1.5.30. Connect.

The art of checking-in not up!

Manage To Engage — A Tool Kit for Leaders at Every Level

An interview with Jonathan Bowman-Perks on his Inspiring Leadership Podcast & Video Series, is like an intermission in your own life journey. When you’re in a leadership role, anytime someone asks you questions that cause you to stop and reflect on how you lead, it’s a moment to pause and think about what you are doing — right or wrong. And it gives you permission to actually think — to actually stop and watch the snowflakes for a while, not something we have the luxury of doing in these tumultuous times. And OK, for some leaders they are not snowflakes — it’s a full-on blizzard coming at you each day, snow blindness setting in, and freezing rain paving the way. It’s bloody scary for many.

So, if you have the time to listen to any of Jonathan’s interviews, you would be joining a large fan base — he’s in the top 2% of podcasts — and you’d be listening to the reflections of some remarkable people, all taking an intermission with Jonathan to share their stories.

And, when Jonathan asked me for my Top Leadership Tip I couldn’t help but blurt out a superpower tool to connect with people that I call ‘1.5.30’! It’s from my new book Manage to Engage — How Great Managers Create Remarkable Results. but it’s something we’ve practiced in Proudfoot for 75 years. We just never labeled it so simply as: 1.5.30. When you…