14: Four Leadership Lessons I’m Thankful For
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2011
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 2
Four stories from my career of leadership lessons I’ve valued:
McDonald’s and the value of humility
How I utilize this in daily client interactions now
Orientation and the value of excellence
I utilize this in teaching and production of this show
My first job and the value of consequences
Today I utilize this to have courage
“Our chief want in life is someone who shall make us do what we can.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
My friend and colleague and the value of love
In tough situations, find something to love about the other party
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching skills for leaders. This is episode 14 recorded on November 21st, 2011. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to coaching skills for leaders. |
| 0:20.0 | My name is Dave Stahopje. |
| 0:22.0 | This is the show for leaders who want to develop their coaching skills so they can influence |
| 0:26.2 | the success of others, their organization, and themselves. |
| 0:30.3 | Whether you're a season leader or you're leading people for the first time, |
| 0:33.4 | improving your coaching skills will help drive your success and most importantly the success of others. |
| 0:39.2 | This week's topic is four leadership lessons I'm thankful for. |
| 0:44.0 | And the reason for this week's topic, of course, is it is Thanksgiving week here in the United States. |
| 0:50.0 | And like many countries, we have some very cool holidays and we have some strange holidays and I think one of the one of my favorite |
| 0:57.9 | holidays here in the states is the holiday of Thanksgiving and there's a couple reasons for that one for those of you |
| 1:04.7 | who are outside the states which is a number of you who listen to the show we eat a lot it's the |
| 1:11.8 | best way to describe it. And it's very socially acceptable to eat a tremendous amount of food and sit on really cozy chairs and talk or watch TV for an entire day and that's great. |
| 1:24.4 | But the even cooler part about the holiday |
| 1:27.6 | is it's a day in our country where we all try to set aside some time to think about what we're |
| 1:36.8 | thankful for. And I think that that's such a key importance in our lives to really focus in on gratitude. |
| 1:46.1 | It's said that gratitude is one of the most positive human emotions. And in leadership, having gratitude for the people around us, |
| 1:57.0 | the lessons that we learn, |
| 1:59.0 | and our past experiences I think is such an important skill for us to have when we're leading others. |
| 2:07.0 | And so today, four stories, four stories from my life of things that I'm thankful for and leadership lessons that I've had in the past. |
| 2:17.0 | So nothing big, just four stories from my career and values that I and these stories have changed my thinking on |
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