How a leadership mindset of action can lead to direction
Sociologist and author Gayle Smerdon’s time in local government led to her light-bulb moment: organisations and teams oscillate between doing everything and doing nothing when they should be doing one thing. By giving it the time and space to do it deeply they do it well. Gayle shares her ‘do one thing deep’ leadership philosophy and breaks down the engagement required to create sustainable change.
Why you should listen: a leadership framework for focus
Crafting a themed leadership decision filter
Baking change into the corporate culture
The people stuff of purpose and agency
We explore putting leadership ego to one side
Decisions need courageous leadership
Embody the change to engage the team
Make a leadership commitment to finding the ONE thing
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About Gayle Smerdon:
Author, speaker and workplace culture expert, Gayle Smerdon share leadership principles for doing one thing, deep.
Gayle Smerdon, PhD is a writer, speaker, and workplace culture expert who believes that given the right environment and support, people have immense capability just waiting to be realised.
In her own practice, Gayle helps find the ONE THING that will make a sustained difference to how you learn, lead and manage change at work. She coaches curious and committed learners and helps to build amazing teams and workplaces.
Her most recent book is called, ‘Do ONE THING and do it deep: how to focus and energise your workplace’.
Find out more about Gayle at www.gaylesmerdon.com.
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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.