The Leader's Mindset

The Leader’s Mindset is a leadership strategy podcast for executives, founders, and emerging leaders who want to think clearly, act decisively, and build high-performing teams. Hosted by Jason LeDuc, a former U.S. Air Force officer and leadership strategist, the show blends powerful interviews with practical Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) you can apply immediately. If you’re responsible for results and developing the leaders behind you, this show equips you to lead with clarity and confidence.

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  What to Do When You're Managing People for the First Time – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures

  Aug 18, 20264 min

  Getting promoted is not the same as knowing how to lead. The exact skills that made you the best performer are not the skills that make you a good manager. And if nobody tells you that, you'll spend your first year doing everyone's job except your own. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down what to do in your first weeks as a new manager — how to stop out-working your team and start leading them. This episode is for leaders who want to lead well their very first time in charge — especially: - New managers promoted from top performer to boss overnight - First-time supervisors who never got a manual for the job - Team leads still doing everyone's work themselves - Entrepreneurs building and leading their first team What you will learn: - Why the skills that got you promoted are not the skills that make you a good manager - The Multiplier Shift: how to stop being the bottleneck and multiply your team's output - The three questions that make a great first one-on-one - How to set the standard out loud so everyone knows what "good" looks like - Why you praise in public and correct in private - How to delegate the outcome, not every step (commander's intent) - How to guard your calendar before the day eats it alive Practical ideas you can use this week 1) Name one task you're doing yourself only because you're faster — and teach it instead. 2) Run a first one-on-one with each person: What's going well? What's getting in your way? How do you like to be recognized? 3) Say out loud exactly what "good" looks like on your next deliverable — the standard and the deadline. 4) Block 30 minutes every morning for your own priorities before the team wakes up. Question for you: What's the one task you're going to hand off this week instead of doing yourself? If you got value from this episode, subscribe for more Leadership TTP content every week — practical tactics, techniques, and procedures you can use immediately. Onward and Upward! ✅ If you got value from this episode, do these 3 things: 1) Like this video – It helps more leaders find these ideas. 2) Subscribe – New leadership content every week! 3) Share this episode with a new manager who could really use it. Exclusive Leadership Programs Take charge of your own leadership development with our online program: https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram Corporate Leadership Academy for Tech Managers: https://www.leducleadership.com/leadershipacademy Book a discovery call: https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discovery About Jason LeDuc: Jason LeDuc is a seasoned leader and esteemed leadership consultant, drawing from his extensive experience in the U.S. Air Force and beyond. With a passion for empowering individuals to unleash their full potential, Jason is committed to fostering a new generation of visionary leaders. Connect with Jason and embark on a journey of leadership enlightenment today! How to reach Jason LeDuc: Email: info@leducleadership.com Website: https://www.leducleadership.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-leduc-3469823/ ️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

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  Build a Culture People Don't Leave — Michelle Edwards on Leadership, Employee Retention, & Workplace Culture

  Aug 13, 202654 min

  Most leaders think a great culture comes from a program, a committee, or a one-day training. It doesn't. Culture is built by leaders who pour into their people — and it shows up (or quietly disappears) in your retention numbers. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Michelle Edwards — award-winning leadership advisor, speaker, and author of DEI Died. Leadership Lives — to break down how she built one of the most diverse, most-awarded, and highest-retention cultures in healthcare without chasing programs. Michelle explains why leadership has always been the real work, why diversity and retention are outcomes of good leadership rather than the goal, and the framework she uses to make sure no one falls through the cracks — the GAS Strategy. Who should watch this episode Michelle's perspective in this episode is great for: - Senior leaders trying to lower turnover and protect their best people - Managers who want a practical way to develop and support their teams - HR and people leaders building a culture that actually retains talent - Founders and emerging leaders who want to lead well before they have the title What you will learn: - Why "leadership has always been the work" — and how culture and retention become outcomes of it - What equity really means at work: "giving people what they need to succeed" without lowering the bar - The business case for pouring into people — and what you "pay for it in" when you don't (turnover, mediocre work, lost innovation) - The "scalability lie" — why empathy and good leadership scale the same way toxicity does: through your managers - The GAS Strategy and its four pillars: go deeper, take a stand, lead with love, and be the one - Why "fire leaders who refuse to lead" is Michelle's most important commandment - What real accountability looks like (ownership, not punishment) — and the "manager manifesto" behind it - The covert-contract trap: how unspoken expectations quietly sink your leaders Practical ideas you can use this week 1) Learn to speak your CFO's language — tie your people investments to retention and turnover numbers before you make the case. 2) Go one level deeper: when someone misses the mark, ask what's really behind the behavior instead of labeling it. 3) Write a one-page "manager manifesto" — a few clear sentences every manager is held to — and give them the tools to live it. 4) Say the expectation out loud. If it isn't spoken, no one can meet it. Question for you: Where is your culture actually built or broken — in your programs, or in how your frontline managers lead every day? Onward and Upward! ✅ If you got value from this episode, do these 3 things: 1) Like this video – It helps more people find these insights. 2) Subscribe – New leadership content every week! 3) Share this episode with a leader who needs to hear this! Exclusive Leadership Programs Want to take your leadership development to the next level? Book a discovery call: https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discovery How to reach Michelle Edwards: Website: https://michelleedwardsspeaks.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellekedwards Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelleedwardsspeaks/ Book — DEI Died. Leadership Lives: available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Ingram Sparks How to reach Jason LeDuc: Email: info@leducleadership.com Website: https://www.leducleadership.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-leduc-3469823/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leducleadership ️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

