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Some experiences are pretty awful. We can’t wish them away. We can’t pivot from them. We can’t reframe them. We can however learn something from them, make use of them, and grow stronger as a result. Strategic planning, and the core of what we leaders need to do in current times of tension.
Positive thinking can be good. It’s just not everything.
Useful beliefs can help.
Using the experience as fodder for growth, after doing a thorough assessment, is key.
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Read MoreDo you use your intuition in leadership? Would you like to develop your inner knowing to a greater level? How about a 30-second hack to change your brain waves into a meditative state? Speaker, author, and advisor Scott Stein shares his insights and practical tips on these, delegation, strategic planning, and the core of what we leaders need to do in current times of tension.
Native American ancient wisdom: using the Fox Walk to change brain waves for movement meditation
Compression planning and how it saves tons of time and avoids ‘talk fest’ in strategic planning
The four levels of delegating and mistakes to avoid
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Read MoreAre you happy with your culture at work? Do things need changing? How do you get started? Do you focus on big picture? Or is the smaller things that count? It turns out you start with the change you want, and hearts and minds come afterwards.
Why you should start with actions and not beliefs when it comes to changing culture
The three actions that set AMPLIFIERS apart from ACHIEVERS (and why you want to do these)
What kind of movement you may want to drive in your culture
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Read MoreSubscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. How are you starting 2019? Have you got a theme word? What boundaries, rituals, habits are you using to shape an extraordinary year? Have you got goals? Or are you using intentions?
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How are you starting 2019? Have you got a theme word? What boundaries, rituals, habits are you using to shape an extraordinary year? Have you got goals? Or are you using intentions? In this episode, I share the nitty gritty strategies, habits, rituals, and resources I am using to RESET my energy and focus. The theme this quarter on the podcast is ‘Personal Excellence’ and this is the perfect start to that.
How cultivating energy and focus is a leadership strength
Why a theme word is useful for shaping your year
Six nitty gritty tactics to build personal excellence for the year
A special give away as this is episode 100!
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Six Focus areas for an extraordinary year of personal excellence:
1. Boundaries: put time containers around your addictions (like work, or exercise, or social media)
2. Routines or Rituals: start of day and end of day rituals are the most important.
My morning routine 5am to 830am
Wake up - glass of water with lemon juice and pinch of sea salt (for minerals, digestion, and hydration)
Cup of green tea
Meditation: 20 minutes while tracking heart rate and heart rate variability
Journal:
How did I show kindness yesterday?
What was the one moment I want to remember from today? (one moment per day)
Decision journal: what questions or challenges do I have? What decision am I making? What led me to that decision?
Run or workout
Cold shower, dress
Start day with top 3 priorities
3. Nutrition
16/8 fasting protocol
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/16-8-intermittent-fasting
Carb cycling with low carbs Monday - Friday and carb re-feed on Saturday after long run
24 hour fast weekly: From Saturday after dinner to Sunday dinner
Weekly infrared sauna on Sunday during fast
Pescatarian slow carb diet
4. Sleep
My evening routine - in beta! 830-900pm
Ipad charging in separate room
Cold shower and moisturiser
Apply essential oils to bottom of feet
Meditation - 10 minutes
Track sleep quality and quantity with the Oura ring
5. Team support
Butt kicker - hiring my leadership trainer
Promoter - inviting a new board of advisors
Teacher - who can I learn from this year? Undecided
Pit crew - nutritionist and massage therapist
6. Physical environment
Declutter and tidy up as per the Marie Kondo protocol
Redesign physical surroundings as per Ingrid Fetel Lee
References and books mentioned (add with the hyperlinks)
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Decision Checklist by Sam Kyle
It’s Who you Know by Janine Garner
The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
The Biohacker’s Handbook by Teemu Arina, medical doctor Olli Sovijärvi and nutritional expert Jaakko Halmetoja
The Life Changing Habit of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
Joyful - Ingrid Fêtell Lee
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E98 - Manager to leader - a shortcut with these great questions
E96 - RETHINK FAILURE: it's not just feedback
E95 - Atomic Habits by James Clear - A book review
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Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh shares why your leadership responsibilities start with self-care
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.
What KPIs should CEOs have? Should they have KPIs at all? Performance measurement specialist and business consultant Mark Hocknell says they shouldn’t. At least not in the way we currently understand KPIs - ones developed by gut feel instead of a thorough and rigorous process. We also talk about the perils of performance bonuses and why legal and accounting firms should stop measuring staff performance based on billings alone.
How giving people targets to meet is a surefire way for people to manipulate numbers or jimmy the system
How a CEO increased a company’s bottom line by multiple BILLIONS by focusing on safety, not revenue
The best way to develop comprehensive measurement plan that generates teamwork instead of divides it.
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Read MoreHow do you move from management to leadership? It’s a key question for every emerging leader, and for every Boundless Leader to keep in mind. There are key distinctions as well as overlaps in management and leadership. The key things are ripples, questions, and frames.
How simple decisions can have a cascading effect
How questions might have prevented unwanted repercussions
Sample questions to guide you into the leadership space
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Read MoreHabits and meetings: how we can move the dial 1% for more energy and more time. An update on implementing James Clear’s Atomic Habits and a book summary and review of Donna McGeorge’s 25 Minute Meeting.
Cement identity with visual cues and celebrating small wins.
Meetings for business as usual: 25 minutes,no more than 5 people, no more than 3 agenda items.
Use Scan, Focus, Act as the formula for meetings.
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Read MoreHow do you deal with failure? Do you have a bunch of motivational quotes to help you reframe the experience? How do you process the deep shame and anxiety you feel with it? I think we need to RETHINK FAILURE. It’s not just feedback. We need to fail with a framework.
Give yourself permission to fail
How rejection is akin to physical trauma
Two frameworks we need for failure: external risks like financials and safety, and one for ego and reputation.
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Read MoreDo you have any bad habits? How many times have you tried to break them? New book by James Clear is an awesome antidote to intractable bad habits, and creating ones that nudge us towards what we really want. I walk you through the key points, and use myself as a guinea pig. (Nothing like fear of public shaming to create accountability!)
How to avoid being a Sea Squirt and not eat your own brain
Real behaviour change is identity change
Four steps to real change: cue, craving, response, and reward.
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Read MoreDo you ever wonder, ‘Am I living a life well-lived? Am I doing enough? Am I living up to my potential? Or am I wasting my time, letting life slip me by…’ If you have, then this podcast episode for you! I share the 9 principles for being an AMPLIFIER - someone who looks beyond results to true transformation, and life well-lived.
How being bored jolted me into a life-changing question: ‘what is a life well-lived?’
Jason Fried of Basecamp does not have goals or targets - he has 6 week improvement projects instead
Why RESULTS are for transformation, not for goals.
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Read MoreDo you jam your day with back to back appointments? Do you have a crushing sense of not enough time in the day? Do you rush from one thing to the next? This is not helping. You don’t optimise productivity by squeezing more in your calendar. You become more productive when you manage the gaps better.
The Boundless Leadership paradox: no borders and no barriers means we also have to work with limitations
5 reasons why gaps - and naps - help your brain defrag
How to take an effective break
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Read MoreEver been told that your behaviour was having a negative impact on others? This kind of feedback is confronting! None of us intentionally try to be a jerk. And yet we might be coming across as less than our ideal selves. There are important people reading maps to be mindful of, and language patterns to navigate.
Dig below the surface and map read human emotions with this change trigger tool
Be mindful of language patterns that are aggressive and passive aggressive (3 types to avoid)
WHY you need to avoid dramatic and downplaying language
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Read MoreCEO 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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