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The Leader As A Coach with Jade Green & Kyle Probert

All leaders yearn to build their people and business and run them strongly like a Super Bowl football team. In this episode of Team:Engineered, Kyle Probert and I share our insights on building a group where members play with the logo on the front of their jersey rather than the name on their back. All this comes together as the coach, captain, and the different players commit to becoming a winning team!

Key points covered in this episode

[00:01:52] Understand the roles of the coach, the captain and the different players and how you can create your Premiership Super Bowl-winning team department.

[00:03:58] Know when to leverage the skills of the other people that are on the field. A good captain never takes all of the glory for themselves.

[00:08:08] It's always clever playing to each member's strengths and knowing when's the right time to pull those levers. This strategy is seen from the military to football teams that we should also apply in our departments.

[00:10:15] The team leader is on the workshop floor with the crew doing the same drills. They may have to make the plays and keep the motivation, but ultimately they're still in the same team, whereas the difference of coach is being able to see the bigger picture and directing the team to make the proper steps.

[00:15:16] Every person plays an equally important role. And that should not be the marker of success. The role of a leader, the manager, is to coach and look at what's working, what's not working, and the person's individual strengths.

[00:16:14] We often end up pushing people into the wrong position. And it kills their soul, and then their work suffers. Be careful that you don't just promote someone because they're great at their task but focus on the actual skills needed to do that particular job.

[00:22:19] Empower that person in your team who can change the energy and bring good vibes. Every team needs fun as well. That role is never really assigned, yet it can be an actual contribution. So

[00:26:07] If you're on the frontlines doing the nuts and bolts and pumping the grease and all that sort of stuff, you can't necessarily see the reason what the hell for. The important thing is is that the coach knows, firstly, that that's the job for you and that you can do it effectively.

[00:32:06] The key thing that the manager (as the coach) needs to keep in mind is that there's a time where they need to be directly involved with their workers. And there's a time when they need to trust the next in line (the captain) to take their instructions. It might not be your way or exactly be what you were anticipating, but you need to trust that they can get the stuff done.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things with Jade Green & Kyle Probert

Getting reacquainted regularly with the habits, behaviours, and routines that support us as super high-performing leaders is crucial, especially in the pandemic.

In this episode, we share our take on the hard thing about hard things and how we agree with a million nuggets that Ben Horowitz's talks about in his book, stating that indeed, "they should be hard things and because they're worth it."

Key points covered in this episode

[00:03:48] Completing the 6 Weeks Solid was a challenge of self-leadership. This is highly helpful even if you're not the leader of an actual team, you're just you're leading your own company, or it's just a company of one. It's all about how you conduct yourself to build these habits, step yourself up in terms of performance, get yourself back on track, and step into who you want to be or who you need to be to achieve the success you wish to have.

[00:05:10] As a leader, we often forget that we don't necessarily have all the right answers, and often we're the one that's getting in the way.

[00:07:44] Be able to perform at your best even when you are at your worst. Doing things like fatigue training and practising what you need to do trains your brain to perform or kick into gear and vice versa.

[00:09:57] Getting comfortable, doing the uncomfortable can be done in so many other ways. Pushing your comfort zone in other areas builds your ability and resilience to do other things that are tough mentally and physically for you.

[00:13:01]Hard things become easier when you still know you're doing the right thing in a bad situation. If you're doing the wrong things and you're not honest, it should hurt you and be more challenging for you.

[00:17:46] If you have to let someone go, it's you and the company that's let them down. So whether they're a bad hire and this applies to your team if they haven't performed, know that you let them down. You've either chosen wrong, and you haven't supported them.

[00:20:25] As the leader, you have to make hard decisions every day. Whether you're in a big company, a little company, a small team, or a big team -- it doesn't matter what that is. As that leader, you constantly have to make hard decisions, and it's just sometimes you screw that up. You have to be honest and open to all those things.

[00:23:50] The COVID fatigue is a real, real thing and our current constant. It doesn't matter how much of the news you're hearing because you don't know what's coming next every day. So the COVID fatigue thing is squishing everyone, no matter where they sit in the team. And as a leader, it's really easy to start to let things slide in your world and your team's world. All of a sudden, you've just got this big mess to try and start to clean up.

[00:32:09] Everyone wants some structure and some consistency that creates security. So when you take that away from your team, they may not even notice straight away, but they will feel the anxiety caused by uncertainty, not knowing what's going to happen, feeling "safe", that this is and can trust that they can move to the next step or know what they need to do.

[00:35:57] We know that discipline equals freedom. Even for creative leaders, the discipline to do things and do them in a timely manner or structured way delivers us the freedom we desire. Even if we're saying Fuck you, system!

