Leading Generous Teams – Détails, épisodes et analyse

A lot of leadership effort is proactive and long-term, and it’s so easy to (and can feel good to) get sucked in by your teams to put out day-to-day operational fires.

However one leader we’ve worked with closely has taken a deliberate approach to creating the bandwidth that allows him and his team to focus on the future.

This is what we talked about with Matt Carmichael, Chief Information Officer, University of Canberra on our Leading Generous Teams podcast this week.

Matt’s refreshing approach is famous for supporting teams to get in the right mindset before taking on transformation projects. He’s a leader to watch.


In this episode, we discuss:

• How Matt proactively prepares his team to thrive during change
• Uplifting others through coaching to create more bandwidth
• Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging leadership

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• Questions and prompts to help leaders create bigger impact with more ease
• Jam packed with insights from conversations we’ve had with Australian CEOs + leaders
• Fuel trust, communication, and culture in your team

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If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat. 

If you’ve been in our world for a hot minute, you’ll have heard us talk about the mental run up.

The mental run up is made up of automatic thought patterns in response to an upcoming situation. Some we’re not aware of, and some are easy to brush off as “I’m an overthinker.” But they can be a drain, pulling you further away from the task at hand.

They’re often happening behind the scenes without us even realising it, derailing our energy.

The mental run up falls between the moment you’ve made the decision to do something challenging and when you actually do it.

This is what we talked about with Co-Australian of the Year, Dr Richard “Harry” Harris on our Leading Generous Teams podcast this week.

Richard has worked in anaesthesia, diving and aeromedical medicine around the world.

Harry has a professional and voluntary interest in search and rescue operations,
establishing the first flooded cave rescue capability in Australasia. The 2018
Thailand cave rescue was an opportunity to put this training to work.

In 2018 he received the Star of Courage, Australia’s second highest civilian award
for bravery, and the medal of the Order of Australia for his role in the Thailand cave
rescue. Harry was the joint 2019 Australian of the Year with his dive partner Craig
Challen. He is now primarily working as a speaker, author and film maker.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Richard’s mental run up leading up to the Thai Cave Rescue.
• What Richard does to fuel his mindset during uncertain times.  
• Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging in life and leadership

Links:

To supercharge your leadership, grab your free leadership audit now: Mindset Shifts to Crack Culture, Build Psychological Safety + Raise The Bar. 

This free Leadership Audit download includes:

• Questions and prompts to help leaders create bigger impact with more ease
• Jam packed with insights from conversations we’ve had with Australian CEOs + leaders
• Fuel trust, communication, and culture in your team 

Grab your copy now: www.topfivemovement.com/tools

If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat. 

A client recently shared that we’ve made their team unbreakable. 

Why?

As a team of award-winning mindset coaches, we deliver innovative leadership programs that disrupt unhelpful thinking + patterns, develop new perspectives, raise the bar on solutions, and help your leaders create high performing teams.

Led by Clare Desira, International Coach of the Year and Fellow of the Centre for Sustainability Leaders (now Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Top Five has worked with thousands of people across 40 countries to flip the script on mindset, resilience + leadership. They don’t call us the most refreshing take on mindset, resilience, and leadership for nothing. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• How we make teams unbreakable 
• Who we work with + why
• An invitation - find out more about the free workshop + register here: https://topfivemovement.com/leaders-workshop/

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When leaders encourage their team to “switch off” they don’t always realise it can be demotivating and inaccessible.

For many, the idea of switching off is actually daunting. Like a void of space and time that could be used to be making a difference. 

Also, you’re not a lightbulb. You don’t have an on and off switch.

It’s not that black and white.

The best thing you can do is learn to go from “on” to “recharge.”

This is what we discussed in the episode with Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS).

Cass brings public policy expertise in economic, social and environmental issues, civil society, social justice and human rights. Voted one of the most influential people in the Australian social sector, Cass has spent decades representing the interests of people who are disadvantaged, and civil society generally,

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Cass fuels and engages her team, even during change
• Key lessons from decades of influencing and impact in the social sector
• Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging leadership

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If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat.

Find out more about the workshop + register here: https://topfivemovement.com/leaders-workshop/

Find out more about ACOSS 

Role clarity. It seems so simple it’d be easy to miss.

Of course there’s a job description when the contract is signed, but how do you use that as a tool to support mental fitness and wellbeing in your team?

One of the most important ingredients for a successful team is when they know what their role is and how it fits into the purpose of the organisation.

This is what we spoke about with Barb Brown, Executive Manager of People & Culture from St Lukes Health on the podcast this week.

Barb is an award winning HR leader who has worked across health and aging for decades. Barb’s known for motivating high performing teams and shifting them towards a continuous learning culture. She’s also a terrific car trip buddy!

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Barb fuels and engages teams
• The team questions to ask to amplify purpose
• Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging leadership

Links:

If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat.

Find out more about the workshop + register here: https://topfivemovement.com/leaders-workshop/

Leaders are often looked to as experts. But they’re not. The strongest leaders surround themselves with experts, which means, you don’t know the answer a lot of the time.

