Raise Your Game

When a person reaches their tipping point, anger can seem like an emotion that is almost impossible to control. Though the emotion has unsavoury and negative connotations, anger is a very natural and reactive response to frustration, bereavement, hurt or threat. Gael joins us to speak about her book Managing Anger,  which explains the effects of anger on our bodies & minds, and offers strategies for preventing the build up of frustration and how to keep calm when faced with a difficult situation. 

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A few familiar voices from Raise Your Game reflect on the life of Lee Kuan Yew, exploring the qualities he possesed that made him an inspirational and tenacious leader. 

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What do resilient people know that the rest of us don't? John Lee’s book, Secrets of Resilient People shares all you need to know to survive and thrive in tough times, maintaining a positive and productive outlook whatever the circumstances. John shares a staggering 50 techniques, that when combined, can create a recipe for success, unlock the secrets and uncover your potential.

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What would your life look like if there were no limitations? That’s the question Dan Munro really wants us to think about. Dan’s a confidence coach and author of The Legendary Life, a book that aims to help you discover your true desires and authentic self. 

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Room for failure needs to be encouraged in order to create a learning environment in organizations. In this session Shankar Santhiram discusses how effective leaders encourage experiments as a way to develop people. 

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There are bosses who transition seamlessly from authoritative to inspirational at just the right moment, and there are those who lead well in certain areas but falter at others. So what ultimately makes a good boss? 

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Eric Maisel has written more than 40 books on a wide variety of subjects, from the challenges of living the creative life to natural psychology, the new psychology of meaning.  His interests include creativity, meaning, life purpose, and mental health. He works with clients as a creativity coach, train creativity coaches, and provide core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association.  He has written a book called Why Smart People Hurt.

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Try as we might, there always seems to be things that need to be done-  work to be completed, chores to run, people to see and deadlines to meet. With an endless list of things to do and just a finite amount of time do it, life and work can feel overwhelming. Meet Jim Benson, a man passionate about finding and mastering the best possible solutions to manage our daily life. He joins us today to talk about applying Personal Kanban to understand and organize our workload, so that we can ultimately create better work flow, and produce better results. 

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Leadership is no longer predicated on yielding power that comes with position. Many successful companies have flat hierarchies- and an effective leader must know how to navigate the flatlands of management.

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Though it’s not always the case, business can tend to be a game of not what you know, but who you know. Roy Sheppard joins us to talk about the importance of building a solid network of business contacts, and how we can leverage on this as a marketing and communication tool. 

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