Peak Performance Leadership

Social purpose in business has become increasingly important for employee engagement and customer retention, yet many leaders still struggle to understand what it means for their business. So, how can defining your purpose help you grow a profitable business that people love? Sharing inspiration from organizations such as Intrepid Travel, Patagonia, Unilever and PayPal, Butler-Madden explores the intrinsic connection between the two things that drive successful purpose-led businesses: Love (of people, planet and humanity – the raw emotion behind purpose) and Money (profit and commercial success). When purpose drives profit, it offers the ability to be ambitious in the change you seek to create over the long term. Meanwhile you build a meaningful business for everyone involved; you attract invested employees, customers, and investors; and you build trust, the currency of a valued business.

 Carolyn Butler-Madden is inspired by a future where business is a force for good and brands drive profit through purpose. Her mission is to make social purpose a vital part of business in Australia and beyond. She does this through speaking, writing and consulting, and advising small, medium and large organizations. Her first book, Path To Purpose, was Australia’s first on cause marketing. Carolyn’s 30-year international marketing career includes 18 years as an agency owner, working with some of the world’s best brands.

Topics

During this interview Carolyn and I discuss the following topics:

• What social purpose is and how relates to organizations
• What the Ediman Trust Barometer
• Why businesses need social purpose
• How trust is so crucial in business
• How to develop an organizational identity
• How as a leader you can develop a social purpose
• How small to medium businesses can establish a social purpose
• How middle leaders can help develop social purpose in their organizations

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://leaddontboss.com/224

Good leaders know that strategy is vital when it comes to organizational longevity, but it’s not always easy to come up with fresh ideas needed for success, let alone bring them to life. Uncertainty about the future, the pressure of competition and risk aversion saps confidence and enthusiasm and produces timid templates for maintaining the status quo. There’s a better way.

 Rosie Yeo is known as a strategy alchemist because of her skill in helping leaders and teams collectively imagine and achieve a better future. Her experience as a public affairs strategist, board director and corporate adviser provides unique insights into how organizations design and implement their big plans. Rosie designs and facilitates strategic planning in boardrooms and executive offsites, and injects energy and focus into larger meetings and complex stakeholder consultations.

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During this interview Rosie and I discuss the following topics:

• Her thoughts on the saying “culture eats strategy for breakfast”
• How to create a powerful strategy
• How to create a great strategy session
• The 5 steps to creating a powerful strategy
• How small actions can lead large strategic wins
• How to empower strategic conversations with our team members

For the complete show notes check out our website:

https://leaddontboss.com/223

Mark Monchek is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on helping businesses thrive through disruption. He is the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller "Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption". Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations. Mark has a passion for empowering conscious leaders to build great companies that make a difference in the world. Through his strategy, he discovers and develops opportunities that merge profitability with sustainable growth, creating organizations that are more conscious, making life better for their customers, employees and communities.

 Topics

During this interview Mark and I discuss the following topics:

• What a culture of opportunity is
• How to keep your team inspired to look opportunities during people periods of disruption
• Why disruptions are neither good nor bad they just are reality
• How to make remote work, work
• How to develop a culture of opportunity with teams across multiple continents 
• How meetings kill a culture of opportunity
• How to generate loyalty through meetings
• How to create a culture of opportunity in an organization

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://leaddontboss.com/222

Heather is an outspoken advocate for global voices. She raises awareness around microinequities related to language and accent in international teams and helps companies build UNMUTED communication cultures where every voice is heard. Her 2018 TEDx talk titled 2 Billion Voices: How to speak bad English perfectly has had over 150,000 views and is used by university professors and English language specialists throughout the world in their own teachings.

 Heather’s views on global communication have been featured in national media outlets across the globe: National Public Radio (NPR) in the USA, ABC Radio National in Australia, and multiple print and radio outlets in Singapore, including The Straits Times and CNA 938 (93.8 FM). She often appears on global podcasts and webinars

Topics

During this interview Heather and I discuss the following topics:

• Why we have difficulties communicating with different cultures and groups
• How we can communicate effectively with different cultures in the workplace
• How counter the linguistic bias 
• How to go about establishing a sense of psychological safety of cultural differences
• How to establish a culture that celebrates diversity
• How to onboard new employees from diverse cultures
• How leaders can inspire action

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://leaddontboss.com/221

In this week's episode, I go solo again and answer your challenges! I asked a question in our free Facebook Community this week "What is your current leadership struggle?" and the replies were wide ranging and deep. Lots of things to consider and many different themes. Just shows leadership is not a single line process but rather an ever evolving dance. Nonetheless I decided to provide some advice to three different members' problems live online. Here they are.

