Business is personal. Small business REALLY so. Business Coach Master Al Ramos shares:
5 critical factors for business success
Why money is not the best motivator for staff
How to build reward schemes that build engagement
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71 Leadership is all about the people according to Simon Julian
General Manager of SitePoint Simon Julian shares:
How to create and maintain a high performing team, a boundless team, when you are on the leading edge of IT development
Challenges ahead for the ICT sector
3 books that changed his perspective on life, work, and leadership
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Read More70 Leadership expert Zoe Routh reviews 'A Higher Loyalty'
Comey's book is not just about his take on Trump. It also reveals:
Higher Loyalty - it's not loyalty to the person but to values
Listening as a push-pull experience for greater understanding
You need to be confident enough to be humble
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Read More69 Productivity and leadership responsibilities with Peter Cook
Many leaders work with me on their productivity. It’s a fundamental for leading Self and essential to master if we are going to expand our impact. Getting stuff done, the RIGHT stuff is every leader’s challenge.
This interview offers these highlights:
What people get wrong with productivity
Why projects are fundamental to business success and great workplace cultures
How the modern resume will list projects not just workplaces as indicators of professional nous and contribution
How to use projects to build habits
The inner game of productivity
How to build projects in to your personal life
What an Ishaya monk’s vows can do for productivity and quality of life
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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 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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Read MoreWhat makes RedBalloon leaders in the workplace with Megan Bromley
Megan Bromley explains the leadership principles that have made RedBalloon be voted best place to work five years in a row with Zoe Routh.
Read More65 Do performance reviews need a performance review? With Dr Amy Silver
Edge of Leadership Un-Conference expert presenter, Dr. Amy Silver overturns rationale for performance reviews and why we need to do them completely differently. She explains:
What has changed in the nature of work that has led to frustration with performance reviews
The bad habit we need to break to reclaim the effectiveness of performance reviews
Why we need to get achievement and the problem out of the person and into the system itself
How we can start building a whole system of competence
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Read More64 Technology tips for leadership success with Simon Waller
Simon is an author of two books Analogosaurus: Avoiding Extinction in a World of Digital Business and The Digital Champion: Connecting the Dots Between People, Work and Technology, he is also a sought after professional speaker and he runs a program called The Digital Champions Club to help organisations identify and adopt the technology tools that can provide you with a competitive advantage.
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Read More63 How workplace design can improve leadership effectiveness with Alisa Moss
Alisa Moss is a Director of Canberran design firm, DJAS. DJAS works with organisations to design work environments that range from hundreds of square meters to 85,000 square meters, from small spaces to whole buildings. Starting her career as a photographer, aesthetic design has always been important. A focus on sustainability has become equally so. Nowadays she includes the development of effective culture, alongside sustainability and beauty, as a key premise of her design work.
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Read More62 Leadership expert Zoë Routh talks about how to deal with leadership failure
“Failure is just feedback.” Let’s get real. Sometimes failure is crippling and tragic. How do we deal with that kind of failure? When shame and tagged consumes us? We can recover, it takes focus and effort.
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Read More61 Leadership expert Zoë Routh reviews Captivate: The science of succeeding with people
Key Points:
There is quantifiable research that has been done showing us exactly how to be more memorable and engaging.
It means becoming aware of facial movements, work style preferences, and learning key engagement questions.
Anyone can become popular!
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Read More60 Leadership expert Zoë Routh reviews NEXT
Want shortcuts to elevate your leadership thinking? How about hacks to multiply the amounts of books you read? How does leveraging your life and work effectiveness sound? What about getting strategic with your meetings in novel and powerful ways? Want to know the critical factors affecting our business world in the next ten years? This book has it all. Enjoy my book review to get some more details now.
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Read More59 Leadership expert Zoë Routh talks about staff turnover and how to manage it
When they resign, do you blame them for lack of loyalty, little team spirit, and being ungrateful? These things may be true. But is it true that it’s them, not you? Taking ownership of what you can do as an employer or business owner to keep staff engaged and loyal will keep you at the front and help keep folks from jumping ship.
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Read More58 Staff loyalty is essential to leadership success with Craig Cherry
Customer service expert Craig Cherry shares the fundamentals of employee loyalty and engagement:
How playing the smile game got one business noticed in the media
Fundamentals of what people need to enjoy and be committed in their work
Critical skills leaders need to build buy-in and engagement
What the daily setup meeting is and what to include
How to create rewards and measures for staff
How even the trickiest of remuneration schemes, like those in legal firms, can access insights into individual contributions for better rewards
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Read More57 Leadership strategies that lead to success with Jeff Schwisow
Business mentor and strategist Jeff Schwisow shares:
Why the real enemy of business evolution is not change, but how ‘now’ cripples your ability to focus on ‘next’.
How an effective project mindset is one that moves away from large transformational change in favour of a steady stream of smaller adaptive projects.
One of the biggest blocks to Boundless Leadership is being too focused on the scoreboard and not the game you’re playing.
Build your organisation as a circle not a triangle.
Three key tips to get started to bring the future into now and be better at getting strategic results.
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Read More56 Leadership expert Zoë Routh talks about workplace morale
Here are some questions to check your morale DNA:
Belonging
Do you make a big deal of new employees?
Do you show them around and introduce them to all the team members?
Do you make sure they have their workspace ready to go?
Do you have some objects that let them know they are one of the tribe? (Yes, a branded coffee cup of their own can count here)
Meaning
Do you help employees connect with the bigger picture?
Do employees know what you care about, why you do what you do, and how what they do fits in to the bigger cause?
Do you measure and showcase the impact you’ve had on your clients and make sure everyone knows about it?
Gaming
How is the ‘game’ of your work?
What rules are you playing by?
Are they clear and agreed?
Or are there some outdated rules that are clunky?
What systems create friction rather than flow?
Frustration instead of fun?
How do you know if you’re winning the game of work?
Is progress visible and meaningful?
What prize do you get when you ‘win’ at work?
How often do you celebrate wins and winning?
Cleaning up the game of work is a very pragmatic way to boost morale. Just make things easier, simpler, and more fun.
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Read More55 Leadership expert Zoë Routh talks about the components of boundless leadership
Boundless Leadership is not a one-way expansion: it’s an oscillation between to the edge of possibilities and unknown, and back to the core of who you are for strength.
Five key things you need to develop as a Boundless Leader...
Read More54 The importance of your network to your leadership success with Janine Garner
Collaboration and connection expert Janine Garner shares:
Why developing your network is essential for your marketing machine, your intelligence bank, and a board of advisors.
The biggest challenge people have when it comes to networking: not investing in core connections in the right way.
Where to start in developing a network that truly supports you.
The four key people you need in your network to help you become the person you want to be and create the results you want.
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