Leading With Authenticity

Good morning, Cadre family. Happy Monday. We're here. Check it out. Yeah, and look, I have my trusted advisor with me again. Good morning, Major. Can you say hi? Can you say good morning to the family coming into you on this beautiful Monday, enjoying the great outside. Major has a beautiful stick. And as you dial in today, whether you're on replay or you're coming in live, just take a breath. Going to hang out for a minute or two just to give everybody a little time to come on in. And on today or this morning's conversation, I want to hear from you.

I want to hear what questions are percolating for you today. Good morning, Jules. Happy Monday. Hope you're having a great day. Take a breath, let me know what's on your mind this morning. What are you feeling right now? I'm gonna share with you a fun little Major's down here with his new founded treasure. So this morning it's all about finding treasures, it seems. So I'm going to post in the comments also, but if you're listening live or you're listening on repeat. Good morning, Amar. Hope you're having a great day.

When you come in today, simply I'm going to invite you to take a breath and type one or two words this morning about how you're feeling right now. Happy 20th work anniversary. Jules, that's huge. Congratulations. That's a long time. So what one word or two words or phrase are you feeling right now in this moment? For me, I am feeling energized. It's a beautiful sunny day. I'm out on a walk with Major and I really just feel grounded in the outdoors. So I feel grateful that I can move outside today for a little while.

Now here's my invitation to you and I'm gonna also post this in the comments out there. But when you think about work, you think about your personal development, your growth challenges that you're having at work. What are your questions? What are the questions you feel like you can never ask because you don't want someone to judge your question? I'm not going to judge any questions. But what I'd like to start inviting in a little more into these professional development conversations are what your questions?

Joel's feeling gratitude and humbled. I love that. Thank you. What questions do you have about your own leadership? What questions do you have about leaders that you work with, complications that you're having at work? I'd love to create a space where you feel that when you come in on Mondays or even on Sundays. Hello, Neti. That you can ask whatever burning questions you have. Maybe it's how to communicate better with your manager or a fellow colleague. Maybe there was a goal that you had that you haven't quite met, that you want some ideas or insights on how to accomplish that goal.

During these conversations, I'll answer questions. I'll also invite whoever's on the call to provide their insights as well. And I will use those to start creating some video series to dive into some of those questions a little more also. So just know that you have an open invitation to ask questions, to be present, to use this time for you. So I've been talking a lot about this concept of Iggy Guy, and it focuses on hi, Andy. Good morning. It focuses on passion and purpose, values, finding what you contribute into the world.

So if I ask you the question this morning, what do you think your greatest gifts are? What are your greatest contributions to your work, to your team, to the people that work around you, maybe your community? What would you say your greatest gift is that you give to the people around you? Now, how do you find out this great question? There are several ways that you can identify what your greatest gift is. One, you can just know. This is what I believe. I believe my greatest gift to the community is inspiration or movement.

That's one way I can just have a feeling that this is my gift. And you can believe in that and you can work your way around that. You can also use information. What feedback do you get from people? So if I, Jean, am answering the question, my answer might be one of a few, because we probably do and have more than one gift, right? But one of my gifts is to actively listen and be extremely curious. And with that gift of curiosity, with that gift of deep listening, it allows me the opportunity to help people move through situations.

So I have a gift of helping people make forward movements. Now, how do I know that's a gift? One, I love doing it. I get excited when anybody asks for my opinion, my advice, not because I think I know it all, but because that means that somebody is inviting me into their space, into their life, into their world, with a snapshot. And also that individual is seeking an outside perspective so that they can do something different. Next. And I am very futuristic. I'm a maximizer. Good morning. Speak Wonder.

And I love helping to create positive change. So when I get to use my curiosity and my listening because somebody has invited me into that conversation, I feel like that is something I can give to the world. That's a gift I have. Now, how else can I discover if that might be a gift of mine. People tell me, people give me feedback. They send me notes saying, thank you for listening. Here's what happened. Because you asked me these hard questions and I get feedback from it. So all of these are also considered a sign of your strengths.

And understanding what your strengths are doesn't just mean that you say, I'm good at this. Like you can be great at something. I can tell you I'm great at singing. Nobody's gonna pay me to sing. Let's be really clear. And if you've taken my spin cast and I've sung in class, you're probably thinking the same thing. So it's not about always creative encouragement. I love that Speak wonder. That is a gift of yours. So it's not always what you love to do again, right? I love singing. Nobody's going to pay me to sing.

But it doesn't change the fact that I love singing. It just means it's not going to be something that I get paid for or that I'm going to turn into a job. And specifically talking not just about passions right now, but specifically also talking about what you can get paid to do. Because this is our professional development day. Covering my ears because there's a wind and I can't tell if it's impacting my headphones. So when we think about the fact that, Jules, you're celebrating your 20 year anniversary, that means that for 20 years you have had an impact in your organization.

But I guarantee for 20 years you haven't had the same job. I'm going to anticipate that you've gotten promotions or maybe you've made lateral moves and maybe some of those moves you've really liked and some of them you haven't liked. Maybe some of them people tapped you on the shoulder because you were doing a really great job and they saw potential in you and they wanted to expand that potential. In a time or an era where staying at work for 20 years isn't the norm, we might not always have those opportunities for people to see us grow and shine, see where we light up, have the time and space.

Space to evolve into a career or evolve into the future version of ourselves. So it's really important as we move along our journey and work along our path that we can take some inventories. So as I mentioned when I started the call, every one of these that I do is going to be a space for you to ask questions. But also what I would love for you to do is have this conversation where we can ask more questions. Have a space where you can ask more questions, be curious, and I'll use those questions and turn them into videos so that I'm guessing your questions aren't just your questions.

There's probably other people that have the same questions. So let's continue and let's start this opportunity of being curious and maybe I'll change the name of one of my live streams soon. Or pop in on a different day and say ask anything. And bring your questions into that time. Type them into the chats. Now, curiosity is a really great place to start because whatever your burning questions are, either a couple of things have happened. One, you're feeling inspired. So I find that when I get start getting really curious about something, I might start searching the Internet to try to find more information about it.

I might look for a certification or a class about it because I love learning. I'm a constant learner and I sign up for at least one or two courses a year. Could be a short course, could be a six month course. It doesn't matter. I always invest in in myself every single year and I make sure that that is one of my priorities. It could be anything, doesn't matter. What are you curious about? Those curiosities turn into something. Maybe you're curious about another person's job. Ask yourself why are you wanting to learn more?

Is that some place that you want to explore as a future career opportunity? Or is it that you don't understand it enough that you want to figure out how might you collaborate with that person? So it's not just about the curiosity. When you feel that spark, you feel that buzz inside. I always like to ask my clients, I ask my team, I ask myself what's causing that curiosity? Is there a problem you're trying to solve? Is there an interest you want to lean into? Is there a partnership you want to develop?

Those would just be three secondary questions because there's always level one and then there's always a level two and a three that follows. So I'll ask you type in the chat, what are you curious about right now, today, on this beautiful Monday, what are you curious about? And if you want to know where I'm sitting, Jules, I'm sitting outside of our favorite coffee shop. When you come to Minneapolis, fragments in Northeast. I.