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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

CNLP 126 - Mike Bonem on Thriving as a Second Chair Leader and How to Lead Up

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Carey Nieuwhof

Management, Business

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Not all of us are senior leaders. So what happens when that's you? Do you have to be the #1 leader to make an impact. Mike Bonem explains how to lead up to your senior leader, and discussed the strategies and principles that help second chair leaders thrive.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

0:09.7

The goal, to help you lead like never before.

0:12.8

In your church or in your business.

0:15.3

And now your host, Carrie Newhoff.

0:19.4

Well, hey everybody, and welcome to episode 126 of the podcast.

0:23.6

My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time together today

0:26.0

helps you lead like never before.

0:28.0

Man, I'm excited to have my guest today, Mike Bonham.

0:31.6

He has written a book that if you're in ministry you probably heard of. I know I heard of it a decade ago when it came out. It was called Leading from the Second Chair and he's got a brand new book called Thriving from the Second Chair.

0:42.7

And why I wanted to talk to Mike is the question I get over and over and over and over again

0:47.8

from so many of you is, okay, I'm a leader, but I'm not the senior leader.

0:52.0

Like what do I do to lead well from from that

0:56.0

place and if you think about it mathematically it makes sense that that's a question that gets

1:00.6

asked a lot because there are way more non-senior leaders than

1:03.8

senior leaders and so Mike has had a lot of experience in that also an awful lot of

1:09.2

insight so I'm really enjoying my conversation and also we're going to turn it again from a

1:13.2

different angle because Clay Scroggins has a book about leading when you're not in

1:18.0

charge and I'm going to talk to Clay about that later this year as well so

1:21.2

really exciting watch for that book it's not out yet. But Mike says

1:24.8

it's called Thriving from the Second Chair. He's my guest and I want to tell you about a couple of things

1:28.9

today. First of all, if you're a Canadian Church Leader and you have not yet

1:32.3

registered for the Canadian Church leader and you have not yet registered for the Canadian

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