OAKRIDGE VIRTUAL CONNECTION SERIES

Andy Fleet discusses how management and leadership styles affect employee wellbeing and that it's important to communicate and listen to your teams to help support them in improving performance for themselves, as well as for the organisation.

He also shares advice and guidance on managing teams virtually. Below summarises Andy's top tips from his podcast which can also be downloaded in full along with the additional resources he shares.

Brief summary of Top Tips for Managers and Leaders:

• Managers and leaders to have weekly conversations and 1-to1 check-ins with their team members.
• Check-in and not Check-Out: Create a process and climate to focus on performance.
• Project management skills to keep performance virtually: Creating clarity of goals and objectives.

Brief summary of Top Tips for people working with their boss virtually:

• Keep your promises: focus on delivery
• Keep your manager informed
• Ask your manager if anything is unclear to you
• Agree on how you and your manager will work best together 

Included below are additional reference materials to download:

BOOKS - Web Links:

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Connected Leadership by Simon Hayward

PODCAST WEB LINK:

Golden Circle - Simon Sinek 

MATERIALS AND RESOURCE WEB LINKS: 

Oakridge Andy Fleet - Top Tips from the Podcast

Oakridge: 14 Key Indicators for Team Excellence Scorecard

Oakridge: Time Management Mindset Tool

Strategy Business article: Managing with the Brain in Mind

Oakridge - RASA - The importance of listening

Oakridge - Paying Attention to What Matters Example Programme

Oakridge- 7 Top Tips for Performance Conversations

Review our previous Podcasts Here for similar topics and additional download tools.

Jo Clare, Oakridge’s Senior Consultant, discusses with Steve Munro, “How can I encourage growth mindset and change readiness in my team?”

Jo discusses how in communicating change to teams, it’s important to allow the thinking brain to get back into action and as leaders, giving teams time to take things on board and not expecting an initial reaction but asking people to give themselves time to think about it, in order to lead them to the right point to create a positive future and develop agility within the team. It’s about bringing vision and empathy and clarity and developing the agility in the team.

Jo also discusses ensuring leaders embrace with the emotional and growth and fixed mindsets within the team, and how that within differing EQi outcomes within the team, how leaders need to manage this effectively to gain insight into their Strengths, Values and Purpose which in turn leads to Commitment and Collaboration and Diversity of thinking within teams. Jo uses the equation – E + R = O (Event + Reaction = Outcome) and the Path of Possibility Vs the Path of Limitations. She also talks about developing ‘Grit’ to encourage passion and perseverance for long-term and meaningful goals.

Jo has shared her Top Tips summary from the Podcast for you to download along with other resource links:

• 7 Top Tips from the Podcast
• Mindset THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS By CAROL S. DWECK - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44330/mindset-by-carol-s-dweck-phd/ (Book Web Link)
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth/dp/1785040189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460768165&sr=8-1&keywords=grit (Book Web Link)
• The Strengths Guy – Paul Brewerton - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-strengths-guy/id1392556045 (Podcast Web Link)
• 3 Ways to Measure your Adaptability – and how to improve it -https://www.ted.com/talks/natalie_fratto_3_ways_to_measure_your_adaptability_and_how_to_improve_it (Materials & Resources Web Link)
• Developing a Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiiEeMN7vbQ (Materials & Resources Web Link)
• Managing with the Brain in Mind -https://www.strategy-business.com/article/09306?gko=9efb2 (Materials & Resources Web Link)
• Grit: The power of passion perseverance - https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance?language=en (Materials & Resources Web Link)

Welcome to the seventh episode of our podcast series one.

In this episode, we discuss: "How can you manage teams effectively in the 'new normal?"

Mark discusses with Steve, how as a leader and manager of teams, you need to understand yourself first, in order to figure out the most appropriate leadership style to adopt in the new normal - in working better as an affiliate leader or manager, to enable effective relationships with your team.

Mark highlights the importance of coaching to work with the 'attitude' of your team - moving the mindset away from results which individuals get assessed on, to more of a 'rewards' leadership style. He shares some great insights on the 'people centric model' in the model which he equates to the three-legged stool 'The Stool of Sustainable Performance' which can be downloaded below or on our webpage.

Mark said in his podcast: "As leaders things have changed and what you have done in the past is not necessarily how you are going to lead moving forwards. It's a stop-start approach and you need to ask your people how they are."

Mark also shares the 'Trust Equation'.

 A great Podcast with great insights once again. Please download the tools and techniques referenced in the Podcast. Like Oakridge's 14 Key Indicators, EQI, and great reference books too.

Below we list some resource take-away material as referenced in the Podcast. Please also visit our website page - https://www.oakridgecentre.co.uk/blended-learning-solutions/virtual-connections-space-for-conversations-podcasts/ which features all Podcasts to date in the series with information resources to download, so please take a moment to listen to these too if you missed them in prior communications.

BOOKS - Web Links

The Emotionally Intelligent Leader – Daniel Goleman 

Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values – Fred Kofman 

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Daniel H. Pink 

Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action _ Simon Sinek 

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't - Simon Sinek 

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead - Brene Brown  

PODCAST WEB LINK: 

Don't tell me the score - Simon Mundie 

MATERIALS AND RESOURCES WEB LINKS: 

Oakridge: 14 Key Indicators for Team Excellence Scorecard

Trust Equation - Charles Green 

Ted Talks – How great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek 

Oakridge: The Stool of Sustainable Performance 

Oakridge’s EI (EQI) Framework 

Oakridge’s EI (EQI) and Leadership 

Review our previous Podcasts Here for similar topics and additional download tools

Jerry Scott, Oakridge's Senior Consultant, talks to Steve Munro about 'How do I support people back into work feeling safe and valued.

