Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #209 Karen Stein  Be Your Own Leadership Coach

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #209 Karen Stein  Be Your Own Leadership Coach

Be Your Own Leadership Coach

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Karen Stein about being your own leadership coach, knowing when you need a coach or a mentor, and why coaching can help oneself and an organisation as a whole. 

We also dive deeper into the power of self-coaching, effective ways of self coaching through self awareness and self reflection, and creating a personal board of directors that can guide, nurture and mentor you.

Karen Stein  – Be Your Own Leadership Coach

Karen Stein is an Executive Coach and Partner at Deloitte Australia, specialist in positive psychology, and the author of Be Your Own Leadership Coach. She has a Master of Science in Coaching Psychology and Master of Laws from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University.

She has over 32 years of experience in the professional services industry, including an impressive 23-year tenure as a Partner at Deloitte Australia and R&D Taxes Advisor at Michael Johnson Associates. Her passion also extends beyond the corporate world, generously volunteering her coaching skills to clients of Dress for Success, International Coaching Federation, Expert Author Community and Bambuddha Group. 

Karen talks about:

  • Dream of being family lawyer
  • Having a love of learning, most especially with coaching psychology
  • The differences between coaching and mentoring 
  • How agitators can affect learning
  • The role of organisations in giving people opportunities for their career
  • Going into leadership roles 
  • Feedback loops
  • Creating opportunities for people to be coached inside an organisation
  • The art of self-coaching
  • Practices you can use for self-coaching
  • Identifying areas of leadership that need improvement 
  • Avoiding bias
  • How we can cope and learn when we observe ourselves
  • Factors to consider in selecting the Board of Directors

Tweets

“That’s the beauty of it and how interesting it is to know more about yourself, what you’re capable of, what you’re thinking, where your thinking comes from, how you shape ideas and thoughts, or how you’re limited in your understanding and knowledge on particular issues.” Learning about oneself by Karen Stein on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“When we’re actually giving people an opportunity, I think we need to be supporting them with that opportunity.” Karen Stein talks about the organisation’s role in giving opportunities on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“No one ever achieves anything successful on their own” Karen Stein shares insights about feedback loops on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Karen Stein www.karensteincoaching.com
Karen Stein LinkedIn
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book
Be Your Own Leadership Coach

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #208 Adam Bennett Great Change For Big Strategy

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #208 Adam Bennett Great Change For Big Strategy

Great Change For Big Strategy

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Adam Bennett about great change for big strategy, recent global changes in society and the psychological effects due to these changes, and why change empathy is a non-negotiable.

We also go deep into the roles leaders must take in leading change, how we support our people through change and successfully navigating change as a company.

Adam Bennett  – Great Change For Big Strategy

Adam Bennett is a transformation leader, advisor to Australia’s leading CEO’s and companies, and the author of the newly released book Great Change. His accolades speak volumes, having worked for or spearheaded groundbreaking strategy, performance, and technology transformation programs for iconic institutions such as NAB, IBM, PwC BNZ, and was recently the CEO of NSW Land Registry Services. 

Having worked across multiple geographies including South East Asia, UK, the Middle East and in India, he is Principal of Great Change Consulting. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, a graduate of Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program), and has completed the AICD and NZICD director’s course.

Adam talks about:

  • Confidence in leadership
  • Differences between leaders in different companies
  • Learning while adapting to a new environment
  • Great change for big strategy
  • Organizational change vs transformation project
  • Important components of successful change transition
  • Change empathy
  • Transformation triangle of disruption
  • What change looks like in big organizations vs small organizations
  • Transformational change in an industry perspective vs in an internal company
  • Mindset & psychology of change
  • Successfully communicating change
  • Keeping pace with change
  • The next potential big disruptions that companies and leaders need to take notice of

