Garry's Shortlist

Imagine yourself holding a photo of the ocean to a room full of people. Then, imagine asking them to tell you one word that described the picture.

You're probably going to receive a whole bunch of different answers. Blue, serene, pirates, deep, mermaids, calm...

So, what's the right word? There's got to be ONE right word, doesn't there?

In today's podcast with Sam Thiara, Chief Motivating Officer of Ignite the Dream, Coaching and Consulting, he used this incredible analogy to explain the concept of perspectives. Everyone has their own truth. Everyone is going to give you a different answer to how they would describe the photo - and that's okay!

The key as a manager and leader is to listen to these different views, and use them to inform your decision making. If you try and impose your reality on other people without regard for their perspectives, you're never going to get the best out of your team.

I had such a great time speaking with Sam, and I just know that anyone who tunes into this episode will come away feeling inspired. Sam just has that kind of energy!

Patrizia Cassaniti is on a mission to tackle open conversations and ‘speaking-up’ about safety.

Why? Because when mistakes happen, they can have really serious consequences.

Patrizia's goal is to shift the mindset around approaching safety on sites. She wants to encourage construction workers to feel empowered about speaking out about unsafe work environments, and for Project Managers to engage in conversation with their workers, rather than talking to them about safety without dialogue.

Since the tragic loss of her son Christopher in 2019 in a scaffolding accident,  Patrizia founded the Touched by Christopher Foundation and her company Let's Talk About Safety Australia. Through Let's Talk About Safety, Patrizia delivers keynote talks on job sites to help change the culture around risk and safety in construction. It's so incredible to watch the impact she is making on the industry at large. 

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When running an organisation, the number one role in HR is to be able to establish great connections with your employees and clients.

As the founder and director of The Learning Circle, Vanessa Panayi brings a true passion for personal growth and development. She works alongside businesses to unlock the potential and capabilities of their people, to help them achieve their ambitions in life, career and business.

Vanessa and I dive deep into leadership development within the construction industry, covering the qualities that make a leader, relationships with staff, and what it takes to lead during lockdown.

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Gaz

Many years ago I flew to Tamworth for leadership training that would quite frankly impact the way I thought about leadership for the rest of my career.

I bet you're wondering, what was so special about it?

Well, this training wasn't your typical classroom leadership course. It was led by the founder of Leadership Horsepower, Stuart Harrison. Stu helps people develop emotional intelligence and leadership skills through working with horses. Wild, right!

Horses are excellent at reading the signals and emotions you're giving off, and their reactions are authentic and immediate. If you learn to pay attention to their responses and then modify your behaviour accordingly, you'll be far better equipped to interact with your team, learning how to understand their emotions and then managing them from where they're at.

If you're interested in learning what it means to lead well, and develop relationships with your team that will see them thrive and grow, I definitely recommend tuning into this episode!

Trust is the biggest single predictor of an effective safety culture and companies in general. It’s all about overcoming mistrust and helping companies create the space where their people feel free to speak up and report incidents or admit mistakes, because we are fallible right?.

In today’s episode, I’m going in conversation with Clive Lloyd, Director and Principal Consultant at GYST Consulting. Clive has a background in Clinical Psychology and is also a published author. If you haven’t read ‘Next Generation Safety Leadership: from Compliance to Care’ yet, I highly recommend you do.

With his global Care Factor program, Clive helps companies tweak their internal dialogue, making room for a more mature safety culture where people look out for one another. The low-hanging fruit of better safety management is as simple as 'listening' to your workers. Start getting out there in the field and ask relevant questions. Stop doing safety TO your workers and start doing safety WITH them.

Watch what happens when you involve your front line workers and give them the opportunity to contribute to the safety in your company and on the job. They won’t just be more engaged, it’ll also translate in intrinsic motivation, trust and an overall safer outcomes.

Tune in for the full episode here on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4nCcd2krKTPoeJ5SrzgTEO (now also available on Apple podcasts) and join in on the conversation with us!

