Leadership Huddle with Geoff Welch

Leadership Huddle is a resource for developmental leaders who value communicating clearly, helping others smash limiting beliefs, and drawing the best work from themselves and those they lead. Covering topics related to personal and developmental leadership, self-management, delegation, and healthy mindsets, Geoff Welch uses each episode to help leaders like you enrich their people and build winning teams.

Leadership Huddle with Geoff Welch is a business podcast hosted by Geoff Welch, with 141 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Geoff Welch hosts Leadership Huddle with Geoff Welch, a business show with 141 episodes published.

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  Episode #145

  I think we should fall in love…

  Sep 27, 202618 min

  Now that I’m 50 I have lots of things I never thought I would have.Like a personal philosophy about mowing the lawn. I’ll save you the long version and just say that I set my mower as high as it goes even though it means cutting it a little more often.Years ago I cribbed this philosophy from a YouTube video in which a lawn enthusiast was extolling the benefits of this approach. Along the way he fielded a question from a frustrated viewer who didn’t like that this method would require more frequent cutting. His reply was something like, “Why is that a problem? Mowing my lawn is the most peaceful part of my week, so I don’t mind doing it a little more often.”In the same way that leaving my grass longer results in a better outcome for my lawn, but requires a little more attention…you likely aren’t enjoying the best outcomes with your team because you aren’t willing to invest the time and energy.You want a healthy, lush, lawn, but you don’t want to mow it a few extra times each summer.You want your people to win, for goals to be met, and for collaboration and trust to rule supreme, but you don’t want to have that difficult conversation, to invest time into training, or to offer more ownership to others.In the same way that there really isn’t a shortcut to a healthy lawn, there isn’t a shortcut to an impossibly effective team.You’re going to have to fall in love with nurturing your people.TRY THIS: Identify one conversation, coaching moment, or piece of feedback you’ve been putting off because it feels inconvenient. Do it THIS week. Bonus points for scheduling 5 minutes every Monday to consider how to nurture your people in the coming week. You don’t have to do it all at once, but you do have to make it something that happens over and over again.Consistency beats intensity.My free PDF, “The 5 Secrets of Impossibly Effective Teams,” will show you the simple leadership moves that help teams unlock their full potential and deliver outsized results, without burning out. Grab your copy now at geoffwelch.com/secrets

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  Episode #144

  If you’re reading this I’m probably still alive

  Sep 20, 202619 min

  If you’re reading this, then I’m probably still alive.I’m writing this essay from the lobby of an urgent care facility to get some help with a minor medical malady. I hadn’t planned on spending my morning here, but here is where I am. I expect you’ve been in a similar situation.A morning like this is usually the moment when you realize one of two things:1. My team is actually quite capable of working effectively without my direct oversight or input.2. My team is mostly dependent on me.And if you realize #2 is true, a morning like this is far too late to fix it.My advice is to start fixing it now.Are you the bottleneck for decisions that your team should be able to make? Are you investing in training to ensure your team knows what they need to know to reduce their reliance on you?Are you documenting processes and procedures so your people have access to a library of answers?Are you actively delegating work so that your people have a chance to get real-world experience before you’re unexpectedly unavailable.I know that losing half a day waiting at the doctor is unlikely to fundamentally destroy your team goals, but what if half a day turned into a week? Or a month? What happens then?Expect the unexpected. Prepare your team to win without you. Prepare them to win without one another. You can’t prepare for every eventuality, but you should have an idea of how things would work should anyone on your team be sidelined.The moment you lose someone isn’t the moment you want to be thinking about how to navigate their absence. Start today.TRY THIS: The single simplest place to start is to simply create a shared document where you start answering the questions people pose to you. When someone asks about X, you take an extra 5 minutes to document the answer in the shared document.While you are working on reducing the places in which you are the bottleneck, training people to upgrade (and cross train) their skills, and delegating more than you ever have before…just start dropping intel into the shared document. Don’t try to capture it all today, that’s way too much, just capture whatever comes up. Where possible delegate input to others who are domain experts. In time you will have a robust library of shared, searchable information because you started today.My free PDF, “The 5 Secrets of Impossibly Effective Teams,” will show you the simple leadership moves that help teams unlock their full potential and deliver outsized results, without burning out. Grab your copy now at geoffwelch.com/secrets

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  Episode #143

  How am I doing?

