975: Elevating Leadership through Radical Humility with Urs Koenig

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Jul 1, 2024

Former United Nations military peacekeeper Urs Koenig discusses radical humility in leadership, stressing the importance of seeking feedback and navigating tough conversations. He shares insights on creating trust, improving team dynamics, and the impact of humility on leadership. Koenig also highlights the significance of breath work and exercise for centering oneself, emphasizing psychological safety and discomfort for personal growth.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

Embracing Radical Humility in Peacekeeping Missions

01:51 • 8min

The Impact of Radical Humility on Leadership and Team Dynamics

10:07 • 11min

Navigating Difficult Conversations and Giving Feedback Effectively

21:24 • 2min

Emphasizing Breath Work and Exercise for Calming and Centering

23:41 • 2min

Emphasizing Psychological Safety and Radical Humility for Team Performance and Personal Growth

26:01 • 2min

Urs Koenig reveals how to level up your leadership through the five shifts of radical humility.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why leaders win more when they’re humble

2) Two tricks to getting better quality feedback

3) How to make any tough conversation less intimidating

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— ABOUT URS —

Urs is a former United Nations military peacekeeper and NATO military peacekeeping commander, a highly accomplished ultraendurance champion, a widely published professor, bestselling author, and a seasoned executive coach and keynote speaker with more than three decades of experience helping hundreds of leaders and dozens of executive teams unlock new levels of achievement across four continents.

He is the founder of the Radical Humility Leadership Institute and speaks frequently on the topic of leadership to corporations and associations across the globe. His message of Radical Humility in leadership has inspired teams from across the spectrum, including Amazon, Starbucks, the Society of Human Resource Management, Vistage, the University of Melbourne, and Microsoft.

He holds a PhD in geography and a Master of Science from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Urs is the loving father of two teenage boys who make commanding soldiers look easy. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

• Book: Radical Humility: Be a Badass Leader and a Good Human

• LinkedIn: Urs Koenig

• Website: UrsKoenig.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Anniversary Edition) by Alfred Lansing

• Book: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell

• Past episode: 707: Amy Edmondson on How to Build Thriving Teams with Psychological Safety

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