Business Leader Breakthroughs

Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every Friday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. Linked below is the full episode for today's minisode if you want to hear more about how to go "All In".

In this episode, Mike and Ryan discuss the importance of going "All In" - a concept central to being able to transform yourself and your business. They stress the value of being fully committed, prioritising and letting go of low-value activities. Lastly, they talk about the challenges of going "All In" and share insightful advice on how to do it.

Links

• Listen to the full episode here
• Watch the full video on YouTube here 
• Business Freedom plan. Check it out here: https://advisor.thebreakthrough.co/bfp 
• The Breakthrough Company https://thebreakthrough.co/ 

Mykel Dixon, award winning speaker, author, musician helps business leaders and teams seek truth, rediscover creativity and make work more meaningful. He pushes the boundaries in business coaching, and prides himself on being a fearless non-conformist.

This week, Ryan has the pleasure of 'zooming' in with Mykel Dixon, award winning speaker, author, musician and advisor on how he is using creativity, artistry and vulnerability to boost businesses, improving performance metrics and also making work more meaningful for employees and leaders. Mykel takes us through why his name is spelt so uniquely and his personal journey from his first piano lessons composing unique songs to using music as a mother language and emotional expression to inspire change in business leaders. Mykel shares his business model based around team building activities and workshops on creativity and vulnerability to create hearty cultural leadership within organisations.

Bio
Mykel Dixon is an award winning speaker, author, musician and recognised authority of Creativity, Culture and the Human Future of Work. He helps leaders and teams rediscover their natural appetite and aptitude for Creativity with extraordinary success. Through the design and delivery of explosive keynote presentations, immersive team-building activities and transformative talent development programs, Mykel leads a new-wave of entrepreneurial savants showing forward thinking companies how to reinvent for relevance in a 21st-Century Renaissance. 

Links

• Check out Mykel Dixon's website https://www.mykeldixon.com
• Purchase Mykel's book "Everyday Creative" here
• Connect with Mykel through Linked In
• Follow Mykel on Twitter

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

Cam has gone from doubting his ability to run, to representing New Zealand in athletics which then lead to winning championships in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Through the journey to make it into the top ten in the world for his sport Cam started to see the world as his playground and exited near the peak of his running career. Wanting to leave a much bigger impact on the world, he didn’t want to compete in an environment governed by the abilities of his Cerebral Palsy but determined by the abilities of himself as a human being where he could encourage more people into their top ten - the top ten of their business, job, sport or school. The top ten percent of who they can be through striving toward a personal best.

In this weeks podcast episode, Ryan invited Cam Calkoen to our studio for a chat after a very successful Breakthrough Workshop that Cam guest spoke at. Inspired by his story, experiences and his outlook on life, Ryan dives deep into all things that motivate Cam. They talk about Cam's first experience in athletics and how his Cerebral Palsy never stopped him from smashing records, Cam shares his awesome story about climbing Mt Kilimanjaro and relates the challenges of going up and down the 17,000 ft mountain to business and the two share their positive and uplifting thoughts about life and staying positive.

Links

• Visit Cam Calkoen's website for more information
• Link up with Cam Calkoen 

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

How often do you sit around your meeting table, pull out your mission statement and brand values, and say "Hey, how well do we live these?"
Are you constantly changing around your most important values to match what is the top priority that month?
Do you even KNOW the values you say your business lives by?
Finding it difficult to answer one or more of these questions, don't worry, this podcast episode will give you a clear guide.

This week, Ryan virtually caught up with Ron Carucci, co-founder and Managing Partner at Navalent, an organisational and leadership development organisation, to discuss Ron's findings on systematic and long-lasting ways to change your organisation using the revolutionary results that came out of his recent 15 year-long study.

The study
Conducted over 15 years with over 3,200 leaders, the intent of the study was to isolate factors that predicted if people inside a company would be honest or lie. The research yielded four factors at an organisational level (not individual) that will either encourage people within your organisation to be truthful, just and honest, or to be deceitful, selfish and lie. Ron dives deeper into these factors: Strategic Clarity, Accountability, Governance/Decision Making and Collaboration.

The good news is that each one of these factors is completely within an organisation's control, meaning that improving it will make your company more honest, boost your reputation and fix financial disasters that may have occurred. Throughout the podcast, Ron gives you very practical things you can do to improve these four areas that will not only make your workplace more ethical but more enjoyable, and your people will be more proud to work there.

About Ron
Ron Carucci has a 39-year track record of helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organisation, and leadership — from start-ups to Fortune 10s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turnarounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth. With experience in more than 25 countries on 4 continents, he helps organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth, and then designs programs to execute those strategies. The best-selling author of eight books, a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, a contributor to Forbes, and a two-time TEDx speaker you know can trust his very valuable and experience-driven insights.

Ron's newest book "To Be Honest: Lead With The Power of Truth, Justice and Purpose" will be available mid-2021, until then, linked below are many free resources Ron has published, or his books are available on Amazon.

Links

• HBR Research article citing all research 4 Ways Lying Becomes the Norm at a Company
• List of Forbes article's Ron has written 
• Free eBook - Leading Transformation: An Owners Manual
• Connect with Ron Carucci through is website
• Connect with Ron Carucci through Twitter
• Connect with Ron Carucci through Linked In

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast

Mike and Ryan discuss the question so many of us are asking "What is the ideal working model going forward in Level 1?"  For many businesses and their people what was once the norm is now a choice; to work from home, to return to the office or something in between. 

It can be challenging to sift out the pull of the familiar versus the opportunity to reimagine and reengineer a new way of working, along with what will be practical in the longer term. There's tension between a number of different factors: 

• Where do we add the most value - personal, team and organisational?
• What is the most convenient for me and is that aligned with the best outcomes for the business?
• What types of work needs to get done?

