Leadership & Life Chat

Do you listen to music whilst you work? There are countless studies and arguments on whether music can really make us more productive. We often hear radios playing in forecourts, offices and shops, and since the launch of Spotify and shrinking of headphones, playing music at work has become much less frowned upon. But what is the scientific impact on our brains? Should we be encouraging or discouraging our teams to embrace Beethoven whilst working? (or in Marks case, Metallica…)

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Leadership & Life Chat - Practical guide to de-stressing with Havening Technique expert Tony Burgess

Impromptu Business Chat - Up Your Energy - Increase your energy levels (part 1 of 2)

Andrew Huberman – Huberman Lab podcast

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This conversation is far from a laugh riot, but is a fascinating insight into the reality of what it’s like for many teams members out there right now working under bad bosses. The stats will blow your mind!

Fearless Organisation Practitioner Rob Kalwarowsky, famous for his speech ‘How to Avoid Becoming an As*hole Boss’; outlines the 6 different destructive leader types:

•    The arrogant or violent boss 
•    Abusive narcissist 
•    Messy boss
•    Cowardly boss (ghost managers)
•    Passive aggressive boss
•    Passive egocentric boss

Do you recognize yourself as any of these? If so, it might be time to make a change. They seem extreme but Rob outlines the data and research behind how these categories came into the lexicon and how too much stress on teams will result in costs for businesses in the long term.

There is a demand for the right people needed in businesses, but there’s a disconnect with the overall quality of leadership in businesses across the world – recent trends of quiet quitting and the great resignation are directly tied to specific managers.  Rob believes that his insights can literally help to change your business and the lives of those working with you, forever.

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Contact Rob:

elitehighperformance.com

Watch the full speech How to Avoid Becoming an As*hole Boss here

Find Rob on:

Instagram
Youtube
Linked In
TikTok
Spotify

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Mindfulness Meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jamesclear.com
No Bad Parts - Dr Richard Schwartz
Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself – Michael Singer
7 Rules of Power: Surprising - But True - Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance your career – Jeffrey Pfeffer

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In this episode we talk all things chaos theory. No, not the ‘interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics focused on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions’ (thanks Wikipedia). Rather, how our unpredictable behaviour can impact our work and those around us.

Mark and Becky discuss how there’s a difference between chaotic and energetic, how the differences impact our productivity, and how the pros and cons of what can be perceived as chaos in the workplace impact our relationships. 

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Leadership & Life Chat - How to cultivate creativity at work

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Psychotherapist, Gin Lalli, supports people in finding practical solutions for mental fitness when feeling out of control, and how to avoid negative thinking with the aim of limiting your stress.

Stress is a consequence of negative thinking, and the responses come from the part of your brain that is designed to keep you safe – they were vital for survival in caveman days, but we don’t need them daily in 2024. We can retrain our brains to understand that thoughts and internal chatter are NOT facts. It takes time and commitment, but it is possible.

Gin outlines the scientific role sleep plays in our mental health; how to cope if we don’t get enough sleep; the importance of micro-interactions; what the cause and effect of modern-day stress is and how our cortisol levels really work for and against us.

There’s a lot of polar bear talk, supermarket self-checkout rage, and ‘Producer Lizzie’ even manages to wedge in the psychological benefits of horror films!

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Visit Gin's website at Ginlalli.com

Gin’s book - Solution-Focused Therapy Handbook: How to Empty Your Stress Bucket & podcast - Stress Bucket Solutions

The Chimp Paradox – Prof Steve Peters

The work of Trevor Moawad

Susan Jeffers – Feel the Fear and do it anyway

Just One Thing – Michael Mosley podcast

Sleep is your superpower – Matt Walker TED Talk

Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker 

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We are back for series 7! Loyal listeners will know that Mark and Becky are huge fans of Jim Collins, so they decided it was time to dive deep into his work, and look at the seven key questions he claims all leaders need to ask themselves. They outline how each question can help with recruitment and retaining our talented people! Jim once said leaders should be “rigorous, not ruthless.” Can this really be applied to success?

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Jim Collins – Good to Great

Value setting within business episode of Leadership & Life Chat –  Working 9-5, not the only way to make a living

Leadership & Life Chat - You’ve got the power

The 7 questions

1. Are you beginning to lose other people by keeping this person in the seat?
2. Do you have a values problem, a wills problem or a skill problem?
3. What is the person's relationship to the window and the mirror?
4. Does the person see work as a job or a responsibility?
5. Has your confidence in the person gone up or down in the last year?
6. Do you have a bus problem or a seat problem?
7. How would you feel if this person quit?

