From the CEO's Desk: Parenting Lessons for Business

Effective leaders in the workplace use the same leadership skills as great parents at home. Though mistakes tend to be viewed as negative, allowing our children to fail will give them the valuable life experience they need to become successful adults.   The parallels between great parenting and effective leadership Allow your people or your kids to make mistakes Allow them the grace to approach you in the aftermath of that mistake Listen to their side of the story and then help them grow from it Let them know that the mistakes they made don't define them   Today on the ACCESS Points Podcast, Tim Elliott and Davin Marceau will talk about the lessons and mistakes that we make as parents that make us better leaders and better business people. They will share their own experience in raising their children, their parenting styles, and how their mistakes have made them a better parent and a better leader.   Enjoy!   In This Episode 6:23 - Tim's parenting style   10:39 - The common ground between a parent and a business leader   16:03 - Why it's important to coach your kids or employees   18:31 - How mistakes can help parents and businesses alike   24:18 - Why parenting is the hardest job in the world   Favorite Quotes "By our kids making those mistakes, they're leading us. They're helping guide us. They're helping turn us into the parent, into the leader, into the entrepreneur that we need to be in the same way that we're trying to turn them into the kid-parent-adult employee that they need to be. Learn from every mistake whether it's someone else's or yours." Tim Elliott and Davin Marceau   "When kids do things that aren't always the smartest thing, as a parent, you think of what could have happened. What angered you most was not just the stupidity of what he did, but it's the release of everything that could have happened to him in your mind." - Tim Elliott   "I think one of those reflective moments that we have to have as parents and I think as business leaders at that moment is what kind of environment and what kind of relationship are we fostering." - Davin Marceau   "When something goes down, my number one task is to get to the bottom of what happened. I can't fix something, I can't change something, I can't learn from something until I have all the facts." - Tim Elliott   "Understanding the balance of a parent is allowing them to make mistakes and not think that it defines them." - Davin Marceau   "Learning from mistakes is what builds wisdom. The difference between knowledge and wisdom is experience." - Tim Elliott   "As leaders, we learn through experience. We gain wisdom the same way that we gain wisdom as a parent. The same way our children gain wisdom." - Davin Marceau   "The real lesson in the relationship with your child and how they become a man or a woman is really determined by what you're about to do and say." - Tim Elliott   "I don't know if there's anything harder in the world than being a parent." - Davin Marceau   Visit ACCESS EFM: Website Facebook LinkedIn Twitter   Click here to listen to Access Points Podcast