Tweets

“I think there’s more change ahead of us than there is behind us because the pace of change is accelerating.” Keeping up with change by Adam Bennett on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Honor the privilege that you’re given with regards to leadership and make sure you take it seriously and you don’t take it for granted.” Adam Bennett talks about leadership roles on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“If you want to be an effective and authentic leader, you have to get involved in potentially uncomfortable things.” Adam Bennett shares with us how we can be a great leader amidst change on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Adam Bennett www.greatchangeconsulting.com.au
Adam Bennett LinkedIn
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book
Great Change (Available for pre-order)

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #207 Vanitha Choudhari Leadership Emotional Intelligence

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #207 Vanitha Choudhari Leadership Emotional Intelligence

Leadership Emotional Intelligence

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Vanitha Choudhari about the importance of Leadership Emotional Intelligence, lessons learnt working at HSBC and connection in the workplace. 

We also dive deeper into the changes we experienced in the way we work throughout the years, the art of letting go, triple A awareness and how self-awareness helps us in becoming great leaders. 

Vanitha Choudhari  – Leadership Emotional Intelligence

Vanitha Choudhari is a leadership and behaviour change expert, the founder of Radical Edge Learning Consultants, and a Speakers Institute Corporate facilitator. With over 28 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience, her influence spans continents, with her work celebrated not only in her home country, India but across many Asian nations and the UK.

She is the visionary behind GEMinU and a certified expert in personality assessments like Hogan and Genos Emotional Intelligence making her one of India’s first Genos-certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioners.. She is also a Business Mentor at Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (UK) and has been awarded the “Best Trainer” in APAC while working for HSBC.

Vanitha talks about:

  • Her parents’ influence on the way she works 
  • Being restless
  • Leadership Emotional Intelligence
  • How emotional intelligence affects the work you do
  • How technology contributed to leadership changing and evolving
  • COVID’s effect on the way we work now
  • The important skills people can utilize in order to stay connected to people
  • The boundaries between connecting to people to becoming too personal
  • The triple-A framework
  • Trust and acknowledgement
  • Can self-awareness prevent us from being totally present?
  • Responding vs. reacting
  • How to be grounded quickly and not be overwhelmed by any situation
  • The art of letting go

Tweets

“One of the biggest jobs of a leader is to inspire others. And if that’s not happening, then I don’t even think they should be qualifying as leaders because then you’re just a manager doing your transactional job and getting things done.” Vanitha Choudhari talks about being an inspiring leader on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Being aware of your emotion is not being emotional.” Emotional intelligence with Vanitha Choudhari on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“When you are highly self-aware, you learn the technique of not reacting, but responding very, very, very well, especially being a leader.” Vanitha Choudhari speaks about self-awareness on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Vanitha Choudhari www.radicaledge.org
Vanitha Choudhari LinkedIn
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #206 Curtis Bateman Mindset to Lead Change

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #206 Curtis Bateman Mindset to Lead Change

Mindset to Lead Change

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Curtis Bateman about the mindset to lead change, dealing and coping with organisational change, and disruptions in the way we work.

We also dive deeper into the changes brought about by technology, FranklinCovey’s approach to learning, how leaders should intelligently handle change and how we should let our people be involved in decision-making in order to make a harmonious transition to change. 

Curtis Bateman  – Mindset to Lead Change

Curtis Bateman the Vice President of International Direct Offices at FranklinCovey, a leadership company. He has an MBA from the University of Utah and a BS in Business & Information Systems from Brigham Young University. With over thirty years of experience in the training industry, Curtis is a trusted authority in change and leadership. He has co-created innovative solutions like Change Element, Leaders@Change, Managing Millennials, and Millennials@Work

These initiatives have revolutionised how organisations approach change and leadership. Before his current role, Curtis was the President and CEO of Red Tree Leadership, working with clients like 3Mobile, Bloomberg, and Boehringer Ingleheim. He also served as President & CEO at Spencer Johnson Partners, collaborating with Dr. Spencer Johnson, author of “Who Moved My Cheese?”. 

