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. In this episode, share insights in the value having a board for your business. Having both chaired for other organisations and their own, they share their experiences and offer advice for listeners who might not currently have board structures in place.
 
Mike and Ryan talk about the value of having external advisors and offer insights into how they bring different perspectives, unbiased viewpoints, and help to avoid groupthink. Mike shares his advice on what an external advisor provides in a framework he refers to as "the bright light, clear mirror and the kick in the pants."
 
Ryan shares his thoughts on the value of having board reports. For him, they offer a forced reflection not only from a financial perspective but from a people, capability, customer and partner perspective. The monthly forced discipline of reviewing performance, discussing barriers facing the business, strategic goals, reviewing important goals and lastly agreeing on what needs to be done to improve performance, is invaluable.

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Miriam Chancellor is one of New Zealand’s leading public speaking/presentation coaches. As a public speaking coach, she has trained teams from numerous businesses including BNZ, Bay of Plenty DHB, Coca-Cola Amitel, Jasmax, and Publicis Groupe. She also coaches some of New Zealand's top C-suite business executives. 

In this week’s podcast we talk about something that can give one person nervous butterfly’s and the next person a full nervous breakdown. That’s right, we’re talking about public speaking. Thankfully, Miriam shares a wealth of knowledge you can use to overcoming public speaking anxiety along with tools the most confident public speaker can use to create a powerful presentation. 
 Miriam also give us practical tips around how we can have a great presence through video conferencing, such as how we can use lighting to our advantage and digital vs natural background. 

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You can contact Miriam at [email protected]

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. Mike and Ryan give you insight on moving forward in your career from self employed, business owner and then investor.

In this episode, Mike and Ryan talk about how people progress through their careers. Specifically, how they transition from employment to business ownership and eventually to an investor. They identify how people can often get trapped in the move from self-employment to business owner because the business is so reliant on them. In order to change this, they recommend a few leverage points. 
 
Firstly, simplify the business – focus on your biggest leverage point initially which is often people. Those who share your values, culture, and vision. Secondly, clarify your process and think about systems to make things highly repeatable and scalable. Every good business is one that is systemised, standardised, and automated. This is what they refer to as the business machine. Once achieved, the transition into investor can be made with ease as you can move out of an operational role in your business.
 

This week’s podcast was recorded at our very own Challenger workshop last week. We hosted a panel with Aurelie Le Gall, Kevin Boroevich, and Britta Christiansen to discuss what it takes to build a great culture, what works well, what doesn’t, and learnings we can take into our own businesses and teams. 

This diverse panel shared a range of views about what is really important to company culture. Aurelie’s background in recruitment gives insight into what exactly culture is and how to hire in a way that is beneficial to shaping culture. Kevin draws from his incredibly broad range of experiences to pick and choose the best builders of culture and bring all of those into his current business, along with his personal life. Britta’s 20 years in business coaching has allowed her to see culture struggles across many organisations and industry sectors. She gives great practical tips such as how to align culture across locations and departments and how we can improve KPIs simply by asking our team what culture can do to help.

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 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. Mike and Ryan cover the reasons why traditional workplace training is a waste of money.

The idea of the classroom as the sole place of learning is dead and the vast majority of money spent on training is a waste of money. In this podcast episode, Mike and Ryan discuss the issues with the traditional approach to training and learning and offer insights into a new effective approach. The current model of adult learning posits that 10% of learning effectiveness comes from content (i.e. the classroom), 20% from exposure through socialisation, and 70% through experience.

The old approach of sending people away to a block course to develop their management skills has always been an exercise in hope. Participants may get new ideas, but the gap between knowledge and application equals the distance between the classroom and the workplace. Mike and Ryan discuss a new learning concept called blended learning. An approach that uses a mix of online and classroom content. The key advantage being a lower cost delivery of soft skills (communication, people, relationships) that can be applied immediately. To find out more, check out the links below.

Links

• Watch the full episode here
• Dr. Mike has written a free Whitepaper on the future of leadership development. Which you can download here 
• Active Management Programme mentioned here: https://thebreakthrough.co/management-training/

Derek Handley is a New York-based New Zealander and social entrepreneur. He has founded multiple ventures, including the B Team with Sir Richard Branson. He is the founder of Aera, a charitable trust investing in causes and companies addressing social issues in imaginative ways. Derek is also the current Social Innovator in Residence at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania; an Adjunct Executive Professor at AUT in Auckland.

