This week on The Leadership Toolkit Podcast, host Mike Phillips welcomes an extraordinary guest—Thomas Knoll!
🔹 6x Founder | 4x Startup Employee | 2x Exits
🔹 100+ Products Shipped | 1000+ Failures & Lessons Learned
🔹 1200+ Mentor Sessions | 300+ Long-Term Coaching Clients
Thomas’s journey from website builder in the 90’s to Zappos and into becoming an executive coach is a testament to the power of adaptation and finding profound purpose. His commitment to helping leaders navigate through their internal and external mazes to achieve Clarity and concrete outcomes is both inspiring and groundbreaking. The essence of success, as Thomas puts it, lies in "helping leaders turn small moments into big outcomes."
Likely the most profound revelation from the conversation is the simplified manner of dealing with fear and presumed obstacles. Much like pulling a mask on a Scooby-Doo villain reveals nothing more than the janitor, confronting leadership fears often showcases them as less intimidating than they appeared in shadow.
🧰 The Workbench: My Key Takeaways From This Episode
1️⃣ Insight over Advice: Emphasize self-query over seeking advice. Dive deep into your internal motivations and the blocks that may be limiting your leadership efficacy.
2️⃣ Embrace Your Ikigai: Make it a mission to discover your unique overlay of passion, proficiency, need, and monetizable skills. This can redefine not only your path but also how you see and project leadership.
3️⃣ Invest in Communication: Consider incorporating tools like Get11App that bring depth and deliberateness into your communications, transforming them into powerful sessions of insight and empowerment.
4️⃣ Confront the Fear: Recognize most fears and conflicts veiling themselves as monumental in leadership can be de-escalated simply by confronting them. Visibility tends to strip these fears of their perceived enormity.
🔗 Tune in to gain game-changing insights from a mentor who has guided over 1,200 leaders to success!
CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Welcome to the Leadership Toolkit
01:00 – Thomas Knoll’s Background
08:12 – Ikigai Concept
12:21 – Choosing a Sherpa or Guide
16:40 – Listening to Answers
21:00 – Self-Definition Traps
23:47 – Decision-Making: When to Stop
29:30 – Deep Listening Skills
30:28 – Decision-Making: When to Start
33:05 – Connect with Thomas Knoll
33:50 – Get 11 App Overview
41:35 – Future Plans for Thomas Knoll
42:24 – Challenges for Leaders
45:00 – Understanding Fear
46:50 – Strategies to Overcome Fear
49:50 – Thank you for running in to The Leadership Toolkit
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