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How to Activate Greater Leadership in Your Teams - EP 272
Episode 27231st January 2025 • The Demartini Show • Dr John Demartini
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If you're inspired to grow your leadership and communication skills, lead your teams with certainty and mutual respect, and foster a highly collaborative team environment, then read on for a few of Dr Demartini’s top leadership and management skills.

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If you are not seeing how what they're

dedicated to is fulfilling your life,

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you're going to talk

down to them carelessly,

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and you're going to be an autocrat and

you're going to be trying to project them

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and motivating them with

all kind of incentives,

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which is going to increase

the cost of managing people.

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If you are a leader or aspire

to be a leader and manage

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or lead organization or teams of people,

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I'd like to share with you some things

that can be of a help in that management

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process or leadership process.

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No human being goes and joins

an organization or a company

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or any association unless they

feel that they're going to fulfill

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their values. They don't join organization

for the sake of the organization.

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They join it because they feel that

they're going to fulfill what's most

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meaningful and most important to them.

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The same thing in any relationship.

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People are in a relationship with you

because they feel somehow they're going to

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fulfill what's important to them

in their life by being with you.

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If they don't feel that anymore, they

move on. Well, if you want to lead people,

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if you want a team spirit, if you will,

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then knowing the values and what's

priority and what's really most

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important to the people you're

going to lead is crucial. You know,

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people as they, they're

not dedicated to you.

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They're dedicated to the

fulfillment of what they value.

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And if they think that what you're

up to is helping them fulfill that,

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they look dedicated to you.

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But I've proven that in

working with clients and

customers and people working in

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business,

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and I assure you that they're loyal to

their own values more so than loyal to

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you.

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So if you care enough about

the people in your team,

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or in your organization, that

you may be managing or leading,

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just know that if you don't know

what's really most important to them

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you're going to have

more challenge doing so.

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I did a very interesting study,

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where I took 33

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groups or couples that

did not know each other,

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and we had an exercise where,

these people never met each other,

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didn't know each other, they just

happened to be at one conference together,

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and they met each other to conference.

They didn't know each other prior.

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And I had them identify with my

Demartini Value Determination process,

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which you can go on my website

and look up and see, it's free,

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it's complimentary, it's private.

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It's a series of 13 questions

to ask yourself to help discern

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and narrow down what objectively your

life is demonstrating that's most

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important to you, most valuable to you.

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Because if you ask somebody what they

value in life and what's important to

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them, many times they'll

give you skewed answers.

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I've been doing this 46 years

on just Value Determination,

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and I assure you that people

don't always know what they,

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what they say is important, is

not what their life demonstrates,

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let's put it that way.

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But by going in and

answering these questions and

identifying what their values

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are and what your values are, this

is very crucial. So in this group,

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I took 33 pairs and I had them go

and do the Value Determination,

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which you can get on my

website, and had them go through

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and it took about 30 minutes,

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to go and identify what their life was

demonstrating was most valuable to them.

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Once we identified that, both

these people had their values,

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then we spent almost two

hours asking this question,

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how specifically is the very top

highest value in this individual

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helping fulfill the very top

highest value in this individual?

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So in other words, you're with your

pair, your partner, and you go,

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so whatever your highest value is,

raising children, building a business,

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growing wealth keeping

fit, whatever it may be,

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how specifically is it

helping me fulfill mine?

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Which in my case would be teaching and

research. Now my job is to find it.

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If I can't see how what they're dedicated

to is helping me fulfill what I'm

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dedicated to, I'm going to devalue them,

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I'm going to talk down to them,

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I'm going to project autocratically

my values onto them to try to

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correct them and fix them and change them.

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And nobody wants to be changed.

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They want to be loved and appreciated

who they are and who they are revolves

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around what they value most.

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Your ontological identity revolves

around what you value most.

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Your teleological purpose

revolves around what value most,

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your epistemological area of knowledge

and core competence is around what you

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value most. So knowing what's

highest on their value is crucial,

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but if you can't see

how what their values,

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their highest value and what

they're dedicated to is serving you,

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you're going to want to fix them.

