Rohit Bhargava, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and founder of the Non-Obvious Company, has, with fellow trendwatcher Henry Coutinho-Mason, put a new book out into the world that aims to provide the opposite of outlandish predictions. The Future Normal instead focuses on trends related to human needs and inclusivity.
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310 Stretch your thinking for compassionate and inclusive leadership
Welcome to this solosode that wraps up the current season and its theme of Leading Culture. I’m moving past the term meta-modern leadership and instead considering leadership in terms of how can we be more compassionate? How can we be more inclusive in our leadership thinking? And how can we navigate diversity, complexity, and ambiguity better?
Read More309 How reading will shape the future of leadership with Dr Danny Brassell
Reading is a passport to the world! And nobody is more well-travelled when it comes to books than Dr Danny Brassell - former teacher, founder of The Reading Habit , and author of 16 business and education titles. Danny believes in the power of books for not just learning and development but also for connection and inspiration.
Read More308 Technosocialism: Futurist Brett King on the intersection of leadership, technology and humanity
Are you curious - worried even - about the future of technology and its implications for leadership? Brett King, author of The Rise of Techno-Socialism and host of The Futurists podcast, has some insights for you about, among other things, the impact of AI on the labour market, and the potential of cryptocurrency.
Read More307 Collective leadership and flattened hierarchy: a new model for a better future
Has our pursuit of professionalism usurped our innate social abilities to work collectively and creatively for the greater good? Samantha Slade, author, social designer and cultural anthropologist, believes so and is working with organisations and teams to help them rebalance their leadership paradigms and flatten their hierarchies.
Read More306 Three leadership truisms for dealing with uncertainty
We are a third of the way through the year! How does that make you feel? In this solosode I’m confronting the lingering sense of malaise that I’m noticing this year. It’s being sustained by ongoing uncertainty and as leaders we need to have strategies to navigate through difficult times by assessing both the known and the unknown. In this episode I explore three leadership truisms that will help you balance risk and opportunity with a sense of possibility - because even when times are tough, it’s important to expand our leadership perspective and remember we are all part of the bigger, beautiful picture!
Read More305 How to be a visionary leader with author and former Navy SEAL Marty Strong
Former Navy SEAL and a previous guest on the podcast, Marty Strong, is back with more insightful leadership thinking and a new book: Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization.
Read More289: Unsolvable problems and the real future of leadership with Phillip Ralph
There’s no going back to the old ways or days for leadership coach Phillip Ralph - in fact he’s impatient for the changes we need to see that will spearhead the future of leadership. For Phillip that progress includes embedding emotional intelligence early and broadly in organisations - no more waiting until someone is in a leadership position before they are developed.
It means leadership from anyone, anywhere - empowering people to take action where they are, to nudge the system instead of trying to dismantle it overnight. Phillip shares his leadership perspective on where we are going wrong, how not every problem needs a solution, the simple power of human connection and his ultimate vision for the future - organisations that are as smart as the people in them!
Read More211 Leadership frameworks for business value with Joel Strom
A CEO’s leadership responsibility is to foster long term value in a company. Experienced leader and author Joel Strom showcases his four pillars for creating value.
Read More203 Leadership frameworks for culture and strategy
If we had to boil leadership responsibilities down to its essence, we’d settle on culture and strategy. Sadly many get it wrong. Get it right with these solid leadership frameworks.
Read MoreCanberra leadership expert Zoe Routh on leadership mindset through COVID
Are you over it yet? This crisis seems to go on and on, unrelenting. Yet, as leaders there is no timeout or time off. We’ve got to keep on keeping on. I thought I’d give us a bit of a PAUSE button to reflect on what we can take from this experience. I also go over some key highlights of this past season on the podcast so you can get a concentrated dose of leadership insights that are useful for now.
Why you should listen:
Now’s the time to get really clear on what you want: here are some things to think about
Clarify what matters most: I share my list to inspire yours
Season round up: with insights on innovation from experts and authors that are essential tools for leading next through the pandemic
Sneak preview of interviews coming up over the coming months: Leadership on the ground with CEOs from not for profits, global IT companies, agribusiness, and a Vice Chancellor! So much goodness and rich insights coming up
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Read More155 The Leadership skills needed for change with Joe Jackman
Change, transformation, pivot, unprecedented... we’ve all heard the words. Do you feel excited or scared? Joe Jackman is a brand expert, strategist, and CEO of the world’s first Reinventionist company and he is excited about what opportunities are emerging. We talk about the changing nature of change itself, what is staying in the same and what will definitely not stay the same, and importantly what we can learn from organisations that ignored the risk of not changing.
Why you should listen:
Key cultural shifts that you need to know in order to reinvent your business
How the relationship between companies and brands is changing fundamentally - and why you need to be across this now
How strategy needs to not only be understood, but FELT if an organisation is to reinvent itself
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Read More154 Leadership lessons from the military with Brigadier Nick Jans
Can you be commanding without doing command and control? Can you have authority without being authoritarian? What is the best way to avoid the traps of hubris and power? Brigadier Nick Jans OAM (retired) shares his wisdom and insight from a lifetime of leadership and learning in the military. He debunks some of the myths that exist around military leadership and culture, namely that there is a difference between being authoritative and authoritarian. Military leaders have an embedded culture where you ‘earn your spurs’ and win authority, not seize it.
