Space2BE's Podcast - People, Performance, Leadership & Love: Recent Episodes
Karen Griffin (MSc, MBA, Pgdip, FCIPD)
Enlightening conversations with Leaders, Practitioners, Experts, Authors and anyone with deep experience and insight into the world of work in the 21st century.
“Leader as Healer” - a great book with serious messages for leaders in the 21st century. We were delighted to interview Nicholas Janni, Author of Business Book of the Year 2023, Visiting Lecturer to the IMD in Switzerland and co-founder of Matrix Development.
https://www.nicholasjanni.com/
https://www.nicholasjanni.com/book-leader-as-healer/
Key timings
6.45 mins – Why healing?
8.15 mins – What is the evidence that leader as healer is the right change for humanity to focus on next?
13.35 mins – Thoughts about AI in this context
16.15 mins – How to seek peak performance by healing ourselves first
18.20 mins – What should a leader be regularly demonstrating?
19.00 mins – What are the first steps a leader can take to start to build this new toolbox?
22.10 mins – The importance of using both your left and right side of the brain
25.45 mins – In a busy role how can you get everything done and still be utterly present
We are pleased to share our latest podcast: Tailored Approaches to Self-Leadership with Grant ‘Upbeat’ Bosnick, Award winning Author, Keynote Speaker and Founder of Upbeat®, a lively conversation with rich examples supporting anyone on a self or team leadership journey.
*If you’re driving whilst listening- please ignore the invitation to practise the techniques!
www.grantbosnick.com
www.selfleadershipassessment.com
www.linkedin.com/in/grantbosnick/
Book: https://grantbosnick.com/books/
Key timings
6.50 mins – The 5 psychological needs people have and the different priorities
8.50 mins – Discussion around Grant’s approach to goal setting and how this might differ to others
13.50 mins – Why should leaders get into mindfulness
17.00 mins – Some exercises to build your own mindfulness
21.45 mins – Why it is important to create that space for greater insight
28.10 mins – The importance of emotion regulation
4.30 mins - How is trauma impacting organisation outcomes
8.00 mins - Defining trauma
14.30 mins – What can leaders do to support team members with trauma
18.45 mins – An introduction to the Trauma Spectrum
25.30 mins - What is flow in the workplace
28.45 mins - Ideas for creating a proactive system for trauma in an organisation
39.00 mins – Can an organisation be high performing if they don’t really know each other
Key Timings
1.30 min – Kate’s top 3 prerequisites for a thriving business culture
5.45 min – How the importance of looking after yourself help you thrive
7.35 min – How can the London Protocol of Emotions diagram be applied in business
12.40 min – How can Rich Communication help all to thrive
16.45 min - What is Kate’s plea on the topic of Thrive
2.15 minutes - What do we mean by introversion
5.05 minutes – What is the data between introversion and extroversion in leaders
8.25 minutes – What are the differences between those with a preferences in introversion or extroversion
12.20 minutes – Tips for introverts and extroverts to optimise work performance and get the best out of each other
15.55 minutes – Tips for introverts and extroverts in meetings
Key timings:
- 1.45 min - Concerns about authenticity
- 8.05 min – Consistency with leaders
- 11.55 min – What can leaders focus on to improve their impact
- 18.55 min – Is there such a thing as an ‘expert’
- 20.15 min – Inclusive leadership
In this episode, we discuss self awareness and personal leadership with Pamela Fay.
Some resources mentioned on the podcast:
Dr Geoff Pelham talk on the responsibility of leaders to set the mood in teams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFlCj6wM6CU
Kahlers Drivers: https://learn.nes.nhs.scot/27427
Charlotte Sills Life Script Chapter in https://www.routledge.com/Relational-Team-Coaching/de-Haan-Stoffels/p/book/9781032351957#
Relational Change: http://www.relationalchange.org/
Oscailt Self Compassion Workshops: https://oscailt.com/calendar/mindful-self-compassion-msc-course-jan-2024/
Smurfit School Coaching: https://www.smurfitschool.ie/executivedevelopment/programmesforindividuals/diplomainbusinessexecutivecoaching/
Pamela Fay: https://www.pamelafay.ie/
Key Points
4.30 – What qualities does a great leader need
12.30 – What personal leadership looks like day to day
17.10 –Examples of personal leadership and the benefits
19.55 – How do we change ourselves
22.40 – Why is it important to develop personal leadership
24.45 – Ideas of personal practices
28.15 – Key take aways from the podcast
Join us for a wonderful chat about ‘leadership and love’ in the workplace. Helena Clayton is a highly experienced leadership development consultant, writer and speaker. She won the Roffey Park Research Prize for her research into leadership and love. The report can be found at Here
Key conversation highlights for us were:
- There were found to be 5 buckets of behaviours that demonstrate love at work
- Top tips for managers and leaders
- A self reflection exercise
- What is love?… "When you see it - we know it”
- “When there is love… healing takes place”
- “We are all hard wired for love… so where does it all go when we are at work?”
- “Workplaces can often be places of fear / stress / burnout…”
If you’d like to explore this topic further, Helena invites you to join her free events - found on Eventbrite: “Acts of Love for Tough Times”
Work, me and the baby! Come and join this ground breaking podcast with Helen Sachdev and Alison Green and hosted by Karen Griffin where we talk about the work being done to raise awareness and support working parents and organisations.
Did you know:
Only 16% of executive positions are filled by women?
80% uk companies are still paying their women less than their men?
Employers are losing great women at the stage they become a parent
&
Evidence is now showing key challenges associated with take up of male parental leave
These sand many other angles on this important topic are discussed.
It’s a pleasure to share our latest podcast episode featuring leadership veteran Andy Meehan talk with Karen Griffin about leading boards. This X minute conversation traverses many topics including; Getting the best out of boards, board leadership qualities, likely challenges over the next 5 years, the Shamrock organisation, the difference between NEDs and Trustees, diversity and much more!
In this podcast Kathryn McEwan and Karen Griffin talk about Team Resilience, what it means, the practicalities of building it, the need for a systemic approach and its relationship to ‘high performing teams’. A thought provoking discussion exploring challenging ideas such as; Is the idea of a ‘high performing team’ now dead?! Are ‘high performing teams' a destination or a dynamic state?, Given the complexity of teams today how useful really is ‘global benchmarking’, or should teams be just benchmarking against themselves?
In this episode Andrew Wallas explains the difference between intention setting and goal setting and together we explore why intentions are key to delivering bigger outcomes.
This podcasts introduces Agile working, defines it and importantly busts many myths associated with agile in businesses. Steve Martin is an Agile expert and helps world leading organisations become more effective and efficient by introducing agile principles. He has joined us to educate our listeners on what agile really is and outlined the organisational and leadership requirements for making it a success. If you’re looking to understand, be able to articulate what agile is and optimise its usage in your organisation then this is a great episode for you.
Steve has written a book to help Leaders understand their role in Agile change: Change Starts at the Very Top
A wonderful opportunity to hear from Sarah Smith who is fast becoming a leading expert on ‘wise leadership’.
In the context of massive world challenges that require new ‘wise’ responses, this episode provides a deep dive into what ‘wise’ leadership is, why it is important and how to do it. If you are a senior Leader, a senior Executive Coach or an OD practitioner, this podcast is a ‘must listen’ for 2022 and beyond.
And the link to the book chapter mentioned is:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-79952-6_28
References:
Glück, J., Bluck, S., & Weststrate, N. M. (2019). More on the MORE life experience model: What we have learned (so far). The Journal of value inquiry, 53(3), 349-370.
Küpers, W. M. (2016). The art of practical wisdom: Phenomenology of an embodied, wise ‘inter-practice’in organization and leadership. In A handbook of practical wisdom (pp. 37-64). Routledge.
Vervaeke, J., & Ferraro, L. (2013). Relevance, meaning and the cognitive science of wisdom. In The scientific study of personal wisdom (pp. 21-51). Springer, Dordrecht.
Vervaeke, J. (2022). How a philosophy of meditation can explore the deep connections between mindfulness and contemplative wisdom. In Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (pp. 192-208). Routledge.
We continue our theme of change with a conversation with Professor Julie Hodges. Julie is a Professor of Organisational Change at Durham University, a Consulting Advisor and Author of several articles and eight books. Key areas covered include: the nature of change today in 2022 in comparison to 10 to 20 years ago, the impact of organisational change on emotions and understanding and carrying out cultural change and some of the critical success factors Julie believes an organisation needs to be aware of.
Julie's 2nd edition of her book 'Managing and Leading People through Change' Kogan Page has been selected by Thinkers360 as one of the 50 Books from Thought Leaders You Should Read in 2022. You can get your copy here: https://www.koganpage.com/product/managing-and-leading-people-through-organizational-change-9781789667974. Copies of Julie’s other books are also available at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Julie-Hodges/e/B00N6WX998
A fascinating conversation with Dr Sally Denham-Vaughan. Sally is a highly experienced Executive Coach, Organisational Consultant, International Trainer, Facilitator and Supervisor. She is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist and RAPPS Registered Supervisor with a coaching speciality. Sally is the Co-Founder of Relational Change www.relationalchange.org . In this podcast we focus on Relational Change and how it differs to any other change.
Key points covered include: what is relational change and why it is important, better relationship better world, change that is emergent from context, understanding why there is a different way to make change happen, what does a successful change programme look like.
A rich conversation with Anna Dianova, VP HR Multinational business, a seasoned in-house senior HR practitioner on the reality of collaboration, the dangers of overload and how we might prevent this. Key points covered include: mindset and intentions, the tools and processes we might use and the micro-behaviours we may adopt to support our own resilience in the collaboration space.
We’re negotiating all the time, in the workplace and at home, and 9 times out of 10 we will have to continue working or living with that person after the negotiation. So this means the negotiation has to be win-win: if we take a win-lose approach, it will just end up lose-lose.
But if we go for win-win, can we trust the other person won’t take advantage?
Trust is a massively important aspect of all human relationships, at work or at home. There is a great premium for trust but, such is our species, we can’t always trust. So how do we resolve this dilemma?
Find out how in this hugely interesting podcast interview with negotiations expert Simon Horton where he draws on stories about billionaires, peace treaties and hostage negotiations to tell us exactly how to build trust, even with the least trustable of people.
If you’d like to learn more, here’s the link to the book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leaders-Guide-Negotiation-Skills-Results/dp/1292112808
Organisational Happiness is something that the awakened few are thinking and talking about. People spend a lot of time at work - why can’t we aim for them to be happy? This leading edge podcast introduces the concept of The Happiness Sweet Spot - created by Lars Kure Juul. Based on years of commercial and HR experience he shares his strategic model for embedding happiness into workplaces and the benefits this will generate. Making organisational happiness a strategic priority is proving to pay dividends by many early adopters. If you are reviewing your business culture this podcast is worth a listen.
Here is the link to my LinkedIn profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsjuul/
Link to the book on Amazon US : https://www.amazon.com/Organizational-Happiness-Sweet-Motivational-Landscape-ebook/dp/B07KTYMWP4
Although the term cyber stress has come to refer mainly to the headaches and threats of cybersecurity, we use it to describe the many forms of stress that the use of information and computer technology has ushered into our lives. So much of what we do, and increasingly who we are at work and elsewhere, revolves around the tech that connects us to cyber space and the virtual online world. In this podcast, we explore some of the negative aspects of technostress and virtual connection on our well-being, and we consider some ways to reduce the consequences and impacts.
We have all heard a lot about digital detox and zoom fatigue, but how good is our awareness and understanding of how technostress and working online, in cyberspace, affects our psychological functioning and our well-being. Our ability to connect digitally and work anywhere, anytime brings great freedom and flexibility, but are our brains and bodies paying too heavy a price? The resulting stress can take the form of digital distraction, hyper-immersion, addiction or even burnout. What skills and support do we need to help us to have a more balanced relationship with our tech and cyber environment?
