The StrongLead Podcast with Chad Hall

Let's be honest: most business mission statements are wallpaper. In this episode, Chad and Allan look at how a personal mission statement can be a powerful guiding force in your life and how you can take some first...

Everyone's life has a center — work, money, family, approval, self — and it gets revealed the moment something threatens it. In this episode, Chad and Allan explore Covey's alternative life centers and why...

Imagine your own funeral: what do you want said about you — and does this week's calendar have anything to do with it? In this episode, Chad and Allan take Covey's most famous exercise seriously and explore what it...

Most leaders would never break a promise to a client, but break promises to themselves every single week. In this episode, Chad and Allan explore how self-trust is built the same way all trust is built — one kept...

In this episode we talk about Stephen Covey's idea of "scripts" and how they shape our worldview, language, habits, and the way we interpret events. We discuss how scripts can be useful at first but become limiting when...

In this episode, we discuss Stephen Covey's weather metaphor and how it relates to leadership, emotional state, and personal agency. We talk about how the "weather" in a room or relationship can reflect tension, mood...

In this episode, we continue our discussion of Stephen Covey's idea of the space between stimulus and response and how leaders often react automatically instead of responding with intention. We look at why people become...

This week (and going forward) Allan Williams joins Chad on the podcast. The focus on this episode is Aesop's fable about the Goose and the Golden Egg and how leaders need to keep production and production capacity in...

Trust is like an ice-covered lake. If the ice is thick enough, you can drive a truck across it. But thin ice (and thin trust) will leave you cold, disappointed, and maybe a bit in danger. In this episode, Chad tackles...

In this episode, Chad discusses how helping can become harmful in leadership, at work, and in relationships when it prevents people from learning and growing. We look at rescuing, answering other people's questions...

Managing people can feel overwhelming, but it gets simpler when you boil it down to giving people what they actually need from you. In this episode, Chad shares four of the most important things every employee needs...

People will disappoint you. Unfortunately, that's part of leading. Even more unfortunate is that too manyleaders either stew in the disappointment or react off the raw feeling. In this episode, Chad shares a simple way...

You've been told to have an open-door policy, but a door that never closes isn't a door — it's a hole in the wall, and everybody walks through it whenever they please. In this episode, Chad shares three ways being...

"Driven" gets thrown around like a compliment, but the fuel under the drive matters more than the drive itself. Some leaders run on purpose; others run on anxiety and fear — and from the outside, they look the same. In...

Of all the things you can get wrong in business, hiring someone with bad character is maybe the worst. It's costly, and it's a mistake that can feel unavoidable. In this episode, Chad shares four ways to dig past the...