No Bullsh!t Leadership

We asked 800 leaders one question. What's actually hard about leadership right now?

The answers were so good we decided to answer them live. No prep. No script. Em fires the questions, and I get two minutes on each.

These are real questions from real leaders in our free Skool community, the No Bullsh!t Leadership Hub (https://www.skool.com/nblh).

16 questions, 16 answers. And every one of them comes back to the same thing: whether your team can perform without you.

If your team faced a major challenge today and you weren't available, would they solve it? If the answer is "no", the issue might not be their capability. It might be your lack of leadership.

Every time you step in, you rob them of a rep they needed.

In this episode:

1. Are we building resilient teams, or creating dependence by stepping in too quickly?
2. I've gone from leading 14 people to 70. How do I let go of work I think I need to control?
3. Doing the task myself tells me if the workload griping is fair. Or am I rationalising dipping down?
4. My utilisation target is 92%. How do I defend leadership time in a billable hours culture?
5. Even when I'm on leave, I clear emails out of guilt. How do you actually switch off?
6. If you stepped away for a week, would your team respond effectively, or fail?
7. My team says green, then it's suddenly amber. How do I assess progress without micromanaging?
8. We've slipped from action takers to explainers and complainers. How do I reset this?
9. I was promoted from within. How do I set expectations with people who are my friends?
10. One of my leaders has micromanaged staff out the door for four years. Can someone like that change?
11. I had to let a new hire go and it took an emotional toll on me. Does this ever get easier?
12. An employee used company systems for personal gain. The investigation will take months. What now?
13. We had a death at work. What can I actually do to help my people through it?
14. Do I push my team to use AI now, or wait for the tools to mature?
15. Four weeks acting up. Does that deserve a pay bump, or is the opportunity enough?
16. They hired an external into a role I'd been acting in. That person failed, so they've asked me to fill in again. Recognised or used?

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EPISODES REFERENCED:

Ep.411: Stop Rescuing Underperformers
https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode411

Ep.374: The Biggest Killer of Empowerment
https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode374

Ep.351: 5 Rules for Leading Without Over-Functioning
https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode351

Ep.264: Controlling Without Micromanaging
https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode264

Ep.65: How Do You Make Someone Change?
https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode65

Ep.13: Managing Up and Not Over-Functioning
https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode13

Ep.2: Building a High Performing Team
https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode2

MOMENT REFERENCED:

Moment 187: How to Lead People Who Are Your Old Mates
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ilsk2Zxs7CexSfzGAAkcU

Leadership Beyond the Theory
https://www.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com

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FREE WORKSHOP: STOP RESCUING YOUR UNDERPERFORMERS
Friday 28th August, 12 to 2pm AEST.

Two hours, free. We walk through all seven leadership blind spots, you score yourself, and you leave with your Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard.

REGISTER HERE:
https://workshop.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com

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Every question came from our free No Bullsh!t Leadership Hub on Skool. Want yours answered on a future episode? Em's in there every single day.

JOIN THE HUB HERE:
https://www.skool.com/nblh

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally.
You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

Join the next cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/
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Being promoted to a new leadership level is a difficult transition to make. But it’s even tougher when you’re promoted to lead the team you used to be part of.

The biggest trap is that you might take the culture, the capability, and the performance of that team for granted.

This Moment gives you some ways to combat your status quo thinking, and set the scene for meaningful performance improvement.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can change the paradigm when you have to lead your old team mates, have a listen to Ep.269: Performing After Promotion.

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🚨 Every time you rescue an underperformer, you teach them that delivery is optional.

Free 2-hour workshop, Friday 28 August, 12pm AEST: the 7 leadership blind spots that created them, plus your own Blind Spot Scorecard!

REGISTER HERE 🚨

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Website: https://www.yourceomentor.com

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally.
You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

Join the next cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every time you fill a vacancy, you have to make a choice: do you promote someone from within, who you may know quite well, or take a punt on someone you don’t?

Over my corporate career, I made both calls frequently. Sometimes, I got to pat myself on the back for how brilliant I was, but occasionally the resulting hire was so disastrous that I looked like a complete muppet in front of my team (and my boss)!

Most leaders have no real way of determining who might be ready for promotion… it’s all guesswork and gut feel. They rely on factors like a confident interview performance, a firm handshake, or a sharp dress sense… and then they’re completely mystified when it doesn't work out.

In this episode, I show you how to tell the difference between someone who's performing well now, and someone who’s ready for more; and I give you a checklist to work out which leaders might be able to function at the next level up, and which leaders never will.

🚨 Every time you rescue an underperformer, you teach them that delivery is optional.

Free 2-hour workshop, Friday 28 August, 12pm AEST: the 7 leadership blind spots that created them, plus your own Blind Spot Scorecard!

REGISTER HERE 🚨

Links mentioned in this episode:

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:
Ep.231: Talent Management
Ep.25: The Roadmap to Exceptional Leadership
Ep.386: The Truth Doesn’t Travel Up

Business Insider article:
Chipotle's COO uses team dinners to spot potential leaders

Carnegie Melon research:
When Does Beauty Pay?

Amazon link:
Blink

LBT link:
Leadership Beyond the Theory

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You can connect with me at:

Website: https://www.yourceomentor.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentor

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentor

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally.
You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

Join the next cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are three costs of leadership that nobody tells you about when you get promoted; and they are a given.

You can no more change them than you can avoid the pull of gravity.

The best leaders accept these truths. They do the work to become comfortable in navigating them each day, knowing they are strong enough to pay that price.

If you want to take a deeper dive into the toll that great leaders are prepared to pay, have a listen to Ep.385: Paying the Price of Leadership

Link to Kirby Smart YouTube Video

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You can connect with me at:

Website: https://www.yourceomentor.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentor

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentor

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally.

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

Join the next cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When leaders are unhappy at work, they often blame the company. But more often it’s a sign of dissatisfaction with their own inability to work within the constraints of the job.

No job is perfect. Every role comes with constraints: things that stop you from operating at your best.

Whether it’s a bad boss, a lack of resources, or unrealistic expectations, the question isn't whether your job has constraints: it's whether or not you can live with them.

If you don’t proactively manage the constraints then, over time, you might not like who you have to become to function in your role.

In this episode, I reveal the difference between genuine constraints and the artificial constraints; I explore the symptoms of unhappiness at work; and I give you three critical mindset shifts that will pull your focus off the daily grind and onto the long game, and get back to peak performance.

Links mentioned in this episode:

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:
Ep.361: The Hidden Cost of Creeping Frustration

LBT link:
Leadership Beyond the Theory

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You can connect with me at:

Website: https://www.yourceomentor.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentor

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentor

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally.
You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

Join the next cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.