SUMMARY
“Love” and “work” are not words that are usually thought of in the same context. For today’s guest, however, “love” has a measurable and positive impact on the metrics of work. Marcus Buckingham is known for starting the “Strengths Revolution.” He is also a global researcher and New York Times bestselling author, and he recently joined the GLN’s David Ashcraft for a conversation about the role that love plays—or should play—in our work. Whether you are a leader who wants to know how to bring the absolute best out of those you lead, or you are curious how to discover the things you truly love (and why they matter at work), we invite you to listen to this episode.
IN THIS EPISODE
2:50 Staying centered amid success
8:45 What people get wrong about strengths
13:20 The relationship between strengths and love
19:45 Work as a chore vs work as a place to do what you love
25:00 How love factors into the top performers
30:15 The role of a supervisor in helping others find their strengths
39:00 How leaders can accept other’s loathes
48:30 “Love” as a business concept
LISTEN
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STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS
- If you have a mission that you believe in, you don’t stop; you just keep on advancing the mission.
- The way to stay grounded is to stay connected to your purpose. You don’t get too off track when you remember that you are in service.
- The issue is not necessarily whether or not someone will grow. The issue is where will they grow the most? You invest in strengths because—even on a biochemical level—that’s where people experience the most growth.
- You learn something different when you look at “extreme positives,” and the word that people use to describe that level of feeling is “love.”
- A strength is not something that you’re good at, and a weakness is not something that you are bad at. A strength is something that strengthens you, which leads to appetite, which leads to practice, which often leads to increased performance.
- The DNA of a strength is love. A strength is a person or an activity that an individual loves.
- Love is a decoder to help understand the mystery of yourself.
- Your brain “on love” is you at your smartest.
- It’s not about finding a job you love, it’s about finding the love in what you are already doing.
- Love isn’t a luxury; it’s a force, and it needs to be expressed. It needs to come out.
- Having 20% of your work consist of what you love has tremendous positive outcomes: resilience, resistance to burnout, engagement.
- Even the most successful leaders will have some work that they just have “get through,” but those instances are balanced out by getting to do the things they love.
- Find out what you hate doing, and stop doing it. You won’t contribute your gifts if you spend too much of your days being hurt.
- As a leader, you can’t determine someone else’s strengths for them. All you have to do is bring the power of your attention to that person.
- In a world of complexity and frequent change, the only solution you have as a leader is frequent conversations (15 minutes, every week, with every person you lead).
- The conversation about loves and loathes is not about logic. It’s about appetites.
- Everybody’s life is singing to them in a way that only they can understand (and you don’t have to).
- An additional side of love involves how a business/organization makes experiences for others that they (the customers) come to love.
- Love is a predictor of human behavior. If customers/guests “love” what you are providing, you will see positive results.
LINKS MENTIONED
SPONSOR
Whitney Putnam
Vice President of Marketing | Global Leadership NetworkDavid Ashcraft
President and CEO | Global Leadership NetworkMarcus Buckingham
Best-Selling Author; Global Researcher | The Marcus Buckingham CompanyEP 164: Marcus Buckingham on How Love Drives Business Success
TOPICS IN THIS PODCAST
CallingConfidenceEmotional IntelligenceInfluenceLeading OthersLeading YourselfPerformance ManagementRelational IntelligenceServant LeadershipSupervising PeopleTeam Building“Love” and “work” are not words that are usually thought of in the same context. For today’s guest, however, “love” has a measurable and positive impact on the metrics of work. Marcus Buckingham is known for starting the “Strengths Revolution.” He is also a global researcher and New York Times bestselling author, and he recently joined the GLN’s David Ashcraft for a conversation about the role that love plays—or should play—in our work. Whether you are a leader who wants to know how to bring the absolute best out of those you lead, or you are curious how to discover the things you truly love (and why they matter at work), we invite you to listen to this episode.
On This Podcast
Whitney Putnam
Global Leadership Network
Whitney Putnam is the Vice President of Marketing at the Global Leadership Network. She is passionate about men and women working together to expand their influence so that many more people come to know Jesus. As a builder, Whitney cares deeply about building healthy and holistic communities of people, from the team she has the joy of working with at the GLN to those in her neighborhood. She is a well-respected leader and innovator having served as an executive leader at several global non-profits. She’s a mom to three little girls and married to a tall redhead named Michael. They can most often be found dancing in their kitchen and occasionally sprinkling confetti in greeting cards, all while living in Dallas, Texas.
David Ashcraft
Global Leadership Network
David Ashcraft is President and CEO of the Global Leadership Network, as well as President of The Advantage, a leadership collaborative serving pastors in Pennsylvania. As Senior Pastor of LCBC in Pennsylvania for 32 years, he helped grow weekly attendance from 150 people to a combined average of more than 22,000.
Marcus Buckingham
The Marcus Buckingham Company
Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher, thought leader and leading expert on talent, focused on unlocking people's strengths, increasing their performance and pioneering the future of how people work. A former senior researcher at Gallup Organization, he now guides the vision of ADP Research Institute as Head of People + Performance. He is the author of nine books, including First Break All the Rules, and Now Discover Your Strengths, two of the best-selling business books of all time. His latest release—Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World —takes an in-depth look at the lies that pervade our workplaces and the core truths that will help us change it for the better.
Show Notes
SUMMARY
“Love” and “work” are not words that are usually thought of in the same context. For today’s guest, however, “love” has a measurable and positive impact on the metrics of work. Marcus Buckingham is known for starting the “Strengths Revolution.” He is also a global researcher and New York Times bestselling author, and he recently joined the GLN’s David Ashcraft for a conversation about the role that love plays—or should play—in our work. Whether you are a leader who wants to know how to bring the absolute best out of those you lead, or you are curious how to discover the things you truly love (and why they matter at work), we invite you to listen to this episode.
IN THIS EPISODE
2:50 Staying centered amid success
8:45 What people get wrong about strengths
13:20 The relationship between strengths and love
19:45 Work as a chore vs work as a place to do what you love
25:00 How love factors into the top performers
30:15 The role of a supervisor in helping others find their strengths
39:00 How leaders can accept other’s loathes
48:30 “Love” as a business concept
LISTEN
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS
LINKS MENTIONED
SPONSOR
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