The High Tech Freedom Sales Podcast provides tech sales people access to some of the top tech sales professionals in the business. In addition, we bring in top sales professionals from other industries, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, consultants, & authors. These experts share their stories, tips and advice on how they built a successful careers. We will also learn how they have invested along the way to create financial freedom to pursue the passions and hobbies that are important to them. Chris Freeman is a seasoned sales leader who has worked for 26+ years in the technology industry. Over many years of consistently exceeding quota, he has continued to invest his commissions into real estate that generates passive income. After investing for 20 years, he has created the financial freedom and flexibility to give back to his community, help others along their sales career journey, and continue to pursue new hobbies that create new challenges. If you are looking for financial freedom, it starts with continuous learning. The more you learn, the more you earn but it is up to you to put those lessons into practice. If you want to grow professionally while mapping out a vision and plan for the future, this podcast is for you! We are only interested in adding value to our listeners and helping them crush those sales goals and set themselves up for long-term success.
Episodes
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
122 - The Importance of Conversation in Leadership and Change - Marsha Acker
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Marsha Acker is a coach who specializes in executives and leadership teams. She has a background in tech and software engineering as well as degrees in those fields. Her career eventually led to increasing leadership positions where she struggled with the people side of leadership. About 20 years ago, Marsha began a process to become a better leader and eventually transitioned into working with leadership teams and coaching.
Key Takeaways:
- Leaders should take the time to hear different viewpoints, even if it may be a lot of work. It can shape and shift the thinking of all parties involved and lead to a shared understanding of the business picture.
- No one person can have the full picture, and it's valuable for everyone to hear one another's perspectives.
- Individuals can feel like change is being done to them and that their voice doesn't matter. Effective leaders listen for all four actions in a conversation and prompt for any missing action.
- Having a structural language to analyze conversations can help leaders understand what is happening differently.
- Conversations can be looked at in a morally neutral language to see what is happening differently. There are four actions that can happen in a conversation - follow, oppose, bystand, and support.
- Effective conversations have all four actions voiced. Ineffective conversations leave one or more of these actions out.
You can connect with Marsha through linkedin: linkedin.com/in/keeleyhubbard
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Host Contact Information - Chris Freeman
LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/chrisfreeman
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chris.freeman.9461
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