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Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #244 Valerie Cockerell Manage Like a Mother

Posted on July 10, 2024July 10, 2024 by Craig Johns in Podcasts

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Manage Like a Mother

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Valerie Cockerell about Manage Like a Mother, leadership lessons from Walt Disney and Disneyland, and overcoming life’s turbulence to become the best version of yourselves.

We also dive deeper into normalising honest and courageous conversations, lessons from parenting, and providing feedback and clear expectations in order to gain desired results and performance.

Valerie Cockerell – Manage Like a Mother

Valerie Cockerell is a Leadership Consultant, former Walt Disney and Disneyland employee, and the author of Manage Like a Mother.

Her career includes being an Investment Advisor for a bank in France, multiple roles over a 17 year period at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris Resort, and retail world consultant. She has Bachelors degree in Tourism & travel Services Marketing Operations from the Institut Pitiot in France.

Valerie talks about:

How learning English opened up doors and opportunities
The ability to appreciate the the good and the bad in each culture
Delivering great customer service
Learning from mistakes and feedback
Manage Like A Mother
Surrounding yourself with people of similar values while ensuring great diversity
How can we normalise honest and courageous conversations?
Top leaders getting true, honest and courageous feedback
Leadership lessons from being a mother
Working for Walt Disney and Disneyland
Giving feedback to change a behavior, not to judge character
Setting clear expectations to get the outcome and the performance that you need
Providing calm in this turbulence for not only ourselves, but for our employees as well
Being the best version of yourself

Tweets

“Your front line delivers your bottom line.” Delivering great customer service by Valerie Cockerell on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“When you start comparing, it’s not better, it’s not worse. It’s just different. And you have to appreciate the good and you have to adapt to the bad. We cannot, unfortunately, cherry pick things here and there to make the best place.” Valerie Cockerell talks about the ability to appreciate the good and the bad in each culture on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“No matter how prepared you are as a leader, there’s always part of learning on the job.” Valerie Cockerell talks about leadership lessons from being a mother on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:
Valerie Cockerell https://cockerellconsulting.com/
Valerie Cockerell LinkedIn
Valerie Cockerell Facebook
Valerie Cockerell 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

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Manage Like a Mother

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #223 Jack Skeels Unmanaged

Posted on February 15, 2024February 15, 2024 by Craig Johns in Podcasts

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Unmanaged

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Jack Skeels about Unmanaged, collective intelligence, and fostering positive and collaborative workplace cultures.

We also dive deeper into leadership vs. management, traditional views of management and how to avoid over-managing your teams.

Jack Skeels – Unmanaged

Jack Skeels is a former senior analyst at RAND who has successfully transitioned into the role of CEO at AgencyAgile, achieving double Inc-500 awards, and author of the book, Unmanaged. He holds a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering/Computer Science from Northern Illinois University and an MBA with honors in Entrepreneurship and Finance from the USC Marshall School of Business. His dynamic presence extends beyond the boardroom, making him a sought-after speaker, writer, and educator, gracing stages at prestigious industry events such as Ad Age, Digiday, and Advertising Week.

With an extensive career spanning managerial and leadership positions in renowned companies like Rand, Sapient, Global Gaming League, and Modulant, Jack has firsthand experience in the intricacies of project success and the pivotal role of the team behind them. Jack Skeels is not just a successful startup entrepreneur and agile transformation consultant but also a think tank management scientist, dedicated to fostering positive and collaborative workplace cultures.

