The Four Essential Skills for Success with Lucas Root

Lucas Root is a speaker, entrepreneur, business success mentor, and founder of SGIC Consulting. His mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses maximize growth. His areas of expertise include business and risk analysis, strategic planning, and team building. Quotes to remember:  “Each decision has to have an ultimate owner and a person who is ultimately responsible.”  “Leadership is 0% ability and 100% skill.” Takeaways:Communication and leadership are skills, not abilities; anyone can learn themLeadership is a skill in which we approach but do not achieve masteryThe more you build skills in a certain subject, the more you will be drawn to becoming a leaderEvery team wants to succeed and the cost of repeated failure is steep because we take failure personallyEgo is the most common obstacle in merging companiesMaking communication and feedback “open-source” can radically help a companyFlatter hierarchies and more empowered and agile teams are a recent trend in company structure What you’ll learn:The four essential skills to success in life and business, specifically sales and marketingAbout emotional listening and how to learn itHow communication applies to salesThe difference between leadership and managementMethods to build our leadership skillsIn high-performing teams, the leader rotates among the groupWhy the lone wolf doesn’t succeedAbout Lucas’ playbook on business strategy and cultureA unique way to increase engagement and retention in a company Mentioned on the podcast: http://lucasroot.com/Lean Six Sigma Links: Twitter LinkedIn Instagram