NG Unplugged

Often we focus on the larger issues and problems that the small ones get overlooked. Maneuvering the small problems is important. It can prevent larger ones. I use Kayaking as an example to addressing the smaller problems of your leadership and life.

Not all awards are visible. Leadership comes with many intangibles. Listen to this episode to find out the parallels with your leadership and the Oscars.

It's easy to get caught up with titles. Leaders are not defined by the title they attain. You bring your uniqueness and value to the title and role of a leader.

Empathy is a key element for a leader. It adds value to your leadership. It creates value for those that you lead. Start creating and adding value to yourself and your followership.

Choosing an idea is a lot like house hunting. Investing in an idea has parallels to investing in a house. Check out this tidbit episode to find out more.

Mindset is an important component to your leadership and followership. It can get frozen at times. Unfreeze your mindset through faith, hope, and positivity. Your mindset is unique and different than your followership. Your like a baseball player preparing for an at-bat. Listen to this podcast for the batter mindset approach.

Remember the enthusiasm you once had as a leader? Do you recall how excited you were to lead teams? What is it that led you to be in a leadership role? Sometimes a leader can veer off course and get stuck in the mud of life. In this episode, I discuss how to find your way back and get back on the path.

Do you hear the footsteps of future leaders walking down the hallways of life? Do you hear the footsteps of future leaders within your teams, organizations, businesses? When you hear the footsteps, what do you do? Listen to this brief tidbit series to spark and challenge you to find and mentor future leaders.

There is a difference between knowing and understanding. The combination of these two plus application/experience comprises your leadership brand. Build your leadership brand value with this equation. L(k) + L(u) + L(e)= LB

Mistakes, failures, shortcomings are part of your leadership trials. It can be challenging and tough at times. It can be difficult to embrace them, however it is a necessity for growth and achieving greatness.

Sometimes people choose to hear only certain things. We may only want to understand what we know. This can lead to deafness of understanding. Listen to this episode for a tidbit on how to cure deafness of understanding.

Ideas matter and have value. This episode is about the power of ideas, its process, and your leadership connection to ideas. It's important to create an environment for your teams and business for ideas to flourish. It all starts with you as the ideator leader.

You are the driver of your passengers/teams. It is the leader's responsibility to take care of their passengers/teams and guide them toward the destination. Listen to this podcast to view freeway driving in a different perspective and how it relates to your leadership.

How do you build your leadership muscles? It's similar to working out at the gym or exercising at home. Resistance is key for your leadership development.

There are parallels between bartending and leadership. It is a process from start to finish. How a bartender mixes drinks can be compared to how a leader creates a team. Teams are important for the mission and vision that you have for your department, organization, business, entrepreneurship, or any place that teams exists. Gain a different perspective on leadership and the creation of teams through the lens of bartending.

Self-care is important for your leadership. It includes physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual care. Also, self-development is a part of your self-care. Self-growth matters and should be a focus of your self-care package.

Wielding your leadership sword takes lots of practice. *One must remain humble with the power of the sword. Master its craft. *Protect those that you lead from negative entities such as fear and doubt. *Use your authority for the benefit of others, not selfish benefits. *Use strengths to defeat the weaknesses of what ifs, doubts, can'ts, and fear. *Be courageous and be willing to walk into the fog of fear alone. Lead the way for your team.

There are parallels between personal and professional relationships. The relationships developed with the individuals that you lead can have an impact with their personal relationships and how they treat others. Leadership is more than fulfilling a role. Leadership has a ripple effect that can carry into your team's personal lives. Listen to this podcast for the three areas that are of importance when it comes to leadership and relationships.

In this episode I discuss kindness, friendliness, generosity, consideration as it relates to your leadership. You can be friendly, generous, considerate and yet remain professional and within your boundaries as a leader.

In this Leadership Tidbit Series I compare how a bird builds its nest to your leadership foundation and development.

In this episode I discuss how leadership is a do it yourself approach. No one will take action for you. There will be times you need to make repairs and improvements with your leadership. You'll need the right tools and action to get it done. Do you have the tools to repair, improve, and raise the value of your leadership?

3D Leadership: Think, Feel, Behave episode is about how to get those that you lead to think and feel, which leads towards the behaviors that you seek for positive outcomes. Movies move the audience to think and feel a certain way, which causes certain behaviors/responses. 2D movies can have a 3D effect. 3D effect is like the Cognitive Triangle Model used by therapists with CBT. Got your 3D glasses ready for this episode?

This Leadership Tidbit Series is about the Gift of Your Legacy. It is developed and matured in the desert. There will be many that unfollow you in the desert as many will lose hope in you. They see your mistakes and failures and decide to drop off at the desert oasis, not knowing the oasis is just a recharging ground. The destination remains ahead. Remain steadfast and believe in your vision. The gift of your legacy is not for all. Are you ready to lead others in the desert?

Jedi Leadership: You Are Not the Last Jedi is about mentoring new and potential leaders. Comparison between the Jedi Order and Leadership. Leaders develop future leaders and use the Force within. Listen to understand my version of the Force as it relates to leadership.

