How to Embrace Failure as a Leader with Sarah McVanel
In this episode, Roxanne chats with Sarah McVanel about her recent book exploring failure through interviews with notable Canadians. They discuss Sarah's personal experiences with failure, the challenges of starting a new business, and the importance of vulnerability in leadership. They also delve into the concept of "failure resilience" and its application in everyday life.
Key Points
- Recognizing and leveraging greatness in both work and life can be achieved by reframing our understanding and handling of failure.
- Creating a failure-resilient mindset allows individuals and teams to elevate from setbacks by learning, adapting, and finding new opportunities for growth.
- Authentic leadership involves understanding and managing diverse team needs, fostering an environment where failures are openly discussed and viewed as a pathway to resilience and success.
Failure...what a daunting word, but what if we embrace failure and take it as a great opportunity? On this episode of Authentic Living with Roxanne, we welcome Recognition Expert, Sarah McVanel to discuss her new book FLIP Side of Failing: How to Recognize and Leverage Greatness in Work and Life.
Sarah helps leaders leverage the exponential power of recognition to retain top talent. She jokes it’s the only “lane” that pulls together her BA (Psych), MSc (Family Relations), & certifications in Organizational Development, Coaching, Human Resources, Speaking & Healthcare Admin!
Authentic Touch Points:
How my latest book almost failed. 2:30 Sarah’s journey. 8:25 The theme of failure. 17:30 Dealing with failure as a leader. 24:45 The failure resilient mindset. 29:45 Why aren’t things worse? 40:50 The “gift” of failure. 43:30
Sarah has over 18 years-experience including at a senior leadership level and now owns boutique firm Greatness Magnified. She is an author of peer-reviewed journals, articles, four books, “Forever Recognize Others’ Greatness: Solution Focused Strategies for Satisfied Staff, High Performing Teams and Healthy Bottom Lines” (2015), “The FROG Effect: Tools and Strategies to Forever Recognize Others’ Greatness” (2016), #GreatnessBizHacks: 100+ Tips to Grow a Profitable, Service-Based Biz you Love!& FLIP Side of Failing: How to Recognize and Leverage Greatness in Work and Life.
She left her senior leadership role 5 years ago to launch her boutique firm Greatness Magnified, authoring some books, VLOGing, tap dancing, & getting up to no good with her hubby Mark & kids Justin (16) & Simonne (14).
Join me to hear Sarah talk about the flipside of failure and how it can be our greatest gift to improve ourselves, our workplace and our organization’s bottom line!
Links:
Sarah’s new book: https://books2read.com/b/flipsideoffailing
Sarah’s website: https://greatnessmagnified.com/store/
Failure Resiliency Quiz: www.greatnessmagnified.com/theflipsideoffailing
Sarah’s website: https://greatnessmagnified.com
Great Happy People FB GRoup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreatHappyPeople/
My YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ZfhShvJCjFV7RTicaSFGw
The FLIP Side of Failure Roadmap: https://greatnessmagnified.com/cool-stuff/
The FROG Portal membership site: https://greatnessmagnified.com/oops-this-content-is-members-only/?wlfrom=%2Fthe-frog-portal-all-content%2F
Roxanne’s LinkedIn profile:https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxannederhodge/
Roxanne’s email: [email protected]
Chat with Roxanne: https://roxannederhodge.com/chat/
Roxanne’s previous podcasts: https://roxannederhodge.com/blog/
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