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Episode 73 - Hard Conversations
Date: March 24, 2023
DESCRIPTION:
Are you willing to have hard conversations with your spouse, kids, friends, and clients OR do you abdicate the responsibility you have to be straightforward and honest with them? This week I share what I recently learned from the book The Motive, and how I've been applying it with great success in my life!
RELEVANT LINKS:
- Book: The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities: https://www.amazon.com/The-Motive-Patrick-M-Lencioni-audiobook/dp/B07ZJTL6GD/
EVENTS:
- Renaissance of Men: Digital Conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/renaissance-of-men-digital-conference-series-edition-1-tickets-567096630287
- Traditional Fatherhood Intensive: Purpose, Provision, Protection: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/traditional-fatherhood-intensive-purpose-provision-protection-tickets-559053583317
- Rogue Food Conference at Polyface Farm: https://roguefoodconference.com/awesomestuff/polyface/two-day-polyface-ticket/
KEY CONCEPTS FROM THE MOTIVE:
Two types of leaders:
1. Reward-centered leader - motivated by power, influence, attention
2. Responsibility-centered leader - motivated to serve employees and company
Five things reward-centered leaders avoid:
1. Developing team and leaders
2. Managing direct reports
3. Running effective team meetings
4. Having difficult conversations
5. Communicating consistently with employees
TOPICS COVERED:
- Having hard conversations with spouse, kids, friends, clients
- Abdicating responsibility vs. being straightforward
- Going directly to someone with issues rather than building coalitions
- Dysfunction compounding when hard conversations are avoided
- Developing a "soundtrack" for having hard conversations