Episode 143
The 1 Measuring Stick We Hold Every Leader To
What would change if you treated every person on your team as someone else's precious cargo? A friend of the show visited her son at Fort Bragg and came home less worried, because his leaders clearly took responsibility for the people under their watch. That post sent Bob and Josh into what caring for your team actually looks like in practice: the standard Josh holds every leader in his org to, why so few leaders know how to develop people, what happens to "team first" talk when the pressure's on, and the small, almost free actions that tell your people you've got them.
What you'll learn:
- The measuring stick Josh holds himself and every leader in his org to
- Why most leaders never learned how to develop people, and what they copy instead
- How to walk into a PIP with the goal of getting the person back on track
- What happens to "team first" leaders when the pressure hits
- Why a final check on a parachute that's already been checked 10 times is the model for caring leadership
- Small actions that cost almost nothing and show your team you care (the broken-down car, the new baby, the next-day call)
- Why Josh stopped softening "I'm a team-first leader" in job interviews, and what it did for his career
- The 1 prioritization question that tells you what kind of leader you are
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