In this podcast, Mike and Ryan share many stories of how people working from home during lockdown experienced different gains, losses and challenges, and the learnings we can take from their situations. And as the requirements have eased, companies have been adopting a variety of new models of working, some of which may not last long term.  

The important thing to realise is that there isn't a one size fits all solution, not only for the organisation but for individuals. We need to be continually adjusting and asking questions like "is this still working for us?" and "what do we need to change?"

Listen to this week's podcast for tips on how to be more deliberate and aware in trialling different models for working for your organisation and your people.

Breakpoints book by Dr Mike Ashby https://thebreakthrough.co/shop/breakpoints/

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE

David Galbraith shares frank insights and funny personal stories on how to live your best life with courage and care. He draws on a wide range of experiences as a clinical psychologist, high performance mental coach of athletes from Super Rugby (Chiefs) to Olympic sports, youth worker, author, husband and dad. 

Known as the HOGman, Habit of Greatness, he committed early on to be authentic and create his own framework for understanding ourselves, understanding others, and understanding the space between others. David built and then wrote about this in his book “Unleashing Greatness”.

David talks about with authenticity and honesty about courage: what it is and how we can step willingly into the unknown with intention. He also illustrates how being fixated on outcomes differs significantly from the mindset of mastery, and how it plays out in people’s lives. 

David has seen many contrasting leadership styles through coaching. He identifies the one defining principle that led people to perform well under pressure in the key moments. And when leaders model this primary value, everything flows and performance takes care of itself. David shares life changing stories as a parent and from working alongside Dave Rennie at the Chiefs whose care of his people was absolute. 

In explicit words, David talks about the courage it takes to care less about what other people think and more about what we think about ourselves – to be “uniquely weird”. As individuals and organisations, we can take steps to build a strong identity that acts as an anchor to ground us in tough times.

Links

• Jay Carter Talking Performance Facebook Live every Monday at 8pm: https://www.facebook.com/groups/261148161574131/
• Website: David Galbraith https://www.habitofgreatness.co.nz/about/
• Book: “Unleashing Greatness” In Sport and Life Through The Pathway of Courage by David Galbraith https://www.habitofgreatness.co.nz/product/book-unleasing-greatness/
• Everyone just want to be liked and accepted. Except for Tim. Image – Mark Manson: https://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

Welcome to our first podcast "back" with Mike and Ryan recording in our office together instead of through Zoom (which has been the mainstay for so many of us during these past 8 weeks of our nationwide lockdown). We are all adjusting from what was our old normal to the new normal or, as Mike says, our different normal.

Being a business leader during this time comes with a lot of tension. Most of us experienced an emotional roller coaster as we adjusted to working from home and all the other changes that lockdown brought to bear. While businesses and people were not equally affected, we all are dealing with the uncertainty and anxiety caused by pandemic in different ways, and much of the pressure and stress will sit below the surface. It will take some time before the full scope of the impact and (possible) damage is known, yet we must begin now to deal with these tensions.

In this podcast, Mike and Ryan discuss the tension for business leaders between stabilising and adapting. In the process of stabilising, we must look at our business model and operations for what and how we can recover, rebuild, reinstate and reassure. We need to manage the tension between stabilising and adapting without trying to lock in what's gone, reinstating things that are not longer relevant. So we must engage in the process of adapting, thinking about how to stay relevant, reimagine, reengineer, and disrupt. The good news is that as a business leader it's your role to help navigate but you don't have to have all the answers. Mike and Ryan talk about the kinds of questions you should ask yourself, your team and your customers.

Links

· Read more https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leading-through-the-crisis

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

Think about the learning workshops you've done over your career. Did you go away, have an inspiring day or two, only to go back to your workplace and keep doing what you've always done? You may have been introduced to some great new ideas and skills, but there was no path to bring that into your work within the organisation.

In this episode, Mike and Ryan talk about how learning must be embedded to create transformation in the organisation, and who needs to make these changes to see real change.

Links

• Read more about Mckinsey Leadership at Scale
• Read a sample chapter of Leadership at Scale
• Scroll down on our website’s home pages to read a summary with sources of the statistics mentioned by Mike and Ryan about why traditional leadership development isn’t working

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

In this week’s podcast, Ryan sat down with David Pich, CEO of the Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia and New Zealand. David has worked as a leader for more than two decades across all sectors, which has lead to his long held and deep seated passion for sound and impactful leadership. David has truly found his home within leadership and strategy, has his two best selling novels, Leadership Matters and Leading Well, prove this. 

Violently agreeing on all topics covered, the two share relatable stories and insights around the importance of growing middle management, how workplace culture can make or break an organisation, the much needed move to a 4 day working week and why everyone should be a feminist. 

This podcast was filmed before the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

Links

·       To connect with David Pich, check out his Linked In

·       For more information on The Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia New Zealand.
·       Learn more about David's best sellers, Leadership Matters and Leading Well 

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-leader-breakthroughs/id1469843394?l=es
Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

In this podcast episode, Ryan has the pleasure of talking with Heather Polglase, who has 20 years’ experience as an HR professional and is now the HR Director at Spark New Zealand. She has led a number of critical initiatives at Spark, such as Spark's Leadership and Development Programme, and held key roles across the Customer and Marketing areas of Spark.  

Heather talks about the implementation of these projects at Spark. She shares how she managed the large scale transformation into a new Agile way of working and how collaboration was a key component of its success. Heather also goes into detail on how her resilience muscle has strengthened over her professional career, why it's been so important and challenges that can come with being a woman in business.

This podcast was filmed before the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

Links

·       Learn more about Spark moving to Agile

·       Connect with Heather Polglase through Linked In

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/
Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco