EPISODE 15: How Confidence Works

Confidence can empower us to reach new heights, and lack of it can have devastating impacts on our careers.

Learn from neuroscientist Ian Robertson about what confidence is, why it matters and how to build it. Confidence can make us healthier, happy, wealthier, kinder and more motivated.

Episode 14 - Thriving at Work

The best and most useful bits from our Books That Work authors to help us thrive at work.

Part Two of our Best of Books That Work series - what can we do to thrive at work and create positive cultures?

Episode 13: Leadership That Works

The Best & Most Useful Bits from our authors to date on Leadership

A Books That Work special episode: Leadership makes or breaks an organisation or team. Tap into the insights from Books That Work authors into what makes the most effective leaders today and in the future and what leadership that works look like.

We take the best and most useful bits of our business books to date to provide a shortcut into the skills we need as leaders.

Episode 12: You Don’t Need An MBA

Leadership Lessons that Cut through the Crap

We’re looking for, and relying on, strategic leaders and strategic leadership capability to navigate our organisations through change, create success and deal with challenges. But research shows nine out of ten of our leaders don’t have the skills needed or the time to build them.

Episode 11: Beyond Burnout

A New Zealand Guide

A book for those who know there must be better ways to be productive and effective and execute strategy without burning out people along the way.

Episode 10: Silver Linings

Kiwi Success Stories in the Time of COVID

What made some Kiwi companies and individuals survive and thrive during COVID-19 when others didn’t? Silver Linings shares the magic that turned the pandemic clouds on the horizon into silver linings, teaching us things about leadership and running businesses that can make a difference to how we operate now and in the future.

Episode 9: Backable

The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

Suneel Gupta was the poster child for failure before he uncovered how to turn ideas into backable ideas and action. He shares the seven surprising changes we can make to get people to take a chance on us.

Backable encourages us to think and do some things differently to make ourselves ‘backable’.

Episode 8: No Sex At Work

It’s About Leadership Not Gender: Career Tips And Strategies To Thrive

Sometimes we need to be reminded that our individualism is our power, and to be inspired by it.

No Sex At Work has been described as a powerfully modern guide for running a modern career where we are encouraged to see ourselves as individuals, not as genders.

Episode 7: Let Your Mind Run

A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

United States Olympic marathon medalist, Deena Kastor shares with us her New York Times Best Seller, and how to cultivate a mindset for competitive edge in life, work and sport.

Episode 6: Learning to Lead Together

An Ecological and Community Approach

Discover insights from New Zealander Jane Riddiford about leading and leadership in London learnt while setting up and running Global Generation - a charity that builds community in lifeless urban locations.

Episode 5: Be Brilliant

How to live a life of influence

A formula for unleashing our inner brilliance as leaders, to make a difference for ourselves and our teams.

Be Brilliant teaches us how to own our own spotlight. Proudly – like flamingos.

We’re challenged to consider where we sit on a range of continnuim’s including self doubt versus self belief and how invisible and visible we are in our work lives.

Episode 4: Live Lead Learn

Stories of life and leadership

The first female CEO of Westpac Group Australia, thirteen years ago, Gail Kelly passionately argues for putting people and customers at the heart of business and leading with courage and generosity of spirit.

Leadership like this is what makes organisations, teams and individuals thrive and be successful.

Gail is a leader worth following, whose pragmatic, practical advice and tips are inspiring and motivating for any leader or any person wanting to know more about what good leadership looks like.

Episode 3: Forever Skills

The 12 skills to future proof yourself, your team & your kids

What will jobs look like in the future? Will Artificial Intelligence and Robots take over? What chances have we got to survive and thrive at work with so much change?

Forever Skills, draws from 10 years of research to provide a raft of calm in the boiling ocean of concern and uncertainty about the future of work.

In a world where so much is changing – Forever Skills focuses on what is unchanging but crucial for the future.

Episode 2: Culture Fix

How to create a great place to work

Get practical, straight up advice and tips to create a great place to work through this playbook on culture.

Learn why culture matters, the value of values and the role of behaviours in an organisation or team’s success and failure. Get energised about the power of culture and equipped with evidence and actions to grow culture and get measurable results and improved performance.

Pilot Episode: Change Makers

How to make more impact with less drama

In this pilot BOOKS THAT WORK episode we talk about being a change maker, working out what drives you, how to open up to doing things differently, trying out new things at work and just going for it, courageously. Get five actionable things to try or test at work as well. Anyone can be a change maker – but you have to do something to make change. Digby Scott says Change Makers make the future. Be one of them.