The 3x5 Leadership Podcast

Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders to create significant impacts. This show aims to offer simple, practical strategies to help you live, lead, and learn more intentionally. You can listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. Leaders are always involved in a lot – decisions, organizational actions, processes, and even in peoples' development and lives. And many leaders feel compelled to be present, be available, and be engaged in every opportunity that presents itself. It is hard for us to say no. We can experience stress and even guilt around doing so. But there is a simple philosophy that has guided much on how I approach life and leadership, and it is a philosophy that started simply as a shirt that my wife bought: You can't pour from an empty cup. So, this week, we dive into this philosophy and how it can shape how we live, lead, and remain resilient. We explore four questions that can help you apply it to your own life as well as use it as a developmental framework with others. We are confident this episode can equip you to be more intentional in how you live and lead in any relevant role in life starting today. Thanks for joining us and for your support. Related Episodes & Resources Article referenced in the episode: Simplifying Leader Development Article: Placing the Big Rocks First: Living & Leading with Intentionality Podcast: #1: 3 Powerful Questions to Think, Communicate, & Lead Better Discover More If you found this helpful, others might as well! Please like and review the 3x5 Leadership Podcast. It's not only encouraging to us, but it also helps others discover the show and see it as worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website at 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today! Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Lear more about the Community and join at patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care friends and lead well!

Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders to create significant impacts. Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. “I wish my boss trusted me more.” “If only they would give me some decision authority and empower me to get the job done, we'd be able to avoid messes like this in the future.” As a leader, how do you trust and empower your team responsibly and intentionally? This is a hard thing to do as a leader! Not only do people want to be trusted and empowered, but we as leaders should want to give that trust and empowerment! Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. In this episode, we're going to unpack the importance of taking a developmental approach when engaging with junior leaders. JJ explores a four-step cycle that can enable us to build capable, confident, and competent leaders within our teams and organizations. He outlines why it is necessary that we train and certify, then trust and empower our teams, and then closes with four questions that we must reflect on if we are struggling with managing the development of the junior leaders on our team. Related Episodes & Resources Article: Simplifying Leader Development. Leader development doesn't have to be a complex process. This article breaks leader development into a three tiered approach that can simplify our approach and increase our efficacy. Article: Three Ways Leaders Use Feedback to create Developmental Experiences for Others. Feedback is a critical element in building trust; it also is a necessary step in the training, certification, and empowerment of our team members. Are you using feedback effectively? Podcast Episode #8: Giving Autonomy (Part 2 of the Motivation Series). In this episode, Josh unpacks the importance of deliberately giving autonomy to our teammates, doing so in a manner that deliberately develops them and increases their motivation. Discover More If you found this helpful, others might as well! Please like and review the 3x5 Leadership Podcast. It's not only encouraging to us, it also helps others discover the show and see it as worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website at 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today! Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Lear more about the Community and join at patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care friends, and lead well!

Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders to create significant impacts. This show aims to offer simple, practical strategies to help you live, lead, and learn more intentionally. You can listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. Our words matter. How we communicate with others shapes how they receive us, interact with one another, feel about their work, and ultimately our collective results. And it can all start simply with how a leader communicates with others. So, in today's episode, we explore 10 specific ways that we as leaders can be more intentional with our words. These strategies offer mental approaches to conversations, common dos and don'ts, and even some specific phrases to employ – all things you can begin to apply today. To give a little insight into what we explore today, here are the ten strategies summarized: First seek to understand, then be understood. Ask yourself, “what need is this person satisfying through their behavior right now?” Focus on the topic at hand, and not on the other person's character, intentions, or emotions. Avoid overgeneralizations like “always” and “never.” Use collective pronouns like “we” and “us,” over individual ones like “you.” Do not start conversations with “can we talk” or “come see me.” “The story I'm telling myself is…” “I feel…” and “how I see it is…” “Can I share some truth in love?” Listening affirmations like “I hear you,” “that's valid,” “that makes sense,” and “that's fair.” We are confident this episode can equip you to be more intentional in how you communicate with others starting today. Thanks for joining us and for your support. Related Episodes & Resources Article: How to Ask Better Questions Article: 5 Considerations to Communicate Better Article: 3 Strategies to Communicate More Effectively (and Make Sense to Others) Discover More If you found this helpful, others might as well! Please like and review the 3x5 Leadership Podcast. It's not only encouraging to us, but it also helps others discover the show and see it as worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website at 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today! Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Lear more about the Community and join at patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care friends and lead well!

Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders who create significant impacts. Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. Have you ever found yourself facing a difficult decision, where it seems like two closely held values are at odds with each other? Perhaps a co-worker is absent without excuse, and you must choose between “covering” for them, or answering truthfully – what do you decide to do? These decisions are ethical decisions – where we must optimize our values and beliefs to the context we are in and make an ethical decision. In this episode, we dive into the leaders' responsibility to make ethical decisions. We differentiate between moral decisions and ethical decisions, explore a few of the main ethical approaches characterized in leadership literature, and then present an ethical decision-making framework that enables leaders to own the responsibility to make ethical decisions. We close out with six practical ways to employ the ethical decision-making framework in your spheres of influence. There is no promise that making an ethical decision equals making an easy decision. In fact, many times these are inherently hard decisions to make. Rather than wringing our hands over challenging ethical decisions, join us as we resolve to roll up our sleeves and apply the 3 C's framework, giving thoughtful consideration to our character & core values, our constituents and commitments, and the consequences of our decisions. Related Episodes & Resources Podcast Episode #6: How Leaders Make Decisions. Making effective decisions for our team requires us to think broadly and deeply. This episode presents two frameworks to make effective decisions and serves as the prequel to the Ethical Decision-Making episode. United States Military Academy Cadet Prayer: JJ referenced this in the closing of the episode. Check out the link for the full text! Discover More If you found this helpful, others might as well! Please like and review the 3x5 Leadership Podcast. It's not only encouraging to us, it also helps others discover the show and see it as worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website at 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today! Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Lear more about the Community and join at patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care, friends, and lead well!

Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders to create significant impacts. Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! You can also watch it on YouTube. Motivated people are more engaged, committed, and capable. When leaders set conditions for high intrinsic motivation and build space for people to have more autonomy, our people become better, leaders have more capacity, and the organization grows. Leaders must thoughtfully and sustainably generate motivation where they lead and whom they lead. So, in today's episode, the third and final part of this short motivation series, we explore two tools that leaders can use to help assess the state of peoples' motivation and to create a structured approach to improving it. Instead of guessing where and how leaders should improve motivation, often failing by applying surface-level psychological solutions to deep organizational issues, leaders can target specific areas to improve motivation appropriately. The first tool is called the Two-Factor Theory, where we target the sources of peoples' work satisfaction and dissatisfaction, and how to improve both conditions. The second tool is the Job Characteristics Model, which specifies five particular job characteristics to generate intrinsic motivation, job satisfaction, and work effectiveness: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback. So, we explore all five characteristics and how leaders can use those to improve work motivation. We believe this episode will enable you to reframe and improve how you lead your people to create a more motivating, productive, and impactful place to work. Thanks for joining us. Check out the episode today! Resources Mentioned Implementing a routine schedule, called a “battle rhythm.” Two-Factor Theory, developed by psychologist Frederick Herzberg. The Job Characteristics Model, developed by J. Richard Hackman and Greg Oldhamat. Related Episodes #7 Tapping into the Power of Intrinsic Motivation (Part 1 of the Motivation Series). Introducing the concept of intrinsic motivation and its important impacts on your team and how people work. #8 Giving Autonomy (Part 2 of the Motivation Series). How leaders can leverage the sources of autonomy to improve peoples' intrinsic motivation. Discover More Give the 3x5 Leadership Podcast a like and a review! It's a simple way to help others discover the show and know it's worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website, 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today. Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Learn more about the Community and join at Patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care, friends, and lead well.

Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders to create significant impacts. Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! You can also watch it on YouTube. What if one of your team members told you they were quitting their job and stated it was because of “not enough work flexibility?” or because they “are seeking more independence.” Well, these are some of the most common reasons why people quit and it's a motivation problem, particularly a problem with autonomy. Autonomy is simply giving people the space or the latitude to work in ways that best suit them and it is a powerful motivational tool for leaders. Autonomy: Cultivates ownership, responsibility, and pride across your team. Is an essential leader development tool. Increases leader and employee capacity, particularly improved time and space to get work done. So, in today's episode, we dive into what autonomy is, why it's important, and four simple ways that you can begin injecting more autonomy into how your team works today. Specifically, we look at four types of autonomy: task, team, time, and technique. We believe this episode will enable you to reframe and improve how you lead your people to create a more motivating, productive, and impactful place to work. Thanks for joining us. Check out the episode today! Resources Mentioned Implementing a routine schedule, called a “battle rhythm.” Article on developing owners, not renters. The 70-20-10 Training and Development Model. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink. Related Episodes #7 Tapping into the Power of Intrinsic Motivation (Part 1 of the Motivation Series). Introducing the concept of intrinsic motivation and its important impacts on your team and how people work. Discover More Give the 3x5 Leadership Podcast a like and a review! It's a simple way to help others discover the show and know it's worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website, https://3x5leadership.com/. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today. Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Learn more about the Community and join at https://www.patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care, friends, and lead well.

#7 Tapping into the Power of Intrinsic Motivation (Part 1 of the Motivation Series) Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast, where we champion intentional leaders to create significant impacts. Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! You can also watch it on YouTube. Why do you work? More importantly, why do your people work? Do you know what motivates them? As leaders, we are called to inspire and help others align to our organization's mission. We can't do that if we don't know what motivates them. So, we need to understand motivation and how to generate it in healthy and sustainable ways. So, we are kicking off a 3-part series which explores some important things leaders need to understand about motivation. And we start by comparing extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is a source that generates commitment in others, rather than simply compliance. And it should be something leaders aim to cultivate. In today's episode, we look at what intrinsic motivation, why it's important, and a few strategies leaders can employ to begin building it with others. Thanks for joining us. Related Episodes #2 The Power of Identity-Based Goals (vs. Outcome-Based Ones). Consider ways to apply goal setting to encourage intrinsic motivation (member ownership and commitment). #1 3 Powerful Questions to Think, Communicate, & Lead Better. Framework to help dig deeper in conversations to understand others better. Discover More Give the 3x5 Leadership Podcast a like and a review! It's a simple way to help others discover the show and know it's worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website, 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today. Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Learn more about the Community and join at Patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care, friends, and lead well.

Welcome to a new episode of the 3x5 Leadership Podcast! You can listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. It's estimated that we make over 35,000 decisions in a single day! As a leader, these decisions can have significant impacts for those you lead and serve. How do we ensure we are making effective decisions? In this episode, we characterize the different ways we think about decisions, considering both the Naturalistic and the Rational Decision-making approaches. We introduce a decision-making framework for each that enables you as a leader to make more effective decisions. We discuss some of the additional practical questions you can ask, regardless of the decision context, to ensure you are making an effective decision for your team. Finally, we offer some practical strategies to help you and your team avoid decision fatigue, ensuring you can make the right decisions that will create significant impacts! So, join us to learn a few practical strategies to become a better decision-maker. Related Episodes & Resources Podcast Episode #1: 3 Powerful Questions to Think, Communicate, & Lead Better. Making effective decisions for our team requires us to think broadly and deeply. This episode unpacks 3 powerful questions that enable us to think, communicate, and lead better. Article: 5 Steps to Cultivate Ownership in Others. As we consider how to develop others and cultivate their ownership, you may find it useful to delegate some decisions to them. Read more about cultivating ownership in this article! Discover More If you found this helpful, others might as well! Please like and review the 3x5 Leadership Podcast. It's not only encouraging to us, it also helps others discover the show and see it as worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website at 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today! Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Learn more about the Community and join at patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care friends, and lead well!

Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. Sure, we know self-development is important. But who has the time? Between work, home, family, activities, and more – how do we find or make time to pour into our self-development? In this episode, we explore 4 strategies to help you integrate development simply and consistently into your routine – or what we call your “battle rhythm.” These strategies will help you clarify the developmental activities that work best for you, add developmental benefits to events you already regularly do, and anchor new activities to existing events to make habit cuing easy. Through these 4 strategies, we believe you'll be equipped to activate your development more purposefully, routinely, and sustainably. So, check out the episode today! Resources Mentioned Understand and build your battle rhythm Related Episodes #3 10 Habits to Make Your Reading More Impactful. A few simple ways to tap into the power of developmental reading. Discover More Give the 3x5 Leadership Podcast a like and a review! It's a simple way to help others discover the show and know it's worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website, com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today. Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Learn more about the Community and join at Patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care, friends, and lead well.

Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. Servant leadership is a term that is used quite often. What does it actually look like to be a servant leader? How do we apply that to our work, our team, and in our own homes? In this episode, we look to create a simple definition of servant leadership, and then discuss three practical actions we can embrace as we seek to embody being a servant leader. These actions all tie into the idea of us “dying at the door” so we can be present, engaged, and invested for those we have the privilege to lead. So, join us to learn a few practical ways to be a servant leader. Related Episodes: #2: Identity-Based Goals (vs. Outcome-Based Ones). Being a servant leader is an identity that we must adopt and integrate into our lives – this should spill over into our goals for ourselves and our teams! Discover More: If you found this helpful, others might as well! Please like and review the 3x5 Leadership Podcast. It's not only encouraging to us, but it also helps others discover the show and see it as worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website at 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today! Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Lear more about the Community and join at patreon.com/3x5leadership Take care friends, and lead well!

Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. Leaders are readers. But how do we know what to read? What do we need to do to make our reading more developmental and impactful on our leadership? In this episode, we explore 10 important habits to maximize the developmental impact of your reading. These simple behaviors activated everyday compound to create a powerful personal growth and learning strategy to ultimately make you a more informed, equipped, and inspired leader. So, join us to learn a few ways to become a better reader and leader. Resources Mentioned Good Reads Check out the biggest library of audiobooks on Audible Related Episodes #1: 3 Powerful Questions to Think, Communicate, and Lead Better. This simple three-question framework can help you reflect on the books you read more intentionally and with a structured approach. #2: Identity-Based Goals (vs. Outcome-Based Ones). We should read to grow in support of our identities, so we need to become clear on those identities first. Discover More Give the 3x5 Leadership Podcast a like and a review! It's a simple way to help others discover the show and know it's worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website, com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today. Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Learn more about the Community and join at com/3x5leadership. Take care, friends, and lead well.

Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. Goals can guide us to create significant impacts where it matters most. But how do we successfully tap into the potential goals can offer? In today's episode, Josh explores the importance of our identities and how they lead us to achieve deep, long-lasting change. We discuss the three layers of change and then share three simple steps on how we can better connect our goals to our identities. So, take a couple minutes and join us to discuss our goals, our identities (who we truly are), and the connection between them. Resources Mentioned Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, by Simon Sinek Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones, by James Clear SMART Goals Related Episodes #1: 3 Powerful Questions to Think, Communicate, and Lead Better. This framework of three questions can help you better clarify your identities, your goals, and the connection between them. Discover More Give the 3x5 Leadership Podcast a like and a review. It's a simple way to help others discover the show and know it's worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website, 3x5leadership.com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today. Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Learn more about the Community and join at Patreon.com/3x5leadership. Take care, friends, and lead well.

Listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify! Or you can watch it on YouTube. Questions are powerful. They help us broaden our thinking, gain deeper insight, and create leadership space for others to fill. Today, in our first 3x5 Leadership Podcast episode, Josh shares three powerful questions that he uses to think, to communicate, and to lead better. And this framework – these three simple questions – are simple. It uses five total words: What? So what? Now what? So, take a few minutes and join us to explore the power of these questions and how they can help you explore deeper insight, communicate more clearly, and develop others more effectively. Discover More Give the 3x5 Leadership Podcast a like and a review. It's a simple way to help others discover the show and know it's worth their time. Learn more about 3x5 Leadership and all our great resources by visiting our website, com. You can also get a copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders, today. Consider joining our Patron Community to get even more insight and access from 3x5 Leadership. Learn more about the Community and join at com/3x5leadership.