How to be a successful disruptive leader

Welcome to the 60th episode of my latest podcast #Leadingthecoachingchange.

This week, I’ve decided to focus on disruptive leadership and to support me, I’ve invited Simon Harmer as my guest of honour.

Simon is the director of a creative agency ‘Thursday’. My friend Jenny Plant introduced me to Simon during lockdown. Simon and I got into conversations (on zoom) about ‘disruption’, ‘creativity’.

If you don’t know about Simon, do visit thursday.studio and have a look at the first message ‘Clarity feels good. Confusion doesn’t’. It feels like BANG! 5 words but hey…what a powerful message. I want to read more…don’t you?

Simon says:

• He is a very curious and always starts with the ‘why’
• He thinks with agility
• He always been a good people person

Are you like Simon? If yes, you may be a disruptive leader. Listen up if you want to know more. Simon and I

⭐️ explore what ‘being a disruptive leader’ really means

⭐️ share what creativity looks like

⭐️ examine the types of questions disruptive leaders use

⭐️ discuss the courageous conversations that disruptive leaders are having

And if you listen right up to the end, Simon reveals what ‘LUCK’ means

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Why do we do things this way? The next time you find yourself doing something, start questioning, is there a better way?

Thank you Simon for being my guest on this 60th episode. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

If you want to hear good news, read on…

My guest this week on #Leadingthecoachingchange podcast is Janine Capaldi and her opening statement is ‘people are actually generating leads from Linkedin at the moment.’

That’s true. It’s not an assumption. It’s actually happening. There is hope and we should never lose sight of it.

My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about exploring the successful conversations that we all need to have to design a clear roadmap, a strategic plan to generate leads from Linkedin. #Janine capaldi is the expert and shares with us some useful tips

Find out:

⭐️ How to qualify your future clients on Linkedin

⭐️ How to have the ‘right’ conversation to co-construct the ROI

⭐️ How to assert your boundaries in a conversation

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “What I did find really difficult was telling people that they were not the right fit "

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Trust is the basis for almost everything we do and research shows that trust is based on 3 pillars

-      Positive relationships

-      Expertise (walk the talk)

-      Consistency

But trust is more than that!

HRB reports that "Employees in high-trust organisations are more productive, have more energy at work, collaborate better with their colleagues, and stay with their employers longer than people working at low-trust companies. They also suffer less chronic stress and are happier with their lives, and these factors fuel stronger performance."

This week, in my latest episode of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast, I have a special guest Tarek Alami.

Listen up if you want to understand

⭐️ What skills you need to be a #change leader

⭐️ How to influence your colleagues and your clients towards a common goal

⭐️ How #ROI was always important (and now only suddenly now!)

⭐️How to use your 6th sense

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “If people have faith and #trust in you, then you’ll have a greater success in influencing the direction in which you want to go.’

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Emma Waltham helps organisations support women returning to work after maternity through coaching, consultancy and training. She has a first class degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Leicester.  She is a certified Coach from Cambridge University. What an impressive background!   “I think I’ve been a bit naive about what the reality is when you’ve got an employment gap.”   “The Government Qualities Office, in their research, compared interestingly, working mothers to working fathers that working with as a half as likely to have received a promotion within five years than a working father. And what they found was if they did get a promotion, often that was because they’ve moved organisation.”   Emma and I have a common point in that we are both using strength cards in our coaching practice

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you’ll hear

* How you can use an employment gap to your advantage

* What the research says about working mothers and promotion

* How flexible working can help women returning to work

* Why it is important for organisations to have a programme for women returning to work after their maternity leave

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Dr Phyl Hughes is a Business Psychologist at H2Pro. She is a coach, working with a range of mid to top layer leaders in the UK. Her USP as a coach is at the meeting point of you-your strategy-your organisation. She asks if this is the strategic direction of your firm, what do your leadership behaviours need to look like to deliver it. Dr Phyl’s work on culture change piece from top level to mid level.

I always love finding a common denominator with the people I interview on my podcast and with Dr Phyl, it is the definition of what a leader is “the role of a leader is about being a translator.”