Curtis talks about:

  • How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity
  • Being relentless without being ruthless
  • Mindset to Lead Change
  • Intentional and natural leadership and service
  • Models, frameworks, and principles of work
  • The disruptions in the way we work
  • Dealing and working through change in the business industry
  • Changes brought about by technology 
  • Investing in the human workforce and improving skills.
  • Fundamental principles of change
  • Change and resiliency
  • His takes on writing a book
  • The differences in the way we approach change
  • Decision-making with regard to organisational change

Tweets

“I find that a lot of leaders do not like to engage with their people in a discussion about the change because they feel like their lack of answers will leave them exposed as not capable. It’s such a flawed paradigm because it’s really naive to think that any leader would have all the answers.” Curtis Bateman emphasises the mindset to lead change on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“As a leader, I’m always looking to find ways to help not only me be successful, but to help people grow and become more successful, because I think that creates a multiplying effect.”  Curtis Bateman talks about what he wants as a leader on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“So if you hit a stumbling block, a sandpit, if you hit a brick wall, whatever it is, you still have that to fall back on because the very most exciting change can hit obstacles. If we don’t have a vision, then it still hasn’t been exciting, it’s just stuck.” Creating a Vision for Change with Curtis Bateman on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Curtis Bateman www.franklincovey.com/speakers-bureau/curtis-bateman
Curtis Bateman Linkedin
Curtis Bateman X (Twitter) 
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book

Change: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #204 Charles Bonfiglio Franchise Your World

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #204 Charles Bonfiglio Franchise Your World

Franchise Your World

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Charles Bonfiglio about Franchise Your World, starting your own company and creating a franchise model.

We also dive deeper into how we can expand and develop our businesses worldwide, and how being passionate about the things that we do can make our dreams come true.

Charles Bonfiglio  – Franchise Your World

Charles Bonfiglio is the founder and CEO of America’s largest and fastest-growing auto styling and window tinting franchise – Tint World, and is the CEO and founder of Cars Cafe and Auto Parts Network.

Under his leadership, his franchise company has grown from a small chain to an international success story. He has an impressive track record of founding and managing large-scale real estate projects in New York and South Florida. He oversees all sales and marketing functions within the company, including the COO, VP of Marketing, VP of Training and the Director of Franchise Development.

Charles talks about:

  • Being passionate about the things that you do
  • How his father influenced him to become a businessman
  • His dreams, passion and reasons for building a business
  • Franchise your world
  • Expanding services and businesses
  • How to be a successful in franchising
  • Learning and adapting to different kinds of businesses
  • The art of franchise development
  • How to expand businesses worldwide
  • How and where to start your own company
  • Setting your company up as a franchise model
  • Automating processes and systems

Tweets

“You just can’t fight everybody. You can only try to inspire them, will thema and not push them further than their comfort level.” Charles Bonfiglio on working with people in the franchise world on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Buy something that you love and you’re passionate about” How to start your own company by Charles Bonfiglio on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Money was never the reason why I did this. I did it because I wanted to build the business, the brand that I always loved and dreamed of and I knew if I built it, others would love it too.” The reason behind his dreams by Charles Bonfiglio on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Charles Bonfiglio www.tintworld.com
Charles Bonfiglio LinkedIn
Charles Bonfiglio Youtube
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #203 Monique Richardson They Serve Like We Lead

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #203 Monique Richardson They Serve Like We Lead

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #203 Monique Richardson They Serve Like We Lead

They Serve Like We Lead

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Monique Richardson about they serve like we lead, service leadership and how important our own roles are in keeping good customer service.

We also dive deeper into the factors to consider in making customer service work, creating a service vision and how we should set our strategies to ensure that good customer service is well offered to our customers.