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Do you think you’ve grown as a person, or as a leader, or have you allowed your challenges or failures to hold you back?

Human Potential Coach Kamini Wood is passionate about helping people to understand their worth and grow their personal and professional paths, or as she puts it, “I mess with how people think!” Do you ever feel like you don’t belong? You don’t fit in? What do you allow your inner critic to tell you?

Kamini started her journey into personal development after realising, as a mother of five, she needed to start adopting a more conscious parenting tactic, as she was projecting too much of her own emotion onto her children. She could see people doing this at her family law firm too. Our relationship with ourself is the most important one we’ll ever have, so Mark and Becky chat to Kamini about how we can tap into our goals and values, and reject the fear response for the better of our businesses and brains!

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• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kamini.wood.5 
• Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itsauthenticme/?hl=en 
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaminiwood/
• Kaminiwood.com
• RiseUp - Live Joy Your Way podcast
• Atlas of the Heart – Brené Brown
• Viktor Frankl
• Russ Harris – The Happiness Trap 

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This week, Mark and Becky reflect on a topic which keeps coming up with their guests – the importance of emotional intelligence. They look back on their AI episodes and how the human in the loop theory will become more important in the future, extending past the technical aspects of a job, and into how to retain the people in your team; after all, people join organisations but leave managers. 

They discuss how EQ skills can be taught and learned, and why it’s so important for leaders to get hold of their own self-awareness, set the drum beat and audit their own emotions and how others perceive you. 

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AI Special roundtable with Alison & Alix

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This episode is a complete refresh on the topic of leadership. Antonio Garrido, former architect and author of My Daily Leadership: A Powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success, has dedicated the latter half of his career to helping CEO’s better tap into their emotional intelligence, understand the art of truth telling and create more productive working relationships. His energy and experience offers a reinvigorated perspective on modern day business, as he philosophises with Mark over the reality of business ownership and management in 2023, he gives some uncomfortable examples of the type of personalities still allowed to operate at top levels, and why those businesses open themselves up to failure. Do you want to create a carrot or stick culture?

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• LinkedIn
• www.mydailyleadership.com
• Email Antonio: antonio@mydailyleadership.com
• Blinkist 
• Leadership & Life Chat – How to cultivate creativity at work
• My Daily Leadership book
• Example of someone who has worked from the bottom up – Karen Hester COO of Adnams on Tourism Business Chat.

Books

• Freedom from Command and Control: A Better Way to Make the Work Work
• Ted X – Itay Talgam - Lead like the great conductors
• The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller
• 10x Is Easier than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less, Dan Sullivan 
• Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders
• Seth Goden books
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
• Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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The world of business is changing again and, where once we were encouraged to be proactive in our businesses, now, thanks to the advancement in AI, we might have to start being predictive – but how easy is this for humans, and will the world look like Minority Report! 

Mark and Becky reflect on their special roundtable chat this summer with AI experts, Alison Alexander and Alix Rübsaam, and discuss their fears around AI and the reliance that we might put on it, going forwards. They discuss the bias that will exist in the algorithms, how we must always be questioning AI’s answers, the potential stunt in creativity, and the possible dangers around predicting human behavior, especially in business. 

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•    AI SPECIAL - Roundtable with Alix Rubsaam & Alison Alexander
•    Jocko Willink - Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
•    Minority Report (2002)

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Studies suggest that selling your business or retiring early do not necessarily make someone happier. Dawn Bloomer, a former veterinarian turned strategic advisor, knows this all too well. 

Dawn guides us through her journey after selling her successful practice and finding herself adrift – she hadn’t planned what to do next! She chats to Mark and Becky about the importance of exit plans and considering ‘what comes next’.

They talk about the accountability and logistics often over-looked in any move, and the toxic ‘workaholic’ culture that still exists despite its known impact on our wellbeing. Dawn prefers to look at work-life balance as ‘integration’.

This is a great episode for anyone looking to climb the career ladder, but who’s worried about the sacrifices they think are needed; those planning for an exit; and managers who need to better understand the implications of their teams returning after maternity, sickness or other forms of leave. 

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Contact Dawn - www.productivepressure.com

Linkedin

Larking Gowen Corporate Transactions

Books

Transitions (40th Anniversary): Making Sense of Life's Changes - – William & Sue Susan Bridges

The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level – Gay Hendricks

Reinventing Yourself – Steve Chandler – get the audio-book!

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We’re back for series SIX, and what better way to start than letting Mark do what he does best – philosophise about himself! He muses around what ‘being a creative person’ really means, and how we can embrace creativity and innovation in our businesses. 