This week, Ryan is joined by Derek Handley in a deep and thought-provoking discussion on some of the greatest challenges we face as a society right now and what we can do to combat them. He takes us on his journey from founding an award-winning mobile marketing and media company and through his transition to social innovations and efforts support the visionaries working towards a sustainable future and economy. Derek also shares how he maintains balance and perspective in our current climate and gives valuable guidance on living as your most authentic self. 

Links 

• Check out Derek's charitable trust Aera here
• Check out Derek's podcast "Wiser Conversations here
• Buy Derek's book "Heart to start" here
• Connect with Derek through his LinkedIn here

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 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. Mike and Ryan cover important issues around business management. 

Most managers end up in management roles having progressed through an organisation because they’ve been good at a technical role or job, and somehow they’ve gotten “manager” in their title. So, they often don’t have the necessary skill set required of a great manager. 

Business owners want their managers to step up, they don’t want to do their managers jobs for them which is often how it feels. They end up micromanaging and just pissing their managers off. Fortunately, there are options. Mike and Ryan take you through the awareness you must discover in your business and TRUELY find out if your managers are doing a great job managing, or are you as the business owner picking up the management duties they could be doing? 

Post lockdown #1 there was a lot of speculation about the effect working from home was having on businesses. We had our own hypothesis’, but we wanted to see real data from real businesses, so we conducted a survey with 75 businesses to see what their experience was during lockdown and if their businesses working style had changed permanently. 

In this week’s podcast we discuss the results of the survey looking at the impact working from home had on productivity, innovation, work/ life balance, cohesiveness, communication and much more.
For those businesses who are still operating on a flexible working policy, Mike and Ryan give great tips on how to manage your team to maximise results in all areas looked at in the survey. They also give a great reminder that a low performing employee at home is not going to be magically improved by being at their work desk. A leader must develop essential tools, frameworks and capability's around your people so that they can perform anywhere.

To see the survey results click here
To read Mike's article on contribution click here

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

Many leaders and business owners find themselves in a state of constant frustration. Ping pong balls racing around in your head sound familiar? In this episode, Mike and Ryan share their advice on how to overcome frustration in your business by using the 7 P’s framework. 

A great practice they recommend in gaining clarity and awareness is a process they call the mind dump, by putting pen to paper on a blank piece of paper. This allows you to get clear on the important things that matter and to declutter, this makes space for the higher value stuff. 

The 7p’s are outlined as follows to help guide overcoming frustration by gaining clarity.

1)      People: The internal team, how is everyone going with their tasks 
2)      Patrons: Our customers, clients (how we deliver the customer experience)
3)      Platforms: Importance of technological platforms.
4)      Product: The programmes that we deliver.
5)      Process: Everything from how we get from start to finish.
6)      Profit: A wrapper for finance, how we deal with cash flow and capital. 
7)      Promotion: How we attract sales through marketing.

Lastly, at the backbone of everything, having purpose they consider to be highly important as it provides context for why we do what we do. 

Most business leaders have felt self-doubt, imposter syndrome, blame and fatigue at some point in their career. For some, it’s a brief thought that they get past within minutes. For many, it’s debilitating and what’s holding them back from achieving brilliance. Janine Garner is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, educator and author helping thousands of high-profile leaders from around the world.  Janine believes that today, more than ever, we need people, teams and companies willing to put in the extra effort to be truly brilliant.

This week Janine joins Ryan to discuss how to free ourselves from the “fake it till your make it” mentality and operate from a place of truth and authenticity allowing us to build deeper connections and unlock true innovation. Janine gives us her 4 laws to help us unlock our growth potential by developing self-leadership which is something that needs to be mastered before we can truly lead others.

1. Discover and own your spotlight
2. Harness your natural energy
3. Connect and collaborate with intent
4. Enhance and magnify your influence

• Check out Janine's website here
• Connect with Janine through LinkedIn here
• Purchase Janine's first book "From me to we" here
• Purchase Janine's second book "It's who you know" here
• Purchase Janine's book "Be Brilliant" here
  Reminder: If you buy Janine's book, email your receipt to [email protected] for a free 82-page practice journal to help put her practices in place.

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