Inside the CEO Mind

There’s More To Leadership Than Work!

We are all teachers and learners - leadership is relational don't you think.

In this episode I share my thoughts about the different generations in the workplace, what to do when someone is nearing the end of their career and how we can challenge conventional thinking about how we've always done it.

It takes courage, grit, a desire to step outside of the current paradigm to dream a new world into being and above all a determination to meet yourself in your deepest places.

Indeed, this is where the journey truly and deeply begins.

This is not theory and rhetoric. This is not a cognitive course, tick a box exercise. This is real life, real leadership beyond the boardroom. It’s experiential learning at a deep level. Every month we gather to sit in circle.

Connect to yourself, to your team, to other leaders, to your ancestry, to the elders, to the land, to wisdom. If you want to join the circle, uncover your purpose, define your legacy and find your tribe then reach out and find out more at https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au/

or drop me a message on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandriajoy/

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Managing Director of Eight Recruitment, Nadene Barretto fell into her career in recruitment 25 years ago. She learnt a lot about the industry, about people and about what it takes to lead well.

Fast forward to 13 years ago and Nadene took the giant leap to start her own recruitment agency Eight Recruitment - a boutique agency servicing the Hunter Region in NSW, Australia.

If there ever was an autobiography called “You heard her before you saw her”, Nadene would be the main character. But this version would star Nadene’s iconic and contagious laugh. Nadene, with her hubby Steve by her side, has built Eight to what it’s known for. For these two, turning the industry topsy-turvy is the goal, and attracting equally quirky but talented employees is the conversion.

When starting Eight in 2011, Nadene had the goal to create a recruitment agency that stands out from the rest, to bring value and transparency, and fun. With years of experience and the knowledge to back it up, Eight was then born into Newcastle’s competitive recruitment market.

In this interview we discuss Nadene's strategic decision to stand out as unique and human from their marketing and socials and especially within their office (tune in to the addendum right at the end to hear more about this). It's certainly magnetic - check them out here https://www.eightrecruitment.com.au/

Nadene talks about why it's importance to build a business and your leadership with a focus on the softness as well as the hard facts and yet to keep your resume and focus on more fact and less fluff. She encourages leaders to tell their story through facts and figures, to make a resume real, relevant and relatable.

Check out this episode for a great conversation with Nadene for tips on LinkedIn, standing out and the leaders such as Steven Thomas and Jo Burston who have inspired her along her journey. What can you apply in your career?

PS - In this episode I mention my free guide to optimise your LinkedIn Profile - you can download it here https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au/store/p/free-linkedin-guide

PPS - Are you a manager or leader who wants to grow their career or uplevel your managers to perform even better? If so check out this video https://youtu.be/D2kZuL8KyZE

For more information on becoming a great leader that people want to follow check out my posts here on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandriajoy/

When Anthony started his career in recruitment 15 years ago he was the lowest performer at his agency.

→ He did the coffee chats thing

→ He tried all the cold calls

→ He was consistent in the follow-up

But he was still at the bottom in his team. Over the next 5 years he:

→ Fessed up to being the "dumbest" in the room

→ Took advice from mentors

→ Discovered his big why and passion

(Hint: You can steal his approach to grow your career too!)

Things started to improve. He changed industries and began to look for ways to serve the industry. He grew his network and visibility while remaining humble.

He then built the 3 key pillars I recommend to make the shift to leader:

1) Grow your confidence

2) Improve your competence

3) Increase your credibility

Check out this episode for a great conversation with Anthony Nguyen, Aged Care Recruitment Manager and Host of the Podcast "Leaders in Aged Care" series and how after what he calls a slow start (I say normal) he then built on these 3 pillars to create an enviable career where other leaders seek him out!

What can you apply in your career?

PS - Are you a manager or leader who wants to grow their career or uplevel your managers to perform even better? If so check out this video https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/video-how-increase-your-pay-grade-become-confident-leader-vl8lc/?trackingId=3M%2BKXppxTtKAV4%2Bf0P5JtA%3D%3D

Showing appreciation is important in any relationship, and it’s especially important with mentors, leaders and elders who have invested time and effort into helping you grow both personally and professionally.

In a world that venerates the new, bright, and shiny, we can easily forget those with wisdom - our elders. Our elders may be past or present, they may have supported us in business, sports, life or spirituality.

It's time to write a new leadership story - to go back to what all first nations tribes around the world practice - celebrating and honouring elders. Take a moment to sing up the Steward Elders in your world by writing a gratitude letter to them about how they have inspired, mentored and supported you. Whether you use it to send to them or just do it to sing them up in your own way won’t matter, just thinking of them, remembering their deeds helps sing up their spirit soul and memory.

