What are the leadership habits that do not serve you?
Great leadership and great lives come down to habits. Tapping out at the top of his profession aged just 31 should have seen Luke Mathers sitting back and enjoying his success. Instead he quickly realised that without the structures of work he was questioning his self-worth and coming up wanting. Identifying self-destructive habits and a negative internal narrator (we’ve all got one!) led Luke down a new path exploring how and why humans approach change from a place of negativity and self-criticism, backed up with habits that simply do not serve us. He works with leaders and teams to help them get curious about their habits and make lasting changes with reframing, self-compassion and small but effective steps. In this episode Luke explains why we are all a work in progress - and that’s OK.
Why you should listen: a leadership mindset for self-compassion
In tough leadership moments it’s important to pause and process
We explore leadership principles for positive habits
Feel your leadership emotions but don’t become them
People stuff always has context - look for it!
Change your leadership environment to support habit change
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About Luke Mathers:
Author, Speaker and Mindset Coach, Luke Mathers talks about habit-challenging leadership perspectives.
Luke Mathers is a former optometrist and business owner who was part of the founding team to introduce several Specsavers franchises to Australia.
Over the last decade, Luke found his passion in helping others optimise their performance in life and business by redefining stress. After working with some of the country's top CEOs, brands and teams to achieve optimised performance through his personal coaching, workshops and events, Luke is now considered a top stress expert and performance coach.
Luke is the author of three books, his latest is Curious Habits: Why we do what we do and how to change
Find out more about Luke here.
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
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.