The Lonely Leader helps existing and aspiring leaders become the best version of themselves.
We believe that leadership on the outside begins within.
By sharing decades of leadership experience, insights and best practice we can help you sharpen your skills.
Our unique and authentic style, drawing upon learnings from success and failure, will ensure you are better prepared to optimise your performance and meet the challenges of the modern day leader.
We regularly discuss creating and sustaining high performance, enhancing resilience, empowering our mindset and finding professional and personal fulfilment.
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The Lonely Leader helps existing and aspiring leaders become the best version of themselves.
We believe that leadership on the outside begins within.
By sharing decades of leadership experience, insights and best practice we can help you sharpen your skills.
Our unique and authentic style, drawing upon learnings from success and failure, will ensure you are better prepared to optimise your performance and meet the challenges of the modern day leader.
We regularly discuss creating and sustaining high performance, enhancing resilience, empowering our mindset and finding professional and personal fulfilment.
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Episode 87
Leadership Essentials: Curiosity
SUMMARY SECTION
James Rule explores how curiosity enhances leadership impact, sharpens performance, and deepens fulfilment. Hear lessons from Lewis Hamilton, Sara Blakely, and Admiral William H. McRaven leaders whose questions changed the game. Discover 8 actionable ways to build curiosity into your daily life and your leadership style.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Why curiosity separates great leaders from good ones
How fear shuts down curiosity and how to overcome it
Sporting, business, and military examples of curiosity in action
8 actionable ways to enhance your curiosity
ABOUT THE HOST
James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors.
His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level.
As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance.
EPISODES TO CHECK OUT NEXT
Episode 86 - Leadership Essentials: Lifelong Learning
Episode 77 - Leadership Essentials: Tenacity. Holding the line when it gets tough
Episode 68 - Course correcting an underperforming team
CONNECT & CONTACT
Website www.thelonelyleader.co.uk
Email: hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk
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