The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Episode #266: Ryan Caldbeck - CircleUp CEO: How To Build The Frameworks Of Your Life & Career
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The Learning Leader Show
"What we look for in a person: Horsepower, Integrity, Work Ethic, Teamwork, Pride."
Show Notes:
- Sustaining excellence:
- Persistence - regardless of skill, willing to run through unlimited doors with no light at the end of the tunnel. It can be soul crushing
- Identified focus passion - an understanding of the passion that is identifiable.
- Drive - A motor. Really good at email and/or communication. Can't take too long. "Have a motor." Always moving
- Values - "I don't say that lightly." You can't sustain excellence without values. "A framework to understand you."
- Isn't it hard to know what your passion is? "Yes. I got scared about the treadmill that I saw others get on." However, people don't think they can leave the corporate job that pays well. But you can. Begin by thinking about the framework to make it happen.
- "Silicon Valley is a hard town to talk about challenges."
- What it's like to lead 60 employees
- What mistakes were made in the hiring process?
- "We took too long to make frameworks."
- "Frameworks show others what to do."
- What traits/values do you look for in hiring?
- "The airport test doesn't make sense to me. I don't have to want to spend a day around them in the airport."
- "We have crystallized what we look for in a person."
- Horsepower - intelligence over experience
- Integrity - don't talk negatively about others
- Work ethic - must be willing to work hard
- Teamwork - need to work well with others
- Pride - Care
- How to gauge work ethic in a job interview?
- "It starts with everyone knowing we are looking for that."
- Advice for the individual contributor making the leap to manager...
- "Figure out framework for your specific role. Get clarity on what each person's role is."
- "Learn how to develop empathy for what your team goes through. Sit with them without micromanaging them."
- "Make sure you have a resource (person) to talk to about being a manager. Hire a coach. Get a peer group outside of your company."
- Why joining The Learning Leader Circle is a good idea
- Ryan has a coach and a group of 12 CEO's that he meets with regularly
- Building culture:
- Focus on your mission
- "To help entrepreneurs thrive by giving them the capital and resources they need."
- Their Values:
- Do it right
- Be brave
- Be a solution
- Constantly reinforce the vision
- Most useful advice:
- Winston Churchill - "Never give up."
- "Do what you're passionate about"
- How to have balance at home?
- Two kids and his wife is a senior leader at her company
- Mediation after the kids go to bed
- Online working from 8:30-10:00
- Spend time with spouse only
- Use the "Get To Know You Document"
"If you don't keep growing, you will become irrelevant."
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