The Learning Leader Show Interviews Don Yaeger

Episode 137: Don Yaeger – How To Become A Master Storyteller

“The greatest in the world learn to hate losing more than they love winning.”

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Taking excuses off the table and understanding the value of who you associate with leads to sustained excellence.
• Looking for imperceptible slights to fuel you – Michael Jordan’s method to motivate himself.
• Listening, always being a student will lead to incredible relationships.
• Understanding how to asks questions that lead people to open up.
• Challenge yourself to be known by 5 words.
• The process of becoming a professional speaker.
• Understanding you have a personal brand and how to cultivate it.
• The 16 things high performing teams do that others don’t.
• Always having a development plan for the next leaders.
• How to make meetings better – It starts with punctuality.
• Learning Leader – John Wooden – Always reading, right up until the end of his life.
• Playing quarterback and how it compares to other parts of life.
• “Every other month I flew to California to meet with John Wooden. EVERY time I walked in the room he was reading a book. He never stopped learning.”