The Level Up Leader with Michael King

Join Michael King as he interviews some of the best coaches and leaders in business about everything from professional development and personal growth to what it takes to truly level up your leadership. Learn about the mindsets, frameworks, and strategies that you can start using today to take the next steps on your journey to becoming a successful leader. Michael King is the founder and CEO of TEAMS.COACH, LLC, and a highly sought-after executive and business leadership coach. He helps business leaders clarify and execute at high levels through his proprietary T.E.A.M.S. methodology to develop measurable business growth and company-wide collaboration. Working with everyone from senior leaders all the way through to full-team engagement, he discovers gaps in performance, disconnects in company culture, and potentially dangerous blind spots - establishing new goals and the plans to achieve them, as well as evaluating overall engagement and ultimately helping leaders (and their teams) to get unstuck. Interested in being interviewed on the podcast? Email michael@teams.coach.

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The Way Back - Miles Welch and Michael King | T...
Steve Jobs was fired from his own company; Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison, and Abraham Lincoln failed in business, had a nervous breakdown, and was defeated in eight elections. They all went on to experience tremendous success.  As an...
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Unexpected Stories for Unexpected Times - Malor...
Whoever tells the best story wins. There are so many authors and marketers attached to this saying that I wouldn’t dare put a claim of ownership to this for myself or anyone else really. The fact is that this perspective has served me well and has...
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Will The Church Arise? - Chris Sonksen and Mich...
According to Gallup, “Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend. In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque,...
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Overcoming Unconsciousness - Jay Guilford and M...
If you have a brain, you have bias. We all have unconscious bias; it doesn’t make us bad people. Our brain wants to make sense of the world and the people around us. We categorize and label things and people so our brains can move fast.  It’s...
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The Power of Proximity - David Dickinson and Mi...
Disconnection is making workers feel lonely and isolated, that their colleagues don’t care about them and that they’re replaceable, according to the Airspeed/Workplace Intelligence report that surveyed 800 C-suite leaders and 800 workers in March....
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Meaningful Change and Impact - Michele Isaly an...
Everyone would agree that the organization that embraces change the best is the organization that wins. How you implement change matters.    “Good leaders listen before they act. And the best leaders prioritize listening to their best...
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Rewriting Yourself - John Michael Morgan and Mi...
According to the Harvard Business Review, “If you want to understand why some companies have a toxic culture, underperform relative to their potential, and eventually collapse — look no further than the quality of their leadership teams. Whereas...
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Keeping Things Interesting - Bill Cook and Mich...
To be a good leader, you have to be interesting.  You have to keep things interesting.  Leaders often start losing traction because they have become boring and need to engage their team.   According to Forbes, being boring happens to...
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The Art is Listening - Jeremy Miller and Michae...
It’s an important fact that trust increases the power of your organization substantially. In fact, the Harvard Business Review states that organizations with high levels of trust have 106% more energy and 50% more productivity. A straightforward way...
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Let's Talk About "Why" - Jen Gruber and Michael...
Turnover rates are at a staggering high.  “Quiet quitting” has become a term that is globally accepted. I was told that people don’t leave bad jobs; they leave bad bosses. Is there anything we can do about this?   We decided we...
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