Mark and Becky look at how creativity can’t be forced and how the pressures of work diaries, workloads and deadlines, particularly for business owners, can stunt creativity and what impact this has on your work and wellbeing. They discuss practical ways to empower your teams and how permission to think outside the box is sometimes all a person needs to find that spark! 

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• The Creative Act: A Way of Being – Rick Rubin
• Impromptu Business Chat with Damian Horner - The Dark Art of Marketing (2021)
• Leadership & Life Chat - Practical guide to de-stressing with Havening Technique expert Tony Burgess 

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How can you use, shape and lead AI in business – with experts Alix Rübsaam and Alison Alexander. 

Should we be worried? What does the future of humanity really look like? You might aready be familiar with ChatGPT, but there’s a whole world of AI out there, and it’s rapidly impacting how we live and work. 

For this special roundtable episode, we invited previous guests, Alix Rübsaam, Head of Curriculum and Expertise at Singularity Education Group and an expert on the human influence on algorithms, and Alison Alexander, the co-founder of Metacampus, and expert on Web3. 

This conversation takes us into the world of large language models, government legislation and policy, prompt engineering, Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), the human fear response, historical tech trends and, most importantly, the philosophical and moral implications of using AI in our businesses. 

This episode will help you navigate the real-life application of AI in your work, and learn how business owners can avoid a ‘wild-west’ situation with unintended consequences simply by implementing policy, systems and boundaries. 

If you’re still scratching your head wondering what on earth is going on, this one is not to be missed! 

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Alix
•    Alix on LinkedIn

•    Singularity Group

Alison
•    Alison’s Substack 

•    Alison on Twitter - @AMETAVERSEA

•    Alison LinkedIn   

•    Metacampus 

General

•    DALL.E 2

•    Claude 2 Anthropic AI

Darryl’s journey is nothing short of inspirational. Darryl was already living with degenerative eyesight, resulting in becoming legally blind, when he was brutally attacked at 17. Rather than recoiling from the world and pursuing resentment, he decided to embrace empathy and his life and career of thinking was brought hastily forward. Darryl achieved his doctorate at Duke University and wrote his thesis on building trust in hostile environments.

Inspired by Darryl’s guide dog Drake, who serves as his company’s ‘Director of Goodness’ (DOG), they talk about how to pursue a life of positivity, integrity, embracing neutrality in toxic work relationships, and how vulnerability is the key to building trust, which is proven to improve business levels. 

Mark and Darryl nerd out on their shared interest in tribalism and the bigger philosophical questions around leadership and discuss Darryl’s equation: Uncertainty x vulnerability = risk.

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Building Trust - Exceptional Leadership in an Uncertain World – Darryl Stickel

trustunlimited.com

Leadership & Life Chat - The new office, and the generation gap

Thinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman

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‘Stuff’ happens, as Becky politely put it– but how do we deal with it now we’re all facing a new wave of challenges? There’s a lot going on; geo-political, environmental, and economic pressures and worries infringe on all our lives in some way, so Mark wants to revisit resilience. But that’s a bit of a buzz word now, so they work on the peripherals of what this encompasses, looking back on the Locus of Control technique; how you can learn, rather than defend yourself, in tricky situations; and how to avoid pity parties.

They take inspiration from the work of Dr Lucy Hone and psychologist Owen Fitzpatrick.

You can watch on YouTube here

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3 secrets of resilient people – Dr Lucy Hone

Leadership & Life Chat – You’ve got the power!

Impromptu Business Chat – Owen Fitzpatrick, a practical guide to psychology in business

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It’s widely considered that the US Marine Corps is one of the best examples of leadership in the world. Veteran Janet Polach chats to Mark and Becky about how best to leverage the skills of your team and avoid being a selfish leader. 

They examine each step of Janet’s book, The Seven Mistakes New Managers Make, and delve into Janet’s ‘make it worse’ technique. After discussing the importance of people knowing their responsibilities and role, and the value in one-to-ones, they reflect on the impact of the transition between feedback frenzy in school, into the feedback desert that is the workplace. 

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Contact Janet – janet@inthelead.co

LinkedIn

The Seven Mistakes New Managers Make - Janet Polach

Adam Grant PODCAST/WORK

Attitude of gratitude - Leadership & Life Chat

Olga Dies Dreaming – Xochitl Gonzalez

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Mark is inspired this week by a TEDx talk which leads him to reflect on one of his favourite topics – evolution, tribes and what makes humans tick.

