On this episode Gavin is joined by Major General Robert W. Mixon Jr. a leadership expert who has honed that skill in his previous career in the U.S. Army.

He shares his six pillars of leadership insight as well as advice for taking charge and stay calm in situations where people are looking for clarity and certainty and how a daily self-audit can help with that.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The six principles of leadership are: 1. Set the azimuth – who are we, what do we do, why do we do it? 2. What is our intent? 3. Values. 4. What's our culture? 5. When in charge take charge. 6. Balance personal and professional.
• Do the right thing when none's looking, the senior leaders of Volkswagen were personally accountable for paying the company back over $350million because of their wrongdoing which damaged the company.
• Balance is not about hours or work/life. It's about your four energy levels; physical, spiritual emotional and mental.
• The opportunity and the changes in the world brought about by the pandemic should jolt us in terms of who we are and what we represent and whether we're walking the talk.
• One-to-one meetings are the most important meetings to your company, they must be planned for as such. Schedule, prepare for it, conduct it in a space that's effective to have it, ask thoughtful questions, listen to responses and take notes.

BEST MOMENTS

‘My Mom told me a thousand times; God gave you two ears and one mouth for a reason, are you listening with the intent to understand, or are you listening with the intent to reply?'

‘Listening leaders are, by far, more effective leaders.'

‘There's no reason for panic in the Big Six Model, you've built a team of people, you have an azimuth and a purpose, you can be the calm in the chaos and so can they.'

‘You can't manage time, time is finite. That leads you in the wrong direction in understanding what balance is.'

‘It takes a while, you're not going to move the needle in your own leadership model, or in those of others, or the culture and the ecosystem of your organisation without investment of your time and energy. You've got to expect a year or two for this to take shape.'

‘The most successful leaders I've seen in the last 18 months are those who focus on alignment and a common understanding of who we are, where are we going and what are we going to do to get there?'

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ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating the creative strategies to accelerate growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

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