The Podcast discussion is about how in any times of change, and particularly Covid 19, people report feeling less safe. When we don't feel safe, our performance and effectiveness reduce. So, leaders need to proactively take steps to engage with their people and take practical steps that allow them to feel safe and valued. In this episode we look at three areas: Team; Expectations; and Autonomy.

Please visit our Podcast website page for the download links as mentioned in this Podcast, including additional information and previous Podcast episodes. Some of the links mentioned are included here:

Oakridge Podcast page: https://www.oakridgecentre.co.uk/blended-learning-solutions/virtual-connections-space-for-conversations-podcasts/

Books: Power Your Tribe - Christine Comaford www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Your-Tribe-Resilient-Turbulent/dp/1260108775

YouTube Clips:

David Rock SCARF model - Learning about the brain changes everything _ David Rock _ TEDx _ https://youtu.be/uDIyxxayNig

Why good leaders make you feel safe _ Simon Sinek _ TED _ https://youtu.be/lmyZMtPVodo 

Building a psychologically safe workplace _ Amy Edmundson _ TEDx _ https://youtu.be/LhoLuui9gX8 

Experimentation and agile DM – Cynefin - David Snowden _ https://youtu.be/N7oz366X0-8 

Barry Wehmiller Story – Bob Chapman https://youtu.be/njn-lIEv1LU

The TEA Model (PDF): https://bit.ly/2GSODJu

And more download information Tools & Techniques is available on the Oakridge website page as per the above link.

Kevin Charlesworth, Oakridge's Senior Consultant talks to Steve Munro about Inspirational Leadership i.e. - Not just ‘getting your kids to do the washing up but getting your kids to WANT to do the washing up’. 

The Podcast creates a canter through some of the key principles of leading in today’s working environment, including being a leader regardless of your status in the organisation, being proactive – not a victim and recognising the need to take more calculated risks. 

Please visit our Podcast website page for the download links as mentioned in this Podcast including additional information and previous Podcast episodes, some of the links mentioned are included here.

Oakridge Podcast page: https://www.oakridgecentre.co.uk/blended-learning-solutions/virtual-connections-space-for-conversations-podcasts/

Books: 'Maverick' - by Ricardo Semier: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workplace/dp/0712678867

Podcast share: Paul Scanlon: When People Grow, Everything Grows: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb0gJMA6_O21ITwi7t66yIQ/videos 

 Survey of 95 year olds - Kevin Halloran: https://churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/312425-top-3-regrets-95-year-olds-help-us-get-heart-wisdom-kevin-halloran.html

Myers Briggs Personality profile: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

And more download information is available on the Oakridge page as per above link.

Some insights and techniques to help you consider the importance of aligning your personal and professional purpose to the organisation for which you work.  To what degree do you then ‘pay attention to what matters’ most; getting you and everyone around you doing the right things, at the right time, for the right reason?  If this changes the way you work with others, then it is important to communicate this in a way others are likely to be more inclined to listen.  

To listen to past Podcasts please visit our website on: https://www.oakridgecentre.co.uk/blended-learning-solutions/virtual-connections-space-for-conversations-podcasts/

Having an approach to developing a culture and climate where wellbeing and mental health is key to thriving as well as surviving through COVID. Lisa Ellis helps us understand some key frameworks we can apply to ourselves as well as with teams.

Please also visit our website page - https://www.oakridgecentre.co.uk/blended-learning-solutions/virtual-connections-space-for-conversations-podcasts/ which features the downloads and links as recommended in this Podcast with Lisa. This page also features some of our recent Podcast Series and information resources, so please do take a moment to listen to those too if you missed them.

Mark Crabtree, Oakridge Senior Consultant discusses with Steve Munro: What is resilience and how do we nurture it in ourselves and in our teams?

Mark helps us unpack this topic with helpful models such as OSKAAR and the 4 R's - we even have a poem to help you!

Head to our website page where we include documents for you to download as referenced in the podcast, and for additional podcast episodes and their references - please follow this link here:

https://www.oakridgecentre.co.uk/blended-learning-solutions/virtual-connections-space-for-conversations-podcasts/

Welcome to our Podcast Series 1 – Space for Conversations.

Our Space for Conversations podcasts is about keeping connected and focused on the main topics of the hectic world of work which we are living, leading, and managing in, especially in the recent challenges and opportunities the pandemic has brought us and brought into sharp relief.

The overall aim of the podcast series is to provide you with insightful and informative guidance to help support you and your organisation in a concise and informative way in order to drive business forwards with both insight and knowledge. We will be working towards topics that really support you and your business.

Series 1 focuses on the realities of living, leading, managing, and working through Covid-19 and the crisis beyond.

Focus points include:

– Leadership

– Coaching

– Change

– Team Effectiveness

– Mental Health

So sit back and enjoy this first introduction episode where Brigit Egan, MD Oakridge, Deborah Larder-Shaw, Oakridge Account Director, and Jerry Scott, Oakridge Senior Consultant are in conversation with Steve Munro on Leadership.

And, please follow us to enjoy our next episode on Resilience, where Mark Crabtree, Oakridge Consultant, will be sharing his knowledge and insights.

All information reference on this Podcast can be found on our website to download: or link to: https://www.oakridgecentre.co.uk/blended-learning-solutions/virtual-connections-space-for-conversations-podcasts/