Lead Like YOU! The Courageous Leadership Podcast

In today's episode, I am sharing powerful strategies to set boundaries at work, especially as a leader.

Why is it important to talk about boundaries as leaders?

Setting boundaries is a significant leadership skill. As you move up the leadership ladder, you will have increased demands on your time. You will have to manage your own work, the work of your team members and manage relationships at all levels of the organisation.

Setting boundaries means defining what is "ok" and what is not "ok". It means defining where you place your attention, which habits you want to build, and which processes you set with others.

Enforcing boundaries can be difficult. It also often comes with consequences and might disappoint people. But by managing your boundaries, you will build trust, manage your emotional energy and lead by example.

In today's episode we dive into why boundaries are important and how you can implement them in your leadership.

The different types of boundaries I mention:

These questions are here to help dive deeper into how you can implement these boundaries and discover more about where you stand with them. Try them for yourself:

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How do you navigate difficult conversations in the workplace?

As a leader, you often have to engage in difficult conversations. It can feel tempting to avoid the conversation and wait for things to pass. This does not lead to any resolution and can cause more issues in the future. So how do you handle difficult conversations in the workplace?

Avoiding these conversations can have a negative impact on the relationships with your peers, with your colleagues, with your manager and with your team members. It's important you engage in difficult conversations because it shows you have the courage to speak up, to be vulnerable and to talk about things that might cause discomfort at the start. However, they can lead to great progress.

Your direct reports also need your feedback. They want feedback. 

In todays we look at five tips that will help you to make this a little bit easier for the next time you have to prepare and engage in a difficult conversation.

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How do you manage emotions in the workplace?

We all get emotional. We are human beings. We express emotion daily. There are times in our day to day where we can struggle with emotions. Where they can get the better of us. In these moments we can often say or do things we regret later. So, how can we manage emotions in the workplace to prevent conflict?

You might need to learn how to regulate your emotions in the heat of the moment. Whenever you are overwhelmed, angry, frustrated or sad, it is important to recognise but then regulate in the workplace.

In todays episode we dive into the things you can keep in mind when you need to manage your emotions at work.

Self regulation is a big part of Emotional Intelligence, which starts with self-awareness. Self-awareness means that you are aware of what your emotions are doing with your body. Let’s go through some questions that can help:

In todays episode I also share some techniques to calm yourself down. Including:

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How to lead with your Values

https://www.annekoopmann.com/podcast/ep005-how-to-lead-with-your-leadership-values/

How to create Psychological Safety in your team

https://www.annekoopmann.com/podcast/010-how-to-create-psychological-safety-in-teams/

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How do you create a positive workplace culture?

A positive workplace culture at its core is an environment where team members really enjoy coming to work. A place that provides inspiration, creativity and team members are engaged in their roles. Everyone is contributing towards a similar goal and are in the business to make a difference.

What does a positive workplace culture look like for you? What is your own definition of a positive work environment?

If you aren’t sure where to start to achieve this, or are looking for inspiration to create a positive place of work for your team, today on the podcast I’m sharing my top 8 tips to create a positive workplace culture.

Including:

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Ep 5 - How to lead with your Values

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What is mindful leadership?

Today we’re joined by Laetitia Andrac who shares that a mindful leader is someone who first has awareness about their own needs, and stops when they need and sets clear boundaries and so on. It’s a leader who waits to respond, who holds the space for their team, and allows for everyone to just be still and trust that the right plan is coming.

Laetitia is a holistic business coach and a ‘soul+biz doula’. She helps womxn leaders and entrepreneurs in creating a soul aligned business, career and life.  She is making ancient spiritual wisdom accessible for busy modern-day women. She has a solid grounding in mindfulness (started meditation at 5-year-old) and spirituality (lineage of healers), along with an authentic ‘say it as it is’ approach and impressive business savvy and strategic background (with her 12+ years in business and leadership).

Together we explore:

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In this episode, I’m sharing ten things I wish I had known before becoming a leader.

Because I've been there. I've been a leader in the engineering and corporate world for 10 years and in that time, I really quickly moved up the leadership ladder. I started with a small team and then I got to lead bigger teams all the way to senior leadership role, where I actually managed teams in different countries in Australia and Southeast Asia.

I've learned many things along the way. There were a lot of challenges that I had to face on this journey in a male dominated environment. I set myself really high targets and was often very self critical.  I was doubting myself and I was really hard on myself as well. There were many moments where I struggled, where I didn't know how to manage difficult employees, where I had to have really difficult and tough conversations. So there's a lot that I learned along the way and some things I wish I had known just a little bit earlier, so that could either release some pressure or use some really beneficial strategies straight away.

So today, I share some of those things, including:

Invest in your own training and development (especially if you’re employer won’t) Your relationships may change and it can be lonely at times Check your unconscious bias regularly Strong leadership is about influence not authority And of course, lead like you because being authentic & vulnerable builds trust

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In this episode, we're going to talk about how we can make hybrid teams work by tuning into our emotional intelligence. Now more than ever, is it going to be important to focus on the human connection. To really focus on powerful relationships and on the wellbeing of our employees.

By now we all have come to the conclusion that our way of working has changed and potentially has changed forever. There's going to be some mix of working from home and working in the office.

So, how can we make this work? There's a real challenge now for leaders and managers to start to look at: how can I, as a leader, support my team remotely, but also support my team when there are some people in the office and some are working from home, how can I build the connection? How can I understand my team better?

Today, we’re going to talk about how to answer those questions.

In this episode, I talk all about:

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3 ways to use Emotional Intelligence to communicate with Impact in Episode 2

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What are the benefits of authentic leadership? How does it support those around you?

If you are authentic, if you're vulnerable, you're also creating an environment that lets others be themselves and show more of themselves and feel safe to be themselves. And that will lead to a lot of amazing benefits.

These benefits include bigger trust, better relationships with colleagues and with the leader. Higher employee engagement, boosted productivity.  If we can start to focus more on what's right with ourselves and other people, instead of what's wrong and what we have to fix. So by creating this authentic leadership and this environment of psychological safety, we can fully step into this leadership and create a culture that is just so powerful.

So let's look at the key characteristics of authentic leaders and help you to step into your authentic leadership a little bit more today.

In this episode, I talk all about:

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What are the key characteristics of authentic leaders? And what are the benefits of authentic leadership? How does it support those around you?

If you are authentic, if you're vulnerable, you're also creating an environment that lets others be themselves and show more of themselves and feel safe to be themselves. And that will lead to a lot of amazing benefits.

These benefits include bigger trust, better relationships with colleagues and with the leader. Higher employee engagement, boosted productivity.  If we can start to focus more on what's right with ourselves and other people, instead of what's wrong and what we have to fix. So by creating this authentic leadership and this environment of psychological safety, we can fully step into this leadership and create a culture that is just so powerful.

So let's look at the key characteristics of authentic leaders and help you to step into your authentic leadership a little bit more today.

In this episode, I talk all about:

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Discover your leadership values in Episode 5

Ready for more?

Discover your Authentic Leadership Superpower. Take the quiz now!

References:

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Have you ever been told to fake it until you make it? I'm sure that a lot of you have heard that before.

The thing though, and the problem with faking it until we make it or wearing a mask is that we can't really keep that up. And then the real problem here lies, that the people that you lead, they wouldn't really know the real you. And they will see through that mask.

Today, we are talking about four big misconceptions of authentic leadership and learning how to remove that mask and lead authentically.

In this episode, I talk all about:

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