Leadership Today - Practical Tips For Leaders

Over the holiday/new year period we're replaying some of our most popular episodes. We will be back in February 2020 with brand new episodes. You can find all our episode show notes at the Leadership Today website . Enjoy!

Summary Being grateful has a host of benefits for individuals and teams. In this episode we explore three practical ways to build gratitude at work. Transcript Hello and welcome to episode 63 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we explore the power of gratitude for ourselves and for those we lead. As human beings we have...

Summary Our workplaces can easily move towards what researchers call incivility. So what are the benefits of being nice to one another, and what can we do as leaders to get there? Transcript Hello and welcome to episode 62 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we explore why being nice to one another is so important for bu...

Summary Values can be a powerful driver of business culture, both for good and bad. This week we look at when values go bad and what to do about it. Transcript Hello and welcome to episode 61 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we're looking at when values go bad and what to do about it. I met with a Head of Human Resour...

Summary Great teams manage task, process and relationships. They ask key questions to ensure clarity is built and conflict is addressed in all three areas. This week we look at some key questions you can use to audit your teams and build their effectiveness.   Transcript Hello and welcome to episode 60 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership chal...

Summary A big part of our role as leaders is setting the emotional tone and culture for our teams. Whether consciously or not, we communicate our own bias towards the upside potential and action, or the bias towards risk and fear. This week we're looking at approach and avoidance motivation, and what we can do to foster a more positive mindset for ourselves and others.   Transcript Hey there. Welc...

Summary Curiosity is rarely encouraged at work. In fact, leaders and organisations often actively discourage being inquisitive. This week we explore the benefits of curiosity, and four ways to encourage it in your team. Transcript Welcome to episode 58 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we're looking at the benefits of...

Welcome to Midweek Motivate. The middle of the week can be challenging for leaders. The goal of midweek motivate is to give you one practical idea that you can try for yourself or with your team right away. This week we're looking at positive relationships and self-esteem.   Researchers recently looked at 52 studies from around the world to clarify the relationship between self-esteem and the qual...

Summary Chances are that you will suffer from impostor syndrome at some point in your life. In this episode we explore what impostor syndrome is, why it occurs, and nine ways we can avoid feeling like a fraud.   Transcript Welcome to episode 57 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we're looking at impostor syndrome - what...

This week's podcast is a replay of our 2nd December 2018 episode on Optimism and Resilience. We will be back next week with a brand new episode.   Summary This week we explore the links between optimism and resilience, using the example of a terrifying real life hang gliding experience.   Transcript Welcome to episode 21 of the Leadership Today Podcast where each week we address some of today's bi...

This week's podcast is a replay of our 14th October 2018 episode on Leadership First Impressions   Research demonstrates that 90% of the initial impression we form about people is based on two factors - warmth and competence. It also turns out these two factors are difficult to combine. So how do we demonstrate both warmth and competence as leaders?    TRANSCRIPT Welcome to episode fourteen of the...

Welcome to Midweek Motivate. The middle of the week can be tough for leaders. The goal of midweek motivate is to give you one practical idea that you can try for yourself or with your team right away. And this week we're looking at making the first day at a new job great. The first day in a new job can feel quite overwhelming, but there are some simple things we can do as leaders to make the first...

Summary Entrance interviews beat exit interviews any day of the week. In this Leadership Today podcast we cover some questions to draw on the experiences and observations of new starters to improve our organisations.   Transcript Welcome to episode 56 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we're looking at the power of entr...

Welcome to our fourth Midweek Motivate. The middle of the week can be tough for leaders. The goal of midweek motivate is to give you one practical idea that you can try for yourself or with your team right away. And this week we're looking at doing less with less, but more of the right things. It's a common expression - we need to do more with less. But I think it's time to challenge that. Instead...

Summary Exit interviews often stink. They end up being overly positive or overly negative. This week we explore seven ways to radically improve your exit interviews.   Transcript Welcome to episode 55 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we're looking at seven ways to radically improve exit interviews. Exit interviews are...

Welcome to our third Midweek Motivate. The middle of the week can be tough for leaders. The goal of midweek motivate is to give you one practical idea that you can try for yourself or with your team right away. And this week we're looking at two ways that inserting a gap can help you as a leader.   Do you find you're getting overloaded by the volume of requests coming to you? Do you find it hard t...

Summary How are your listening skills? This week we're looking at five tips to level up your listening.   Transcript Welcome to episode 54 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we're looking at five tips to level up your listening. Have you ever had that experience of talking to someone, only to notice that they're not rea...

Welcome to our second Midweek Motivate. The middle of the week can be tough for leaders. The goal of midweek motivate is to give you one practical idea that you can try for yourself or with your team right away. Our workplaces are full of so many distractions. Loud conversations, noisy equipment and other background noise can distract us. People try to counteract this in lots of ways, and headphon...

Summary In today's episode, we outline the ten best podcasts for leaders in 2019.   Transcript Welcome to episode 53 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. As leaders, podcasts offer a tempting solution to continuing our professional development and keeping in touch with broader trends. We can simply pull on the headphones and learn...

Welcome to our first Midweek Motivate. As the name suggests, these episodes come out in the middle of the week - right at the point where your enthusiasm as a leader may be starting to dip. The goal of midweek motivate is to give you one practical idea you can try for yourself or with your team right away.   Our main Leadership Today episodes that come out on Saturdays are short - coming in at und...

SUMMARY This week we're looking at research that demonstrates faking extraversion as a way to boost well-being. Seriously - what's all that about? And what might it mean for leaders?   TRANSCRIPT Welcome to episode 52 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we're looking at research that demonstrates faking extraversion as a...

Summary Confidence is a key part of leadership effectiveness. It's much easier to follow a confident leader than one who appears to doubt themselves. But what is confidence, and how can we develop it? Transcript Welcome to episode 51 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we're exploring confidence in action. Confidence is...

Summary Imagine if there was something you could do to elevate your mood, reduce stress, increase creativity, boost memory, build team cohesion, help physical health and maybe even reduce mental illness. Research demonstrates that getting back to nature can do all of that and more for you and your team.   Transcript Welcome to episode 50 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle on...

Summary Accurate self-assessment sits at the core of leadership effectiveness. This week we look at five ways you can help ensure you have a clear picture of your strengths and areas for development.   Transcript Welcome to episode 49 of the Leadership Today podcast. This week we're exploring a question sent in by a listener named Laura. She asks "How would you go about critically analysing and re...

Summary Reaching into our untapped potential is a trip into the unknown. In this episode we use the Johari Window as a framework to identify four ways to explore our untapped potential.   Transcript Hello and welcome to episode 48 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today's biggest leadership challenges. This week we look at untapped potential through the lens of the J...