[00:39:00] The need for a peacetime and wartime CEO. Which one of those leaders needs to come to the forefront? Both are at the opposite ends of the profile spectrum, the other is a star supporter, and the other puts the fire under people to blaze on and send them out like you need to do.

[00:44:48] Often, when we're creating the mission or the vision, we talk about: What do we stand for? and what do we stand against? "Standing for" is a really powerful, positive message. While "standing against" takes a negative concept and tries to turn it into a positive.

[00:49:45] The concept of having positive messaging in all of that culture stuff is super important. As soon as you start bringing negative language into a concept that you want people to hold in front of mind all the time, it will have a negative effect on them.

How to be an Extraordinary Leader with Jade Green & Kyle Probert

So many spectacular books have changed my life, but The Code of The Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani is mind-altering for me! It took me days to fly across the world to get a copy and finally be able to integrate this not only in my own life but to bring it to teams and leaders to help them step up and live extraordinarily.

As a Certified Trainer for Mindvalley, I share the nuggets you will find in this book and truths that you will discover that will transform how you see and handle your business and daily living.

Get this Mindvalley program: bit.ly/BEallaccess.

Key points covered in this episode

[00:05:18] The culture scape is everything around you that programs your beliefs and your operating system. The extent of how we were brought up, what our parents believed, what type of schooling we had, our government, religion, and friend circles ALL contributed to the way we operate in the world now. The truth is that these programmings are not necessarily beneficial to who you want to be as a person.

[00:08:00] BRULES. Societal expectations of going to school, getting good grades, getting a degree, getting a good job, probably finding the wife or the husband first, then buying the house and putting up the picket fences, having kids and then you grind and retire. These are some of the bullshit rules of society that we try to conform to.

[00:11:16] The belief that your best people should be managers. Don't wonder why sales drop and things don't get done the way the other guy did because rules tell that your effective people should be placed in management, even if that's not their jam. Doing so takes them out of what they love and losing your best person doing their best.

[00:15:13] Workforce leadership should never be based on someone's length of tenure. Someone who has worked in a company for so long and is giving 70% of their effort is more likely to get the promotion versus the one that's only been there for a year but has been giving it their 110% best nonstop.

[00:22:23] Consciousness engineering. Like we are constantly updating our hardware and software when it comes to our equipment -- why don't we practice the same with our mindset?

[00:26:58] Living in complacency. The majority of the world are content living on average. As a leader, commit to filling up your knowledge as upgrading your hardware, and the habits, behaviours, and routine is upgrading your software.

[00:31:13] Choose what your model of reality is like. Are you a "passenger" at work and just not trying to climb the corporate ladder? Let me tell you; it's totally fine! If what's more important to you is your ability to contribute to the community, to your family, or upgrade your learning -- that can be your choice right now. The whole premise is that you choose your reality and bend your reality to suit what you want. You don't conform to the bullshit rules.

[00:45:07] Be Blissiplined! Ask what truly brings you joy and how do make time for that? What do you need to do? We've all got the same hours in the day as Beyoncé. So how do you cut and dissect how productive you are with your hours? How many monkeys do you put on your back that maybe aren't your monkeys? How many boundaries you didn't set is up to you; it's your choice.

[00:48:49] Work hours vs Productivity. People like to think that the measure of how hard someone works is how many hours they stay in the office or online. Half the time, they're just wasting time, procrastinating, not being productive and burning out. So this is a real challenge to the leaders and team members to look at the productivity and output that comes, not the hours dedicated to something.

[00:50:00] - Are you UNFUCKWITABLE? Nothing anyone says or does bother you when you're truly at peace and in touch with yourself. No negativity can touch you if you are perfectly solid in yourself, not seeking validation from the outside world. Be strong in your character and commit to getting rid of the bullshit rules you've figured out not serving you.

[01:00:00] Never set goals that are tied to another person. You can't control what happens to your partner and what their journey is. Have an end goal of "I want to be surrounded by love" or "I want to be the best partner", "the best parent I can be" -- these are the things that you can control.

Achieving The Impossible with Jade Green & Kyle Probert

When you spend time reading books, there's so much you are getting in return! For instance, picking up New York Times - bestselling author and award-winning journalist Steven Kotler's book, you get 70,000 words of reading in five to six hours where you benefit and absorb 13 years of his research. Isn't that amazing?

So how do you include reading time in your loaded schedules?

Tune in to this new episode of the Team:Engineered show — The Art Of Impossible In Becoming I'm Possible with Jade Green and Kyle Probert.

Key points covered in this episode

[00:01:38] Learn how the neurobiologists teach us how to implement and create biohacking techniques to become our best. In this episode, we talk about "The Art of Impossible'' by Steven Kotler.

[00:04:56] Implementing the challenge of reading ten pages a day and being able to teach somebody something you learned in those ten pages is a good habit to build.

