Leadership Lessons From a Cruise Captain (Part 1)

I learned some amazing leadership lessons while interviewing a Carnival cruise ship Captain! 

As some of you know, I love cruising on Carnival and have built up a little following doing that. While on recent sailing earlier in January I was invited to have breakfast and dinner with the Captain of this cruise ship. 

While the interview started off about cruising for my YouTube channel, I quickly realized that I was watching a master leader at work and started taking mental notes. 

Let me rewind a bit. I have come up with my own meta framework on leadership. Not to replace all the other models out there but to help place an easy to remember structure around things you probably already heard or learner, or will learn for the first time. 

For the past several months I have actually been taking you through my first phase, or step, of leadership. That is learn how to lead yourself. When I teach leadership to my Fortune 100 clients, I share a lot about what I did myself as a leader. The first thing I did in my early 20s was learn more about myself through Gallup CliftonStrengths (then called StrengthsFinder) and Myers Briggs. Many of you have also done DISC, Enneagram, Discovery Insights, and more. 

These tools all help do this: show you who you are and (hopefully) how to become a better version of yourself. Learn how to lead yourself. 

In the next several months I will share about the next phase of leadership: leading individuals. The final phase is leading leaders and teams. 

Read part 2 here.

If you know a budding leader or manager who needs to hear these lessons, please forward this to them so they can subscribe to my email list. Then come back next week as I start sharing the amazing lessons learned from a Carnival cruise captain! 

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