The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
602: The Learning Leader Team of Coaches - Sherri Coale, Brook Cupps, Geron Stokes, Eli Leiker - Helping Teams Be Elite and People To Be Excellent
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- "Have I ever mentioned how much I f'n love these Phase 2 calls?!? Free cocaine. Straight outta the Dope Factory." – Geron Stokes
- "Another thing that I found is an intense interest of the subject is indispensable if you are really going to excel. I could force myself to be fairly good in a lot of things, but I couldn't be really good in anything where I didn't have an intense interest." – Charlie Munger
- Our Team Values & Behaviors:
- Curious: practice invested listening
- Honest: give direct feedback
- Intentional: provide purposeful action
- What is our edge as a TEAM? Our purpose, our values, and our behaviors. We are ACTIVELY doing it.
- Raw and Simple: We cut through the noise and address the fundamental issues leaders face. Our straightforward approach helps teams confront what they're not doing and empowers them to take actionable steps toward improvement.
- In The Arena: We don't just talk about leadership principles—we live them. Every member of our team actively practices the strategies we coach, ensuring real-world insights and practical solutions.
- Take Risks: We're unafraid to push boundaries and challenge conventional thinking. We help leaders take bold actions, even if it means stepping out of their comfort zones or facing tough consequences.
- Love being on a team that "makes the water rise." We all are better for being together on the same team.
- Gratitude – You can't roll up your sleeves and clench your fists at the same time. Living with gratitude is about recognizing and appreciating what you have. This will change the lens in which you view the world. Geron (overheard from Coach Mike Gundy): "I can't believe they pay us to do this." It is so much fun working with this team and the reward is that we get to keep doing it. So grateful.
- The makeup of a great team… They are tough, they have fun together, they care about each other, and they have that gritty humility about them. "Humble enough to listen, gritty enough to apply."
- Our prep calls – The calls before the calls. We learn so much from our preparation together. It's an open forum to share ideas, disagree, talk through stories, and figure out how to make people better. Some of my favorite times.
- How to work with the employee who just won't fully buy-in. Be curious, not judgemental. Ask questions. LISTEN. Care. As Sherri said, "Nobody wants to sleepwalk through life." We need to figure out what makes them come alive and help them bring that to the team.
Before we get to the official start of this episode, I wanted to share a brief update about my learning leader business. We are in fact growing. There is a huge demand for leadership development services in the ethos of becoming a learning leader and so much so that I can not do it on my own. I don't wanna do it on my own. I wanna be surrounded by people who are quite frankly better than me at coaching and teaching. And so I am so lucky in the fact that I've gotten to hire the great Hall of Famer Sherry Cole, Brooke Cubs, Garren Stokes and Eli Lyker as the coaches and teachers on my learning leader team to go out into the world and help leadership teams become elite and help leaders become excellent. And that's what this conversation is all about is how we've been going all over the world helping leadership teams get better. And I just feel a huge sense of gratitude that I get to be surrounded on a daily basis by these amazing leaders people who have helped others become more effective, that maximize people. And if you have any interest in learning more about what we do, in addition to listening to this conversation, you can go to learningleader.com/team. That's learningleader.com/team. Okay, here we go. Awareness is such a key part of the leadership process. If you skip that, then everything else has nothing to root into. Is there anything better than chasing improvement for other people and helping them do something? There's nothing better. We're in that environment every day where our objective is to help people learn and grow. How does that relate to maximizing people? We help your coaches do something, help your family do something. Like there's no better feeling that it changed our programs. It changed us as coaches. Part of our edge is being an active in the arena coach. The people on the trenches know the most about the problem. They're facing the riddles that can't be solved. You have to have humility to get better. It's portrayed so much as weakness and softness. And I think it's the complete opposite of that. Welcome to the learningleader show, presented by Inside Global. I am your host, Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Text Hawk 266866 to become part of Mindful Monday.
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