“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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61 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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Read More53 How workplace design can contribute to boundless leadership with Ilea Buffier
Ilea Buffier shares:
How she retired before she left high school (!)
Why sustainability is imperative for all businesses
What questions to ask when designing spaces for enhanced employee engagement
How an eco-system of spaces works best for all types of contemporary work demands
How to design for whole of person well-being by addressing physical, cognitive, and emotional needs in physical space design
The corner office is no longer the status symbol - choice and control, especially over use of workspace IS
How “You create your space and your space creates you”
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Read More52 Leadership expert Zoe Routh talks about deameanour and how it impacts leadership effectiveness
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 More51 How to become a limitless leader with Renee Giarrusso
Renée Giarrusso shares:
What’s the key to being limitless
How to map motivation for leverage in business
Similarities and differences between industries and what holds people back from being limitless
How a coaching culture can cascade through an organisation
How to decode emails for better rapport
How to develop Boundless energy
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Read More50 Leadership expert Zoë Routh talks about how to expand your leadership capacity
What 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 More49 Leadership expert Zoë Routh identifies the 4 attitudes needed to achieve boundless leadership
No 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 More48 Leadership expert Zoë Routh reviews the Power of Moments
As 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 More47 Leadership expert Zoë Routh identifies the barriers to leadership success
The 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 More46 The importance of listening as a leadership skill with Oscar Trimboli
Oscar shares:
The 5 levels of listening and how to start
Why the 125-400 rule keeps us from being good listeners
The patterns to pay attention to in conversations that will help give you big insights
How to model process leadership not just content leadership
On being a systemic listener (this is hard - but we can all do it)
The ancient art of Ting, and what we can bring to modern communication that uplifts listener and speaker
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Read More45 How to develop leadership maturity with Dr Maja Stanojevic-Andre
Maja shares:
What is leadership maturity and why it needs to evolve
Why Trump is appealing to many voters
How a real estate company became the ‘Google of Real Estate” and one of the top 25 places to work through deliberate focus on individual and collective leadership maturity
How to create horizontal and vertical leadership development to become more nimble and responsive as leaders and in organisations
Why the maturity of the leadership caps the growth and future of the organisation
Where to start if you want to encourage the leadership maturity in your organisation
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Read More44 How to build trust, the golden elixir of leadership with Heidi Alexandra Pollard
Workplace 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 More43 Leadership expert Zoë Routh on how to build empathy and influence into your leadership skillset
Have 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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