Life's Essential Ingredients

Season 3 Episode #29 Dr. Kevin Gazzara - The Application of a Lifetime of Leadership!

January 09, 2024 Season 3 Episode 29
Life's Essential Ingredients
Season 3 Episode #29 Dr. Kevin Gazzara - The Application of a Lifetime of Leadership!
Show Notes

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Season 3 Episode #29 Dr. Kevin Gazzara is coming from Phoenix, Arizona (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Kevin via his website www.magnaleadership.com, kevin@magnaleadership.com, https://magnaleader.co/GIFT

About our guest:

In 2007, Kevin departed the corporate world with two of his colleagues to start Magna Leadership Solutions - a management and leadership consulting firm.  Kevin has more than 30 years of management, leadership, organizational development, and teaching experience in industries spanning from heavy equipment to high tech.  Kevin is a professor at 6 different universities and is the co-author of The Leader of OZ: Revealing the 101 Secrets of Marvelous Leadership for the 21st Century.  

Kevin’s development of the Task Quotient (his dissertation for his PhD), gained him the  “Future HR Leader” award from Human Capital magazine and for the past 20+ years, Kevin and his team have been helping people find their purpose and engage with their work so that they can develop, acquire, and be in a state FLOW.   We will discuss FLOW in greater detail throughout this episode.

Kevin, thanks for developing your many gifts and for having the courage to stand tall and share them with the world.   Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”  Lao Tzu

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

The new PQ program

Task Quotient (TQ)..flow and getting balance to keep motivated and engaged….increases motivation, empowerment, and engagement…

Doing vs. Delegating? Am I restricting personal or professional development by me doing it vs. allowing someone else the opportunity to develop?

Task Types…assessment tool…raise satisfaction…

Developing your leadership passion… engineering people to be there best… was there an inspiration early in your career…

The importance of context in application to challenges, layoffs, leadership, learning…

Personal Growth and Development.. to bring and add value to your skill set and therefore, your company…

Growth Mindset…

BECOME IRREPLACEABLE…TODAY IS THE DAY TO THINK WHAT IS NEXT…creativity and innovation…

Chat GPT…thoughts and the potential to replacing jobs…. How do we adapt to bring value…

Team work and how do you teach it…
What is leadership? 

Legacy