SUMMARY:
How can leaders learn to remain calm, think clearly, and act decisively in stressful situations? Author and former Navy SEAL, Mark Divine joins us to explain how special forces operators maintain focus and clarity in the highest-stress situations imaginable. He also shows how these simple techniques can benefit leaders in all environments and at all levels. By committing to growth at the character and soul level, leaders can unlock the “20x” potential of their teams and impact the world around them.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
“LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT” INCLUDES MUCH MORE THAN ACQUIRING MORE SKILLS. True transformational leadership development involves character and intuition, and often takes place at the level of the soul.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IS IMPACTED BY THE CONTEXT OF LEADERSHIP. Our world is now so complex that traditional leadership development models are insufficient. We need models that address the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Chaotic, and Ambiguous) nature of today’s world.
THE TEAM IS THE NEW LEADER. Leadership in today’s environment involves unlocking the potential of the team. A leader’s biases, fears, and character flaws can become the limiting factor of the team.
THE GOAL OF THE TEAM IS TO UNLOCK THE 20X POTENTIAL. Becoming more intuitive, fully-formed individuals, a team is able to increase its effectiveness and capacity by a factor of 20.
DEVELOPING YOUR OWN SET POINT IS CRITICAL. Before you know where you want to go—your purpose, or your mission—you need to know where you are right now. Discovering your true, unique purpose, and the things you stand for leads to clarity and alignment in your life’s mission.
TO FIND YOUR SET POINT, PRACTICE SLOWING DOWN. Quality inner work unlocks calling. Meditation, journaling, and visualization are powerful and helpful tools.
BE WILLING TO DE-CLUTTER YOUR LIFE. Clarity of purpose leads to being able to say “yes” to the right commitments, and “no” to others.
LIVE “ONE DAY, ONE LIFETIME.” Each day, you have the ability to choose to move towards your life’s purpose and calling, determine the most important thing you need to do for that day, and also to choose the most important training you can do to prepare yourself.
BUILD MENTAL TOUGHNESS WITH SIMPLE TOOLS. You can build mental toughness and resilience using four basic training tools: 1) “Box” breathing; 2) Learning to detect and block negative thoughts and emotional patterns; 3) User imagery and visualization; 4) Learn to set micro goals.
RELATED LINKS:
Global Leadership Network
The Global Leadership Summit
The Global Leadership Summit: Special Edition
Trey McKnight
Mark Divine
Unbeatable
SEALFit
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Mark Divine
Entrepreneur; New York Times Best-Selling Author; Philanthropist; Leadership Coach | Courage FoundationTrey McKnight
Executive Director of Staff Culture & Development | ReThink GroupAshlyn Ochoa
Host | The Global Leadership PodcastEp 96: Leadership Lessons from a Navy SEAL—Mark Divine & Trey McKnight
TOPICS IN THIS PODCAST
Leading YourselfLearning AgilityHow can leaders learn to remain calm, think clearly, and act decisively in stressful situations? Author and former Navy SEAL, Mark Divine joins us to explain how special forces operators maintain focus and clarity in the highest-stress situations imaginable. He also shows how these simple techniques can benefit leaders in all environments and at all levels. By committing to growth at the character and soul level, leaders can unlock the “20x” potential of their teams and impact the world around them.
On This Podcast
Mark Divine
Courage Foundation
Mark Divine is an entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author, philanthropist, and one of the world’s top leadership and coaching experts. After a successful 20-year career as a Navy SEAL and SEAL Commander, Mark was hired by the Navy to create a nationwide coaching and leadership program for the SEALs. The bold goal of this program was to give the SEALs the best leadership and mental-management tools in the world–to help them forge unbeatable SEAL teams that achieve mission success in the most stressful, challenging environments on earth. Divine’s leadership and coaching program for the SEALs was so effective that it’s now being used outside of the Navy by top CEOs, Fortune 100 companies, USA Olympics, elite universities, major league sports franchises, celebrities, and successful individuals from all over the world. Mark Divine is the author of 5 best-selling books, including his latest book Staring Down The Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams. He hosts a #1-ranked podcast on iTunes (Mark Divine’s Unbeatable Mind) and he is the founder of five successful companies.
