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Be A Good Steward & Minimize Waste with Paul Akers Founder & President of FastCap May 11, 2021

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Nature does an excellent job of eliminating waste; humans have a propensity to create waste. As leaders, there are resources at your disposal, and you have a calling to use those resources in an efficient manner, but you need to start with yourself. This week Paul joins Alex to discuss Lean, 3S, and the 8 types of waste.

Paul Akers is an entrepreneur, business owner, author, speaker, Lean maniac! He is the founder and president of FastCap, a product development company with distribution in over 40 countries. FastCap, based in Ferndale, Washington, launches 30+ new innovative products each year and is regarded as a model Lean manufacturer.

8 types of waste:

Overproduced
Transport
Inventory
Defect
Overprocess
Excess motion
Waiting
Wasted potential

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PaulAkers.net

or contact him on WhatsApp or Voxer +1 (360) 941-3748

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How to Struggle Well May 04, 2021

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Growth requires struggle, that’s a given, but your growth and the growth of those you lead is dependent on how you respond to that struggle. Will you respond poorly, or will you struggle well? Today’s episode is about how to struggle well and the difference between healthy struggle and toxic struggle. But before we get into it, let’s cover three quick principles.

· Struggle and meaning are often intertwined

· There's often value on the other side of struggle

· Too much struggle, for too long can kill you

Four differences between healthy struggle and toxic struggle:

1. Healthy struggle hurts. Toxic struggle harms.

· Hurt is temporary. Harm is irreparable.

2. Healthy struggle aligns with stated values. Toxic struggle compromises stated values.

· Prolonged seasons of struggle that have caused you to compromise values that you hold are toxic.

3. Healthy struggle asks who am I becoming? Toxic struggle asks how am I appearing?

· Stop worrying about looking successful, start focusing on being successful.

4. Healthy struggle can be enjoyed and embraced. Toxic struggle can't.

· You cannot find fulfillment by compounding misery

Action steps for someone who is living in toxic struggle:

· Own it. You will never fix what you refuse to see.

· Tell someone you trust. Growth never occurs in isolation.

· Have the faith necessary to do less in pursuit of being someone that is healthy and able to serve others over the long haul.

· Resolve to find a way to love your days. Don't spend all your time working to create a future that you will one day love. Spend your time loving right now.

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Be Present in Every Circumstance with Rob Wall of Reach Ministries Apr 27, 2021

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To be present, you have bridge the gap between who you are and what you do. The art of being present requires discipline.

Rob Wall doesn't believe in work-life balance. Instead, he talks about having integrated priorities in today's Path For Growth Conversation.

Rob Wall is a Pastor, Speaker, Writer, Content Creator, and Coach based in London, UK. Rob is passionate about helping others find freedom from their past, purpose in their present, and hope for the future.

As a certified John Maxwell and Communications Coach, he is passionate about coming alongside others to help them discover their direction and purpose in life. Rob also spends time writing and creating content and has his own weekly television program on TBN UK.

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Website

Instagram

Youtube

And join his 4 Week Group Mentoring + Coaching group

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Ask Better Questions Apr 20, 2021

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A great leader asks great questions because a leader's effectiveness is based on their questions, not their answers. The quality of your conversation reflects the quality of your questions.

Communication is a skill, not an identity. It’s not something you are born with; it is a discipline, something you practice and learn through repetition. But before you can be great at communication have to learn three things:

Confidence, in the process of practice, confidence is gained.
Humility, if you aren’t humble, you can’t ask good questions. Everyone around you knows something that you don’t.
Trust, they need to trust that you care about them. You need to trust that they will respect your time with attention.

Five types of questions for leaders:

Tactical Questions: Day-to-day questions that provide an incremental return.

Never use a person to do the job Google was built for.

Strategic Questions: Look at the big picture

“In light of where I want to go, what is the best next step?
Strategic questions demand vision.

Perspective Questions: Acknowledge our emotional and situational enmeshment.

We need to make decisions rationally and logically, so we need someone who is not emotionally invested in the present situation.
We need to see our leadership from every angle on the table, so we need to ask perspective questions.

Expansionary Questions: Dare to envision a future that doesn't yet exist.

Think about a future beyond your comfort zone.
Expansionary questions are the enemy of complacency

Principle-Based Questions: Rely on transcendent truth and focus on making that principle remarkably practical.

Observe a principle and then make it practical.
Sit down with people you trust, state a principle and ask, "how do you see that plays out for us"?

