RapidStart Leadership Podcast

About RapidStart Leadership Podcast

The RapidStart Leadership Podcast brings you short, interesting stories, revealing research, and practical tools to help make you a more effective leader. Whether you are a new leader, a seasoned manager, or mentoring someone else who is learning to lead, these podcasts will arm you with actionable takeaways you can apply, whatever the leadership situation you find yourself in. Host Ken Downer is the founder of RapidStartLeadership.com where his blog posts, videos, podcasts, and online courses equip leaders and mangers of all experience levels to become more skilled at getting things done through people. Through his 26 years of active duty as a U.S. Army Infantryman, he has lead people in a wide variety of circumstances, from the jungles of Panama to the cubical jungles of the office environment. Using those and other life experiences, he regularly shares practical tips and techniques that help leaders master the art of leadership, whether it is self-improvement, setting a vision, team-building, problem-solving, planning and organizing, communicating, or simply figuring out the first steps to take as a new leader. Becoming a great leader is hard work. The goal of RapidStart Leadership is to make climbing the leadership learning curve a little easier for you. Lead On!

Publisher

Ken Downer

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Jul 2021

Latest episode

28 Feb 2023

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Feb 2023

   Culture Course Correction: 11 Ways to Avoid Going Over the Cliff

   When it comes to getting things done, culture can have a huge impact not only on how well the team performs, but how likely it is that our teammates will stick around to do it again. So, what do we do when we sense that our team’s culture is heading straight for the edge of a cliff? Here are eleven ideas for how we can make a culture course correction with our teams. Notes and Resources: Prefer to read? Here’s the full post: Culture Course Correction: 11 Ways to ...

2. 

   27 Feb 2023

   Increasing Engagement - How to Get People to Open Up

   If we hope to develop high-performing teams, increasing engagement is always at the top of our to-do list. But sometimes in our efforts to lead, we can get in our own way, and hinder the very thing we are trying to encourage. Two brief interactions that went very differently illustrate how this can happen, and what we can do if we are serious about increasing engagement on our teams. Notes and Resources: Prefer to read? Here’s the full post: Increasing Engagement – How to Ge...

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   15 Mar 2022

   The 18th Mile: It’s Not the Finish Line Leaders Should Focus On

   Most people know that a marathon is 26.2 miles long. Successful runners also know that it’s a mistake to focus solely on that distance. Smart leaders can benefit from similar thinking. Whatever marathon we are running with our teams, to get to that distant goal, it’s not the finish line we should focus on, it’s the 18th mile. Here’s why. Notes and Resources: Prefer to read? Here’s the full post:The 18th Mile: It’s Not the Finish Line Leaders Sho...

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