Jack Skeels talks about:

Growing up in a small university town in Illinois under parents who were both college professors
Working at RAND
Unmanaged
Asking questions gets people thinking and harnessing collective intelligence
Managers should lead with questions to empower their teams
Traditional views of management from the industrial era see workers as commodities to be managed
People are smart and capable, and managers should avoid over managing
Managers should focus on getting people to think, not doing the thinking for them
Promoting high performers into management roles often decreases their productivity and the overall performance of their teams
Management is a separate skill set
Diversity and acceptance in the workplace
Labels and the need to belong
Intrinsic bias in behavior in the workplace
Companies need innovation and technology to remain relevant
Fostering positive and collaborative workplace cultures

Tweets

“I believe it’s a big internal journey to become a great leader as well. To become what the authentic leader is really about. And you, if you’re in the leadership business, I think it’s probably more about understanding yourself and the leader that you can be, than trying to be like a Jack Welch or a Steve Jobs or something like that.” Becoming a great leader with Jack Skeels on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“We don’t want to be labeled, but we like to be labeled as this. People still feel like they need to belong. I’m wondering how we can shift this space to help people feel like they belong without having to be part of a group or feel like they need to be labeled as something to just be more comfortable being who they are.” Jack Skeels talks about labels and belonging on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“I think diversity is great. I think we need to applaud, everything, whatever, neurodiversity and every every form of diversity. I think the idea is a good thing for those who accept it and unfortunately now not all accept it. But the real way to break down those barriers and the like is through action. And in the workplace, the challenge of sort of intrinsic bias in behavior is quite large.” Diversity and acceptance in the workplace with Jack Skeels on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Jack Skeels www.agencyagile.com
Jack Skeels 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

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Unmanaged

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #181 Anne Duggan Courageous Invitations

Posted on April 13, 2023April 13, 2023 by Craig Johns in Podcasts

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Courageous Invitations

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Anne Duggan about Courageous Invitations, growing a leadership mindset, and finding and connecting with “your people”.

We also dive deeper into the formula of peak performance leadership, understanding the self, purpose and passion, and being a fearless woman leader.

Anne Duggan – Courageous Invitations

Anne Duggan is a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience in managing complex projects and infrastructure procurement for top companies like KPMG, Suez Environment Group, Lendlease, and Macquarie Group. She’s a jack of all trades, being a solicitor, chartered accountant, and holding an MBA in Law and Business, a Masters of Science in Coaching Psychology, and even studying veterinary nursing.

But our guest’s passion doesn’t stop there. She’s also a trailblazer in social infrastructure development, having led some of the most significant affordable housing bids in Australia. With her expertise and drive, there’s no doubt that she can continue to make a significant impact in both the corporate and social sectors.

Anne talks about:

The core of courageous leadership
Finding people that you have a connection with
Importance of having a very diverse group of ideas and thoughts and background
Diversity in an organisation
Having a purpose vs. having a “why”
Courageous Invitations
Working with Dr Jefferson Yu-Jen Chen
Peak performance
Betting wisely by giving now and gaining more later
Fear of failure
Having a solid foundation for confidence
The power to change is in your control
Be the leader that people want to follow
Work less and achieve more
Navigate distraction, uncertainty & self-sabotage

Tweets

“I think that the thing that really comes out is the heart and that is actually at the core of courageous leadership. It’s actually leading with your heart and being true and authentic to yourself.” Anne Duggan talks about having courage as a leader on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Disrupt yourself and think about what you really can be doing that’s different because you don’t have to be on the traditional trajectory to actually have an amazing career” The journey of finding oneself and establishing a career with Anne Duggan on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Getting to peak performance is also a journey. It’s not something you just switch on immediately and you’re there. It’s something that you build and develop and grow over time” Anne Duggan on how to attain peak performance on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Courageous Invitations www.courageousinvitations.com
Anne Duggan www.infrapartners.com.au
Anne Duggan Linkedin
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com
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

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Courageous Invitations Book

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #170 Veronica Llorca Leading With Cultural Agility

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #170 Veronica Llorca-Smith Leading With Cultural Agility

Posted on January 20, 2023March 10, 2023 by Craig Johns in Podcasts

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Leading With Cultural Agility

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Veronica Llorca-Smith about leading with cultural agility, being a global citizen who has lived in 9 countries, and an emerging thought leader on culture, diversity, equity and inclusion.

