The Leader's Kitbag

Scott is the former Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn, a role he effectively created for himself after years as the VP of Global Customer Operations at LinkedIn.

Scott thinks of himself as operating at the intersection of the workplace and ancient wisdom traditions. He blends his experience as a Silicon Valley executive with his lifelong practice and passion as a wisdom seeker and teacher.

In his most recent role at LinkedIn, Scott was the Head of Mindfulness and Compassion programs.

He has been a pioneer in creating workplace mindfulness programs and advancing the discussion around compassion in the work context. He has continued this pioneering journey as the author of the highly acclaimed book ‘The Full Body Yes’.

In this episode we spoke about his own leadership journey, and as he describes it, the journey from ‘me to we’. We also spoke about what mindfulness and compassion looked like at LinkedIn, and how they set out to measure it.

Before we get into the episode – can I ask you to do me a favour? Please take just a few minutes to rate and review the show wherever you listen. If you then send a screenshot of your review to me on [email protected], I’ll send you complimentary access to my online, Weekly Planning Protocol course. And do also check out my free, mini leadership course via the link in the show notes.

Links mentioned:

10-4-10 Mini Course: https://mailchi.mp/b3d5c50adb91/10_4_10   

Scott’s Book: The Full Body Yes: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1774580012/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_690M5N094Z2VPYKC9GN3 

Connect with Scott: https://www.scottshute.com 

Are you a hoarder or a developer of talent? Consider how you can encourage your best talent to move on… who knows when you will cross paths again.  

This is part of the bite-sized series of The Ben Morton Leadership Podcast. I’ve designed it to give you the practical tools, tactics and insights around a specific facet of leadership to help you on that journey. It’s my gift to you and it’s absolutely free. 

If you’re getting value from it, please subscribe to the show and share the link with your friends and colleagues. 

You can also visit my website and sign up for my two-weekly, leadership-focussed newsletter here: https://www.ben-morton.com 

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Whenever I’m running a senior level leadership programme or working with a new one-to-one client, I always begin by helping them to get really clear on their core values. Why? Because these are the things that underpin everything we do.

In today's solo episode, I share how to identify your core values and how to be consistent with them. With better awareness, we can make better decisions. And better decisions lead to better outcomes. This is the level of clarity I’d like to help you achieve and one of the first, simple steps you can take on this journey is to download my free 12-page values toolkit I mentioned earlier. The link is at the bottom of the show notes for you.

This is part of the solo series of The Ben Morton Leadership Podcast. I’ve designed it to give you the practical tools, tactics and insights around a specific facet of leadership to help you on that journey. It’s my gift to you and it’s absolutely free. 

If you’re getting value from it, please subscribe to the show and share the link with your friends and colleagues. 

You can also visit my website and sign up for my two-weekly, leadership-focussed newsletter here: https://www.ben-morton.com  

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Links mentioned:

Free 12-Page Values Toolkit: https://mailchi.mp/ben-morton/values

Whack-a-Mole is a great analogy for how many of us work, lead… and manage our emails. The most effective way to achieve progress and momentum isn’t through speed of action alone. It’s through slowing down in order to speed up. It’s about being effective instead of simply being efficient.

This is part of the bite-sized series of The Ben Morton Leadership Podcast. I’ve designed it to give you the practical tools, tactics and insights around a specific facet of leadership to help you on that journey. It’s my gift to you and it’s absolutely free. 

If you’re getting value from it, please subscribe to the show and share the link with your friends and colleagues. #LeadOn

Mike is the Global President and CRO at Adomni. He most recently served as CEO of Enhance Outdoor, and prior to launching Enhance, he spent eight years as the global CEO of Rapport Worldwide, taking it from annual billings of $85 million in two countries to nearly $1 billion across eighteen countries. 

Mike is a native Brit who now lives in Westchester, New York with his Czech wife and their three children. 

In this episode we spoke a lot about Mike’s people first approach to leadership and the very real results that he has created within the teams and businesses he’s led over the years. We also explored the topics of empathy, his view that if you have a ‘work persona’ you can’t be a good leader – let alone a great one – and how he has on numerous occasions supported some of his very best people to leave the organisation.

