This is the end....the end of my 'Leading the Coaching Change Podcast'. They say the end is the beginning. 

Leading the coaching podcast has been even better than I had imagined. How did it really happen? A combination of the right time, right place, right people, instincts, hard work, attention to details, teams work and a lot of luck and magic. I still remind myself to keep thinking ahead, stay positive, and dream big.

I just wanted to take that moment to thank all of you around the globe for taking the time to listen to my podcasts, to implement anything that you’ve learned from them, to leave a review, as you become the best leader you can be. I’ve met incredible people, all my amazing guests.

It’s been an incredible journey and I hope that you continue to listen to my conversations with remarkable people over on my LinkedIn live and that you continue learning from me.

I've learned a great deal and share with you my 4 key points. 

It’s been my absolute pleasure to serve you. I wish you all the best and I leave you by saying Thank you.  

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When I feel like saying no!

A non-negotiable is a commitment to yourself that you will not break.

You may have only one or we may have a few.

Here are some questions that we will explore:
- What values and principles are guiding your choices?
- What results do you see by sticking to them?
- Are they part of your daily actions?
- When you follow through on your non-negotiables, what does that tell you about yourself?

Over the past few months, Jeni Ling, Jan Daines and I interviewed some candidates for a leadership post in an international organisation and all were taken by surprise with this question.

What would you respond?

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“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”- Brené Brown

🙋‍♀️ The truth is that there have been many occasions when frankly I thought, I didn't know how I was going to manage to do this LinkedIn live last week.

The thing is I am committed to doing my LinkedIn Live every Thursday at 4 pm, no matter what. I have an audience, my analytics and feedback are clear evidence that people enjoy listening to me and my guests.

Last week, I decided to go solo with my LinkedIn Live. I've never done that and I was slightly terrified 😨. After all, there are 713 million LinkedIn users!! Imagine if they are all watching 😮

So what was going to talk about?

I was going to respond to questions that I've been asked and that I am asking myself.

Have you ever done something that you feared doing?

In this podcast, I share some practical ideas to have the courage to do something. I challenge you with 3 questions so that you can dare do something different. Nothing is in the way really! 

“Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience mould us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together” Linda Thompson

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Really enjoyed our stimulating and thought-provoking podcast on "Financial resilience in leadership" with Mahmood Reza and John Longford DipPFS.

Now maybe you’re asking, “How can I improve as a financial leader, regardless of where I am on the career continuum?”

Deloitte defines "Financial resilience" as "the ability of an organisation to withstand events that affect their capital structure, liquidity, revenue and assets."

Without financial resilience, commercial and operational resilience cannot be maintained.

We were keen to explore have a conversation around
- financial strategic planning (and forecasting)
- critical cash flow risk management
- communicating financial resilience to create value and foster trust
- helping the board make informed decisions
- conflict resolution (with yourself and with others) and responding to a crisis
- networking skills to hire the expert you trust

My favourite quotes:

"Part of a plan might be not to have a plan"

"Surround yourself with the experts that you trust"

"Challenge what you do and know your why"

"Being qualified is not necessarily being good at what you do"

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

VULNERABILITY IS POWERFUL 

Nadine Powrie, MA, ACC, Assoc CIPD: "What if people call me out and say negative things about me?"
Gemma Stow (she/her): " It's not about you. It's about them."

Jeni Ling: "I don't know what my top 3 strengths are."
Gemma Stow (she/her): "What is it that you don't know about yourself that you could use to your advantage? Ask 3 colleagues what they think your top 3 strengths are."

Jan Daines: "I don't have an audience."
Gemma Stow (she/her): "You don't always need an audience."

Nicki Deeson on being visible when it's too late: "and suddenly I have my back to the wall, trying to explain what the team did and how valuable they were."

and that's just a snapshot 😊

We explore great questions:
- Are you ready to give yourself permission to be first? How will you do that?
-  Do your female employees feel supported with career progression? If not, then what are you going to do about it?
-  Does self-promotion make you feel awkward? If yes, then how can you shift your mindset
-  How to get feedback that helps you?

What's in it for you?
- A visibility plan

Thank you, Gemma Stow (she/her), Nicki Deeson, Jeni Ling Jan Daines for being part of this conversation.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Do you know this Airline Pilot Maxim: Do we want pessimism in the cockpit? (Hope Theory: Rainbows in the Mind, C.R. Snyder, 2002)

"Do we really want the pessimistic pilot, filled with anxiety, tension, worry, sadness, rejection, anger, self-criticalness, and profound uncertainty, to be at the controls when our jet is landing in a thunderstorm?"

Not me. I want a high-hope pilot in that cockpit."

But for me, there’s more to it with ‘Hope’ so let me share something that is driving my passion around these 4-letter words.

I am currently writing a PhD proposal where hope is at the core of my research. My research will investigate and analyse how hope determines the outcome of a difficult conversation related to the performance review in a business context.

