active CEO Podcast with Craig Johns Fiona Robertson Culture Is The Rules Of Belonging

active CEO Podcast #108 Fiona Robertson Culture Is The Rules Of Belonging

active CEO Podcast with Craig Johns Fiona Robertson Culture Is The Rules Of Belonging

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Fiona Robertson about the rules of belonging, lessons learnt in culture working at Oglivy and IBM, listening with intention, and the Intersection between culture and strategy.

We also delve into living outside your comfort zone, you have to notice before you choose, being a warm authoritative leader, a coach is not a friend and having an obsession with human interaction.

Fiona Robertson – Culture Is The Rules Of Belonging

Fiona Robertson is a culture change expert who has 30 years experience with blue chip corporates around the world. She loves bringing people on the change journey, is a master of managing group dynamics, and genuinely cares about the work that she does, the people she interacts with and the impact it makes on the organisation. Fiona is known as a passionate, caring, deeply committed and relentless leader of change.

Her education included a BA English Literature at Monash University, an Executive MBA from the London Business School, is certified as an Executive Coach from the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership, and is a certified Company Director from the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Fiona’s career has included roles in marketing, communications, consulting and human resources at companies such as Ogilvy, Kiboodle, Growth Solutions Group, Right Management and National Australia Bank. She founded Robertson Consulting Services in 2017, to help leaders and business owners create the culture they need to execute strategy.

Fiona talks about:

  • Experiencing turbulent change when her parents divorced.
  • Igniting a love of language and fascination with the human condition.
  • The extraordinary similarities between countries but vast differences in cultures.
  • We all look at the world through our own unique lens.
  • Our ability to predict the future is becoming less and less.
  • If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
  • What characteristics are needed to be an effective leader of cultural change?
  • Need to be nimble to respond to the marketplace.
  • Humans adopt the behaviour that is considered successful in the group that they join.
  • Our brains are very good at keeping us safe; they believe that to belong is to be safe.
  • Culture is the rules of belonging.
  • Leading with core values with a combination of empathy and high expectations.
  • When you are changing something, tell them the ten things that are not changing.
  • Pay attention, culture should be continually nudged as strategy changes.
  • A coach is person who is there to challenge and support you in equal measure.
  • If you want to change something in life you have to notice what you are doing now.

Active CEO Performance Tip

Own Your OWN FREEDOM – Are you content with how you are living your life or the way that you might be living someone else’s life? Find the passion, happiness & direction in your life. What fuels the fire in your belly? What are you willing to sacrifice to fulfill your passion? What allows you to feel content and fall asleep at ease? What is your purpose and direction in life? Questions to ask yourself – 1. What makes you come alive. 2. What are your innate strengths. 3. Where do you add greatest value

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“Everyone looks through their own lens at the world. Meet people where they are. Attempt to see the world through their eyes. Listen intently to what is said and not said. Try to imagine yourself dealing with the pressures with who ever you are speaking with is dealing with on a day to day basis, because everybody has them.” Fiona Robertson on the rules of belonging, on the active CEO Podcast.

“Our brains are very good at keeping us safe, they believe that to belong is to be safe. They will resist consciously and unconsciously a change to the rules of belonging.” Discussing how the human brain reacts to change with Fiona Robertson, on the active CEO Podcast.

“Living inside your comfort zone makes you feel safe but prevents you from trying the things that you make you more successful.” Fiona Robertson describing living inside your comfort zone, on the active CEO Podcast.

“People perform best when they know they are fully supported, so any form of failure or mistake is a beautiful learning opportunity.” Being a supportive leader with Fiona Robertson on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Fiona Robertson www.fionarobertson.com
Fiona Robertson LinkedIn
Fiona Robertson Twitter
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

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active CEO Podcast #107 Create Your OWN MBA

active CEO Podcast 107 Craig Johns Create Your Own MBA NRG2Perform Coaching Speaker

By Craig Johns

Create Your OWN MBA by building your own learning, collaboration & movement. Do you find you are learning little about a lot of things, but not a lot about things that make a difference?

How often do you find yourself scrolling through social media, glancing over emails, listening to random podcast episodes and skimming through LinkedIn or other articles? Are you actually drilling deep into areas or topics that you can really benefit from, and making them stick?

If you think about a speaker, musician, dancer, athlete, singer or even artist, they spend hours of deliberate practice honing their craft. Wouldn’t it be wise if you did the same for your career or enhancing your expertise?

