PODCAST INTERVIEW: IF YOU COULD GIVE YOUR YOUNGER SELF SOME ADVICE, WHAT KEY LESSONS WOULD YOU WANT TO PASS ON?

Chris Ekrem: [00:00:00] Okay. All right. So imagine now you could, you could go back in time and tell your younger self, some advice. What key lessons would you want to pass on to your younger self? And what difference would it have made back in the day if you had done things differently, do you think?

Rodney Reider: Thank you for that question.

So if it's okay, I recently wrote a book. I'm going to grab it off the shelf. And it only because in the time of writing the book, I was, I was attempting to share some of those learnings from the past. And I have eight, eight rungs that I, that I utilized on the wrong side of it, terms of sharing what we all can do as leaders.

But the first chapter I really focused on that you can have an impact no matter what your title is, where you are and that, that title. It doesn't matter because that's how people look at you and the tone you set. And I would go back [00:01:00] to sharing the most. One of those powerful people in the organization is the CFO and his team.

How do they approach people? What is the message they're sending and what is the positive impact? Are they being innovative? It really, it goes around the human dynamics and that's what I attempt to cover in the book is that the humidity. Is the interrelationship side, the influence that the leader has, the influence that, that CFO has that CFO taking a step to collaborate with others.

I know that's a commonly used term, but the collaboration really means you're listening and you're taking action for how you together can partner and make the necessary changes and improve both you in this case, whenever you're working with operations side and that comes through understanding and education, and that education is, is.

From you, but back to you. And I think that's key. If I could give my younger self advice to be to listen more partner with people, how I can collaborate, look at how by knowing them and [00:02:00] gaining that trust I can influence for us to take together. It's an incredible accomplishment. I think that's key. So,

Chris Ekrem: so the theme in all of this so far is relationships, relationships, relationships.

Rodney Reider: Yeah, as is a lot of it. Right. That's great. I'm assuming we have the knowledge and financials. We have the knowledge and operations, but at a certain point, you know, that expertise you have credibility. How do you expand that credibility to educate others and make them want to be part of your team and part of the partnership, part of the problem solving we can do together to make the organization that much better.

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