Leadership brings power - but mind the traps

Former Commodore Peter Scott spent three decades in service of the Australian Navy, rising to the position of professional head of the submarine arm. Leading in some of the most demanding conditions imaginable, Peter has remained grounded through a deep sense of responsibility and a commitment to understanding those around him. From leading and living in close and isolated quarters to taking ultimate accountability for missions, Peter is a study in graceful leadership under pressure and he shares the experiences and insights that have shaped him.

Why you should listen: leadership strategies for ultimate responsibility

• Putting context around team development
• Leadership skills for setting clear expectations
• Leadership principles for empowering others

We explore a leadership framework for trust:

• Loyalty is a two-way street, not a leadership perk
• Team development starts with understanding capabilities 
• How leadership empathy can guide decision-making

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Shownotes: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/leadership-responsibilities-peter-scott

About Peter Scott:

Joining the Royal Australian Navy as a seventeen-year-old Midshipman in 1983, he rose over three decades to be the professional head of the Navy’s elite: the Submarine Arm.  

During that journey, Peter 

• survived and led others through at-sea fires, floods and explosions; 
• passed the most demanding military command course in the world; and 
• commanded the longest deployment ever conducted by an Australian submarine.  

A veteran of multiple Special Operations with the Submarine Arm, Peter also saw war service in Iraq, the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan during 2006 and 2007.  

He was awarded a Commendation for Distinguished Service in the Australia Day Honours List 2008, having previously been decorated with the Conspicuous Service Cross for achievements in command of HMAS Collins.

In all, he served in twenty different command and leadership appointments over 34 years. 

Peter holds a Masters in Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney and now works to unleash the courage, compassion and wisdom of leaders. 

He is married with an adult daughter and runs trail ultra-marathons for fun and relaxation.  

Peter’s Command paper.

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About our sponsor, Innerplicity:

Innerplicity is an innovative online professional development and leadership training provider with courses and community to support ‘wisdom in the workplace’. There’s so much to choose from, from leading through uncertainty to inner wellness and Innerplicity is offering $100 off its programs to our podcast listeners. Follow the link below to find out more and use code ZOE100 at checkout to claim your discount.

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About your host,  Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:

Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact,  Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.

Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.

www.zoerouth.com

People are complex, but the people stuff doesn’t have to be

Being an entrepreneur calls for a different leadership perspective - one where you can pull back and cede a little control in the name of strategy. This is something Tim Jackson has learned to do as he scales his tech business in challenging pandemic conditions. From hiring for culture fit to offering employees multiple ways to connect, Tim shares his insights into growing a corporate culture where collaboration and curiosity ensure there’s no room for complacency.

Why you should listen: leadership principles for getting the best out of people

• Listening with empathy is a key leadership skill

• Team development starts with identifying strengths 

• The leadership journey is different for everyone

We explore leadership strategies for harmonious hybrid working

• A leadership perspective on what makes people tick

• Creating a corporate culture that both empowers and supports

• Open communication as a leadership priority

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Shownotes: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/corporate-culture-tim-jackson

About Tim Jackson:

Prior to establishing Access4, Tim worked at Asian Pacific Group for more than eight years in several roles, including as General Manager – Commercial Operations and General Manager IT.  During this time, he held direct responsibility for the telecommunications, car parking, facilities management, group IT and client services and also was also responsible for developing and implementing strategies that allowed the organisation to increase revenue and exposure both within the Group’s projects and the wider business market.  Tim started his IT career in the education sector as a Network Administrator and climbed to IT Management roles across a number of government and private educational facilities.

About our sponsor, Innerplicity:

Innerplicity is an innovative online professional development and leadership training provider with courses and community to support ‘wisdom in the workplace’. There’s so much to choose from, from leading through uncertainty to inner wellness and Innerplicity is offering $100 off its programs to our podcast listeners. Follow the link below to find out more and use code ZOE100 at checkout to claim your discount.

www.innerplicity.com/ref/zoerouth

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About your host,  Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:

Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact,  Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.

Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.

www.zoerouth.com

Leadership strategies for stepping away to come back stronger 

Kate Billing’s intense personal work informed her deeply human approach to helping others on their leadership journeys. From the simple magic of bringing people together to bravely going to the edge of the unknown, Kate believes an environment where leaders can be deeply connected humans is also where they can become the next, better version of themselves.

