Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast

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220 Futurist Christina Gerakiteys’ leadership strategies for nurturing humanity

Do you have an agile leadership mindset? Are you expanding your perspectives, increasing your capacity for inclusion and considering the social impact of what you do? As a futurist who studied ancient history, Christina Gerakiteys perfectly combines humanity and technology to get to the heart of vertical development and why this is the leadership framework we need right now.

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157 Leadership strategies for uncertain times with Stuart Althaus

What kind of leadership style do you need to take a leap of faith? What strategies can you deploy when leading through massive uncertainty? What’s the most important thing to keep in mind when leading through change? Stuart Althaus is an experienced CEO and senior executive from a career that spans some forty years in the military, information and communication technology, and not for profit directorships. His hard-earned wisdom helps him to be an optimist even as we face down some of the biggest uncertainties of any generation.

Why you should listen:

  • How to put certainty in to uncertainty

  • What you need to have in place when assessing the risks in chaos

  • How to manage a passive aggressive employee

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144 Why your leadership toolkit needs to include digital strategies with Mel Kettle

Want to be seen as the best candidate for your next CEO role? Want your brand to stand out? Want to build trust with your consumers? Want to build engagement with your staff? The magic solution is Connected Leadership - how to create connections through a personal communication plan. Connected Leadership expert Mel Kettle walks us through key components of building a digital presence that builds trust and credibility.

Why you should listen:

  • If you need help with where to start in building your personal communication plan

  • If you need help with how to systemise listening to help build a stronger connection with a broad cohort of stakeholders

  • If you need help with how to build interesting content and stories no matter how boring the topic may seem at first glance

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101 Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh on culture change

Are 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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99 Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh on leadership KPIs

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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97 Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh reviews 'The 25 Minute Meeting'

Habits 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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94 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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93 Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh on how to improve productivity and focus

Do 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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92 Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh on the importance of language

Ever 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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88 Leadership expert Zoe Routh gives advice on how to stop burnout

What 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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84 Leadership strategies to help teams work better together with author Dermot Crowley

There 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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83 Leadership expert Zoe Routh talks about why energy is the key to leadership success

Energy 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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80 Leadership expert Zoe Routh talks about the importance of composure

Composure 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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79 Leadership expert Zoe Routh on resilience when the weather is getting you down

Winter 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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78 Leadership expert Zoe Routh on the leadership secrets of Navy SEALs

Navy 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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75 Leadership expert Zoe Routh on overcoming self sabotaging behaviours

Ever 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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73 Leadership expert Zoe Routh on the importance of community

Being 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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