High Impact Leaders

Hosted by Doug Staneart

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Jun 2026

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Welcome to High Impact Leaders! Your shortcut to personal growth and career success. Join Doug Staneart for leadership development training that will bring out your inner entrepreneur and make you a fearless leader in today's chaotic business world.

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June 15, 202630 min

5 Steps to Give an Impromptu Speech

Looking for the best way to deliver an effective impromptu speech? You will want to master two components. First, you want to reduce your nervousness so your audience sees your response as credible. Then, you want to deliver a credible response so your audience sees you as the expert.If you are new to public speaking, an impromptu speech is one where you have to speak on short notice. So you won’t have a lot of preparation time. Even seasoned speakers can panic when asked to deliver one of these “spur of the moment” presentations.So stick around to hear the absolute best, easy ways to give a reliable impromptu speech. (Oh, by the way, if this is something that you're wanting to learn even more about, go check out my other podcast Fearless Presentations and learn more about our 2 day public speaking classes)Show Notes: 5 Steps to Give an Impromptu Speech (Even If You Hate Speaking)(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/how-to-improve-impromptu-speaking-skills-tips-to-deliver-an-improvised-speech/)

June 8, 202623 min

5 More Neccessities to Being an Effective Leader

Last week I introduced the first 5 skills that every single leader needs to have to be effective, and some of them were probably surprises. I'm sure after taking the survey you realized that a lot of those skills are often overlooked. Things that really are make or breaks for a good team leader that for one reason or another are never developed either do to not knowing what they are, not knowing how to develop them, or not knowing that you need to. This week I'll be going over those last 5 roles an effective leader must fulfill and a lot of these are more focused on the coaching aspect of leading, an aspect very rarely focused on. So stick around (and if you haven't yet, go check out the show notes to see the leadership survey to assess how good of leader you already are and what you need to focus on more.Show Notes: Leadership Roles Survey - Do You Exhibit Effective Team Leadership?(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/leadership-roles-survey-do-you-exhibit-effective-team-leadership-take-the-survey)

June 1, 202619 min

Are You a Good Leader? Answer These 5 Questions

Leadership is not a singular skill. You're not a good leader if you just know how to discipline well, or delegate well, or coach well, or set goals well, you are only a good leader if you can fulfill all of these roles simultaneously. The problem is you can't grow as a leader if you don't even know all the roles you have to fill. So this week, that's what I'm covering. I'll be going over the first 5 skills you need to develop to grow as a leader but before doing anything, please go take the survey in the show notes below to know how you stand as a leader right now!Show Notes: Leadership Roles Survey: Do You Exhibit Effective Team Leadership?(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/leadership-roles-survey-do-you-exhibit-effective-team-leadership-take-the-survey)

May 25, 202624 min

What Really IS Team Building?

The term “team-building” is thrown around quite often describing any type of activity that is likely to build some type of camaraderie or team environment. However, the specific activities and games that make up a good event can be lumped into a few types of categories. The success of your company depends on its foundation: customers, profit, and company culture. Team building exercises are a great way to connect staff and build a positive culture.The effectiveness of the exercises or events depends on the inclusion of the whole team, in smaller teams, aiming for a shared goal. Some involve a random object, such as tennis balls, while other fun activities could use puzzle pieces with trivia questions.It's incredibly important to not just understand what team building is and why it's important, but also what TYPE of team building is best suited for your team, and today that's what I will be covering!Show Notes: What Is Team Building?(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/what-is-team-building/)

May 18, 202633 min

Generating Secondary Sources of Income

Welp, we're finally here, the last secret to building wealth. Maybe "secret" is the wrong word because, especially in this case, this is a tip that I'm sure you've heard before. It's almost universally known as the biggest factor in building substantial wealth. The great divider between "just getting by" and "being well off". Secondary sources of income.Almost all industries have a salary cap so, no matter how much you make at your job (and you can certainly make a lot), there is a point where growing isn't really an option anymore. At that point, your money needs to make money. Investments, stocks, side business's you're hands off on, these are the way you can really grow exponentially, and that's what we're going over today.So stick around as I tell you my experiences and what I've learned whenever it comes to amassing different avenues of making money.Show Notes: How to Build Wealth in Three Simple Steps(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/how-to-build-wealth-in-three-simples-steps-wealth-strategies-for-any-age/)

