Leading through challenge

Leading through challenge

By Chris DesmondBusinessManagement
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Leading through challenge episodes

  • Being an invaluable leader with Grant Verhoeven

    Grant Verhoeven is an expert on career clarity and transition. He loves to help people step up to the next level and get clear on the next steps.

    We chat through these topics

    + Understanding what makes us invaluable as a leader

    + Strategically increasing our value

    + Understanding our strengths as leaders

    + What we should be doing now


    Grant Verhoeven

    Feeling like you are walking a career tightrope?

    28 min
  • The pathway to leadership is through service with Filipo Levi

    I'm joined by Filipo Levi today, leadership speaker and coach who builds stronger high performance teams. Filipo is a former professional rugby player and International Rugby captain.

    Today we cover

    - Servant leadership

    - Developing kindness as leaders

    - Building resilience

    - Operating in high performance through challenge

    - How we can understand our teams better

    - Filipo's leadership influences

    37 min
  • The courage to be wrong with Alia Bojilova

    Leadership, resilience, and curiosity expert Alia Bojilova joins me for a conversation all about 

    - How we can bounce forward 

    - Overcoming challenges 

    - Why being wrong is so important 

    - How to know where we need to put our attention 

    - Letting ourselves evolve 

    - How we can be more curious 

    - How we can head towards our purpose better and faster

    30 min
  • The Avengers of Leadership with Elizabeth McNaughton

    Elizabeth McNaughton, Co-founder and director of Hummingly joins the Leading Through Challenge show.  Elizabeth has a long career in leading disaster and crisis recovery and brings these insights along with 

    - How leaders can find elegant solutions 

    - Why we need to look after ourselves as leaders 

    - How we lead others to where we are 

    - The importance of diversity in our leadership perspective 

    - and how to assemble the Avengers of Leadership  

    https://www.hummingly.co/

    23 min
  • Leading for mental health with Grant Pritchard

    Grant Pritchard, in-house lawyer, technology enthusiast and workplace mental health advocate at Spark -- New Zealand's leading telecommunications, media and digital services company joins us for a conversation.  

    We cover off 

    - The benefits of mentally health workplaces 

    - Giving your team permission to care for themselves 

    - How to build a mentally healthy workplace 

    - Acting decisively 

    - Transparency of communication 

    - Being humble about your mistakes 

    - Lead from where you are 

    - Lean on the people around you

    45 min
  • Deliberate Leadership with Sam Gadd

    CEO of Humankind, Sam Gadd joins me to talk through

    • Being deliberate in our leadership
    • Strengthening workplace culture
    • Where we fall down as leaders
    • What our role as a leader is
    • How we should be communicating
    • What leaders should be doing right now
    • https://www.humankind.nz/

      25 min
    • The power of flexibility with Gillian Brookes

      HR professional and expert on flexible work practices, Gillian Brookes joins me to help us understand the power of flexibility. We cover

      - Why flexibility works

      - What to measure to find out if flexibility works for your team

      - How you can become more flexible

      - What leaders should be doing right now


      gillianbrookes.co.nz

      22 min
    • Do you even want normal? With Alicia McKay

      Strategy, change, and leadership expert Alicia McKay chats shit with me today.

      Learn about

      - Shifting out of reactive superhero mode

      - How we can lead with innovation

      - Setting up sustainable systems

      - The big brave questions we should be asking to develop radical thinking


      aliciamckay.co.nz

      25 min
    • Leaning in to possibility with Digby Scott

      Digby Scott works with purposeful, adaptable leaders to help them create magic in a complex, turbulent world

      This one is all about leaning into possibility to see what can come out of it. Digby teaches us about staying in the moment, and separating fact from fiction. We talk through our sense of purpose and cultivating a sense of purpose in others. And Digby unpacks developing an experimental mindset and how we can create a minimum viable experiment.


      Digby Scott website

      Blog post 

      27 min

    About Leading through challenge

    From the publisher's feed

    The Leading through challenge show explores how we can improve our ability to lead during adversity.