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Build a Business Bigger Than Yourself with Chris Prenovost, Founder of AZPRO Apr 13, 2021

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Eighteen years old working at Taco Bell, Chris realized he didn't want to work for anyone else. So he launched two businesses, and along the way, he learned how to build a business bigger than himself. At first, he was scrappy and working 80 hours a week to make things work, then he started to develop core values, mission, and vision, and that's when things began to change. Seventeen years after launching Chris's business AZPRO has grown to over 90 team members. In addition to leading AZPRO, Chris is also a Certified Pinnacle Business Guide & EOS Implementer and works with Next Level Growth to help business leaders get more consistency, control, and freedom.

In today's path for growth conversation, Alex and Chris discuss:

How to deal with entrepreneurial guilt
How to let go and delegate
The difference and necessity of visionary and integrator roles
Why mission vision and values should be all that the visionary leader focuses on

Connect with Chris at nextlevelgrowth.com

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Maximize Your Morning Apr 06, 2021

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Bad habits are rooted in what you do. Good habits are rooted in who you are. In order to make the most of your morning, start by asking yourself: who are you called to be?

The morning is the kingpin of the day, how you start it matters A LOT because:

The person that you become is a result of what you repeatedly do
You never have to recover from a strong start
As your morning, so goes your day

Start your day right so you can serve others best, develop a morning ritual by starting small and stacking habits on top of each other. Get rid of distractions, eliminate potential roadblocks. Determine your ideal wake-up time by finding the optimal struggle, find something that is just a little outside of your comfort zone but try to get 7-8 hours of sleep. But don’t just rip off someone else’s morning, stay true to yourself work on creating your own by answering the question: who are you called to be.

Resources:

If You Want to Change the World, Start Off by Making Your Bed - William McRaven, US Navy Admiral

The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms by Tim Keller

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Creating a Leadership Culture with Kevin Scott Co-Founder of ADDO Mar 30, 2021

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Today Alex is Joined by Kevin Scott, who co-founded the leadership consultancy ADDO, which is Latin for "Inspire."

This week they discuss:

How to Build a Leadership Culture
Why Culture Doesn't Run on Autopilot
The Importance of Purpose
The Failure of Defining Your Priority

For consecutive years, ADDO was the #1 Small business on the Best Places to Work list in Atlanta. ADDO developed the national Chick-fil-A Leader Academy program, the Baltimore Ravens Leadership Institute, and helps companies attract and develop top talent. Kevin is the author of three books, including his latest The Lens. Kevin is a frequent guest on numerous media outlets, including Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.

Resources:

https://addo.is

The Lens: Nine Shifts in a Leader's Perspective

8 Essential Exchanges: What You Have to Give Up to Go Up

The Lepers' Lessons: Five Questions, Two Perspectives, and the Pursuit of Purpose

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Lead With A Loose Grip Mar 23, 2021

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8 Characteristics of Loose Grip Leadership:

Peace of mind, cheerfulness of spirit, & contentment of heart
A standard of commitment, not perfection
A willingness to trust first
Deep-seated passion for process
An ability to receive and extend grace
A recognition that purpose is possible today
Healthy acceptance of the possibility of failure
Unwillingness to succeed the wrong way

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Jim Collins Interview

John Eldridge Interview

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Are You Leading With A Clenched Fist? Mar 16, 2021

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Leading with a clenched fist creates:

Anxiety that increases proportionally to your growth
Fear that you will one day lose control
Resentment that you can’t have or retain the thing you most need, control

Seven questions to determine if you are leading with a clenched fist:

Have your attitude, actions, and well-being become beholden to an outcome?
Is worry about work keeping you from being present at home?
Do you need to be involved in the process?
Are you overextended and overcommitted yet unwilling to let go?
Is your health, family, or faith suffering because of prolonged seasons of overwork?
Are you actively working to portray an image of having it all figured out?
Have you lost the ability to love what you do right now?

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Steven Pressfield on: Confronting The Resistance, Time Management, Going Pro, Creative Work, Discipline and Habits Mar 09, 2021

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If you ever feel like something is getting in your way and making you second guess yourself or causing you to procrastinate from doing the work you feel called to, then you need to listen to today's episode. Steven Pressfield is a world renowned, best-selling author of over a dozen and a half books, including The War of Art, Turning Pro, and his latest A Man at Arms. Today the Path For Growth conversation revolves around:

Confronting The Resistance
Time Management
Going Pro
Creative Work
Discipline and Habits

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