Dr. John Delony

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205 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Aug

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EntreLeadership · A Master Class on Handling Hard Conversations · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Almost every time I've had a kick in the pants conversation, that was about me as a leader trying to flex than it was about solving a problem.

I think the challenge for leaders, especially nowadays, everybody's been talking about mental health and emotional health and what's going on outside of the workplace for the last decade now.

A lot of leaders try to be like off-the-clock therapists and they try to take care of their employees and make sure they're warm and cuddly, which I like that sentiment, but what that does to the rest of your sales staff, they know, oh, you get special treatment or we have different sets of numbers, right?

And so I think it's important to remember, like you got to separate the work outcome I need from the personal experience.

And if there's a context specific thing, if this person's crushing it forever, and then you've seen them just fall off a cliff, man, that can be a lifesaving intervention there.

I'm going to give you two weeks off.

I'm going to pay like we do here.

I'm going to cover 10 counseling sessions for you.

But what you're doing is you're handing it to them saying, I'm going to give you some tools.

It might be space.

It might be resources, whatever.

but it's your job to take care of your life outside here.

I can't solve that for you.

When you're here, here's the demands of this job that I hired you for.

And those can be really uncomfortable things.

And sometimes if you've got the bandwidth, if you're a small business, I can't afford for somebody whose wife is about to leave them to take six months off.

I don't have that many personnel, right?

And so I might have to have a hard conversation about,

I'm for you, I support you, I gotta have somebody selling this or this business goes under.

At a place like this where you have a thousand people, you can call your sales team together and say, we're all gonna pick up some slack because so-and-so's wife has cancer and he's gonna be gone until she's better.

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