Katherine is joined by her husband and business partner in crime, Greg Coble, a leadership consultant and executive business coach with Concentric Leadership Group. Every year the two attend the Global Leadership Summit, and this year they sat down to recap the ideas still on their minds from four of the 13 speakers, and what leaders can do with them right away.

Greg and Katherine walk through four talks. Craig Groeschel on how great leaders see patterns instead of isolated events. Vanessa Van Edwards on showing people you value them. Kwame Christian on why being persuasive matters more than being right. And Ryan Leak on building a culture where people stay by helping them see their own future. Along the way they pull out three common threads about communication: it is something you do repeatedly, it starts with the other person, and your behavior speaks louder than your intentions.

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Key Takeaways:

• Leadership maturity isn't measured by what you know, it's measured by what you notice, so ask what keeps repeating, what's consistently missing, and what tension keeps resurfacing.
• Show people you like and value them through specific recognition, visible enthusiasm, and framing requests around what the "win" is.
• Name the emotion so you can tame it, then talk less and get curious so the conversation moves from you versus me to you and me versus the problem.
• People accept a job for the organization's vision but stay for their personal one, so communicate where individuals can go, not just where the company is going.
• Your behavior communicates louder than your intentions, so make sure your actions line up with what you say.