Uncommon Leadership

"I've made plenty of mistakes along the way," Louise readily states.

Louise Perold has been leading teams for several decades, first in South Africa and now in Portugal. She's been focused on quality throughout, including co-organizing a testing conference in South Africa for a number of years, and she currently serves on the board of the Association for Software Testing.

We chat about becoming an effective people manager, building trust within teams, and allowing a team to discover its best ways of working.

Some things that help Louise:

• Studying nonviolent communication is a lifelong journey. https://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/resources/
• Nancy Kline's book Time to Think had a big impact on me especially because it is something I truly relate to: https://www.timetothink.com/thinking-environment/
• Esther Perel's podcast: https://www.estherperel.com/podcast
• Problem Solving Leadership workshop: https://www.estherderby.com/workshops/psl/

Contact Louise at [email protected]; @lperold on Twitter; https://www.linkedin.com/in/lperold/.

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Vanessa believes that if work is constantly feeling difficult, we're not doing it right.

Vanessa Bennett is the CEO of Next Evolution Performance, a global high-performance coaching business using neuroscience to help driven leaders and teams to optimize profitability, productivity, and energy, and to decrease their effort, sickness, burnout, and mental health problems. This ensures that success, and therefore profitability, is sustainable.

Vanessa and I chat about helping teams succeed without burning out, optimizing our work to optimize our cognitive energy, and sustaining our ability to work at our best.

Links Vanessa mentions:

• Online course The Neuroscience of Getting More Done: a great way to help people understand cognitive energy and how to use it effectively https://www.nextevolutionenergy.com/
• Weekly Insights newsletter: https://nextevolutionperformance.com/insights/
• Complimentary 20-minute performance call to discuss one of your biggest challenges: https://nextevolutionperformance.com/performance-call-individuals/

Contact Vanessa via email: [email protected], LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/high-performance-coach-vanessa-bennett/, and her company website: https://nextevolutionperformance.com/.

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Than connects with people through humor and lightheartedness. Than Som is an experienced leader and a founder of her local Agile community. From an early practitioner of Extreme Programming developed into a thriving career helping teams find their best way to become the teams they want to be. We chat about her early experiences having outsized impacts, the ways emotions drive our actions, identifying gaps in understanding, and carrying the voice of your team. Connect with Than at [email protected] and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/than-som-b178375/ For more inspiring conversations like this, sign up for my newsletter at https://uncommonteams.com. And follow Uncommon Leadership wherever you get your podcasts.

Cindy has been described by her daughter as a rolling stone that gathers no moss related to her work history.

Cindy Carless has enjoyed multiple career changes and is currently transitioning to work as a death doula and freelance coach and facilitator.

In contrast, she has lived in the same house for over 20 years except for a 2-year attempt to settle in Fredensborg, Denmark.

We discuss engaging with learning, celebrating what is, and why becoming a death doula is a natural transition for her.

Contact Cindy at https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-carless-069a6715/ and https://omaru.co.za/.

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Joanne sometimes finds seeing the reality of who she is scary.

Joanne Perold runs a small coaching business and has been leading teams, individuals, and organizations since the early 2000s.

We chat about speaking people's language, sussing out what people are ready for, and signals we might be heading into a trap—and how to recover when we miss those signals and fall in.

- Joanne's weekly centering meditation: https://faethm.co.za/podcast

- Contact Joanne at [email protected]; faethm_za on instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn; and https://faethm.co.za.

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George has worked as an organic vegetable farmer, a theatre technician, and a tv repairman.

George Dinwiddie is an independent consultant helping organizations learn to develop software more effectively. He explores ways that people can make better decisions for themselves and their organizations.

We talk about using other people's points of view to help them get what they need, doing what is right for the team versus what someone else says should be done, and how big change comes from small changes.

Handouts: https://idiacomputing.com/publications/#Handouts

Newsletter: https://idiacomputing.com/newsletter/

Connect with George at [email protected], https://twitter.com/gdinwiddie, http://www.linkedin.com/in/gdinwiddie, https://blog.gdinwiddie.com/

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Esther finds medieval history relevant to looking at organizations because the past is always in the present.

Esther Derby has been called one of the most influential voices within the agile communities when it comes to developing organizations and transforming management. She helps people adjust their environment to work more effectively together.

We chat about understanding and adjusting team dynamics, the power of compelling goals, and how emotions can enrich our lives—even when we'd rather ignore them.

Contact Esther at [email protected], twitter.com/estherderby, https://www.youtube.com/c/EstherDerbyIsHere, https://www.linkedin.com/in/estherderby/

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Having fun while working is one of Linda's superpowers.

Linda M Cook is a practicing Agile Fundamentalist with significant experience in coaching and training agile ways of working to all levels of an organization. Her purpose in doing this work is to reduce unnecessary suffering in the workplace.

Linda and I chat about the power of letting teams make their own decisions, showing your team you have their back, seeing the communication problems that often underlie apparent technology problems.

Agile Coin Game: https://www.projectcooks.com/agile-penny-game-modified/

Contact Linda at [email protected], linkedin.com/in/lindamcook, and @lindamcook1

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Mark believes that leadership is at the core of what we do every moment.

Known as The Sales Hunter, Mark Hunter is recognized as one of the world's top 50 most influential sales and marketing leaders.

We chat about our number one job as leaders, the ultimate goal of a leader, and the mindset great leaders have. We also hear how an octogenarian affected Mark's reading habits.

"50 Prospecting Truths" eBook: https://thesaleshunter.com/50-prospecting-truths-ebook/

Connect with Mark at thesaleshunter.com, linkedin.com/in/markhunter, https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkHunterTheSalesHunter, TheSalesHunter https://twitter.com/TheSalesHunter, https://www.instagram.com/thesaleshunter/

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Jeff first saw the power of leveraging each person's unique gifts while the squadron operations officer for The Little Radar That Could.

The Managing Director and co-founder of Workforce Strategies International, Jeff's career has spanned the military, aerospace, and manufacturing.

Jeff shares how he helps small teams get more done than teams many times their size. We discuss moving from directing to leading. And Jeff relates what he learned about teams from coaching children's soccer.

Connect with Jeff at [email protected] and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffgriffithsfcmc/.

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