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🎙 You Can’t Teach Initiative: Why Effort Still Matters
In this episode of the Elite Leader Insights™ Podcast, Donald C. Kunkel Jr. unpacks one of the hardest truths in leadership: you can teach almost anything — but you can’t teach initiative.
Whether you're leading a team, mentoring others, or building a high-performance culture, effort is the silent driver of results. Drawing from leadership experience, core principles of the TECCA™ Influence System, and practical coaching insights, this episode explores how to spot initiative, how to cultivate it, and what to do when it’s missing.
This is a wake-up call for leaders who are exhausted from carrying the team alone — and a challenge to stop pouring energy into people who aren’t ready to own their growth.
You’ll learn:
- Why initiative is a mindset, not a skillset
- How to distinguish potential from performance
- What to do when you’re leading people who aren’t meeting you halfway
- A coaching-based strategy to redirect your leadership energy where it counts
Resources Mentioned:
- The Foundations of Influence: The Power to Lead & Inspire
- TECCA™ Influence Assessment and Power Profile™
- Elite Leader Insights™ Newsletter
Final Thought:
Initiative can’t be taught — but it can be rewarded, modeled, and expected. Don’t confuse coaching with carrying. Influence is how we lead — in life and leadership.
Elite Leader Insights™ is hosted by Donald C. Kunkel Jr., founder of the Elite Leadership Center™, author of The Foundations of Influence: The Power to Lead & Inspire, and creator of the TECCA™ Influence System.
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Elite Leader Insights is hosted by Donald C. Kunkel Jr., founder of the Elite Leadership Center, author of The Foundations of Influence: The Power to Lead and Inspire, and creator of the TECCA Influence System
🌐 Connect with Us: LinkTree | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter (X)
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