Why you should listen: leadership strategies for your next, best self 

• Owning your leadership story

• Living your leadership values

• Tackling the people stuff when you’re stuck in the system 

We explore a shift in leadership perspective:

• Guiding leadership principles and their impact

• Leadership development to move from circling to spiraling 

• A leadership mindset for understanding what it means to be human

👉🏼 Want to share your experience? Ask a question? Share a resource? Jump on our podcast Facebook page here.

Shownotes: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/leadership-principles-kate-billing

About Kate Billing:

Kate is the Founder & Creative Director of Blacksmith, a specialist leadership development practice focused on the development of human-centred leaders.

For more than 25 years Kate has worked in the people, culture and leadership space, building a reputation for sharp insights, compassionate challenge, warmth, and energy. Over that time she has worked within a range of industries and organisations, with leaders from the boardroom to the front line, all of whom have demonstrated their capacity for personal and collective evolution.

She believes it’s time for a new kind of leader: human-centred leaders who together will create the world we need for our shared future. Leaders who are examples of what’s possible when we commit to the highest levels of humanity and responsibility in the ways that we live, lead and do business.

Connect with Kate on LinkedIn.

• Kate’s book recommendation The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

• Kate’s podcast recommendations The Psychology Podcast and Finding Mastery

• Find out more about Kate blacksmith.co.nz

About our sponsor, Innerplicity:

Innerplicity is an innovative online professional development and leadership training provider with courses and community to support ‘wisdom in the workplace’. There’s so much to choose from, from leading through uncertainty to inner wellness and Innerplicity is offering $100 off its programs to our podcast listeners. Follow the link below to find out more and use code ZOE100 at checkout to claim your discount.

www.innerplicity.com/ref/zoerouth

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About your host,  Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:

Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.

Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact,  Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.

Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.

www.zoerouth.com

The self-leadership principles of being a work in progress

Leadership development expert Mike Normant is the founder of Coach Your Self Up and a big believer in identifying and re-writing the self-limiting stories we tell ourselves. A certified engineer who pivoted into the L&D and HR space, Mike’s own journey of confronting his beliefs and the resulting behaviours  inspired him to create programs and resources to help people boost their self-awareness. Mike shares his self-leadership insights and explains why we need to take a step up the ‘experimental staircase’ to reach our potential.

Why you should listen: cultivate a learning leadership mindset

• The importance of scaling leadership development

• Why leaders need more people stuff skills

• Approaching leadership growth as an experiment 

We explore the leadership responsibilities of self-development

• Limiting leadership behaviour patterns 

• Incremental leadership development

• The filters that blur our leadership perspectives

👉🏼 Find out more about Mike’s course, Coach Your Self Up, at Innerplicity. Use code ZOE100 at checkout to save $100 of the course fee.

👉🏼 Want to share your experience? Ask a question? Share a resource? Jump on our podcast Facebook page here.

Shownotes: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/leadership-mindset-mike-normant

About Mike Normant:

Mike Normant is an author, executive coach, and leadership trainer, with a 25-year corporate career that included running global Learning & Development at both eBay and ServiceSource.  He is also the creator of Coach Your Self Up, a training program that teaches self-coaching skills to help individuals make lasting behavior changes in support of their career and life goals. Following his own personal transformation, Mike created this program in service of his purpose: to help as many people as possible achieve more of their potential through heightened self-awareness.

Mike has coached leaders from many organizations including: Accenture, Apeel Sciences, Bank of America, BioMarin, Catalent, Demandbase, Dropbox, Ebates, eBay, Gigamon, Lyft, Mercy Housing, Netflix, Nutanix, Oracle, Procore, Samsung Semiconductor, Stripe, Symantec and Western-Union Digital.

Mike was born, raised, and has lived most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mike loves to be outdoors whenever possible; walking and hiking are favorite pasttimes. He enjoys live music (especially jam bands) and sees at least 25 concerts a year (at least he did pre-Covid). Mike lives in San Mateo, CA.

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About our sponsor, Innerplicity:

Innerplicity is an innovative online professional development and leadership training provider with courses and community to support ‘wisdom in the workplace’. There’s so much to choose from, from leading through uncertainty to inner wellness and Innerplicity is offering $100 off its programs to our podcast listeners. Follow the link below to find out more and use code ZOE100 at checkout to claim your discount. 

www.innerplicity.com/ref/zoerouth

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About your host,  Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:

Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact,  Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.

Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.

www.zoerouth.com

Do you see being part of the solution as one of your leadership responsibilities?

