Level Up Your Leadership Skills: Listening, Coaching, and Emotional Fitness with Mick Hawes from The Toolshed Podcast and Builders Business Blackbelt

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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If you want to connect with Mick Hawes, you can reach him on social and via his website:

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