Pull the Chute - Grow your People, Grow your Company Podcast
The goal of this podcast is to interview business owners and/or C-level executives to get an understanding of how they built their culture, what worked, what failed, and what tips can they give new and upcoming business owners. Our goal over the next ten years is to help as many small to medium-sized businesses get to the next level by growing their people, which will grow their company. Through coaching and transformational leadership, Pull the Chute can guide company leaders to invest time to get to know their people and understand their roles, goals, and challenges to provide learning & growth opportunities - ultimately helping their people be the best they can be.
Pull the Chute - Grow your People, Grow your Company Podcast
Your Team Doesn’t Need Another Boss. They Need a Leader Who Understands Them Featuring Preston Zeller
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Most leaders focus on performance. Great leaders focus on people.
One of the biggest takeaways from this podcast episode? Empathy isn’t soft — it’s strategic.
When leaders take time to understand their team beyond the job title, everything changes:
✔️ Trust improves
✔️ Communication gets stronger
✔️ Teams become more engaged
✔️ People actually feel like they belong
Sometimes, leadership starts with something as simple as asking:
“How are you really doing?”
Because people don’t want to feel managed.
They want to feel understood.
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