Ian Berry's Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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no long introductions, no advertising, nothing long-winded podcasts for wise leaders wanting to ensure best business results at the least personal costs. October 25th 2020 podcast marks the start of less in number of podcasts (after taking a break) and addressing practical ways you can thrive in these challenging yet filled with possibility times.
I've just completed an upgrade to one of my most used complimentary online courses. This audio of the video overviews the 5 micro areas that I've added to the previous macro 7. You can access the course here.
I've just completed season one of The We Need To Talk Experience which is now my signature online program. At the blog post that accompanies this podcast you can download the PDF verison of the manifesto and learn about season two of the experience.
We have a values behaviours crisis in our world. It can be overcome through the efforts of citizens both individually and collectively. In this podcast I explore some tried and tested values behaviours.
This podcast is a preview of the upcoming season two (June and Sept 2022 and February and April 2023) of my signature online program We Need To Talk.
There are many insights that you can immediately apply in your own best way.
Here's the video version and here's the blog post version.
My great learning of the past decade is to hear my heart before listening to my head. This enables joy in choosing our responses to what happens and makes our choices wiser. More at the accompanying blog post here.
Farsight is one of nine future ready skills that I explore in my signature program The WIse Leaders Workshop. In this podcast I share some of the stories that led me to farsight. You'll find more at the accompanying blog post.
My wife and I have both had serious health challenges to overcome this year. The good news is that we have been able to change/modify/nuance our approach to our well-being as a consequence. In my case as well-being is a regular topic of conversation with my clients, I have developed this matrix as a tool you can ultilise.
At the blog post of 20th December 2021 there are overviews on each of the 15 components of the matrix. My intention is that they will encourage you to write down your own feelings and thoughts, and take action in your own best way.
Music is a wonderful metaphor for our essence (unique personal wisdom). Seeing, unearthing, and magnifying and enhancing our essence, and helping others to do the same, is our great life quest.
This podcast is the story that got me started on this journey way back in the 1970's. It's also the story that is part of my contribution in the book 'Enough: Unlock your life of abundance starting right where you are'. Learn more about the book at the blog post that accompanies this podcast, where there's also a video version of my story.
Strategic planning is an oxymoron. There's a 'less but better' and more agile way to embrace strategy.
In this first in a new season of podcasts I introduce an idea I implemented twelve years ago that's helped my clients and myself to thrive in the best and worst of situations.
There are a myriad of ways to lead. Only your way will work for you. The world needs more of this one-of-a-kind leadership in the service of others.
There are proven principles to adopt in your own best way. I reference some of these in the Friday blog post that accompanies this podcast.
What am I activating for? Who with? How do I rate my willingness to be vulnerable? These are daily questions to answer with action for wise leaders who see activism as integral to purpose and making a difference.
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
Very few people excel at the number one and number two skills of wise leadership, self-awareness and awareness of others. A key to thriving lies in living in the now.
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
I’m driven by the story of life and us humans and how we can change the status quo narrative and leave the world better than when we arrived here. What's driving you?
As always resources to help via the Friday blog post.
Diet, Rhythm, Exercise, Appreciation and Meaning underpin my personal well-being. Desire, Reason, Essence, Approach, Methodologies are foundational to my professional success and happiness. The D.R.E.A.M. Process can work for you too.
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
What story, idea, insight, concept, are you yet to make up that when you act on it would change your life, and maybe the lives of others, for the better? Believe, Imagine, Dream, Begin, Create. We're all making it up as we go along
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
Candid, convivial, compassionate, conscious and compelling conversations enrich the relationships essential to help us to turn possibility into reality. Such conversations take performance to new heights when they are helpful, valuable, about the personal more than the business, and about why more than how.
As always insights to help you at the Friday blog post.
One positive from the pandemic is that we have a grand opportunity to stop working in ways that no longer work. We can embrace The Purpose Age being led by Differencemakers, Insightpreneurs, and Wisdom Workers.