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  What to Do When Your Team Training Never Sticks – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures

  Aug 11, 20265 min

  Training that doesn't stick is not a bad-training problem. It is a follow-through problem. The money isn't wasted in the training room — it's wasted in the days after, when nobody reinforces what people learned. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down how to make team training actually stick — the debrief that turns a workshop into changed behavior. This episode is for leaders who want their team's training to actually change behavior — especially: - Leaders tired of watching training money evaporate by Monday - Managers whose teams forget new skills within days - Business owners investing in corporate training that never sticks - Team leads who want new habits to actually take hold What you will learn: - Why people forget up to 70% of new training within 24 hours — and what to do about it - The One-Behavior Rule: pick one change, not ten - The 48-Hour Rep: how to beat the forgetting curve with one real use - Teach-Back: why explaining it once beats hearing it five times - The Manager Follow-Up Loop: the single question that makes training real - How to make the behavior visible so it doesn't stay optional - Why you reward the behavior, not the attendance Practical ideas you can use this week 1) After your next training, name the ONE behavior you expect to see different on Monday. 2) Have every person use the new skill once, on a real task, within 48 hours. 3) In your next one-on-one, ask: "Where did you use the new approach this week?" 4) Call out the person who used the training and got a result — by name. Question for you: What's the one behavior you want different after your team's next training? If you got value from this episode, subscribe for more Leadership TTP content every week — practical tactics, techniques, and procedures you can use immediately. Onward and Upward! ✅ If you got value from this episode, do these 3 things: 1) Like this video – It helps more leaders find these ideas. 2) Subscribe – New leadership content every week! 3) Share this episode with a leader who's tired of watching training money evaporate. Exclusive Leadership Programs Take charge of your own leadership development with our online program: https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram Corporate Leadership Academy for Tech Managers: https://www.leducleadership.com/leadershipacademy Book a discovery call: https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discovery About Jason LeDuc: Jason LeDuc is a seasoned leader and esteemed leadership consultant, drawing from his extensive experience in the U.S. Air Force and beyond. With a passion for empowering individuals to unleash their full potential, Jason is committed to fostering a new generation of visionary leaders. Connect with Jason and embark on a journey of leadership enlightenment today! How to reach Jason LeDuc: Email: info@leducleadership.com Website: https://www.leducleadership.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-leduc-3469823/ ️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

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  Informed, Not Influenced — Kira Shishkin on Media Bias, News Minimalism, & Your Information Diet

