Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast

Workers crave freedom and flexibility. It’s the biggest driver for remote working: do work you love, where and when you want. The one hurdle is this: how do you know they are actually getting work done? That they are being as productive as possible and not just getting a free meal ticket? This is the challenge that Liam Martin and his Aussie business partner set out to address. In this AAHHHHMAAAZZZZING interview, we explore: The war against the Distraction Economy and what it’s costing us The Big Data that facebook collects and what it can predict A world where transparency builds better interpersonal connections and business cultures How to build a great culture with remote teams Why remote teams are way more engaged than regular office-based teams The biggest challenge to overcome with remote teams: loneliness Creating an engagement culture with remote teams Gamification and e-recognition tools: breakthrough or bullshit?

SHOWNOTES: zoerouth.com/podcast/hanzifreinacht Hanzi Freinacht has written a fantastic book, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics Book One, on adult development and why it matters. He lays out an analysis of the various leadership development models and adds a few other layers of development needed. His main point is that development matters. We need to develop our mental and emotional capacities in order to contend with the world we have created. We need to develop our inner dimensions to keep up and manage the complexities of what has evolved in our various cultures and economic systems. He is a little short on practical how to's, so I endeavour to offer some practical steps to help us evolve. This week it is on morning routines. Resources mentioned: Hanzi Freinacht The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics Book One Tian Chi 

Shanyn Payne is the Executive Director of Human Resources at Online Education Services (OES.edu.au) where she has been since 2011, part of the start up team. She guided the creation and implementation of all people related initiatives across the business including recruitment, remuneration, leadership development and organisational culture and engagement. All this through rapid expansion and growth. The efforts have not gone unnoticed, and OES has achieved and maintained Aon Hewitt Best Employer accreditation in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2017 they were named “The Best of the Best”. *** SHOWNOTES: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/oes In this interview, Shanyn reveals: How you merge two distinct cultures - Swinburne University and Seek - to create a new business that thrives, instead of imploding like many joint ventures. The secret is in defining the culture from the beginning and making a decision to be a people first business. Culture of trust: what they did from the start to set them on track to be the Best o

Imagine quitting your corporate job to start not one, but two, companies at the same time? CEO Faith Rees did just that. In our candid interview, she shares what worked and what didn’t in building high performing remote teams in the competitive IT sector.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Edge of Leadership Un-Conference expert presenter, Dr. Amy Silver overturns rationale for performance reviews and why we need to do them completely differently. She explains: What has changed in the nature of work that has led to frustration with performance reviews The bad habit we need to break to reclaim the effectiveness of performance reviews Why we need to get achievement and the problem out of the person and into the system itself How we can start building a whole system of competence

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Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. When they resign, do you blame them for lack of loyalty, little team spirit, and being ungrateful? These things may be true. But is it true that it’s them, not you? Taking ownership of what you can do as an employer or business owner to keep staff engaged and loyal will keep you at the front and help keep folks from jumping ship.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Customer service expert Craig Cherry shares the fundamentals of employee loyalty and engagement: How playing the smile game got one business noticed in the media Fundamentals of what people need to enjoy and be committed in their work Critical skills leaders need to build buy-in and engagement What the daily setup meeting is and what to include How to create rewards and measures for staff How even the trickiest of remuneration schemes, like those in legal firms, can access insights into individual contributions for better rewards

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Business mentor and strategist Jeff Schwisow shares: Why the real enemy of business evolution is not change, but how ‘now’ cripples your ability to focus on ‘next’. How an effective project mindset is one that moves away from large transformational change in favour of a steady stream of smaller adaptive projects. One of the biggest blocks to Boundless Leadership is being too focused on the scoreboard and not the game you’re playing. Build your organisation as a circle not a triangle. Three key tips to get started to bring the future into now and be better at getting strategic results.

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Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Boundless Leadership is not a one-way expansion: it’s an oscillation between to the edge of possibilities and unknown, and back to the core of who you are for strength.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Collaboration and connection expert Janine Garner shares: Why developing your network is essential for your marketing machine, your intelligence bank, and a board of advisors. The biggest challenge people have when it comes to networking: not investing in core connections in the right way. Where to start in developing a network that truly supports you. The four key people you need in your network to help you become the person you want to be and create the results you want.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Ilea Buffier shares: How she retired before she left high school (!) Why sustainability is imperative for all businesses What questions to ask when designing spaces for enhanced employee engagement How an eco-system of spaces works best for all types of contemporary work demands How to design for whole of person well-being by addressing physical, cognitive, and emotional needs in physical space design The corner office is no longer the status symbol - choice and control, especially over use of workspace IS How “You create your space and your space creates you”

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. When you walk in to a space, you can feel if it uplifts or not. As leaders, we need to show up as an environment too - our energy, physicality, and language can cause positive change, or it can sabotage engagement.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. In this episode, Renée Giarrusso shares: What’s the key to being limitless How to map motivation for leverage in business Similarities and differences between industries and what holds people back from being limitless How a coaching culture can cascade through an organisation How to decode emails for better rapport How to develop Boundless energy

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