549: How to Actually Get Traction From Leadership Books, with Nicol Verheem

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Nicol Verheem: Teradek Nicol Verheem is a globally recognized leader and innovator, senior business executive, serial entrepreneur, and prolific angel investor. He has been recognized for his impact in the film industry with a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Camera Operators and an Academy Award for Sciences and Engineering, also known as a Technical Oscar. He was also recently recognized with the Innovator of the Year Award from the leading business journal in Orange County, California. Nicol currently serves on the Executive Management Board of The Vitec Group, as the Divisional CEO of Creative Solutions, and as the CEO of Teradek. As a technology leader, his is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Teradek’s highly recognized high tech video products driving more than $100M annual revenue -- with dominant market share across the globe. He is also a member of the Coaching for Leaders Academy. In this conversation, Nicol and I discuss how to take the ideas you hear in books, presentations, and podcasts — and make them your own. Nicol shares many examples of how he has done this in his organization in order grow a team that was ultimately recognized with an Academy Award. Plus, we discuss some of his mindsets that have helped drive the success of Teradek over the years. Key Points Leadership models aren’t always molded to your organization or situation. Adapt the idea to make it a better fit for you. Well intended language by an expert might not match the culture of your organization. Don’t hesitate to change a word or phrase to make sense to your team. Build relationships today with the people who will grow with you throughout your career. That’s “networking for commoners.” When interviewing, ask people about their hobbies or interests in order to discover if you can lead them to live out their passions. Resources Mentioned We'd Like to Thank the Academy by Teradek Coaching for Leaders Academy Related Episodes How to Know What You Don’t Know, with Art Markman (episode 437) How to Build an Invincible Company, with Alex Osterwalder (episode 470) Start Finding Overlooked Talent, with Johnny Taylor, Jr. (episode 544) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	Many of us have a stack of books on our desks or a list of podcast episodes like this one
0:05.3	filling up our cues, but sometimes we don't get what we need from new ideas and models.
0:11.6	Not because we're not willing to use them, but because they're not the perfect fit.
0:16.3	In this episode, how to actually get traction with all those ideas.
0:21.1	This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 549.
0:26.4	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host,
0:40.1	Dave Stahofiak. Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show helps you discover
0:46.5	leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. This is one of the Saturday casts.
0:52.7	Several times a year I air a Saturday episode that's a chat with one of our Academy members
0:57.6	or listeners. The next regular episode is still coming on Monday, so this is an extra episode.
1:02.6	The Saturday casts are sponsored and brought to you by the Coaching for Leaders Academy.
1:07.5	The Academy is a year-long cohort of participant leaders who work personally with me to create
1:12.8	movement in their leadership development and organizational results. You can discover more and
1:18.0	get alerted about opportunities to apply for the Academy by visiting CoachingFor Leaders.com
1:24.4	slash Academy. And of course, one of the things we are often talking about in our Academy
1:30.3	cohorts is how to take leadership theory and to turn it into practical results. How do we really
1:38.0	find that intersection that's going to work well to actually get movement on the things that many
1:43.0	of us have learned from books and from podcasts and be able to really make it work for the
1:48.8	organization each day. Today, I'm so glad to welcome one of our Academy members who absolutely
1:54.4	has been doing that throughout his career and has a wonderful message for us on how we can
2:00.6	practically do that in our own learning and in our own organizations. I'm so glad to welcome
2:07.0	Nickel for him to the show. He is a globally recognized leader and innovator,
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