  Sep 13, 20267 min

  Someone on your team isn’t sure where they stand.They might need a reminder of what they are doing right.They might need feedback on an opportunity for improvement.They might need a high five to let them know you appreciate their contributions.They might need you to care enough about their success to hold them accountable.They might need clarity about where they can have the greatest impact this week.They might need a reminder that they are absolutely up to the challenge.It’s your responsibility to make sure they get what they need so they can stop wasting time wondering where they stand and take confident, informed action. TRY THIS: Consider each of the people you lead and what they might need from you. Don’t ever assume all is well because they “seem fine.” Check in with them. Be aware of their most recent successes and setbacks. Are they thriving? Are they stagnating? Find ways to celebrate and challenge them.My free PDF, “The 5 Secrets of Impossibly Effective Teams,” will show you the simple leadership moves that help teams unlock their full potential and deliver outsized results, without burning out. Grab your copy now at geoffwelch.com/secrets

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  Episode #142

  There’s only room for one person in the driver’s seat

  Sep 6, 202615 min

  In one of my favorite sequences in the Mission Impossible movie franchise, two characters find themselves handcuffed together in a tiny, but incredibly high-performance car as they attempt to elude capture. One character is our hero Ethan Hunt who literally does this for a living. The other character is Grace, a clever pickpocket who has been pulled into this escapade without any background in high-speed car chases.With Grace behind the wheel at a crucial moment, struggling to control the vehicle as their pursuer gains on them, Ethan grabs the wheel from the passenger seat and forces the car onto a new path.Grace yells, “WHO’S DRIVING?”Ethan immediately pulls his hands off the wheel, “YOU’RE DRIVING! YOU’RE DRIVING!”It was such a perfect picture of how leaders confuse the situation they are trying to remedy by grabbing the wheel and leaving the people they lead unsure of who is supposed to be at the helm.The problem for you is that your people are less likely to demand clarity about who is supposed to be driving after you grab the wheel.Instead you’ll either find yourself doing the thing you intended to delegate…or they will assume you’ve fully taken back control and neither one of you will actually be driving anymore.Thankfully most of you aren’t trying to help someone you lead navigate a do-or-die car chase from the passenger seat, so the stakes are a little lower.So if you’ve put someone else in the driver’s seat, keep your hands off the wheel.TRY THIS: When you delegate to your team, are you clear on how you will and won’t be available to support them? Do they understand what it looks like for them to drive? Where might you have the inclination to grab the wheel and how can you be intentional about keeping your hands to yourself? The idea is not to abandon them, but to coach them while they drive instead of putting yourself back in the driver’s seat. My free PDF, “The 5 Secrets of Impossibly Effective Teams,” will show you the simple leadership moves that help teams unlock their full potential and deliver outsized results, without burning out. Grab your copy now at geoffwelch.com/secrets

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  Episode #141

  Wait. You think you’re the main character?

  Aug 30, 202610 min

  Your friends, family, and even the people you lead are the supporting cast in YOUR story.But don’t forget that you are a part of the supporting cast in each of THEIR stories.This matters because we are incredibly prone to focus too much on the US of it all. I like to say that I’m selfish because I’m the only one that never leaves. No matter where I go, there I am.Being inescapably present with yourself might lead you to think that YOUR story is the most important. That the things you care about ACTUALLY ARE the most important things.But everyone around you thinks the same thing.So the next time you are confounded by the behavior of someone you lead…or are having difficulty achieving clarity…it might be because you are treating them like a supporting cast member when they see themselves as the main character.TRY THIS: Take a few minutes this week to put yourselves in the shoes of the people you lead. What do you think matters to them? When you exit stage left, what is happening in their story? The more curious you get about how everyone else thinks, the more opportunities you will have to discover what they really care about and how to connect with them more effectively.My free PDF, “The 5 Secrets of Impossibly Effective Teams,” will show you the simple leadership moves that help teams unlock their full potential and deliver outsized results, without burning out. Grab your copy now at geoffwelch.com/secrets

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