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And you're going to be perceived

non charismatically as an autocrat

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dictating and manipulating

people with, you know,

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force to get them to do things.

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And this is not the most

powerful leadership or

management style, if you will.

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Most people do that because they don't

know how to communicate in people's

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values,

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and don't take the time and don't value

the person enough to want to take the

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time to do that. But if

you can do this, ask,

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how specifically is their top value,

their top one, first highest value,

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helping you fulfill your top highest

value? And answer that 20 or 30 times.

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And at first you're going to say it

doesn't, but your job is to find the link.

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Because if you find the link,

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the amount of effort to manage

and lead and govern teams,

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goes way down.

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You just liberated yourself because

now you're articulating fluently and

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congruently what you want

in terms of what they want.

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And caring enough to do that makes a

huge difference in the leadership style.

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So you ask, how specifically is their top

value, what they're most dedicated to,

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helping me fulfill what I'm most dedicated

to, my top value? And answer that 20,

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30 times. Then I ask, how

specifically is my top value,

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what I'm dedicated to helping them

fulfill what their top value is,

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what they're dedicated to, answer that

20 or 30 times. The more you answer that,

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the more communication, the

more dialogue you have. See,

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if you don't see how what their values,

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their top value is

helping you fulfill yours,

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you're going to have an alternating

monologue. You're going to be speaking,

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they're not listening, because they're

only interested in what they value,

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or they're going to be

speaking, you're not listening.

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But by linking top values together,

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you enhance the communication and you

have dialogue, not alternating monologue.

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Then you go to the second highest value.

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How specific is their second highest

value helping you fulfill your first?

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And how is your first

helping them in their second?

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And then how is their

first helping your second?

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And how is your second helping their

first? And if you go even step further,

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how is their second highest value helping

you fulfill your second highest value?

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And vice versa, 20 or 30 times. Now,

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we had a two hour session where

people were linking values together.

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When they started, they

didn't know each other,

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they didn't even relate to each other.

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And it didn't matter what their

values were. Once they linked this,

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and some did the first to the

first, first to the second,

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second to the first and

second to the second.

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Some went even further into the first

to the third and third to the first.

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Nobody got all the way third to the third.

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But we got all the way to the second

and a couple got to the third.

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And what was interesting, at the end of

it, in two hours we went, okay, stop,

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they made all these links. Right now,

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how many of you are deeply

appreciating this individual,

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engaged in now deep conversation,

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appreciating them and now actually

want to interact and become

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connected to them? And the hands went up.

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And we found out that out of 33 pairs,

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27 of them started doing business

together with each other,

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even though they didn't

know each other beforehand.

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They literally started doing

interactive business with each other,

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because they took the time to care enough

about another individual to find out

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what's most important to them,

most meaningful, most inspiring,

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and most priority, highest valued, and

link those to their highest values.

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Anytime two people can

connect the highest values,

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the engagement and

appreciation and reflection and

appreciation of each other go

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up. And this is the way to

have a relationship. Now,

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if you are not seeing how what they're

dedicated to is fulfilling your life,

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you're going to talk

down to them carelessly,

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and you're going to be an autocrat and

you're going to be trying to project them

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and motivating them with

all kind of incentives,

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which is going to increase

the cost of managing people.

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If you minimize yourself

and exaggerate them,

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you're going to sacrifice for them.

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One is you're going to be

narcissistically telling them what to do.

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The other is going to be

sacrificing altruistically for them,

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walking on eggshells carefully.

And again, that's not the way,

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you're not getting what

you want out of it.

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They're not getting out the first

one when you're narcissistic,

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you're not getting what you want

altruistic. But when you link those,

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you have now caring, not careful,

not careless, but caring.

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And that's the one that keeps

rings on fingers in marriages,

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but it also keeps the dialogue

going in in the organization.

