This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 438.

There's a sweet spot that we all have in terms of how we want to be recognized.

And to me, it's up to us as leaders to find out what that is.

Today, employees exercise greater control over where and under what conditions they'll work. This significant change means many employees have an unprecedented position of power, and leaders must find new approaches.

Leaders who recognize this seismic shift and align their leadership behaviors to satisfy the needs of their employees will build cultures that are both engaging and profitable.

Hi, I'm Jeff Brown, and this is the Read to Lead Podcasts.

The podcast is dedicated to your personal and professional growth.

I started this podcast because I believe if you want to achieve true success in business and in life,

then intentional and consistent reading is a must.

My guest today is author Patrick Verano.

He's written a book called The Leadership Bridge, How to Engage Your Employees, and Drive Organizational Excellence.

I'll be asking Patrick to share about the importance of cultivating

well-being and happiness as a leader, the six leadership behaviors necessary to achieve success as a

leader, some of the more common reasons as to why you may not have many followers and much more.

If you struggle with taking action on the things that you read or any other content you consume for that matter,

maybe you write a lot of notes and later, those notes are hard to sift through, they're not well organized,

or maybe you can't even find them to begin with.

I want to encourage you to get on the notifications list for my note-making mastery cohort.

We call it note-making mastery because it's so much more than about just strict note-taking.

You have to understand what it means to make effective notes, notes that will be useful to someone

else, as in future you, because future you is someone else.

You change, you grow, and when you come back to those notes that you took weeks or months before,

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