Hope involves estimation of conscious or unconscious probabilities so my hypothesis is that on choosing the odds to be in our favour, we demonstrate confidence, patience, determination and courage that the ‘perceived’ difficult conversation will transform into a courageous conversation to achieve better outcomes.

Hope will not only determine the future of a strong relationship), influence future performance but also shape the future capacity and capability of a person and ultimately plays a part in the business organisational growth.

So yes, I believe that hope can determine the flow and outcome of a conversation.

In this podcast, I share 5 practical ideas to shift your thinking and your feelings. I challenge you with 3 questions so that you can start using different words. Different words lead to different conversations with different outcomes. 

“Change your way of thinking. Use your energy to accomplish more productive things. The choice is yours and it can be made today!” Garrett Kingston

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Tony Robbins says that ‘According to Compton's Encyclopaedia, the English language contains some 500,000 words. Yet, the average person's working vocabulary consists of 2,000, 0.5% of the entire language. And, do you know the number of words we use most frequently, the words that make up our habitual vocabulary? For most people, it averages 200-300 words’. This is astonishing because it implies that the language you have been using may be more limited than you previously thought.   So with this in mind, imagine now...
Imagine being a middle leader with a new and experienced line manager who happens to be a micro-manager continually asking questions, having an opinion on everything you do, interfering in what you do daily and how you lead, high jacking your meetings with your teams, giving you feedback where you've no idea about the 'why' of this particular comment, for example,  'you need to be closer to your teams'. How would you feel?

In this episode, I discuss what 'managing up' is and I explore the 7 essential tools to influence up.

- When you manage up, you communicate differently
- When you create a level of safety, you encourage a degree of vulnerability
- When you maximise both synergies for maximal impact, you build great relationships

I love sharing my 7 coaching questions so that you can think about managing up' when you prepare for that next meeting with your new line manager.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

"Go for a gold medal"

If you're curious about increasing your mental strength, then you'll love this podcast.

Max Roberts is my very special guest. Max is a gym owner and a fitness/mindset coach in the North East of England. Jeni Ling introduced Max to me because she felt that I would share his coaching philosophy. I really do! 

Max says

• "When I climb up the hill, I believe I will be the hero of my own movie."
• "We all have a need to feel significant; on what scale that is is dependent on the person."
• "I've decided not to feel the other way."
• "Be your biggest fan."

In our conversation, we explored 

- How can we define 'mental strength'?

- What is the concept of 'significance'?

- How we can use 'love language' in our lives

- What you can do to get that gold medal every day.

My favourite question from Max: 'If you were to do the exact opposite for 48 hours, what would your life look like?"

Thank you Max for being my guest. I'll take that gold medal!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

I am delighted to welcome Claire Pedrick, PCC to my podcast.

Claire believes that a 'coaching style is more a behaviour that is formed through practice and reflection, than a box of knowledge that can be learned. Becoming a master coach is like winning Masterchef – it’s all about distilling what you know into something more powerful, more simple and more effective.'

If you've not bought her book, then, please do 'Simplifying coaching - How to have more transformational conversations by doing less'.

Like Tracy Sinclair, and Karen Foy, Claire does not niche and I find this refreshing. It's nice to go against the flow. 

In this podcast, we're having a passionate conversation about coaching. We explore:

- The reasons behind writing the book ‘How to have more transformational conversations by doing less’?

- Some of her key thinking and ideas that were born from real-life events: ‘rightsizing a conversation’, ‘cocreating the container, STOKeRS

- The quality of conversations and how to improve them

Ultimately in the end, as Claire says 💬 'it's about the value of simple conversations'.

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This week, I'm focusing on the impact of coaching, I’ve invited Karen Foy, Lecturer Coaching and Behaviour Change at Henley Business School.

Karen and I did a conversation analysis of one of my coaching sessions when I was preparing my re-accreditation from ICF. I loved the observations and perspectives that she shared with me on my own work.

Karen is quoting Carl Jung in our conversation 'Once you've learned all your techniques and tools and models, you're just a human soul across from another human.'

Karen says:
-      We can pick out and get curious about the words
-      We need to create a safe space
-      They may be very powerful in very high ranking positions but there's still a human who has got the same issues as anybody else

Listen up if you want to know more. Karen and I
⭐️ explore what ‘clean language' for coaches' is
⭐️ focus on the importance of the coaching contract
⭐️ examine the types of conflicts where coaching can help
⭐️ discuss the difficult yet courageous conversations that leaders are having

My favourite quote from this episode:
💬 “If we can encourage people and work with people to be themselves, they have all the wisdom they need to succeed just the way we do.'

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

I am excited to speak with Tracy Sinclair, Corporate Executive and board-level Coach, who has worked with a wide range of organisations within the UK and internationally and who sits on the various UK, EMEA and Global ICF working groups to promote and enhance professional coaching.

Tracy says: “I love to work with organisations, individuals and teams who want to be at their best and reach their fullest potential.

