Episode 45: How to Become a Better Leader
Real Business Owners
Trevor Cowley
4.9 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Being a great leader is the chief responsibility of a business owner. Every single employee is looking to you for both leadership, AND as a model for their own work ethic. It’s a chokepoint really, poor leadership will kill any business regardless of how much potential it otherwise had.
So it’s a lot of pressure, and “becoming a strong leader” is such a broad goal it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The truth is, great people make great leaders. It’s largely a culmination of your overall excellence as a person. Practicing discipline in other areas of your life will transform you into the type of person others want to follow and emulate.
In this episode, we break down this process and cover ways you can accelerate your growth as a leader. We also discuss how your employees view you (the boss), how to build confidence, and tips for becoming a better leader at home.
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| 0:00.0 | Real business owners. |
| 0:03.0 | Guys, welcome back to the Real Business Owners podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | This is episode 45. |
| 0:09.6 | During this time, by the way, it's myself, Trevor Cowley. |
| 0:13.7 | My partner is always, Kel Goodman. |
| 0:15.7 | What's up? |
| 0:17.7 | Guys, during this time, I think that this podcast is going to be fitting. |
| 0:22.6 | Basically, we're going to talk about how to lead at home or in your business. |
| 0:27.6 | And so, you know, what I think is really cool about that is, you know, me and Kel were just barely talking right before the podcast, right before we started recording. |
| 0:36.2 | And Kel has an 18-year-old. What is he, almost 19, |
| 0:38.9 | though? Literally in two days, man. Yeah. So, April 1st, he turns 19. So tomorrow. |
| 0:44.2 | Yeah. Is that tomorrow? Yeah. Two days. That was yesterday. Two days was yesterday. You're still |
| 0:49.4 | living in yesterday, Brad. So Kel has a 19-year-old, or going to have a 19-year-old tomorrow, right? And |
| 0:56.2 | after I wrote some of the notes down that I wrote down this morning just to kind of cover |
| 1:00.8 | some stuff with you guys and we were talking, it just kind of made me think because one of the |
| 1:05.6 | notes says, you know, about your children or employees, you know, they watch what you do more so than they listen to what you say. |
| 1:12.9 | And sometimes it's hard to wrap your head around that, right? |
| 1:15.9 | Because we're so used to, no, do this, don't do that. |
| 1:19.6 | We talk to them. |
| 1:20.8 | We try to control more than the lead. |
| 1:22.7 | Exactly. |
| 1:23.5 | Especially at home. |
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