Trey McKnight
ReThink Group
Trey is committed to inspiring others to move toward positive life change. His passion led him to launch the Inspire to Move Podcast in 2020. Trey has been in ministry for more than 20 years, and now serves as the Executive Director of Staff Culture and Development of the ReThink Group. Drawing from his diverse experience in ministry, public service and corporate work, he has partnered with organizations like BigStuf Ministries, North Point Ministries, Chick-fil-A, Regal Boats and many others.
Ashlyn Ochoa
The Global Leadership Podcast
Ashlyn Ochoa has served in a variety of roles at the Global Leadership Network since 2016. The product of her talented work, strategic creativity, and valuable leadership has been experienced in the production of The Global Leadership Podcast, as well as many of the GLN’s leadership events and videos that have been translated and contextualized in more than 123 countries. As a valuable leader with a voice of positive influence, she is the host of The Global Leadership Podcast, one of the most popular leadership podcasts in the world. As of 2022, in addition to hosting the podcast, Ashlyn leads national event strategy and production at Bethany Christian Services, where she works in her passion to serve children and families. Beyond her professional roles, her greatest joy is found in being a wife and mom. Experience her positive energy, inquisitive mind, and wisdom as you tune in to The Global Leadership Podcast!
Show Notes
SUMMARY:
How can leaders learn to remain calm, think clearly, and act decisively in stressful situations? Author and former Navy SEAL, Mark Divine joins us to explain how special forces operators maintain focus and clarity in the highest-stress situations imaginable. He also shows how these simple techniques can benefit leaders in all environments and at all levels. By committing to growth at the character and soul level, leaders can unlock the “20x” potential of their teams and impact the world around them.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
“LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT” INCLUDES MUCH MORE THAN ACQUIRING MORE SKILLS. True transformational leadership development involves character and intuition, and often takes place at the level of the soul.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IS IMPACTED BY THE CONTEXT OF LEADERSHIP. Our world is now so complex that traditional leadership development models are insufficient. We need models that address the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Chaotic, and Ambiguous) nature of today’s world.
THE TEAM IS THE NEW LEADER. Leadership in today’s environment involves unlocking the potential of the team. A leader’s biases, fears, and character flaws can become the limiting factor of the team.
THE GOAL OF THE TEAM IS TO UNLOCK THE 20X POTENTIAL. Becoming more intuitive, fully-formed individuals, a team is able to increase its effectiveness and capacity by a factor of 20.
DEVELOPING YOUR OWN SET POINT IS CRITICAL. Before you know where you want to go—your purpose, or your mission—you need to know where you are right now. Discovering your true, unique purpose, and the things you stand for leads to clarity and alignment in your life’s mission.
TO FIND YOUR SET POINT, PRACTICE SLOWING DOWN. Quality inner work unlocks calling. Meditation, journaling, and visualization are powerful and helpful tools.
BE WILLING TO DE-CLUTTER YOUR LIFE. Clarity of purpose leads to being able to say “yes” to the right commitments, and “no” to others.
LIVE “ONE DAY, ONE LIFETIME.” Each day, you have the ability to choose to move towards your life’s purpose and calling, determine the most important thing you need to do for that day, and also to choose the most important training you can do to prepare yourself.
BUILD MENTAL TOUGHNESS WITH SIMPLE TOOLS. You can build mental toughness and resilience using four basic training tools: 1) “Box” breathing; 2) Learning to detect and block negative thoughts and emotional patterns; 3) User imagery and visualization; 4) Learn to set micro goals.
RELATED LINKS:
Global Leadership Network
The Global Leadership Summit
The Global Leadership Summit: Special Edition
Trey McKnight
Mark Divine
Unbeatable
SEALFit
Liz Bohannon
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