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Guys.
Well, this could have been better.
Let me try--
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Hey, guys.
Oh, too--
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Hey guys, welcome.
To the first ever dean's vlog, NLC College.
Got to work on how to start.
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What's up gamers?
I'm just kidding, you're probably not a gamer.
My name's Tyler Tarver, I'm the Dean of NLC College
and I wanted you guys-- wow, it's so dark in here.
Hi Ms. Diaz, how are you?
This is one of our teachers here at NLC college.
What is one piece of advice you got, at some point in your life
about leadership?
The advice that I got that's best,
is to really listen, be a good listener.
Like what people are actually saying--
hear what they're actually saying
and then hear what they're saying underneath that too.
But leaders are the people who talk the most, right?
They shouldn't be.
Oh, that was good.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
Thank you, that was perfect.
Have a good one.
Watch as we go and sneak up on it.
Steve Irwin.
Steve Irwin-- I feel like Steve Irwin.
Watch as I see another teacher sitting.
Dr. Holler, how are you doing, man?
Hello, doing great.
Be yourself.
Oh.
Be yourself.
That's good, be real.
Be real.
I like it.
Good start-- two teachers for the price of one.
Kobe.
So if you had one piece of advice on leadership,
what would it be?
Pastor Rick says, be the best communicator in the room--
that doesn't mean talk the most, but listen,
get to know everybody.
I know a lot of times, when I'm in a room with a lot of people,
everybody has a lot of good ideas--
how do you assimilate that into next steps, actions?
So that's good advice man.
And you did that?
You wrote that?
Yep.
You came up with that?
I wrote that from pastor Rick's mouth.
My man.
Thanks, bro.
Millennie, how are you doing?
Good.
You good?
I texted you.
Millennia, everybody.
Hello!
That's Millennia.
The one, the only, John-boy ladies and gentlemen!
John, one piece of advice on leadership-- what would it be?
Keep it between the ditches.
Keep it between the-- what does that mean?
Always keep it straight.
Like, on the road?
On the road.
Stay on the road.
In the middle.
In the middle of the road?
That seems even more dangerous than the ditches
because there's cars coming.
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Hey, Josh Rauls, everybody.
Develop your team.
Oh, that's good.
Develop your team.
That's John Maxwell.
You wrote that and John Maxwell stole it from you.
And then, you're saying it again, so.
Josh Rauls--
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, baby.
That's good-- he wrote that too!
He wrote that too.
Josh wrote a lot of stuff you've probably heard of.
The lighting is so much better if I turn this way.
What is happening right now?
Safety first.
Spoiler alert, found one of our business
teachers, Bryan Christian.
Lead with the heart.
Oh.
Get the why behind the what.
Science in it.
That's how you do it.
My man, my man.
Yep, definitely.
That was good.
Thanks, Bryan.
Don't do it alone.
Oh.
That's-- oh, gosh.
I almost fell!
Both of my feet touched the ground--
it bounced up.
Safety first in all your daily activities--
that's good leadership advice, safety first.
Did we say that one?
I just met one of our new employees,
and he seems super nice--
he dropped his phone.
Hey, I dropped my phone.
Neil Greathouse, everybody.
And show people what you're talking about,
don't tell them--
show them.
I thought you were going to say, show me the money.
Show them, don't--
Show me the money!
My eyes were crossed when I took my glasses off.
A really big piece of leadership advice-- and John Maxwell
will tell you this, he'll tell you this all the time.
Uh, uh, uh, Margaret and I were--
Fun fact, did you know that John Maxwell actually stole all
of his ideas from Josh Rauls?
[LAUGHING] Wow.
It's true.
Some of those, he shouldn't have stolen.
Sarah, Abbey-- leadership advice.
Never ignore an opportunity to make it a learning opportunity.
That's good.
Sarah?
If it's something I know I can do--
to delegate all my little things to other people,
so they can learn and I can basically
make a copy of myself.
That's from John Maxwell's book.
It's, you replicate yourself-- you build up people--
the five levels of leadership.
The fifth level is someone who is-- well,
the fourth level is someone who's creating leaders
to replace themselves.
The fifth level is, you're creating leaders
who are replicating themselves.
Did you know that Josh Rauls wrote that book
for John Maxwell?
He's a ghostwriter.
Yeah.
There he is.
I was talking about the John Maxwell book that you wrote.
Oh yeah, man-- me and John, man.
He called me, he's was like hey man, write a book.
I'm going to throw something at you.
Write a book about leadership.
How many levels?
I'm thinking 15.
You're like, no just put it in five, man--
five levels.
Because we've got to teach a class,
we have to get through this in the semester.
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Hey Abbey, is this you?
Is it really?
No it's not.
Advice on leadership?
Pick good people.
Oh.
Did you steal that from John Maxwell too?
Yes, he did.
I've got a bunch of his books I've never read.
Do you just like touch them every morning and be like,
that's probably what he meant.
It makes me look like a great leader.
That's good, that's good.
My man, Luke Brown, everybody.
This is Joseph Tilley--
if you want to check him out on Spotify, Joseph Tilley music.
I know you're single-- it's at like 400,000 listens.
OK, Joseph, I'm going to zoom in on you.
One piece of leadership advice.
You have to sit in the middle--
you have to be getting pointed to,
so that you can point to others.
So if you're trying to lead and you're not getting pointed to,
it ain't going to work.
Dry well, am I right, Josh?
(SINGING) Because I'm drinking from my saucer.
That's pretty good.
Josh Raul's music on Spotify.
(SINGING) I'm drinking from my saucer.
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All right, bye Joseph.
Hey, good work, man.
Taylor Bean, one of our students,
hey Taylor, what's up?
Hey, what's up?
Be the change you want to see.
In the world?
Or in your region?
Or in your city?
It starts with you.
Oh!
Two for two, Taylor Bean, what's up girl-- good job.
That's good, that's good stuff.
You can write that down in your book, John Maxwell.
You just went up in my book.
You would never know, but you went up.
Yep.
This is Brock, right here.
Surf more.
Brought it out of his Chick-fil-A bag.
This is a very good question.
Thanks, I came up with it myself.
Great question.
No big deal, it's fine.
I think communication is always important,
so to communicate clearly is like--
it helps everybody that you're leading and everybody
that you're following.
So if you're-- leaders have to follow as well, right?
Absolutely.
You have to communicate to leaders above you,
and communicate to those below you.
You know, I know a lot of people that will ask after an event--
they have everyone e-mail them what they view,
so they're getting all these different viewpoints.
And you know, certain people have different areas
that are important to them.
So obviously I'm going to notice something different
than someone else because there's
something that's on my heat map that I care about more.
That's why you're getting different points of view.
So--
Yeah.
I think that's a great idea.
For sure, for sure-- communication.
Edward Crockett, everybody-- plays for Arkansas,
running back, star QB1--
that's what they call it in Friday Night Lights.
I was walking through the auditorium-- it's packed out.
And I ran into two more students.
Hey!
If your team fails, it's on you, but if they win, it's on them.
That's good.
If you're losing, you go up front, and if you're winning,
you go to the back-- let your team have it.
Oh.
Don't just tell them, show them.
Oh!
Good job, guys.
I went for knuckle bombs, but OK, sorry it's fine.
Beep!
So if I was going to boil it down--
leadership down to something that's
rememberable and tangible--
I like to think of what I tell my kids every day whenever
they're going to school.
Now obviously we have our routines, we pray together,
we talk about different things that I
want them to do every day.
But when it comes to being a leader,
the question I ask them--
I want you to get better today, and I
want you to make the people around you better today.
Learn something every day, and make everybody around you
better--
that's it.