THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
If It’s Simple, Why Do We Fail?
https://youtu.be/PeOcMjiLA4w Hey, what's going on Rooftop Nation? If our dreams and goals are simple, why do we fail? I think that's a really fair question, and it's certainly a question that I ask myself all the time. As a leadership coach and human...
Resilience Over Resistiance
https://youtu.be/wlwkkZ3P0gg The subject of this blog is resilience over resistance. In this time of churn in this time of volatility, uncertainty, crowdedness, complexity, and ambiguity in this era of distraction, disengagement and distrust, and of course,...
Don’t Get Burned
https://youtu.be/wH3DYM3S9ag I want you to think about two very different places. The reality here in this country, and really all around the world, is that people are re-emerging into the sunlight out of this pandemic, in very different emotional states. I will tell...
Leading Through the Churn: Webinar
https://youtu.be/xKudi-4sXXM These last six months have been unprecedented, but the churn in the next six months is going to pose more challenges to us than at any other point in our history as human beings. Regardless of your discipline, regardless of your party,...
Knowing When to Pivot
https://youtu.be/uuJOVrZzbQ8 I still remember the day that Wes and I made the decision to pivot. It was right after the pandemic had begun. The first speaking event that I was supposed to do was canceled, and Wes and I were already talking about what was coming....
Connecting With Prospects in the New Normal
https://youtu.be/PuFX1Ek1pgo How in the world are we going to maintain a face-to-face interaction and rapport with prospects and then bring them over to our side to inspire them to buy from us, when there's all this social distancing and we're wearing PPE. We've...
Keeping Clients on Board
https://youtu.be/eJF4tlyRIu8 One of the things that I believe in, is the mindset that the relationship is the asset. I teach this to the Green Beret students at Fort Bragg when I teach in the school-house, and I teach it at Fortune 100 Commercial Banks, that...
Dr Kendall Haven Author of Story Smart and Story Proof
https://youtu.be/uo0EBD1vGaA Have you noticed how hard it is to connect with other people during these uncertain times? Sometimes, it feels like the gaps are as wide as the Grand Canyon doesn’t it? The most relevant leaders in these times of social challenge are...
Hard Conversations in the New Normal
https://youtu.be/sDtwnyaP0tY People are going to have to get furloughed. People are going to get laid off. People are going to get fired. You're going to have to tell vendors that you don't use their services anymore. It's not easy. Because we're meaning...
The Value of a Handshake
https://youtu.be/K9y9T_IPyH4 What's the value of a handshake? That's the question that's been on my mind for several days. Now, when this COVID pandemic kicked off, I started talking to leaders about my concerns around social distancing. I felt like we had...
Leading Our Teammates Back Into the Arena
https://youtu.be/LmZNE64iNeQ One of the biggest questions that we're going to have to ask ourselves, is how do I help my teammates get back into the arena? And what does that look like when they do it? I coach a lot of very high-level executives who cannot wait...
Getting Clear on Social Distancing
https://youtu.be/cM5if3RKFjg The question I'm asking is this, after these last nine to ten weeks of the pandemic and the social distancing, how do you feel about human connection right now? Have you asked yourself that open-ended question? How do you feel about...
Get Back Into the Game
https://youtu.be/w43pAIrU3nQ Everybody has challenges that have come out of this new time horizon. Even if you think you don't, when you have eight to nine weeks of mandated social distancing and isolation, it's going to have an effect on us as humans, right? So, the...