Rawthentic Leadership

Rawthentic Leadership

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Rawthentic Leadership episodes

  • The Intentional Leader - a Conversation with Gunnar Habitz of Hootsuite
    Today I bring you a you a conversation focused on Intentional Leadership – with Gunnar Habitz, Senior Partner & Alliance Manager Asia Pacific at Hootsuite and eternal creative entrepreneur.
     

    Gunnar is a great storyteller and kicks off our conversation sharing how he made the decision to come to Australia from Switzerland and his deliberate move to engage in formal leadership training with the Australian Institute of Management and now as a Chartered Manager through the Institute of Managers and Leaders.

    If you are developing yourself or others on the journey from accidental manager into intentional leader, then you’ll find this conversation jam packed with nuggets of learning and roadmaps for decision-making. Here are some of the nuggets of learning I gleaned during our conversation.

    • How Sydney moved from number 8 to top of the list for a new life
  • The ‘giver’s gained’ mentality of relationship building
  • The challenges and triumphs of leading a multicultural, virtual team
  • ‘You manage tools and lead people’
  • The balance between direction leadership and enabling leadership
  • Understanding your people’s WHY
  • Bringing outsourced functions into the tribe
  • The consequences of promoting experts to leaders without coaching and development and how to do it differently.

    • The 7 ‘I’s of Intentional Leadership:-

    • Impact
  • Influence
  • Inspiration
  • Improve
  • Instruction
  • Interest
  • Imperfection

    • From Laid off to Paid off – what would you tell your younger self? From the book ‘Lessons I learnt’ 

    Remember – people don’t get made redundant – roles do.

    The ROADMAP for career change and decision-making:

    • Reality
  • Off
  • Alternatives
  • Deep dive
  • Mastery
  • Action
  • Paid work

    • You can connect with Gunnar here on LinkedIn

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel.

    If you would like to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate - thank you!

    If you would like to contribute to our mission, however small, please donate here – thank you!

    51 min
  • Leading with Grit and Grace - a Conversation with Jeanette Allom Hill of Boston Consulting Group
    An insightful conversation where Jeanette shares the challenges and triumphs of carving a deliberate varied leadership career serving both private and public sector and across the globe.
     

    As of the end of June 2020, Jeanette Allom-Hill is preparing for her next Leadership Chapter with Boston Consulting Group, having just left her position as Group Executive for Business Performance for the Sunshine Coast Council,

    Jeanette was recently named the winner of the 2020 Telstra Queensland Business Women’s Public Sector and Academia Award, from a field of 22,000 entrants. Her response to the win? “It just confirms I’m doing the right thing, being authentic, brave and courageous, but doing it with kindness and heart”.

    Here are a few of the golden nuggets gleaned from our conversation:-

    • Leading with Grit and Grace will mean something different to everyone – find your own definition
  • You can’t balance ‘Grace and Grit’ if you don’t know who you are
  • Who do I stand for as a leader?
  • The power of mentoring in helping to develop your leadership career
  • Mentoring both up and down and creating an accountability tribe
  • Using the Clifton Strengths Assessment from Gallup
  • Carving a deliberate leadership career that is private, public, broad and deep
  • How would you define yourself in a sentence when standing in front of a panel?
  • Go for organisations that make you and go for organisations that break you
  • With great power comes great responsibility
  • Know what your leadership qualities mean to you – demonstrate them and test them
  • How to grow psychological safety throughout an organisation

    • Jeanette sits on the Board of a not-for-profit ‘No More Fake Smiles’ dedicated to giving a voice to child victims of sexual abuse

     

    You can connect with Jeanette here on LinkedIn

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjgNrVcmB-hDnDdobYOmHw

    If you would like to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate - thank you!

    52 min
  • The Enabling Leader - a Conversation with Marcus van Vugt of Price Waterhouse Coopers
    Marcus is passionate about ensuring that everyone knows how they contribute to individual and team success, whatever that may look like through his commitment to enabling leadership.
     

