Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast

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60 Leadership expert Zoë Routh reviews NEXT

Want shortcuts to elevate your leadership thinking? How about hacks to multiply the amounts of books you read? How does leveraging your life and work effectiveness sound? What about getting strategic with your meetings in novel and powerful ways? Want to know the critical factors affecting our business world in the next ten years? This book has it all. Enjoy my book review to get some more details now.

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59 Leadership expert Zoë Routh talks about staff turnover and how to manage it

When they resign, do you blame them for lack of loyalty, little team spirit, and being ungrateful? These things may be true. But is it true that it’s them, not you? Taking ownership of what you can do as an employer or business owner to keep staff engaged and loyal will keep you at the front and help keep folks from jumping ship.

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58 Staff loyalty is essential to leadership success with Craig Cherry

Customer service expert Craig Cherry shares the fundamentals of employee loyalty and engagement:

  • How playing the smile game got one business noticed in the media

  • Fundamentals of what people need to enjoy and be committed in their work

  • Critical skills leaders need to build buy-in and engagement

  • What the daily setup meeting is and what to include

  • How to create rewards and measures for staff

  • How even the trickiest of remuneration schemes, like those in legal firms, can access insights into individual contributions for better rewards

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57 Leadership strategies that lead to success with Jeff Schwisow

Business mentor and strategist Jeff Schwisow shares:

  • Why the real enemy of business evolution is not change, but how ‘now’ cripples your ability to focus on ‘next’.

  • How an effective project mindset is one that moves away from large transformational change in favour of a steady stream of smaller adaptive projects.

  • One of the biggest blocks to Boundless Leadership is being too focused on the scoreboard and not the game you’re playing.

  • Build your organisation as a circle not a triangle.

  • Three key tips to get started to bring the future into now and be better at getting strategic results.

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56 Leadership expert Zoë Routh talks about workplace morale

Here are some questions to check your morale DNA:

Belonging

  • Do you make a big deal of new employees?

  • Do you show them around and introduce them to all the team members?

  • Do you make sure they have their workspace ready to go?

  • Do you have some objects that let them know they are one of the tribe? (Yes, a branded coffee cup of their own can count here)

Meaning

  • Do you help employees connect with the bigger picture?

  • Do employees know what you care about, why you do what you do, and how what they do fits in to the bigger cause?

  • Do you measure and showcase the impact you’ve had on your clients and make sure everyone knows about it?

Gaming

  • How is the ‘game’ of your work?

  • What rules are you playing by?

  • Are they clear and agreed?

  • Or are there some outdated rules that are clunky?

  • What systems create friction rather than flow?

  • Frustration instead of fun?

  • How do you know if you’re winning the game of work?

  • Is progress visible and meaningful?

  • What prize do you get when you ‘win’ at work?

  • How often do you celebrate wins and winning?

Cleaning up the game of work is a very pragmatic way to boost morale. Just make things easier, simpler, and more fun.

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54 The importance of your network to your leadership success with Janine Garner

Collaboration and connection expert Janine Garner shares:

  • Why developing your network is essential for your marketing machine, your intelligence bank, and a board of advisors.

  • The biggest challenge people have when it comes to networking: not investing in core connections in the right way.

  • Where to start in developing a network that truly supports you.

  • The four key people you need in your network to help you become the person you want to be and create the results you want.

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53 How workplace design can contribute to boundless leadership with Ilea Buffier

Ilea Buffier shares:

  • How she retired before she left high school (!)

  • Why sustainability is imperative for all businesses

  • What questions to ask when designing spaces for enhanced employee engagement

  • How an eco-system of spaces works best for all types of contemporary work demands

  • How to design for whole of person well-being by addressing physical, cognitive, and emotional needs in physical space design

  • The corner office is no longer the status symbol - choice and control, especially over use of workspace IS

  • How “You create your space and your space creates you”

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52 Leadership expert Zoe Routh talks about deameanour and how it impacts leadership effectiveness

When you walk in to a space, you can feel if it uplifts or not. As leaders, we need to show up as an environment too - our energy, physicality, and language can cause positive change, or it can sabotage engagement.

Key Tips:

Energy: Are you inward or outward focused? Are you in your head or in the room?

Physicality: Focus on your breath, dig your toes in to the ground, and do power poses.

Language: Avoid commanding language and absolutes, use inclusive and collaborating language.

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51 How to become a limitless leader with Renee Giarrusso

Renée Giarrusso shares:

  • What’s the key to being limitless

  • How to map motivation for leverage in business

  • Similarities and differences between industries and what holds people back from being limitless

  • How a coaching culture can cascade through an organisation

  • How to decode emails for better rapport

  • How to develop Boundless energy

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50 Leadership expert Zoë Routh talks about how to expand your leadership capacity

What do we need to explore the edges of what is possible? What does an explorer mindset really hold for us? What can we learn from explorers who did well, and those who died in their adventures?

The resources we need are often paradoxical.

Curiosity AND Discernment

Humility AND Hubris

Questions AND Answers

Venturing in to the Unknown, AND coming home again.

Listen in to hear how these paradoxes work in helping you expand your leadership capacity.

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49 Leadership expert Zoë Routh identifies the 4 attitudes needed to achieve boundless leadership

No matter what attention we give it, employee engagement still remains a problem with 32% of people NOT engaged at work. This is a significant barrier for teams and organisations aspiring to Boundless Leadership.

We look at:

  • The four attitudes to break through engagement challenges: Appreciation, Gratitude, Love, Compassion.

  • The four areas to apply it: Self, Colleagues, Team, Organisation.

  • What to focus on when you feel you have NOTHING to appreciate.

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47 Leadership expert Zoë Routh identifies the barriers to leadership success

The context for leaders has changed significantly over the last ten years. Expectations are huge, transparency is excruciating, there is a lot at stake.

We look at:

  • The changing leadership landscape

  • 7 leadership skills needed for 2020

  • The difference between obligation and commitment

  • The four areas where you are likely to have hidden barriers: self, thinking, skills, and network

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46 The importance of listening as a leadership skill with Oscar Trimboli

Oscar shares:

  • The 5 levels of listening and how to start

  • Why the 125-400 rule keeps us from being good listeners

  • The patterns to pay attention to in conversations that will help give you big insights

  • How to model process leadership not just content leadership

  • On being a systemic listener (this is hard - but we can all do it)

  • The ancient art of Ting, and what we can bring to modern communication that uplifts listener and speaker

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45 How to develop leadership maturity with Dr Maja Stanojevic-Andre

Maja shares:

  • What is leadership maturity and why it needs to evolve

  • Why Trump is appealing to many voters

  • How a real estate company became the ‘Google of Real Estate” and one of the top 25 places to work through deliberate focus on individual and collective leadership maturity

  • How to create horizontal and vertical leadership development to become more nimble and responsive as leaders and in organisations

  • Why the maturity of the leadership caps the growth and future of the organisation

  • Where to start if you want to encourage the leadership maturity in your organisation

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44 How to build trust, the golden elixir of leadership with Heidi Alexandra Pollard

Workplace humanist Heidi Alexandra Pollard shares:

  • Why you should be UP yourself

  • How to overcome the Confidence Crisis and tall poppy syndrome so we can stand in their strengths

  • How to build trust - the golden elixir for leadership - in an organisational culture

  • The joys and dangers of being an OPULENT MINIMALIST

  • How Heidi stays centered in the challenges of growing her own business

  • The adventure of surrender and exploring the Boundless self in a travelling tiny house

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43 Leadership expert Zoë Routh on how to build empathy and influence into your leadership skillset

Have you got a boss who gets in your way? Are they a blocker? A micro-manager? Do they dump work on you? Do they ignore you?

When it comes to Boundless Leadership and leading beyond borders, some people can definitely get in our way.

We look at the three key skills to manage up, as well as how to run an empathy map for yourself and your ‘blocker’. These are practical ways to build empathy and influence.

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