Two life-long friends, Craig Owens and Greg Heeres, are passionate about leadership and helping people achieve their business goals.
Periodically, the guys like to revisit the topic of leadership builders and killers. In this episode, you get TWO leadership killers, as they tackle the two-headed monster of ignorance and arrogance.…
This week we are celebrating Greg! His new book is entitled Sage Advice, and it has just been released, and everyone at Maximize is incredibly excited for you to be able to finally get your hands on …
Fear is something every leader struggles with, but great leaders learn to reframe that fear into an opportunity to grow. Join Craig and Greg as they discuss overcoming fear, reframing fear, and helpi…
Words are incredibly powerful! With our tongues, we can elevate others to amazing heights, or tear them down completely. In this episode, Craig and Greg discuss how, as leaders, it is critical that w…
There seems to be a belief among some leaders that the louder they yell, the better they’re understood. No need to call anyone out, but we’re sure someone just came to mind. When you received that ki…
Too often we fall into the trap of seeing meetings as perfunctory, tedious, and downright boring to attend. Today Craig and Greg are here to tell you, they like meetings!
If managed correctly, meetin…
When was the last time you noticed your team? Not just on a surface level like saying hello in the hallway, but really truly paying attention to what's going on with your team. Noticing is easy to do…
Performance reviews are a great tool to help leaders measure and celebrate the growth of their team, but the standard model of quarterly and yearly reviews is a terrible way to go about it. In this e…
Recently Greg got a call from an educational institute asking him for advice on how to help their athletes “toughen up.” Unfortunately, they’re not alone, it seems like resilience is in increasingly …
Accepting a new position is a very exciting experience! Wether it's a promotion in your current organization or an opportunity elsewhere, it's very tempting to want to immediately throw your full att…
No need to call anyone out, but when we say “difficult peer” at least one person probably comes to mind right away. So what’s the solution: ignore them, scream, tear your hair out? Craig and Greg thi…
Craig is not a very good golfer, so when they hit the course together Greg is generous enough to give him a mulligan...sometimes a lot of them. In the same way, we as leaders need to be willing to gi…
As a leader, you will have to deal with very emotional situations from time to time. While you may not always have control over when these situations arise, you do have the ability to control your re…
When we think about leadership, we often envision the people in organizationally designated leadership roles "leading down" to the people on their team. In this episode the guys flip the script, disc…
As leaders, it’s our responsibility to help our organization grow. As Craig and Greg discuss in this episode, one of the best ways to do that is by focusing on your own personal development. It might…
As we kick off the new year, Craig and Greg are certain you have big dreams for the coming months. In this episode, the guys talk about how setting goals can help create a plan to turn your dream int…
The first episode of The Craig and Greg Show debuted over two years ago on September 15th, 2020, and was appropriately titled “Leaders are Learners.” However, the discussions that became this show go…
It seems like some people are so averse to change that they begin to regard it as a four-letter word. That couldn’t be further from the truth! Change is an essential part of any organization, and hea…
Recently, quiet quitting has become a mainstream topic of discussion. While some of this can be attributed to the individual employees, Craig and Greg are here to tell you that a lot of the responsib…
Effective leaders set goals for their organization. Maybe it's a quarterly sales goal, a yearly roadmap, or even a five year vision. However, have you thought about what the plan is when leadership c…