    Here are some golden nuggets I gleaned from our conversation:-

    • More than your clients, it’s important to understand what your clients’ clients need
  • I don’t know what everybody does to the same degree that they do – this is why enablement is so important
  • What to do when people look at you expecting you to tell them what to do!
  • Give people a WHY – help them understand the context in which they operate
  • Test assumptions – it’s not fair to expect people to operate at a certain level – ask questions – seek first to understand
  • How to slow down your thinking and learn to appreciate silence as a leader
  • How as a leader you can use silence to everyone’s advantage
  • PWC’s higher Apprenticeship program
  • Accountability breeds empowerment
  • As a leader, own your problems and issues

    • Book – L David Marquet – Turn the Ship around – A true story of building leaders by breaking the rules

    You can connect with Marcus here on LinkedIn

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjgNrVcmB-hDnDdobYOmHw

    If you would like to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate - thank you!

     

    45 min
  • The Influential Leader - Leading with Integrity - a Conversation with with Bill Sullivan of Salesforce
    An inspiring conversation filled with hope and gratitude where Bill 'Sully' Sullivan takes us deep into building a leadership philosophy and practice of influence that is also one of total integrity.
     

    Bill Sullivan served as a jet and helicopter pilot with the United States Air Force for 24 years, completing four combat tours in the Middle East as a member of Air Combat Command and Air Force Special Operations Command. Bill then transitioned from the military to the corporate world as a sales leader and in this podcast he provides fascinating insights into this transition and how he is using all of his leadership training and experience to be the best leader he can be to his team and his organisation.

    Some golden nuggets from our conversation include:-

    • Busting the myth that command and control are military leadership styles
  • How to appeal to individual needs and create a culture and ethos around ‘team’
  • “If you truly care about your team, you’ll get the best for your boss anyway”
  • Leadership in times of crisis?
    • Build the human connection first – start with a virtual coffee
  • Get the process in place – do the right things consistently
  • Maintain perspective – “no-ones shooting at us” (Bill’s of course not always been able to say that)
  • Bill shares the story of Jim his brother – please listen because it’s his story
  • The power of story to create openness, vulnerability and psychological safety
  • Moments of gratefulness
  • Leading with integrity – when values drive decisions
  • How do you balance making each day count with keeping one eye on the light at the end of the tunnel?
  • How do I make THIS day count?
  • Reframing influence away from the connotation of manipulation to influence through building trust and integrity – unabashedly, pure unequivocal trust
  • The role of Bill’s mentors in influence
  • Trust as a matter of life and death – where you want to follow your leader into battle by creating true empathy and concern for those under your watch
  • The power of “there I was” stories in learning valuable lessons around failure “replicate things that went well and learn from missteps”
  • Leading with rawness and vulnerability
  • Leadership development – how to deliver difficult news whilst still showing that you care
  • Native American saying “Today is a good day to die” – learn why

    • The Man In The Glass – the Poem Bill referred to in the Podcast 

    When you get what you want in your struggle for self

    And the world makes you king for a day
    Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
    And see what that man has to say.

    For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife

    Whose judgement upon you must pass
    The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
    Is the one staring back from the glass.

    He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest

    For he’s with you, clear to the end
    And you’ve passed your most difficult, dangerous test
    If the man in the glass is your friend.

    You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years

    And get pats on the back as you pass
    But your final reward will be heartache and tears
    If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.

    Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.

    You can connect with Bill here on LinkedIn

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjgNrVcmB-hDnDdobYOmHw

    If you would like to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate - thank you!

     

    53 min
  • The Visionary Leader - a Conversation with Nicky Mih of Free to Shine
    Meet Nicky Mih, former adventurer, school teacher, coach and founder of Free to Shine,  a child protection organisation that prevents school-aged girls being trafficked into the commercial sex industry in Cambodia.
     

    In this uplifting conversation filled with positivity and hope, Nicky shares her journey from volunteering to leading an organisation that has helped 753 girls (to date) from rural villages in Cambodia to get an education and be protected from sex slavery.

