David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

This is the fifth and final segment of the interview in which David shares the fourth pillar of transformational leadership.

David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

This is the fourth segment of the interview in which David shares the third pillar of transformational leadership.

David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

This is the third segment of the interview in which David shares the second pillar of transformational leadership.

David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

This is the second segment of the interview in which the first pillar of transformational leadership is revealed.

David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

In trying a new format, this is the first of five segments discussing David's formula for transformational leadership.

Dr. Angela Lauria is the founder of the Author Incubator and creator of the Difference Process for writing a book that matters. Her work has been recognized by Inc. Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine, and in 2018 she won the Stevie Award's Coach/Mentor of the Year Award.

In this episode she and David discuss her journey, the goal of The Author Incubator, how writing a book should be done in nine weeks, and the strategies and difficulties of entrepreneurship. Check out https://www.theauthorincubator.com/

Your choices as a business leader have a huge effect on your growth opportunities. Last year David met an entrepreneur at Varnex who said he had been stuck at $1.2 million in revenue for 20 years.

In this episode he contrasts that story with one of our clients, Vertikal6, who have made the right decisions that have led to awesome growth.

Lee Caraher is the founder and CEO of Double Forte PR & Digital Marketing, a national agency that works with up-and-coming brands in a variety of industries. In this episode Lee shares a few stories and insights from her two books on leadership, Millenials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work, and The Boomerang Principle: Inspiring Lifetime Loyalty From Employees (2017).

You can learn more about Lee at www.leecaraher.com/

Andrew McAfee is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In this episode he shares how and why we in the United States have reached something of a turning point: We are beginning to use less resources and take care of the planet while simultaneously continuing our rapid improvement of the human condition.

His new book, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources - and What Happens Next, will be available tomorrow.

Learn more about Andy and his work at andrewmcafee.org/

Previous episodes have discussed how to MAP your meetings, practice Sanctuary time, and use a Weekly WIN.

In this episode David brings it all together and shines a light on the over-arching theme of "focus". He tells a story of working with a client who was having trouble improving his business and shares the advice he gave to the client and would give to others seeking to improve their focus and reduce their workload.

Daily huddles are a great team-building tool to keep everyone on track and deal with issues before they become major problems. In this episode David discusses why a daily huddle is valuable, how and when to do a daily huddle, what to cover in a daily huddle, and what to save for a team meeting.

Michelle Griffin was the former head of HR at ConnectWise during their rapid growth phase and oversaw the people side of multiple acquisitions, mergers, and dissolutions. In this episode she shares how a good human resources department can play a vital role in the development of a positive company culture and mitigation of workplace drama. You can learn more about her at www.michellemaygriffin.com.

Oscar Trimboli is a deep listening expert on a mission to create a tribe of 100 million deep listeners. He has worked with many large and small organizations to share his broad knowledge of the science behind listening in order to create positive impacts both in workplaces and the world. While working at Microsoft he rebuilt the graduate leadership program, which was then implemented in 26 countries. Today he shares his expertise and stories on how you can make deeper connections and be more successful by being a better listener.

Most people make task lists to keep track of things they want to get done. But those lists get longer and longer as time goes on, and nothing ever seems to get easier. Eventually people give up on their task lists and quit writing things down.

Instead, we encourage you to create a Weekly WIN - one to three things you must get done this week to be productive. Listen to this episode as David describes what a Weekly WIN is and how it should be used.

In our personal and professional lives we always advocate for weekly planning sessions called Sanctuary. In this episode we discuss what Sanctuary is, when it should happen, and how it should be structured. We share a few examples of great leaders who have used Sanctuary time to clear their head, be more productive, and avoid unnecessary tasks.

One piece of effective meetings that many people don’t do, or do poorly, is to define a productive agenda. The agenda format makes it an effective tool, or not. An efficient agenda schedules a balance of accountability, open discussion, and commitment to results.

In this episode we share our meeting agenda format called MAP. It translates to Metrics, Adjustments, Plan. Check out our guide for the MAP Agenda by clicking here.

Dale Hedges is Townsend Leadership Program Director at Hedges LCI Consulting, LLC. In this episode he shares his philosophy on business leadership, including how the art of leadership has been ignored by Lean practitioners. We discuss JIM-N-U, the five wastes of leadership, and how business leaders often fail at the art of self-awareness.

In this episode Rick Norberg shares his story of starting as a one-man I.T. shop and growing to now 50 employees and millions in revenue. Today, Rick mostly owns the business development responsibilities for Vertikal6 while while his COO Harry Curran leads company operations. But that wasn't always the case. Listen as Rick shares some of the skills he has learned on his journey from engineer to executive. Learn more about Vertikal6 at www.vertikal6.com.

We are not sure if we want to use Facebook or Twitter to promote our business, or any social media platform for that matter. It is a question we have been trying to answer for a few months. In this episode we discuss some of the positive and negative aspects of social media and how those aspects can affect your business.

Jeff also wrote a blog post about this very topic called The Social Media Dilemma. You can check it out here: https://www.manage2win.com/blog-posts/2019/7/16/the-social-media-dilemma

Robert MacPhee is CEO of Excellent Decisions. In this episode we discuss 5 characteristics of effective leaders and how those characteristics determine whether a leader is successful or not. We also discuss specific examples of how those characteristics are displayed and a few real examples of business leaders we admire. Robert is an author, consultant, and facilitator of excellent decisions, you can learn more about his work at www.excellentdecisions.com.