  Aug 6, 202656 min

  Most people think they're informed. They're actually being influenced — and they can't tell the difference. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Kira Shishkin — founder and CEO of informed.now, the news-by-SMS service on a mission to put the power of facts back in your palm — to unpack the difference between being informed and being influenced, why sensationalism is a bigger sin than bias, and what a clean information diet looks like for a busy leader. Born in Ukraine, come of age in Israel, and now building in the US, Kira has watched misinformation raise the stakes in three very different societies — and he's built a company whose business model is designed, on purpose, to only ever answer to the reader. Who should watch this episode Kira's perspective in this episode is great for: - Leaders and executives who need to be informed fast, without drowning in commentary - Founders building a company where the business model has to match the mission - Anyone who feels burned out by the news and wants a saner way to stay informed What you will learn: - The real difference between being informed and being influenced — and how to feel when it's happening to you - Why over-sensationalizing a story is more corrosive than slanting it left or right - "The reader is left as a product, sold by her eyeballs to the advertiser" — how ad-driven incentives quietly shape what you read - What "attention terrorism" means: hijacking your attention with clickbait, then holding it hostage - Why a leader's information diet should be the least information needed to act with confidence — not the most Practical ideas you can use this week 1) Before you trust a story, ask: is this pointing me to a primary source, or just to another article? If there's no link to the original, treat it as commentary. 2) Look at the ad running next to what you're reading. It tells you who the outlet actually answers to — and that's not an accident. 3) Run an "attention audit": journal where your time and attention actually go for a week, then decide what you want to cut. 4) Borrow informed.now's writing standard for your team: straight to the point, every claim cited, hard figures compared to the prior period — no fluff. Question for you: Think about how you got informed this week — did you go looking for the facts, or did you mostly absorb what a favorite outlet told you to feel? Onward and Upward! ✅ If you got value from this episode, do these 3 things: 1) Like this video – It helps more people find these insights. 2) Subscribe – New leadership content every week! 3) Share this episode with a leader who needs to hear this! Exclusive Leadership Programs Want to take your leadership development to the next level? Take charge of your own leadership development with our online program: https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram ️ Leadership Academy for Tech Managers: https://www.leducleadership.com/leadershipacademy Book a discovery call: https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discovery How to reach Kira Shishkin: Website: https://informed.now LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirashishkin/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/informed.now/ How to reach Jason LeDuc: Email: info@leducleadership.com Website: https://www.leducleadership.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-leduc-3469823/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leducleadership ️ Stay informed without the noise: today's guest is behind informed.now — the news-by-text service I use every day and have partnered with. The day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

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  What to Do When You're Too Busy to Think Ahead – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures

  Aug 4, 20264 min

  You're not behind because you're not working hard enough. You're behind because you never get an hour to just think. The day fills up with fires and "got a sec?", and the big moves that would actually change your business keep getting pushed to "someday" — and someday never shows up on the calendar. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down five tactics (plus a bonus) for making time to think ahead — so the strategic work that actually moves your business stops getting lost in the tyranny of the immediate. This episode is for leaders who want to get out of firefighting mode and lead with strategic clarity — especially: - Leaders drowning in daily fires who never get an uninterrupted hour to think - Managers whose big-picture work keeps sliding to "someday" - Entrepreneurs juggling too many priorities to plan ahead - Executives who want to work on the business, not just in it What you will learn: - Why 96% of leaders say they don't have time for strategic thinking — and why that makes you normal, not broken (HBR) - How the "tyranny of the immediate" quietly eats every minute you have - How to book and protect a Weekly Strategy Hour - The 12-Month Question — and how to work backward from it to what this week must produce - The One In, One Out rule for solving a subtraction problem, not a time problem - The 10-10-10 Filter for separating real priorities from fake emergencies - How to turn thinking into a decision with a One-Sentence Bet - How a two-minute Pre-Mortem hands you your top three risks before they happen Practical ideas you can use this week 1) Book a one-hour Weekly Strategy Hour at the same time each week, phone in the other room — protect it like a customer meeting. 2) Ask "What has to be true 12 months from now?" then work backward to what this week has to produce. 3) Use One In, One Out: every time you say yes to something new, name the one thing you'll stop doing. 4) End your strategy hour with a one-sentence bet — "If we do X, then Y happens by this date" — and run a two-minute pre-mortem on it. Question for you: What's the one hour you're going to protect this week to think ahead? If you got value from this episode, subscribe for more Leadership TTP content every week — practical tactics, techniques, and procedures you can use immediately. Onward and Upward! ✅ If you got value from this episode, do these 3 things: 1) Like this video – It helps more leaders find these ideas. 2) Subscribe – New leadership content every week! 3) Share this episode with a leader who is drowning in the day-to-day and needs an hour to think. Exclusive Leadership Programs Take charge of your own leadership development with our online program: https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram Corporate Leadership Academy for Tech Managers: https://www.leducleadership.com/leadershipacademy Book a discovery call: https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discovery About Jason LeDuc: Jason LeDuc is a seasoned leader and esteemed leadership consultant, drawing from his extensive experience in the U.S. Air Force and beyond. With a passion for empowering individuals to unleash their full potential, Jason is committed to fostering a new generation of visionary leaders. Connect with Jason and embark on a journey of leadership enlightenment today! How to reach Jason LeDuc: Email: info@leducleadership.com Website: https://www.leducleadership.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-leduc-3469823/

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