May 11, 202613 min

Increasing Your Main Source of Income

Last week, on the first episode of this 3 part series, I went over how to develop the right mindset to start building personal wealth, and the pitfalls such a mindset brings with it. But just a way of thinking isn't enough to make money, it's the way in which you apply that mindset to your life that really is how the change comes. This week we're gonna be covering how to apply that mindset to increase your main source of income. It's all too easy to get a position at a job that provides a decent starting salary but then never have any idea how to grow. Anxieties about asking for a raise, increased commission, or starting a second job can cause people to have lifetime monetary paralysis, and today I'll be going over how to get out of that. Show Notes: How to Build Wealth in Three Simple Steps(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/how-to-build-wealth-in-three-simples-steps-wealth-strategies-for-any-age/)

May 4, 202633 min

Improving Your Mindset to Grow Wealth

Get rich schemes are scams. I'm sure this is something we all know and looking at the title of this series may lead you to believe this is just another one, but I will tell you right now listening to this podcast won't make you rich overnight. Accumulating wealth for most is a slow, arduous process with tons of ups, downs, risks, and failures. It's also something that's not guaranteed and takes a lot of focus and work, but there is a best way to do it. All stories of wealthy people go largely the same way, hit all the same beats, and have unmistakable similarities that seem to work. And I can say from personal experience, after years of incorporating these characteristics of successful people, I made my first million dollars.In this series I will be telling you everything that got me there. The similarities all successful people have, how to start involving those traits in your day to day life, and how to expedite the process (with the risks that come from doing that). Show Notes: How to Build Wealth in Three Simple Steps(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/how-to-build-wealth-in-three-simples-steps-wealth-strategies-for-any-age/)

April 27, 202629 min

5 Simple Tips to Being an Amazing Supervisor

Here are a few tips for new supervisors that can help you motivate your team and increase efficiency. This is a continuation of our “soft skills” series. In the first session, we talked about what soft skills are and why they are important in any role. Then, we divided these skills into four segments — leadership skills, management skills, supervisor skills, and interpersonal skills. In this session, we are going to focus on the list of supervisory skills. As we talked about in the Soft Skills session, supervisor skills are a subset of managerial skills. Recall that leaders create the vision or new path. Then managers make the navigation of that path more efficient. Well, supervisors have the same goal as the manager. However, the supervisor often doesn’t yet have the authority to make changes to processes or personnel. Supervisors are often managers-in-training. They are responsible for the results. However, in many cases, they may not have a lot of authority yet. As a result, people skills will be important to their success.Show Notes: Tips for New Supervisors, Five Simple First Time Supervisor Tips and Skills(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/tips-for-new-supervisors-five-simple-first-time-supervisor-tips-and-skills/)

April 20, 202612 min

Why Adaptive Communication Is Important in the Workplace

This week, Roma is filling in for Doug to talk about something she and everyone else has experienced in every workplace out there. Miscommunications!Speaking to different people, in different circles, doesn’t seem like a big deal. It’s just speaking. We do it all the time and some of us do it for our jobs, everyday. However, think about it. How many times have you spoken to a family member, a coworker, or a boss and were met with looks? Confused, disgruntled even, by how you worded something. Are you talking over their head or unintentionally “dumbing it down” for them? Or do they pick up what you said easily with no confusion or misunderstandings?Learning how to read a situation and adapt your language to it is one of the most important things someone can learn in business, so stick around and figure out just how to maneuver it!Show Notes: Why Adaptive Communication Is Important in the Workplace(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/why-adaptive-communication-is-important-in-the-workplace/)

April 13, 202621 min

What is Strategic Thinking?

I remember going on an important job interview decades ago. The person interviewing me asked, “In this company, we like to hire strategic thinkers. How much time per week do you spend on strategic thinking?” I had been on a number of different job interviews by that point in my life. However, this question stunned me. I wasn’t sure exactly what the interviewer was asking. As a result, I wasn’t sure how to answer either.By the way, I did get a nice job offer from that company. So, I must have answered the question fairly effectively. However, after managing my own company for over 20 years, I now better understand what the interviewer was getting at. Strategic thinking skills are one of the most sought-after skills in the business world.But what exactly are strategic thinking skills? With how sought after these skills are and how impactful they can be on a business, knowing what they actually are is a pretty important first step to mastering them. In today's episode, find out exactly what they are, why they're desired, and how you can start improving yours.Show Notes: Strategic Thinking: Make Strategic Thinking Part of Your Team Culture(https://www.leadersinstitute.com/strategic-thinking-make-strategic-thinking-part-of-your-team-culture/)