255: The Importance of Growing Your People

The best leaders not only recognize and leverage their own unique abilities, they also do the same with everyone on their team. Mark Murphy has focused on both areas, with excellent results. This commitment has helped his company create “wow” experiences for their clients. Our conversation is packed with insights and strategies that you can incorporate into your own life.

Mark is the CEO of Northeast Sequoia Private Client Group, a national financial planning and wealth management firm. He is passionate about empowering entrepreneurs to achieve multigenerational wealth by providing personalized strategies that focus on emotional fitness, wealth accumulation, and a plan that can work under all circumstances. His unwavering commitment to delivering a “wow” experience has earned him a reputation as a trusted expert in the industry.

Mark has been ranked #1 in New Jersey and #3 in the nation on the 2023 Forbes America’s Top Financial Security Professionals List. He’s the host of The Hero of The Hour Podcast and the author of 3 books including his latest, The Ultimate Investment: A Roadmap to Grow Your Business and Build Multigenerational Wealth. It’s a must-read for every business leader.

You’ll discover:

How leaders can identify and use their unique abilities
What Mark does to identify whether or not job candidates are aligned with his company’s core values
The 4 types of intelligence and the one Mark values most when hiring
The distinction Mark makes between differentiation and competition
The question he poses to someone who’s experienced a loss, disappointment, or setback

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235: A Leader’s #1 Priority Every Week

Do you faithfully hold weekly 1-1 meetings with each member of your team? Jeremy Barr explains why this is the most important thing you can do as a leader. In this fast-paced conversation, Jeremy shares lots of nuggets about leadership that he’s learned from his various executive roles and now teaches to company founders, business owners, and leaders. He’s on a mission to have a positive impact on 3 billion people, and you’ll be fascinated to learn the approach he’s taking to reach that audacious goal.

Jeremy has been CTO, COO, CEO and VC investor. As a leader, he has managed teams of teams of people. He is currently building the world’s largest investor and founder network. He created his company Rocket Mindset to rapidly uplevel the skills of founders and leaders.

Jeremy is unique among the guests on this show because of the size of the positive impact he intends to have. Everything Jeremy does is to impact 3 billion people…and have a lot of fun while doing it. To achieve this audacious goal, Jeremy is working with his global team of investors and founders to run, invest in, and advise a ton of companies with the intention of growing them and the humans inside them rapidly.

His favorite things are to find and create high quality, highly evolved humans.

You’ll discover:

What you should learn during the interview process to ensure you hire the right person
How to make an effective pitch, no matter what idea you’re trying to sell
A winning approach when you want to help two people resolve a conflict
Why daily stand-ups with your team create greater clarity, focus, and productivity
The kinds of questions to ask that help your team become autonomous

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228: Start Within to Change Your World

Do you expend energy trying to make others wrong so you can be right? Rich Habets is a master of facilitating powerful discussions 1-1 and with teams by asking questions and not making anyone wrong. In this conversation, he shares what he does to guide clients to look within and listen for the gold in what others say.

Rich is the founder and lead coach at Insight, Inc. Over the past 14 years, he’s dedicated himself to empowering more than 6,000 individuals and collaborating with more than 30 world-class companies, helping them break through barriers and achieve unparalleled performance.

What’s interesting is that Rich’s clients are already a force to be reckoned with, but his expertise serves as the catalyst that propels them to even greater heights. He’s operated behind the scenes for years as a silent but powerful ally in their journeys.

His mission is to help others harness their untapped potential so they transform their lives into a beacon of success, growth, and personal accomplishment.

You’ll discover:

The benefits of being open and vulnerable with others
Why Rich focuses on who he is BEING when he works with clients
How Rich helps leaders raise their awareness about their own behaviors
The powerful questions Rich uses to help leaders discover the blind spots and gaps
Ways to make meetings more productive

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207: Building Trust at Penn State Health

Have you ever gone on a Listening Tour? That’s what Hillary Miller did in her first 3 months at Penn State Health in her role as Chief Learning Officer. What she learned in her conversations with hundreds of people allowed her and her team to design programs that were relevant and well received.

Hillary has also set up a Learning Council across the organization that enables people in all types of positions to have a voice. You will love the types of questions Hillary shares throughout this conversation that encourage people to speak openly and build strong trust.

You’ll discover:

The 4 questions Hillary asked each person she met with during your listening tour
What Hillary has done to build trust and high performance with her own team
The weekly Development Sessions Hillary and her team have…and how she’s expanding them to other parts of the organization
The growth she went through to make it easy for her to say “I’m not perfect” and “I made a mistake”
Why Hillary is a big believer in humor and laughter

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072: Create Alignment for Success through Innovation

How can you take a fresh look at your work so you and your team continue to innovate and adapt to change? Katharine Halpin founded her firm The Halpin Companies 25 years ago to fill a void she saw in her CPA career. Katharine has helped leadership and management teams increase their effectiveness in engaging each other and their colleagues, her clients tend to grow 2-3x because of the innovation that gets ignited from the new work environment. She’s the author of Alignment for Success, and we discuss key ideas from this book. Come prepared to take notes from all the nuggets Katharine shares!

You’ll discover:

The areas in work and life that need to be aligned in order to achieve lasting success
Suggestions for being productive in a remote work environment
How to create a safe environment that encourages people to come up with innovative ideas
Three self-care actions you can take in order to work at your best
How to create Strategic Think Time to ensure you’re focused on the right actions

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