Learning To Lead Digital Book

Programs

Leadership Essentials

In Leadership Essentials, you'll discover:

How to build a winning culture by defining your personal non-negotiable behaviors.

A simple process and tool to help you evaluate your team and decide who is staying, and who needs to go.

The interview process I use to determine if someone will enjoy working for me and my company, including the specific interview questions I use.

Learn three of the most common new-hire onboarding mistakes that lead to poor morale and employee turnover.

How to think about your time in paygrade, impact and leverage.

Learn my process for starting fast, building momentum and delivering early wins with any new team I inherit as a manager.

Understand the #1 thing not to do if you want to coach people to better results.

High Velocity Hiring Course

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In High Velocity Hiring, you will discover:

The Top 10 interviewer mistakes and what to do to combat them, no matter how little experience you have!

Sample questions you can ask to test a candidate’s sales ability and persuasiveness, problem solving, teamwork, and so much more!

Download the “Resume Quick Scan Tool” so you can get through a stack of resumes fast without missing the great candidates in the pile (digital or not…)

Get access to the “Target Interview Agenda” so you know the right cadence of an interview and how to handle your interviews.

Receive access to the “Avoiding Interviewer Mistakes” Worksheet to anchor the training in the videos!

Discover how behavioral interviewing will upgrade your hires by asking the right questions (and being able to read more than just their answers)!

Learn how to onboard your new hire from day one so they stay with you and start producing results quickly

Plus so much more!

Getting Results Course

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In The "Getting Results" Course, you'll discover:

How to identify and deliver early wins to build credibility with your team and superiors

How to build a "Change Coalition," a group of early adopters who help you sell your changes to the rest of the team

Strategies for dealing with those employees who are resistant to change

A process of communicating clearly and consistently to create alignment between your vision and you team's execution

A detailed system for pulling out the best ideas from your team and ranking small and large projects by impact and cost

A series of questions to ask every member of any team that you inherit as a leader

Build A Winning Team Course

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In Build A Winning Team, you will discover:

Why winning requires constant change (and how to handle it)

Understanding why teams don’t tell the emperor he's "not wearing any clothes"

The relationship between psychological safety and work

The importance of the open leader

How to choose curiosity over blame

The value of owning your failures publicly

Anticipating negative reactions from your team

The right way to respond to failure

Learning To Lead Ebook

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In Learning To Lead, you will find:

4 critical traits that exceptional earners leverage to gain an advantage.

14 tricks to get your mind right, taught by legends like Warren Buffett, Eminem, Kobe Bryant and my 8-year-old neighbor, Kyle.

10 strategies to develop a rock-solid network who desperately pull for your success.

9 techniques to influence and persuade like Biggie Smalls, Yoda, Lao Tzu and Cap'n Crunch.

17 powerful actions to become a leader who inspires others.

Plus, so much more!

6 Reasons Good People Leave Your Company

This expanded, 26-page research paper offers solutions to the six reasons good people leave companies. If your organization is guilty of the mistakes discussed in our short report, this expanded edition offers a guide to change course, retain great people, and break out of your current cycle.

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About Ian Mathews

Since 2001, I’ve hired, promoted and coached several hundred executives, managers, and supervisors. I worked for two decades as an executive with two different Fortune 500 companies.

I led businesses selling products as diverse as power generation equipment, new construction homes, financing and software.

As one of the company’s youngest executives, I led an international sales team for General Electric when the company had the largest market cap in the world.

I led a $4,000,000,000 profit center with 700+ employees for NVR, America’s most profitable home builder, where I spent 13 years.

I was an initial investor and corporate advisor for a technology startup, CodeGuard, that sold for 15x initial investment.

I am married to an incredible girl who keeps me grounded. Together, we live in Virginia raising two cool kids who have single-handedly contributed to my greying hair.

We travel the world when we can but spend more time on local baseball and soccer fields. I love to coach youth sports, cook a mean omelet, alternate between Motown, country and hip-hop music, and proudly root for the very sad professional sports teams from Detroit.