Alain Hunkins | Be A Tactical Leader

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Alain Hunkins

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Connection, communication, and collaboration with your team may take your leadership to higher levels. We’ll learn about this from today’s guest, Alain Hunkins, a sought-after leadership speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach. His recent book, Cracking the Leadership Code, launched as the #1 Bestselling New Release in Business Communication on Amazon.

Over his twenty-year career, he has led over 2,000 groups in 25 countries including clients like Wal-Mart, Pfizer, Microsoft, and more. Alain has been known to help unlock potential and expand influence, leading to superior results, increased engagement, higher levels of retention, and greater organizational and personal satisfaction.

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Tactical Friday: Three Tactics to Cracking the Leadership Code with Alain Hunkins

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Today on Tactical Friday, we’re welcoming back speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach, Alain Hunkins. As we learned last episode, Alain is the author of Cracking the Leadership Code, launched as the #1 Bestselling New Release in Business Communication on Amazon.

Let’s get right into it and learn the three tactics on how to crack the leadership code and become better leaders.

Things you will learn in this episode:

[00:01 – 01:03] Opening Segment

Welcome back Alain Hunkins
Tactics to becoming better leaders
Alain gives a quick overview of the three secrets
Connection, communication, and collaboration

[01:04 – 08:41] Connection

Alain breaks down the connection tactic
The basis for all the others
Leadership is a relationship
How to build a good connection
Build up your empathy
Feeling cared for increases engagement and decreases turn over
People can smell a fake connection
Why empathy is hard
Impatience
Fear
How to practice empathy
Start practicing listening with purpose
“Holding space for someone else”
Be open and curious
Discerning empathy and emotional intelligence
Empathy is a skill founded by emotional intelligence
Building empathic concern

[08:42 – 16:30] Communication

The issues of communication
Most people think they’re communicating well when they’re not
Shared understanding as a platform for good decisions
Ring toss example
Say, mean, hear
Misunderstanding is a default setting
The problems of info overload
Communication tactics
Asking for a receipt
Fast food ordering example
The importance of delivery
Message and the messenger
How’s your body and voice?
Practice

[16:31 – 21:24] Collaboration

The collaborative leader
Helping people thrive
The four fundamental needs of collaboration
Safety
Creating a space for clarity or errors
Energy
Mindful of people’s capacities
Ownership
Engaging people by letting them create solutions
Purpose
Doing work that really matters; the ‘why’
Summary of purpose

[21:25 – 22:50] Closing Segment

Resources from Alain
See links below
Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“Leadership is a job title, it’s not a position, it’s not power and control. At its core leadership is a relationship between two human beings.” – Alain Hunkins

“Shared understanding becomes the platform for which we can base all future actions.” – Alain Hunkins

“The facilitative, collaborative leader is looking to create or design the optimal environment for people to thrive.” – Alain Hunkins

Resources Mentioned:

You can connect with Alain on LinkedIn. Visit his website www.alainhunkins.com to learn more.

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Facilitative Leadership; Cracking the Leadership Code with Alain Hunkins

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Let’s dive right into the episode and learn how Alain cracked the leadership code, and what his facilitative leadership style propelled him and others to success.

Things you will learn in this episode:

[00:01 – 05:18] Opening Segment

I introduce today’s guest, Alain Hunkins
Alain’s activities and achievements
Alain gives a bit of background on his story
The power of compounding
Family background
Currently living in Holland

[05:19 – 13:32] Facilitative Leadership

Alain’s leadership style
Facilitative Leadership
Root in French meaning easy
The facilitator in chief
A flexible leader
Treat others as adults – not as children
How Alain’s style correlates to the military
Being in the best possible position to maneuver
Knowing the people on your team
Connecting, communicating, and collaborating
Alain’s tips on guiding values within business
Have a clear mission
Vision plus action
Creating a vibrant world by kindling greatness in others
The value of humility and maturity

[13:33 – 24:34] The Original F-Word

Alain talks about leadership blind spots
Self-awareness
You may not be as good as you think
Get feedback
The best way to ask for and give feedback
A lot of people don’t have a positive model to follow
You need to create connection, safety, and trust
Get a clear feedback structure – +EBI (Even Better If…)
Non-value laden terms
Take feedback and collect data
The psychology of behavior change
Shaming won’t get you to change
A positive environment accelerates learning
Negativity is part of our programming

[24:35 – 29:13 Leading Yourself

Alain’s thoughts on leading oneself
We tend to be our own worst critic
Mastering self-awareness
People watch what you do more than what you say
Alain tells a story from when he worked at a restaurant

[29:14 – 35:06] Closing Segment

Recommended Resources
Alain’s book
Links below
What legacy do you want to leave?
Build more facilitative leaders
21st-century leaders
How to connect with you?
See links below
Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“I think one of the leadership characteristics that never gets enough press, is consistency… Doing something consistently day in, day out; that is the power of compounding.” – Alain Hunkins

“What good leaders do is make things easier for the people around them.” – Alain Hunkins

“Awareness is the step that comes first before anything else, because without awareness, nothing changes, because you cannot change what you do not notice.” – Alain Hunkins

Resources Mentioned:

You can connect with Alain on LinkedIn. Visit his website www.alainhunkins.com to learn more.

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