In our conversation, we spoke about:

• the impact and the future of coaching 
• the importance of NOT niching 
• the (new) ICF competency 2
• One of Tracy's favourite book
• Tracy's work with Marshall Goldsmith

We also explored some questions:

• What is the optimal human condition?
• How transformational positive change and learning can be achieved
• What are the ingredients of a transformational conversation?
• How can coaching reduce conflict?

On impact: 'we're really looking at all of these ways of strategies for how to bring coaching into organizations, how to have a social impact, how to maintain standards.'

On niching: 'whether that human being works in the financial sector, or is a young parent, or a single mother, or someone transitioning into retirement or, you know, whatever context they have, they are a human being.'

Tracy has been my trainer, mentor, supervisor. I love her passion and her commitment to high-quality coaching. She's truly inspiring.

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Christine Billy and I share the passion for coaching high performing teams around the world. We also share the same birthday!

It's funny how we hesitate when describing a high performing team as a crystal or as a diamond. Every diamond is a crystal but every crystal isn't a diamond.

We're interested in the invisible and in the magic of high-performing teams.  

It's not because you are a high-achiever that you don't have barriers, invisible blocks or that little voice tormenting you. After all, whoever you are, you are a human being with a heart and lots of emotions. 

In our conversation, we spoke about

- The need to align our mind and our heart

- How to accelerate the success by implying the strategic transformation (and how to measure it)

- The types of conflicts that high performing teams are facing and how to resolve them

- The role of our intuition 

I love Christine's final message of hope. 

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Imagine being in an online interview and being asked by the CEO "what makes you unique?"

- How would you respond?

- What examples would you use to back up your statement?

I am also curious 
What is the best ever response you heard from a candidate (if you were on the interview panel)?

Lisa Barrow, CEO of Kada Recruiting has a possible answer "A good tip in answering this question is to start with this sentence opener. 'I was the only one who.' Or I was the first to. And fill in the blank with what you've accomplished that many others in the same situation didn't or took longer to do. Use the opportunity to respond as a way to share a special achievement that you're particularly proud of accomplishing"

Listen to Jeni Ling and I in this podcast where we give you 10 ideas about how to make your uniqueness shine.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

"I can be who I choose to be"

If you're curious about the power of coaching conversations and if you are a high achiever, then you'll love this podcast. Linley Rose, MCC, is my very special guest. I've known Linley for the past 16 years. She was my Executive Coach and has supported me through several promotions from being an Assistant Headteacher to becoming a Headteacher. She then coached my senior team and my staff. 

Being a high achiever does not mean that things are easy. They're not! 

Here are some of the questions that I asked Linley (and there were many more in between and after those)

* You are working with leaders and high achievers. What’s your definition of high achiever? What’s the difference with being an ‘elite’?

* Your clients are looking for clarity, focus, confidence and correctness. How do you measure the impact of coaching on those?

* What are the types of conflicts that coaching that is reduced or eradicated when you have coaching?

* You are a certified facilitator of tools: DISC, working style analysis. How reliable are those tools and how do you use them?

* How are leaders challenged by COVID 19 and how can coaching help them?

We agreed that there is a common characteristic that all leaders can have. Not all leaders display it. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

We will never forget 2020 and we have reflected! 

2021 is yet to be written. You might have mixed feelings and emotions about it. Let's be clear, 2021 will hold new challenges for us and that's life!

What matters most is how we respond to challenges and how we apply the lessons that we've learnt to move forward in our relationships, career, leadership and life

Decide how you want to experience 2021. What's your highest vision? What's inspiring you right now?

We all have a different DNA and we're all work in progress. 

Psychologist William James said 'Most people live in a restricted circle of their true potential'. How will you rise to the challenges of 2021 with courage, creativity and resilience? 

In this podcast, I share 4 different ways of setting your new year resolutions.

What you choose not to do is as important as what you choose to do. It's not about having the highest number of goals. It's about setting what's right for you and only you know that. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

'There is usually more than one story'

One of the biggest challenges in a conflict is to listen. Emotions can run high. Anger tends to be a surface emotion. But if you look at what drives the anger, you will often find hurt, pain, or fear. 

Laura Kirkpatrick and Julie Farrell are both Mediators, Trainers, Conflict Coach and Restorative Justice Facilitators. They both work for Solution Talk, a North West based conflict resolution company specialising in Mediation, Training, Conflict Coaching & Restorative Justice.

I love what they say about the role of Mediators 'Mediators ensure that people have an opportunity to have their say, be heard and work out what needs to change so they can work out a mutually acceptable solution.'

In this podcast, we discussed: 

• How to resolve the neighbour dispute?
• How do you handle people who say ‘I am right, you’re wrong’?
• What has COVID changed for them as a Mediator/Trainer?
• What research do they use to support your work?
• How do they manage the difference of opinions?
• What legacy do you want to have as a mediator?

My favourite quote from the podcast
💬 'We all have a choice & sometimes you have to let your feelings go in order to move forward. The #mediation process can help you get ahead.'

