MINISODE 35 - Get Good at Measuring Your Engagement

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enDecember 19, 2023

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S3 E3 - Chris Morsley, the CEO of CMC Global, on charismatic leadership

Our guest is Chris Morsley, an accomplished entrepreneur and business consultant based in Australia. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Chris is the founder and CEO of CMC Global, a leading consulting firm that provides innovative solutions in strategic planning, marketing, and business development. Throughout his career, Chris has helped numerous clients to achieve their goals and reach new heights of success.

Today Chris is sharing his insights and knowledge on charismatic leadership. We discuss that charisma is a trait that can be learned, that storytelling is a number one weapon in successful communication and how Chris fell in love with bungy jumping while filming an Anchor Butter ad in Christchurch. So without further ado, let's dive into our conversation!

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Connect with Chris via LinkedIn
CMC Global
Instagram

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enApril 11, 2023

S3 E2 - Nadine Tereora, the CEO of AA New Zealand, on how you become a leader worth following.

AA is one of the most trusted and recognised brands in New Zealand, and with over 1300 employees spread across Aotearoa, the leadership responsibility is a big one. Nadine shares that in the first few weeks in her role with the AA, she deliberately spent time on the road with her staff, even learning how to tap starter motor.

Nadine shares her top three leadership insights; a great combination of her hard-earned lessons, observations as a leader, and how these helped her to learn how to be her authentic self, and that failure is inevitable in leadership. But it's how you recover from those failures that are important.

Links:

Connect with Nadine via LinkedIn

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enFebruary 14, 2023

S3 E1 - Mark McConnell, Learning & Development Manager at Argenta, on 6 C's of leadership.

Today Ryan is joined by Mark McConnell, the Global Lead of Learning and Development at Argenta, a leading Pharmaceutical manufacture. Mark shares the 6 C's of leadership, that he sees as the foundational pillars of any great leader. He helps us to explore those elements and shares insights from how they've been observed and applied during his 20-year career.

Mark is also a speaker and an author and discusses his book, The Prime of My Days, which he wrote during a difficult time and what helped him to deal with the issues he had no control over.

Links:

Official website of author: https://www.primedays.org/
Buy the books: https://www.amazon.com/Prime-My-Days-Mark-McConnell/dp/1725259540
Connect with Mark through his LinkedIn

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enJanuary 31, 2023

S2 E7: How to attract and retain your stars

Talent is becoming more demanded. Employees have a wealth of opportunities today and the market is very much in their favour. So join Ryan and Mike to see how to keep people at work and how to develop your managers to increase productivity with the people you have. We'll also discuss how to succeed in the labour market through competitive advantage.

To attract, keep and get the best from good people, companies have to improve the quality of their operational managers, so building your employer's brand is very important.

Links:

Research: McKinsey Quarterly ‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours

Gallup: It’s the Manager, Moving From Boss to Coach, by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter 2019

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enNovember 29, 2022

S2 E6: How to Have Difficult Conversations

Difficult conversations are part of life. We might want to avoid them, but it is about three things: what happened, feelings and how to keep your balance. Sometimes all you need to do is acknowledge other feelings.

Each party will have their version of reality. There’s no such thing as ‘facts’ in a difficult conversation, there is only our interpretation, which is coloured by things like the Truth Assumption, the Intention Invention and the Blame Frame. In this podcast, Mike and Ryan are looking at a real-life examples and the best way to resolve them.

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enNovember 16, 2022

S2 E5: Alicia Purtell, CPO of Lion Co, on Unlocking a Greater World Through Flexible Thinking

Alicia Purtell is a Chief People Officer at Lion with 20 years of experience in People and Culture, strategy, change and organisation development. Alicia has a passion for Coaching and Positive Psychology, bringing this passion to life as a Senior Associate with the Positivity Institute working with not for profits and the education sector.

In this episode, Alicia shares her top three leadership insights into being a leader, including what she wished she knew earlier in his career about thinking flexibly and her take on being an authentic leader, including how to stay true to yourself even when your values are being tested. Alicia and Ryan also discuss the loneliness that comes with being at the top and the importance of building a support network

We also learn about swimming with sharks. Why Viktor Frankl would be someone to channel, and why creativity is Alicia's superpower.

Links

Connect with Alicia through her LinkedIn here

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enOctober 24, 2022

S2 E4: Sources of Stress at Work and How to Combat Them

There can be many sources of stress in the workplace, this for the most part is unavoidable. These sources lead to a sense of overload – too much, too hard and/or too soon. What you can control is how you deal with those situations. In this podcast, Mike and Ryan discuss the power of gaining control over the situation and your decisions. If you want to reduce your sense of overwhelm, it's time to get comfortable:

Getting help
Letting go
Delegating
Prioritising

Listen to the podcast to get in-depth detail on how you can implement any (or all!) of these options at your workplace.

Links:

Blog: Sources of Stress at Work and How to Combat Them by Mike Ashby, October 2022

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enOctober 10, 2022

S2 E3: David Mair, CEO of Skellerup, on How to Grow Your NZ Business Using Japanese Business Practices

David Mair is the CEO of iconic South Island brand Skellerup and Deloitte Top 200 ‘CEO of the Year 2021’. As a part of the team at Panasonic in Japan, he developed a deep understanding of Kaizen / Kaikaku and Product Development that has helped him develop rapid ways of improving businesses regardless of size.

We all know of the famous Red Band gumboots. But how does one take rubber products and turn them into a symbol? David shares how 10 years in Japan and a lifelong commitment to judo have introduced him to a revolutionary way of doing business and helped shape his leadership style to what it is today. He also talks about three essential learnings in his career. The first one is learning by doing, then focusing on structure, then people, then process. And finally the ability to deal when things go wrong, as David says: “It's not people that fail. It's the process”

He told Ryan about the kaikaku and kaizen concepts in Japanese production philosophy, which focuses on continuous self-improvement. Kaikaku means a radical change, during a limited time. Kaizen, on the other hand, is a system of incremental system changes.

Links

Check out Who Stole My Customer?: Winning Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Customer Loyalty

Connect with David through his LinkedIn here

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enSeptember 19, 2022

S2 E2: The Myth of the Great Resignation

The Great Resignation is the idea that after the Covid pandemic, people re-evaluated their lives and left their jobs en masse. It sounds like a cultural movement where people don’t want to work anymore, but really, that's just an excuse used by employers.

In this week’s podcast, Mike and Ryan discuss the myth and the copout that helps us avoid evaluating our performance as leaders and managers. The conversation also turns to the latest McKinsey research that confirms the old saying that people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers. They share exactly what employees value in their careers and how you can provide this as an employer - and no, it isn't all about money!

Links:
Blog The Myth of the Great Resignation, by Mike Ashby, June 2022

Research: McKinsey Quarterly ‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours

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