[00:10:43] Defining the difference between "big" impossible goals and "small" impossible goals is necessary.

[00:16:45] Why not everyone should go and be an entrepreneur because they haven't necessarily got the curiosity, the passion, the motivation, and drive to get through the days where it's just grind, grind and grind.

[00:22:36] Giving someone more money isn't necessarily going to become the motivator for them. Learn the strategies on how to get people "beg to work for you".

[00:27:22] Big, hairy and audacious goals become achievable when you break them down into chunks. If you need to write a book with 30 chapters, write 250 words every single morning.

[00:29:32] How to develop good habits that support achieving the impossible stuff.

[00:31:12] It is never easy but learn how to achieve a flow state and get focused on the task you're working on.

[00:38:03] There are no stupid questions, except the ones that aren't asked. Stay curious. Know that the quality of your life is a direct correlation to the quality of questions you ask.

[00:43:51] - Whether you choose to learn when you're about to sleep or bathing in the shower -- find the time and space that works for your brain to absorb and work on those ideas you get from valuable resources.

[00:50:35] - You can't have the achievement even possible without creativity whether you're an artist, a writer, or a creative problem-solver, those connections and figuring out how to cultivate your flow state and get yourself inspired.

[00:56:50] No matter who you are or what you are, you are capable of achieving the impossible. You need a whole heap of things, like knowledge and skills that you can acquire. All of the stuff around fear and intrinsic, extrinsic motivators and curiosity, passion, purpose, all of those sorts of things are not just concepts, but science.

Leadership Habits: Little Habits Create Big Changes

Every day is an opportunity to make new resolutions to become a better person and leader. In this episode, Kyle and I talk about the mindset and surefire habits spoken in the best business books that have helped form who we are, how we behave, and how we effectively show up in our lives and our orbit.

Key points covered in this episode

[00:02:54] Make your damn bed. There's a reason why parents have drilled early in our heads why making the bed every single day is a MUST. When you get older, you realize that the value of having accomplished one thing first thing in the morning builds momentum throughout the day.

[00:09:30] The more you can make some things a habit, the less brainpower it takes to process what's going on. Doing so removes decision-making fatigue and allows you to divert it to the more important things you do.

[00:22:27] Habits & consistency create safety and control that we know what's going to happen. Ask yourself: are you doing the daily routines that set you and your team for success?

[00:32:35] It's so much easier to start with a habit you already have and add rather than starting entirely from scratch.-Every day is an excellent day to make new resolutions to become a better person and leader. Start with a habit you already have and pair it with another; this technique will help you stick to it and easily establish repeatable routines for success!

[00:46:46] If you want to be a better leader, you need to paint a picture of success and what that means for you. If you are unsure who you truly want to be, look at the people you respect and admire. They have blazed the path that you want to follow. Observe their character, behavior, and habits? What are the common things? Break them down and see how you can model and implement them in your own life.

[00:58:18] It doesn't matter how little those habits are; if they're aligned with the person you want to be. Do you feel frustrated making slow progress? Remember: what matters is that you are moving forward and becoming better than who you were before. It's the little things that will make a huge difference, not only in your world but also in everyone else's world around you.

Extreme Ownership For Better Leadership

It can be pleasurable to take credit for every bit of success, yet it takes immense humility and courage to take responsibility when things don't work out and fail. In this episode, Kyle Probert and I share our take on what it means to take "Extreme Ownership". We share our insights from the impactful book by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin that makes us rethink our strategies, taking a cue from Navy SEAL combat stories and applying them in our own lives and businesses.

Key points covered in this episode

[00:03:26] Extreme ownership is about asking yourself, "Where was I at cause?" Reflect on how your action can mitigate what didn't work; however, don't use it as a blame mechanism and beat yourself up. It should be about growth and failing forward.

[00:07:54] It's super important to reflect on the good results to be able to replicate them. Recognize or give a pat on the back when something's gone right and understand what went well to let people what worked and not the mindset of "I just got lucky".

[00:08:35] Every little thing plays a part in the success or the unsuccess. What ends up as a failed attempt is always the best, learning to do things differently the next time.

[00:10:14] Feedback can be seen as a reward. Build human connections with your team members and maximize meetings by truly communicating to them regardless of whether you give positive or negative feedback.

[00:18:17] If you've got a team member who keeps getting things wrong, is it the team member's fault? Or is it your fault? The ownership piece ensures you've given them enough information, tools and resources to set them up for success. Don't make many assumptions about what they should or shouldn't be able to do.

[00:41:38] Knowing that people understand your message is your responsibility. We have to think about how we're communicating if we want the message received and received in a way that gets the result that we're ultimately trying to get.

[01:00:12] Sometimes people outgrow where they are and go on to do an absolutely amazing job somewhere else. It's our job as leaders to recognize that and, to some extent, encourage it.