How to Lead for Team Empowerment with Dave McKeown

What’s the needed shift for leaders in today’s
business environment?


Traditional approaches revolved around ‘Acts
of Heroism’- a bias towards rescue and
solving issues to get things done fast. More
effective now, is ‘Operating in Moments
of Silence’. This empowers team members to
step up and solve problems on their
own, to become great leaders themselves. 


Results come when a leader holds each team
member accountable plus encourages their sense
of accomplishment. 


Dave McKeown helps individuals, teams, and
organizations achieve excellence by doing the ordinary things
extraordinarily well. He is the CEO of Outfield Leadership and
author of The Self-Evolved Leader - Elevate Your Focus and
Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down. His
specialty lies in connecting individual and team performance to
improve business results with a particular focus on fast-growing,
complex organizations. 


In this episode, Dave talks about how peer-to-peer leadership
develops their sense of worth, empowering them to find
solutions on their own and become effective leaders
themselves.  


 


What you will learn from this episode: 


Learn how to shift from a mindset of mediocrity to a mindset
of excellence 

Find out the key disciplines of great leadership  

Learn how to do ordinary things extraordinarily well so as to
become not just good but a great leader 



 


“I think that we have mythologized great leaders, often to the
point where we've got this message that says, 'You have to have
some great visionary perspective on life to be a great leader',
whereas actually being a great leader is all about doing those
ordinary things extraordinarily well.”  


- Dave McKeown 


 


Topics Covered: 


03:04 - How should leaders do ordinary things extraordinarily
well 


04:53 - Good leadership never happens by osmosis  


06:13 - Shifting from the cycle of mediocrity to a cycle of
excellence 


08:20 - Five key disciplines to help you achieve your goals 


11:10 - FREE resource - download the first chapter of the book
called Self-Evolve
Leader: https://www.selfevolvedleader.com/ 


11:45 - What’s the future of great leadership look like? 


13:36 - The curiosity, care, and compassion side of
leadership 





Key Takeaways: 


“There are plenty of good leaders out there. But in order to help
them become truly great, it's all about focusing on doing those
ordinary things extraordinarily well. So, getting 1% better
tomorrow, getting 1% better the next day, over a prolonged period
of time.”  


“For me, the shift from that cycle of mediocrity that we talked
about towards the cycle of excellence, which is where you're
really developing your people and thinking more strategically
like any other behavioral shift has to start with a mindset or a
perspective shift.”  


“Being a great leader is being a good delegator, but also
ensuring that your people are developing as a result of
that.” 


“Discipline is to build shared accountability in your team so
that it's not a top-down thing. Did you do this? Here are your
goals? Why are you not doing this? It's more a peer to peer sense
of, we're all working towards some common goals
here. So, let's find a way to hold each other
accountable.” 


 


Resources Mentioned: 


Get your FREE download of the first chapter of the book
entitled ‘The Self-Evolved Leader’. Click
here: https://www.selfevolvedleader.com/ 



 


Connect with Dave McKeown: 


Website: https://www.selfevolvedleader.com/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/davemckeown 

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

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemckeown/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davemckeown1/