Join me and sing up and acknowledge the elders in your life as a force for good, for humanity and for the future. Create new conversations in your home or workplace through this practice, tell their story, tell your stories, tell your truth, share their wisdom and watch the ripples grow!

Want to write your own simple Letter to of Acknowledgement to an Elder in your life? Simply answer the few statements here Culture scientist Alexandria Joy is changing the conversation of how healthy, vibrant cultures — Alexandra Joy - AJ - The Bush Philosopher

If you are a government or corporate Director, Executive or leader who is looking for some team building, culture improvement, employee engagement or to train and upskill your managers as coaches then reach out to me directly at [email protected] and I can discuss your needs and prepare a bespoke quotation. Individual leaders for a free guide on how you can improve your LinkedIn Profile and position yourself for a new role or promotion visit https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au/shop

For more information about how you can build your confidence, competence and credibility as a leader visit www.alexandrajoy.com.au Follow me at (2) AJ - Alexandra Joy GAICD - (on Wonnarua Land) | LinkedIn

Cheers to your leadership and career success! AJ

From his roots as a school boy being bullied because he was different, to becoming a millionaire and building a highly successful company, to being wrongly investigated by the FBI, to speaking on stages about Radical Thinking, Brad is no stranger to standing out and thinking differently.

In this interview AJ unpacks Brad's story, his lessons and his legacy he is now weaving into his story today. A truly captivating and eye opening interview. Find out more about Brad here https://www.bradtwynham.com/about Connect with Brad here https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradtwynham-speaker/

If you're keen to grow your own career there are just 3 simple things you need - I share all about them here ➜ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/video-how-increase-your-pay-grade-become-confident-leader

If you are a government or corporate Director, Executive or leader who is looking for some team building, culture improvement, employee engagement or to train and upskill your managers as coaches then reach out to me directly at [email protected] and I can discuss your needs and prepare a bespoke quotation.

Individual leaders for a free guide on how you can improve your LinkedIn Profile and position yourself for a new role or promotion visit https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au/shop For more information about how you can build your confidence, competence and credibility as a leader visit www.alexandrajoy.com.au Follow me at (8) AJ - Alexandra Joy GAICD - (on Wonnarua Land) | LinkedIn

Cheers to your leadership and career success! AJ

You may have heard of servant leadership before, but have you heard of servant eldership?

I've had a few leaders reach out and ask - what exactly defines Servant Eldership?

Quite simply the path of a Servant Elder goes beyond the typical role of a leader, it's not necessarily a specific age or time in a leader's career, though it certainly is grown through experience. It is characterised by:

Not serving by compulsion but voluntarily. A leader should desire the office of leader, and serve from that desire, not merely out of rank, role or duty but because they WANT to serve.

Not after personal gain but eagerly. Servant Elders are so eager to add value that they don't look to the financial reward, power or title as the reason for their service, but simply as the means of making more service available to more people.

I have only just begun scratching the surface of understanding the role and path of an elder through my initiations and study of lore with indigenous elders from many nations for the past 6 years. What I am learning is that elders are significant knowledge keepers, they ensure cultural continuity is maintained, they also serve as teachers, healers, counsellors and confidants. They are guardians of the planet, mother earth as well as their totems and all living beings. They are the keepers of the old ways, tradition, myth, stories and legend. The biggest difference between traditional leaders and Servant Elders is where their motivation lies. While traditional leaders care mostly about material advancement, Servant Elders want to see not just their team or company grow and succeed, but all of humanity and the planet thrive and advance.

If you’re eager to be a co-creator and be part of the building of thriving cultures, companies, communities and nations then DM me for a link to a private free community where I’ll be sharing more and asking for your dreams and ideas too. Servant Eldership is a path for now for developing our collective future. It’s a path of walking together, all people’s, the planet with purpose for a future. I want to be part of the shift, I know some of you will too.

For more information on servant eldership and walking this new way join me on LinkedIn here.

or on my website here https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au

Cheers to your leadership and career success! AJ

I am honoured to interview a kindred spirit and fellow researcher, facilitator and passionate leadership advocate - Hamza Khan. Hamza shares his own personal journey with PTSD, workplace burnout and more in this deeply felt episode. Hamza Khan is a best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur, and world-renowned keynote speaker whose TEDx talk "Stop Managing, Start Leading" • Stop Managing, Start Leading | Hamza ... has been viewed over 2.4 million times. He challenges audiences and organizations to rehumanize their workplaces to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth. For more information on Hamza Khan and his work - visit https://www.hamzakhan.ca/

or follow him on LinkedIn / khanhamza

If you are a government or corporate Director, Executive or leader who is looking for some team building, culture improvement, employee engagement or to train and upskill your managers as coaches then reach out to me directly at [email protected] and I can discuss your needs and prepare a bespoke quotation. Individual leaders for a free guide on how you can improve your LinkedIn Profile and position yourself for a new role or promotion visit https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au/shop

