382: Be a Gift Through Your Leadership: Small Habits That Create Big Impact on Your Team

Are you feeling the pressure to do all the things this holiday season: gifts, events, wrapping up the year, and taking care of everyone? What if the most meaningful gift you could give wasn’t something you could buy? What if you discovered how small, intentional leadership actions, like encouragement, clarity, trust, and honest feedback, are the greatest gifts you can offer your team and yourself? In this episode, you’ll learn why encouragement has 5x the retention power of any holiday bonus, how clarity resets stress and boosts A-player performance, the trust-building habits that create a self-managing team, and the one type of feedback that acts like rocket fuel for A-players. Dr. Sabrina Starling and Melissa Kay explain how to be the kind of leader who brings peace, stability, and purpose to your workplace; you can do it simply by showing up in the right way. Join us now to learn how.

Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential production.

Show Highlights:

  • We don’t want teams who are simply waiting for their next bonus; we want A-players who celebrate working with us year-round.
  • Melissa paints a picture of what it’s like on the Tap the Potential team
  • Dr. Sabrina’s highest aspirations for her team
  • Taking care of ourselves, as leaders, is essential before we can effectively take care of our teams.
  • Being a gift from your gifts supports the retention of your A-players.
  • An important statistic (from Gallup): Well-recognized employees are 45% less likely to have changed businesses 2 years later.
  • Create a safe, supportive environment where your team members can share ideas–and make it a habit.
  • Show up as a thinking partner with curiosity–not judgment.
  • The Coach Approach program teaches you the language of support and curiosity.
  • Teaching your A-players the coaching conversation model helps you shine as a leader.
  • Tips to create a self-managing team
  • How feedback can support your best A-players: acknowledge the fact that you see them showing up from their strengths, and invest in them by offering them opportunities to grow and learn.

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About The Author

Tap the potential of your team and double profit!

Sabrina Starling, Ph.D., PCC, BCC, The Business Psychologist, is the international bestselling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation®.

The third generation in her family impacted by entrepreneurial hustle culture, Dr. Sabrina is transforming the story of success from long hours and grinding it out to work that supports and enhances life.

Hustle culture often means sacrificing our health, well-being, and relationships, all for the sake of success. Dr. Sabrina’s research shows this leads to burnout and pain in our relationships. There is a better way. Work supports life, not the other way around!™

Dr. Sabrina is revolutionizing the workplace with concepts like Work Supports Life™, 4 Week Vacations®, $10,000 an-hour activities, 25-hour workweeks, and unlimited vacation and sick time in highly profitable businesses winning the war for talent. She inspires transformation in a world where work often overshadows life, sharing insights from her ongoing research with over 650 entrepreneurs and their high-performing teams.

Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and Thrive Global, Dr. Sabrina is the founder of www.tapthepotential.com and the globally top-ranked Profit by Design Podcast. Listed in The Daily Hustle’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022, Dr. Sabrina is on a mission to get 10,000 business leaders taking the Work Supports Life™ Pledge.

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