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🎙 Why We Still Struggle to Develop Leaders — and What’s Missing

Edition 28 – Elite Leader Insights™ Podcast

In this episode of the Elite Leader Insights™ Podcast, Donald C. Kunkel Jr. unpacks one of the most frustrating truths in modern leadership development: we know what great leadership looks like—but we still struggle to create it.

Billions are spent on leadership programs each year, yet more than 70% of organizations still report major leadership gaps. Why? Because most development systems teach concepts, not behaviors—and ignore the one variable that holds everything together:

Influence.

Drawing from the TECCA Influence System™ and insights from The Foundations of Influence, this episode explores the behavioral blind spots holding leaders back, and why influence must become the foundation of every development effort.

This is for every leader who’s tired of vague training, unmeasured progress, and watching potential go unrealized.

You’ll learn:

• Why 50% of new leaders fail within 18 months—and what’s behind that number
• The 5 reasons most leadership development programs break down
• Why we keep promoting high performers who struggle to lead
• How influence—not title—is what employees respond to in real time
• How TECCA™ transforms influence into a measurable leadership practice
• What you can do now to close the leadership gap in yourself and your team

📚 Resources Mentioned:

• The Foundations of Influence: The Power to Lead & Inspire
• TECCA™ Influence Assessment + Power Profile™
• Elite Leader Insights™ Newsletter

🎯 Final Thought:
Leadership isn’t a mystery. It’s a set of measurable behaviors.
When we stop chasing titles and start building influence, leadership follows.

Elite Leader Insights is hosted by Donald C. Kunkel Jr., founder of the Elite Leadership Center, author of The Foundations of Influence: The Power to Lead and Inspire, and creator of the TECCA Influence System

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