Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Deviate. He’s an expert facilitator with a gift for bringing out the best in people. Currently, he is the performance coach for high-capacity leaders around the world. He and his team have helped organizations rebound from turmoil, scale start-ups, and build cultures for locker rooms, corporations, and world tours.
He’s coached executives, rock bands, athletic coaches, and professional athletes and advised a successful foreign presidential campaign.
Ryan delivers life-altering coaching and experiences in partnership with the National Football League (NFL). To date, Ryan has coached club executives and their senior leadership teams from over half of the NFL and the league itself, including the New York Jets.
Listen in for some great takeaways about the benefits of becoming a better leader and the impact it can have on your company, your career, and your life.
You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in…
- Learn more about Ryan Blanck and Deviate [2:33]
- Why the tagline “off track on purpose?” [7:48]
- Why empathy is the most important leadership skill [8:52]
- What “You teach people how to treat you” means [12:56]
- Get your copy of “Financial Planning Made Personal” [19:00]
- How Ryan started working with the NY Jets [19:40]
- How communication skills help businesses last [23:40]
- The difference between a stretch goal and a strain goal [26:53]
- Ryan’s America’s Funniest Home Videos prank [31:35]
- What Ryan did today that put him in the right mindset for success [33:46]
Why the tagline “Off track on purpose?”
Ryan’s friend told him to call his company “Deviate.” Why? Because he was the kind of person who, when he comes into someone’s life, they deviate. But Deviate.com was taken. So he had to come up with a tagline that represented what they do. Off Track on Purpose was born.
Ryan takes his clients on a journey off track to deviate and stretch where they are to where they want to be. Deviate is about leadership development and answering the question, “Are you worth following?”
Why empathy is the most important leadership skill
People mistake empathy for sympathy and pity. But empathy is about proactively seeking other’s perspectives. People need to feel heard before they can actually listen. When you take a moment to pause and allow someone to share from their perspective, they feel heard and included.
One of the most harmful things you can do to someone is to exclude them. It may never be your intention. To avoid that, you must exercise empathy and seek other people’s perspectives first. When people don’t feel heard, they pull their love and trust away. When you don’t listen, you’re not fostering a culture of collaboration. You have to invest in your organization.
What “You teach people how to treat you” means
If you let people cross your boundaries, you’re teaching them that you don’t have boundaries. If you set a clear expectation—and people don’t follow through—you have to have a real conversation about it and not let it slide. If someone believes they’ll fall short of an expectation, they need to communicate with you. It’s important to set a precedent of high expectations.
What else gets in the way? Stealth expectations. A stealth expectation happens when you have an expectation that hasn’t been explicitly stated. So when someone breaks the expectation, you take your frustration out on them.
How communication skills help businesses last
The #1 reason small businesses fail is poor communication. We think communication is someone speaking and someone else listening. That’s not how it works.
“Do you know what I mean?” or any question where you’ll receive a yes/no answer is the worst kind of question to ask. Someone may say “yes” because they think they understand. But their interpretation may not match your intention.
It doesn’t matter what you say, it matters what your recipient hears. So instead of asking “Do you understand what I’m saying?” say something like, “What are you hearing me say?” in a welcoming tone. You can decide whether or not their answer matches your intention. If the answer is no, you have to clarify and start over.
Resources & People Mentioned
- Get your copy of “Financial Planning Made Personal”
Connect with Ryan Blanck
Bio
He and his team have helped organizations rebound from turmoil; scale start-ups; built cultures for locker rooms, corporations, and world tours; coached executives, rock bands, athletic coaches, and professional athletes; and advised a successful foreign presidential campaign.
Ryan is an expert facilitator with a gift for bringing out the best in people. Currently, he is the performance coach for high capacity leaders around the world. He delivers life-altering coaching and experiences in partnership with the National Football League (NFL), within championship-winning football programs like the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys, Baltimore Ravens, and Clemson University to Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, and Western Michigan University, and the iconic entertainment industry agency William Morris Endeavor. To date, Ryan has coached club executives and their
senior leadership teams from over half of the NFL and the league itself.
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