Passing The Baton Leadership Podcast

Growing past mental obstacles is difficult. Listen in this week to learn how leaders can tap into their emotional itelligence and lead well even in trying times.

This week Zack encourages leaders on how they can help find clarity in the chaos when your people are driving you nuts!

Everybody loves music! There is so much we can learn from music and musicians about leadership. Zack has had a passion for music for years and has played in multiple bands, plays multiple instruments and for years has learned from musicians. He share's his knowledge and what he has learned.

Few things talk to us more, if we're willing to listen, than our body. So what leaderhsip lessons can we learn from this? Listen in and hear Zack help us understand what we can learn just living in our own skin.

We are the adults! That is what I'm sure you're thinking as you contemplate what we can learn about leadership through children. We are teaching them, shepherding them and shaping them to lead well in the next generation. However, in all that, we will miss some valuable lessons if we don't look closely.

This week we begin a new series called "Finding Leadership In..." and our first lesson uses the topic of Food. This was certainly a fun episode to record and we look forward to your feedback. We can find leadership moments in our day to day and we all eat daily, so lets take a look at how this may help your leadership.

We have been talking a good bit about customer retention and we continue that journey today with what it means to "Give Them More." In this current climate of Brick and Mortar VS. Online there is one major advantage to face to face interaction. So how do we give them more so people keep coming back? Listen here to find out.

How can you gain new business and retain current business? Learn to treat everyone like they are regulars. This sounds like such a simple thing to do but how do you get your entire team to adopt this philsopny? Listen here to find out.

So many organizations focus on growth and how to gain new customers while almost forgetting about retention. So, why is it so important focus on those who already do business with you? Listen here to find out.

For our 100th Episode, we have a special guest who helps us understand how to Turn Our Passion into Reality! So sit back, enjoy the show and help us celebrate this milestone!

The final installment of our "Be Series" involved a good amount a squirrel research and was inspired by the squirrel superhighway in Zack's backyard. So listen in and learn how you can grow in your leadership a "Be the Squirrel."

Here is week three of the "Be" series and we focus on how we must "Be the Bee." This is one you need to listen to as there are a number of great qualities that we can learn just by sitting back and watching nature.

Week 2 of the "Be Series" This week the focus is "Be The Detective." There is so much value in knowing how to investigate and sleuth out problems before they start or get to the bottom of something after it has begun. So listen in to learn how to Be the Detective and lead your people well.

This is the beginning of our "Be Series." It will be a short series on trying to "Be" like something. This week is weird, I know, Be The Copy Machine. Listen and hear what we mean by that statement and how this simple priciple can help you grow in excellende.

"Practice makes Perfect." That is a saying that most of us have heard multiple times ever since we were children. This week we discuss this important principle and search how to practically implement a plan to help better ourselves.

You can have the greatest strategy but still fall short as a leader if you don't have the right team. Today we talk about the importance of always hiring the best and give some strategies along the way to make sure that is exactly what you do.

When you think of carrying yourself as a professional, generally you think of appearance and that would be partially correct! Today we will help you discover how to carry yourself like a pro and how this will help you stand out for excellence!

Accepting Feedback can at times be a very difficult thing to do! However, Zack helps us to realize that maybe we have been looking at feedback all wrong and can approach it in a different way which yields a more positive outcome. Hope you enjoy this weeks show!

What are the basics and what is the best way to focus on them? This week we talk about the importance of kicking the year off right by resetting and making sure you're doing the basics well.

This is a follow up from last weeks podcast covering The Quality of Work Output. Last week we focused on the aspect of Quantity while thinking of quality vs. quantity. This week we focus on the Quality of our work and how it is possible to have great quality mixed with quantity.