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Is your organisation experiencing high staff turnover with no explanation? Or maybe you suspect you know why there is high staff turnover, but you’d like to be sure.

Well, in this episode, I’m going to give you 5 things to review asap and give you some retention strategies to implement.

Conducting Effective Exit Interviews:

Understanding the Causes of high staff turnover:

Implementing Retention Strategies:

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“I never thought that the teachers would gossip more than the teenage students”

Meet Mike McQuillan:

Mike McQuillan moved from New York, USA to Lima, Peru to teach English as a foreign language.

Mike describes the last institute where he taught as a golden palace built on top of a toxic swamp. The systems worked, and the people were great, but the undercurrent of academic elitism and water cooler gossip undermined the teaching experience. He resigned in protest and now works full-time as a freelance public speaking coach.

We discuss:

• When Mike noticed that gossip is such an issue in the education sector

Connect with Mike

https://fit-presenter.com/about/

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So, you’ve got a new employee, and you want to onboard them asap so that they can jump in and start working.

But wait! Have you ever considered the importance of the onboarding program?

In this episode, we'll discuss the mistakes leaders make when it comes to onboarding, the risks of not onboarding an employee well and the benefits of a good onboarding program.

1. Not taking onboarding seriously

1. Increased training cost

1. Set them up for success

I'm curious, what does your onboarding program look like? Come and join the conversation over on the Facebook Group. 

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It’s one of the most exhilarating feelings to get your first leadership role. But at the same time, it’s absolutely petrifying!

What scared me was, what if they don’t like me? What if I don’t get on well with them? What if they reject me? 

Over the years, I've learnt a couple of valuable things about being a new leader that I'd like to share with you today. Make sure you listen to the full episode to learn more about each item on the list:

1. Start with self-reflection

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Have you ever been in a meeting and thought, “This should have been in an email!”

Or, you’ve attended a meeting and had to participate in an icebreaker that completely embarrassed you?

You’re not alone!

In today’s episode, I’ll share with you some of the tips and tricks I’ve learnt over the years to run effective meetings, and I’d like to invite you to try them, you don’t necessarily have to implement them, but try them, get feedback from your team and see how you go. You'll need to listen to the full episode to hear what I discuss about the following:

1. Everyone sits in a shape format

Presentations/slide shows/handouts

Involve the team.

Minutes of the meeting

Do you have any expert team meeting tips you’d like to share?

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Can you take 30 seconds and leave me a review on Apple Podcasts?

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Welcome to another conversation about gossip!

In today's episode, I have Dr Marie Gasper-Hulvat a History of Art professor, who has overcome workplace bullying and has experienced workplace gossiping. She shares with us how this has impacted her at work and how she used it for the good!

Connect with Marie:

Website: http://www.soulstarattunement.com/

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According to Mental Health America: “Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to manage both your own emotions and understand the emotions of people around you.

There are five key elements to EI:

1. self-awareness,

People with high EI can identify how they are feeling, what those feelings mean, and how those emotions impact their behaviour and, in turn, other people.”

As leaders, we get super involved in everything that happens with our team, projects, and work. And in a sense, if we don’t set the correct boundaries, we can get emotionally involved. That’s just human nature.

However, the biggest challenges for our emotions are when someone pushes our buttons, does the wrong thing, or has an emotional outburst of their own.

The dilemma with leadership that I personally found is that you’re expected to be perfect—the perfect role model.

So, let’s go through a couple of strategies:

The first couple of strategies have to do with your daily emotions and how you can use these to gain emotional intelligence:

1. Self-awareness

What to do when you’re in a heated/emotional moment at work.

1. Take a deep breath

Finally, if things did get heated and you reacted emotionally, apologise and learn from the situation. Reflect afterwards on why you reacted like that and identify the trigger. Now, devise a plan for how you will deal with that next time

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In part 2 of the high-performance team series, I discuss with you how you can maintain your high-performance team. 

It is crucial that you build that team first; therefore, listen to episode 1 of this series (episode 79). 

Here are 5 ways that you can maintain your high-performance team. Listen to the episode to learn more about each one. 

1. Team Dynamics

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High-Performance Teams were quite the buzzword at some point in time. But what does it "actually" mean, and how can you ensure that your team is a high-performance team?

In this 2-part series, I’ll be sharing with you how you can build a high-performance team and then, in part 2, how you can maintain that high-performance team.

Listen to the episode as I run you through these 5 ways that you can build a high-performance team:

1. Set clear goals and objectives

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Grab a coffee and join me in this insightful conversation with Jim Salvucci regarding leadership, workplace culture and workplace gossip!

Guest Bio:

Dr. Jim Salvucci is an author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant. He served higher education for 30 years as an English professor, dean, and vice president before founding Guidance for Greatness to guide young bosses to become the next generation of great leaders. He is a certified Tiny Habits coach as well as a certified Thrive Global coach and life coach and holds leadership certificates from Harvard University and the Council of Independent Colleges. Central to Jim’s leadership philosophy is that all great leaders are decent humans as well as great teachers, guiding their people and their organizations through values toward success.

Discussion points:

• How did you get into leadership consulting?

Connect with Dr Jim Salvucci

• Website: https://www.guidanceforgreatness.com 

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