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Tactical Friday: Shared Experiences and Hardships with David Fivecoat

Team building isn’t about going out on a Friday night with your team for drinks. Team building is about the shared experiences and hardships. Welcome back to Tactical Friday! I l welcome back David Fivecoat to share his five tips in building effective teams. One significant tip is building trust within the organization through shared experiences and hardships, which is something that most organizations misinterpret in their team buildings. With that said, let’s jump right in and learn how to build effective teams!

[00:01 – 01:12]

  • Opening Segment I welcome back David Fivecoat

[01:13 – 06:35]

  • Five Tips to Build Effective Teams
  • Have a goal
  • What are you shooting for? Have a roadmap Plan to how to get there
  • Have a scoreboard
  • Tracking the progress
  • Have a culture that provides guide rails What is acceptable within that team? They have to have trust
  • Shared experiences and hardships

[06:36 – 11:56]

  • The Shared Experiences and Hardships of a Team
  • Shared team experiences and hardships are the true team building
  • Building trust
  • Pushing the organization a little bit out of the comfort zone
  • The effect of the virtual space on leadership

[11:57 – 13:24]

  • Closing Segment
  • See links below to get in touch with David
  • Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “The shared experience or the shared hardship is what builds and bonds a team.” – David Fivecoat “
  • …those things are what builds trust and what makes a high performing team. You gotta push the organization a little bit out of the comfort zone and bring the whole team together.” – David Fivecoat

You can connect with David through LinkedIn, or you can visit his website www.thefivecoatconsultinggroup.com.

Leadership is All About Grit with David Fivecoat

It is when we finally leave our comfort zone that we start growing and attaining success. Welcome to another week of Tactical Leadership! In today’s episode, I welcome fellow veteran and the author of “Grow Your Grit”, David Fivecoat. David’s mission is to help people become better leaders by teaching them courage, grit, and all the other ingredients that make a great leader. He is also a speaker and an executive coach at The Fivecoat Consulting Group LLC, and he will share with us today his process in helping others.

Let’s dive in and learn how to grow your grit!

[00:01 – 08:49]

  • Opening Segment
  • If you have a platform and want content that DELIVERS, go over to knightly.productions!
  • I introduce David Fivecoat to the show
  • Being a brigade commander for the Airborne Ranger Training Brigade
  • Growing your grit
  • The five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
  • Being able to deal with adversity

[08:50 – 17:25]

  • Defining and Applying Grit to Leadership Capabilities
  • The art form of leadership
  • Courage is developing your ability to deal with the fear of failure
  • Listing your fears
  • Reframing your concept of success
  • Being willing to take risks

[17:26 – 27:42]

  • It All Starts With the First Step
  • David’s message to those who are afraid to take the first step
  • Helping people acquire experiential leadership
  • The humility of being a good follower and a good leader

[27:43 – 32:00]

  • Closing Segment
  • What is the legacy you’re wanting to leave in the world?
  • The opportunity to work with good corporate leaders and make them great
  • See links below to get in touch with David
  • Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “It’s very easy to be comfortable.  Being in your comfort zone and not pushing things too much, there’s not as big of an opportunity to fail.” – David Fivecoat

Resources Mentioned:

About the Host: Zack Knight

Zack sits down with CEO’s and experts to share tactical knowledge of how to become a better leader and create a more effective, safe environment for your team. Zack offers consulting and podcast coaching and runs Knight Protection Services, LLC, a company that helps busy executives build a winning culture through safety and security.

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