    Some golden nuggets from our conversation include:-

    • The single most important coaching question that made Nicky step up to a challenge of epic proportions
  • How Nicky didn’t start to plan a charity
  • How this wasn’t really Nicky’s vision! Be careful what you ask for, sometimes more specificity is needed.
  • How to manifest a vision with zero idea of what to do or where to start
  • The ‘working from 3 steps ahead’ leadership philosophy
  • Navigating cultural differences, specifically the concept of fairness
  • The role of both logic and emotion in collaborative decision-making
  • Surrounding yourself with a team of experts
  • The essential role of self-care in leadership
  • How Nicky is measuring her vision
  • We’re not just educating – we’re creating the female village leaders of tomorrow

    • Nicky’s amazing book, jam packed with leadership lessons, ‘Do what Matters’ can be purchased by clicking here and you can connect with Nicky on LinkedIn here and she speaks regularly at conferences and leadership events.

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel.

    If you would to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate – thank you!

     

    54 min
  • The High Performing Team Leader - a Conversation with Wayne Pearce of Wayne Pearce Advantage
    Meet Wayne Pearce OAM, owner of Wayne Pearce Advantage and former professional rugby league footballer and coach.
     
    Wayne shares with us his wisdom, perspective and experience from being a high performance coach in both sport and business, and we explore the system he uses to help leaders and teams to gain a much deeper understanding of themselves and one another.

     

    In this unfolding conversation Wayne shares some deep insights about those elements of leadership that build accelerated high performance in teams. Here are some of the nuggets in this podcast:-

    • The importance of focusing on and building a high trust culture
  • What head coaches on first before addressing competence and technicality
  • The Korn Ferry 2014 leadership competency gap
  • How Wayne built a high performance team in 8 days for the famous State of Origin series
  • The Process Communication Model – a system used by NASA to gain a deep understanding of 6 personality types, their psychological needs and how managers can feed them in a healthy way (and in which Wayne is accredited)

    • Wayne’s website is website is Wayne Pearce Advantage and he can be reached on LinkedIn here

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjgNrVcmB-hDnDdobYOmHw

    If you would like to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate - thank you!

    45 min
  • The Generous Leader - a Conversation with Will Martin of Waterline Leadership
    Will takes us on a journey sharing relevant stories from his 34 year career as a Captain in the Australian Navy and how he uses his experience to coach leaders and teams alike in the practice of generous leadership. We explore what generous leadership is and isn't and how Will’s experience of working under leaders of polar opposite styles, shaped his own leadership philosophy. From Captain Cantankerous to Captain my hero, I know you’ll enjoy the journey!
     

    In this conversation Will share with us his philosophy on generous leadership and what it means to be a generous leader. He shares his 3 legged stool generous leadership model of humility, open-mindedness and empathy.

    Will also shares:-

    • his definition of generous leadership
  • how being generous is good for your brain!
  • how being generous doesn’t have to mean being kind
  • elements of generous and selfish leadership through 2 fictitious characters – Captain My Hero and Captain Cantankerous!
  • where to start coaching with a Captain Cantankerous
  • Superman leadership – the role of humility
  • what stops leaders wanting to embrace generosity
  • what a generous culture looks like and what organisational selfishness looks like
  • balancing a ‘fail fast, fail forward’ approach with risk
  • characteristics of extraordinary teams

    • Will refers to Michael Henderson’s book ‘Above the Line’ and Julie Salamon’s ‘Ramban’s Ladder’

    Will’s website is Waterline Leadership and he can be reached on LinkedIn here

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjgNrVcmB-hDnDdobYOmHw

    If you would like to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate - thank you!

    53 min
  • The Inclusive Leader - a Conversation with Joanne Lockwood of Seechangehappen
    An enlightening conversation that explores how we can build truly inclusive cultures and packed with practical strategies for minimising conscious exclusion and building a workplace where people are more than included, they FEEL included.
     

    What’s the difference between being included and FEELING included?

    To what extent do you go out of your way to learn about things that are naturally very different from your norm?

    My conversation with Joanne Lockwood was enlightening to say the least. From the get go Joanne is real and raw about the type of leader she was ‘in a former life’ and how her focus on inclusive leadership did a 180 degree about turn.

