Leadership development is often spoken about as a skill acquisition. This is horizontal development. Vertical development is when we see and value more of the bigger picture and can navigate complexity. It’s hard and essential work. Here’s an overview.
Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast
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221 Adam Moore shares his leadership framework for growing future leaders
While Adam Moore sought autonomy and responsibility in his career from day one, he had to be told (several times!) that his future lay in leadership. An instinctive people-person in an industry usually defined by technical skills, Adam is a trailblazer in the building sector with his passion for developing and lifting up others. Adam shares his leadership framework for growing future leaders while also growing yourself.
Read More209 Leadership Development - The Gen Y Perspective with Jordan Kibukamusoke
The next generation of leaders are already making waves in the workplace. Canberra young professional Jordan Kibukamusoke offers a fresh perspective on leadership development.
Read More166 The leadership skills you need in a crisis with David Inall
Remember the Live Export expose on Four Corners in 2011? Imagine being the CEO of the Cattle Council and handling the fallout. That was David Inall, today’s guest. In our conversation he shares his insights from leadership in agripolitics and agvocacy across the meat, milk, and eggs industry.
Read More118 How diversity can impact your leadership effectiveness with Christina Ryan
Imagine in the lift at the end of the day, being asked for the 8th time, ‘so, what happened to YOU?’ People with disabilities are confronted daily with intrusive questions about the intimate details of their physical condition. Something we would not dare ask others. This is but one of the challenges people with disabilities endure every day. Disability leader and advocate Christina Ryan wants us to get beyond the discomfort of visible difference and get on with the job of talking leadership: how difference offers more viewpoints.
We explored disability as identity, disability disadvantage in employment, vertical developmental leadership through the lens of disability, the core attributes of disability at the leadership table (inclusion, collaboration, resilience, and innovation), how acknowledging the whole self including disability is fundamental component of spreading perspective and inclusion in workplaces and community.
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Read More106 Taking the right approach to risk can be a critical leadership responsibility with Bryan Whitefield
Are you a crazy risk taker? Do you jump in, boots and all, without considering the consequences? Or are you overly cautious? There can be a balance! As Boundless Leaders we want to maximise fun and opportunity, all while considering the consequences. Risk management in decision-making however does not need to be a total downer. In this interview with Bryan Whitefield we discover how to have fun without regret, why the gut instinct is rarely a good source for decision-making, and what we need to be mindful of in the big-consequences decisions we make.
Why mindset determines motivation and our blockers in decision-making
How to use the MCI model - motivation, clarification, and implementation for risk checking on big decisions
Check your VEG - values, environment, and genes while pondering what questions needs answering
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Read More103 Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh on resilience
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 More102 Leadership hacks with author Scott Stein
Do 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 More94 Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh on the principles for a boundless leader
Do 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 More90 Canberra based leadership expert Zoe Routh outlines the journey from expert to leader
How 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 More89 Canberra based leadership expert Zoe Routh reviews 'Joyful'
Ever 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 More86 Leadership expert Zoe Routh gets mindset tips from enduro athlete Laura Marshall
Laura 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 More68 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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Read More67 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.
Read More36 Leadership expert Zoë Routh on how to evolve your leadership maturity
The organisation is limited by the development of its leader. If your business is going to grow, you do too!
We look at:
A brief overview of leadership maturity stages
3 key requirements you need for development to occur
Strategies to shift your action logic in their major developmental stages
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