Michelle Ray – Take the Lead. Embrace Change. Own Your Future.
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Episode Overview:
Are you ready to lead your team with greater effectiveness in a new world of work? In our world of constant technological and generational change, successful leadership requires transparency, parody, collaboration, and genuine connection with employees and customers.
If you’re looking to shift your thinking around leadership to become effective in real time and ready for the inevitable disruptions to come, you’re going to enjoy my conversation with author, speaker, and leadership expert, Michelle Ray.
Guest Bio:
Michelle Ray is a Hall of Fame business keynote speaker, entrepreneur, author, and respected thought leader.
She spent more than a decade in media and advertising, rising through the ranks and leading her team to achieve outrageous sales results in a down economy. From there she shifted gears, joining a global not-for-profit youth organization, where she facilitated enduring partnerships between youth, entrepreneurs, and educators.
Michelle encountered a total contrast of leadership styles during her career, both good and bad. These experiences sparked her desire to help leaders not only master the fundamentals, but also become the best version of themselves. She seized the opportunity to venture into the speaking world and has since shared these messages with audiences for more than 25 years.
A credit to her Aussie roots, Michelle engages audiences with her down-to-earth, tell-it-like-it-is style. She has taught leadership skills to the Australian Army and the FBI, as well as some of the world’s most recognizable brands, and an array of Fortune 500 companies.
Both of her books: Lead Yourself First! Indispensable Lessons in Business and in Life and Leading in Real Time – How to Drive Success in a Radically Changing World have received rave reviews. Michelle is a self-described hockey fanatic. When not working, she loves watching as many NHL games as possible.
Resource Links:
- Website: https://www.michelleray.com/
- Product Link: https://www.michelleray.com/leading-in-real-time-book/
Insight Gold Timestamps:
02:17 It’s really important for leaders to understand….
03:57 Leadership is a state of mind
05:13 How to be ready, responsive, and relevant
08:17 Being yourself means two things
10:00 Leadership is not about a title a plaque on the door or the desk
11:18 The difference between responding and reacting
14:22 Your own biases
15:37 The best leaders know….
19:56 If you’re not going to have them for a long time, make it a good time!
24:36 What’s more motivating than a paycheck?
29:25 Toxic work culture
31:01 Negativity builds on negativity
32:50 Real time leaders are ready and relevant
34:51 Qualities or requirements of leadership
36:35 One of the most simple, most fundamental things you can do….
39:11 Complacency is the enemy of success
40:00 Adversity can bring out the best in you
Connect Socially:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellerayspeaker/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichelleRayCSP
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichelleRayCSP
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/michellespeaker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelleraycsp/
Email: michelle@michelleray.com
Sponsors:
Rainmaker Digital Solutions: https://www.rainmakerdigitalsolutions.com/
Resources: https://becomingpreferred-podcast.com/resources/
Next Episode: The Energy Connection: A Secret to Resilient Work and Life with Eileen McDargh!
About the Host, Michael
Michael Vickers inspires enduring success, redefining the possible for today’s sales professionals, leaders, and managers. Whatever the sales or business opportunity, Michael will greatly enhance your odds of success. Every person who has an idea to promote, an employee to motivate, or a deal to negotiate, will attain a new level of success after an event with Michael.
Michael is also the best-selling author of Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell Your Competition, and Dance of the Rainmaker: Creating Authentic Differentiation in Today's Competitive Marketplace, where he shares his secrets to achieving the very highest level of sales mastery.
Whatever the result you’re striving for, if it involves influencing others or achieving success through others, Michael will build your confidence and accelerate your performance.
Michael is the Executive Director of Summit Learning Systems, a company that offers customized in-house training programs to many of today’s leading companies. He teaches thousands of business professionals throughout North America the skills required to achieve optimum performance.