Leadership Performance Under Pressure

Let's talk about managing change, since we've moved from the Covid upheaval to staring down the barrel of a recession. Great leaders in these times are people who thrive on change and can lead fearful teams with vision and courage.  You can be that person!  The cornerstone of managing change as a team leader is managing fear. It's being the rock who carries the vision for the future...

3 top tips for self-realization in leadership: If you have risen to leadership without formal management or leadership training, chances are you've had a successful career as a high-performing individual expert and have been promoted on the strength of that. There are some leadership skills it will be hard to manage without, if you want to keep your career on an upwards trajectory.  You will...

Team Leadership is part 2 of the Leadership skills 101 series for the technical person. You will learn my top tips in the 5 main areas of team leadership:  Trust; Building a Team; Inspiring on a common goal; Developing talent; and Accountability. If your leadership is impersonal, focussed more on financial or technical success than empowering your team - you're leaving a lot of money on the t...

I help men emerge from burnout, which I love to do. Seeing a man get back on his feet, return to the helm of his life and enjoy work, people and life is delightful. Watching his career blossom again- it's magic. Hearing the quality of his relationships deepen - excellent! But it doesn't stop there. The high-achieving men who come to me are natural born leaders, but they're often hel...

Goal Success Story #2, as told by my client Sam in this interview. Sam emerged from burnout and rebuilt his work self in a way that inspired him to set and achieve big career goals and more importantly to do this calmly, with optimism, confidence and positivity. Sam's other goal was caring for his family - his wife, son and new baby. Hear Sam talk about how he did it. ------------------------...

Goal Success Story #1, as told by my client Pejman in this interview. Pejman emerged from burnout and rebuilt his work self in a way that inspired him to achieve business goals that he'd set 3 years ago. He tripled his business revenue and that was just the start. Hear Pejman talk about how he did it. -----------------------------------  Resources: Leadership Performance Coaching https://go.d...

4 top tips to manage fails when you're working on goals. Goals can be a great adventure, but so often we set them up in a punishing way and find them hard to enjoy. The worst part is often embracing the inevitable fails and managing our reluctance to take action in the face of potential failure. Here we will explore the best way to tackle fear of failure, doubt, confusion, frustration and oth...

Top 2 tips to get you started taking action on your goal without giving in to endless distractions, fear, doubt and procrastination. My best tips for starting (or resuming) work on a goal with clear intention, high motivation and sufficient self-support to keep going. You will achieve any goal with persistence. Listen here to help you develop that persistence through kindness, not threat. --------...

Goals challenge us, but they don't have to be a dreaded slog, filled with procrastinationa and remorse. Make it easy on yourself using the tips in this episode.  Connecting a goal with meaning and purpose will give your goal the best chance of survival! As you set the goal, explore WHY it's important to you and who you will become on the achieving of it. Where, on life's journey, wi...

Liam Caswell is a former Nurse Unit Manager and highly qualifed career coach for nurses. His mission is to create a psychologically safe working environment for nurses to thrive within their careers.  This is an aim I'm very much aligned with - I believe our health care workers in general do an incredible job under often very stressful, demanding and sometimes unsupportive conditions. If you&...

An interview with Dr Hannah Royster, who trained as a doctor in Australia and has just released her book "In Turn" - a fictionalised memoir of her hospital internship. Hannah battled deafness, epilepsy and brain cancer in childhood, missing substantial schooling, but miraculously went on to graduate medical school. She tells the story in this episode of her challenging medical training,...

It's my contention that - no matter how deep in burnout you may be - you are a glorious human being. Your current suffering is more superficial than intrinsic. So let's explore and excavate that inner goodness. It will relieve your suffering to re-connect first with yourself and then others. -----------------------------------  Resources: Leadership Performance Coaching https://go.dexran...

Here are 5 reasons you might baulk when someone makes you a wonderful offer to create a better life. I show you how to overcome your own objections, if the offer's something you actually do want. 92% of New Year's Resolutions end up in the weeds. Learn how to put yourself in the 8% that make theirs happen. Our brains are biased against new ideas, but if you understand where your reservat...

Faced with uncertainty, many of us feel anxious and try to avoid whatever's happening by burying our heads in addictive behaviors like snacking, drinking, gaming or doom-scrolling. Since life is fundamentally always uncertain, and since our anxiety is a very poor predictor of what happens next, we can instead develop a softer relationship with uncertainty and become curious.  We can save ours...

Many of us don't feel safe in burnout and see ourselves as victims of an unfair system. We grasp for control, seeking the safety we lack. That's not working, eh? Even if the system IS treacherous, trying to reform it can be fruitless and leave us feeling even more helpless and resentful. No problem! If this sounds like your situation, you have MUCH more control over your own experience t...

Exploring burnout, trauma and Type A behavior to discover the connection between childhood experiences and later susceptibility to burnout. And sharing some of my own journey and study on trauma. Show Notes Type A personality theory   In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness , Peter A Levine The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture , Gabo...

Are you in daily stress, overwork, frustration and exhaustion? That's not good. If we're heading for recession, you need to be in better shape! Let's create a really robust YOU at work, right now. Don't wait for the crash, that won't be fun! Start Burnout Recovery Now Because if a recession is your chance to stand out, you need at least to be standing up and being counted...

If you're ready for big change in your life but somehow you're holding yourself back, here's how to release yourself in to what is truly possible for you. It starts with letting go of your limited view of yourself, what you have achieved so far and (by extension) what you think you reasonably might achieve in the future. No big leap forward was ever made by iteration. Reinvention is...

Andrew Lustig ND left being CEO of a media corporation in NYC to found Global Outreach Doctors, sending teams to offer humanitarian medical support on the frontline in Ukraine,  and other humanitarian crises across the world. Hear Andrew's journey, what took him on this courageous new life course and his experiences in disaster zones over the years. Andrew talks about life and what matters to...

Quiet Quitting - turning up for one's job and doing the bare minimum - what do you think ? I've been hearing many opinions that strike me as unsympathetic, so here I choose to redress the balance. If you're burnt out and quiet quitting, that seems like a rational response, but it's unlikely to help you feel better. I believe resolving burnout itself gives you much broader and m...

It's that moment when fear blows up in our faces and suddenly we CAN'T hold it together any more. Things stop working and we're left alone with our feelings. Life is trying to tell us something. In my case, that there is deeper post-burnout growth available, there's more truth to face. It's another layer of the onion and I'm choosing to stay open and present to that....

Burning out is what your brain does to protect you when you've been going too hard for too long and need to slow down. Nothing is fundamentally wrong with you, and you will make a 100% recovery when you learn how. Listen to real life examples of men experiencing burnout - it's different for each of them. BUT the recovery toolset works for everyone. With coaching, you will learn all the t...

Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. Humans are a bit quirky in our decison-making. It's more of an art than a science. In fact, we make decisions based to a large extent on our survival instincts, ego, emotions - ANYTHING but logical anaylsis. This week I review Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely to deep-dive into how we make decisions. Yo...

Here's Dr James Davies' tweet on his top 9 completely fictitious psych-diagnoses. Oddly, they all relate to burnout, and are difficulties my clients resolve through the Burnout Recovery program . The suffering inherent in these conditions is immense, and it's no wonder that burnout sufferers buckle under the collective weight of them. In this episode I give you some tips on how to d...

With coaching we can solve any problem. But sometimes we're so used to the old way of reacting to things, or to people we know, that we abandon the solution in favour of what we used to do, that didn't work so well. So here's what to do in that case, to handle stubborn problems. -----------------------------------  Resources: Leadership Performance Coaching https://go.dexrandall.com...