In his role as Chief Investment Strategist for a leading US bank, Jeff Korzenik is used to finding solutions to complex challenges but none are more complex than his work in creating opportunities for the re-employment of people with criminal records. Jeff believes second chance hiring is good for society and good for business. His leadership approach to helping organisations open hearts and minds is firmly rooted in reality and the systems and processes that support success.

Why you should listen: a leadership framework for creating opportunities

• Growing corporate cultures of redemption and forgiveness 

• Using courageous leadership to break the cycle

• Being a leadership role model for social change

We explore a leadership mindset that’s open to marginalised people

• An expanded leadership perspective on rebuilding lives

• Leadership innovation in solving labour shortages

• Leadership empathy - who hasn’t made a mistake? 

👉🏼 Want to share your experience? Ask a question? Share a resource? Jump on our podcast Facebook page here.

Shownotes: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/leadership-principles-jeff-korzenik 

About Jeff Korzenik:

Jeff is the author of “UNTAPPED TALENT: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community” (HarperCollins Leadership, April 2021), which shares the business case and best practices for hiring people with criminal records.  In recognition of his work on the interaction of the criminal justice system and the labor markets, Jeff was elected to membership in the Council of Criminal Justice.

Jeff is a graduate of Princeton University, with an A.B. in Economics and a Certificate of Proficiency in Near Eastern Studies. 

Find out more: www.jeffkorzenik.com

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About your host,  Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:

Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.

Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact,  Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.

Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.

www.zoerouth.com

How vertical development and polarities help to expand our leadership identities 

Author Brian Emerson believes that working with polarities is an essential leadership framework and the missing piece of the leadership jigsaw. It’s essential for expanding perspectives. His research has taken him deep into the practice of accepting that two seemingly opposite states can co-exist - and produce positive outcomes.

Why you should listen: An ever-expanding leadership perspective

• Safeguarding corporate culture in tough situations

• The pitfalls of an either/or leadership mindset

• Exploring leadership identities through polarities 

We explore a leadership framework for the third way

• A leadership mindset that embraces polarities

• Leadership strategies for managing (not solving) problems

• Vertical leadership development means expanding perspectives 

👉🏼 Want to share your experience? Ask a question? Share a resource? Jump on our podcast Facebook page here.

Shownotes: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/leadership-polarities-brian-emerson

About Brian Emerson:

Brian Emerson, Ph.D. is Principal and founder of Andiron, a firm committed to helping leaders  navigate organizational complexity. He has an impressive history of partnering with organizations around the world to achieve sustained results in leadership development, aligning organizational culture and strategy,  and harnessing the power of polarities.

In addition to consulting and coaching, Brian teaches about paradox in leadership and  organizations at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Maryland, and as co director of Georgetown University’s Certificate in Polarities and Paradox.

He is the co-author of two books, A Manager’s Guide to Coaching, and Navigating  Polarities: Using Both/And Thinking to Lead Transformation, the first book in the  Navigating Polarities series, which he co-edits.

Brian holds an M.A. in Organizational Communication, an M.A. in Human Development,  and a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems. He is a Master in Polarity Thinking and  has a certificate in Organizational Development from Georgetown University.

He lives outside Washington, D.C. where he and his partner are restoring a historic farm  and trying their best to keep bees.

Find out more at: andiron.com and keypolarityindicator.com

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About your host,  Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:

Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.

Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact,  Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.

Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.

www.zoerouth.com

A leader’s responsibility starts with their own leadership development

Leadership development is often spoken about as a skill acquisition. This is horizontal development. Vertical development is when we see and value more of the bigger picture and can navigate complexity. It’s hard and essential work. Here’s an overview.

Why you should listen: leadership strengths occur at each stage of leadership maturity

• We review last season’s episodes with the key takeaways to ask better questions, practice leadership reflection, and focus on others to avoid a slump

• The history of leadership developmental models and associated extensive global research

• Core leadership principles when it comes to vertical leadership development

We explore leadership effectiveness through the downsides and upsides of each development stage

• How to expand your values and leadership identity so you can be more responsive

• Common leadership transitions and what to look out for

• The three things you need in place for successful growth and leadership development

Recommended Books and Resources:

Useful Delusions - The power and paradox of the self-deceiving brain by Shankar Vedantam

Useful Beliefs - Because it’s better than positive thinking by Chris Helder

The Big Lie Podcast by joekwonjoe

The Post Progressive Post

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Shownotes: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/leadership-development-vertical

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About your host,  Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:

Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.

Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact,  Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.

Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.

www.zoerouth.com