For more information about how you can build your confidence, competence and credibility as a leader visit www.alexandrajoy.com.au Follow me at / alexandriajoy

Cheers to your leadership and career success! AJ

For most of us, overwork is the new normal and rest is an afterthought. In our busy lives, rest is defined as the absence of work: late-night TV binges, hours spent trawling the internet, something to do once we've finished everything else on our to-do lists. But dismissing rest stifles our ability to think creatively and truly recharge. Today my guest Silicon Valley consultant Alex Pang, will share that we can be more successful in all areas of our lives by recognizing the importance of rest: working better does not mean working more, it means working less and resting better. As an author and leader in rest and reduced work time, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is passionate about helping businesses, individuals, and governments work towards a future where productivity is prioritised over working hours, and work/life balance can be improved without sacrificing business results. In today's conversation we discuss his work life and background as well as his research and work as a consultant with dozens of organizations across the globe who are implementing shorter work weeks with outstanding results. If you've dreamt about working a shorter work week then tune in for some amazing tips and strategies as well as research into the benefit of working less in order to do more. Some of the benefits include: - better life / work balance - lower levels of stress - less burnout - sleep an additional 30 mins a night - happier and more productive - shorter, more focused meetings - better deep work and collaboration time segregation - more meaning - more intelligent way to work - higher quality work You'll be left asking yourself - "How could we get started here in our workplace?" Find out more here https://www.4dayweek.com/ and also https://www.strategy.rest/ Buy Alex's book here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rest-More-Done-When-Work/dp/0465074871 ______________________________________________________If you are a government or corporate Director, Executive or leader who is looking for some team building, culture improvement, employee engagement or to train and upskill your managers as coaches then reach out to me directly at [email protected] and I can discuss your needs and prepare a bespoke quotation. Individual leaders for a free guide on how you can improve your LinkedIn Profile and position yourself for a new role or promotion visit https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au/shop For more information about how you can build your confidence, competence and credibility as a leader visit www.alexandrajoy.com.au Follow me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandriajoy/ Cheers to your leadership and career success! AJ

I first met Morven when she was the Director of Community Development at Lake Macquarie Council. I found her to be sharp and knowledgeable as well as deeply passionate about making a difference for the community she served. Fast forward to now, over a decade later and Morven is the CEO of the Council, leading over 1200 staff and driving the agenda for positive change, growth and opportunity for the city. In this interview I dive into asking Morven about her early career, what led her to be CEO today, the mentors, challenges and guiding principles that have helped her along the way. While calm and self assured, Morven is not always comfortable in front of the camera however her story is a great leadership tale of learning to empower and leverage the strengths and talents of your team, staying true to your own personal values and integrity and creating clear boundaries and guard rails for maintaining a balance with family life and work. ______________________________________________________

More from AJ For a free guide on how you can improve your LinkedIn Profile and position yourself for a new role or promotion visit https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au/store/p/free-linkedin-guide

If you would like to request a review of your profile just like this one for a new role, promotion or improvement then reach out to me visit https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au/store/p/personalised-linkedin-profile-positioning

For more information about how you can build your confidence, competence and credibility as a leader visit www.alexandrajoy.com.au Follow me at / alexandriajoy Cheers to your leadership and career success! AJ

I am honoured to have Grandmother Mulara, senior lore woman with me to share her wisdom and teachings about leadership, energy and walking together. In this episode Grandmother shares her path being an emertus law woman and an indigenous lore woman, her journey teaching leadership and values based practices in government and corporates as well as her work now as a senior lore woman working with the grandmother energy. An insightful interview for those who also bridge the corporate and spiritual path.

For more information on Grandmother Mulara and her teachings visit https://grandmotherwisdom.com/

If you are a government or corporate Director, Executive or leader who is looking for some team building, culture improvement, employee engagement or to train and upskill your managers as coaches then reach out to me directly at [email protected] and I can discuss your needs and prepare a bespoke quotation. Individual leaders for a free guide on how you can improve your LinkedIn Profile and position yourself for a new role or promotion visit https://www.alexandrajoy.com.au/shop For more information about how you can build your confidence, competence and credibility as a leader visit www.alexandrajoy.com.au

Follow me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandriajoy/ Cheers to your leadership and career success! AJ