Chris Locurto: Entrepreneur, Leadership Coach, Life Strategy, Blogger

How do you use money to motivate your team? On today's podcast we're talking about profit sharing, here's what you'll discover:* How to implement a profit-sharing plan* The 2 key questions to determine your profit sharing plan* When to do profit sharing* A Profit Sharing Matrixhttps://chrislocurto.com/how-to-implement-a-profit-sharing-plan/

What is victim mentality? What does it look like? Why are people victims? Can you unlearn it? What are the steps to stop being a victim?We cover all of those questions in today's episode.https://chrislocurto.com/what-makes-us-powerless-and-how-to-stop-victim-mentality/

Part 3 is here!! We shy away from our weaknesses, but one of the most important parts of being a strong leader, is understanding and overcoming our weaknesses. Learn the 7 Enemies Of Your Leadership Success.https://chrislocurto.com/7-enemies-of-your-leadership-success-episode-3/

We shy away from our weaknesses, but one of the most important parts of being a strong leader, is understanding and overcoming our weaknesses. Learn the 7 Enemies Of Your Leadership Success.https://chrislocurto.com/7-enemies-of-your-leadership-success-2/

We shy away from our weaknesses, but one of the most important parts of being a strong leader is understand and overcoming our weakness. Learn the 7 Enemies Of Your Leadership Success.http://bit.ly/2I6vNKz

To lead well, you can't be bogged down in tasks! But a lot can hold you back from getting those tasks off your plate...Learn where successful leaders spend their time.

I took our VIP attendees' questions LIVE at Next-Level Leadership Live Event this past week... What. Phenomenal. Questions.Listen to their questions and my answers!

You cannot be a quality leader if you are not constantly pouring into yourself.Daily personal growth is tough when you own a business, or you're a leader.For this Q&A we dive into this question:"How do I manage my time so I can have the right balance of own professional development, along with time spent managing team and hospital and figuring everything else out...?"Here's how to determine where and how you spend your time in personal growth, what a weekly focus on leadership growth looks like, and what I always recommend for personal growth.

Do you ever find yourself... *Feeling like crap about yourself? *Feeling rejected? *Feeling not smart enough? *Making poor decisions you know you shouldn’t? *Responding in defensiveness or anger? *Upset or hurt by your spouse or close friend and blaming them?How do we get to that place?So often we feel rejected, not good enough, stupid, wronged…but are we really?Here's how to break the self sabotage spiral.Resources and FREE Webinar in show notes here:https://chrislocurto.com/how-to-break-the-self-sabotage-spiral/

How are you inspiring your team on a weekly basis?You have to have an inspired team. If your team is not inspired they are not productive. What do you get when you have an inspired team? What happens when you spend time focusing on inspiring your team? You get more than productivity....Here are 5 unconventional ways to inspire your team and get buy-in.https://chrislocurto.com/unconventional-w…r-team-this-week/

Proper delegation, knowing when to let your team struggle, and the right meetings...Here's what you'll discover on this episode:* The Proper Delegation we aren't taught* Details of Proper Delegation that equip your team* When to let your team struggle...* The meeting that builds culture* How to go from a lack of communication to high-levels of quality communication* How to successfully lead a team under 10 team members...https://chrislocurto.com/details-of-proper-delegation-when-to-let-your-team-struggle-meetings-for-solid-communication/

One of the most important parts of being a strong leader is knowing your weaknesses.So today, we’re talking about the 5 most common ways leaders deceive themselves. This is not a comprehensive list, it’s the 5 most common I’ve seen in my leadership and coaching career.Here are the 5 most common ways leaders deceive themselves: https://chrislocurto.com/the-5-most-common-ways-leaders-deceive-themselves/

Next week I’m going to take 4 days and guide a leadership team through a StratPlan. Today we’re talking about what makes the companies that come through this event so successful.https://chrislocurto.com/how-to-identify-whats-holding-your-business-back/Here's what you'll discover on today's episode:* How our Western cultural mindset holds us back* Signs you're not gaining perspective* How to tax the collective intelligence* How Eastern cultures solve problems * Leadership assumptions that keep us from good decision-making

Today, we’re going to talk about how to handle mistakes in leadership.Failure is inevitable. You’re going to fail! And the great thing is, it’s absostinkinlutely ok!In Next-Level Life, StratPlan, and coaching, the fear of failure is one of the biggest issues I see with so many clients. It’s my belief that most of our population is afraid of failing.In StrengsFinder 2.0, Tom Rath talks about how most parents, when seeing their child’s report card of all A’s and one D, would totally focus on the D.Why?Because we aren’t okay with failures, we struggle with failure.In other words, if their child was an incredibly talented artist but was struggling in english, instead of pushing toward their talent, they would focus more on the weakness.That is beyond ridiculous! Failure is one of the greatest teachers for the person who’s able to receive it. Without it, we have to trust that we KNOW everything to be successful in every situation. The truth is, we don’t!That’s an example with kids...but what do we do as adults and

On today's #AskChris episode, discover:How to handle giving raisesWhy you should get rid of "annual evaluations"The traps of small business accountingThe line between people-pleasing and solving problemshttps://chrislocurto.com/ask-chris-small-business-accounting-giving-raises-and-people-pleasing/

Do you accept communication the way it is on your team, or do you lead the communication your team needs?A lack of high levels of quality communication is the #1 issue I see that holds back businesses and teams from greater unity and growth.Here's why.We all bring to the table our habits, training, and personality styles.As a leader, and a team member, it's critical to commit yourself to mastering communication, and then lead it through modeling, teaching, and accountability.Here are 7 ways to have higher levels of quality communication on your team. https://chrislocurto.com/the-7-steps-to-fix-common-leadership-communication-blunders/

Today we're talking about how to get better results, and life change. There's no magic pill.https://chrislocurto.com/inside-next-level-life-why-youre-not-where-you-want-to-be/

Do you work for a bad leader? Are you a bad leader?Bad leaders get half the effort of their team. Show notes here >> https://chrislocurto.com/what-your-leadership-should-be-and-what-it-should-not-be/This is such an important topic right now. There is criticism flying around, different definitions, and people take to all kinds of social media to talk about their leadership complaints.The government shutdown last week has added even more fuel to the fire of questioning leadership.There are many misconceptions about what it means to be a leader...On the podcast we're talking about what leadership is NOT and what it is.Are you acting on the 5 poor leadership beliefs?Are you aligned with the 11 principles of phenomenal leadership?https://chrislocurto.com/what-your-leadership-should-be-and-what-it-should-not-be/

This episode is for leaders and business owners, presidents, entrepreneurs, and top-level leaders.chrislocurto.com/inside-stratplan…-leadership-roi/Here's what you'll discover:*How "rinse and repeat" sabotages your business*Why you can't see all the things holding you back in business*How a marketing firm followed a StratPlan and landed on Inc.'s "fasting growing companies in the US"*When fear hides itself in business decision-making*Closing the gap between what you don't know and what you need to know*How to transform leadership meetings to create solutions*Servicing clients to increase their investment*Why leaders need to be surrounded by like-minded people*Why "go-do" doesn't work for your team

This is definitely NOT about New Year's Resolutions. This is about business and leadership goals. There's probably a much easier way than what you're doing...Today I want to give you a framework to set your 2018 business goals.Go here for the 5-step framework: https://chrislocurto.com/the-5-step-framework-to-setting-successful-business-goals/Here's what you'll discover on the episode:* Separating the goal setting "crap" from the goal setting gold* How to implement the 5-step framework for business and leadership goal setting* The main thing that causes leaders to fail in goal setting* 5-step framework for goal setting