Change Your Mindset

Matt Horan is a professional development consultant with experience in engineering, practicing law, the Navy and management. In this episode, he explores why we need to be teaching people leadership skills earlier, before they are leaders. He also offers, possibly for the first time ever in a podcast, a good definition for “adding value.” Some people naturally want to be leaders and some people are thrust into leadership, but it doesn’t matter which camp you fall under – everybody needs to learn how to be a good leader before they can actually lead effectively. If you have never had the opportunity to lead, where do you start? Self-awareness. It's understanding your own strengths, skills, priorities, values and expectations. “If you know yourself, then you can start to lead other people because to lead people you need to set expectations with those people.” Set goals based on what you want to achieve. Find a mentor, and don’t be afraid to ask someone to be your mentor. Matt rejects the notion of “fake it ‘t