105 The Quiet Leader - Having Influence from Within

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

You hold a power of influence that is greater than you can imagine. Even if you're not in a traditional position of leadership, you can enable quiet change by what you do more than what you say.

In this episode, Matt provides examples of the positive effects of quiet leadership both in the workplace and in sport.

Discussion topics include:

Having Empathy with Boundaries
Maintaining Rational Thinking
Controlling the Controllables
Taking Care of Your Side of the Street

We hope you find this a wonderful source of education and practical lessons in your performance journey across all disciplines.

Also included in this episode:

The Dixon-ary Word of the Week: "Athlete of the Year" - Chelsea Sodaro

Squaddie Update: Tips for Riding in the Wind

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:03.5	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:09.3	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.3	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
0:19.9	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever,
0:23.4	your host Matt Dixon. And let me tell you this, you don't need to be the loudest voice in the
0:30.0	room to have a massive impact. In fact, you don't have to be in a position of classic leadership
0:36.5	or power to guide people to improvement or better performance. Today, you're't have to be in a position of classic leadership or power to guide people to improvement or better performance.
0:40.3	Today we dive into the power of the quiet leader, those who enable positive change in performance while not in that classical hierarchy position of authority.
0:52.3	All can learn from this. And if you listen,
0:58.8	Miss CEO or Mr. Coach, you're going to realize that you've got a tremendous amount to draw from
1:04.6	the messages today. If you're not stuck in the mindset of belief that you need to have all the
1:09.9	answers, then you're not drawing on all the of belief that you need to have all the answers, then you're not drawing
1:12.0	on all the performance potential that you are almost certainly surrounded by. So I hope,
1:18.7	hope, hope, hope, whether listening through the lens of athletics, business or life,
1:25.1	you too are able to draw lessons from today and become your own fierce leader of influence.
1:31.1	It's all for our good, you know.
1:32.9	But before we get cracking, we've got a few bits of the puzzle to get through, don't we?
1:36.8	Yes, the Squatty update.
1:38.6	Well, let's nail down an update for the week, and as I record this week's show I'm actually in Kona, yes Hawaii. We're here
1:46.6	for our annual training camp, not in the studio as normal and it is in a word windy. Now we're
1:55.0	used to the wind out here but the first few days have been well crazy. Many athletes and riders are just simply not comfortable
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