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A podcast for people who want to learn how to lead, or lead better. Contemporary leadership issues discussed by experts with actionable insights in every episode. Whether you’re a student, graduate, teacher, manager or CEO or simply aspire to be a leader in the future, Leadership Learned will help you carve out your leadership path and define your leadership style.
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This podcast series is not theoretical. Rather, it is filled with practical pointers for any leader or manager at any stage of their career. My experience is that people in a leadership role benefit from solid ideas that help them evaluate their lives and careers. We all need encouragement, and we all need time to reflect on how we are doing and how we can improve.
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S2 Ep1: What is Purpose-Driven Leadership?
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People want more from their organizations and their leaders. Following Covid, The Great Resignation, and the cost of living crisis, it has become more important for people to have work with meaning. Similarly, the organizations that can align what they do with a reason for doing it - their 'Why' - have found great success. It comes down to Purpose:…
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Bad managers can cripple a business. It can lead to people leaving, a disengaged workforce, and an archaic culture that is unattractive to talent. It has been partly blamed for the UK's current productivity gap, whereas managers who have been given the skills and knowledge required to nurture engagement and boost motivation outperform on all key le…
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S1 Ep14: Leadership Styles: Why All Leaders Need Coaching Skills
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Command and control is dead. In today's modern business world, leaders have to be more in tune with their people in order to get the most out of them. Whether it is due to hybrid/remote working, being more inclusive, adopting a growth mindset, developing an innovative culture - all of these rely on a leadership style that enables and trusts people …
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S1 Ep13: Leading Yourself: Who The Hell Are You?
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Leading yourself is all about self-awareness: having the courage to learn the truth about what drives you, being authentic to yourself and what your values truly are - not the things you claim to believe, but the things that actually drive your behaviour. People tend to mould their leadership style based on what they see around them, without thinki…
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S1 Ep12: Mindful Leadership: Managing Anxiety and Stress
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We talk a lot on this podcast about the importance of mental health in modern leadership in terms of knowing yourself and your teams so you can be the best leader you can be. In this episode we are talking specifically about the detrimental effects of anxiety and stress and what can be done it about it individually and organizationally. It's not ju…
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S1 Ep11: Leadership Lessons Learned on Everest - Part 2
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The second part of our chat with record-breaking mountaineer, Jake Meyer. We are talking about his latest expedition to climb some of the highest mountains in the world, and the equivalent leadership, business and personal lessons that can be gleaned from it. If you haven't listened to part 1, you should go back and listen to it first: not just bec…
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S1 Ep10: Leadership Lessons Learned on Everest
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There are a lot of parallels between elite mountaineering and the business world when it comes to the leadership, teamwork, collaboration and communication needed to be successful. Whilst our everyday work and decisions are rarely a matter of life or death, there are still a lot of lessons that can be taken from an expedition to climb the highest a…
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S1 Ep9: Why Leadership Should Be Taught in Schools
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Just one in three business leaders think schools are doing enough to equip pupils with skills for work. The part of the curriculum that focuses on the world of work is not statutory – however, 85% of business leaders, 90% of parents and 92% of young people think that it should be. We think leadership skills should also be a key part of youth develo…
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S1 Ep8: Curiosity: the Secret to Solving the People Conundrum
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Curiosity is a quality related to inquisitive thinking and is heavily associated with all aspects of succesfful human development and learning. Yet it is a quality that we are warned against as we grow ("Curiosity killed the cat") and we need less and less in the modern world, where everything is literally at our fingertips. However, curiosity is v…
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S1 Ep7: How to Have Effective Courageous Conversations
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Every leader has to face their fair share of 'courageous' conversations - those meetings with your team, peers or bosses where difficult, problematic topics have to be discussed. Everyone hates them but they are a necessity - so how can you make them as effective as possible? What can be done in advance to make sure both parties are fully prepared?…
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S1 Ep6: Menopause: why it's leadership issue
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If there was something that had a significant, adverse effect on the productivity of around 50% of your workforce, you as a leader would want to know about it. Well, there is, and it’s called the Menopause. It is something that affects almost all women, at its worst it can be utterly debilitating, but even in its milder form it significantly affect…
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In this episode, we talk about the challenges leaders and managers will face in 2023. We talk about the broader skillset leaders will need and how they can deal with the subsequent increase in capacity. We discuss the growing requirement for authentic leadership, emotional intelligence and legitimate self-confidence, and also what cultural intellig…
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S1 Ep4: Improving Mental Toughness Through Psychometrics
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Mental Toughness: it’s not just about resilience, and its not something some people have and others don’t. It’s something that all leaders should look to develop, along with other personality aspects, in order to become the most effective leader possible. In this episode we discuss what it is, what it isn’t, and how it can be developed and strength…
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S1 Ep3: Human Performance in a Business Context
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What are the true drivers and motivators behind Human Performance? What is it that makes people deliver their best, consistently? And how can it be measured and developed? We've been researching these topics and in this podcast we answer those questions and more. We discuss the key factors of behaviour, capability and wellbeing and why all three ne…
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Whether you are about to step into your first leadership post, move into a different one, or even need to refresh your current role, the key is preparation and in this episode we will tell you why and how. Chances are you will have achieved your position using a completely different set of skills to those required to be an effective leader. As you …
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S1 Ep1: Why Kindness is Key for Your Leadership Strategy
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Kindness: not a word commonly associated with leadership. But why? Studies have shown that practising kindness is a powerful and profitable driver of competitive advantage for many successful organisations. Yet as an attribute it can be seen as weakness. This week, we investigate why this dichotomy exists and talk about the research exploring the e…
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The Corporate Spring: How Companies are Re-thinking the Way They Make Things
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Springtime and renewal are synonymous. We are in the midst of a corporate Spring in America. Companies are stepping up to their shared sense of responsibility for the positive impact they can make in the world. Enlightened leaders are re-thinking how they can make life better for all stakeholders and believe the long term impact is greater profitab…
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How CEOs Change The Life Long Environmental Impact of the Products They Use and Make
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An enlightened strategic leader has a lot to think about. Seriously changing how the organization can positively impact the health and well being of planet earth is often one priority that is on the “nice to think about but not critical” list. Thankfully, this mindset is changing rapidly. But it’s not easy. Bridgett Luther, a founder of the Cradle …
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Purpose answers the questions: “Why do I exist?” and “What is noble about our efforts?” A clear purpose is not only critical for the new work force, it is critical as the cornerstone of a company’s strategy. Dick Gochnauer knows this truth to the core. He is the former CEO of United Stationers, a Fortune 500 Company and now serves on the board of t…
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The Four Habits of Trust: An Introductory Podcast
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Leadership is a relationship between the leader and those who choose to follow. Trust is the foundation of that relationship. If you break trust, you damage your future as a leader. Trust is complex, but it can be broken down into four simple habits that, if practiced regularly, will raise your “trust meter” significantly whether you are the leader…
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