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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

266: Ryan Caldbeck - CircleUp CEO: How To Build The Frameworks Of Your Life & Career

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Careers, Management, Business

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Episode #266: Ryan Caldbeck - CircleUp CEO: How To Build The Frameworks Of Your Life & Career

We are hosting a workshop on developing YOUR personal excellence as a leader. For details and availability, go to RyanHawk.me

The Learning Leader Show

"What we look for in a person: Horsepower, Integrity, Work Ethic, Teamwork, Pride."

Show Notes:

  • Sustaining excellence:
    • Persistence - regardless of skill, willing to run through unlimited doors with no light at the end of the tunnel. It can be soul crushing
    • Identified focus passion - an understanding of the passion that is identifiable.
    • Drive - A motor. Really good at email and/or communication. Can't take too long. "Have a motor." Always moving
    • Values - "I don't say that lightly." You can't sustain excellence without values. "A framework to understand you."
  • Isn't it hard to know what your passion is? "Yes. I got scared about the treadmill that I saw others get on." However, people don't think they can leave the corporate job that pays well. But you can. Begin by thinking about the framework to make it happen.
  • "Silicon Valley is a hard town to talk about challenges."
  • What it's like to lead 60 employees
  • What mistakes were made in the hiring process?
    • "We took too long to make frameworks."
    • "Frameworks show others what to do."
  • What traits/values do you look for in hiring?
    • "The airport test doesn't make sense to me. I don't have to want to spend a day around them in the airport."
    • "We have crystallized what we look for in a person."
      • Horsepower - intelligence over experience
      • Integrity - don't talk negatively about others
      • Work ethic - must be willing to work hard
      • Teamwork - need to work well with others
      • Pride - Care
  • How to gauge work ethic in a job interview?
    • "It starts with everyone knowing we are looking for that."
  • Advice for the individual contributor making the leap to manager...
    • "Figure out framework for your specific role. Get clarity on what each person's role is."
    • "Learn how to develop empathy for what your team goes through. Sit with them without micromanaging them."
    • "Make sure you have a resource (person) to talk to about being a manager. Hire a coach. Get a peer group outside of your company."
  • Why joining The Learning Leader Circle is a good idea
  • Ryan has a coach and a group of 12 CEO's that he meets with regularly
  • Building culture:
    • Focus on your mission
      • "To help entrepreneurs thrive by giving them the capital and resources they need."
  • Their Values:
    • Do it right
    • Be brave
    • Be a solution
  • Constantly reinforce the vision
  • Most useful advice:
    • Winston Churchill - "Never give up."
    • "Do what you're passionate about"
  • How to have balance at home?
    • Two kids and his wife is a senior leader at her company
    • Mediation after the kids go to bed
    • Online working from 8:30-10:00
    • Spend time with spouse only
  • Use the "Get To Know You Document"

"If you don't keep growing, you will become irrelevant."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And so for us there are a couple key things we look for.

0:04.6

Horsepower, I take intelligence over experience any day of the week and that's a really important thing for us.

0:12.2

So horsepower is something we look for.

0:14.5

Integrity is a tough one to test for,

0:18.7

something that we often ask about.

0:20.0

It's like, you know, talk to me about your prior manager, your prior job.

0:24.5

And usually when someone is kind of, you know, dumping on their prior manager or teammates

0:28.7

or job that is usually a red flag on integrity, but there's some other ways we test for it as well.

0:33.9

Work ethic is another one that we care a lot. If someone has work ethic,

0:37.7

integrity, and horsepower that's usually a pretty darn good teammates.

0:45.0

Welcome to the Learning Leader Show.

0:48.0

I am Ryan Hawk.

0:51.0

Thanks so much for being here.

0:52.0

We are hosting a workshop on Devote. Ryan Hawk. Thanks so much for being here.

0:52.5

We are hosting a workshop on developing your personal excellence as a leader.

0:58.7

We're putting everything we've got into this over the course of two days in the fall. We'd love to have you.

1:04.5

You're going to keep it small so that it's engaging and intimate. Go to Ryan Hawk.

1:09.9

Me for dates and availability.

1:12.5

Go to Ryan Hawk.

1:13.8

We'd love to have you.

1:15.3

Now, on tonight's featured leader.

1:17.9

It's with Ryan called back, the founder and CEO of Circle Up.

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