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Getting Your People To Step Up
On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Shivani Gupta about Getting Your People To Step Up, slowing the hiring process down and retaining talented people.
We also dive deep into creating high performing teams, normalising honest conversations and the constant art of working on the culture.
Shivani Gupta – Getting Your People To Step Up
Shivani is an entrepreneur, speaker, coach and author of Getting Your People To Step Up. She is an inspirational leader who is focused on passion, people and performance, is a Barefoot College Ambassador, and is the only Electrical Engineer turned Entrepreneur turned Educator.
Her career included an Electrical Engineering role at BHP before embarking on a 23 career as an award winning entrepreneur and educator. Shivani has scaled many of her own businesses over $1M and exited a business that she grew from $0 to $5M. She has a MBA from The International Graduate School of Management and a Bachelors of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of South Australia,
Shivani Gupta talks about:
- Growing up in India
- Power of being a parent & the transferable skills with a leader
- Diversity thinking
- Career breaks
- Becoming being a better human through parenting teenagers
- Children holding up the mirror for us
- Tough love with care in the workforce
- Getting Your People To Step Up
- Nurturing a culture where people can say what they feel
- Positive reinforcement & constructive feedback
- Hire on character first then develop the skill second
- Giving yourself permission to live according to your passions.
- We should be testing people for their passion when it comes to recruitment
- Permission and psychological safety
- How do we create a culture thats right?
- Clear boundaries of what is yes or no
- Avoiding overloading our high performers & under loading low performers
- How do we get people doing more work in the time allocated for them
- Boundaries & contamination in a hybrid working environment
- Strategies to enhance productivity & performance in remote working
- Managing health & relationships to improve your productivity
- Communicating your vision with passion.
- Passion for educating girls in 3rd world countries
- Attracting & recruiting talent.
Tweets
“If you start to live according to your passions then you have got to disappoint some people. People are often living other peoples passions. Whether its their partners, their kids, their parents, their cultures.” Leading with purpose with Shivani Gupti on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.
“Passion without discipline is a waste of time … Without hard work and dedication passion is just an energy that dissipates very quickly.” Shivani Gupta discussing Getting People To Step Up on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.
“Constant art of working on the culture to say how do we make people feel like they belong, how do we make people feel safe, how do we make people feel like they belong?” Shivani Gupta goes deep into culture in the workplace on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.
Links
- Shivani Gupta Website
- Shivani Gupta 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
