Strengths Oriented Leadership: The World Through Bee Glasses with Matt Beadle

Wealth Without Borders Podcast

Have you noticed that you’re not improving and/or perhaps, you’re not happy with what you do? Have you been recently bothered by the eagerness to do better, but you keep on failing each time you try? Do you want to see the world through a bee’s perspective? Do you want a change of mindset that will lead you towards a successful life?

As human beings situated in this pandemic, we tend to think of nothing but ways on how we can survive; however, that’s not even an easy thing to accomplish. People are getting emotionally unstable for more than a year now, and this is affecting the way they think and see life. In order for us to get better, we need change to happen; however, that will only happen if you’ll allow it to take place.

Matt Beadle is a British ex-pat that is currently situated in Germany. He works as a management consultant and facilitator, and this allows him to specialize in leadership development for young and new managers. Matt works with Fortune 500 companies and global players across the world and is also an author of four books. He’s a regular speaker and presenter at business events, panel discussions, and TV shows, and is actually a Chelsea fan.

In this episode, Matt guides you towards seeing the world with your bee glasses on. Here, he discusses how a bee approach is different from that of a fly, and how a changed mindset would result in a happy and bountiful life.

What you will learn from this episode:

• Discover the difference of a life under fly glasses and bee glasses approach;
• Find out how the bee glasses approach actually helps you see the world differently and live a better life;
• Know more about the beauty of strengths orientation and having your mindset changed towards a bee glasses approach.

“Sign of excellence is experiencing genuine joy and flow when you're doing things that you're great at and they come easy to you.“

– Matt Beadle

Topics Covered:

02:12 – Matt and his ideal client: An organization that cares about their staff and wants to help their staff develop themselves.

02:40 – What is the problem he solves: The epidemic of focusing on weaknesses.

03:33 – The typical symptoms people experience: Trying to be a jack of all trades.

04:32 – The common mistakes people make when they're trying to solve the problem of being good at everything: Work harder and work faster.

05:24 – A valuable action listeners of this episode can implement right away: Get a cup of coffee and sit down for a pause.

06:19 – Valuable Free Resource: The five signs for talent: desire, rapid learning, flow, glimpses of excellence, and satisfaction.

07:17 – A book that has been the most impactful in Matt’s experience: The Leading Brain by Hans W. Hagemann and Friederike Fabritius and his own book Strengths Oriented Leadership: The World through Bee Glasses

08:25 – The beauty of strengths orientation and changing your mindset towards a more sort of bee glasses approach: It works in all walks of life.

Key Takeaways:

“Can I go through life wearing these ‘fly glasses’ where I'm only looking for the crap, or can I put my ‘bee glasses’ on and look for the color and the talents and the development, and try and spread that around a little bit? That is what I've noticed.“ – Matt Beadle

“Why are we expecting people to be great at everything? Why don't we encourage people to focus on their talents and try and be great at a handful of things, instead of being jack of all trades? You wouldn't ask a plumber to build something out of wood and expect it to be top quality. You wouldn't ask a pilot to incise, you know, an operation into somebody's chest and expect them to be a great surgeon. So why do we expect executives and business people to be good at everything?” – Matt Beadle

“Have a think about how you do something, not what you do, not the role on your business problems cognitively, and go through those five steps. And when you recognize those five things, then you're almost certainly looking at and dealing with talent.” – Matt Beadle

“The beauty of strengths orientation and changing your mindset towards a more sort of bee glasses approach is that it works in all walks of life.” – Matt Beadle

Ways to Connect with Matt Beadle:

• Email: [e-mail]
• Website: https://www.mattbeadle.com/management-training
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbeadle/

Ways to Connect with Howard Whiteson:

• Website: https://www.wealthwithoutborders.net
• Podcast: https://www.wealthwithoutborders.net/podcast/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howardwhiteson