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I am delighted to welcome Marie Coombes, who is the National Workplace Mediation Award 2020 Winner on this podcast. 

What I love about Marie is her enthusiasm, her energy and her passion for mediation. She genuinely and truly cares for people, so it is not a surprise that she is a mental health first aider.

We talked about the relationship between conflict, and mental health and Marie is clear about her role 'we are not there to diagnose, we are there to support.' 

In this episode, you'll learn:

What it means for them to be the 'Workplace Mediation Award 2020 Winner.'

What you can do in mediation in advance when you know that one person has mental health issues? 

The 5 areas of research that Marie use to support her work

One advice to manage the difference of opinions

My favourite quote from the podcast

'Language is a fascinating subject. It's absolutely fascinating how people use language in conflict and in resolving it.'

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Meet two amazing women!

Audrey Dorival and Susanna Diegel are both SEND mediators and managers working for KIDS, a charity that supports over 13,700 disabled children, young people and their families every year by delivering over 80 services throughout England.

In this episode, you'll learn:

- How the 2014 Children and Family Act brought major changes for children and young people aged 0 to 25

- Some of the key themes of the research paper from Margaret Doyle 'A place at the table'

- What it means for them to be the 'SEND Mediation Award 2020 Winner'

- How they have supported their 40 mediators working for the charity KIDS. 

- The ONE project that they need funding with (can you help them with it?)

PLUS you'll hear about the guidance jointly developed with the Department for Education and Mott MacDonald that they have published, click here.

My favourite quote from this episode

"I think a key difference is that the relationship that the parties will have, could potentially go from birth to 25 years."

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Back in August 2020, when I filled in the online application to be able to broadcast my own LinkedIn live, I had no idea about that very decision would test my resilience. This is why:

On the one hand, I had that little voice in my head telling me:

There are 706 million LinkedIn users so

- Don't mess this up (I'd never used Streamyard before)

- What if people didn't think that it was relevant or helpful

- What if there was no impact

 

On the other hand, that little voice was also telling me:

What a WONDERFUL opportunity to

- Share thinking, engage people in a conversation that I don't know from around the world

- Have a global voice, speak up and be heard

- Grow a global network

Resilience can be tested by adversity but also by positive changes.

Listen to my podcast, where I talk about what the core components of resilience can be and where I share 9 tools to equip you with developing your own resilience.

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When I research Jonathan Rodrigues to prepare for my podcast, I wasn’t surprised that he put a like to a post on LinkedIn from Charlie Irvine “We shape the world by our choice of words, so the world of other people’s conflict shapes us."

Jonathan is a lawyer, civil, commercial and cross-border mediator in India. He speaks with passion about mediation and is very clear about the legacy that he wants to have with 1.3 billion in India “there is scope for mediation. It’s about creating a different future for those people."

Jonathan says “every morning we wake up to #missionmediation”

In our conversation, we talked about:

- The landscape of mediation in India

- How to promote mediation in India

- What he learnt by doing his TED Talk on ‘multi-door dispute resolution’

- The role of AI in mediation

- How to manage the difference of opinions

Jonathan speaks about the influence that  Owen Fiss (Yale Law school) "Against settlement" has had on his way of thinking. 

My favourite quote from this episode:

“The most thrilling part of mediation is when you take away all that noise to start a proper conversation”

If you have any questions or if you’d like to discuss how conflict resolution training can help your organisation, email me at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

I was very honoured to interview Andrew Miller QC for my 73rd podcast on #Leadingthecoachingchange.

Hands up that I felt a little intimidated as Andrew is a QC and I've never done a podcast with a QC before but as Andrew said: "I've always been approachable, the letters just get stuck on the end of your name".

Andrew is a highly respected barrister, mediator, arbitrator and conciliator. As I was preparing for our conversation, I was seriously wondering if there was anything Andrew can't do!

Genuinely kind, humble and approachable, Andrew and I talked for over 55 minutes over:

- What the Civil/Commercial Mediator Award 2020 meant for him

- What the qualities of a successful mediator are

 -The impact of COVID-19 on commercial mediation and the resolution disputes in general

- How he manages the difference of opinions in mediations

- His mediation style

Andrew is also the Chair of the Trustees for the Charity 'The Compassionate Friends' (TCF). Please TCF to offer support to families in their time of greatest need. Make a donation. Thank you.

My favourite quote from this episode
💬 “Listening isn't enough in my view. In mediation, I always say this phrase 'we always listen but we don't always hear'. You have to be able to hear what they are saying. When you repeat it back to them, they've got to know that they've been heard. Where parties start at the beginning of the mediation, there can never be a settlement. it's not possible. Something has to change on both sides for there to be a settlement."

If you have any questions or if you’d like to discuss how conflict resolution training can help your organisation, email me at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Nancy Radford, who is my special guest on this new episode of #leadingthecoachingchange, brings something to the table "we're here to kind of help people in a way that helps them not need us anymore. So in effect, I'm really all about making myself redundant. Because you know, you're not going to be here forever." 

