Are You Fit To Lead?
Studies have repeatedly shown that regular exercise is positively correlated with high scores on leadership assessments (1). It has been shown that individuals who allocate time for regular physical activity into their daily life have a greater capacity to achieve goals. If you need more proof type “statistics on CEOs and physical fitness” into your search engine and you’ll have ample evidence that leadership and fitness are intertwined. So, what’s the connection? With all the time constraints placed on a leader, is it worth the effort?
Unlocking Your Team’s Superpower: Part Two
The key to unlocking your team’s superpower is showing them what it looks like to take the armor off, share your vulnerabilities, and work together to overcome each other’s blind spots. Telling your teammates they can be vulnerable and showing them what it looks like are two very different things. Your actions are more powerful than any words you can share, and your consistency will build the kind of trust that winning teams are made of.
Unlocking Your Team’s Superpower: Part One
We often wear masks and armor to protect the people around us: our families, our friends, our teammates, and more than anything, the people we are charged to lead. We think our masks protect the people around us from the things we see as vulnerabilities: fear, anger, disappointment, overwhelm, uncertainty. If we show them our fear, they will be scared too. If we show them our uncertainty, they will lose hope. If we show them our weakness, they will lose trust and faith in our leadership. This is what we tell ourselves when we put the armor on.
The Victory Strategies Team Reading List 2024
Books That Should Be on Everyone’s Reading List and Why
People do care about what their leaders are reading.
The statement, “Leaders Are Readers,” as others point out, has become ubiquitous on social media platforms like LinkedIn. Whether or not people who share that sentiment know of President Truman’s quote doesn’t diminish what he meant by saying it. Some people do innately possess powerful leadership attributes and abilities, most do not. Leadership is learned, and anyone, in my experience, can become better leaders through educating themselves.
FAIL FALLING FORWARD
Fear of failing is a powerful deterrent and an unrelenting roadblock to achieving remarkable results. Leaders who operate in a manner to avoid the possibility of failing, will fail to reach and realize the best outcomes for their organizations and their teams. Napolean Hill wrote, “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
Be Like Water: Where To Begin With Leadership?
Leadership vs. Management: Which One Is Better?
Introverted vs. Extroverted Leaders- Who’s Better?
The Role Of A Coach
For the last 15 years, I have been helping emerging athletes and sports teams find a way to win on the world stage. And, whether in Africa, the Pacific, or North America, the most significant factor determining success is usually not a lack of desire, hard work, or financial support but rather the quality of the person that someone is listening to the most - the coach.
Bottom of the Ninth: Calm Under Pressure
Who is Sitting at My Desk
Directionally Appropriate Action
Delivered By: Adam Weiner, Managing Director
Adam spent 14 years in leadership roles as a Navy SEAL where he attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander, including assignments as Platoon Commander, Operations Officer, and Executive Officer. After the Navy, he worked at executive levels in the automotive industry and finance. In 2017, the governor of Michigan appointed him to the Veterans Facilities’ Board of Managers where he served for 2.5 years.
While in automotive, Adam was the Business Manager for the Vice President of Engineering at General Motors, where he managed a $3.5B budget and coalesced eight Executive Directors. After that, Adam began his career in finance as a Divisional Vice President for AIG, consulting with hundreds of financial advisors on retirement solutions. Within the financial space, he transitioned to become a financial advisor and partnered with Michigan Retirement Advisors. Working directly with individuals and families, Adam was able to increase the firm’s assets by over 25% in less than 24 months.
In 2022, Adam’s success led him to founding Freedom Financial Team where his pillars are: providing clients financial peace of mind, community philanthropy, and financial literacy. Consistent with this, Adam is a proud member of the Association of Financial Educators, a 501(c)(3) non-profit created to help with financial literacy. Adam brings this education to high-schools, colleges, and businesses in the Detroit Metro area to help demystify complexities in investing and retirement planning.
Adam’s passion is teaching mindset, character, and leadership. Alongside his teammates at Victory Strategies, you might catch him at workshop or delivering his keynote, inspiring people to Rise, Focus, and Persist!
Adam is a proud graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He is happily married, and they have three wonderful children.
May I Have Your Listening?
Growth Through Deliberate Self-Reflection
“Wow, that could have gone better!”
Have you ever had this inner monologue after a meeting, an engagement or a conversation…or maybe even after a long day? I think most everyone makes a quick assessment or judgement after the many events during their day. The key question: so, what do you do about it?
Empathetic Leadership
Does 1+1 = 2?: The Power Of Team
I have a simple math problem for you. What is one plus one? If you said two, you’re correct, some of the time. If you had asked me that question right after I graduated from engineering school, I would have told you emphatically, “yes!” After a 26-year career as a US Navy fighter pilot, I’ll tell you the answer is, “sometimes.”
