Cutting Through: Recent Episodes
Davina Stanley
If you are an expert who needs to persuade others who do not share your technical background, this podcast is for you. One of my biggest frustrations is seeing people with great ideas not get the traction they should. I invite you to meet an incredible group of experts. They share how they have engaged others at the top, their peers, direct reports and outsiders in complex ideas. Scroll down to find actionable insights to help you cut through in your own world.
Why do brilliant strategies with perfect logic still die in boardrooms? In my eye-opening conversation with Paul Ichilcik, we cracked the code on combining structured thinking, design thinking, and storytelling to create communications that don't just get approved—they get championed throughout the entire organization.
You'll find the one page framework we discuss in the show notes.
Show notes: https://clarityfirstprogram.com/e14-post
Connect with Paul: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-ichilcik-89b0301/
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In my conversation with executive coach Dan Auerbach, we explored his innovative framework for coaching resistant leaders. Dan's fascinating background - 20 years as a clinical psychotherapist combined with decades of CEO experience - revealed some powerful insights that will transform the way you approach your own and your teams development.
Show notes: https://clarityfirstprogram.com/e13-post
Connect with Dan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-auerbach-a1182117/
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Connect with Davina: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davinastanley
Learn more about Clarity First: https://clarityfirstprogram.com
Discover how policy expert Russell King masterfully implements unpopular decisions with minimal resistance by strategically "preparing the ground" before announcements—a skill that transformed transportation systems across two continents and can revolutionize your approach to organizational change.
Show notes: https://clarityfirstprogram.com/e12-post
Connect with Russell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-king-transport-leader/
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Connect with Davina: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davinastanley
Learn more about Clarity First: https://clarityfirstprogram.com
Dan and I talk about how my new books, Elevate and Engage, help teams collaborate to better engage senior leaders and Boards.
Learn more: https://clarityfirstprogram.com/books
Having conversations is a natural and often delightful part of work and life.
Yet making formal presentations can give even seasoned presenters butterflies.
What if you could merge the two?
Dr Alexa Chilcutt shares practical ideas for doing just that.
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Seventy plus percent of transformations fail says McKinsey and Harvard Business School and yet Lisa Carlin has a 96 percent strike rate.
What’s her secret?
Lisa share her top 3 ingredients for making transformations work and offers some resources to Cutting Through listeners, download them here: https://clarityfirstprogram.com/e9-post
Adam shares his experience in engaging a largely paper-based organisation as it digitised its operations.
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Cerise explains how she prepares for a new role where she needs to engage senior decision makers from Day 1.
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Alongside plenty of other wisdom, Carolyn shares a case study where she needed to help a CFO back-track sending an important but potentially damaging email.
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Dan explains the difference between transformation and change, sharing deep experience in helping top brands gain maximum value from their digital transformation efforts.
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Kerry shares how he engages senior leaders in 'shifting their focus to the left' to prevent problems and smooth out project delivery. It turns out that software testing is a surprisingly creative and fun thing to do.
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Damien discusses his strategy for engaging 7 Eleven in a new Agile-aligned learning strategy.
He shares his experience in engaging the leadership as well as the organisation in this new approach to learning and growth. This includes
- How Agile offers natural opportunities to ‘bake learning in' to the BAU operating rhythm (which you can do even if you are not adopting Agile ways of working)
- How to engage up, down and sideways to be confident your idea is ‘sold' before you pitch it
- How he demonstrates the business value of learning
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In this episode Richard and I talk about cutting through in new ways.
We look at ‘cutting through' with barriers in both our minds and our diaries so we have time for things that matter, including thinking about our communication.
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Anthony Wilson shares 30+ years' experience in engaging others in risk management.
His biggest challenge is to encourage leaders and others involved in managing risk to move away from a 'once and done' approach.
He is convinced there is enormous business value in seeing risk management as change management.
For free show notes downloads and extra resources from this Podcast episode, click here >>
If you are an expert who needs to persuade others who do not share your technical background, this podcast is for you.
One of my biggest frustrations is seeing people with great ideas not get the traction they should.
I invite you to meet an incredible group of experts. They share how they have engaged ‘outsiders' in complex ideas. This could be others at the top, their peers, direct reports, anyone who does not share their technical expertise.