7 Skills For the Future

I’m delighted to be welcoming Pat Romboletti from Atlanta, Georgia to the podcast today!

Pat Romboletti is the founder of the Bulletproof Your Career Methodology, a4-phase coaching system for senior executive leaders, and the author ofBulletproof Your Career: Secure Your Financial Future and do Fulfilling Work on Your Own Terms...for LIFE”

After 18-years’ experience as a retained executive recruiter, Pat switched sides, and exposes the secrets behind the hiring curtain. Patricia’s TEDx talk was a wake-up call for corporate executives, urging them to stop living in complacency and denial and to disrupt themselves before they are

disrupted. Her advice — “think and act like a gigger.”

Watch her TED talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y180PWHdYLA

Get her book here: https://www.bulletproofyourcareer.com

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I’m delighted to be welcoming Deep Listening expert and former marketing director at Microsoft Oscar Trimboli to the show today all the way from Australia.  Oscar has a wealth of experience behind what makes for great listening skills and it’s one of the skills most likely to build your empathy. We talk about some easy tips to supercharge your listening skills. 

Oscar decided to dedicate himself to understanding the science and art of listening to create positive impacts both in workplaces and the world. While working at Microsoft, he rebuilt the graduate leadership program, which was then implemented in 26 countries. Oscar is passionate about creating effective communication and fostering leadership for the next generation, hoping to build a tribe of deep listeners.

Find out more at oscartrimboli.com He's also on Twitter

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” — Winston Churchill

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I'm delighted to welcome Briar Harvey to the podcast today all the way from Omaha, Nebraska. Briar is an extraordinary woman with an extraordinary story - I did not know her story before interviewing her and I'll let her tell it. A lot of this is how do we practise forgiveness every day - Briar has to do this for herself each and every day because of what happened and how she blamed herself for it.

Briar is a US podcaster and her show is called Latchkey Movies – all about taking a critical look at the movies your kids are watching without your supervision. Briar is also a systems expert, homeschooling mum of three and a trauma and loss survivor. In this podcast we explore the importance of forgiveness, how to make this a daily practice in our lives and the benefits this brings us.

#forgiveness #empathy

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Vikas is an emergency healthcare surgeon working in the NHS and in private healthcare. He is a surgeon with a difference because he practises mindfulness and meditation each and every day and trains other healthcare professionals to use mindfulness to help combat stress, burnout and fatigue. In this podcast we talk about the numerous benefits of practising mindfulness and why our inability to tame our minds isn’t down to our use of Smart phones at all but a basic human condition – our minds wander and we are constantly distractable. We also discuss how just 5 minutes a day can have an immediate impact and how living mindfully helps us to have far better responses to whatever is happening around us.

Find out more about Vikas here: https://www.pandey.healthcare/vikas

Download his free guided meditations here: https://insighttimer.comthe Nr 1 free app for meditation and sleep

Find him too on Facebook

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Karen is the inspirational gospel choir director of Kingdom Choir who shot to fame as a result of their rendition of ‘Stand by Me’ at the Royal Wedding in May 2018. Karen is also a dear friend of mine whom I’ve known for many years and who has encouraged so many people to find their voices and express themselves through singing in a choir. In this podcast we talk about some of the challenges and changes she has experienced since the Royal Wedding, what it is like to become a celebrity overnight and what that means in terms of being resilient and keeping in touch with your values and your integrity. 

Karen and the Kingdom Choir are currently on the Stand By Me  tour in the USA

Find out more about Karen here: https://kingdomchoir.com/about-the-kingdom-choir/

Find them too on Instagram and Facebook

#kingdomchoir #karengibson #gospelchoir #resilience #values #integrity #celebrity #7skillsforthefuture

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Martin is a pilot captain for one of the UK’s major airlines. In 2007 he tragically lost his wife Elaine during a routine medical operation. This terrible event led to him founding the Clinical Human Factors Group to engage with the healthcare system and campaign for change within the NHS. His wife died as a result of a lack of “human factors” – it was all down to communication issues, leadership, teamwork ineffectiveness rather than medical incompetence.

Martin founded the Charity in 2007 with academics, clinicians, leaders and policy makers. He combines his work with the charity while working as an Airline Captain. Martin occasionally speaks at key events and is invited to input to policy development. His work is widely recognised and his many awards include the Royal College of Anaesthetists Medal and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In this podcast we talk about learning from human failure, adaptability and resilience and a need for real systems change with healthcare to address human factor behaviours. 

Find out more about Martin here: https://chfg.org

#resilience #healthcare #humanfactors #nhs #7skillsforthefuture #adaptability 

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We've got a fantastic series lined up for you this Autumn and Winter! This time I've focused on interviews with incredible and inspiring people who, for me, really embody these 7 skills. I talk to a senior airline captain who has turned tragic loss into action and inspirational work, a superstar gospel choir director turned celebrity overnight, an emergency healthcare surgeon who uses mindfulness before stressful operations and loads more.

Listen to James and I introduce this Series with a very special offer this week only!

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Welcome to the last in Series 3 but by no means the least! It is an absolute joy to welcome the delightful Rachel Paling to the show today. Rachel Paling is a pioneering language coach. She works with corporates worldwide to enhance communication and cross-cultural performance within International Teams. I think what I love about Rachel is her tenacity and her willingness to go to any country on the planet to train, educate and encourage people to tap into a completely different part of their brain to embrace language learning in a different way. She is the leading light on this and works with teachers everywhere to support them. When she is not disrupting the language training industry (or perhaps at the same time!) Rachel is the warmest and most vibrant person. Rachel and I discuss exactly what makes up great communication skills and how to bring empathy into every single encounter. 

Find out more about Rachel's work here: https://www.efficientlanguagecoaching.com/rachel-paling/

We'll be taking a short break in August. Watch out for Season 4 with some fab interviews including a former Britain's Got Talent star, a gospel choir director who found fame overnight, a maverick revolutionary resilience pastor (yes I know!) and the fabulous author of Hustle and Float - Rahaf Harfoush.

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98% of us are prone to procrastination and the way we live and work now has only made our tendency to procrastinate stronger and easier. In this podcast James and I talk about why we procrastinate so much and how it is possible to set up easy triggers for ourselves to avoid this and create healthy boundaries. Result: achieving far more than you ever thought possible! So listen this week and be amazed by just how much you will get done!

For more tips on being proactive visit our PROACTIVE skills page for free downloads and resources - https://unimenta.com/being-proactive/

“One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens“. – Joshua Foer

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This week I'm delighted to welcome the lovely Alison Rood to the podcast. With over 15 years experience of working in digital project management Alison knows only too well some of the issues DPMs struggle with – the ability to be present, work under pressure and managing stress levels to name just a few! I chat to Alison about her experiences in this regard and some tips for applying all 7 skills to help anyone work effectively and productively.

Alison's also our Lead Licensed Trainer and delivers powerful workshops to digital project managers to raise awareness of adaptability, empathy, critical thinking, integrity, being optimistic and proactive, resilience - find out more about her work here: https://unimenta.com/team/alison-rood/

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