Nancy is a passionate mediator and speaks with her heart. She shares with us her insights on:

-     The importance of understanding someone else's pain 

-     The benefits of using online mediation

-     How the work of Martin Seligman, Tom Rath, Mark Goulston have supported her own approach to mediation

-     How ONE book changed her life

-     Her passion for SEND mediations

Aren’t you sold yet to listen to this episode? I am!

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “People need to feel heard people need to feel that they matter. And I think good mediators and great mediators make everyone feel they matter. And once you feel you matter, you calm down and the flight and fight response lowers. And you can think logically, and most people, if they can think logically it can find a way out of more situations." 

Thank you, Nancy, for being a guest on my podcast.

If you have any questions or if you'd like to discuss how conflict resolution training can help your organisation, email me at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

I am delighted to welcome Srdan Simac to my latest episode of #Leadingthecoaching change podcast.

Srdan Simac is a judge, a mediator, arbitrator, lawyer in Croatia. If you follow his work, you'll see that he walks the talk. 

Srdan Simac shares his compelling story about his journey, his career and his philosophy of life (and mediation). He is humble, caring. 

• What skills a mediator need to have to be successful
• Why do people like saying 'I am right' (and you're wrong)
• The importance of listening when managing difference of opinions
• Why is mediation the "most powerful' tool in the world of dispute resolution

Srdan made reference to:

• Professor Tom Tyler, "Why people obey the law".
• Professor (and judge) Victoria Pratt "How judges can show respect" TED Talk

My favourite quotes in this episode

"Mediation is teaching us about communication skills, how to communicate, how to use words, how to change our perspective."

But as a mediator, can you imagine, I have so-called "natural authority"? What does it mean? They choose me because they believe that I can help them. That is a huge privilege that somebody with the big problem in his or her life or business, choose you as a person and give you trust to help them, so I feel so privileged."

Thank you Srdan Simac for this unforgettable moment.

I improve employee well-being through conflict resolution training. Email me at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

*** I don't know how to prepare for my online interview next week ***

Jeni Ling and I can help you!

Sneek peak of questions we will discuss:
- How to prepare for a remote interview
- What are the best questions that you can ask at interviews?
- Virtual interview dos and don’ts
- What questions to expect during your interview

Do you feel ready now?

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Me: Have you ever disagreed with a colleague at work?

You: YES

Me: Did you try to correct your colleague's perceptions, lecturing him/her about why you’re right and why they’re wrong?

You: YES

Me: And?

You: It made it worse

I am delighted to be joined by @David Barrett this week in my latest episode of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast to discuss how to resolve conflict with mediation

David shares his philosophy on what successful mediation is about. He explains

✔️ Why arguing can be valuable

✔️ What the three common points between coaching and mediation are

✔️ The five types of courage in mediation

✔️ The two techniques to manage differences of opinions

✔️ Why it is easier to do online mediation

 

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Every effective communication is an opportunity to build trust”

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Welcome to the 69th episode of my latest podcast #Leadingthecoachingchange.

You may know that 2 weeks ago I qualified civil, commercial and workplace mediator. It makes sense to start talking more about the power of meditation in my podcast. So for this week's podcast, I invited David Liddle as my guest of honour. David is the director and CEO of TMC. David and I got into a 45-minutes conversation about the power of mediation.   

If you want to listen to someone who truly loves what he is doing in his working life, then listen to how David talks passionately about mediation. 

David says:

• Dissonance and lack of clarity are the major antecedents of conflict
• One of the beauties of mediation is an opportunity for insight growth and learning

In our conversation, David and I 

⭐️ explored what mediation really is

⭐️ delve into how to manage the difference of opinions

⭐️ examined the future of mediation in the UK and globally?

⭐️ discussed the courageous conversations that disruptive leaders are having

We referred to Marshall Rosenberg and non-violent communication, Sidney Dekker and Daniel Goleman. 

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬  “We're not taking those moments to stop to check-in and to check me,  am I feeling as well?"

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Are you a Talent Development Specialist who is considering buying my ONLINE LICENSED TRAINING programme on 'Managing Difficult Conversations' but not sure whether it’s right for your organisation?

If so you probably have a lot of questions to ask me. 

🥇 What kind of results can we expect when we buy the online LICENSED training programme (and how quickly)?

🤔 What exactly is included/not included in the online licensed training programme and how does it work?

🤔What’s the hot seat?

🤔 Who can help me if I am stuck?

🤷‍♀️ Is the programme suitable for an HR/ER professional, Junior, Middle and Senior Managers?

⏰ How much time we will need to spend on each module of the online licensed training programme if we decide to buy them separately?

💰 And how much does it cost?

If that sounds familiar then listen to this special BONUS podcast episode where I'm explaining everything you need to know about my online licensed training programme.

I'll even talk you through the results that my clients have had so far 🥇. 

