146: Why We Get Stuck in a Downward Spiral

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146: Why We Get Stuck in a Downward Spiral

FromLeading Hope with Kevin Jack

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Sep 28, 2022

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Idea #1: Your perspective is the product of your identity
Idea #2: Your identity is the product of your behaviors, not your beliefs.
Idea #3: The foundation of all growth is personal responsibility.
Idea #4: The enemy of all growth is victimhood.

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Sep 28, 2022

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132: Cultural Hooks: A bad coat rack is a great culture. - Hook: Something you can stuff hang on. - A hook turns a moment into a culture. Stays accessible, adds depth. by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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150: Not settling for your Team: Comfort and Growth are mutually exclusive. - You cannot help someone who doesn’t want growth want growth. - Don’t allow Comfort to be the settling point for your team. - People who desire growth will just find somewhere else to grow. - by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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144: Pace of Change: #1: Don’t ask someone to let go of something until they can hold onto something else. - #2: Be more focused on culture than systems - #3: Use cultural evidence to determine systems pace by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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135: It’s Not Easy To Make It Look Easy: 1. When you make it look easy, you won’t be celebrated, because it looks easy. 2. When you make it look easy, others are able to focus on the impact, because they’re not looking at the effort. 3. When you make it look easy, by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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133: You Don’t Have a Communications Problem: From Team Members: “We’re bad at communication.” From Leaders: “We struggle with execution.” - Most organizations lack a sense of “this is what we’re attempting to accomplish.” - What is happening is not the primary issue in communications, by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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139: One Way to Know If You’re a Healthy Leader: Your approval rating can be a poor indicator of if you’re a healthy leader. - When you think of who needs to change, which comes first: You or them? - Healthy leaders know the change begins with them. Toxic leaders assume the change begins with other... by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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147: The Future Leader: Character over competence. - 5 Virtues that I think ensures you’re an effective leader: - Empathy -Basis of communication -Empathy is the key to grasping “context” - Humility -The awareness that you’re not there -Emphasis on teach ability - by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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156: How to See: You are better at seeing close up or far away. - You need to be aware of how far into the distance you can see. - Your vision and focus should work like a lens. - The Rhythm: – Get involved in the details to increase your up close vision. by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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137: Increasing Confidence: Satire Culture flattens people because they don’t want to become the joke. - To combat this more of your identity needs to be built on your desired contribution than your criticism. - Personality testing is great when it is a tool, not a crutch. - by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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143: Keep Going: The reason we don’t have better content is we don’t think long & hard enough. by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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149: Apologize by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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136: The Most Important Leadership Question: Not all effective leadership is good, positive, healthy leadership. - The most important leadership questions isn’t what can you do, or even what do you want to do, but who are you? - The size of your impact comes from you ability, by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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163: How to Actually Develop Leaders: Part One: Leadership development is a process that consists of 4 key elements: 1. What do you need a leader to do? 2. Who do you need a leader to be? 3. How do you identify a Leader? 4. How do you help them grow into what they are called to become? - by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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140: The User Experience by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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154: Principles for the Vision Process: Principle 1: Create as much input as you possibly can. - Principle 2: Set the vision with the largest group you can. - Principle 3: Set the Standard for the Vision - Principle 4: Work in this pattern: Problem, Focus, Metric, Inspiration by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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142: In Defense of Plagiarism: Plagiarism: The practice of taking someone’s work or ideas and passing them off on one’s own. - What we are saying 1. Ideas do not come out of a vacuum, they come out of a culture. Frank Moore, “No preacher is greater than the tradition itself. by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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159: Better than a Resolution List: – Targets should not become the focus instead of progress, improvement. - – Bucket List: Things you want to accomplish before you die. Resolution: Things you want to accomplish before the end of the year. - by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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152: Helping people lean into a Vision: The process you use is how you get someone to lean in instead of rolling their eyes at “vision”. - Proverbs 29:18, “Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint.” - Reason 1: Vision enables us to see, do & become more. - by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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160: Mentor: Thought 1 – There are different types of mentors: Professional (Skill/Career), Personal (Life/Integrity). – Do you want to be a mentee or an apprentice? - Thought 2 – Some of your best professional mentors will come outside your field. by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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158: Tools to Disconnect: Tool 1: Don’t do less, do different. – If your work is mental, to re-charge you must do something physical. If your work is physical, to re-charge you must do something mental. - Tool 2: Distance Your Work – If we need to disconnect, which we do, by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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141: Turn the Faucet On: Turn the Faucet On: – Release the valve, don’t blocking the flow. - You already have something to teach, you’re just unaware of it because it’s currently being blocked. - What turning the faucet on does: – Creates awareness by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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171: Courageous Followership: Main Idea: The courage of a leader lies in their ability to take risks. The courage of a follower lies in their ability to choose when to follow and when to disobey. An act of loyalty when everyone else seeks mutiny may be that expression of courage in... by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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148: Attention Spans: We don’t have decreased attention spans, we have less tolerance for boring content. - Ensure you’re not pushing past your engagement level. - The ability to focus is now a superpower. by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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169: Not Second Rate: Main Idea: One of the most important contributions you can make to the mission of your organization, and one of the most overlooked aspects of healthy organizations, is knowing how to follow well. - While you will have opportunities to lead, by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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153: Don’t Kill Your Vision Before You Start: You can kill yourself before you start by doing one of two things: – Doing too much work on your own. – Doing too little on your own. - Doing too much means no one else can own the vision. Doing too little wastes time & risks the true vision. - by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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151: Stop Making It Better: Some things should be left as they are because if they improve it will cause more problems or injury. - The unfocused leader sees every improvement as a step forward, the focused leader takes strategic steps forward in quality only in areas that they ... by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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146: Why We Get Stuck in a Downward Spiral: Idea #1: Your perspective is the product of your identity Idea #2: Your identity is the product of your behaviors, not your beliefs. Idea #3: The foundation of all growth is personal responsibility. Idea #4: The enemy of all growth is victimhood. by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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168: Glutton for Punishment: The antidote to “capping out” is being a glutton for punishment. - You need to be a glutton for punishment (delight in it) in one area in particular: Feedback. - The feedback you need to go to the next level will come from your critics, by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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157: You’re not Burnt-Out: Getting a Better Vocabulary: As we expand our grasp of emotions we have a better way of understanding, and dealing with in healthy way, what we’re feeling. - Burnt-Out: Syndrome conceptualize as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed that i... by Leading Hope with Kevin Jack
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146: Why We Get Stuck in a Downward Spiral

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