It’s a tough question to ask yourself, but are you creating a cult or a culture? Mark and Becky discuss where the idea of culture comes from and what it really means for businesses. “Cult leaders see greatness in themselves”, whereas, if you operate as a culture, you see greatness in the team.   

They also discuss the impact the CEO/owner has on a culture and why active engagement is important. They consider the negative connotation behind the term ‘HR’ and why, perhaps, this no longer fits the modern world…

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Corporate Anthropologist, Michael Henderson – TEDx 
Michael Henderson website 
Jocko Willink – Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win
Jim Collins – Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
The three secrets of resilient people – Lucy Hone – TEDx

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We all have a personal brand, whether we know it or not. 

Born in Romania, under a Communist regime, personal brand expert, Mihaela Berciu, faced more than the usual teenage worries. Simply saying the wrong thing would have landed her in a lot of trouble, but, little did she know that this lived experience, of having heightened anxiety over her own behaviour, would lead her into a post-revolutionary world. Mihaela headed to the UK, Cambridge University no less, then hosted her own tv show, and has forged her path to become a pioneer in the introduction of personal brand.  

When you hear the word ‘brand’ you possibly think of a logo, posters, or adverts. In reality, a brand evolves and incorporates every aspect of your business. The traditional ‘corporate brand’ mindset has been a powerful force and often a huge burden for those working under it. 

Mihaela chats to Mark and Becky about how empowering your teams to embrace and grow their own personal brand is good for the bigger picture as well as the company brand. Promoting the personalities of your people builds trust with your customers—and authenticity is key. In the current working world, businesses must consider personal brand, particularly if they are reliant on referrals.

The team also discuss how to handle Gen-Z politics entering the workforce, and potential problems with social media; how we can cleanse our past habits and ways of thinking; and why it’s not always good to be a people pleaser. 

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Mihaela’s website 
Connect with Mihaela on LinkedIn
The Five People You Meet In Heaven: Mitch Albom
The Surrender Experiment, Michael Singer

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Mark loved explaining how Einstein was not great at making sandwiches this week! He didn’t grow the wheat, didn’t knead the dough, so did he really make a sandwich? The point being none of us really ever make it on our own. We’re all reliant on so many factors around us that help guide, support and ultimately achieve our success.

They challenge the listener to think about whether they lean into their technical capabilities, as it’s easy to hide behind expertise, but to think about how many ‘soft-skills’ they could honestly claim to be expert in. Richard Branson can’t build a plane after all, he motivates, leads and inspires others to do it for him!

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Mark mentions Adnams – listen to their COO Karen Hester chatting to Chris Scargill on Tourism Business Chat about her journey from part time cleaner to one of the industry’s biggest success stories

Aubrey Marcus podcast

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Becky makes a great point in this episode – “it’s only bragging if it isn’t true”.

Doubting ourselves is part of our genetic makeup as humans, but we no longer need as much of a ‘fear instinct’ as our Homo sapiens predecessors – we’re fairly high on the food chain now! Context is key, and you can use this as a driver when assessing decisions you need to make as a leader.

A fear of judgment can also be a barrier for businesses, so Mark and Becky let us in on what they have learnt about how to conquer the voice in your head that makes you doubt yourself, and how fear can change us, and impact all our life decisions.

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The Weight of Gold documentary

Philosophize This! podcast

Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau

Leadership & Life Chat with Robert Jordan - Who do you think you are? Embrace your style

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This week, Mark and Becky connect with a local Norfolk organisation, whose insights have global relevance – why businesses should embrace a strong Corporate social responsibility (CSR) package. (And we find out who Mark’s favourite Womble is!)

Voluntary Norfolk connects businesses and charitable organisations, to help businesses meet their community objectives. In previous episodes, Mark and Becky have discussed the change in what younger generations are expecting from employers, and how they now look beyond just salary in job searches. CSR forms a huge part of most company employment packages and is a key part of Employer Brand, our guests this week discuss why volunteering initiatives are a popular offering, and the benefits they bring to the employee, as well as the business. Laura is a Volunteer Coordinator, supporting organisations and matching them to volunteers, and Nicola is a HR Consultant at CBR Business Solutions, who works as a consultant to SME businesses and voluntary social enterprises.

They discuss the opportunities available to people who have had career breaks and are perhaps lacking in confidence and up to date skills, the changes lockdown brought, and they identify the mental health impact that strong CSR packages are proven to bring to the employee, and how this in turn helps to cultivate a healthy and more profitable work environment. They also discuss how hesitant business owners should see volunteering as an opportunity to identify skills in their teams that they were not aware of, and how neutral environments not based on ‘a night out’ can embolden teamwork and unity, all things that are good for business!

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