Monique Richardson  – They Serve Like We Lead

Monique Richardson is an expert and leading authority in Service Leadership and Customer Service, a speaker on Managing Difficult Customer Behaviour, and the author of the new book They Serve Like We Lead.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Training and Development from the University of Melbourne and now with over 22 years of honing her craft, she’s had the privilege of addressing over 50,000 individuals, instilling the principles of effective service leadership and customer care. Being a go-to expert for media outlets like Sky News, Sunrise, CEO World, and The CEO Institute, and has worked with many ASX Top 200 companies including ANZ, Transurban Group, and iconic brands including the Melbourne Cricket Club, Melbourne Airport, and Mercedes-Benz.

Mitchell talks about:

  • Protecting our customer service community
  • Having a service-minded family
  • The impact of your life on other people
  • Servant leader versus service leadership
  • Technology’s impact on customer service
  • Overall customer service strategy
  • Playing our own parts in a customer’s experience
  • Factors to consider in making customer service work
  • The inspiration behind They Serve Like We Lead
  • Having a great and positive attitude to deliver good customer service
  • Is having a bad day an excuse for poor customer service?
  • Resetting and redefining your service vision
  • What is an inspiring great leader?

Tweets

“It really is about the culture that’s set by the organisation that is then driven by the leadership.” Culture and leadership with Monique Richardson on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“I think it’s so important as leaders that we also help our people to understand, why what they do matters and how it impacts on the customer.”  Our role on a customer experience by Monique Richardson on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Sometimes there are things going on in people’s lives that are bigger than work. For the leaders to be able to have that compassion and empathy, that if somebody is not delivering that great experience, the first thing is just checking in to make sure that person’s okay and is everything okay in the world?” Compassion in the workplace by Monique Richardson on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Monique Richardson www.moniquerichardson.com.au
Monique Richardson LinkedIn
Monique Richardson Instagram
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book

They Serve Like We Lead

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #202 Mitchell Levy Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #202 Mitchell Levy Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #202 Mitchell Levy Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Mitchell Levy about Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation, servant leadership and vulnerability as a leader.

We also dive deeper into the values that make up credibility, caring about others as a human being and as a leader, and the strategies that leaders can adopt to build successful ecosystems.

Mitchell Levy  – Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation

Mitchell Levy is a Global Credibility Expert, 2x international TEDx speaker, an international bestselling author with over 60 books under his belt, and a Certified Stakeholder Centered Coach. He’s earned a place among the world’s Top 200 Leadership Voices by LeadersHum, and as the #1 Thought Leader in Ecosystems and Top 100 Thought Leader Overall by Thinkers360.

With a wealth of professional experience, he served on the board of a NASDAQ firm, started 20 professional service companies in Silicon Valley, and founded four executive business programs and conferences during the dot.com days.

Mitchell talks about:

  • Taking roads less traveled and not always going in the direction that everyone else takes
  • Credibility Nation Or Dubious Nation
  • The value of the company is the sum of the parts
  • Building trust and credibility
  • Servant leadership and vulnerability as a leader
  • The traits of a servant leader
  • The values that make up credibility
  • Vulnerability, authenticity, integrity, and coaching ability
  • Being a compassionate human being, more transparent, being more understood
  • “It’s lonely at the top.”
  • Caring about others as a human being and as a leader
  • Napoleon Hill journey
  • Strategies that leaders can adopt to build successful ecosystems
  • Internal versus external credibility

Tweets

“I love the word trust and what that means. And to me, when I think about the word credibility, I’m going to say credibility is the quality in which you are trusted, known, and liked.” Trust and credibility with Mitchell Levy on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“You can’t be a servant leader to others unless you at least properly serve yourself. You can’t be credible to others unless you’re credible to yourself. The servant leader who only gives and never receives, that’s not a good way to live life either.” Mitchell Levy on servant leadership on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“If you care about somebody, if you truly see them, you find a way where they can see where they really want to go, not just where they say they want to go, but where they really want to go.” Being a caring leader with Mitchell Levy on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Mitchell Levy www.mitchelllevy.com
Mitchell Levy LinkedIn
Mitchell Levy Facebook
Mitchell Levy TikTok
Mitchell Levy Youtube
Mitchell Levy X (Twitter) 
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book

CREDIBILITY NATION

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #201 Julie Perkins Empowering Young Entrepreneurs

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #201 Julie Perkins Empowering Young Entrepreneurs

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #201 Julie Perkins Empowering Young Entrepreneurs

Empowering Young Entrepreneurs

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Julie Perkins about empowering young entrepreneurs, her family founded business Specsavers and the digitalisation of business processes.

