When you walk in to a space, you can feel if it uplifts or not. As leaders, we need to show up as an environment too - our energy, physicality, and language can cause positive change, or it can sabotage engagement.
Key Tips:
Energy: Are you inward or outward focused? Are you in your head or in the room?
Physicality: Focus on your breath, dig your toes in to the ground, and do power poses.
Language: Avoid commanding language and absolutes, use inclusive and collaborating language.
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Read MoreWhat do we need to explore the edges of what is possible? What does an explorer mindset really hold for us? What can we learn from explorers who did well, and those who died in their adventures?
The resources we need are often paradoxical.
Curiosity AND Discernment
Humility AND Hubris
Questions AND Answers
Venturing in to the Unknown, AND coming home again.
Listen in to hear how these paradoxes work in helping you expand your leadership capacity.
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Read MoreNo matter what attention we give it, employee engagement still remains a problem with 32% of people NOT engaged at work. This is a significant barrier for teams and organisations aspiring to Boundless Leadership.
We look at:
The four attitudes to break through engagement challenges: Appreciation, Gratitude, Love, Compassion.
The four areas to apply it: Self, Colleagues, Team, Organisation.
What to focus on when you feel you have NOTHING to appreciate.
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Read MoreAs the author of Moments - Leadership when it matters most, of course I had to review Chip Heath and Dan Heath's new book, The Power of Moments: Why certain experiences have extraordinary impact.
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Read MoreThe context for leaders has changed significantly over the last ten years. Expectations are huge, transparency is excruciating, there is a lot at stake.
We look at:
The changing leadership landscape
7 leadership skills needed for 2020
The difference between obligation and commitment
The four areas where you are likely to have hidden barriers: self, thinking, skills, and network
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Read MoreWorkplace humanist Heidi Alexandra Pollard shares:
Why you should be UP yourself
How to overcome the Confidence Crisis and tall poppy syndrome so we can stand in their strengths
How to build trust - the golden elixir for leadership - in an organisational culture
The joys and dangers of being an OPULENT MINIMALIST
How Heidi stays centered in the challenges of growing her own business
The adventure of surrender and exploring the Boundless self in a travelling tiny house
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Read MoreHave you got a boss who gets in your way? Are they a blocker? A micro-manager? Do they dump work on you? Do they ignore you?
When it comes to Boundless Leadership and leading beyond borders, some people can definitely get in our way.
We look at the three key skills to manage up, as well as how to run an empathy map for yourself and your ‘blocker’. These are practical ways to build empathy and influence.
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Read MoreAlessandra Edwards shares:
Why cycling carbs can work in concert with our natural biochemistry for peak performance
3 pervasive bad habits that keep executives from top performance
Hot nutritional tips for supporting optimum energy
The science behind genetically-based nutrition and performance
The best kind of carbs to eat for brain and hormone support
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Read MoreHow do we reward staff and volunteers? What matters the most? How important is money anyway?
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Read MoreEntitlement seems rife - in private sector, public service, not for profits, higher education. What’s causing this sense of “They owe me and I deserve more”? Is there any foundation to it? What can we do about it?
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Read MoreSimon Dowling is a collaboration specialist who works with senior teams to create environments where their people really thrive. It starts by building what he calls supercharged teams. He is the author of Work With Me - how to get people to buy into your ideas.
Simon had a wondrous start to his professional career: commercial lawyer in a big city firm and improv comedy, and even appeared on Thank God You’re Here.
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Read MoreDon’t do strategy backwards! And don’t do it on your own either. Strategic planning when you do it well is an excellent way to enhance employee experience and build team buy in.
We look at:
Mistakes in strategic planning
Three key steps to collaborative strategic planning
How good strategy builds better teams
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Read MoreLisa Lahey, Ed.D. (HGSE), was most recently the associate director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a national project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop greater internal capacity for leading organizational improvement in our nations public school districts.
Lisa shares:
Why change is hard for some people and not for others
Why willpower is useless when it comes to making change
The exact process to change your self-sabotage when it comes to losing weight, stopping smoking, or any other stubborn bad habit
How this process can be applied to organisations who want to make significant behaviour changes
How we can get to naming the elephant in the room
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Read MoreThe 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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Read MoreIt’s half way through the year! Is it going according to plan? Do you need to change anything? In this podcast we take you on a personal big picture reflection exercise to get you in touch with what matters most.
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Read MoreStacey Barr is the world’s leading expert on strategic performance measurement and evidence-based leadership. She shows organisations and teams how to develop and measure what matters most. She has an international team of professionals who deliver her licensed program, the PuMP methodology, around the globe, including Australia, Africa, Canada, the USA, UK, and Europe.
She is the author of best-selling books, “Practical Performance Measurement” and “Prove It - How to create a high-performance culture and measurable success”.
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