EP #67: What’s Your Leadership Style? with Rick Chromey

Oct 14

The best leaders have their minds wrapped around their organization, the mission, the people, and their role—but this doesn’t mean there is only one style of effective leadership. There are many styles of highly effective leadership, and often, a leadership coach is the perfect person to go to in order to find the most effective leadership style for you. Rick Chromey is a cultural historian, best-selling author, speaker, consultant, and professor, and he joins the show today to give us an incredibly fast-paced crash course in leadership.

Listen in as Rick shares his unique perspective and insight on how to lead with style and vision, using leadership as a means for making a great impact on those around you. You’ll learn what it takes to have expertise, as well as the primary building blocks that you can work from to create it. Rick also gives us an in-depth look at how to be more effective at leading and what you can work on to ensure that you lead with integrity and purpose.

What You'll Learn In Today's Episode:

The three parts of communication and how they affect your impact.
What it takes to have expertise and the three defaults that help you get there.
How Rick got into the leadership space.
The importance of understanding your leadership style.
The difference between a “leader-less” and a “leader-full” organization.
How the internet has affected leadership.
The difference between a club and a community.
AI and the future of robots and technology.
How tech has affected various generations.

Ideas Worth Sharing:

“For me, [speaking] is about being comfortable with the topic and whatever it is I’m talking about, and then just enjoying the audience as I speak.” - Rick Chromey

“You have to find out how you’re wired and then lead that way.” - Rick Chromey

“When people find something they love doing, it’s easier to make that a ritual.” - Bob DePasquale