Podcasts
CEO turnover is less than five years. How then do you stay relevant and fresh 13 years into the role? CEO of Australian Pork Limited, Andrew Spencer shares his key lessons from 13 years at the helm.
How failure is essential to leadership
The one thing that really gets you earning your money as a CEO
How a simple shift in terminology changed an entire approach as an industry
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Read MoreHow we do leadership can change over time, as we (hopefully) mature and develop. These shifts are not always easy and can be quite confronting! The most challenging transition is going from expert to manager. When we get promoted because we are technically good at our job and then discover that managing others is a whole new ball game.
What happens when how we see the world completely changes
What kinds of things can trigger a stage transition
The 3 skills to keep in mind as you move through a stage transition
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Read MoreEver read a book that changed how you see the world? This book did that for me. Now I understand compulsive tidying, and why some people match their clothes peg colours when they do laundry (and why I want to do that too now!)
4 environments that you can use to engineer your evolution
10 principles of joyful environments
Why plants are the secret to joy
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Read MoreWhat happens when you reach the lofty heights of CEO success? Do you rest on your laurels and get complacent? Or do you double down and burnout? Both are big risks for leaders. There is a third option: move from Achiever to Amplifier.
How complacency kills courage and creativity
Why we head towards burnout
Three things we need to change if we are going to have more impact without burnout
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Read MoreI first met Jason when I was working at Outward Bound and Jason was training as a massage therapist. His practice as a therapist, healer, and advisor evolved over the years. He helped me t through my cancer treatment, through a difficult career transition, and over the last couple of years has been instrumental in helping me stay grounded and energised as my business exploded in growth.
In this interview, we dive straight into his techniques as a practitioner, and use me as guinea pig. I share a personal challenge and we flesh out how to process it, come to terms with it, and transform it for a growth opportunity.
We discuss:
What sacred geometry shape to use when dealing with a ‘block’ or problem
How to make peace with your feelings
The alternative to affirmations that creates long-term sustainable change.
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Read MoreLaura Marshall is a school teacher and endurance athlete. She is competing in the Enduroman Arch to Arc, a mega triathlon where she will run from London to Dover, swim the English Channel, and then ride to Paris.
We discuss WHY would anyone do such a physical feat
What it takes in terms of training
How to endure the monotony, and what she discovered.
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Read MoreWe’ve gone from work-life balance to work-life blending. What happens when that blending turns to work-life bleeding? Have we blurred the lines so much that we never get a break? Can we really live the dream of working in holiday locations? My insights on how to best run work-life experiments, and the incredible value of Deep Play.
The big realisation when it comes to work-life experiments: it’s not a holiday. And what to do about that.
What’s at the intersections of deep work, deep rest, and deep play that we can apply to all aspects of our life and work.
My specific routines to manage transitions between work-life segments.
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Read MoreThere is so much friction in organisations that gets in the way of us being more productive. Life would be simpler if we could just get on with our work! Yet working in teams is the way we can get more done. In his new book, Smart Teams, Dermot Crowley unpacks what we need to do to reduce friction and get in to flow when we work together. He shares some additional insights on the podcast interview.
Four key qualities for a productive culture: purposeful, mindful, reliable, punctual.
Four things that create super-productive culture: it’s a leadership issue, all staff need productivity training, agreements on how we are going to work together, and leaders need to model the desired behaviour.
Don’t do meeting planning backwards! Start with context - the why and purpose of the meeting. Then the what, the content. Finally the co-ordination piece - who needs to be there, where, and when.
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Read MoreEnergy is key to everything in leadership! When you are worn out, sick, or otherwise flat-lined, you are no good to anyone, and everything is a lot harder. There is more to energy management than just diet and exercise. In this episode I share the 12 simple strategies to create boundless energy.
The three main strategies for energy boosting: give, receive, enhance.
The four pillars of energy to hone: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual.
How to use your journal to celebrate.
