Peak Performance Leadership

Larry Yatch is an elite leadership strategist and the creator of the SEAL Success programs, a collection of skills-based training, workshops, and courses that enable high performers to find fulfillment, connect with their teams, and make a sustainable impact in their field. A graduate of the US Naval Academy and former ten-year officer in the Navy SEALs, Larry has spent nearly a decade since his retirement as a trainer and speaker, helping senior executives optimize their personal growth and leadership strategy for superior performance. In addition to numerous military honors, Larry is recognized as the go-to expert in leadership development, team performance, and project management. Topics During this interview Larry and I discuss the following topics: What brought him to be an officer in the US Navy SEALsWhy he would have not gone to officer training if he could redo thingsThe hard lessons he had to learn as junior officerHow to guide high-performing teams in the right directionHow to create leaders across all the levels of an organizationThe different types of authoritiesHow to effectively to coordinate your team into effective actionHow to ensure that you don’t burn yourself and others out in achieving success For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/230

This week's podcast episode, I go and answer your questions on leading! Here are a number of questions posed to me from members of our free Facebook Group and my answers to them. Have a listen because maybe, you're in one of these situations: Members asking about work-life balanceA member believes that their supervisors are too busy fighting the close fires and not being pre-emptiveHaving to deal with a negative high-performerDealing with an underperforming, high-performer If you have situations you'd like advice on, don't be shy to reach out to me!  For the complete show notes be sure to check out: https://leaddontboss.com/229

Kevin is a senior leader who likes to use data and analytics to transform, innovate, and continuously improve organizations to make them the best they can be. His passion is the intersection of business, technology, learning, and psychology. Kevin believes the world is constantly evolving and we should always be evolving and improving ourselves in business and in our personal life. Through many years of working in a variety of businesses and industries, Kevin has been able to leverage technology and psychology, along with data and analytics, to improve organizational performance and transform businesses into high performing organizations. Kevin frequently speaks and writes on topics of data-informed decision making, the future of learning, and growth mindset.     Topics During this interview Kevin and I discuss the following topics: The good and bad about our data hunger in this day and ageHow to avoid data analysis paralysis How to use data in the decision making processDifferent biases found in data-informed decision makingHow assumptions are crucial to planning and proper data analysisThe 5 Phase process to data-informed decision makingWhere leaders fault in applying the model For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/228

Nick Jonsson is the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia’s premiere networking organizations, Executives’ Global Network (EGN) Singapore — a confidential peer group network providing more than 600 senior executives and business owners a safe haven to share their challenges, receive support, and learn from each other. Nick has been featured in more than 30 newspapers and magazines including a 4-page feature in the Business Times and a full page in the Straits Times, as well as on TV including Channel News Asia (CNA), and is passionate about bringing the discussion to the forefront. Nick has worked across Asia, Australia and Europe representing major international firms, and is active in charitable and fundraising organizations to give back and support his local community, along with volunteering and fundraising for the Samaritans (SOS) – a suicide prevention hotline in Singapore.   Topics During this interview Nick and I discuss the following topics: How loneliness even starts for leadersHow to recognize the signs of leader loneliness How to identify when our judgment is cloudedWhat it took to begin to turn his life aroundHow support networks help you as a leader to avoid leader loneliness For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/227

Bill Coletti is a reputation management, crisis communications, and professional development expert. Additionally, he is a keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panelist, and best-selling author of Critical Moments, The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for both Fortune 500 companies and winning global political campaigns. Bill has provided senior counsel in crisis management, corporate communications, and reputation defense to numerous clients including AT&T, Target Corporation, American Airlines, The Home Depot, Xerox, Nuclear Energy Institute, Cargill, as well as major universities and global NGOs. Previously, Bill served in the Republic of Bulgaria as Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister, Council of Ministers, and the Labor Minister. He was the first Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria. Topics During this interview Bill and I discuss the following topics: What a trusted advisor isWhat qualities a trusted advisor should possessThree different leader typesHow to balance the use of a trusted advisorHow a leader of a smaller organization can use a trusted advisorHow to ask better and bolder questions For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/226

