Simon 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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Don’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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Lisa 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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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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It’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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Stacey 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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All leaders need a little boost from time to time! In fact, we need to be working on our mojo ALL the time. It is central to our capacity to manage the most difficult aspects of our work. In this episode, which is a little silly (yay!) I share:
3 ways to shift your THINKING to boost your mojo
6 strategies to DO to shift your mojo in to overdrive
3 simple ways to BE more in a better vibes mojo place
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Stephen Scott Johnson, author of Emergent - The Future of Culture: A Practical Guide of Leading Transformation, shares:
The causes that allow a movement to flourish or die
What you need in an organisation to make a cause sustainable
How change is a creative destructive process that is an invitation to becoming something more
The key differences between old power and new power, and what’s at stake if you get stuck in old power
Why silos are NOT the problem
What the pivotal point is for a leader to move from TRANSACTIONAL to TRANSFORMATIONAL
The new style of leadership that is required to navigate disruption
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Dermot Crowley, Australia’s leading productivity expert, and author of best-selling book, Smart Work, shares:
How to have good relationship with your email
Get your inbox to zero at least once per week
Key tips in using the three-part productivity system of Capture, Consider, and Commit
How to use email, calendars, and task lists for maximum efficiency and effectiveness
Guidelines on when and how often to check emails
How to use email like bubblegum
The best way to use your task list: the rinsing system of file, schedule and sequence
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Ever wonder why some people are more successful than others? What is the secret sauce that some are missing? In this episode, Zoë shares:
It’s not about being an extrovert or introvert
Simple tweaks to your focus that will shift your energy dramatically
How to prepare for meetings so that you are instantly more credible and influential
Simple practical tips for becoming instantly more charismatic without changing who you are
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Finance expert, entrepreneur, and author of “Get Rich Slow”, Sarah Riegelhuth shares:
Why instant gratification is the biggest challenge for wealth creation
How she leads a digital nomad’s life running a prosperous business with a global team
The four factors that make wealth creation easy and fulfilling for her Gen Y clients
Why the criticisms of Gen Y are wrong, and what they have to offer
Tips on how to engage Gen Y
Why her staff call themselves ‘Gladiators’ - this is gold!
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Storytelling expert and author of four books on storytelling, Gabrielle ‘Ral’ Dolan shares:
How to use and influence the organisation’s natural grapevine for influence
What NOT to do when it comes to sharing personal stories
Where to get your stories from
How to create a bank of stories ready for use
Key tips on handling nerves when it comes to storytelling
Three mistakes to avoid when it comes to storytelling
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Peter Munday, Dealer Principal at Lennock Volkswagen is an extraordinary man who leads with compassion and generosity as his key values. He has raised nearly $3 million for charity over the last 8 years. In this presentation recorded at a Menslink event, one of the charities he supports, he shares his own personal story: a life of challenges, vulnerabilities, and the spirit of caring. Be prepared to be inspired and moved by this big-hearted man.
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It’s budget time. That generally also means strategic planning. But so many people do it backwards, or don’t do it at all. We look at key mistakes to avoid, and what to do better, as well 7 key ways to move from linear thinker to systems thinker, and rock your strategy.
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Ahead of ANZAC Day, we look at what we should NOT sacrifice in leadership, and the five things we should absolutely sacrifice in leadership.
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Business owner struggling to keep the doors open? A professional dealing with turmoil? Here are key benefits to be gained from survival mode, and how to shift out of it.
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Canberra based leadership expert Zoe Routh reflects on the insights from the Edge of Leadership conference
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There is so much in the public forum about the challenges facing women - all of them genuine and in need of focus and attention. And yet there is radio silence on the challenges for men - a social taboo that is keeping men quiet and suffering. It seems in our search for gender equality, we have succumbed to gender silencing. Has the pendulum swung too far?
In this episode we explore:
Alarming statistics about men and how they are coping (or not) with the shifting landscape of men's purpose
What is contributing to the challenges for men
What questions we need to answer if we are to move forward TOGETHER.
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Susan Helyar is the Director of ACT Council of Social Service Inc (ACTCOSS), and a Table Host for the the upcoming Edge of Leadership UnConference, March 28 here in Canberra.
In this interview we dive into:
Why community advocacy is critical in maintaining the compassionate heart of the community
The hidden story in the strong average cost of living in an affluent community like Canberra, and how many are stuck in a cycle of poverty that goes unseen
When you are asked, 'does this bother you', what are you prepared to do to make a difference in complex social challenges? A little goes a long way.
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Contribution is a responsibility and a calling. It's part of the fabric of what makes up their business platform and approach. It's an integrated view of life, work, and making a difference.
We cover:
How environments support the values and culture of an organisation - including a swing!
Business has a two-way role in the community
The value of different in roles in collaborative leadership
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