Topics

During this episode I respond to these three problems:

• "Bridging the gap between expectations and performance"
• "Dealing with the leadership above me"
• "Getting my people on the same page or communication barriers"

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://leaddontboss.com/220

“Leadership is not as much about knowing the right answers as it is about asking the right questions,” is Bob Tiede’s motto. But that wasn’t always the case, according to Bob; he was a “benevolent dictator,” a “serial teller” in his professional life for decades. But that all changed in 2006, when he stumbled upon a book that exhorted readers to “lead with questions” instead of “telling with kindness.” He started a blog on the topic, and after 15 posts, ran out of material. He searched for similar-minded bloggers, and to his delight, the first five he contacted all agreed to let him share their content on his own site. He soon discovered that “a leader who leads with questions will often be ten times more effective than a leader who only leads by telling!”

Bob Tiede has been on the staff of Cru for 48 years. He currently serves on the U.S. Leadership Development Team and is passionate about seeing leaders grow and multiply their effectiveness. He is committed to helping leaders shift their paradigm from the pressure of having to have all the right answers to simply having a few of the right questions. In 2006, while browsing in a bookstore, he came across Leading With Questions by Michael Marquardt. He only had to peruse a few pages before declaring, “This is a keeper.” He then launched Leading With Questions—a blog with a companion ebook, Great Leaders Ask Questions—with the goal of changing forever how he and others look at leadership. Bob and his wife, Sherry, live in Plano, TX, and are blessed with 4 incredible children and 6 remarkable grandchildren.

Topics

During this interview Bob and I discuss the following topics:

• How he came to the idea of leading with questions
• Why leading with questions is more effective than leading with the answers
• How to ask effective questions to inspire teams members
• Leadership lessons from a US Navy Captain

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://leaddontboss.com/219

Robert Jordan leads InterimExecs, providing access between the best interim and project executives in the world and company owners seeking brilliant leadership on demand. Robert has helped launch, grow and ultimately sell a number of fast growing companies. His first company, Online Access, put him on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. After selling Online Access, the first Internet-coverage magazine in the world, he launched InterimExecs LLC, which works with public and private companies and nonprofit organizations. He is author of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America and author of the Nightingale Conant audio production, How They Did It: Real World Advice from Today's Most Successful Entrepreneurs.

Topics

During this interview Robert and I discuss the following topics:

• How he came to define the four different leadership styles
• What a “fixer” is and how to be a great one
• What a “artist” style is and how to be a great one
• Why having balance is key in leadership
• How to balance a type around these styles

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://leaddontboss.com/218

It's happening again. One of your employees and you are not seeing eye-to-eye. Tension is high, there's disrespect in the air, and results are just not what they should be. You keep pointing the finger at their performance, they keep pointing the finger at your attitude towards them. Congratulations, you found yourself in the "You vs Me" scenario. A scenario where the outcome is almost guaranteed to not yield the results you want.

If this situation sounds familiar, I'm (un)happy to tell you that you are not alone. In fact, it is all too common that supervisor and subordinate don't get along or see eye-to-eye. Yet, in order to achieve peak performance we need to have a respectful work relationship. Thus, this episode is all about repairing that relationship to achieve these results.

Topics

In this episode I cover the following topics:

• Why location is so crucial for repairing the relationship
• How humility will set you up for success
• Why using Appreciative Inquiry will yield the results you want
• Why the "Blame Game" is one to avoid at all costs
• How to map out a plan for success

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://movingforwardleadership.com/217

In the end results do matter. It matters to your company's bottom line, it matters to your team's morale, and it matters to your personal pride. But yet all too often we don't get the results we are looking for, why is that? Sometimes we need to look inwards to find out that it is us as leaders who are the cause of our own burdens.

Topics

In this episode I talk about:

• Why we are leaders cause our own problems
• Why leaving space and your door open is crucial is avoid problems
• How to ensure that you listen to your team when opinions differ

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://movingforwardleadership.com/216

The word transition often gets leaders scared. Just like changes some people run away from them while others embrace them. Transitions are not simply just changes but rather major fundamental changes. Which can truly scare people. However, in order to be successful in an ever-changing world, we need to embrace transitions and seek them out.

Topics

In today's episodes I talk about the following points:

• The difference between changes and transitions
• Why transitions are so important
• How organizations have failed transitioning in the past/currently
• Transitions I have gone through with my business and podcast
• A transition upcoming

For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:

https://movingforwardleadership.com/215