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Read MoreTo go viral is to excite the imagination and spread a message. Beyond silly memes, how do we engage the hearts and minds of the people we lead and the people we serve? There are critical skills and daily habits to make sure we are reaching as many people as we can, in the best way possible. We explore the strategies with Richard Nongard, author of Viral Leadership: Seize the Power of Now to Create Lasting Transformation in Business.
Intention vs goal-setting: the subtle difference that creates real results.
Four ways of gaining buy-in from every stakeholder.
The habits that commit leadership to the subconscious mind.
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Read MoreMore than 50% of executives fail within their first 18 months of their new role. After 10 years plus of research, Ron Carucci, HBR and Forbes contributor and global leadership consultant, reveals what are the skills you need to avoid these failures. A riveting interview where we look at critical aspects of leadership to ensure success long-term at the highest levels of leadership. A must listen for all new, and established, executives.
Forfeiting power, not abusing it, is one of the biggest downfalls of executives
Know what kind of decision-maker you are and declare the decision-making process ahead of any meeting
How to recover from a major career disaster
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Read MoreComposure is the doorway to better leadership. It allows us to respond rather than react, and to make better decisions as a result. I wrote a whole book about it! Here are some key insights to help you.
How to tame the dragons, our innermost fears, and make them serve us rather than slay us
How to use quests to best express our personal purpose
How to use crucibles to explore what we are capable of
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Read MoreWinter can be a real bummer. If you find yourself wanting to crawl in to a hole and hibernate, fear not! Here’s how to make the most of the winter, while honouring the desire to curl up and sleep.
Seasonal Affective Disorder: signs and evolutionary reasons of its impact
Learning from the Norwegians and other northern hemisphere folk
The Be-Think-Do strategy for hibernation, and what we can learn from bears
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Read MoreNavy SEALs are some of the toughest human beings on the planet. Their training is brutal. Their war experiences even more so. What can we learn from them as leaders?
War stories: experiencing the warrior life
Warrior mindset: books that take us through the primal high performance mind
Fit as a SEAL: workouts and mindset training from the super elite
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Read MoreAdventure is an essential aspect of being a Boundless Leader - to explore new horizons keeps us in growth and contribution. Yet not all journeys need to be physical. There are 3 journeys you can explore to expand your capacity as a leader.
Insights from the Jatbula trail
What focus we need as Boundless Leaders
How do you ‘spend’ a day?
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Read MoreCamp is not a ‘thing’ in Australia. And it totally should be! Daniel Levine, entrepreneur in the tech and legal space, has been hosting a unique and powerful tech community event since 2015. He’s got a great philosophy when it comes to creating meaningful connections - a great way to be a boundless leader.
The recipe for great connections and a meaningful event: it starts with the premise, “Attendee first”, and “Disconnect to connect”.
Best tips include: no name tags, no VIP break outs, speakers stay for the entire event, all inclusive ticket, and choose your own adventure.
All we can do as leaders is “set the table”, do that right, and things progress well.
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Read MoreEver find yourself doing something you know is bad for you? Could be food, staying up late, drinking one too many gin and tonics...We’ve all got an inner saboteur. Here’s how to rein it in and get rest, back on track.
How to tighten up your red line so you’re not driving on empty
Know your red flags to stop the downward spiral
4 steps to re-set that are completely do-able and will get you back on track, fast!
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Read MoreWant to play a bigger game? How about being part of a community of game changers? Of folks who want to create great cultures? Of leaders who want to make a big difference and contribution? Here are some insights of what you need to believe in order to make a bigger impact.
What a transexual person’s story can mean for the future of humanity
The four beliefs you need to know in order to craft your leadership focus
Why stories matter
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Read MoreBeing 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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Read MoreBusiness is personal. Small business REALLY so. Business Coach Master Al Ramos shares:
5 critical factors for business success
Why money is not the best motivator for staff
How to build reward schemes that build engagement
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