Don’t do strategy backwards! And don’t do it on your own either. Strategic planning when you do it well is an excellent way to enhance employee experience and build team buy in.

Lisa Lahey, Ed.D. (HGSE), was most recently the associate director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a national project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop greater internal capacity for leading organizational improvement in our nations public school districts.

She is also founder and co-founder and co-director of Minds At Work, a consulting group that works with senior leaders and teams in corporations, government and non-profits. She has worked across the educational spectrum, from K-12 to colleges and universities and their boards, as well as with numerous corporations and nonprofit organizations.

Lahey is the author of Immunity to Change: How to Overcome it and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization with Robert Kegan (2009), and How The Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work with Robert Kegan (2001). She is also co-author of Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools (2006). And an Everyone Culture - becoming a deliberately developmental organization (2016)

Lisa Lahey is Co-director of Minds At Work, a consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

She teaches in executive development programs at Harvard University and Notre Dame and is a passionate pianist and hiker. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons.

Lisa shares:

• Why change is hard for some people and not for others

• Why willpower is useless when it comes to making change

• The exact process to change your self-sabotage when it comes to losing weight, stopping smoking, or any other stubborn bad habit

• How this process can be applied to organisations who want to make significant behaviour changes

• How we can get to naming the elephant in the room

The organisation is limited by the development of its leader. If your business is going to grow, you do too!

We look at:

• A brief overview of leadership maturity stages

• 3 key requirements you need for development to occur

• Strategies to shift your action logic in their major developmental stages

It’s half way through the year! Is it going according to plan? Do you need to change anything? In this podcast we take you on a personal big picture reflection exercise to get you in touch with what matters most.

The questions, summarised for you:

• How am I feeling right now?

• Where am I now compared to this time last year?

• Where am I now compared to this time 10 years ago?

• Where am I now compared to 20 years ago?

• Where will I be 20 years from now?

• Where will I be in 10 years?

• Where will I be in one year from now?

Stacey Barr is the world’s leading expert on strategic performance measurement and evidence-based leadership. She shows organisations and teams how to develop and measure what matters most. She has an international team of professionals who deliver her licensed program, the PuMP methodology, around the globe, including Australia, Africa, Canada, the USA, UK, and Europe.

Stacey Barr is the author of best-selling books, “Practical Performance Measurement” and “Prove It - How to create a high-performance culture and measurable success”.

Stacey shares:

• Weird things people measure

• The difference between a result, a target, a measure, and an initiative and why you need to care

• What must and must not be measured in business

• Why you should NEVER measure people’s performance

• How staff can still feel like they are achieving progress and development, without having their performance measured

• How to cut out the flabby and bloated parts of your business

• 3 steps to get started with practical performance measurement

All leaders need a little boost from time to time! In fact, we need to be working on our mojo ALL the time. It is central to our capacity to manage the most difficult aspects of our work.

In this episode, which is a little silly (yay!) I share:

• 3 ways to shift your THINKING to boost your mojo

• 6 strategies to DO to shift your mojo in to overdrive

• 3 simple ways to BE more in a better vibes mojo place

Stephen Scott Johnson, author of Emergent - The Future of Culture: A Practical Guide of Leading Transformation, shares:

• The causes that allow a movement to flourish or die

• What you need in an organisation to make a cause sustainable

• How change is a creative destructive process that is an invitation to becoming something more

• The key differences between old power and new power, and what’s at stake if you get stuck in old power

• Why silos are NOT the problem

• What the pivotal point is for a leader to move from TRANSACTIONAL to TRANSFORMATIONAL

• The new style of leadership that is required to navigate disruption

Dermot Crowley, Australia’s leading productivity expert, and author of best-selling book, Smart Work, shares:

• How to have good relationship with your email

• Get your inbox to zero at least once per week

• Key tips in using the three-part productivity system of Capture, Consider, and Commit

• How to use email, calendars, and task lists for maximum efficiency and effectiveness

• Guidelines on when and how often to check emails

• How to use email like bubblegum

• The best way to use your task list: the rinsing system of file, schedule and sequence

Ever wonder why some people are more successful than others? What is the secret sauce that some are missing? In this episode, Zoë shares:

• It’s not about being an extrovert or introvert

• Simple tweaks to your focus that will shift your energy dramatically

• How to prepare for meetings so that you are instantly more credible and influential

• Simple practical tips for becoming instantly more charismatic without changing who you are

Finance expert, entrepreneur, and author of “Get Rich Slow”, Sarah Riegelhuth shares:

• Why instant gratification is the biggest challenge for wealth creation

• How she leads a digital nomad’s life running a prosperous business with a global team

• The four factors that make wealth creation easy and fulfilling for her Gen Y clients

• Why the criticisms of Gen Y are wrong, and what they have to offer

• Tips on how to engage Gen Y

• Why her staff call themselves ‘Gladiators’ - this is gold!