Walking Your Talk | Culture Change & Leadership

An external orientation is essential to truly pursue excellence, because it is only by going beyond what is familiar to you that you will discover what excellence means in your field. Otherwise what you call excellence may actually turn out to be mediocracy.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast W...

Pursuing excellence should be such a natural thing to do with a team of people, and yet it can be remarkably elusive amongst the anxieties, pressures and expectations of day to day working life. This episode starts a journey of re-finding the satisfaction that is possible in such a pursuit.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.c...

This episode explores the paradox between our curiosity and attraction to explore new possibilities and the value in prioritising and focussing on what really matters. Both are important, but the former can also offer way too many distractions.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast...

Do you ever feel you do a little bit of everything, but struggle to fully commit attention to the things that matter most? Making a judgement call risks of making the wrong move, but the bigger mistake is the opportunity lost. Pick up ideas in this episode to hone your skills in prioritising and backing your own decisions.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@...

Selecting good choices over bad ones is easy. But when every option is a good one, it’s much harder. What do you do when your work serves the needs of to many people, everyone you want to please and make happy?  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/pod...

Special guest Paula Harraca, Head of People & Innovation at ArcelorMittal Long in Brazil, explains how she was able to build top team buy in to a culture strategy which has enabled a very successful business to gain an additional competitive advantage.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyntaylorculture...

Do you play the hero? Try to take on everything and solve every problem? Or do you live in a culture where this is the norm. In this episode Carolyn explores how by taking on more and more, prioritisation gets postponed, and in the end, the benefits of focused action is lost. Lose your hero persona and transform your ability to prioritise.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Bu...

At every level – personal, team and organisation - becoming clearer on purpose is the start to making better choices. And prioritisation is always about choices on how you allocate precious resource such as time, money, people.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntayl...

This episode of Walking Your Talk uses a new format to hear how one company are taking some radical moves to pursue deep adult development for leaders in pursuit of a new culture to support their purpose.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast W...

Carolyn draws on what goes on in Netflix to challenge listeners to make some moves that are remarkable – sufficiently radical to really demonstrate the new culture in action. And warns against being too bland in the way you as a leader engage others in the intended culture.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.ca...

Leaders everywhere are being held accountable for the behaviour of those who work for them, and yet worry about how they can be confident that their people will live up to the expected standards. In this episode Carolyn shows how shared values, more than controls, are the key to building that confidence.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://...

Carolyn tells the stories of two leaders who have mastered the skill of building high standards of behaviour in the culture they are shaping by using the lightest touch, but with a consistency which uses peer pressure to make it clear what is tolerated and what is not.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyn...

Leaders feel they need to demonstrate that they always role model the culture they aspire to. And yet some of the most powerful stories come from leaders who are willing to acknowledge when they got something wrong. In this way, they show that everyone has to grow and learn to build the best culture.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn...

Who is appointed, who is promoted are such strong symbols of what is really valued in the emerging new culture. Learn how to capitalise on this opportunity, whether you are the leader, a colleague, the new member yourself, or an advisor. Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.ca...

Carolyn shares a story of best practice in culture, where you can be confident that everyone in your organisation will behave to the same standard in specific situations. And what it takes to achieve that.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast Walking the Talk: www.walkingthetalk.com

As you prepare to emerge from the lockdown period, Carolyn provides some ideas on how to capture with your team the patterns of behaviour you recently established that served you well and you want to hold onto.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast Walking the Talk: www.walkingthetalk.com

COVID has jolted us from our normal patterns of behaviour, and provides the opportunity to choose and practise some new ones to take into the new (ab)normal. Starting with yourself, what new habits will you adopt?  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast Walking the Talk: www.walkingthetalk.com

The opportunity to build new habits and a new culture is right in front of us. Start with a simple inventory. In this episode, Carolyn explains how.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast Walking the Talk: www.walkingthetalk.com

The shift from good to great requires a mindset of humility, learning and curiosity. Without that, we can be good, but we will always stop short of greatness. In this final episode of the first series, Carolyn show us how setting an aspiration to pursue excellence means we always need to be in a state of reinventing and examining where we are with a humble mind.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: htt...

Want to create an empowered culture, a curious culture or a learning culture? It starts with three simple but humbling words: “I don’t know.” Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast Walking the Talk: www.walkingthetalk.com

Not too little, not too much, let’s explore what changes if we get the optimal perspective on our own importance, and how that humility changes how we approach customers, competitors, colleagues and our own levels of curiosity and open-ness to learn.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast Walking t...

In this episode, Carolyn turns our attention inward to how we build (or lose) trust in ourselves. How this impacts the trust others have in us, and what we can do to improve it.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast Walking the Talk: www.walkingthetalk.com

What makes you trustworthy to others? Reliability, authenticity, and intention. This episode shows how you can work on each of these three and thus become the trustworthy colleague, supplier or boss for whom the doors to success are opened wide.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcas...

Trust between functions, between teams, between roles in any organisation is the oil that makes the whole system flow. Learn how helping others play their role successfully, rather than judging them from the sidelines, will build a culture of collaboration.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyntaylorcultur...

The presence of vulnerability builds more trust in a team than any other feature. This episode explores many ways that any team member can open up just a little bit more. Showing this vulnerability can dramatically improve the effectiveness of the team.  Buy the Walking the Talk book: https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Buy Accountability@Work book: https://amzn.to/3ZmOSQB Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.co...