The Leadership Diet

Psychological safety has been described as the most important factor in enabling high performing teams. I am joined by Dr. Amy Edmondson from Harvard and Kieran White to discuss;

What is psychological safety and why is it important,

The overlaps with trust and other dimensions,

How does it facilitate teaming?

What is structural dynamics and how can we apply that idea to our own team,

And a whole lot more!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

Welcome back to season 3!

And what a season we have in store.

Tune in to this teaser episode to find out more.

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

This is the second bonus episode - in between seasons 2 and 3 - where I am joined by colleagues from The Leadership Context, a boutique consulting firm that I co-founded with several friends and Partners.

Today, Carole Field, Greg Lourey, Allan Tillack and I, have a deep dive into how we partner with leadership teams (top teams) to help them become great teams.

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

In this reflection episode, I offer some thoughts on the conversation I had with my colleagues from The Leadership Context, a boutique consulting firm that I am co-founded with several friends and Partners.

We regularly receive feedback that our programs are different.

Why? Because they work!

We talked about the principles of:

Swimming in the context to ensure we are addressing the right areas,

Aligning the program to specific parts of the organisational strategy,

Getting hyper clear on a small number of objectives,

Aiming for learning depth,

Structuring groups to learn together which mitigates against losing the benefits when individuals leave the organisation,

and myth busting mirrors!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

I am joined by colleagues from The Leadership Context, a boutique consulting firm that I am co founded with several friends and Partners. Today Carole Field, Greg Lourey, Allan Tillack and I have a deep dive into the reasons why leadership development programs fail. And they do fail, on a spectacular level!

We talk about the principles of

Swimming in the context to ensure we are addressing the right areas,

Aligning the program to specific parts of the organisational strategy,

Getting hyper clear on a small number of objectives,

Aiming for learning depth,

Structuring groups to learn together which mitigates against losing the benefits when individuals leave the organisation,

and myth busting mirrors!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

The best of Season 2!

We had some marvellous guests on our show over season 2. And they shared great insights, learnings, mistakes, tactics, ideals and a whole lot more.

In this episode, hear about;

The importance of listening as an expatriate leader,

The uniqueness that is New Zealand style of leadership,

How evening reflections on the car on the way home from work, helped one CEO transform his impact in meetings,

What one CEO who is renowned for her continual innovation does to bring ideas from one industry to another,

How one leader survived a very public and traumatic humiliation when his multi-billion dollar business collapsed,

How another CEO described his 'thumb sucking in a foetal position' moment!

Why one leader took a 9-month sabbatical stepping away from his CEO position,

And a whole lot more....!

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

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In the last episode I spoke with Peter Webb. I reflect on that conversation and offer some suggestions on how to implement some of his ideas.

Peter Webb is an organisational psychologist who has a passion for all things related to wisdom and decision making. In our conversation he shared;

His early experience at age 14 crossing a bridge that was about to collapse over a torrid river in Papua New Guinea and what this taught him,

What is wisdom and how is it cultivated,

What is System 3 thinking and decision making,

The WISE framework for decision making,

The T3 profile, and much more

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

Peter Webb

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

I have just spoken with Craig Le Masters, former CEO of Assurant insurance in USA, current CEO of GXG, and author of Unstuck talks about;

I reflect on his ideas about;

The role of senior leaders in actively looking around the corner, when times are great, to help create the next market or opportunities. He suggests about 50% of a CEO's time should be in that space,

How humility can be fostered and why,

The importance of grit,

How a learning eco system can amplify a leader's impact.

Some key moments from my conversation with Craig, include;

The moment he woke up to see on the TV news a headline that suggested that the industry he was in was about to go into free fall,

The soul searching and deep conversations that followed,

Humility based experimentation,

What are learning ecosystems,

He talks about wisdom is the intersection between knowledge and experiences.

And, finally, we talk about how COVID and how it is allowing people to reengage with a sense of personal purpose.

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com

Craig Le Masters, former CEO of Assurant insurance in USA, current CEO of GXG and author of Unstuck talks about;

The moment he woke up to see on the TV news a headline that suggested that the industry he was in was about to go into free fall,

The soul searching and deep conversations that followed,

Humility based experimentation,

What are learning ecosystems,

He talks about wisdom is the intersection between knowledge and experiences.

And, finally, we talk about how COVID and how it is allowing people to reengage with a sense of personal purpose.

Effective leaders will always outperform ineffective leaders over time!

Hi, I am Pod O'Sullivan.

For over twenty years I have coached, mentored and supported corporate leaders and leadership teams all over the world to become impactful, effective and high performing.

This is a podcast that taps into that experience. It is recorded for and about senior business leaders, C suite leaders, Founders and CEO's.

I interview leaders and experts about ways to optimise leadership.

What are the useful habits and thinking patterns?

What are the secrets to high performing teams?

How do they continue to nurture their effectiveness day after day?

In other words, what is their leadership diet?

www.theleadershipdiet.com