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
Our financial, social, business, religious, technological and education systems, serve the few not the many. They are not fit for purpose. There's better, wiser and more valuable ways. Are you part of the movement that's bringing about the changes needed?
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
Compromise is a result of mediocrity and playing it safe. Co-promises take courage and risk taking. Are you the risk taker you want to be? Seeking and sustaining shared-view is one way forward.
As always there are resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
The new world of work is about doing work that is meaningful for you and valuable and rare to others (with thanks to Cal Newport). This is all part of the shift from knowledge to wisdom work.
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
My colleague Simone Boer has created a great and simple tool to help folk to prepare for the Wise Leaders Symposium. Of course it's a great tool to use anytime to assess how your wise leadership is going!
PDF download of this tool at the Friday blog post.
Creating value in innovative ways particularly in alignment with people feeling valued and living values is always at the forefront of my work. Insights from Alan Moore about the regenerative economy are enabling me to work with you at a higher level.
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
In living, learning and leading making the best choices in the moment are a key to meaning and mattering. FFS (Feelings, Facts, Solutions) are a key.
As always resources to help you in the Friday blog post.
Life's too short to not be doing every day what makes your heart sing. What makes your heart sing? Are there changes, modifications, nuances you could make that would mean you are doing more of what makes your heart sing?
As always at the Friday blog post there are resources to help you.
Hybrid might be the new buzz word. I believe there is something much deeper going on than flexible working arrangements. People want life/work harmony. Such is crucial to the success of today's workplace.
As always there's resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
I'm excited about many things in life. High on my list is the increase in the number of people who are spiritually alive, emotionally healthy, mentally alert, physically active, and universally aware.
As always resources to help you are at the Friday blog post.
There is something very special happening in the world. Inequality is being addressed better than ever. J.E.D.I. Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion is one way. Inspired by the #EnoughIsEnough movement in Australia I'm doing whatever I can to help my clients in #eliminatinginjustice.
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
I'm a big fan of Steven Pressfield's work on overcoming resistance. Links to Steven's work in the Friday blog post that accompanies this podcast.
Overcoming resistance is a key in discovering and sustaining the best version of you.
In this my 100th podcast I chose the same topic as the first, wisdom workers and wise leaders. In the great shift to a kinder, better and wiser world both are being the change we want to see in the world.
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
I love lists and diagrams and how they aid living, learning and leading. What is your favourite list and what is your favourite diagram? How do they help you to sustain a high level of engagement and energy in your life and work?
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
There is a great energy shift happening all over the world. Heart-Leaders are holding, enhancing or shifting energy when required, all coming from a place of love.
Resources to help you to join the movement at the Friday blog post.
I love the fact that our future is mostly uncharted and that amongst Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) there are things that are Dependable, Predictable, Simple and Clear.
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
For the past five and a half years I've embraced 'essentialism' and the associated mantra "less but better." One consequence is that I'm much more productive and living a more joyful life. What makes your most productive and joyful day?
As always there's resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
Ask ten people what does wisdom mean to them and likely you will get ten different answers. I believe wisdom is power and not in the same way knowledge once was. What does wisdom mean to you?
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
Much of the status quo no longer serves us. Often it requires courage to shift way from conventional wisdom that is actually unwise. Resources to help you as always at the Friday blog post.
Debate has raged in Australia again about our date for Australia Day because for some the chosen day isn't worth celebrating. Agreeing on what's worth celebrating? and what can be better? is a key way forward.
As always resources referenced are in the Friday blog post.
Inaugurations are great opportunities for rebirth. What will you be inaugurating this year? What will you keep and what will you cease as a consequence?
As always there's resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
I regard having a mentor/s and belonging to a peer group/s as the top two essentials for personal and professional growth. Who's got your back? Where do you belong to?
As always resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
Stories are the fabric of culture. Being able to share stories in interesting and inspiring ways are key skills of effective leaders.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Please give careful consideration to answering this question What change energises you? Your best answers are a key to your resolve, focus and flow.
As always resourced referenced are at the Friday blog post.
Wise people are playing an infinite game. A key to continuing is deciding on what you will take into the future and what will you leave behind?
As always there are resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
Peter Drucker has been quoted as saying “You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.” I believe this. There are many actions you can take and much you can influence.
As always at the Friday blog post there are resources to help you.
Trust for certain groups of people, like politicians, is at an all time low. We can choose to be different and be trustworthy. A key is ensuring that our values are not words rather behaviours, and having a shared-view around what these are.
As always there are resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
Become the wise leader you want to be is the sub-title of my Heart-Leadership book. The book is an assertion, a guide and a tool kit to help you. What does being wise mean to you?
As always there are resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
When we accept that everything is what it is and focus on being in harmony with ourselves, other people and our planet, we can hear our hearts, get crystal clear in our heads, and then take the most appropriate actions for us with our hands.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are are the Friday blog post.
As with everything remarkable excelling in Heart-Leadership requires practice before it becomes habitual. Performance Possibility Peers and Partners are essential, doing our own unique work is critical.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Having peers we trust, belonging to peer groups and having and being mentors are keys to ongoing personal and professional development.
The key to the best peer groups is that matters of the heart are explored not just matters of the mind.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
The eight key actions of the hands are a natural flow on from the eight catalysts of the head and the eight qualities of the heart.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
In Heart-Leadership eight head behaviours flow on from the eight heart qualities. The head behaviours are Openness, Sense-making, Decision-making, Problem-solving, Imagination, Human-centred design, Systems-thinking, Curiosity.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
There are several World Leaders and Business Leaders who appear to have lost their minds. A new kind of leadership with and from the heart is needed. This kind of leadership is noticeable and inspiring through its coherence.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
I regard having a mentor/s and belonging to a peer group as the top two essentials for personal and professional growth.
Today making your peer group a Heart-Leadership one is also a key to your happiest future.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Living in the moment; in the zone; heart-focused energy and momentum are all linked. Plans-on-a-page are a key tool to ensure discipline and consciousness and for keeping meaningful progress visible.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
In any crisis we can choose to increase our sense of belonging in all the places that matter to us. It's our choice to do this or not to! What are you deciding?
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Performance Energetics is about sustaining high energy and flow. Sometimes our role is about enhancing energy, sometimes holding it, and sometimes shifting it.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Playing the finite game of economic growth has hurt as all. Playing the infinite game of progress sustainability is possible for all particularly when the essence of the game is value exchange and delivery.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Innovating before disruption is the ideal. Every day innovation means you are always ready for whatever happens. There's 8 stages to guaranteeing innovation, and you can embrace them in your own way.
As always resources referenced are at the Friday blog post.
The great disharmony in the workplace is between leadership and management. It’s caused by business owners, bosses, executives and shareholders holding onto the concept of people management, an oxymoron if ever there was one.
Where do you see disharmony? How are you creating and sustaining harmony?
As always resources referenced in this podcast are are the Friday blog post.
I share my 14 ways to live well and work wisely to encourage you to list your own ways and keep your progress visible as an inspiring way to thrive personally regardless of what is happening externally.
As always resources referenced are at the Friday blog post.
One of our great challenges is to not take onboard what other people do or don't do. A key is to compete with yourself and seek to collaborate with everyone else.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Co-creating and following checklists saves lives. In business checklists can be a brilliant productivity, well-being and cost saving tool.
As always resources referenced in this podcast can be found at the Friday blog post.
Most people working from home are in a routine now. Routines are good when they become rituals we love and that bring us joy. They’re bad when they become ruts we unconsciously fall into.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
In a DC (during corona) and AC (after corona) world conversation and communication attitudes and skills are more important and valuable than ever. Here's 13 of the essentials with links to the other 11 including the 8 heart-qualities.
As always resources referenced are at the Friday blog post.
The best future of your business depends greatly on how remarkable the experience of your employees and therefore the customer experience which flows from the employee experience.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
One of the most deeply demotivating documents in the workplace is the job description! Role clarity statements, my recommended replacement for job descriptions, improve well-being.
As always resources referenced are at the Friday blog post.
Having a great work ethic is important to being a person of value and to delivering and exchanging value. What is key however is finding joy in the work.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are available via the Friday blog post.
Voice, song and music are my favourite metaphors for our essence, our unique personal significance or one-of-a-kind character. People leadership is the art of seeing, sometimes unearthing, mostly magnifying and enhancing people's essence including your own.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
On the world stage a few leaders are leading from and with their hearts. Most are still in their heads! A movement is gathering momentum. It's about being better humans.
Heart-leadership is the new normal.
As always there's resources available to support you in taking action in your own best way at the Friday blog post.
I sense a movement gathering momentum fast. It's not focused on single issues, rather it's one movement that focuses on being better humans. It encompasses all the issues where we are failing one another and the environments in which we live.
This movement calls us Re-start where we are and to do what we can.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
R and Re words are dominating our landscape right now aren’t they? For me three really matter for thriving DC (during corona) and AC (after corona), reasons, relationships and routines.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Creating harmony between your Heart, Head and Hands is a practical way to respond to the stimuli of life in your own best way.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
You have your view and I have mine. The only view that really matters in relationships and in collaboration is ours.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are available via the Friday blog post.
I'm not a mathematician. I do place a lot of value in numbers.
I believe 7's significant, 5's foundational, and 3's a great rule. Your use of the number 1 however is where I see the most value.
As always resources and courses references are available via the Friday blog post.
In my 30 years working as a business mentor specialising in leadership development, the biggest problems that I come across are at heart purpose or process problems, or both. Here's some pathways to solve these in your own best way.
As always resources referenced are at the Friday blog post.
DC (during corona) has provided many examples of people being decisively human in a digitally-connected world. Sadly there's been some in-human examples too!
AC (after corona) is a great opportunity for everyone to be better humans.
As always you will find resources referenced in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
The timing has never been better to re-imagine, re-purpose and re-start your life, your team, your business, even your dream or idea. In fact it's perhaps a never to be repeated opportunity.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Strategy Heartistry – the art of talking in, before you talk out; into yourself and in with your team, is an all new co-creation of my colleague Susan Furness and myself. It's an alternative to strategic planning.
Learn more at the Friday blog post.
The world is shifting to being before doing. I call it Who Before Do. It means moving away from focusing on human doings and truly becoming human beings.
As always resources referenced at the the Friday blog post.
You are in charge of your intentions, feelings and thoughts as well as how you respond to any given moment. Now is the time to make the most of your time and to learn new habits that will help you to create a better future than previously imagined.
As always there's resources to help you at the Friday blog post.
The world has changed. Post the pandemic even greater changes are coming. Are you getting ready?
As always resources referenced in this podcast are available at the Friday blog post.
The antidote to the poison of fear is love. What the world needs now is love particularly as the ancient Greeks called it Philia, meaning affectionate regard.
As always resources referenced are at the Friday blog post.
This process can be applied to learning, progress as well as a pathway to innovation.
As always resources referenced are are the Friday blog post.
This year I’m celebrating 30 years working as a mentor in the field of leadership development.
Possibility Leadership is my current evolution. It’s emerged from 6 major pivots that I’ve made in the 30 years and my yearly habit of reimagining and doing some reinvention of my work so that I always have something unique, valuable and different for my clients.
As always you'll find resources referenced in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
People leadership is unearthing, magnifying and enhancing people’s essence (character, uniqueness). We need more of it.
As always resources mentioned in the podcast are at the Friday blog post.
We have a crisis of leadership for certain. The good new is real leadership begins with the person you looked at in the mirror this morning and with these you live and work with every day.