When leaders feel like they should know, they miss the opportunity to invite their team to step into their strengths, rally around you, draw out their skills and talents to solve the problem in ways you couldn’t imagine.

This is what vulnerability looks like practically, at the highest levels of leadership.

This is what we discussed with Alex Badenoch, Telstra’s former Group Executive – Transformation, Communication and People on our Leading Generous Teams podcast this week.

Known for her change management skills and ability to deliver strong commercial outcomes across various executive positions, Alex has designed and implemented key initiatives to drive successful change across multiple organisations.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Alex fuels and engages teams and amplifies performance and outcomes
• What vulnerability looks like practically, at the highest levels of leadership
• Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging leadership

Links: 

If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat.

Find out more about the workshop + register here: https://topfivemovement.com/leaders-workshop/

People think that a collaborative team is being a yes person, never disagreeing, and singing kumbaya in a circle. 

But actually, leading a collaborative team takes some hard decisions.

This is what we talked about with Kelly O’Shanassy, CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation on our Leading Generous Teams podcast this week.

We discussed how she fuels herself and her team/ to make the hard decisions and stay focussed on the goals that matter.

Kelly is experienced in executive roles in business, government and the community sector. In her career, Kelly has led the charge to boost clean energy, save water and protect Australia’s rivers, reefs, forests and wildlife. She believes strongly in building people power and unusual partnerships to advocate for a better future. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Kelly fuels and engages her team, even during change
• How to release the excess adrenaline that comes with for purpose roles
• Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging leadership

Links: 

If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat.

Find out more about the workshop + register here: https://topfivemovement.com/leaders-workshop/

Inherited a team that is stuck in old ways of thinking + working?

The ol’ “Hire for attitude, train for skill,” doesn’t cut it anymore.

We’ve all heard the saying “Hire for attitude, train for skill,” and that’s nice, but how often do you get to build a team from scratch? 

More often than not, our teams are a patchwork of other people’s decisions and history. So when you inherit a team, the “hiring for attitude” ship has sailed.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why this happens
• Why it’s important to train for attitude?
• How to get some complimentary resources + invite to help you with this 

Links:

If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat.

Find out more about the workshop + register here: https://topfivemovement.com/leaders-workshop/

Shallow or strategic?

What comes to mind when you think of the highlight reel of your work?

It’s shallow. Like you’re glossing over what still needs to be done. You just don’t have time for it.

And yet, in my conversation with Lyn Morgain, CEO of Oxfam on our Leading Generous Teams podcast this week, we discussed the strategic importance of learning how to share the joy and those moments of highlight.

Lyn Morgain is the Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia. As leader of Oxfam Australia, Lyn oversees the delivery of a broad range of long-term development programs, advocacy campaigns and humanitarian responses.

Lyn has spent her career advocating for the rights of structurally disadvantaged people and communities. She is passionate about peer-based activism and community mobilisation.

Within the global Oxfam community, Lyn holds the role of executive champion for the collective work on race, representation and equity. Lyn is a member of the Australian Council for International Development Board. She is a member of the Trust Board for Oxfam in the Pacific.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• How Lyn fuels and engages her team, even during change
• How those moments of highlight can change our brain and fuel more helpful, encouraging and productive culture. 
• Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging leadership

Register for our upcoming complimentary workshop: Unstoppable Leadership: Fuel your mindset for a strong start to 2023.

Head hear for more info: https://topfivemovement.com/leaders-workshop/

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And if you can’t wait to start building your team’s resilience with our free tools, head to https://www.topfivemovement.com/tools to get started.

To learn more about Oxfam see: https://www.oxfam.org.au/

INVITATION: Unstoppable Leadership  with International Coach of the Year Clare Desira 

Positive thinking won’t cut it.

To lead today, it’s not just about equipping your team with the right technical skills, it’s about knowing how to fuel a helpful, encouraging, and productive culture, even during change.

Described as the most refreshing take on mindset, resilience, leadership and productivity, Top Five Movement’s award winning work draws on motivation and neuroscience research to approach mindset, mindfulness and resilience with practicality.

Not that sugar rush of unrealistic motivation that peaks quickly but leaves us exhausted as soon as we’re faced with the daily grind.

In this new workshop you’ll:

• Future proof your team with change mindset and resilience skills that move them from catastrophising and treading water to moving projects forward even during times of change and uncertainty.
• Retrain, rewire + reset your brain in as little as 20 seconds. 
• Get to apply case studies from generous leaders including Australian Red Cross, Greenpeace, Oxfam (and more) to your mindset + thinking patterns in 2023.

Mindset + resilience training isn’t just a nice idea, it gives you a better return on investment on the energy you put into being a generous leader every day.

To find out more + to register (limited places) to https://topfivemovement.com/leaders-workshop/ 

To join the mailing list to hear about future events: https://topfivemovement.com/resources/

We’d love to see you there.