This training programme is no longer available but if you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

IN A WORLD WHERE YOU CAN BE ANYTHING - BE YOURSELF!

My guest this week is Jo Soley. As a Business Coach, Jo shows you how to harness the power of the energies of Numerology to elevate your business success. 

I first heard about Jo when she was invited to a Podcast with Janet Murray, back in January 2020 and I got curious! I had 2 urgent questions:

1. Why did I need to understand my numbers (based on my date of birth) to elevate my business success when I'd never used those numbers before and was doing quite well so far?
2. How could the day I was born affect my life, work and career?

I hesitated in inviting Jo on my podcast because It’s not the kind of podcast interview I normally do and I knew that potentially we could have a difficult conversation on Zoom because, for a start, I did not believe in numerology.

In this podcast episode of #Leadingthecoachingchange, Jo reminds us that 'Numerology is as old as the hills. Emperor Nero is associated with it. The Egyptians used in the Hieroglyphics. The Ancient Greeks used it. Pythagoras referenced it in terms of the religion of numbers. Music uses Numerology with strings and tones.' 

Jo introduces us to Bizology and says:

- We are all unique - we are meant to be. We can do things and act in a way that no-one else can do

- Be yourself because everyone else is taken

- Today I will do what others won't. So tomorrow I can do what others can't

- There's a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally

- Ultimately our success is down to us

Jo and I talked about

• What Numerology is and isn't
• How to use Numerology in business
• How to move forward our business (there are better times and easier times to do things)
• How we can't go go go all the times - it's impossible

 My favourite quote from this episode:

"I'm saying keep your seatbelts on to the end of the year, stay in your lane with regards to your numeric energies, concentrate on the personal year you're in, do what you have to do until the end of the year. So I'm saying kind of ride it out, energetically'.

If you are concerned that the difficult conversations that your leaders need to have are being compromised by remote working – then you need to speak to me!  Email me today at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

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Welcome to the 65th episode of my latest podcast #Leadingthecoachingchange.

I’ve invited Fay Wallis who is a Career Coach, an Executive Coach and Outplacement Specialist. I met Fay when I was a member of Janet Murray’s community 4 years ago. What I really like about Fay is her authenticity, her sense of perfection, her professionalism and her positivity.

Be not mistaken, the next few months and years are going to be not only challenging but uncertain because of the ongoing economic impact from Coronavirus around the world. In this episode, Fay and I are going to share with you how she is supporting employees and HR professionals with redeployment and redundancies.

Fay says:

• Some of the most difficult conversations HR professionals have is around redundancies
• It’s hard to deliver bad news. How do you do that?
• It’s ok to feel upset or confused or angry
• As a Career Coach, you’ve got to be able to make that call and decided when it might actually be more helpful for that client to be offered counselling.

Fay and I together, we

- explore how we can best help people when their role is being made redundant

- share strategic steps that people can take to find a job as there are jobs available.

- examine what the ‘survivor syndrome is’ and how you can best navigate it

- discuss the courageous conversations that HR professionals are having

And if want to know the ONE tool that you should be using if you are writing up your CV or a letter of application, Fay reveals it all.

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “This time is yours: what do you want to use it for”.

Fay and I have put together a list of professional bodies to help you:

• CIPD: for HR professionals
• ACCA: for Accountancy professionals
• CIM: for Marketing professionals
• CMI:Chartered Management Institute – for anyone in a management or leadership role
• A full list of professional bodies can be found at this site:https://www.ukecc-services.net/ukpbata.cfm

Fay’s website at https://www.brightskycareercoaching.co.uk/

If you are concerned that the difficult conversations that your employees need to have are being compromised by remote working – then you need to speak to me!  Email me today at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

"I have a concern because we live in a racist society and within institutionally racist institutions, that minority communities have a difficult challenge to be able to live their lives" says Rotimi Akinsete.

"How can I do better as a human? How can I do better as a woman? How can I do better as a white woman?" says Nadine Powrie

I am delighted to be join by Rotimi Akinsete, Associate Dean Of Students at University of the Arts London, in my 64th episode of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast to discuss racial equality.

We discussed

✔️ The importance of doing what we say we're going to do

✔️ What we are prepared to do about making the necessary changes

✔️ What discriminations we need to eradicate in the world

 

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “We can think about being part of solution, or we can continue to be part of the problem”

As an Executive and Leadership Coach, I enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversations.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Do you remember when I talked about Disruptive Leadership with Simon Harmer ‘Zig when everyone zags’ in my podcast?

Louise Hall, Director of HR and OD at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust commented on Linkedin that 'It’s easier to do this when you are a senior leader'. Well, I invited Louise Hall on my latest episode of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast to discuss transformational leadership and she immediately accepted. I love that! 