Recently I saw an add that someone said that they would turn you from a follower to a leader in 90 days or less! I was absolutely floored, irate, and embarrassed as a coach! This ideology means that leadership is a destination. That it has a start and end point. Which, yes I will agree that at some point you started leading and at some point you'll stop leading, but that was not the meaning of this message. Rather that within a specific period of time you can become a leader and say that's all folks! I've made it so I can stop trying now. THIS IS WRONG! Through this episode, I get a little ranty, a bit fired up. It's likely different than anything you've heard from me to date. But I am passionate to say that leadership is a journey. We must continue to develop, evolve, learn and grow as leaders to remain effective. That is why, leadership is a journey and not a destination. Enjoy! For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/225

Social purpose in business has become increasingly important for employee engagement and customer retention, yet many leaders still struggle to understand what it means for their business. So, how can defining your purpose help you grow a profitable business that people love? Sharing inspiration from organizations such as Intrepid Travel, Patagonia, Unilever and PayPal, Butler-Madden explores the intrinsic connection between the two things that drive successful purpose-led businesses: Love (of people, planet and humanity – the raw emotion behind purpose) and Money (profit and commercial success). When purpose drives profit, it offers the ability to be ambitious in the change you seek to create over the long term. Meanwhile you build a meaningful business for everyone involved; you attract invested employees, customers, and investors; and you build trust, the currency of a valued business.  Carolyn Butler-Madden is inspired by a future where business is a force for good and brands drive profit through purpose. Her mission is to make social purpose a vital part of business in Australia and beyond. She does this through speaking, writing and consulting, and advising small, medium and large organizations. Her first book, Path To Purpose, was Australia’s first on cause marketing. Carolyn’s 30-year international marketing career includes 18 years as an agency owner, working with some of the world’s best brands. Topics During this interview Carolyn and I discuss the following topics: What social purpose is and how relates to organizationsWhat the Ediman Trust BarometerWhy businesses need social purposeHow trust is so crucial in businessHow to develop an organizational identityHow as a leader you can develop a social purposeHow small to medium businesses can establish a social purposeHow middle leaders can help develop social purpose in their organizations For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/224

Good leaders know that strategy is vital when it comes to organizational longevity, but it’s not always easy to come up with fresh ideas needed for success, let alone bring them to life. Uncertainty about the future, the pressure of competition and risk aversion saps confidence and enthusiasm and produces timid templates for maintaining the status quo. There’s a better way.  Rosie Yeo is known as a strategy alchemist because of her skill in helping leaders and teams collectively imagine and achieve a better future. Her experience as a public affairs strategist, board director and corporate adviser provides unique insights into how organizations design and implement their big plans. Rosie designs and facilitates strategic planning in boardrooms and executive offsites, and injects energy and focus into larger meetings and complex stakeholder consultations. Topics During this interview Rosie and I discuss the following topics: Her thoughts on the saying “culture eats strategy for breakfast”How to create a powerful strategyHow to create a great strategy sessionThe 5 steps to creating a powerful strategyHow small actions can lead large strategic winsHow to empower strategic conversations with our team members For the complete show notes check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/223

Mark Monchek is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on helping businesses thrive through disruption. He is the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller "Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption". Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations. Mark has a passion for empowering conscious leaders to build great companies that make a difference in the world. Through his strategy, he discovers and develops opportunities that merge profitability with sustainable growth, creating organizations that are more conscious, making life better for their customers, employees and communities.  Topics During this interview Mark and I discuss the following topics: What a culture of opportunity isHow to keep your team inspired to look opportunities during people periods of disruptionWhy disruptions are neither good nor bad they just are realityHow to make remote work, workHow to develop a culture of opportunity with teams across multiple continents How meetings kill a culture of opportunityHow to generate loyalty through meetingsHow to create a culture of opportunity in an organization For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/222

Heather is an outspoken advocate for global voices. She raises awareness around microinequities related to language and accent in international teams and helps companies build UNMUTED communication cultures where every voice is heard. Her 2018 TEDx talk titled 2 Billion Voices: How to speak bad English perfectly has had over 150,000 views and is used by university professors and English language specialists throughout the world in their own teachings.  Heather’s views on global communication have been featured in national media outlets across the globe: National Public Radio (NPR) in the USA, ABC Radio National in Australia, and multiple print and radio outlets in Singapore, including The Straits Times and CNA 938 (93.8 FM). She often appears on global podcasts and webinars Topics During this interview Heather and I discuss the following topics: Why we have difficulties communicating with different cultures and groupsHow we can communicate effectively with different cultures in the workplaceHow counter the linguistic bias How to go about establishing a sense of psychological safety of cultural differencesHow to establish a culture that celebrates diversityHow to onboard new employees from diverse culturesHow leaders can inspire action For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/221