Creating Healthy Teams and Effective Leaders with Life Coach, Mikaela Kate Schaefer

The Leader Mentality

Life Coach, Mikaela Kate Schaefer, stopped by to meet with us to talk about many powerful personal growth and leadership strategies. She also talked about her central premise for the show, "Know Thyself". In this show, Mikaela shared some of her tips from 10 years of training experience. The concepts ranged from Self Awareness to emotional intelligence and something we sometimes miss - Self Action.
We enjoyed having Mikaela on the show! She also talks about her upcoming Women's Retreat. Read below for more information on that.
Some show highlights:
-She's a "Midwest girl" that grew up on a farm with 4,000 pigs!
-Her early career was in full time ministry. In that early career she developed her passion for helping people through coaching.
-Concept she mentioned: you go to the gym and your body gets sore...you need some time to recover. The mind is the same way sometimes.
-As a natural introvert, she's developed ways to thrive in the spotlight while still presenting herself authentically (not trying to adopt someone else's style to please others)
-3 great writers to check out: Brene' Brown, Patrick Lencioni and Simon Sinek
-Emotional intelligence is a key to great leadership. Studies have shown that managers of similar ranks and roles to others that demonstrate higher emotional intelligence have teams with more engagement and improvement
-In communication, generally, Men tends to respond to numbers and results whereas Women tend to respond to feelings and finding action points. However, this is not true of every man and woman, so it's important to know how to communicate best with each individual
-The importance of feedback in personal growth is underrated. Ask others (that you trust) for feedback and be aware.
-Rob and Mikaela discussed the value of Enneagram. We found out Mikaela is a type 9 (peacemaker) and Rob is a 3 and 1 (performer, perfectionist)
-She talked about the concept of Know Thyself (to maximize your effectiveness). Here are some parts to making that happen: Start with being Accountable. Then you are ready to take the steps to improvement. 1st - Understand Self Deception and Blindspots, 2 - Go on a Self Discovery Journey (and accept the results), 3 - Self Awareness (Understand what you're doing and why), 4 - Self Action (apply the changes to handle yourself optimally).
-Mikaela is having her 2nd Annual Women's Leadership Retreat in Pawleys Island on October 18th and 19th.
For more about that event or information on Mikaela's services, go to: Mikaela Schaefer (mikaelakate.com).