Louise and I talked about

- The importance of doing the right thing

-  How relationships can shape the transformation

-  What the best teams look like

-   How not to become the leader that you don't want to be

 

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬  “As you get more senior, it’s easier to challenge the status quo. There is an acceptance, whether it’s right or wrong, because of the position you’re in, that you can do what you think is right, as opposed to just do what the policies or standards of ways of doing things is’

As an Executive and Leadership Coach, I enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversations. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

"I'm writing to encourage us to look at what we can do because it's so easy to become despondent and to really feed defeated. How can I make the world a better place with my actions" says Leisa Grace Wilson

"How can I do better as a human? How can I do better as a woman? How can I do better as a white woman?" says Nadine Powrie

I am delighted to be join by Leisa Grace Wilson in one of my episodes of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast to discuss racial equality.

We discussed

✔️ How we can make a difference through our actions

✔️ The types of questions that we need to eradicate in our daily conversations

✔️ How to analyze problems from a broader perspective and challenge established ways of thinking

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “You're not going to get rid of ideological thinking and white supremacy by marching through the streets”

As an Executive and Leadership Coach, I enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversations. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Apparently, to be the most interesting person in the room, you need to be confident, smile and have things to talk about. Do that and people will be intrigued by you. That’s what people say!

To be the most interesting person in the room, be disruptive. That’s what I'd say.  

Explore the power of conversations. Light the fire and sit in it. See the process unfold and work with it. How do you notice the disruption in the room?

Give yourself permission to ask 3 questions. Keep asking those questions.

1 of them you must ask 5 times (at least)

Guaranteed results...

I challenge you to try!

 

My favourite quotes from this episode:

💬 “What genius do you bring to your organisation?”

💬 “What is the level of safety here”?

I enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversations. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

*** What does talent acquisition look like in the midst of a pandemic? ***

The short answer is digital—very, very digital.

Thanks to Covid-19, the traditional hiring process has been harder than ever this year as recruiters and candidates scrambled to adapt to a fully remote experience.

Here's the thing: 'According to a Sage report, 24% of businesses have started using AI for their talent acquisition needs, with 56% of managers planning to adopt automated technology in the next twelve months.' (Forbes, 2021)

Success-capable candidates in 2021 will demonstrate strong communication, ease with technology and a flexible, adaptable approach to their work.

Sneek peak of questions we discuss:
- How to adopt hiring technologies such as automation and AI
- How to stay personal when the organisation uses AI as part of your recruitment process
- How to eliminate bias in the hiring process
- What are the long-term hiring strategies?

Thank you for choosing to listen to my podcast. I'd love to hear your views on what Jeni Ling and I discussed. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

How to be a successful disruptive leader

Welcome to the 60th episode of my latest podcast #Leadingthecoachingchange.

This week, I’ve decided to focus on disruptive leadership and to support me, I’ve invited Simon Harmer as my guest of honour.

Simon is the director of a creative agency ‘Thursday’. My friend Jenny Plant introduced me to Simon during lockdown. Simon and I got into conversations (on zoom) about ‘disruption’, ‘creativity’.

If you don’t know about Simon, do visit thursday.studio and have a look at the first message ‘Clarity feels good. Confusion doesn’t’. It feels like BANG! 5 words but hey…what a powerful message. I want to read more…don’t you?

Simon says:

• He is a very curious and always starts with the ‘why’
• He thinks with agility
• He always been a good people person

Are you like Simon? If yes, you may be a disruptive leader. Listen up if you want to know more. Simon and I

⭐️ explore what ‘being a disruptive leader’ really means

⭐️ share what creativity looks like

⭐️ examine the types of questions disruptive leaders use

⭐️ discuss the courageous conversations that disruptive leaders are having

And if you listen right up to the end, Simon reveals what ‘LUCK’ means

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Why do we do things this way? The next time you find yourself doing something, start questioning, is there a better way?

Thank you Simon for being my guest on this 60th episode. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

If you want to hear good news, read on…

My guest this week on #Leadingthecoachingchange podcast is Janine Capaldi and her opening statement is ‘people are actually generating leads from Linkedin at the moment.’

That’s true. It’s not an assumption. It’s actually happening. There is hope and we should never lose sight of it.

My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about exploring the successful conversations that we all need to have to design a clear roadmap, a strategic plan to generate leads from Linkedin. #Janine capaldi is the expert and shares with us some useful tips

Find out:

⭐️ How to qualify your future clients on Linkedin

⭐️ How to have the ‘right’ conversation to co-construct the ROI

⭐️ How to assert your boundaries in a conversation

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “What I did find really difficult was telling people that they were not the right fit "

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Trust is the basis for almost everything we do and research shows that trust is based on 3 pillars

-      Positive relationships

-      Expertise (walk the talk)

-      Consistency

But trust is more than that!

HRB reports that "Employees in high-trust organisations are more productive, have more energy at work, collaborate better with their colleagues, and stay with their employers longer than people working at low-trust companies. They also suffer less chronic stress and are happier with their lives, and these factors fuel stronger performance."

This week, in my latest episode of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast, I have a special guest Tarek Alami.

