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Learning to Lead from Your Truest Self
Tyler Reagin is the president of Catalyst, a leadership development organization that exists to unify and equip leaders. He wrote the book The Life-Giving Leader: Learning to Lead from Your Truest Self. In this episode of the Eternal Leadership Podcast, He and John discuss some of the key concepts in the book.
Great leaders come into a monochromatic environment, and they bring life and vibrancy to it. – Tyler Reagin
We’ve been around leaders who bring color to black-and-white environments, but unfortunately, most leaders aren’t like that.
John Maxwell defines leadership as influence. We all have influence over at least one other person. How we steward that influence is our leadership. That is our responsibility. Great leaders are constantly investing in the circle of influence that they have.
You got to be a student of yourself. – Tyler Reagin
To be ready for the future, build your character. To do that, develop your self-awareness. Learn and understand the way you think and why you process thoughts that way. Then you can start honing in on getting better as a leader.
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. – John Maxwell
Leadership’s not as complicated as others make it seem. Tyler illustrated with an example: If you have influence over two people right now, and you care for them well, you will be amazed at how quickly that circle will grow people.
When life flows, influence grows. John Maxwell
Take care of those that God has put in your circle of influence:
- Love them
- Care for them
- Pray for them
- Be with them
- Devote them
- Challenge them
- Confront them
- Know them
If half the leaders out there right now would take ten minutes today to just check in and take care of their people, those people will stay with their leaders.
Those men and women who poured life into us because they chose to see us and not what we do for them. That’s what makes them life-giving. – Tyler Reagin
What You’ll Learn
- Tyler’s journey from his growing up years to what he’s doing now
- The leadership crisis we are in the middle of, and what can be done about it
- Why leadership is not dependent on someone’s introversion or extroversion
- How to show up as our truest self
- Why you need to become a “student of yourself”
- The simplicity of leadership… why it’s not that hard
Resources
- Blinkist – Get the key ideas from bestselling nonfiction distilled by experts into bitesize text and audio.
- The Life-Giving Leader: Learning to Lead from Your Truest Self by Tyler Reagin
- Tyler Reagin’s website
Bio
Tyler Reagin is the president of Catalyst, a leadership development organization that exists to unify and equip leaders who love the Church through resources and experiential events. Through live events, weekly podcast, digital resources and a community-building app, the Catalyst team connects with over 100,000 leaders from around the world. Prior to Catalyst, Reagin served for seven years under the leadership of Andy Stanley as the Service Programming Director with North Point Ministries.
He received his Masters of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and serves as a leadership coach for teams and organizations. He’s been married to Carrie for over 16 years and has two boys Nate and Charlie. When he’s not working, Tyler is hanging out with his friends and family on
