Chuck Mollor Recap: How to be an Agile Leader

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Are you an agile leader? If you're not agile in today's corporate world, today's team sport world, you you're going to lose out, you're going to probably lose your job, and certainly your team is going to underperform. So the Rise of the Agile Leader can you make this shift? Is a guide for the aspiring mid and seasoned leader and an executive that wants to really take their leadership to that next level. I got to sit down with the author of this book, Chuck Mohler, in our last episode, so I just wanted to share a couple of the key takeaways with you around that. So the first one was this. Throughout most of our careers, it's all about us. You're trying to climb the ladder, you're trying to get more remuneration, you're trying to work your way up. It's all about you. But when you get to leadership, when you get into that realm of having leadership influence, leadership responsibility, it's no longer about you. It's about your people.

So I want you to ask yourself right now, where am I on my leadership journey? Am I still working my way up? Is it all about the money? Is it all about the status? Is it about the next step? Or am I at a point where I want to be a servant leader and serve the people around me, look after their interests? Leadership is no longer about you.

Another big takeaway is this. That the difference between management and leadership. This is according to Chuck. I find this really quite interesting and enjoyed this look. Managing is the day to day it's managing people, it's managing resources, it's managing processes. But leadership, on the other hand, it is inspiration, guidance, the development of people, communication, mentorship, the facilitation of dialogue, creating a deep sense of purpose and engagement of your people. Now, honestly, I think that's one of the greatest descriptors that shows the difference between management and leadership. What are you doing right now? Are you managing or are you leading? And my challenge to you is, is there a place for a hybrid? Can we be managing? So managing the people, the resources, the processes, whilst also leading and inspiring, facilitating that incredible empowering dialogue, that's my challenge to you today. And so when it comes to leadership, you know, inspiring people, really developing them, you cannot do that from your fancy corner office. The leader that says to me, james, it's lonely at the top yet is when you're not with your people. Get down off your perch and get down amongst your people. Get amongst it, ask them where you can help roll up your sleeves. If you want to hold on to that talent. And retention is the big, I would say it's the biggest challenge that a lot of people are chatting to me about. If you want to hold on to that talent, you need to create the right environment. It's a must. You must establish the environment and you must establish incredible trust when your team don't trust you as a leader or your partner doesn't trust you as a partner. It's a slippery slope.

And look, before I share the last few takeaways, I just want to ask you to do one thing. I'd love you to hit subscribe and leave me a rating and review if you're on Apple podcasts or over on Spotify and you can me a favor. Share this with one leader that might really benefit from hearing it. I'd really appreciate that. Now the one other big area that we chatted about in our conversation with Chuck was how do you spend your time and how do you actually align it with a life that truly matters? So he had a couple of tips. One, do a time audit over the last two weeks, where have you actually spent your time? In detail. Go through your calendar, go through your credit card, go through your phone, see where you've spent your time. I recently got my iPhone out and looked at screen time. So it's part of the built in Apple features, gives you a very detailed diagnostic how many hours you've spent on your phone each day, each week, where you've spent the first app and multiple apps that you use when you pick up the phone, how many times you pick up, how many notifications. It shocked me, absolutely shocked me. And a few of my one to one coaching clients, I challenged them on the same thing and they were blown away by how much time they were spending on apps on their phone that were not bringing any joy to their life or any revenue to their business. So my challenge to you is, hey, do a time audit, see where you're spending your time and ask yourself this, where can I delegate? What meeting do you not need to be showing up to? That alone can create so much more valuable space and you can spend it where it truly matters. And make sure you create space to check in with the most important people in your team, looking after their well being, checking in on the most valuable customers and clients, making the time for that lunch to create the connection. And here's one last little takeaway. If you have an hour scheduled for a meeting, by the time you get to 40 or 45 minutes, that meeting should be finishing up. If the meeting goes over an hour, it's turning into a catch up and general chitchat. Meetings are not that. Meetings are there for a purpose, to drive an outcome. So start keeping a little eye on those meetings. Look, I hope you have the most amazing week ahead and look out for the next episode in a few days time. But right now, get out there and lead your life on purpose.

Sam.