Podcasts
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 MoreOscar 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 MoreMaja 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 MoreWorkplace 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 MoreHave 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 MoreAlessandra 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 MoreHow do we reward staff and volunteers? What matters the most? How important is money anyway?
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Read MoreEntitlement 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 MoreSimon 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 MoreDon’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 MoreLisa 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 MoreThe 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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Read MoreIt’s half way through the year! Is it going according to plan? Do you need to change anything? In this podcast we take you on a personal big picture reflection exercise to get you in touch with what matters most.
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Read MoreStacey Barr is the world’s leading expert on strategic performance measurement and evidence-based leadership. She shows organisations and teams how to develop and measure what matters most. She has an international team of professionals who deliver her licensed program, the PuMP methodology, around the globe, including Australia, Africa, Canada, the USA, UK, and Europe.
She is the author of best-selling books, “Practical Performance Measurement” and “Prove It - How to create a high-performance culture and measurable success”.
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Read MoreAll leaders need a little boost from time to time! In fact, we need to be working on our mojo ALL the time. It is central to our capacity to manage the most difficult aspects of our work. In this episode, which is a little silly (yay!) I share:
3 ways to shift your THINKING to boost your mojo
6 strategies to DO to shift your mojo in to overdrive
3 simple ways to BE more in a better vibes mojo place
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Read MoreStephen Scott Johnson, author of Emergent - The Future of Culture: A Practical Guide of Leading Transformation, shares:
The causes that allow a movement to flourish or die
What you need in an organisation to make a cause sustainable
How change is a creative destructive process that is an invitation to becoming something more
The key differences between old power and new power, and what’s at stake if you get stuck in old power
Why silos are NOT the problem
What the pivotal point is for a leader to move from TRANSACTIONAL to TRANSFORMATIONAL
The new style of leadership that is required to navigate disruption
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Read MoreDermot Crowley, Australia’s leading productivity expert, and author of best-selling book, Smart Work, shares:
How to have good relationship with your email
Get your inbox to zero at least once per week
Key tips in using the three-part productivity system of Capture, Consider, and Commit
How to use email, calendars, and task lists for maximum efficiency and effectiveness
Guidelines on when and how often to check emails
How to use email like bubblegum
The best way to use your task list: the rinsing system of file, schedule and sequence
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Read MoreEver wonder why some people are more successful than others? What is the secret sauce that some are missing? In this episode, Zoë shares:
It’s not about being an extrovert or introvert
Simple tweaks to your focus that will shift your energy dramatically
How to prepare for meetings so that you are instantly more credible and influential
Simple practical tips for becoming instantly more charismatic without changing who you are
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Read MoreFinance expert, entrepreneur, and author of “Get Rich Slow”, Sarah Riegelhuth shares:
Why instant gratification is the biggest challenge for wealth creation
How she leads a digital nomad’s life running a prosperous business with a global team
The four factors that make wealth creation easy and fulfilling for her Gen Y clients
Why the criticisms of Gen Y are wrong, and what they have to offer
Tips on how to engage Gen Y
Why her staff call themselves ‘Gladiators’ - this is gold!
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Read MoreStorytelling expert and author of four books on storytelling, Gabrielle ‘Ral’ Dolan shares:
Why storytelling is a key leadership competency
How to use and influence the organisation’s natural grapevine for influence
What NOT to do when it comes to sharing personal stories
Where to get your stories from
How to create a bank of stories ready for use
Key tips on handling nerves when it comes to storytelling
Three mistakes to avoid when it comes to storytelling
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