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The Double Win

DANIEL HARKAVY: Coaching Yourself Toward Flourishing

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Productivity, Teamleadership, Mental Health, Business, Leadership, Selfleadership, Personaldevelopment, Intentionality, Influence, Achievement, Selfdevelopment, Self-improvement, Management, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Double Win Show, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller sit down with Daniel Harkavy, CEO of Building Champions and author of The 7 Perspectives of Effective Leaders. Daniel shares practical strategies for thriving as a leader by first thriving as a person. From setting boundaries to crafting a life plan, his advice will help you create lasting success at work and at home.


Memorable Quotes

  1. “[Being well-balanced] elevates leadership efficacy because people are making conscious and subconscious decisions about who you are as a person by what they see, what they observe, how you speak, how you feel.”
  2. “It’s very difficult to find a place of contentment if you’re playing the competition game.”
  3. “I’m not being driven out of a place of scarcity. I’m being driven out of a place of opportunity and out of a burden to help and an opportunity to make a difference.”
  4. “Self-leadership always precedes team effectiveness and team effectiveness always precedes organizational impact.”
  5. “Management meetings are a lot of telling. Coaching sessions are a lot of asking.”
  6. “I think that is what really needs to be at the heart of a coaching leader: It’s not that you are just comfortable with your people being better than you are. You actually desire it.”
  7. “A leader’s effectiveness is determined by just two things: The decisions they make and the influence they have.”
  8. “My morning routine is my vacation every day. I get a vacation first thing in the morning. I don’t have to wake up early. I get to.”


Key Takeaways

  1. Self-Leadership First: Your effectiveness as a leader begins with how well you lead yourself. This includes setting boundaries and prioritizing personal well-being.
  2. Boundaries Enable Freedom: Setting clear boundaries helps leaders avoid burnout and stay fully present in their personal and professional lives.
  3. The Power of a Life Plan: Taking time to define what matters most reduces regret and ensures intentional investment in all areas of life.
  4. Coaching Leadership: Great leaders empower their teams by asking questions, fostering growth, and prioritizing curiosity over control.
  5. Contentment vs. Complacency: Strive for excellence from a place of abundance, not scarcity, by cultivating gratitude and staying grounded in what matters.


Resources

Executive Retreats: www.buildingchampions.com/executive-retreats


Watch on YouTube at:  https://youtu.be/obYSZ1sTGP8


This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

Transcript

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0:00.0

Self-leadership always precedes team effectiveness, and team effectiveness always precedes

0:05.4

organizational impact, and that's a core principle of ours. So how we lead ourselves enables us

0:12.6

to be present when we're where we're at with whom we're supposed to be with.

0:20.3

Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt.

0:21.7

And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller.

0:22.9

And you're listening to The Double Win Show.

0:24.9

Well, today we are so excited to be talking with our good friend, Daniel Harkaby.

0:30.3

So Daniel and I have a long relationship.

0:33.2

I hired him in 2002 to be my very first executive coach.

0:37.1

And he came into my life at a very pivotal time.

0:40.1

In fact, I would not be on this podcast today.

0:43.1

I might not be married.

0:44.7

I may not have the respect of my children if he hadn't come into my life and basically

0:49.6

challenged me to win at work and succeed at life.

0:53.2

So just to give you the official bio, Daniel's the CEO and the founder of Building Champions,

0:58.4

a coaching firm specializing in leadership and life planning,

1:01.5

he has over 25 years of experience coaching leaders across various industries.

1:07.1

I had the privilege back when I was in the publishing industry of publishing his first book,

1:11.3

Becoming a Coaching Leader, which focuses on transforming management through a coaching approach.

1:17.9

It's a total game changer.

1:19.4

And then Daniel and I wrote the book Living Forward, which is a book on Life Planning.

1:23.3

And then he wrote the seven perspectives of effective leaders, which we talk about in this episode.

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