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And if you do that amongst team members

and amongst the leadership role,

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you can lead the teams way

more effectively because

you know what's important to

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them. And you talk in terms of

what's their highest values.

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You can lead, you can manage,

you can negotiate, you can sell,

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and you can communicate what you

want in terms of their values,

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their dominant buying motives if it's a

sales person and the thing that they're

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engaged in most at work, if it's somebody

that's an employee. And if you do,

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your team effort will go up. And

if the people in a organization,

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a team in an organization will

do that amongst themselves,

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they'll maximize their teamwork.

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They'll have the benefits of

all of them working together.

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I've been teaching this 46 years on

values and doing this in leadership and

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management and communications

for decades now.

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I already know it works.

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We've seen the evidence and I just

wanted to take the time to share with you

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that,

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because if you take the time to care

enough about another human being to find

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out what's most important in their life

and communicate what's most important to

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you in terms of what's

most important to them,

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the relationship dynamic flourishes.

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You have sustainable fair exchange and

all relationships are striving for that,

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whether it conscious or not.

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And if you maximize that

potential between you two,

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you both help each other

get what they want in life.

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And this is a mutualism that's

makes everybody get more fulfilled.

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And you take the time to

communicate differently.

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I've seen what happens when all of a

sudden you get frustrated and you think

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that what their values are are wrong.

I see this in schools with teachers.

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I see this in relationships and parents

with kids. I see this in marriages,

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they're on the blink.

I watch what happens.

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I've done this with marriage counseling

where people are sitting there and they

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identify the value of one partner,

identify the value of that.

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We had this in Denver, Colorado one time,

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a man and woman who were

about to go through a divorce.

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They were already in the making

of it. And I had them go through,

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they happened to come to this

program I did as a last resort.

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I had them do just that exercise

and a bit on the Demartini Method.

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And there was no end of the relationship

after that. They're still together.

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Only because they didn't

know how to communicate.

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They didn't know how to articulate what

they wanted in a way where the other

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person was engaged in

assisting and helping.

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So I just wanted to take the time to go

through that because if you're leading a

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team, managing a team, organizing a team,

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if you know what each individual

in that team's values are,

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and care enough to communicate

what you value in terms of that,

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and link the values so you can

respectfully communicate with dialogue,

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it makes a huge difference in

the teamwork. And you know,

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I made it in my book The Values Factor,

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and I teach it every weekend in the

Breakthrough Experience how to do this.

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And I'm absolutely

certain it's gold .

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So just know that if you find out what

the top three values of the person that

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you want to communicate with and your

own top three values and make links

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between them, you can change

the dynamic of the relationship,

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even if it's already on the edge,

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you can bring it back into the center and

and enhance the relationship dynamics.

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I've seen it over and over

again. Either parents to kids,

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parents between each other, teachers

to students, students between students,

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even bullies, you know how

to communicate in a bully,

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you change the bullies

perspective. And people at work,

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team effort. I mean, it goes on and on,

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it's one of the most significant things

you can learn in your life is mastering

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the art of communicating effectively

what you value in terms of what other

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people value. It'll help you in sales,

help you in leadership, management,

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communication, every area of your

life it's going to be enhanced,

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with any human being that you're

going to be interacting with.

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So I just wanted to share that.

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Please go to my book The Values Factor

for more information on that or come to

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the Breakthrough Experience. If you

come to the Breakthrough Experience,

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I give you firsthand experience on

what that is and how to do that.

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And also go online to my drdemartini.com

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and go and do the Value Determination

process. Determine what your values are.

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Don't make assumptions of what they are,

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go through a methodical process

and look objectively what your life

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demonstrates,

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because If you just think of what

you suspect and speculate about it,

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instead of really be objective about it,

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you'll be linking things

that aren't really true,

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and then you'll wonder why it backfires.

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Care enough to help them know what's

important to them and find out what's

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important to you. And master the

art of communicating what you value,

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highest value, in terms of

what their highest value is.

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It makes a huge difference in your

management and leadership of teams.

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