Links Mentioned:

FREE 10-4-10 Leadership Mini-Course: https://mailchi.mp/b3d5c50adb91/10_4_10   

Weekly Planning protocol Course – FREE with a review of the podcast:

https://benmortonleadership.thinkific.com/courses/weeklyplanning

We forget, or even neglect, to invest the time in building relationships that are big enough and strong enough to see us through the tough times as well as the good times. So whilst it can be tempting to simply get 'straight down to business' on our virtual calls, connecting on a personal level is so important right now. 

This is part of the bite-sized series of The Ben Morton Leadership Podcast. I’ve designed it to give you the practical tools, tactics and insights around a specific facet of leadership to help you on that journey. It’s my gift to you and it’s absolutely free. 

If you’re getting value from it, please subscribe to the show and share the link with your friends and colleagues. #LeadOn

Welcome to the second medley episode, where today we find out from five different leaders about their experiences and top tips around keeping their teams motivated.

You’ll notice I said keeping their teams motivated, because I don’t believe it’s our job to motivate people. It is, however, our job to ensure that our people don’t become demotivated.

After all, nobody joins a new organisation in a demotivated state. Similarly, when somebody receives a promotion, they tend to be highly motivated and engaged.

If this is the case, for people to be demotivated, something must have happened along the way. That something, can sometimes, be us. We probably don’t do it intentionally, but we can easily do things, create policies, or neglect to do things that cause those we have the privilege and responsibility to lead to become demotivated. 

In today’s episode we will find out from:

• Brendan Pavey, Executive Head Teacher at Northbridge House Schools
• Pauline Patterson, Founder and CEO at DrPawPaw
• Melanie Chevalier, Founder of Creative Culture
• Scott Schute, Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn (formally Vice president of Global Customer Operations) 
• Jay Steinfeld,CEO of Blinds.com

Links Mentioned:

• Brendan Pavey | Decision Making with Partial Information and Uncertainty
• Pauline Paterson | Flexible Working & Looking After Your Team
• Melanie Chevalier | Finding Time To Think
• Scott Shute |The leader’s Journey from ‘Me to We’
• Jay Steinfeld | Selling a Business and Staying on as CEO
• Find out more about Ben’s work: https://linktr.ee/BMLeadership

Many of us think that recognition and appreciation are the same thing, but they’re not. Find out when to give positive feedback based on performance or results, and when to appreciate people for who they are, not just what they do. 

This is part of the bite-sized series of The Ben Morton Leadership Podcast. I’ve designed it to give you the practical tools, tactics and insights around a specific facet of leadership to help you on that journey. It’s my gift to you and it’s absolutely free. 

If you’re getting value from it, please subscribe to the show and share the link with your friends and colleagues. #LeadOn

Michael Bungay Stanier, or MBS as he is also known, is the author of seven books which between them have sold over a million copies. He’s best known for The Coaching Habit, the best-selling coaching book of the century and already recognized as a classic. 

His new book, ‘How to Begin’, helps people be more ambitious for themselves and for the world. Michael was a Rhodes Scholar and plays the ukulele “badly” – his words, not mine! 

In this episode I was able to explore some of the ideas from his latest book that really resonated with me, and that I think will be useful for you. We also spent a lot of time talking about his journey of stepping down as CEO of the company he founded, and handing over the reins to his successor. If you’re thinking of handing over your business, or you're about to come in as CEO and take over from a founder, then this episode is going to be invaluable.

Links Mentioned:

Connect with Michael: www.mbs.works  

Michael’s Blog | 2 Pages with MBS. https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/2pages

10-4-10 Mini Course: https://mailchi.mp/b3d5c50adb91/10_4_10

Today’s episode is a little different to other bite-size episodes in that it’s a very short interview with a listener, Nick Warner.

We initially connected through social media and had a conversation about how he works a nine-day fortnight, and the benefits that brings. I found it really interesting and immediately thought it was a conversation other people would get value from.

This is part of the bite-sized series of The Ben Morton Leadership Podcast. I’ve designed it to give you the practical tools, tactics and insights around a specific facet of leadership to help you on that journey. It’s my gift to you and it’s absolutely free. 

If you’re getting value from it, please subscribe to the show and share the link with your friends and colleagues. 

You can also visit my website and sign up for my two-weekly, leadership-focussed newsletter here: https://www.ben-morton.com 

#LeadOn

Links mentioned:

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

General David Petraeus | Strategic Leadership & Big Ideas