In this Christmas edition, I discuss leadership, espresso, coffee and brand diversity. Espresso and coffee come in many different flavors, strengths, aromas, and brands, there is a whole following behind it. Leadership is similar. There are many styles, brands, and following behind it. Listen to today's episode on how I tie leadership, espresso and coffee together.

This Leadership Tidbit Series is about stumbling upon your greatness. It does not fall on your lap. You stumble upon your greatness with intent, purpose, and action when ideas and opportunities arise. At the end of the episode I added Leadership Funk, a tidbit music song I made and spark the idea for this tidbit series episode.

Creative Leadership: Brushing Beyond Borders In this episode, I discuss what is creativity. How to generate creativity within yourself and within your teams.

Leadership and Music: How to Read Between the Lines is about understanding that active listening is important. Interpreting the unspoken message is an important component to effective leadership. Know what your team is saying and not saying. Understand what your colleagues are inferring and not inferring. Music and leadership require reading between the lines. It takes practice, so get to practicing.

In this Leadership Tidbit Series I discuss success and going against the grain. A lesson from a flock a birds.

Leadership Responsibility: To Whom Much is Given, Much is Required is about realizing the talents that were given to you. Realizing all that is required of your leadership. Listen and share this episode with others, whether your a leader in your household, school, community, workplace, business, government, society, this message is for you. Any and all leaders this message is for you.

In the beginning there was you and in the end there will be your legacy. What will your leadership legacy say? How will your leadership eulogy be read? Will it be a celebration of an actionable leader? Or will it be a mourning of a leadership legacy unfulfilled? Will you be known for a leader of action? A leader of empathy? A leader of value that shared it? What leadership stories will be shared by others? Will your leadership tombstone say here lies an unknown leader who has been buried with all his or her leadership treasures that were never shared or passed on?

Leadership Tidbit Series about Purposeful Action to Defeat Two Enemies. There are two common enemies that are entrenched within your leadership mind palace. Defeat them and destroy them through purposeful action.

Leadership and the Power of Saying No is about looking at when saying No is a necessity in our personal and professional lives as a leader.

The stranger things of leadership ties in the show Stranger Things to Leadership. How will Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots, automation affect your leadership? How does the Shadow Monster, demodogs and Stranger Things relate to leadership? The future needs leaders willing to step up and keep humanity at the forefront and not let technology be our leader.

In this Leadership Tidbit Series, I discuss two important words that will help you generate ideas. Sometimes we can get stuck with finding ideas and may feel we lack creativity. The ideas and creativity are within each of us. It's a matter of unlocking them.

Leadership can be like the old Wild West. Be wanted for all the right reasons as a leader. Forces will attack your legacy. Know how to engage them.

Leadership Zombies: A Walk Among the Dead podcast is now available! Do you have what it takes to walk among the living dead to create your leadership legacy? Do you know where the antidote is? Sometimes leadership can be like being among zombies. Listen to find out the comparison.

This Leadership Tidbit Series is about Gratitude. Be grateful for the opportunity to be in a leadership role.

An episode about getting hands-on with your team; Hustle and Grind with them. Dare to get dirty!

This is a teenage edition with a focus on leadership, bullying, fear and value. Fear leads to bullying, not understanding the value other teenagers have can play a role in fear and bullying. I discuss fear and bullying from a value-based perspective. Teens can be leaders within their schools and among their peers, along with support from family, schools, communities, society, to overcome fear and bullying. Understanding that all teenagers have value and matter is important. Teenagers will face challenges, will have fears and may encounter a bully. Teenage years should be a time to have fun, to learn, to develop, to discover self-identity. Embrace your uniqueness; parents, peers, society, communities, embrace and support the teenagers in your life.

A brief message on sparking action with nine words. Life is short and so is time. Get to living, learning and growing your leadership legacy.

Leadership insecurities are real. It is a hindrance to your leadership growth. In this episode, learn how to overcome your insecurities using a Value-based Perspective.

Leadership fear is real, and it can shackle you with its sexual allure. In this episode, I will discuss fear, its ties to value, and how to use a value-based perspective to overcome fear.

The greatest battlefield is within your mind. What Ifs and Buts are a leader's enemy. Challenge the enemies of your mind.

Leadership mind hunting is looking at those that you lead and discovering their mindset, understand your team and how to look for opportunities to know those that you lead.

Get your leadership Kung Fu going! I discuss scripting your life like Jackie Chan. Overcoming fear using leadership Kung Fu. Here is the link to the YouTube video referenced in this episode... https://youtu.be/shAkaYdAMjg *Movie referred to in podcast is Armour of God not Hammer of God.

A brief message on destroying fear. Fear can spread like fog within your mind. Stay tuned for a future NG Unplugged episode on fear.

Leadership, Wine and Sex. What's the connection? Find out in this episode as we explore your leadership connection. Warning: May Not Be Suitable for All Leaders! *Leadership Discretion is Advised*

Halloween can be a fun and scary time. Leadership can be enjoyable, yet scary. In this episode, I discuss Halloween leadership, ghosts, voices and overcoming the scariness of your leadership.

The Leadership Tidbit Series is a series of brief messages to encourage, motivate, and spark action into your leadership. This series will be released every Friday.

The Leadership Tidbit Series is a series of brief messages to encourage, motivate, and spark action into your leadership. This series will be released every Friday.