    In this podcast explore:-

    • Why belonging is as important as inclusion
  • How a life-changing event can get you to question who you are
  • What inclusion is and isn’t and simple strategies leaders can implement to build inclusive workplace cultures
  • Understanding privilege and what we can do to build a deeper understanding in teams – ‘check your privilege’
  • How difficult it can be for small to medium businesses to understand conscious inclusion and what to do about it
  • The graffiti artist story
  •  Why an open door policy is NOT inclusive

    • If you’d like to connect with Joanne please click here

    Her website is https://seechangehappen.co.uk and the Accenture video she refers to is here

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjgNrVcmB-hDnDdobYOmHw

    If you would like to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate - thank you!

    51 min
  • The Courageous Leader - a Conversation with Shelagh Brennand
    A conversation filled with hope. Shelagh Brennand shares her story of being in the police, becoming a private investigator then experiencing a life changing event. How she deals with that event contains lessons for us all.

    In this episode we follow Shelagh’s journey from her 25 year career in the Yorkshire police force in the UK and CID (Criminal Investigation Department) through to her moving with her family to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia, deciding to retire and become ‘a lady wot does lunch’  to starting a new career…then everything changing literally overnight as Shelagh experienced a life-changing event.

    As usual, these notes are much better read after you have listened to the podcast as Shelagh lets her life story unfold in a way that you will want to follow.

    Here are some of the golden nuggets I gleaned from our conversation;-

    • the power of humour in dealing with trauma – even when it seems so politically incorrect
  • our brain consists of many cabinets – some close permanently, some for a while and others miraculously open
  • embrace unexpected gifts
  • when the unexpected happens – learn to focus on what you CAN do, not what you can’t
  • the role of a strong support network to maintain and build resilience
  • the practice of gratitude to maintain perspective
  • building your self-awareness to understand your cognitive capacity and work with it – not against it
  • the oxygen mask analogy – self-care MUST come first

    • Shelagh’s website is https://www.astrokeofpoetry.com and you can connect with her on LinkedIn here 

    Stories of Hope of which Shelagh is a part is here

    The foundation for which Shelagh has been an ambassador can be found here

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjgNrVcmB-hDnDdobYOmHw

    If you would like to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate - thank you!

    50 min
  • The Heart-centred Leader - a Conversation with Ronnie Altit of Insentra
    An enlightening conversation with Ronnie Altit who shares with us his ideas, opinions and philosophy around heart-centred leadership.
     

    As usual, I would strongly encourage you to listen to the podcast first, then the golden nuggets that Ronnie shares below will come to life and make much more sense.

    • I open the podcast by asking Ronnie how Insentra gets such high ratings on Glassdoor – both for existing and past team members
  • Ronnie talks about creating a heart-centred culture from scratch, including all the things he and his co-founders loved in past careers and excluding the opposite – he also challenges leaders to consider their real drivers for creating their desired culture
  • The famous ‘Train Story’ unfolds as a metaphor developed over 20 years that I liken to a manifesto – well worth a read with a cuppa!
  • Ronnie shares his (borrowed) strategy for starting meetings in a heart-centred way – simple yet profound
  • How psychological safety (no fear of retribution in Insentra language) can be hard to implement
  • Why some leaders struggle to bring love into business
  • Ronnie shares his philosophy on aligning intentions with impact in communication
  • I absolutely love this golden nugget – how saving in one area of the business facilitates bringing your people together (I ask Ronnie to repeat the message)
  • The essential difference between being excellent and striving for excellence
  • Key questions for other leaders in creating a heart-centred culture
  • A non-conscious authentic approach to fessing up when you stuff up! What to do when things go pear-shaped.

    • If you would like to follow or connect with Ronnie on LinkedIn here is his link https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronniealtit and he’s always up for a coffee!

    Rawthentic Leadership has been ranked number 4 in Australia’s top 25 Leadership Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_leadership_podcasts/

    We are on a mission to get the message out to the business community about those 21st Century leadership skills that engage, inspire, motivate and develop people to be their very best and achieve their potential so if you enjoy the podcast, please head over to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and review or if Spotify is your platform of Choice please follow us - thank you!

    Please also subscribe on our YouTube channel.

    If you would to contribute to our mission, however small, please head to https://ko-fi.com/brainsmart to donate – thank you!

    54 min

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