No Bullsh!t Leadership

Episode #17 // In this Boxing Day episode, we’re doing things a bit differently! Em is back on the show, and we are going to talk through our five favourite episode of 2018. We released 16 episodes this year, and we might be biased, but we think there's some incredible leadership content there. This week, we’re going to point out the five episodes that we think you should either listen to for the...

Episode #16 // Back by popular demand, this week we're going to do another Q&A episode! It’s likely that you’re winding down as the holiday period approaches, and we've had so many good questions from listeners that there's a few more we need to deal with before the year ends. To help me with this Q&A segment, Em has joined me again. Each of these questions could be an episode in its own r...

Episode #15 // I’ve got to say, we get some seriously great listener questions every week! When we started the podcast we were coming up with our own topics, and now we get so many questions, that we get to make what you guys want and need to hear - which was our ultimate goal of the podcast from day one! The question I'm answering today is no different, in fact we liked it so much we moved this e...

Episode #14 // This week's topic is another slightly controversial one, but has turned out to be a very common question from listeners, so we thought we’d dedicate a whole episode to tackling how you as a leader, can set the right boundaries in your work relationships. The key questions here is, how do you strike the balance between maintaining professional distance, while establishing a trust bas...

Episode #13 // We spoke last month in the Q&A episode about giving your boss feedback. As this subject comes up again and again in your questions to us, this week I've expanded on the topic. To give it some context, I framed it around one of the best questions from our listeners, thank you Jordan. The question was: “I’m finding it difficult determining the boundaries between demonstrating a pr...

Episode #12 // Building the best team you possibly can is a prerequisite to delivering the results that will make you a successful leader. It begins with the hard yards of capability building that we spoke about in episode two ‘ Building a High Performing Team ’; there's also the need to attract and retain the best talent into your organisation, and you're in competition for that talent with other...

Episode #11 // Now, no one can accuse me of not taking on the big issues in this podcast, and this one is particularly vexed because, although there's almost universal acceptance of the value that a diverse team brings to an organisation, very few organisations actually have a diverse workforce. In this episode, we question why it’s so hard to create this. I’ll go straight to the punchline - there...

Episode #10 // Leaders tend to talk glowingly about their own values, and every organisation has an advertised set of them. But how many actually behave in accordance with their values? In this week’s episode, we’re going to talk about how to get this right. In addition to talking through why corporate values are so often meaningless (with a few fun real world examples to prove my point) I’m going...

Episode #9 // This episode is going to be just a little different to our normal format! We've had a lot of really great feedback on the podcast and quite a few questions from listeners who either want us to do deep dives or look into a specific issue that they're having. I thought we'd turn this into a Q&A episode, where I can answer a couple of these questions for you. We love getting feedbac...

Episode #8 // There is a common misconception, which has been perpetuated by recent academic research, that happy workers are productive workers. This has changed things somewhat in terms of work perks over the past decade - think ping pong tables, 4 day work weeks and free Friday afternoon wine & cheese. In this episode, I examine the factors that drive workforce productivity, and how your ro...

Episode #7 // Many leaders fail to work at the right level. When you're promoted, there is a subconscious tendency to remain at the old level, trying to do the same things that you did before. But just because you were successful at that level, and as much as it might feel comfortable to stay there, this is a sure fire way to kill your career, and disempower the people around you. So in this episo...

Episode #6 // One of the most critical skills for a leader is the ability to challenge, coach and confront his or her people. This requires many direct, honest, empathetic conversations. Many leaders never master this, and spend most of their careers avoiding confrontation, only having a difficult conversation when it is virtually impossible to avoid. If you only listen to one episode of this podc...

Episode #5 // To be an outstanding leader, you need to understand power; what it is, and how to use it. Knowing what the different types of power are, and having awareness of what power you are using when, is fundamental to building a high performing team, that delivers discretionary effort for its leader. We all exercise different types of power each day in our relationships with others, so we’re...

Episode #4 // Now that you are getting a flavour for my style, and the type of things I focus on, this episode gives us an opportunity to step back and ask the questions about what leadership is, at its core, and what it would mean to be an exceptional leader. This is just a baseline, as we will have a range of other episodes, to deal with subjects like: The differences between Leadership and Mana...

Episode #3 // If you want your organisation to deliver outstanding results, as a leader you must adopt a mantra of “excellence over perfection”. In this episode we uncover why perfectionism can be debilitating for an organisation, and how your people will respond to the goal of delivering excellence. Many of you would be familiar with the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule). However, no matter how m...

Episode #2 // If you want to be successful as a senior leader, you first have to build a team of successful individuals. A key part of this is recognising when someone is not going to be successful in their current role, and freeing them up to be successful in another organisation. From there, it’s all about culture and team dynamics. So many people say that they have built a 'high performing team...

Episode #1 // Needing to be liked is a symptom of a deeper issue - conflict aversion. This affects everything you do as a leader. How would you know if you, or your people, had a problem with this? Overcoming it is key to any successful leader’s career. On today’s show, we’re looking at why letting go of the need to be liked is critical for your success as a leader. I love talking about this, beca...

No Bullsh!t Leadership is a podcast for experienced leaders who want to become truly exceptional leaders. Each week, your host Martin Moore shares the secrets of high performance leadership; the career accelerators that you can’t learn in business school, and your boss is unlikely to share with you. Step away from the theoretical view on leadership, and learn from a successful CEO who’s already wa...