Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast

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73 Leadership expert Zoe Routh on the importance of community

Being lonely sucks. We can be surrounded by people and feel completely alone. Community matters! Here’s how we can create it.

  • Three levels of community participation.

  • What separates leaders from participants and why it’s not all that altruistic.

  • The currencies we gain from each level of participation.

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69 Productivity and leadership responsibilities with Peter Cook

Many leaders work with me on their productivity. It’s a fundamental for leading Self and essential to master if we are going to expand our impact. Getting stuff done, the RIGHT stuff is every leader’s challenge.

This interview offers these highlights:

  • What people get wrong with productivity

  • Why projects are fundamental to business success and great workplace cultures

  • How the modern resume will list projects not just workplaces as indicators of professional nous and contribution

  • How to use projects to build habits

  • The inner game of productivity

  • How to build projects in to your personal life

  • What an Ishaya monk’s vows can do for productivity and quality of life

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68 The leadership skills needed to build a great remote team with Liam Martin

Workers crave freedom and flexibility. It’s the biggest driver for remote working: do work you love, where and when you want. The one hurdle is this: how do you know they are actually getting work done? That they are being as productive as possible and not just getting a free meal ticket?

This is the challenge that Liam Martin and his Aussie business partner set out to address. In this AAHHHHMAAAZZZZING interview, we explore:

  • The war against the Distraction Economy and what it’s costing us

  • The Big Data that facebook collects and what it can predict

  • A world where transparency builds better interpersonal connections and business cultures

  • How to build a great culture with remote teams

  • Much more!

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67 Leadership expert Zoe Routh reviews 'The Listening Society'

His main point is that development matters. We need to develop our mental and emotional capacities in order to contend with the world we have created. We need to develop our inner dimensions to keep up and manage the complexities of what has evolved in our various cultures and economic systems.

He is a little short on practical how to's, so I endeavour to offer some practical steps to help us evolve. This week it is on morning routines.

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66 Leadership tips to create the 'best of the best' workplace culture with Shanyn Payne

Shanyn is the Executive Director of Human Resources at Online Education Services (OES.edu.au) where she has been since 2011, part of the start up team. She guided the creation and implementation of all people related initiatives across the business including recruitment, remuneration, leadership development and organisational culture and engagement. All this through rapid expansion and growth. The efforts have not gone unnoticed, and OES has achieved and maintained Aon Hewitt Best Employer accreditation in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2017 they were named “The Best of the Best”.

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65 Do performance reviews need a performance review? With Dr Amy Silver

Edge of Leadership Un-Conference expert presenter, Dr. Amy Silver overturns rationale for performance reviews and why we need to do them completely differently. She explains:

  • What has changed in the nature of work that has led to frustration with performance reviews

  • The bad habit we need to break to reclaim the effectiveness of performance reviews

  • Why we need to get achievement and the problem out of the person and into the system itself

  • How we can start building a whole system of competence

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64 Technology tips for leadership success with Simon Waller

Simon is an author of two books Analogosaurus: Avoiding Extinction in a World of Digital Business and The Digital Champion: Connecting the Dots Between People, Work and Technology, he is also a sought after professional speaker and he runs a program called The Digital Champions Club to help organisations identify and adopt the technology tools that can provide you with a competitive advantage.

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63 How workplace design can improve leadership effectiveness with Alisa Moss

Alisa Moss is a Director of Canberran design firm, DJAS. DJAS works with organisations to design work environments that range from hundreds of square meters to 85,000 square meters, from small spaces to whole buildings. Starting her career as a photographer, aesthetic design has always been important. A focus on sustainability has become equally so. Nowadays she includes the development of effective culture, alongside sustainability and beauty, as a key premise of her design work.

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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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