We also dive deeper into understanding human behaviour in customer service, running a business, the role of the youth in entrepreneurship and innovation in today’s rapidly advancing technology.

Julie Perkins  – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs

Julie Perkins is the founder of Wyseminds, a company that creates an environment where female entrepreneurs can be at their best, feel challenged, and be good enough to be there. She is passionate about decluttering minds and is dedicated to empowering female entrepreneurs by helping them unlock their potential.

She has more than 20 years working at Specsavers including Country Manager for Netherlands. A woman of many dimensions, from studying at INSEAD and London Business School to conquering the slopes on skis and diving into wild-water adventures, Julie becomes a dedicated business mentor, applying her wisdom and guiding those who embark on the Wyseminds journey toward clarity and triumph.

Julie talks about:

  • Having an entrepreneurial family who founded Specsavers
  • The joy of passing on and seeing how you can get the people together to unite
  • Empowering young entrepreneurs
  • The birth of Wyseminds
  • Being exposed to working and work cultures at an early age
  • Uniting people in business
  • Running a start-up business
  • Young people leading their ecosystems
  • Technology and digitalisation in creating amazing products and services
  • Understanding the human behaviour in customer service
  • Innovation in customer service
  • Young entrepreneurs making changes for the better

Tweets

“I think that’s such a learning thing in leadership, especially at a young age, and learning from failure and what works. I think that’s very important.” The importance of learning about leadership with Julie Perkins on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

“How do you reach the next level, the indirect teams, the suppliers, the alliances, especially in today’s world where digitalisation is so rapid, how do you decide what to digitalise and how do you unite people that are not sat in an office with anymore?” Julie Perkins on leadership and technology on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“I think understanding how technology and digitalisation open up different ways of thinking, and I think that young people need to swing back into that. They never left it, but I think they need to understand how the balance needs to be achieved so that they can make their amazing things really work and be useful.” Digitalisation with Julie Perkins on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Julie Perkins www.wyseminds.com
Julie Perkins LinkedIn
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #200 Andrew May High Performing Teams

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #200 Andrew May High Performing Teams

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #200 Andrew May High Performing Teams

High Performing Teams

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Andrew May about high performing teams, leadership and followership, and the three circles that form a high performing team.

We also dive deeper into the bridge that connects the corporate world and sports, training your brain, and the learning agility that businesses can learn from athleticism and sports.

Andrew May  – High Performing Teams
Andrew May is the CEO and founder of StriveStronger, author of the best-seller “MatchFit” and the Mental Skills Coach for the Manly Sea Eagles National Rugby League Club. He took up a Bachelor of Applied Science in Exercise Physiology and a Masters of Coaching Psychology at the University of Sydney. 

From a former middle-distance runner to assisting top-tier athletes at the Australian Institute of Sport, he is a regular face on ABC News Breakfast and the host of The Business Fit podcast and Performance Intelligence podcast. He is also a former Managing Partner at KPMG after they acquired his company The Performance Clinic, and is part of IBO World Boxing Champion, Tim Tszyu’s team.

