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The People Gardener Podcast with Rhonda Delaney
The People Gardener Podcast with Rhonda Delaney
Transformative Leadership: The Power of Prioritizing Others' Interests
How can placing others' interests first transform your leadership style? On this episode of the People Gardener podcast, we explore this powerful question through the lens of Bob Berg's book, "The Go-Giver." As we dissect the law of influence, you'll gain practical insights into how prioritizing your team's needs can lead to stronger relationships and a more supportive, high-functioning workplace. We'll also cover strategies for identifying and eliminating obstacles that hinder your team's productivity and satisfaction, ultimately cultivating a dedicated and effective team.
As we wrap up our discussions, I'll share how you can stay connected with a community dedicated to leadership development. Learn more about the exclusive resources available through the Raving Fans Society app, including a comprehensive library, monthly group coaching, and quarterly expert guest speakers—all designed to enhance your leadership skills. Whether you're a small business owner, a new leader, or simply passionate about personal growth, this episode offers valuable takeaways to help you thrive in your leadership journey. Don't miss out on these resources—sign up for my email list at rondadelaney.com to stay updated on the latest in people, gardening, and leadership.
Well, hey there, welcome to the People Gardener podcast. I'm Rhonda Delaney, your host, also known as the People Gardener, thrilled to put this podcast together to help small business owners, new business owners, frustrated business owners and aspiring leaders, whether they're inside business or outside. Each week, we bring you some actionable steps so that you can actually improve your skill as a leader. That's what we're about. We're here to help you become a better leader by giving you access to lots of different perspectives. By giving you access to lots of different perspectives, the guests are varied. We're thrilled to have them. Get out your pen, get out your paper and be ready to learn Every single episode. You're going to be able to take something away that you can implement. Are you ready? Let's get to work. Hi there, welcome back to the People Gardener podcast. Happy to have you here today.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm sure, most of you you have bookshelves. You have books that you've read and you reread. One that I have gone back to this last week is the Go-Giver, and Bob Berg absolutely recommend it. He's got the five laws of stratospheric success. Well, I give you those five laws, but I do want to focus on one of those laws this week. It's the law of value your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment. The law of compensation your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them. The law of influence your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first. The law of authenticity the most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself. And the law of receptivity the key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving. The one that I want to chat about this week is the law of influence. So your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first. For those of you that have been around for a while, you know my program, my mantra that you need to be interested. You have to first be interested before you can get to the place of caring in order to serve. I love this law because it's all about how you're operating for other people, not yourself and in order to have influence and influence with your team and those that you work in and amongst. It could even be with your board of directors. It could be with a partner in your business. That's a result of being more interested in making sure that their needs are met before your own. Now I had to chuckle as I was rereading this. I talk about the raving fans and I have the Raving Fan Society and, just a side note, we're getting ready to open up the membership again here in a few weeks, so stay posted on that. I talk raving fans, so that's a little more relaxed and boisterous, potentially out of control, but typically very happy and excited. And excited.
Speaker 1:The phrase that he uses is that you then have an army of personal walking ambassadors. Sounds a little more statesman-like and maybe reserved, professional, but it's the same thing. You have a group of people who have experienced you in a way that they have become your extended voice. They are the thing I want you to focus on. How much of a difference would there be if you were to not only live this yourself right, where you are more concerned with the interests of those that you lead? That came first. If you were to live that and then you were to teach that to your people, that they would be able to see it demonstrated in you, and I think there'd be a certain amount of osmosis where they would mimic your behaviors. But what if you actively had them understand where they could make changes and how that would impact not only their role. Their team could impact other departments. So sit with it for a minute. So you have demonstrated this to them and now you're teaching them. You're helping them understand why choosing to adopt and practice this law of influence how that's going to change their job. It's going to change how they feel about their own work, it's going to change how they feel about the company and I would venture to say it could even change their compensation, because they are bringing more to the table. Their team is producing more. What do you think? I love the thought of you being the student, you understanding this particular law and you embracing it and making those changes and teaching it. What are some of the ways that you can embrace this law? You can really implement this law into your day, into how you interact.
Speaker 1:I know one of the ways that I instituted this particular law. When I was in corporate, I was on a mission to remove every single roadblock that anybody on my team had in order for them to do their job. So if they had a software program that was not efficiently helping them to do their job, we looked at ways to address that. If they had interaction between another department and them that just was super clunky and didn't work, and they had to spend so much time cleaning up what it was that they got into their desk that, as far as they were concerned, I might as well just do it myself, because then I can get it done right. So, finding those roadblocks, those inefficiencies, figuring out how to help people communicate and interact with each other, how to share information in a way that others could be receptive to it these are all part of your role as the business owner, as the leader is helping to identify ways that you can serve your team, that you can help them excel and just really feel like, at the end of the day, they've contributed and they're productive. So they're not sitting there in frustration, they're not sitting there wishing they were anywhere but there.
Speaker 1:So this law of influence and what happens is you become this influencer not because you have decided that that's what you're going to be. You become this influencer because you have put more emphasis on other people and their interests and, as a result, so many things come to you. Givers attract, so when you're giving, you're attracting, and then you need to receive, and that what you're going to receive can be many, many things. It could be that warm fuzzy in your heart because somebody says something lovely about you. It could be that you're getting more business because your team, they're talking outside the job about you as their leader and how just fabulous it is to work at the company. It could be that you've got new, unbelievable employees just begging to be able to come on staff. There's lots of ways that it comes back to you and it will. You will always have your need fulfilled when you fill somebody else's need, somebody else's interests first.
Speaker 1:Really recommend this book. I mean, this is just a little snippet of it. The basis of Leaders Grow First. My program, as well as the Raving Fan Society, is this being interested. It's all about them, finding ways to serve them so that they can be happy and fulfilled in their work. You are going to benefit immensely as the owner of the business.
Speaker 1:That's it for this week. We'll talk to you again next week. Well, thanks for joining me today. Just a quick reminder if you were not on my email list, go to my website, rondadelaneycom, and there's a place there that you can subscribe, keep you up to date on all things people, gardening and leadership. And also a reminder that the Raving Fans Society app is available on the Apple Store and the Google Store. I do have a free membership in there that you'll be able to access some of my material, and then there's also a paid membership and right now it's $49 a month and you will receive access to all of my material, all of the teaching content, content including a resource library that will really help you along, as well as group coaching every month and then quarterly bringing in guests that will talk on topics that pertain to small business owners and leadership. Thanks again for listening and we'll see you again next week.