Why you should listen:
The real mettle of leadership is what you do in easy times: win trust and compliance through building relationships
How to avoid the trap of “believing in your own legend”
What the military builds into its leadership systems to cut abuses of power and hubris that the business world can adopt
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Read More134 An incredible leadership journey from a trailblazing woman with Marene Allison
Marene Allison is the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Johnson & Johnson. Previously she was head of Global Security at Avaya where she secured the World Cup network in Korea and Japan in 2002. Before that she was an FBI Special gent, working on undercover drug operations, terrorist bombings, and a mock nucelar terrorism exercise. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military academy at West Point in the first class to include women.
With a long list of firsts, in a stellar and remarkable career, Marene shares her insights and lessons on leadership and people.
Why you should listen:
Why moving from command and control style to collaboration is a key move to thriving as a leader in a corporate environment
Learn strategies of a highly successful leader who garners fierce loyalty and commitment from her teams
Secrets from FBI interrogation to tell when people are lying
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Read More131 The importance of feedback for leadership success with Rob Evans
Owner of AllBids Rob Evans is a successful Canberra business owner. He’s been through many ups and downs and has now established the Fyshwick Business Association. He shares his struggles and insights.
Why you should listen:
Learn the specific steps Rob took to turn his workplace culture around that you can use too
Find out about the most important strategy that led to business improvement: results mapping
How the guiding force of “We’re all in this together” can help shape buy-in for employees and broader stakeholders by simply asking for feedback.
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Read More129 Author Josh Levine shares his top leadership tips to improve culture
Author of GREAT MONDAYS, ‘one of the best culture books of all time’ Josh Levine shares awesome insights about how to design a culture employees love.
Why you should listen:
Why you absolutely should NOT reward outcomes, and what to reward instead
Learn the six steps to culture design
Why Peak Perks has hit Silicon Valley and how it’s a waste of money if you want to build a company to last
Simple culture hacks that are easy to implement for effective employee recognition
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124 Why leadership strategies need to be good enough rather than perfect with Lynne Cazaly
Do you struggle with perfectionism? Procrastination? These are some of the blockers to doing good work. Our very desire to do good work stops us from doing so! Lynne Cazaly is an author, international speaker, and master facilitator. She has published six books, including her latest Ish - The Problem with our Pursuit for Perfection and the Life-Changing Practice of Good Enough.
We talk about:
How leaders get in the way of good results by trying to censor the inputs and control the outcomes
High performing teams work intensely within constraints, and celebrate small wins
Defining the standard you are working towards, and why that is important is the critical first move away from perfectionism paralysis
The next move of identifying the high value tasks, the 20% of tasks that give you 80% of results, is your next best move
How using a pressure on/ pressure off method works for both introverts and extroverts in an iterative agile-ish process
Improvisation techniques help us release the hold of perfectionism and embrace ish, knowing it will be ok
The game-changing paradigm of the Pratfall effect (stuffing up and appearing more likable as a result)
The spotlight effect - people are not noticing your faults as much as you think they are
Wabi sabi - how the Japanese philosophy of embracing the beauty of imperfection can apply at work
How we can get distracted by things that don’t really matter, like grooming eyebrows for 18 hours per week!
Check yourself - if you feel overwhelmed, chances are you have a ‘P’ problem - perfectionism and its twin, procrastination
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Read More123 How to future proof your leadership skills with Dan Gregory
He helps smart people be people smart. As the co-author of Forever Skills along with Kieran Flanagan, Dan Gregory is a leading thinker on what leaders can do to move people to sensible action.
We explore how the real test of leadership is what we do when things go wrong, how the gaps in skills we need as leaders vary from industry to industry and culture to culture, how corporate Aussies are strong in risk-taking, why making values-based decisions is important for long-term vision, why we need to use a value lens to avoid short-term reactive decisions, how to consume 200-300 books per year, how to challenge your own perspective with Socratic questioning, why thinking in questions is the best strategy to avoid the traps of default thinking, what Dan’s shadow flaw is.
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Read More122 How to develop leadership skills that foster belonging with Shawn Murphy
We are wired to belong. Contemporary workplaces are modern-day tribes, and yet so many leaders treat them as transactional places of misery. In fact, 82% of leaders have been found to be lacking in the required skills to lead effectively. There is a serious deficit in the soft skills.
Author, consultant and tech startup leader, Shawn Murphy talks with me about the key principles of belonging in his latest book, Work Tribes:The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Performance, Astonishing Results, and Keeping Teams Together. These are to be valued, welcomed, and wanted.
We discuss the ins and outs of belonging, how it’s an outcome, not a program, how you can’t operationalise belonging but you can develop programs to develop leadership skills that foster belonging, how any behaviour change expected from a training program needs to be backed up by accountable tracking afterwards, why ‘hiring for culture fit’ is a fast-track to building a country club and not a successful business, why hiring for ‘how you can contribute to the culture’ is a better approach, how we need to have better conversations - ones about the playbook and values and purpose of an organisation - so we can avoid catty bitchiness in workplaces, and how we don’t need to wait for permission or a program to create positive work experience. We can get started right now with self awareness.
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Read More66 Leadership tips to create the 'best of the best' workplace culture with Shanyn Payne
Shanyn is the Executive Director of Human Resources at Online Education Services (OES.edu.au) where she has been since 2011, part of the start up team. She guided the creation and implementation of all people related initiatives across the business including recruitment, remuneration, leadership development and organisational culture and engagement. All this through rapid expansion and growth. The efforts have not gone unnoticed, and OES has achieved and maintained Aon Hewitt Best Employer accreditation in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2017 they were named “The Best of the Best”.
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