Level Up Your Leadership Skills: Listening, Coaching, and Emotional Fitness with Mick Hawes from The Toolshed Podcast and Builders Business Blackbelt
Tradies Who LeadShow Notes
Most builders don’t get held back by their trade skills. It’s the leadership blind spots they can’t see that cost them the team.
Mick Hawes is the host of The Toolshed Podcast and founder of Builders Business Blackbelt. He’s spent years coaching builders to turn stressful, time-poor operations into businesses that actually work.
In this conversation, we get into: • The leadership blind spots that quietly hold builders back • The habits that make or break a team • Why Listening is the Biggest Leadership Gap • The most surprising lessons from years of coaching builders
Chapters: 0:00 Meet Mick Hawes 4:15 Impossible to Lead Others Without Self-Leadership 5:31 Leading as a Coach & Mentor 7:28 Creating Work Life Harmony 10:49 Build Your Emotional Fitness 14:53 Power of a Pause 19:13 Listening is Essential for Effective Communication 22:10 Break Out of the Shark Cage 26:55 Stop Being the Bottleneck 28:35 Encouraging Mistakes for Performance 32:37 Build a Personal Success Ritual 34:09 Wrap Up
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Website: https://buildersbusinessblackbelt.com.au/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickhawes/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/builders_business_blackbelt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildersbusinessblackbelt/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mick.hawes YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheToolShedPodcast
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