Stress within the construction industry is a huge issue. Long working hours, not getting enough sleep and making poor food choices are some of the many things that can contribute towards this stress. 

In today's episode, Kate Stuckey (Owner of My Eating Coach) and I dive deep into what impacts stress, the key signs to look out for and how to reduce stress by implementing minor changes in your life. Kate’s skills and knowledge have been known to change people’s bad habits, allowing them to live and work better. 

Having a weekly plan in place is a strategy I use that really helps me reduce my levels of stress at work and I encourage every person in construction to do the same - it will really help in the long run. 

Tune in for the full episode here on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4nCcd2krKTPoeJ5SrzgTEO (now also available on Apple podcasts) and join in on the conversation with us!

A few years ago, my good friend Martin Patience (the current Joint General Manager of Aged Care and Retirement Living at Richard Crookes Constructions), said to me that even if every builder in Australia stopped what they were building right now to start building aged care facilities, we still wouldn’t have enough beds for the people who need them. That really stuck with me.

I wanted to sit down with Martin for an episode of Garry's Shortlist to talk about the future of aged care - what's being done to cater for our ever-growing ageing population and are we any closer to fixing this crisis?

Coincidentally, just after Martin and I recorded the podcast, the Federal government announced they would be delivering 17.8 billion dollars to the aged care sector for a 'once in a generation' reform of the industry.

This funding promise affirms exactly what Martin spoke about - we need a change and we need it now.

Tune in for the full episode here on Spotify https://sptfy.com/GarrysShortlist (now also available on Apple podcasts) and join in on the conversation with us! 

The second episode of Garry’s Shortlist is here 

My guest today is James Kell, former Managing Director of Kell & Rigby Builders. I had a fantastic experience at Kell & Rigby where I worked alongside James as a Group Safety Environmental Manager for 4 years.

One of the most memorable projects we’ve worked on together was building the first Apple store in Australia. From the great culture on site to the innovative approach to risk and reward management, the Apple project turned out to be one of the best opportunities for the whole team at Kell & Rigby.

Safety in the construction industry has always had a very punitive approach, putting a constant negative pressure on company culture. If you do something wrong, you get punished with either a notice or a financial warning. That’s why during the Apple project, we trialled a new approach based on positive psychology to reward positive behaviours rather than to focus on the negative.

I hope you enjoy the second episode of Garry's Shortlist :)

Cheers,
Gaz

I'm super excited to introduce my podcast, Garry’s Shortlist! 

As the CEO of OneStart, I hire talent for the construction industry. Listening and chatting to people of all walks of life is a big part of the job, which fortunately puts me in a position to meet incredible people every single day.

I decided I wanted to share these conversations in the hopes they would inspire other people, the way they have inspired me. That's where the idea for this podcast was born.

In today's episode, I chat with Managing Director of Mend Services Fiona Curdie  about workplace injuries - how we can prevent them, and how we can manage them if they do happen. As a business owner with 15 + years of experience in the construction industry, I've seen many companies forget to implement early intervention which has tragically led to injuries at work.  Fiona and I breakdown the common challenges most business owners face, and provide strategies on how they be prevented and ultimately overcome. 

I'd love for you to tune in for my first episode :)

Cheers,
Gaz

I'm super excited to introduce my podcast, Garry’s Shortlist! 
 
 As the CEO of OneStart, I hire talent for the construction industry. Listening and chatting to people of all walks of life is a big part of the job, which fortunately puts me in a position to meet incredible people every single day.
 
 I decided I wanted to share these conversations in the hopes they would inspire other people, the way they have inspired me. That's where the idea for this podcast was born.
 
 In today's episode, I chat with Managing Director of Mend Services Fiona Curdie  about workplace injuries - how we can prevent them, and how we can manage them if they do happen. As a business owner with 15 + years of experience in the construction industry, I've seen many companies forget to implement early intervention which has tragically led to injuries at work.  Fiona and I breakdown the common challenges most business owners face, and provide strategies on how they be prevented and ultimately overcome. 

I'd love for you to tune in for my first episode :)
 
 Cheers,
 Gaz