All Episodes
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Episode 21: Retaining Employees & Increasing Satisfaction
Consider the ways in which you can influence the satisfaction your employees derive from work and build a culture that leverages the best outcome from your employees a...
Episode 20: Motivation & Engagement
There is a considerable amount of literature to support the link between motivation and performance in the workplace. The Job Characteristics Model (JCM), includes fiv...
Episode 19: Boosting Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Especially in tumultuous times, managers and their teams increasingly depend on candor, speed, and creativity to make progress. Creating psychological safety — the con...
Episode 18: How to Make a Team Charter
Regardless of your organization’s size, working as part of a team is both tricky and rewarding. Everyone on the team brings their own skill sets, experiences, strength...
Episode 17: Effective Safety Leadership
Effective safety leadership not only results in increased discretionary effort, but also improved employee productivity, quality and engagement. Helping leaders to und...
Episode 16: Healthy Teams
Healthy teams are self-organised. They are autonomous and determine their boundaries through collaborating with each other. While the strategy is often determined outs...
Episode 15: The Stages of Team Development
Team effectiveness is enhanced by a team's commitment to reflection and on-going evaluation. In addition to evaluating accomplishments in terms of meeting specific goa...
Episode 14: Key Steps to Conflict Resolution
Conflict in the workplace is a major factor impacting productivity, morale and organisational culture. This episode considers what conflict resolution is and outlines ...
Episode 13: Communicate with Impact and Power
Being a senior leader requires you to be an excellent communicator. In this episode we overview 6 tips to help you communicate with impact and power, and be more influ...
Episode 12: Executive Functions That Fail Without Effective Communication
This episode considers four key executive functions that require effective communication skills. These include; articulating strategy, establishing trust and authority...
Episode 11: Asking Better Questions
Good communication as a leader is not only about what you say. Equally important is your ability to listen deeply and ask good questions. This episode considers why as...
Episode 10: How to Improve Your Listening Skills as a Leader
Acknowledging the importance of listening for good leadership, this episode explores eight ways you can improve your listening skills.
Episode 9: Leaders Who Listen
Listening is an essential skill for good leadership. This episode outlines the key benefits for leaders who listen, including; increasing trust, motivating employees, ...
Episode 8: How Communication Affects Work in an Organisation
Good communication is an essential element of high performing organisations. In this episode we consider why communication is so important, the cost of poor communicat...
Episode 7: Four Influences on Decision Rationality
Rational decision making overlooks the role that behavioural and cognitive influences play in business decision making. This episode explores four factors that influen...
Episode 6: Types of Business Decisions
Understanding the type of decision that needs to be made can help leaders allocate resources and adapt their leadership style accordingly. In this episode we discuss a...
Episode 5: External Self-Awareness
This episode explores the concept of external self-awareness and highlights why understanding how others perceive you is an essential leadership skill.
Episode 4: Collaborative Leadership
In this episode we consider the advantages and traits of collaborative leadership. This leadership style is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage in modern b...
Episode 3: Adaptive Leadership
The key strength of the adaptive leadership approach is that it is follower-centric and results in leadership that mobilises people to engage in their work with enthus...
Episode 2: Transformational Leadership
This episode provides an overview of transformational leadership and outlines the four ‘I’s’that characterise the style; individualised consideration, intellectual sti...
Episode 1: What is Leadership
Your approach to leadership impacts your organisation’s ability to meet goals. This episode makes the distinction between management & leadership where leadership is d...