Ironclad Emotional Control

My job is to help CEOs and leadership teams scale profitable companies. One of the more challenging situations you ever see on a leadership team is when the leaders lack ironclad emotional control. This is a concept I first heard or first read when I read the book the Captain Class by Sam Walker about successful sports dynasties. And one of the key characteristics of leaders on these teams were there was them demonstrating ironclad emotional control.

The ability to maintain emotional composure when things get difficult. And one of the things you definitely see on leadership teams is when leaders Leaders lack that. It destroys their ability to trust each other and have good conflict lead to the best decisions. What I really mean by that is they cannot get deep enough in the questions they ask or in the discussions they have to make the next best decision because they don't have trust among team members when they believe one or more team members will have an outburst, lose control if they in fact go as deep as they need to.

And it becomes subconscious. It becomes a real challenge for teams to operate under that kind of duress if one or more team members has that issue. So it's interesting because the first time that I thought about this concept in great deal and the first time in detail and the first time I saw those three words, Ironclad Emotional Control, I really asked myself, boy, I wonder if those, you know, looking back, there were some situations I didn't demonstrate that and surely I can now realize how I not only impacted my, the rest of the leadership team, I could tell those emotions brought down the room. And I saw when I was successful, that I maintained Ironclad Emotional Control.

And I did it for very long periods of time. And that is what makes the standard of being a leader, sometimes I hate the word leader, we want to be a coach inside of an organization, coaches, or if we want to be an effective leader, we have to master that concept first. And yes, there will be people that will say, Hey, what about people like Steve Jobs? He didn't have Ironclad Emotional Control.

Yes, there are people that will be in various leadership team functions and not demonstrate Ironclad Emotional Control. You know, some reason they'll get to that level and maybe the company is successful. But look, if you want to have a high functioning leadership team that again has healthy trust, good conflict, gets the best decisions and is able to grow a company profitably, they need to be able to demonstrate ironclad emotional control. They need to be able to have strategies for regulating their emotion, even, you know, learning how to pause before they say something or breathing strategies when they get upset or avoiding emotional outbursts with their team.

And these are all things we've experienced from leaders that diminish more than multiply. If you go back to the book Multipliers, you kind of tie a couple books into this concept. Nevertheless, I do see some really cool changes that occur when people get their arms around Ironclad Emotional Control. And I've seen a lot of really positive things come from leaders who realize that maybe they don't demonstrate all the time, and they can improve on it, they work on it and focus on it.

So if you're a CEO and a leader, get Sam Walker's book, the Captain Class, and also get Multipliers. That's another great read. Those two things will be a very good resource to see if you or others on your team need help in regulating those emotions more consistently. And as a CEO and a leader, if you want to really know what are the key factors that may or may not be holding your company back from scaling, there's a quick, pretty quick 40 question assessment.

You can go on, it's a link in my bio. Go to the link in my bio, you'll be able to take the assessment and that will tell you where you are. And then you can book a free follow-up with me and I will go through and help you find out where your biggest gaps are and if you can grow from there. So learn about Ironclad emotional control.

Again, Captain Class, Sam Walker, take the 40 question assessment and see where your company can, has opportunities to grow even further.