Leadership Fitness in 5 Minutes with Gary Slyman

Does your career ladder lean against the right building?  How do you find out? Consider aligning the following three areas Purpose Potential Motivations Let’s walk through a case study to see how to apply the above suggestion. Now think about yourself as you are looking at your career? Where are tensions? Maybe these three areas are not in alignment. Ask yourself what is my purpose?  Define it. What is your potential if you stay in this role? What are your motivators, intrinsic or extrinsic?  Get them in alignment and your ladder will be up agains the right building.  Need help considering?  I would love to help.

Welcome to 2025! We are at that point to set goals, resolutions or choose a word. This year my word is fitness. I will use this word to set goals for myself personally and professionally. Let’s walk through an example. What is at your top professional goal? I will use A, B, C to assess the goal I want to achieve. A - Affect - emotions? B - Behavior- what will I do? C- Cognitive- what do I want to be thinking? You can apply this to a personal goal also. We will come back and revisit the goals you have set.

THANK YOU!!   Who do you need to thank you this year? 3 Categories:  Family, Clients & Others First thank you to my wife, Michelle, and my children; Scoop & Lindsey Thank you to my clients. You have made me grow and helped me become a better coach.  Other Supporters… FreedomMakers D3 Web Design Gardiner & Appel  Insurance Broker Mastermind Group   Think about those folks you don’t see, I don’t always know who they are.  I acknowledge that and thank them.   Leadership is a great differentiator. If I know I can make a positive impact on just one leader I know that will continue to grow.   Thank you to everyone for supporting me to do just that.

The United States has transitioned from the great resignation to the great detachment. Data is coming from Gallup; gives us a big picture of employment and engagement. This is a time in the US, the rate of individuals looking for new opportunities is the greatest it has been since 2015. This results in lower engagement and dissatisfaction. Only 18% say they are pleased with their employer. This is a result of reorganization and disruption. There are higher expectations from both employers and employees. Does this reflect your organization? Do you have lower productivity? Less engagement? How do you fix it?

Happy Thanksgiving!   What do you know about this great holiday?   Let’s talk about it…how did this holiday come to be?

How many people does your leadership impact?  Let’s quantify that today.   Think of the best leader you have? What impact did they have on you? When did you talk about those leaders?   Think of the worst leader you had? Did they have an impact on those around you? Where did you talk about them?   What is the impact you are having. Are others talking about you positively?    Think about your direct reports, colleagues and stakeholders. Let’s put some numbers on how many people you impact.   It is incredible how quickly those numbers will grow.  Take time and quantify it and see what impact you are having.

This week as we take time to honor veterans, thank them for their service, thank their family and check out some incredible service organizations that have made a difference in the lives of veterans. Woody Williams Foundation - Gold Star Families The COMMIT Foundation - helps veterans and spouses transition from the military to the civilian world with purpose Freedom Makers Virtual ServicesFreedom Makers - virtual service company that offer virtual assistants that are all military spouses. The Headstrong Project - help veterans and their families that are caring for there veteran with PTSD Cohen Veterans Bioscience - knocks down barriers for mental health services for military veterans, their families and their children Project Opportunity - no cost services to educate, build your business plan and start up a business as a veteran

November, the great American month!   Election day, Veterans Day, USMC birthday, & Thanksgiving!   Let’s talk about Election Day!.  In 1845 Congress passed a law that election day would be the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.    Each state ran their own elections and it was affecting each others results, Congress decided to do something about it.  Listen to learn more things that affected this decision and how we arrived at the current day.

How do you handle events that occur in a toxic workplace or events that could could cause a toxic workplace?   Think of these three principles.   Control:  who can you control? You can control yourself, and your reaction. Depersonalization: what does this mean for the larger organization? The One Thing: what is the one thing that if I did it would make everything easier?  (“The One Thing” book by Gary Keller     How do I know if this will turn into a toxic workplace?  Follow your gut, review the above and be professional throughout it all.

If you could improve your performance or the performance of your team by 20-25% by stopping and doing something would you do it?  Having a regular reflective process can do that for you.    Do you have reflective process?   When should you have it and how should you have it?   The end of the day for about 15 minutes.   How should you go through this reflective process? Think of these three things. A guiding question (I suggest a positive question; What worked well?) Identifying the gaps (how far can we close the gaps) Lessons learned   Let’s go through an example.