Andrew talks about:

  • Dreaming of going to the Olympics as a runner
  • Starting surfing at 12, which planted the seed of high performance
  • The skill of following as taught by the Army and the Navy
  • It’s a real strength to be able to both follow and lead in a team
  • Definition and dynamics of high performing teams 
  • The three circles of a high performing team
  • The importance of teamwork and connectivity
  • Your brain is totally trainable
  • Coaching in sports and in the corporate world
  • Good coaches will know when to focus on the positives as a double down on the strengths
  • Businesses can learn Learning Agility from sports
  • Getting the middle balance between driving a high performance team and the stakes of running them out of gas
  • Three gifts he wants to give his kids
  • The social contagion theory
  • Disconnection in the modern world of technology

Tweets
“Having the conversation on and actually working on resilience. Working on toughness and grit, and actually making people work hard and get rewarded for it.” The importance of conversations around rewards within teams with Andrew May on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“In a high performing team, having real clear leadership, authentic leadership, but then having people who know actually how to follow a plan and implement a plan and knowing your job. So it’s really challenging and it’s totally changed my definition of followership.” Andrew May on the strength in followership on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“If you want your brain to be fit, fast, flexible, and strong, you’ve got to train your brain. And that’s where mental skills are now really evolving and it excites me.” Training your brain with Andrew May on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 


Resources Mentioned in this show:
Andrew May www.andrewmay.com
Andrew May LinkedIn
Andrew May Facebook
Andrew May Instagram
Andrew May Youtube
Andrew May X (Twitter)
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book
MATCHFIT

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #199 Nina Mapson Bone Meaningful Work

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #199 Nina Mapson Bone Meaningful Work

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #199 Nina Mapson Bone Meaningful Work

Meaningful Work

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Nina Mapson Bone about Meaningful Work, communication as a key aspect of leadership and building relationships within organisations.

We also dive deeper into creating a sense of purpose and community within organisations, challenges in the workplace and recruitment, and the four key factors of meaningful work.

Nina Mapson Bone  – Meaningful Work

Nina Mapson Bone is the managing director of Beaumont People, a renowned recruitment and consulting firm, a powerful speaker, and the author of the career-changing book Meaningful Work. She is an Opinion Columnist at CEOWORLD magazine and has diverse experience working with Robert Half International, the University of Sydney, and Chandler Macleod Group.

She is a graduate of The University of Edinburgh and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  Nina is also the President of the Recruitment, Consulting, and Staffing Association of Australia and New Zealand, and the Chair of the Development Committee of the NORTH Foundation—an organisation dedicated to advancing medical research and patient care. 

Nina talks about:

  • Growing up in the UK
  • Setting out to be a leader from an early stage
  • Organisations and employers looking at transferable skills and using skills-based recruiting
  • Meaningful Work
  • Societal factors in producing meaningful work
  • Human skills needed to persevere and the ability to overcome struggles
  • Moved formally into recruiting upon arriving in Australia in 2002
  • How a company’s dealing with the fact that people don’t tend to stick around as long anymore
  • People are less clear on what they’re looking for
  • Searching for a sense of purpose and belonging in a workplace
  • Employers being loyal to their people and people being loyal to their employers
  • Leaders creating a great culture within organisations
  • Using your people’s strengths to motivate them to perform better
  • Getting better at acknowledging people’s mistakes
  • Communication is key in leadership
  • Relationship building between employers and employees
  • The need for deep work versus collaboration
  •  Four kinds of key factors of meaningful work

Tweets

“Leaders need to be thinking about working on how can they keep, how can they retain and develop their people and keep them involved.” Leaders giving their members a sense of purpose with Nina Mapson Bone on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“I would much rather work with organisations that are great places to work. I have a great culture & great environment. That’s the style of recruitment we do.” Nina Mapson Bone on their recruitment style at Beaumont on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“There’s a lot of evidence to show that when people work to their strengths, they perform better, they better engage, they’re less stressed, they’re more vital, they’re more creative. So if you know what your people’s strengths are and you are able as a leader to allocate the kind of tasks and resources and workload based on the strengths, you’ll get better performance.” Using your people’s strengths with Nina Mapson Bone on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Nina Mapson Bone www.ninamapsonbone.com.au
Nina Mapson Bone LinkedIn
Nina Mapson Bone Instagram
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book
Meaningful Work