– “It is about guiding people to be clear about their strategic direction, and then how that has a genuine meaning on how they are as a leader with that.”

– “People have a curious psychology around change, in that they crave it, but then when they do engage with it is daunting, even if that change is what they’d wished for.”

–  “Organisations have their own particular habits in how they go about managing change and a whole set of expectations, mindsets , fear, fantasies, and enablers, blockers that either make change fly or get in the way of it .”

– “I suggest to people that they need to think about change in 3 areas: what it needs to change, why it does need to change and how we go about that change”.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you’ll also hear:

* How to understand the difference between efficient and effective ways of approaching, engaging and being comfortable with change

* What Dr Phyl’s views are on models of change

* What the role of a leader is about being a translator

* How use the concept of congruence within the language of change

(And there were so many more points in this one I can’t even cover here – be sure to listen to get them all.)

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

You are a leader managing a team of people. You have become aware that there is conflict between some of your team members. You wonder how you can resolve the team conflict. You see it as a difficult conversation.

You can fix a work relation gone sour. Fixing a relationship takes serious effort but it can be done. Brian Uzzi, professor of leadership and organizational change at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, has written an article — ‘Make your enemies your allies’ — in which he says that ‘the hard work is often worth it, especially in a work environment where productivity and performance are at stake.

In this episode, I share some statistics with you about conflict at work in the UK and I take you through some team-conflict resolution strategies that will help you.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

*** How can you make people like you? ***

You know that:

- You’ve got an open mind and you listen

- You smile

- You do what you say you’re going to do

- You don’t really know

- You think you’re average

- You’re just you

And that you love everyone until they give you a reason not to!

You know that people like you because they tell you but you’re not sure about the exact reasons, listen to my latest Leading the Coaching change podcast to help you get it. What if they stop liking you?

So listen up if

⭐️ You want to get clear on the language to use

⭐️ You are desperate to be liked

⭐️You are ready to be happier (as more people will like you)

🎧Listen here

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

What do people thank you for most often?

How do you feel when your colleague(s), your line manager, your boss congratulate you, say thank you to you?

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How practising workplace gratitude can transform relationships

* What routines and daily habits you can develop to express your gratitude

* How you can develop a 'happy brain'

* Why it is important to say thank you

My favourite quote from this episode:

- "Appreciation changes everything"

-"What do people around you do well everyday that you might be taking for granted?"

- "Celebrate how other people have shifted, their creativity, their success, their risk, the difference that they are making. "

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

In my latest episode of the #Leadingthecoachingchange, I invited a special guest Andy Storch. Andy is Talent Development Consultant, Author, Podcaster @The Talent Development Hot Seat, Conference Host and Multipliers Certified Facilitator.

In this episode Andy shares how leaders need to examine how they are connecting with their colleagues to foster positive #relationships so that there is a significant impact on colleagues’s health, happiness and ultimately within the organisation.

Leading a successful career means making the right decisions. Andy talks about making the right choice in training. Discovery-based learning is an environment that helps people make challenging decisions with others in a specific timeframe. The difference is that it is a safe environment where you figure it out, try different answers and discuss them.

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Networking is like a bank account, you don't start off by trying to withdraw, you have to make deposits first.”

Thank you Andy for sharing your thoughts with us in this episode #52 of #Leadingthecoachingchange

#growth #leadership #relationships #strategy #success

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

 

 

The outbreak of Covid-19 virus has left many of us feeling anxious about the coming weeks and months as many people are facing an uncertain financial future, given the potential impact on everyday life, jobs and income.

But there is advice and support available to help people deal with the potential psychological and financial impact of the outbreak.

That’s why I invited @John Longford, Financial Adviser at St James's Place Wealth Management to talk to us about the world of finance. My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about exploring the steps we can take to reduce our financial fragility.

Find out:

⭐️ How to put in place the right protection plan for your family

⭐️ What a courageous conversation around finance looks like during COVID-19

⭐️ How improving our finances can actually have a positive effect on our physical well-being by reducing stress levels.

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “What’s really important around financial advisers, it can be a very long-term relationship.”

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.