Season 3: Episode 5

Flexperts

How do we make the most of flexible work in a post-Covid world?

Flexible work can enable us to successfully deliver productivity and wellbeing. Flexperts fronts into the challenges, like disconnection, organisational culture and leadership and how to develop flexible working that suits individuals, teams and organisations.

Season 3: Episode 4

Belonging

Belonging is a basic human need - so how do we embrace that in our team and corporate environments?

Hear from Owen Eastwood - performance coach - who has helped teams like England Football, South Africa Cricket, Nato and the Royal London Ballet unlock their potential using this concept of belonging.

Season 3: Episode 3

The Upstander Leader

The world is changing rapidly, will you be a bystander leader - ignoring change as it happens around you, or will you be an upstander leader contributing to positive change?

Why is it that good people stand by and let negative behaviours create toxic workplaces?

How do you become an ‘upstander leader’?

Season 3: Episode 2

When the Dust Settles

2023 has started with a climate change wake up call in New Zealand – many communities have been hit by, and are reeling from, weather related disasters.

As business leaders, and in our organisations, how prepared are we to work through and support our people and communities recover from these sorts of disasters?

When the Dust Settles, by Lucy Easthope, one of the United Kingdom’s top disaster recovery experts encourages us to front into the challenges of disaster recovery – before a disaster happens and as we navigate the months and years of recovery after a disaster strikes.

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Season 3: Episode 1

Aroha

Where can we find wisdom to help strengthen how we work in teams, how we lead and who we are as people?

Aroha opens us up to Māori wisdom – from Aotearoa New Zealand - helping to paint a picture of how we might look at situations or behave.

Aroha provides connection and inspiration to help anchor different ways of working.

Season 2: Episode 8

I’m Not a Numbers Person

Data is everywhere – “I'm not a numbers person” helps build our data literacy, helping leaders and teams use evidence for decision making.

A numbers person is someone who understands the metrics, can read what they are given, looks for trends in the data and can communicate the data to others.

They have conversations about action, are future focused and solutions orientated. They think slowly and critically about the data they have. Numbers people are enjoy seeing evidence of their impact, and knowing they are making a difference.

So let’s help build our data literacy and ability to be that sort of person.

Season 2: Episode 7

The Compassionate Leader’s Playbook

Compassionate Leaders are courageous and have a more inclusive approach to leadership with trust, honesty and empowerment at its core.

This playbook explains how respect, fairness, integrity, attention, empathy, humility and courage are the characteristics of the compassionate leader.

And it’s not all about putting everyone first – compassionate leadership starts with self compassion.

Season 2: Episode 6

Finding Calm

We face a world of uncertainty optimised to deliver anxiety. It’s a fact of life, that life will be bumpy. We don’t know how things will unfold.

Finding Calm provides a safety bar in the roller coaster of life, soothing out the lows and helping you appreciate the view.

Season 2: Episode 5

Future You

Your future is what you make it - stay relevant, stay informed, keep an expansive view of the world around you and Never Stop Learning.

Future You helps us challenge our assumptions and embrace the future - harnessing the creative benefits of change, learning all the way from other generations, by observing as leaders and making sure we have flexibility and spontaneity in what we do.

Author, entrepreneur and educator Frances Valintine leads by example in this.

Season 2: Episode 4

FlexAbility

Overwork is here to stay. In a post-pandemic world flexible work has blurred the boundary between our professional and personal lives. How do we take back control, deal with the demands of work and have greater freedoms?

FlexAbility focuses on what matters - knowing what matters, doing what matters and influencing what matters.

Season 2: Episode 3

Experiencing Design

Design thinking - is it a process that solves problems or is it something deeper that can transform the way we lead and work?

Drawing on a decade of research and experience of creatively solving problems with Design Thinking, Experiencing Design challenges us to deeply understand what Design Thinking is, and how it can shake-up the way we lead and work together.

Season 2: Episode 2

Mother of Invention

An eye-opening journey of a world of innovation that is shaped by gender.

From ideas to funding, history shows us that innovation has been stifled because of gender - hear the examples from author Katrine Marçal and how we might change to bring more innovation and ideas to life.

Season 2: Episode 1

Powerful

Learn what created the culture at Netflix from their Chief Talent Officer of 14 years Patty McCord, and how this applies today in a Covid world.

Powerful takes us inside culture lessons from Silicon Valley and sheds light on what a culture of freedom and responsibility does for people, teams and organisations. Hear about concepts such as relentlessly focusing on the future, a recipe for building great teams and creating CV worthy experiences so people leave organisations where it was a great place to be from.

Patty talks about Radical Honesty – a concept that was part of the Netflix way of working - and one thing she regrets about this approach.

Episode 22 - People Stuff

People stuff at work can be messy, it can be hard, prickly, rough, slow and sluggish. Little things can drive us nuts, dog our productivity and wear us down bit by bit.

This is a hand book for navigating all that – creating sensible and sensitive leadership.

Episode 21 - Plan B

Change can turn our plans, lives and dreams upside down - COVID-19, economic downturn, change to our jobs or where we work, redundancy, loss, health scares, relationship change…

Plan B dives into the human side of change, with practical insights and guidance about how to navigate and embrace change.

Episode 20 - It’s Not Always Right To Be Right

For some people there is always a winner and a loser, where the ‘winner’ controls situations and enjoys the power of that. This creates confusion, frustration, annoyance and distraction. It affects relationships and can get personal.

Often there is no right or wrong - just different agendas. Learn more about the ideas behind ‘it’s not always right to be right”.

Episode 19 - Leader By Design

How does a 16 year old school leaver end up being the CEO of one of Australia’s most iconic fashion labels?

Former Sportsgirl and Sussan CEO Colleen Callander’s story of leadership success is centred on changing the emphasis from profit to people, purpose and passion. She’s a leader who plays the long game – putting people first and knowing profit will follow. Colleen is proof that this approach to leadership works.

Episode 18 - EM-PA-THY

Become a leader who others truly want to follow. That’s what this book Empathy helps us all with. This Empathy episode is essential if you:

• Are leading a team through a particularly tough challenge

• Want to master the art of connection with your team

• Are keen to build a diverse and inclusive culture

• Run a company and want to grow a culture with a strong sense of belonging

Hear what empathy is, how we’re wired to be empathetic and why it makes business sense.

Episode 17 - Trust

Why does trust matter in healthy organisations and teams?

With the autonomy and freedom of trust you get stuff done. Without it you can feel undervalued, frustrated and not good enough.

Discover the case for trust – with insights into why trust matters, what anchors trust and practical ways for how to build it.

Episode 16 - The 4 Day Week

Organisations, teams and individuals are looking for flexibility in the workplace, and many are struggling to make it work.

A 4 day work week could be the answer – but what does that mean? 40 hours jammed into four days, loss of a day’s pay each week? Not according to the 4 Day Week. This book has a proven formula for a 4 day week that maintains productivity and ensure 100% of pay for the workforce.