. Nice to see y'all. Welcome, Jules. We'll give it one more moment with a little bit of Sia in the background. There's something about a nice anthem to kick off your morning.

You are unstoppable today, y'all. Okay, thank you, Sia. Let's hear it for Sia, everybody. I'm imagining that Sia's sitting right over here. Well, welcome to Cadre. My name is JC. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to do so. It is a gift to share time and space with you. It is. No matter how you're doing, no matter if you're feeling successful or unsuccessful, if you're motivated or unmotivated, you still got all the things you need to do this moment well to make this moment impactful.

So this is Cadre today. Every weekday morning, 730 central standard time, you see me for a little touch base on all things Cadre and a little bite sized version of a livestream. Always remember, every single live stream. If you don't catch it live, you can watch it later. You can just scroll on down and find every single one that you missed. So what do we talk about on Mondays? We talk about professional development. Even on days like today, where you may be having a day off of work, professional development is all about growing the things that you do, strengthening your capacity to live out your purpose, your vocation, your mission, your values.

All of those I often, in my professional life, sit in the seat of helper or a teacher or a guide. And last week, I was leading a session with a virtual room of executives talking about how to coach your people. So these are people who have people that they're responsible for their output, the work that they're doing, but also their growth. We know that anytime we're in the seat of leader, one of the ways that we keep our followers really engaged in focus is we keep inviting them to see who they are becoming, what skills they are growing, what passions they are fostering.

So last week on teams, I was leading a session on how do you coach your people? And all of a sudden, up on the screen, I shared a slide of this harmony is the enemy of growth. And this room, full of leaders were like, I don't like that. They did not like the idea that I was sharing that harmony is the enemy of growth. This is an idea that comes from Paul Botz and good leadership, which is an organization here in the twin Cities. But what Paul's speaking about when he says that harmony is the enemy of growth is that if what you seek is for everything and everybody always to be in harmony, you're going to miss the opportunities that grow from the moments of dissonance, the moments of things not being harmonious.

We need harmony, but we also need the moments where we can say, hey, we have differing ideas or opinions, or, we are different people and we need to learn how to work together rather than acting like we know how to work together by seeking harmony rather than what makes music great. The thing that I like about this quote, cause I often struggle with using words like this is the enemy of because it's often adding drama that isn't necessary. If you ask me. I can buy into an idea pretty quick, but if I hear something like this is the enemy of, then I go, oh.

And I kind of shut off. But I really like this idea. And the reason why is it's using music as an analogy. Think about your favorite songs. Every one of your favorite songs moves from moments of harmony, to moments of dissonance, to moments of suspension, to moments of augmentation. There's moments where the music moves fast and free. There's moments where it gets stuck and moves slow, and there's long held out notes. That's why we like music, because it represents reality. It represents us. You are harmony, yes, as an individual, but you are also all the other things that don't feel like harmony.

So, within your professional development today, everybody, I invite you to find those moments where harmony may not be what is actually needed to keep the song moving. Think about it. Apply it. No matter where you are, no matter what your world is, if you are an executive, if you are starting a new job, if you're at the bottom or the top of a food chain, if the food chain isn't vertical but horizontal, if you are in profit or nonprofit, if you are retired, if you are independently employed, if you are struggling to find work, no matter, no matter where you are at within your professional journey, guess what?

You are still in evolution. You are still growing, and you still have the opportunity to be right here in the Cadre sphere. Coming up in 22 minutes, you're going to see the founder of Cadre, Mister Luke Wentlett. Later on today, you'll see Gene and Daryl and Nick and Matt Tappy coming to us from Duluth up north. Jewels getting closer to your country. But tune on in when you need a moment to remind yourself that there are many ways to wellness. We have the professionals and the peers who are going to be sitting on down in their reality to ask you how your reality is.

And guess what? You are unstoppable today. Y'all listen. Can you hear that drone on the bottom of the chord? There's moments of harmony. Carlette, nice to see you. We are just wrapping things up. Make sure you tune back in. Give it a listen. You can just hit replay and it'll start you at the top. Y'all have a good day. We'll talk to you later.