Leadership AdvantEdge: Recent Episodes
Dr John Kenworthy
The Leadership AdvantEdge is why some leaders thrive while others struggle. Learning how your brain works enables you to quickly adapt your thinking and behaviour to be a better leader, to successfully influence others more easily and to identify your own talent and transform your potential to performance to achieve greatness.
John, originally a chef by trade, is an inspirational coach and trainer of professional leadership and business acumen development that leverage neuroscience hacks to empower business leaders and improve the bottom line.
Long ago in a small, far away village, there was place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit.
Are you motivated and eager to learn, enjoy great results and becoming more successful?
Or do you believe that you don't need to bother. You know everything that you need to know and you're pretty much brilliant at everything?
Here we're going to understand the two thinking modes and how you can shift yourself from being the victim of survival mode to being at cause and creating your future.
It's not that one cycle is better than another, it's realising that we have a choice and that most people, most of the time, are at effect because they don't make a deliberate choice to take charge.
To equip you to lead and inspire, manage uncertainty, emerge powerfully, ready for the new normal.
How to be the leader who provides the very certainty, purpose and direction that empowers you to emerge stronger.
Energise your staff to continue in the face of difficulties. Know how to communicate certainty, direction and purpose and what success on the other side of the current difficult time looks like.
Times of crisis demand a different type of leader.
Have you ever wondered why change is so tough? Why is it, that with our very best intentions, we still find it difficult to make changes that we know would be good for us? Why is it so much more difficult to get other people to change and do the things that matter?
Even when you have a crystal clear picture of what success looks like and you have tapped into the emotions, drives and values that motivate and there's still no action!!!!! How do you get started?
You need the Power of the First Step.
Inspire your kids, family and your work colleagues with a real and tangible hope that will lift their spirits and yours, and fill everyone with the urge to emerge stronger and ready to lead the world in the recovery so that you will see good days.
a powerful tool and neuroscience hack that you will easily use to bring absolute clarity to the future expectation of good you want to create and use to inspire others.
Sharing neuroscience hacks to help you win the battle in your soul during this time of lockdowns, social distancing and a strange lack of toilet paper.
Payoff: You'll regain control to and be able to encourage others so we can all emerge better, stronger and ready to reinvigorate our lives and the world.
This AdvantEdge Guide hacks the neuro-psychology of influence to uncover the chemistry and maths used by our critter and executive brains respectively and learn how to leverage and use this understanding to yield the fruit of motivating people to do the things that matter. You'll be a better influencer and thus a better leader.
It seems that it does not matter whether your intentions are to help and serve others. It doesn't matter is you are the kindest, gentlest, most loving and caring person the world has ever seen. You will face rejection. And you will probably face rejection by those you truly would think should be the tribe you can most trust, your own family, your own people. In fact, oftentimes, it's those closest to you whose rejection hurts the most.
Are you tired of wasting time dealing with workplace drama and politiks? Perhaps you are crippled by toxic leaders and uninspired cultures and you know that there is a better way.
In this episode we're going to introduce you to the triggers of exemplary workplace behaviour at the neurological level. And we'll tap into four of these triggers that will #UnLock performance and #UnLeash Team Power.
Human beings have a deep, innate desire to find meaning in their lives. We want to matter. For some, it is to leave a legacy, to put a ding in the universe, or to enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done. For others, it is about success, reputation or recognition. For many who have found their true meaning, they know it's about others and less about self. And yet for many many more, it is an unknown, idealised and unrealistic dream.
What if you could feel truly appreciated and deeply satisfied every single day? What if you could experience a more joyful, appreciative and considerate workplace and it only costs you seven minutes of a day?
We've all had to deal with them. Perhaps you still are dealing with them? Difficult People.
They come in all shapes and sizes. All races, all genders, and all backgrounds. And they share two things in common.
Coaching your staff, colleague, peer , workmate or friend is a challenge. You may have a role as their manager and thus be keen to align the coaching in one direction, yet as a coach, you are only concerned about developing them.
Buddy coaching though is the only sustainable way you can lift performance, engagement and productivity in the workplace.
In this episode, I share 6 tips on how to make it work.
Your aptitude (your "natural" ability to do something) is thought by many people to be the main driver of their success.
But everyday life for the vast majority of people isn't a movie. Our giftedness is a little less flashy and a little more humdrum. And almost every day we come across challenges and difficulties and it is how we face those challenges that sets us apart.
One thing that separates the calm and joyful person from the stressed and depressed is a useful balance something known as the locus of control.
Let Go and Gain Control podcast cover.jpgSomeone with an internal locus of control believes that he or she can influence events and their outcomes, while someone with an external locus of control blames outside forces for everything.
Every day you're busy, {{firstname}}. Emails overflow your inbox, some might even matter. Your todo list gets ticked off... or not.
When you're disciplined you eat well, sleep well, exercise regularly and take care of your body. But do you take care of your brain as well?
Taking time to pause and meditate or be mindful is perhaps the most critical instrument to cultivate peak performance.
When you ask someone what they want from life, most people will tell you that they want to be happy.
Push a little bit more and they will tell you they want to do something useful or meaningful, make a difference, leave a legacy, or fulfil a calling.
We call that succeeding.
That is, the activities we undertake every day provide us with personal happiness or satisfaction and have long term benefits for yourself and/or other people.
Accountability is not about the times you win, it's the times you almost win. It's about striving to be better, the promise of achieving goals and the continuous self-refinement. Accountability is a leaders commitment to excellence - raising their game, always improving and always lifting others up. Accountability is why being a leader is so tough and it's why there are so few truly good leaders.