The Leadership Notebook: Recent Episodes
Emelia Mosima
What is the one thing that sets you apart from the rest? I believe it's the way you lead yourself. Be it in your career, relationships or business venture, self-leadership is a practice that can help you crush what makes others crumble. If you are interested in exploring the practice of self-leadership, The Leadership Notebook – a podcast that aims to build a culture of self-leadership within communities - is for you.
In this episode, Lesego Lebuso focuses on self-coaching, the difference between coaching and mentoring, the right time to start a self-coaching journey and the 12 steps you can take to kick-start your self-coaching journey .
Refilwe shares her story on how she started her business, the challenges she faced, the things she has learnt and how she manages her business while being employed full-time.
Nompumelelo Mavuso's electrical engineering qualification and heavy duty job as an underground miner did not stop her from following her passion for cooking. Mpumi shares how she leads herself through the many roles she has to play, doing what she loves and making time for what she loves.
How do you want to be perceived and experienced? When do you start being a leader? What is an effective follower? what are you willing to sacrifice to achieve your goals? Lesego Lebuso delves on these topics and many more.
In this episode I talk about …
- Why you should expect criticism in your self-leadership journey
- The difference between good and bad criticism
- Why do people criticise others
- Why does criticism hurt and what you can do about it
In this episode I describe focus, share 3 things I learnt from people who are focused and what you can learn about focus from game of darts.
In this episode I describe what it means to command respect; I do a comparison between people who command respect and those who demand respect; and share a South African story that once made global headlines and how this story depicts different layers of respect.
In this episode I:
- Set the context for why you need problem solving skills in every area of your life
- Share tendencies of people who do not solve their problems
- Outline the problem solving process
- Share a problem solving technique I’ve been using before I knew it existed
In this episode I share why I cringe every time candidates say they are hard workers and myths associated with being hard working. I also
share my personal description of hard work and how hard work can be displayed.
Everyone has authority and anybody can be an authority. In this episode, I look into different forms of authority, why authority matters and give you some tips on how you can establish authority.
This episode renders a behavioural comparison between someone with confidence and someone who lacks confidence. You'll also learn more about how you can build confidence.
Have you ever wondered why some people look like they have superpowers? Have you ever wondered why it looks like some people are always in the mood to work or always in the mood to study? It’s as if they are always ready to do what needs to be done, whether it was planned or unplanned. And no, it is not motivation, it is not inspiration, it is not affirmations and it is definitely not self-talk.
This episode focuses on why you should have a vision of self and how to turn your dreams into a vision.
This episode describes what a learning mode is, why it matters to always be in the learning mode. I also share how I switch on my learning mode and give you tips on how to switch on your learning mode.
This episode summarises the concept of leading yourself or self-leadership, shares three reasons why self-leadership is important and provides a guide on how you can tell if you have been leading yourself well.