19 min
Key Skills for Leadership Today… with Henry Lopez FlowPreneur™ Unshakeable Leadership
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As a business leader today, what are the necessary key skills?
Given the context of extreme uncertainty, where must a leader focus? Tough decision making. Courage. Ensuring others shine. A leader grows and empowers those around them.
Henry Lopez is a Serial Entrepreneur, Small Business Coach & Consultant, and Host of The How of Business podcast show. He has over 35 years of diverse business experience, including successful careers in the information technology industry, sales, and sales training. He has been directly involved in over 11 different small businesses since purchasing his first business in 1991, And he is involved at every stage of launching, developing, buying, and selling.
What you will learn from this episode:
Find out one important capability a leader needs to have to run a business Learn what a leader should think and do to ensure everyone’s working together to help achieve common goals Learn how to build a business and lead others truly
“Leaders are the ones … to make those tough decisions.”
- Henry Lopez
Topics Covered:
02:00 - Looking from a small business perspective, what is one capability leaders need to develop?
03:00 - The important questions you need to ask yourself before going into business
04:17 - What does a leader do in moments of crisis
05:12 - What biggest mistakes business owners commit to running their business
06:22 - Why develop and empower your people
08:23 - What responsibility do you have as a leader of an organization?
10:04 - Two questions you need to ask your team in your weekly sales meeting
10:48 - Delegation worksheet as a systematic approach to delegation
11:51 - Steps on how to delegate effectively
13:55 - What holds people back on decision making?
15:14 - An embarrassment that we have to learn how to deal with as entrepreneurs
16:06 - The biggest thing that you're missing when you do away with a delegation and empowering others
Key Takeaways:
“It's not that I, by any stretch think I'm always making the right decisions; it's to have the courage to make a decision because that's often what we need.”
“What paralyzes people sometimes is they think, 'I have to have it perfect every time.' Or 'What if I make the wrong decision, and then what will people think about me?' Or 'What will that do to the business?' But that paralysis, otherwise, can kill your business.”
“Real leaders say to their teams, just by example, 'We're going to figure this out. We may not, but we're going as sure as heck give it a try. We're not just going to sit here idly and let it happen to us. We're going to try to impact the things that we can.' That's what a leader does in those moments of crisis.”
“A lot of times now, we have a virtual team, but trying to do it all yourself. That's not what a leader does. A leader empowers others to do so that everybody's working together to help us achieve our goals.”
“What I find is that people who aren't leaders think they have to do it all. That only they can do it right. They have to make the doughnuts every day, instead of empowering others to become great donut makers.”
“I think the biggest way you coach your people is by making sure that they have the systems and the tools to do their jobs.”
“The biggest thing that you're missing [the issue of delegation], besides the fact that you have to leverage others to grow is that you're missing out on the perspective that others bring to it that you would have never thought about. Everybody has a unique voice. So, you need perspective.”
Connect with Henry Lopez:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-lopez-9758524/ Website: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HenryLuvsBiz
As a business leader today, what are the necessary key skills?
Given the context of extreme uncertainty, where must a leader focus? Tough decision making. Courage. Ensuring others shine. A leader grows and empowers those around them.
Henry Lopez is a Serial Entrepreneur, Small Business Coach & Consultant, and Host of The How of Business podcast show. He has over 35 years of diverse business experience, including successful careers in the information technology industry, sales, and sales training. He has been directly involved in over 11 different small businesses since purchasing his first business in 1991, And he is involved at every stage of launching, developing, buying, and selling.
What you will learn from this episode:
Find out one important capability a leader needs to have to run a business Learn what a leader should think and do to ensure everyone’s working together to help achieve common goals Learn how to build a business and lead others truly
“Leaders are the ones … to make those tough decisions.”
- Henry Lopez
Topics Covered:
02:00 - Looking from a small business perspective, what is one capability leaders need to develop?
03:00 - The important questions you need to ask yourself before going into business
04:17 - What does a leader do in moments of crisis
05:12 - What biggest mistakes business owners commit to running their business
06:22 - Why develop and empower your people
08:23 - What responsibility do you have as a leader of an organization?
10:04 - Two questions you need to ask your team in your weekly sales meeting
10:48 - Delegation worksheet as a systematic approach to delegation
11:51 - Steps on how to delegate effectively
13:55 - What holds people back on decision making?
15:14 - An embarrassment that we have to learn how to deal with as entrepreneurs
16:06 - The biggest thing that you're missing when you do away with a delegation and empowering others
Key Takeaways:
“It's not that I, by any stretch think I'm always making the right decisions; it's to have the courage to make a decision because that's often what we need.”
“What paralyzes people sometimes is they think, 'I have to have it perfect every time.' Or 'What if I make the wrong decision, and then what will people think about me?' Or 'What will that do to the business?' But that paralysis, otherwise, can kill your business.”
“Real leaders say to their teams, just by example, 'We're going to figure this out. We may not, but we're going as sure as heck give it a try. We're not just going to sit here idly and let it happen to us. We're going to try to impact the things that we can.' That's what a leader does in those moments of crisis.”
“A lot of times now, we have a virtual team, but trying to do it all yourself. That's not what a leader does. A leader empowers others to do so that everybody's working together to help us achieve our goals.”
“What I find is that people who aren't leaders think they have to do it all. That only they can do it right. They have to make the doughnuts every day, instead of empowering others to become great donut makers.”
“I think the biggest way you coach your people is by making sure that they have the systems and the tools to do their jobs.”
“The biggest thing that you're missing [the issue of delegation], besides the fact that you have to leverage others to grow is that you're missing out on the perspective that others bring to it that you would have never thought about. Everybody has a unique voice. So, you need perspective.”
Connect with Henry Lopez:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-lopez-9758524/ Website: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HenryLuvsBiz
19 min