The Passion Expert: How To Use Intrinsic Motivation & The Four Pillars of Purpose To Become A Better Leader | John Miles
Feb 26, 2024
auto_awesome
Best-selling author John Miles shares strategies for cultivating purpose and potential in leadership. Topics include handling toxic influences with compassion, using the Passion Struck model's four pillars, emotional intelligence, anxiety management for peak performance, and differences between gardener and servant leadership.
Resolve workplace conflicts with compassion, not defensiveness, to handle toxic influences effectively.
Adopt both-and mentality for perspective harnessing, integrating opposing viewpoints for enhanced decision-making.
Embrace gardener leadership by nurturing team members' potential with autonomy and resources for growth.
Deep dives
Identifying Invisible Influences in Life: The Mosquito Metaphor
In this episode, the metaphor of mosquitoes is used to highlight the presence of invisible influences in our lives that can divert us from our desired paths. By categorizing these influences as blood suckers, invisible suffocators, and petas, the importance of recognizing and addressing such negative forces is emphasized. The comparison to mosquitoes underscores the often unnoticed yet impactful aspects of relationships or activities that hinder personal growth and success.
The Art of Perspective Harnessing: Balancing Duality in Thinking
The concept of perspective harnessing, akin to paradoxical thinking, is explored in this episode. By encouraging individuals to adopt a both-and mentality instead of an either-or approach, the episode delves into the benefits of integrating seemingly opposing perspectives. Examples such as the paradox of tolerance and failure are used to illustrate the power of leveraging contrasting viewpoints for enhanced decision-making and personal growth.
Optimizing Anxiety for Peak Performance: The Idea Optimizer Shift
The idea optimizer behavior shift delves into the management of anxiety for improved performance. Drawing insights from research on optimal anxiety levels in executives, the episode stresses the importance of striking a balance between fear and calmness. Techniques like breath control and task pacing are recommended to achieve peak performance by harnessing anxiety effectively.
Nurturing Growth Through Gardening Leadership: The Gardener Leader Approach
The concept of gardener leadership is introduced as a nurturing approach to cultivating team members' potential. Contrasted with servant leadership, the gardener leader focuses on long-term growth by providing resources and autonomy for team development. The need for a hands-off but informed leadership style, exemplified by leaders like General Stan McChrystal, emphasizes nurturing team capabilities and fostering autonomy.
Navigating Career Transitions with the Five Transition Points: An Overview
The podcast concludes by introducing the five transition points essential for personal and professional growth. These transitions are significant milestones in the journey toward becoming a passion-struck individual. Encouraging listeners to embark on this transformative path, the episode prompts reflection on the identified transition points and the strategies needed to navigate through them effectively.
Do you know how to handle toxic influences in your workplace? Conflict can oftentimes be resolved with compassion rather than defensiveness. Today I am joined by John Miles, best-selling author of “Passion Struck” and host of the Passion Struck Podcast. In this episode John will be sharing frameworks and strategies for cultivating purpose and potential in yourself and your teams through mindful shifts in mindsets and leadership approaches. You will learn how to harness purpose-driven living, applied to your career development. The model centers around four pillars - mindset shifts, behavior shifts, deliberate action, and intrinsic motivation.
________________
Start your day with the world’s top leaders by joining thousands of others at Great Leadership on Substack. Just enter your email: https://greatleadership.substack.com/
Get the Snipd podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share & Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode