Boundless Leadership is not a one-way expansion: it’s an oscillation between to the edge of possibilities and unknown, and back to the core of who you are for strength.
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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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Read More53 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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Read More52 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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Read More51 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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Read More50 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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Read More49 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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Read More48 Leadership expert Zoë Routh reviews the Power of Moments
As the author of Moments - Leadership when it matters most, of course I had to review Chip Heath and Dan Heath's new book, The Power of Moments: Why certain experiences have extraordinary impact.
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Read More47 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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Read More46 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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Read More45 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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Read More44 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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Read More43 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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Read More42 An holistic approach to the leadership journey with Alessandra Edwards
Alessandra Edwards shares:
Why cycling carbs can work in concert with our natural biochemistry for peak performance
3 pervasive bad habits that keep executives from top performance
Hot nutritional tips for supporting optimum energy
The science behind genetically-based nutrition and performance
The best kind of carbs to eat for brain and hormone support
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Read More41 Leadership expert Zoë Routh on understanding what is of value to your employees
How do we reward staff and volunteers? What matters the most? How important is money anyway?
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Read More40 Leadership expert Zoë Routh on the causes and challenges of entitlement
Entitlement seems rife - in private sector, public service, not for profits, higher education. What’s causing this sense of “They owe me and I deserve more”? Is there any foundation to it? What can we do about it?
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Read More39 How to develop a collaborative leadership style with Simon Dowling
Simon Dowling is a collaboration specialist who works with senior teams to create environments where their people really thrive. It starts by building what he calls supercharged teams. He is the author of Work With Me - how to get people to buy into your ideas.
Simon had a wondrous start to his professional career: commercial lawyer in a big city firm and improv comedy, and even appeared on Thank God You’re Here.
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Read More38 Leadership expert Zoë Routh on why good leadership strategy builds better teams
Don’t do strategy backwards! And don’t do it on your own either. Strategic planning when you do it well is an excellent way to enhance employee experience and build team buy in.
We look at:
Mistakes in strategic planning
Three key steps to collaborative strategic planning
How good strategy builds better teams
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Read More37 How personal and organisational change both rely on the same leadership mindset with Lisa Lahey
Lisa Lahey, Ed.D. (HGSE), was most recently the associate director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a national project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop greater internal capacity for leading organizational improvement in our nations public school districts.
Lisa shares:
Why change is hard for some people and not for others
Why willpower is useless when it comes to making change
The exact process to change your self-sabotage when it comes to losing weight, stopping smoking, or any other stubborn bad habit
How this process can be applied to organisations who want to make significant behaviour changes
How we can get to naming the elephant in the room
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Read More36 Leadership expert Zoë Routh on how to evolve your leadership maturity
The organisation is limited by the development of its leader. If your business is going to grow, you do too!
We look at:
A brief overview of leadership maturity stages
3 key requirements you need for development to occur
Strategies to shift your action logic in their major developmental stages
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