An exploratory conversation with Dr. Lynne Sedgmore on her recent creation and release of the Luminary Leadership Wheel. A different perspective and paradigm on leadership that is worthy of contemplation as we seek to build inclusive, fulfilling workplaces. Going beyond the limitations and stereotypes of the masculine and feminine to embrace a model that integrates and flourishes all parts of ourselves. This new model and way of leading might be just what you and your organisation needs as it seeks new responses to complex and challenging times. If you’d like to find out more, here are the links to Lynne’s book and website: https://www.lynnesedgmore.co.uk/
All the Brains in the Business
What is the return on investment on the brains in your business?
A brain in Thrive neurochemically is a brain that can do really high-quality thinking, be innovative and inspire performance. Many organisational cultures and leaders are simply not getting the best of all the brains in their business. There is latent brain power, sitting untapped and going wasted.
Knowing what puts a brain into Thrive and focusing on that is a win win. There are brain gender differences that hugely support this to happen. And brain sex is by no means binary! Find out more about how you can support all the brains in your business in this exciting podcast about cutting edge research into applied neuroscience in business.
All the Brains in the Business: The Engendered Brain in the 21st Century Organisation (The Neuroscience of Business) - by Kate Lanz & Paul Brown
Kathryn McEwen, Global Lead of Working with Resilience and Founder of the R@W Team App joins Karen Griffin and Lindsay Harding to explore defining, building and sustaining resilience in organisations.
Some takeaways…
· We align our definition of resilience with the problems workplaces are looking to solve when they seek it out. Generally it’s about pressure, change, uncertainty and future viability - meaning that resilience at work is managing challenge, adapting and proactively planning.
· While keeping healthy and well is important, the core building blocks are alignment with values and purpose as without this there is no solid base to build on.
· Move beyond the usual focus on individuals to look at what teams need to do together, in their particular working environment, to manage, adapt and thrive.
· As a leader you have to invest in your resilience but recognise that as a ‘climate engineer’ how you demonstrate this matters.
· Invest in resilience in the good times, not just when the wheels fall off and you will embed routines that hold you in good stead
· Align all of your efforts in investment in people, teams, leaders plus processes and systems to create sustainable culture change. You need a systemic approach for success.
· Keep it simple. Small shifts in the right direction matter. On teams it’s about having the conversations that matter on an on-going basis.
Seasoned Executive Coaches and Consultants, Karen Griffin and Lindsey Harding introduce us softly to the idea of resilience for leaders. In earnest, they share their own resilience journeys and importantly the top tips they’ve gathered through reflection, practice and ongoing learning about resilience in support of their work with Leaders across numerous sectors. Of note, the key messages from this podcast are:
- Resilience is deeply personal for each of us, so learning about what undercuts and what supports our own resilience is key.
- Journaling and looking for patterns through our lives and careers can help with this.
- Resilience can be learnt - it is a dynamic capability that we can all mindfully grow.
- Despite common myth, resilience is far more than simply “bounce back”.
- Resilience is holistic - top tips for improving it embrace support for the mind, body and spirit.
- Due to the heightened stresses and strains of our world and economies the need for us to be resilient has increased massively in recent years and will continue to do so. Paying attention to this therefore is a necessity - not a desirable requirement.
- The Resilience at Work (R@W) toolkit offers a dynamic frame for improving individual, team and organisational resilience. Here is a pdf link; https://workingwithresilience.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/R@WToolkitFlierAus.pdf
- As we look to achieve optimal performance paying attention to our heart coherence is proven to be useful AND healthy for our long term resilience. Here is the link to the UK business that specialises in this and trains coaches in their tools: https://www.heartmath.co.uk/
Darren and I discuss the explosion in the use of technology within health and wellness, yet whilst data is hugely valuable, why on its own it's not enough to create real, sustainable change.
Darren talks through some examples of clients he has worked with
to demonstrate how health can be the catalyst for improvements in all areas of health and lifestyle.
We also discuss the huge impact the last 2 years has had on stress and resilience within businesses which has created not only a significant need, but a massive opportunity for organisations to establish a culture of wellbeing in order to harness the power of happy,
healthier staff for improved productivity, a more energised workforce and overall higher performance.
If you’d like to hear more about creating transformative online impact this is the episode for you.
From Physical Place to Virtual Space: How to Design and Host Transformative Spaces Online - by Gwen Stirling-Wilkie