Create Your OWN MBA

It’s time for you to build your own learning, collaboration & movement. Develop out a personal development plan. Your own personal MBA of how you will upgrade a skill or set of skills so you have the competency and confidence to be a thought leader, expert authority or just to advance your career or depth of knowledge. How can you self-knowledge , self-learn, self-understand and self-actualise?

You are probably thinking, how do I start to Create Your OWN MBA? Here are 5 steps you can take to create your own MBA:

  1. Checklist – Write down a list of skills you need to learn and why.
  2. Priorities – Prioritise which skills are most important for your new way of working, living or understanding  
  3. Plan – Develop a personal development plan of what, how, who and by when.
  4. Research – start reading articles and books, listening to podcasts or viewing videos that are specific to the skill or topic area you want to learn.
  5. Create – write an article, chapter blog; produce a podcast episode, record a video or even produce a series or talks.

Create Your OWN MBA

There are lots of opportunities to learn in this world, paid and free, if you don’t give yourself enough deliberate time, space and focus dedicated to learning something, then you want get the results you need to stand out from the crowd.

It all starts with a question. What do you want to solve, understand or interpret? How will you Create Your Own MBA? Are you ready to start?

Want To Learn More?

Check out the newly Breaking The CEO Code whitepaper. It provides an overview of Breaking The CEO Code and showcases the 6 key phases. We also go a little deeper into the 2nd phase PERFORMANCE, where we discuss the 3 P’s of the Leadership Performance Formula.

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#100 – Sandhya Shetty (Public Figure) Supermodel To Global Influencer Link
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#98 – Shannan Gove (Rusterfy) Building Motivated Workforces Link
#97 – Own Your OWN GRATITUDE Link
#96 – Christian Boucousis (Afterburner) Leading Out Of The Danger Zone Link

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active CEO Podcast #63 Charles Fairlie Unsung Business Heroes

Unsung Business Heroes Charles Fairlie
Charles Fairlie – Unsung Business Heroes

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Charles Fairlie about Unsung Business heroes, inspiring leaders, crowd funded book models and sailing on Sydney Harbour. We also delve into Netwalking, Dick Smith Electronics and lessons from the media industry.

Charles Fairlie – Unsung Business Heroes

Charles Fairlie is a passionate people person who loves sharing the stories of Unsung Business Heroes. He is a honest, persistent and driven son of a boat builder, purposeful entrepreneur and has a passion for the backstory of a business.

With a Bachelor of Communications in Marketing from the University of NSW, our guest is a Board Director of the Australasian Pioneers Club. His 30 year career in media includes sales and account manager roles at Channel 9, Macquarie Radio, Sony Music Australia and the Australian Associated Press. In recent years he transitioned from being the Client and Marketing Director of Clickthru to founding his own company Purpose Publishing Australia.

Charles talks about:

  • Writing Unsung Business Heroes to record his dad’s records and accomplishments.
  • Selling fax machines as Promotions Manager for Dick Smith Electronics.
  • 30 year career in media industry.
  • Being as a sales manager at 2Day FM and Channel 9.
  • Working with incredible leaders who had long-term vision and seeing the bigger picture.
  • Kerry Packer saying, “You only get one Alan Bond moment in time, and I have just had mine.”
  • A gift that stays around forever.
  • People really appreciate it when people share intimate things.
  • Crowdfunding book model with production cost sharing.
  • Belonging to the The Pioneer’s club.
  • Netwalking, a networking event walking around botanical gardens and Sydney opera house.

Active CEO Performance Tip

Trust Based Leadership – Trust affects a leader’s impact and has a profound affect on a company or team achieving their goals. It is the foundation of a business. Like a building if the foundation is weak and shaky it can crumble. Trust based leadership is all about allowing your staff’s competence and motivation to get the job done. Signs that trust-based leadership is working include high-levels of autonomy and low levels of unnecessary control. Employees have the freedom, independence, and discretion to schedule work, make decisions and choose the methods used to perform tasks. Trust helps avoid hostility, improves change acceptance, receptiveness to negative feedback, builds team motivation, increases employee loyalty, encourages idea sharing, boosts morale and increases productivity.

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“To be a good interviewer, you have to listen, be prepared for where the talk is going and open up so they can share transparently and authentically.” Charles Fairlie delves into interviewing, on the active CEO Podcast.

“An honest person doesn’t need a good memory. You don’t have to remember the lies from the past and cover them up.” Charles Fairlie talks about authenticity, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Unsung Business Heroes Website
Charles Fairlie LinkedIn
Charles Fairlie Facebook
Charles Fairlie Twitter
Charles Fairlie Instagram
Unsung Business Heroes Podcast 
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

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