Episode 36: Richard Maloney - Activate and Engage Your Team For Success

Gold Nuggets in this Episode:

• “A business is a commercial, profitable enterprise that works without you.”
• “Companies and leaders need to go beyond traditional training methods to truly engage with their employees.”
  
  “Knowledge-dumping is important, but when it comes to culture, leadership, creating influence, and mass movements, it’s the culture that needs to shift.”

• There are three types of employees in every organization:
  
  “Actively Disengaged – they come to work and do less than is expected.”
  
  “Disengaged – they come to work and do what is expected.”
  
  “Engaged – they come to work and do more than what is expected.”

• “If you’ve got employees in your team that come to work and just get through the day, then you’ve got wasted money on the table.”
  
  “You’re wasting 34% of their salary before they even walk in the door.”

• You can turn an organization around in 4-5 weeks.
• “I’ve learnt all my leadership stuff from bad leaders – what not to do.”
• “You’ve got to start a business where you’re not working in it. You’ve got to start a business that is scalable, leverage-able, and online.”
• “Your past is perfect. Even if it didn’t work out or you had an argument with your boss and got fired, it’s a good contrast to keep pushing you toward your passion and dreams.”
• “The biggest lesson in life is always to charge towards your highest excitement; charge towards your true north. If you’re not charging towards your highest excitement that means you’re off-course.”
• “Everything is neutral until you give it meaning.”
• “It is a hell of a journey, and the more you can look after your mental health along the journey, the better off you’re going to be as a leader, influencer, and entrepreneur.”
• “I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.” – Michael Jordan

Our guest is Richard Maloney, Founder and CEO of Quality Mind Global and Engage & Grow. Richard is a serial entrepreneur, internationally sought-after keynote speaker, mental health coach, and mentor. He has authored three books: The Minds of Winning Teams, Engage & Grow, and Injury Free. His method, known as the Maloney Method, has grown into a system of healing that has allowed people to transform their lives through mental training. He has a passion for fine wine, the outdoors, friends, family, golfing, and surfing.

Song by Adam Vitovsky / CC BY 3.0