We also dive into bringing her children up in.a multilinguil environment, inclusive leadership, being aware of conscious or unconscious bias, and ensuring everyone has a voice and knows their voice matters.

Veronica Llorca-Smith – Leading With Cultural Agility

Veronica Llorca-Smith had lived in 9 countries and speaks 6 languages, including Mandarin, she has a wealth of corporate experience in retail and B2B businesses from around the world. A humble, vibrant and human centric leader who founded Sea Line Asia a freight Forwarding Company, has her own publication Smiling World, speaker on people and culture, is a triathlete and beautiful mother of two daughters.

She has a master’s in international business and Marketing from the Complutense University of Madrid and a bachelors in International, Business and Economic Law from the University of Salamanca. Veronica brings 18 years of corporate experience in leadership roles managing and developing large teams for world-class companies like Apple and Estée Lauder.

Veronica Llorca-Smith has talked about:

Growing up in a multi-cultural world
Moving to China as her first role
Stepping out of your comfort zone
Inspiring great leaders she look up to
Leading with cultural agility
How leadership is evolving across the world
Digitalisation of the workplace
Inclusive leadership
Differences between Apple and Estee Lauder
Importance of active listening
How to tackle cultural diversity
Setting the tone in meetings
It’s ok to be vulnerable as a leader
Last time doing for a first time

Tweets:

“It’s more important to teach you how to lose, than to teach you how to win.” Veronica Llorca-Smith on her dads advice on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“What I will leave for you is languages and a University degree, so that you don’t need anyone to find a way or find a job.” Lessons from Veronica Llorca-Smith’s dad on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Cultural Agility is not something that you read about, it’s something that you experience.” The importance of having cultural agility as a leader with Veronica Llorca-Smith’s on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“The moment you start to create value and to create content for yourself, you start to build a network.” Becoming a thought leader with Veronica Llorca-Smith’s on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Veronica Llorca-Smith www.veronicallorcasmith.com
Veronica Llorca-Smith Linkedin
Veronica Llorca-Smith Facebook
Veronica Llorca-Smith Instagram
Speakers Institute Corporate www.speakersinstitutecorporate.com
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

active CEO Podcast 129 Craig Johns Establish Diverse Professional Relationships

active CEO Podcast #129 Establish Diverse Professional Relationships

Posted on October 17, 2020October 17, 2020 by Craig Johns in Podcasts

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Establish diverse professional RELATIONSHIPS that are supportive, enjoyable & dependable.

Diversity in leadership and teams is most spoken about as of gender or race. I believe that the some of the most profound diversity we experience in life is related to the diversity of thought. This allows the greatest opportunity for innovation and high performing teams to occur.

Establish diverse professional relationships is all about creating an environment that encourages diversity of thought, diversity of perspective, diversity of opinion.

To create a diversity of thought you need to surround yourself with people who have diverse experiences. Differences in learning styles, industries, race, gender, socioeconomic backgrounds and influences. None of the differences are more potent than the other. It is the collective diversity that matters.

By bringing together people who come from different perspectives at the table, the solutions that we bring to our clients, the way we interact, and the relationships we build with our clients and ourselves are going to distinguish ourselves from our competitors.

It is important that you create an environment were people maintain their individuality, rather than groupthink, which can occur when we surround ourselves with like minded people. You want people who look through different lenses, listen through different ears and speak with different voices.

3 Areas of diversity that provide greater organizational performance:

Intentional recruitment of diverse employees;
Develop diverse integrative programs rather than diversity programs; and
Create an environment where diversity of thought, perspective and opinion is rewarded.

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.

Breaking The CEO Code Whitepaper Download

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Subscribe to active CEO Podcast on Itunes
Craig Johns Keynote Speaker
active CEO Coaching
active CEO Podcast
Corporate Programs
Sport Performance
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

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Unmanaged

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Leading With Cultural Agility

Establish diverse professional RELATIONSHIPS that are supportive, enjoyable & dependable.

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