LEADon Podcast

Podcast #10: LEADing the Generations from LEADon on Vimeo.

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In our tenth Podcast, Drs. Jared and Steve discuss the exciting possibilities that exist because of the various generations in today’s workplace. While the generation gap may seem daunting to some leaders, there are specific strategies LEADon suggests to not only bridge those gaps but also harness the strengths that each generation in your Corporate Family® has to offer. While there are many notable differences between generations that leaders need to be aware of, they can also learn skills that will help manage these differences and maximize team members’ potential in order to increase their organization’s productivity and profitability.

Social scientists have been studying the unique characteristics of generational differences and have even categorized them into specific groups dating back to the founding of the United States. More recently, researchers have studied and written about the impact that Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have on society as well as in the workplace. Add to these three generational groups the current “Homeland Generation” (those born after 9/11 who are still in school or are just preparing to enter the workforce), and you can understand why it is critical for leaders to learn how to interact effectively with these populations of current and future employees.

Discover how to work with the different perspectives, cultures, interests,
and problem-solving capabilities of the generations that comprise your
Corporate Family by watching this podcast. In addition, find out how you
can create harmony in your organization despite generational differences
by becoming a “cultural translator.

Podcast #09: High Performance Team from LEADon on Vimeo.

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Welcome to Episode 9 of our video blog series! In this podcast, Drs. Jared and Steve discuss how you can assist your Corporate Family® members in becoming high-performing in all aspects of their roles and responsibilities. Like many parts of leadership, setting the bar of “high performance” must begin at the top—so leaders must first role model attributes that they want employees to exhibit. Those in leadership must also be intentional in their efforts to equip all team members with the skills necessary to achieve at the highest level possible.

There are three essential aspects leaders must understand if they hope to have high-performance teams in their Corporate Family. The first step involves “fielding” —in other words, seeking and hiring the right individuals to join your Corporate Family in the first place. The second step includes the development of the teams that are part of your organization. This entails equipping employees with the skills necessary to successfully fulfill their roles and responsibilities. Finally, all teams must be maintained over time. This requires leaders to continually strive to educate, equip, evaluate, and offer feedback to employees so that everyone can maintain highperformance status.

Learn how these three aspects of creating High-Performance Teams— fielding, developing, and maintaining—can be integrated into your Corporate Family. Also, discover ideas about how to utilize cascading and mentoring so you will not only keep pace with but also out-perform your competitors because of the high-performers who comprise your Corporate

Podcast #08:Leadership Is Influence: Mentoring, Protégés and Cascading from LEADon on Vimeo.

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In Episode 8 of our podcast series, Drs. Steve and Jared discuss the relationship between influence and leadership, and the importance of mentors and their protégés. In addition, they share how developing these essential relationships can help you cascade leadership skill sets
throughout your entire Corporate Family®. It’s important to understand the value that a mentor/protégé relationship can have on your organization as a leader (mentor) passes on skills and equips up-and-coming team members (protégés).

LEADon also encourages cascading, which is a leadership technique used to apply mentoring to a large group of next generation leaders. Cascading is a vital, cost-effective way to develop and maintain benchmarks and principles in any organization. This podcast will help you understand what makes a good mentor and how Corporate Family, EQ and your company’s culture are impacted by a cascading approach to mentorship.

If one views Corporate Family as an integrated system, mentoring would be similar to the hardware of the system, whereas cascading would be the software, and the protégé would represent the end user. With that in mind, this podcast will also weave the F.A.T. concept into your understanding of this integrated system—that is, what it means to be Faithful, Available and Teachable. Watch to see how Drs. Steve and Jared help you apply the mentor, protégé, and cascading approaches to your Corporate Family so you can maximize the potential of current and future leadership.

Podcast #07: Accountability from LEADon on Vimeo.

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In our seventh Podcast, Drs. Steve and Jared talk about one of the most critical aspects of the LEADon approach: accountability. Some people have a difficult time with the concept of real accountability, but it is actually the glue that can hold individuals, teams, and the entire Corporate Family® together.

