Team Guru Podcast

So you want your online business to be a success ? Of course you do. Why else would you be doing it? In this, episode I’ll be chatting with Bernadette Schwerdt, one of Australia’s leading speakers and writers on the topic of .com success.

They call themselves “Seasteaders” and this month their dream took another big leap towards reality. The plan is to build a floating nation near French Polynesia. Expected to be completed by 2022 the island will include 300 homes along with hotels, restaurants and offices and more. The total cost is $50 million and it’s being bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel. The Floating Island Project is...

How healthy are the relationships at your office? The stats on this are scary, ugly and worrying. We are so bad at developing relationships at work despite being the place we spend almost a third of our life. That’s it’s hurting productivity and it’s hurting the bottom line. But worst of all it’s hurting us. Especially our mental health. It’s a terrible state of affairs. We are so bad at developin...

A new war has broken out in countries all around the world. In years past divisions based on class and religion tore societies apart. But this new factionalism is based on something we've rarely seen before. We are at war over the year of your birth. Inter-generational anger is growing across the developed world. A recent poll of Americans found that 51% of millennials blame the baby boomers for r...

Have you ever spent time thinking about your personal brand? The concept of a personal brand might sound a bit superficial. At first blush it trivializes character in favour of an image. I shared many of those views for many years. So, this week, I invited Debbie O’Connor to convince me otherwise. And I have to say she did an excellent job. Debbie is a ….. In this conversation Debbie shares with u...

We’ve all been to one of those feel good business culture days. They can actually be quite enjoyable. You get to know your colleagues in a new way. You have the opportunity to learn some new stuff and put a few concerns on the table. They can feel great. But the next day, you're hit an overflowing inbox and a day of back to back meetings. Before you know, that great cultural day is but a blurred m...

Ask most people how they are – especially at work – and they will invariably answer that they’re busy. So busy. But that’s good, right? Wrong. It’s not good, and we know it. The habit our society has developed, the obsession with being busy – or at least appearing to be busy – is doing us untold damage. To us, the quality of our work, our teams and our families.

If you could guarantee just one trait for your child what would it be? Kindness? Intelligence? Enthusiasm? Those are all good choices but my guest this week says the most important human gift is curiosity. It's the key to creativity, innovation and personal growth. Evette Cordy is the author of Cultivating Curiosity: How to Unearth Your Most Valuable Problem to Inspire Growth. A healthy dose of cu...

Delete Facebook. You've been thinking about it for a while now. And you're not alone. But that private thought became a full blown civic movement this month. The Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed the extent to which our personal information has been sold by Facebook to a variety of unscrupulous third parties. Angela Lockwood joins me to talk about how people can learn to disconnect. Angela is t...

Recently I was invited to host an event sponsored by Women in Resource Mining Queensland. I interviewed Tim Crossley who has had a long career with some of the biggest companies in Australia, including BHP Billiton. We discussed how he made the transition from technical doer to technical leader through the various levels of senior management. We discussed his strengths and weaknesses in the C-suit...

There's been a relentless stream of news coverage over the last few years about how the robots are about to change everything. We are headed into uncharted waters when it comes to artificial intelligence and automation. But there is a tremendous upside to living in a world freed from subsistence labour. Human creativity will be the last thing to be replaced by robots. Those that are prepared for t...

Capitalism is on the brink of significant change and a new new horizon coming into view. That's the view of Mike Edmonds who joins me this week to discuss this powerful concept. Mike is the chairman of Meerkats, an advertising company based in Perth. As a veteran of the marketing world he’s seen capitalism up close. He says change is coming and it is now possible to see what the new economy will l...

Welcome to the first of a new format we're test driving here on the Team Guru Podcast. For the last couple of years I've been posting a new episode every two weeks. Starting today I'm going to release a minisode on the alternate weeks – bringing our total releases up to four per month. I've been lucky enough to amass over 70 hours of interviews since 2015. There are a lot of great lessons in there...

Its February and that means many of you have already failed to live up to your New Year's resolutions. Don't worry you're not alone. Statistics show that 40% of people will have failed to maintain our resolutions after four weeks. By six months that number rises to 60%. Maybe you wanted to lose weight or spend more time with family or just to put the damn phone down. Let's be honest resolutions ar...

You're about to hear a very timely conversation. In the last episode we spoke with Kerry Boulton about the importance of creating a sales mindset. Thinking big enough to develop our business in a way so that it has some value on the open market. My guest in this episode is Stephen Barnes who is an expert in turning around businesses. He's all about changing the corporate culture from labour-intens...

I want to start this episode with a simple question – why are you in business? What's your plan? Is it just to make a good living? To grow and expand? That's all great but what is your exit strategy? A responsible investor always knows when they will sell but many business owners don't do the same. Most are just working really hard to make their companies successful. Long-term planning seems like...

I’ve had an incredible opportunity over the last 71 episodes of the Team Guru podcast to speak with some truly inspiring women. In the course of those conversations the topic of women in the workplace often came up. I wanted to share some of those with you this week. I think they help to illustrate just how profoundly modern women are changing the economy and politics for the better.

It’s been a remarkable journey to get to episode 70. When I first started the Team Guru Podcast two and a half years ago I wanted it to be a place where I could take the theory of leadership development and bring it to life. I’ve been lucky to be able to talk with some of the world’s best authors, CEO’s and leaders. Now that we’ve entered the Christmas season I thought it would be a great opportun...

The science of the brain has been revolutionized over the last decade. Here on the Team Guru Podcast we have regularly discussed the implications of being constantly bombarded with information. It produces stress, burn-out and a profound sense of unhappiness. But we have never fully investigated why that is. My guest this week Kristen Hansen is a neuroscientist who has been helping people for year...

The global economic revolution is coming. But it’s not about technology, or innovation or the latest app. It’s all about women. Woman make around 70% of domestic purchasing decisions. Despite that fact advertising companies have ignored this fact. That’s because the ad industry is one of the last bastions of male domination in the corporate world. That means there is a huge opportunity for innovat...

In this episode we talk about that illusive concept – work-life balance. My guest, John Drury, says that not only is it a myth, but searching for it can really be quite harmful. Trying to be everything to everyone can leave us feeling drained and unfulfilled. But there is a healthy alternative - integration. Finding a way to integrate the important parts of your life so that they are not competing...

Purpose and meaning. It’s what we’re all seeking. But too many of us work for organizations that exist only to squeeze out as much profit as possible. Today’s guests Nicholas Barnett and Rodney Howard explore how to reorient our working lives in their new book Why Purpose Matters. They believe that finding purpose extends beyond the personal and can reshape organizations as well. Rodney and Nick c...

Power professionals need to be great presenters. The simple fact is that you need to inspire if you are going to lead. You have to connect to your audience no matter what the size of your organisation. Most of us go into a presentation terrified that we are going to make fools of ourselves. The goal is to not look bad. Today, I’m joined by Emma Bannister who is going to inspire you to do better. E...

Intuition forms a vital part of how we make decisions in life, yet many of us don’t know how to use it properly. My guest today Craigh Wilson has devoted his life to helping people understand what intuition is and how it can benefit their lives.

For the first time ever on The Team Guru Podcast, we welcome a repeat guest, Lee Caraher. Lee is has a brand new book. The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees. We talk about the paradox of retaining your workers even after they leave your company