If you've ever helped prepare a strategy before, you've probably had a consultant use the "vision, values and mission" structure to define it. However, VVM on their own are not a strategy. This week on Work Upgraded we explore what strategy is and what role VVM plays in your strategic leadership toolkit.

Resources mentioned:

Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt

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The retrospective aka "retro" aka after action review aka many other names is one of the most powerful routines you can have to create a high performing team. Listen to this week's episode to find out why.

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As a leader, it can be tempting to keep hiring for a certain personality and skillset that you find produces high quality work. But this can unwittingly lead us into 5 traps that prevent us building a truly high performing team.

Listen in to understand these 5 traps and what to focus on instead.

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Have you ever tried to retro-fit other organisation's approach to business agility? Painful right? This week we talk to Ways of Working specialist, Nicolas Brown, about how business agility will impact the future of work, and how to get it right for your organisation.

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In this bumper episode with career coach Terry B McDougall, we cover some of the self-leadership essentials including:

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Website: terrybmcdougall.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/terrybmcdougall

Facebook: facebook.com/terrybmcdougall

Instagram: @i_am_coach_terry

Book: Winning the Game of Work

Podcast: Marketing Mambo

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Inspired by Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt, this week I am discussing the dangers of substituting innovation for good strategy and what to do instead.

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Speaker coach Lisa Evans joins us to discuss how we can upgrade our public speaking. We cover the prevalence of public speaking in the workplace, what will happen to presenting in the future of work and practical tips for to nail your next presentation, even if it's a virtual presentation.

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Does innovation always have to be a complete overhaul of everything you know? I don't believe so, and neither does John Saunders. Today on Work Upgraded I'm joined by John Saunders, executive coach and author of The Optimizer. We discuss the power of incremental change to transform your team, and how to get started with incremental change at your organisation.

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This week on Work Upgraded we briefly cover off on what the "iron triangle" of project management is and why we should use time budgets on everything from our to do list to our multi-million dollar projects.

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This week we are joined by Kris Grant, CEO of ASPL Group, discussing practical ways to apply neuroscience in leadership.

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