While establishing vision and mission statements are important, as is creating core values for the Corporate Family, all of these will only be effective if they are understood and upheld. Too many boards and C-level leaders are incapable of reciting their own core values or mission statements. In addition, while many of these are posted on walls around the business, few employees really know or follow them. Accountability changes this because everyone from the receptionist to the CEO must know their company’s core principles—and they must also hold each other responsible for maintaining those agreed-upon standards.

Learn why benchmarks provide crucial “straight lines” for all employees to follow, and how establishing the practice of accountability can dramatically impact leadership at every level of your organization. Discover why accountability must start at the top, and then it can be cascaded throughout your entire company. Accountability will require commitment, which is another essential aspect of healthy relationships and corporate culture. No one is above accountability, and anyone who believes they are should have no place in your Corporate Family.

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Why is it, with 7 billion people and increased intellectual and technological abilities, that we are still facing so many problems around the globe? In a world with more educated individuals than ever, with more training and specialization, we still deal with tremendous difficulties—especially in regards to interpersonal relationships. In this podcast, Drs. Steve and Jared discuss alignment and attunement—and the positive impact both of these concepts can have in your Corporate Family®.

Alignment and attunement are two specific strategies that will help you improve your organization’s culture and allow team members to interact and achieve at optimal levels. Aligning means intellectually agreeing to a goal, plan, or other business need, while attunement is emotional buy-in to that agreement. Both terms involve the ability to adapt, adjust, and achieve goals in any business climate.

As Dr. Steve and Dr. Jared point out, only 15% of initiatives are actually accepted by boards or management. Alignment and attunement will not only be helpful in increasing the number of initiatives but also in achieving the results necessary for them to succeed. Learn how you can strive for both alignment and attunement in your organization, and discover the connection these concepts have with Emotional Quotient (EQ) as discussed in prior podcasts. See why aligned teams are good, but both alignment and attunement will actually improve corporate culture and allow you to exceed your business goals.

LEADon Podcast 5: Corporate Family Covenant from LEADon on Vimeo.

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In our fifth Podcast, Drs. Jared and Steve discuss the Corporate Family® Covenant, an essential approach any business can implement to increase opportunities for success. Building on the concept of Corporate Family, they share how this covenantal model links your corporate culture, business strategies, and team members’ relational quotient in order to achieve maximum productivity and profitability.
So what is the Corporate Family Covenant? LEADon believes that establishing foundational principles for all team members is critical. These principles should be developed in a “covenant” rather than a contract format because covenantal agreements involve all parties intellectually and relationally committing to agreed-upon guidelines. The ten fundamental principles LEADon recommends can stand the test of time, and they require mutual accountability between all Corporate Family members.
Learn more about how the Corporate Family Covenant can help you strengthen your company’s core values and achieve the goals of your business plan. This podcast will also assist you in understanding how a Corporate Family will only achieve success when everyone is committed to the core principles that have been predetermined and agreed upon by all team members.

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In this podcast, Dr. Steve and Dr. Jared discuss the concept of Corporate Family®—and how to know whether or not your business functions like a healthy Corporate Family should. Corporate Family is a unique paradigm for understanding and improving the culture of any organization. By using this distinctive LEADon approach, problems such as generational gaps, sibling rivalry, and interpersonal conflict can be readily addressed. Corporate Family dynamics are extremely complex because they involve the blessings and baggage each employee brings from their own personal Family of Origin and Family of Procreation.

Since anyone who is employed in a company is a member of a Corporate Family, it’s vital to understand how roles and responsibilities can be affected by these familial dynamics—especially since most of your waking hours during the week are spent with people in your vocational life rather than in your personal life. Great relationships with fellow Corporate Family members are possible, and your entire corporate culture can improve when team members begin to interact in healthy, productive ways.

Watch this podcast to learn how the Corporate Family approach can affect productivity, business function, operations, and overall success. Discover how a ten-question survey will assist you in determining the health and well-being of your Corporate Family, and how the three pillars of EQ, corporate culture and leadership skills are foundational to your organization’s ability to achieve the goals of your business plan.

