Stop Promoting the Wrong People: Laurie Maddalena on Revolutionizing Leadership as a Profession скачать в хорошем качестве

Stop Promoting the Wrong People: Laurie Maddalena on Revolutionizing Leadership as a Profession

"The barista at Starbucks often gets more training than people in leadership roles — and we wonder why teams are struggling." — Laurie Maddalena What if the thing quietly killing your company's growth isn't your product, your market, or your strategy — it's how your leaders are leading people? In this episode, Karl sits down with Laurie Maddalena, CEO of Envision Excellence, keynote speaker, and author of The Elevated Leader, to explore why the business world desperately needs to stop treating leadership as a perk of technical performance and start treating it as a true profession. Laurie unpacks the shift every scaling organization needs to make — from managers who fix problems to leaders who build capacity — and gives you the practical tools to get there. What you'll walk away with: Why promoting your top technical performer into leadership is often a catastrophic mistake — and what to do instead The difference between "managing tasks" and "leading people," and why it changes everything about your team's output How the shift from "answer giver" to "question asker" multiplies your impact and removes you as the bottleneck Laurie's "Elevated Leader" framework and how intentionality sits at the core of sustainable high performance The productivity sprint strategy that helped one leader reclaim her lunch break — and her sanity — after 12 years of spinning her wheels Why the early flat part of the leadership growth curve is not failure — it's the foundation for the hockey stick If you manage people, lead a team, or are building a company culture that actually performs, this episode is your playbook. #H2H #LeadershipDevelopment #ClientSuccessLeadership #ScalingCompanies #HumanConnectionPodcast === You can connect with Laurie Maddalena here: https://www.lauriemaddalena.com/eleva... www.lauriemaddalena.com   / lauriemaddalena   You can connect with Karl Pontau here: www.thehumanconnectionpodcast.com   / kpontau      / @thehumanconnectionpodcast   Please like, subscribe, and share this episode with somebody you care about!