The Being Leader: Annabel Graham

In the last episode we looked at your attitude as a people manager to hybrid working, and the impact this can have on your team. In this episode we wrap up the topic by looking at how you can make it work for your team, examining: How you work and communicate? How you collaborate and meet as a team? how you make decisions? Who or what the office environment is for? How you measure performance? In...

So we're back for series 2 - with topics generated by you the listener.  In this episode, part 1 of 2, we're exploring Hybrid Working and how it is impacting leaders and teams. In this expect to reflect upon: What are your attitudes to hybrid? How are you leading your teams, and what impact is it having? How are you approaching the route back to the office, and what conversations are you having. P...

Leadership for a Brave New World!  In this final episode of series one I talk to Author and Executive Coach Joy Maitland, about the themes of her new book From Alpha to Zen.  Together we explore the different aspects that are necessary for today's leaders to get to grips with.  Such as:    Valuing your Values The ability to observe, then act  Understanding your unique perspective Having courage Le...

In this episode, we pick up a theme started in #26 on empowering our people as leaders.  Join me to explore: how we mistake empowerment for abandonment, why empowering team members is worthwhile for leaders  what gets in the way of empowerment and how we can go about empowering people effectively And also how coaching can help you to do this. You can connect with me at www.successfultraining.co.uk...

What exactly is a coaching culture and why is it beneficial to have one in your organisation?  In this episode I'm joined by executive coach Nick Howell of Abintus to explore this further.  We chew over:  What coaching is and isn't and how it differs to mentoring  What a coaching culture is and isn't   Why a coaching culture is beneficial to leaders, teams and businesses and how to put one in plac...

What is culture, and why should we as leaders pay attention to it?  Delivering strategy and getting things done on the action plan is far more important right?  Well maybe – but let’s think about it for a minute. In this episode - there are no fancy models, instead we cut to the heart of culture - how we do things around here.  And that starts with us - how we show up as leaders. So listen to hear...

Who do you need to become as a leader who can navigate that cusp between the technological age and the information age? What does that mean for those of us who are leaders, and who will develop leaders ? What challenges are we facing in the now which will absolutely be different in the future and what does that mean for the leader we need to become? In this episode we look at the current reality,...

Have you got a strategy in place in your organisation? Have you taken that strategy and communicated it to your direct reports and then all the levels below you? Have you aligned the department and team objectives back to that strategy so that it links in and delivers business goals at their functional level? Have your direct reports then cascaded it down to the level below to make sure their depa...

So how are your team at making decisions?  Dominated by the leader? Irrational and a bit random? Revisit them again and again? Or never make them? The behavioural science of decision making is challenged by social pressure cascade effect, low information and more. How then can we ensure as leaders we enable our teams to decide? In this wide ranging episode Giorgia Prestento and I explore this and...

We started the year thinking about intention, and our first dialogue takes us a bit further.  In this episode Preeta Cooley of DeNovo Performance and I discuss choice.   Does choice exist, and what challenges us & makes us think we don't have choice? From existentialist theory to diary management, from Frankl to Jack Canfield & Henry Ford this episode takes us across a wide range of views and thou...

Sick of goals and the annual New Year's action list?  Feeling you've lost focus with the impact of the pandemic and ever shifting landscape we live in? If so, join me for a short journey to view things a different way, and explore your intention. #intention, #purpose #leadership #reflection    www.successfultraining.co.uk   https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabelgraham-coach-trainer/ @the_beingleader ...

Did you know our minds are only present 50% of the time?  If so, how do you access the intersection between spirituality, mindfulness and wellbeing, to really be present. My final guest of 2020 is Christoph Spiessens, Mindfulness coach and Insight timer app trainer.  Join us on this episode where we discuss: Recognising patterns and unlearning checking in with "what is" Doing mode v being mode Sel...

Accountability - the willingness to accept responsibility for our own actions.  How often do we actually do this, and why is it so vital within healthy, performing teams. In this episode we explore why this is important to enable a results focus and look at how this contributes to a performing team.  Take time to reflect on where your team is at, how  much you really embody accountability and revi...

How much conflict do you have in your team? None? All fine?  or it's just a vipers nest of passive aggressive bitching?  In this episode I discuss 2 of the 5 behaviours we need to enable high performance in teams, and explore: Why we avoid Conflict Why we should have more of it to make better decisions and why conflict actually results in us getting better results You can learn more and connect wi...

Which would you rather be, busy or useful?  In this podcast Author, facilitator and coach Jos Burton and I discuss the current malaise of needing to be busy v knowing our value and being useful. We discuss useful v helpful, being curious, protestent work ethic and the value of work, what future work may be like, smart work v good work and what we need to be doing to really Be Useful. Loved this ep...

How often have you had a bright idea when out walking the dog, or running/walking? That's the power of harnessing the outdoors as a development space.  In this episode I talk all things outdoors, walking and coaching with Claire Bradshaw, executive coach and host of podcast The Outdoor Coach.   Expect to explore the outdoors, the power of Street Wisdom, Soft fascination, shifting perspectives, bui...

What exactly is trust and why is it so essential to our relationships, to making our teams work effectively and to doing business with our customers? In this episode I'll explore what is at the heart of trust, and not trust we build over time because I know you, psychological trust where I feel safe sharing information with you. Ask yourself: Are you  role modelling great trustworthy behaviours, a...

Resilience and mental health has never been more at the forefront of how we work than in 2020.  In this episode Sarah Jones and I explore how resilience impacts us as leaders, and how we can become more resilient by noticing what is going on for ourselves, our family & friends, our colleagues and teams. Expect to learn about how to have compassionate conversations, what makes a resilient leader, h...

Time and again I speak to people in organisations and when they tell me it's all a bit tense between them and their line manager/team member, or that there are crossed wires; I ask the same question: "have you had the expectations conversation, where you both agree what you expect of each other and how you'll work together?".  And what do you think the answer is? No! In this bitesize edition, find...

As it hits September and the kids head back to school, there also seems to be a back to work feel and the climate in which we are all now working  is very different. Despite the change in the environment, many of those challenges that teams face will still exist, so I want to start looking dispersed teams and how we can lead them more effectively. In this episode we will look at the 7 steps that w...

How often do your emotions get in the way of how you want to be, and what you want to do? What if you had a way of getting past this, or techniques to enable you to be more effective. Emotional Freedom Technique is a practice that enables this and this conversation with coach Sarah Sienkiewizc explores how this can help you get unstuck. Sarah supports frazzled and stressed-out professionals who ar...

In the final part of looking at who we are as being leaders,  I come to the wider world around us, the environment that we exist in, and the systems that we are part of.  These are the systems – be them family, team, business, cultural, societal in which we interact and operate, and demonstrate all of the above. So we’ll think about: How we respond and what this appears like to others What we can...

In this podcast I’m in dialogue with Jo Manton,  who is a coach, facilitator and consultant who enables clients to identify and engage with their challenges in a real and tangible way; and works with them to explore, acquire, practise and master the embodied leadership skills and behaviours that allow them to be more effective in their lives at work. In this podcast we’ll explore more about what e...

In this episode I want to shine the spotlight on our behaviour. Does how your behave fit with what your purpose and identity dictate? Are you doing yourself justice and living your values? Are you being intentional, truly present, and showing up in your interactions?  Find out more about the 3 things key areas that govern our behaviour, and get some self reflective questions which will make you th...

So what's your map of the world? How do you show up, what shapes your thinking and how do you gain balance in how you work and operate?  What are those behaviours and factors that you can put in place to enable you to operate in an effective way, understand yourself more, and develop a better sense of well being that will enable you to work in a better way. In this episode I explore different them...