LEADon Podcast 3 BL Impact v1 from LEADon on Vimeo.
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In today’s podcast, Drs. Steve and Jared talk about corporate culture’s bottom line impact. If you’ve ever wondered whether or not your corporate culture could really influence productivity and profitability, then you should definitely watch this podcast!

Consider exceptional companies like Apple, Disney and Google—all businesses known for their unique corporate culture. In order to experience success, corporate culture has to be intentionally defined and cascaded throughout the entire organization.  Culture isn’t a marketing tactic; instead, it’s the thread that ties a company’s mission, vision, and goals together. Too many Corporate Family® members can’t remember their own organization’s core values—even when they are posted throughout the building! Core values have to be more than wall art if they’re going to impact overall success. Learn about the importance of following your mutually-agreed upon core values with a focus on accountability.

The core elements of culture are values, beliefs and actions. Values are like a line in the sand. They represent principles and standards for which individuals are willing to fight to uphold. Beliefs are the ideals people hold as truths about themselves, each other, and the entire organization. Actions are what you do to back up your values and beliefs, and these outward behaviors are the visible representation of your company’s corporate culture—to clients as well as to competitors.

As you treat your employees, so you will treat your customers. That’s why it is imperative to understand the core elements of culture so you can dramatically improve your corporate culture in the days ahead and positively impact your company’s bottom line.

LEADon Podcast 2 IQ EQ RQ v1 from LEADon on Vimeo.
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In this podcast, Drs. Steve and Jared cover three important concepts about learning, performance, and success. These are IQ (Intelligence Quotient), EQ (Emotional Quotient), and RQ (Relationship Quotient). Where IQ is a static measure of potential, the “raw horsepower” of your capabilities include both EQ and RQ. These two “Q’s” are more people-centric and allow you to optimize your IQ in new, powerful ways.

Drs. Jared and Steve discuss the pre-WWI military origins of IQ and how it is sometimes exaggerated as a measure of overall success in life. EQ, developed during the 1980s by Howard Gardner, represents an intuitive way of understanding and processing information. EQ is malleable and can change with time and circumstances, allowing you to transform weaknesses into strengths.

RQ is a more recent focus in the research for exploring human potential, and it actually plays the biggest role in improving education and learning. Relationships are vital to the way we acquire and use information, and these interpersonal interactions directly interrelate with the effectiveness of EQ. For instance, research reveals that eighty-five percent of the difference between average and peak performance can be linked to individuals’ EQ and RQ aptitudes.

Learn how both professional and personal success rely on two fundamental truths.  First, relationships are the center of every person’s universe—nothing we do matters without these interpersonal connections. Second, relational equity is the most important asset you’ll ever have.

LEADon Podcast 01 Intro v1 (1) from LEADon on Vimeo.

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Learn From some of the best in Clinical Psychology

In this podcast Dr. Jared and Dr. Steve give an overview of LEADon, LEADon University, and their unique approach to many of today’s leadership dilemmas.   The Wilkes’ expertise in identifying leadership problems and equipping leaders with the tools necessary to achieve individual and organizational success has been proven over two decades of work with a wide-variety of companies, both nationally and internationally.

Learn more about the distinctive LEADon method and how its 25-year history of vetting and improving leadership strategies has assisted executives and their teams in increasing the quality of their professional lives. Drs. Jared and Steve talk about the mission and vision of LEADon and how accountability plays an essential role in their approach.  You will discover how you can implement LEADon skill sets to not only develop individual leaders and high performance teams but to also create your own organizational dynasty. In addition, hear how the LEADon experience made a natural evolution to LEADon University, offering their proven principle-based leadership skills in a dynamic, online learning format.

As Doctors of Psychology and Clinical Psychology, Jared and Steve are passionate about people and about improving the quality of their personal and professional lives. They firmly believe that the solution to any problem must begin internally first—addressing individual strengths and weaknesses and improving leadership skill sets that will be transcendent over time. Then leaders can take the next steps necessary to cascade these exceptional skills to their teams and throughout their entire company.  Check out our introductory video—and then peruse the other vlogs and podcasts we have available in order to build a better organization and a better you!