As always you'll find resources mentioned in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
Seeing and treating humans as numbers, overheads, expenses, resources, assets, or capital is BS and leads to less than possible results. Workplaces free of this BS are thriving!
As always resources referenced in this podcast are available at the Friday blog post.
All the research says success with change initiatives is very difficult. Over nearly 30 years of helping my clients succeed, 11 principles have emerged as the keys to success.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are available via the Friday blog post.
Trust is the key to the value and mutual reward of all relationships. When we don't trust our leaders everything we stand for is at risk. These 20 foundations that have stood the test of time are paramount for real leadership and sustaining trust.
You'll find the 20 and the summaries of each at the Friday blog post.
Self-leadership precedes leading for others. Then we must also lead for leaders. These three are a powerful combination. When all are strong we can be confident in an organisation's ability and willingness to deliver on its promises.
As always resources referenced in this podcast can be found at the Friday blog post.
The process for setting goals, maintaining progress and achieving desired results are still lacking in my view in most workplaces. In particular there's a long way to go to value personal as much as workplace goals. There are simple yet profound processes available as I share in this podcast.
As always you will find resources referenced in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
There's more noise that ever and therefore we need to express crystal clear messages. We know Macro-Statements they tell, think the tagline. Micro-Statements however compel. In this episode I share how I create Micro-Statements by using the wisdom of Graham Davies and Matt Church and Peter Cook in my own way. You can too!
As always you'll find resources referenced at the Friday blog post.
It amazes me that in organisations everywhere problems/challenges/disruptions are not seen as opportunities to innovate. Set yourself apart from the rest and innovate every day.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are at the Friday blog post.
Except in emergency situations command and control management is dead. Instead 21st century management is about processes. 21st century leadership is about people. Both leadership and management must be in harmony to guarantee success.
As always you will find resources referenced in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
When we are in the habit of daily unplugging from technology we lead happier and more productive lives at home, at work and at play.
As always you'll can download resources referenced in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
I still meet some people holding on to command and control management. It's OK in an emergency otherwise I think it's a very silly idea and counter productive to consistent high performance.
21st century management is entirely different. Embracing it is a key to your future success.
As always you can download resources referenced in this podcast from the Friday blog post.
Culture underpins consistent high performance. What's essential is living agreed behaviours.
As always you'll find references and resources mentioned in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
One of the great insights about sustaining high performance is "making progress in meaningful work visible.” In the new world of work our quest is to be remarkable, do work that is meaningful for us and highly valuable for others.
As always you'll resources referenced in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
Many organisations have strategic plan. Very few have what is actually needed - execution plans where everyone has their own individual piece. This podcast provides a way forward.
As always you can download resources referenced in this podcast from the Friday blog post.
Strategic planning is an oxymoron! We must create strategy and our execution plan/s separately. The focus of this podcast is on creating a one sentence strategy.
As always you'll find resources referenced at the Friday blog post.
Profit is not a reason for being in business. Profit is a result of being good at business. What's your reason (purpose)?
As always you'll find links to people and resources referenced in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
Letting our imagination loose and dreaming about what's possible is exciting. We then need to get to work to turn possibility into reality.
As always you'll find actions suggested and resources mentioned in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
As always resources referenced in this podcast are found at the Friday blog post.
Sustaining shared-view is the key to success as a business owner or leader. Everything begins with a shared-view about reality.
1:1 check-ins are for me the most meaningful and valuable meeting. In this podcast I share the 5 essentials.
As always you will find resources referenced in this podcast at the Friday blog post.
More than 50% of success is in follow-through work which includes regular integration of new perceptions with what is already working well for you.
As always you can download resources referenced in this podcast from the Friday blog post.
After-action-reviews are a game-changer because while every detail is still fresh in people’s hearts and minds is really the only time to effectively review performance.
As always you can download resources referenced in this podcast from the Friday blog post.