HOW ARE YOUR POWER SKILLS?

How are your POWER SKILLS?

Do you even know what they are??Power skills are what used to be called soft skills and these skills are anything but soft.?Gone are the days where building teams through intimidation, entitlement and aggression is an acceptable form of leadership.??

Leaders need to show up with their hearts.?They need to bring authenticity and the ones who get extra points are the ones who allow themselves to be vulnerable to their organizations.??

So how do you do that, if you never have before?

The first step in building that irresistible culture is through building trust.?If your team doesn’t trust you, they will never go above and beyond.?Without trust, you have reduced their work to merely a job and a paycheck.??

ADP Research conducted a global study on engagement that involved over 19,000 people across 19 countries and 13 industries. ADP found that two primary factors that characterized highly engaged employees stood out above all others: being on a team and trust in the team leader. In fact, a worker is 12x more likely to be fully engaged if they trust their team leader.

A simple way to start is by asking the important question- “How can I be the best manager for you?” This is the foundation of trust and a concept I call Inverted Management.

By taking the time to understand your people you can advocate for them.?You can help them build the skills they need to grow.?You can better understand how your team is stacked.?This also puts you in a position to drive greater collaboration across your organization because you know them.

When all of the leaders in the organization follow this methodology, they are much more prepared to promote the right people to the right roles.?And at any given point in time, the C-Suite can tap any leader on the shoulder and get a pulse of what’s going on across the workforce.??

So how’s the level of trust in your organization? If you think it’s good but your team calls are quiet, or once engaged folks are no longer speaking up, those are signs you may be in trouble.?Don’t wait to lose your people.?We can help.

DON’T LET ANYONE STEAL YOUR MOJO!!! ??

If you haven’t discovered the Heartbeat for Hire podcast- we are so excited to share it with you!? Each week Lyndsay hosts incredible guests who share their story with a lens on culture, leadership and resilience.?

Here’s a taste of what you can expect from her guests.??

• 2 Gold Medal Olympians- Heather Moyse? Shannon Happe, OLY
• 1 World Champion Triathlete and Coach Siri Lindley
• 1 Former Pro Golfer turn Accountant Anne Gannon
• 1 Former Pro Soccer Player and Sport Diplomat and new Mama Joanna Lohman
• 1 Former Pro Football Player and key note speaker Richie Contartesi
• The 2nd largest content creator in the career category behind Gary V- ?? Madeline Mann ??
• Political Operative, Former Executive and Career Coach Cicely Simpson
• Former Apprentice UK Contestant and PR Wiz- Sabrina Stocker ?
• PHD, Best Selling Author, Regular Forbes Contributor and expert on culture Craig Dowden, Ph.D.
• Emmy and Richard R Murrow Award winning journalists Cristina Mendonsa and Sara Davenport
• Extraordinary Coaches with incredible stories to tell Tommy Breedlove , JM Ryerson , Kimberley Daly , Chuck Garcia
• CEOs and Business Executives like Vincent Walden Catherine Solazzo John Harrison

Her podcast is on all the audio channels and video can be found on YouTube.

https://heartbeatforhire.com/podcast

Podcast guests for February include:

Will Fuentes

Will is a co-founder of Maestro Group. Will has a fascinating background and surrounds himself with brilliant minds.? He focuses on teaching both hard and soft sales skills and identifies opportunities to improve sales efficiencies. He has been in sales for more than 20 years spanning retail, and tech.? Will spent eight years with national retail chains training their sales staff and managing stores. He then built a retail SaaS company that was on the cutting edge of in-store personalization and assisted sales. He has been hired by multiple organizations to train their salespeople to close more sales, accelerate the sales cycle, and increase deal value.

Bobbie Carlton

Bobbie is the founder of Carlton PR & Marketing , Innovation Nights and Innovation Women , or, as she calls them, the day job, the night job and the dream job. Carlton is an entertaining, tell-like-it-is speaker who speaks extensively (and passionately) about public speaking and how it can be the driving force behind career growth and business success. She's a TEDx speaker; the entertaining host of Innovation Nights; she's spoken at the United Nations; and she's been on the main stage for some of the world’s best-known conferences for technical and professional women. Carlton has been featured on CBS News, in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, USA Today and other major media. She’s inspired thousands of women to take control of their own speaking careers and businesses.?

Sara Davenport

Sara is an award-winning TV anchor, who spent decades on-air with different NBC stations across the US. While the Houston-based journalist loved being a TV anchor, she missed being home to see her children grow up. Sara knew in her heart that it was time to pivot and design a life that she loved. Sara is an entrepreneur, she freelances with various true-crime shows, She is a Linkedin Marketing Expert, an on-camera coach for Fortune 500 companies and business entrepreneurs.?

Jerry Bui

Jerry is a Keynote Speaker, Expert Witness and Managing Director at a large consulting firm where he has over 20 years of experience assisting clients with technology-related aspects of investigations. He has testified in over 15 civil matters, and his clients include major companies in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and tech industries. Jerry specializes in leading complex electronic discovery efforts and conducting forensic examinations of computers. He also regularly helps clients respond to government subpoenas and requests from opposing parties, and has testified as an expert witness on topics including spoliation, e-discovery procedures, and theft of trade secret information.? Jerry was recently invited into the LinkedIn Creator Accelerator Program and has a fantastic and funny TikTok and LinkedIn presence.??

I love making cocktails.? It’s my way of creating something special for people I care about.? (I don’t cook much so this works.) But, not just any cocktail.? They need to be beautiful.? They need to be in a beautiful glass with thoughtful garnishes.??

One of my favorite ingredients to work with is Empress Gin .? If you haven’t discovered Empress, I HIGHLY recommend you check them out on Instagram- the prettiest follow around!? The reason their gin is so beautiful (and delicious) is because one of the ingredients is butterfly pea blossom which makes the gin a purply blue color.??

But the best part is when you make it it changes color!!? So it’s cocktails and a show when I am at the helm.??

They post recipes every day but here’s one that is simple and has another of my favorite winter ingredients, Blood Orange.

BLOOD ORANGE GIN COCKTAIL

? oz Empress 1908 Gin

2 oz Fresh Blood Orange Juice

? oz Fresh Lime Juice

? oz Orange Liqueur

Blood Orange Rounds

Fresh Thyme

METHOD:

In a mixing glass with ice combine the gin, blood orange juice, lime juice and orange liqueur.? Stir with a bar spoon to chill.? Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.? Garnish with blood orange wheel and thyme springs.? Enjoy!

Cheers!

XO, H4H