Level Up Your Leadership: 5 Essential Practices for Today’s Leaders
Leadership isn’t about titles or tenure, it’s about impact, it always has been. Whether you lead a team of two or two thousand, your effectiveness depends on how […]
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Author: Mike Phillips
Mike Phillips, is the Operator of Lead The Team, LLC. Mike is a personal and professional coach, a motivator and a sales performer. He is a business leader with over 25 years of sales, management, coaching, & leadership experience.
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Stop Reacting, Start Leading: How to Break Free from Fire Drill Leadership
It’s easy for leaders to get trapped in a perpetual cycle of firefighting and constantly reacting to urgent problems, jumping from one crisis to the next. This “fire-drill culture” might feel productive in the moment, but in reality, it erodes focus, damages morale, and keeps teams stuck in survival mode.
Finding Your Flight Path and Flow in Leadership
Great pilots don’t fly solo, and neither should great leaders. Bobby Dutton breaks down the mindset that’s made him successful in both the cockpit and the boardroom: preparation, presence, and people-first leadership. It’s about knowing your mission, watching your instruments (aka team health), and being ready to respond—not react—when turbulence hits.
Leadership That Gets Results: Turning Vision into Action
In leadership, inspiration is important—but results are essential. Many leaders can cast a vision, rally a team, and deliver an inspiring message. But real leadership success hinges on […]
Leadership Resilience: How to Stand Strong When Everything Shakes
In leadership, it’s not a question of if adversity will strike—it’s when. Whether you’re navigating organizational change, economic downturns, personal setbacks, or team breakdowns, the one trait that […]
Growing Your Influence
Growing Your Influence is important to your leadership success. Growing your influence requires a lot of effort, it requires a directed mind and deliberate action. You can accelerate […]
Power of Influence
“Leadership is influence” ~ John C Maxwell Influence is defined as the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something. I […]
Being a Coachable Leader
As leaders, we spend a lot of our time teaching and coaching the people around us to bring out the best in them. It is also essential for […]
Leading Out Of Faith
Fear is a constant, but so is faith. Fear of failure is a huge factor in the way we operate, especially in leadership. It’s a concern and a […]
Coaching in the moment
The best lessons are taught on the spot. Sometimes in leadership, we hold our thoughts, and “bite our tongues” with our staff or our peers. We do this […]