Brandon Allen is a transformational leadership coach who helps leaders better connect with their teams and organize their lives.

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3 Value Bombs

1) Taking a more deliberate approach and slowing down to really understand what you are getting into and what is the problem that you are really trying to solve is a much faster way to success than simply just moving in whatever direction as quickly as you possibly can.

2) The first leadership philosophy is to recognize that everyone you work and come across with has value.

3) Take some time to really understand where you are and what you really want because when you do, it is much easier to move forward and it is more powerful because you are holding on and looking to something that is really meaningful and inspiring to you.

Show Notes

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Today’s Audio MASTERCLASS: Balancing Connection with Production in Leadership.

[1:13] – Brandon shares something that he believes about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

Action is not nearly as important as slowing down and understanding what it is that we are going to do. Taking a more deliberate approach and slowing down to really understand what you are getting into and what is the problem that you are really trying to solve is a much faster way to success than simply just moving in whatever direction as quickly as you possibly can.

[2:57] – Brandon talks about the 2 types of leaders at work when it comes to productivity.

Any organization or work setting has tyo types of leaders. There are relational people and there are taskers.
The relational person, which he is not, values the relationship over doing things. They are people who wants to connect with people in a deep meaningful way.
Taskers are those who values getting things done and checking things off the list. They don’t want people to get in their way of getting things done.

[4:27] – Brandon talks about the struggles of the connector.

Connectors struggle with getting things done, timelines and follow through.
This people get lost in relationship and they are mindful about their space, time that end up taken away from the absolute priorities of an organization.
Connectors have a tendency to please people and because of this they miss their priorities and the by product of this is they get stressed and resentful to the people around them thereby making it difficult to work with because of their lack of boundaries.

[6:35] – Brandon talks about the struggles of the tasker.

His first leadership assignment was in banking and finance when he was 25 years old. He is task, outcome and results driven person that people don’t feel respected and valued because he don’t lean to that relationship at work.
He also received a piece of advice from a VP right before he was promoted telling him not to be friends with his people and not to get too close to them. He was a tasker so for him it was a great advice. About 9 months in his career, his team’s performance was very mediocre, the energy in the office was poor and all he kept doin was to push harder and harder. The more he pushed, the farther his people get away from him and he was worried that he will get fired.
The lack of connection made his team not like him and they didn’t value what he was trying to bring into the table from a productivity standpoint.
People can avoid relationships and avoid people’s emotions when they are so buried in their tasks that they forget to recognizethe things that he should really be working on. We don’t see the big picture when we are too task oriented.

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[12:52] – Brandon talks about how to find the sweet spot between the two.

Getting to that sweet spot is identifying what kind of a leader do you want to be and what kind of a leader do you admire.
They have workshops and trainings to identify the leadership philosophy.
Recognize and acknowledge what is your strength and how to play with your strength and weaknesses because there are things that you are good at and you have also a dark side.
The first leadership philosophy is to recognize that everyone you work and come across with has value. If you are a tasker, you put the task over the person. In his philosophy, he has to remember that things are going on with people’s lives that he doesn’t know about , that there is a deeper story.
He quoted Proverb 20:5 “The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters. The one who has insight draws them out” . People have value and you need to reach in and understand and connect with that in a way that is not too intuitive.
A good mix of work hard and play hard is to identify the sweet spot and its different for everyone. It somewhere in the middle of connecting and tasking.
When you are a connector, your credibility is your currency as a leader. When you don’t have credibility with people, its hard to create influence.
If we want to be a powerful leader at work, we have to find that sweet spot between connecting and tasking if we want to empower people to do the work that we know that they can do and bring out the best in them and recognize when to push, to lean in and to connect.
He recommends to pay attention in identifying what is the sweet spot. Connecting and follow thorugh builds credibility for other people.

[17:50] – Brandon talks about what we should avoid when it comes to tasking or connecting.

We spend less time thinking about our being who we are as a leader.
We see only the façade but not seeing the person as a human being deep down and how he become such a person.
There is a reason why you are a tasker or a connector, and to get to the root of it is challenging.
Its important to notice if you avoind connecting or notice if you avoid tasking.
There is nothing to fix but just to notice what are the patterns and how it shows up and what happens when you avoid it. You have to start to observing.
What we do with change is to stop becoming our challenges.

[22:15] – Brandon gives his key takeway.

Every moment is an opportunity for us to do something different and there is a growth that comes with that. Regardless of where you are at, your life will end in some sort of destination.
The No. 1 question in coaching is “what do you want?” Most people don’t know the answer. You need to take some time to really understand where you are and what do you really want because when you do, it is much easier to move forward and more powerful because you are holding on and looking to something that is really meaningful and inspiring to you.

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