Listen up if you want to understand

⭐️ What skills you need to be a #change leader

⭐️ How to influence your colleagues and your clients towards a common goal

⭐️ How #ROI was always important (and now only suddenly now!)

⭐️How to use your 6th sense

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “If people have faith and #trust in you, then you’ll have a greater success in influencing the direction in which you want to go.’

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Emma Waltham helps organisations support women returning to work after maternity through coaching, consultancy and training. She has a first class degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Leicester.  She is a certified Coach from Cambridge University. What an impressive background!   “I think I’ve been a bit naive about what the reality is when you’ve got an employment gap.”   “The Government Qualities Office, in their research, compared interestingly, working mothers to working fathers that working with as a half as likely to have received a promotion within five years than a working father. And what they found was if they did get a promotion, often that was because they’ve moved organisation.”   Emma and I have a common point in that we are both using strength cards in our coaching practice

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you’ll hear

* How you can use an employment gap to your advantage

* What the research says about working mothers and promotion

* How flexible working can help women returning to work

* Why it is important for organisations to have a programme for women returning to work after their maternity leave

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Dr Phyl Hughes is a Business Psychologist at H2Pro. She is a coach, working with a range of mid to top layer leaders in the UK. Her USP as a coach is at the meeting point of you-your strategy-your organisation. She asks if this is the strategic direction of your firm, what do your leadership behaviours need to look like to deliver it. Dr Phyl’s work on culture change piece from top level to mid level.

I always love finding a common denominator with the people I interview on my podcast and with Dr Phyl, it is the definition of what a leader is “the role of a leader is about being a translator.”

– “It is about guiding people to be clear about their strategic direction, and then how that has a genuine meaning on how they are as a leader with that.”

– “People have a curious psychology around change, in that they crave it, but then when they do engage with it is daunting, even if that change is what they’d wished for.”

–  “Organisations have their own particular habits in how they go about managing change and a whole set of expectations, mindsets , fear, fantasies, and enablers, blockers that either make change fly or get in the way of it .”

– “I suggest to people that they need to think about change in 3 areas: what it needs to change, why it does need to change and how we go about that change”.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you’ll also hear:

* How to understand the difference between efficient and effective ways of approaching, engaging and being comfortable with change

* What Dr Phyl’s views are on models of change

* What the role of a leader is about being a translator

* How use the concept of congruence within the language of change

(And there were so many more points in this one I can’t even cover here – be sure to listen to get them all.)

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

You are a leader managing a team of people. You have become aware that there is conflict between some of your team members. You wonder how you can resolve the team conflict. You see it as a difficult conversation.

You can fix a work relation gone sour. Fixing a relationship takes serious effort but it can be done. Brian Uzzi, professor of leadership and organizational change at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, has written an article — ‘Make your enemies your allies’ — in which he says that ‘the hard work is often worth it, especially in a work environment where productivity and performance are at stake.

In this episode, I share some statistics with you about conflict at work in the UK and I take you through some team-conflict resolution strategies that will help you.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

*** How can you make people like you? ***

You know that:

- You’ve got an open mind and you listen

- You smile

- You do what you say you’re going to do

- You don’t really know

- You think you’re average

- You’re just you

And that you love everyone until they give you a reason not to!

You know that people like you because they tell you but you’re not sure about the exact reasons, listen to my latest Leading the Coaching change podcast to help you get it. What if they stop liking you?

So listen up if

⭐️ You want to get clear on the language to use

⭐️ You are desperate to be liked

⭐️You are ready to be happier (as more people will like you)

🎧Listen here

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

What do people thank you for most often?

How do you feel when your colleague(s), your line manager, your boss congratulate you, say thank you to you?

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How practising workplace gratitude can transform relationships

* What routines and daily habits you can develop to express your gratitude

* How you can develop a 'happy brain'

* Why it is important to say thank you

My favourite quote from this episode:

- "Appreciation changes everything"

-"What do people around you do well everyday that you might be taking for granted?"

- "Celebrate how other people have shifted, their creativity, their success, their risk, the difference that they are making. "

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

In my latest episode of the #Leadingthecoachingchange, I invited a special guest Andy Storch. Andy is Talent Development Consultant, Author, Podcaster @The Talent Development Hot Seat, Conference Host and Multipliers Certified Facilitator.

In this episode Andy shares how leaders need to examine how they are connecting with their colleagues to foster positive #relationships so that there is a significant impact on colleagues’s health, happiness and ultimately within the organisation.

Leading a successful career means making the right decisions. Andy talks about making the right choice in training. Discovery-based learning is an environment that helps people make challenging decisions with others in a specific timeframe. The difference is that it is a safe environment where you figure it out, try different answers and discuss them.

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Networking is like a bank account, you don't start off by trying to withdraw, you have to make deposits first.”

Thank you Andy for sharing your thoughts with us in this episode #52 of #Leadingthecoachingchange

#growth #leadership #relationships #strategy #success

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

 

 

The outbreak of Covid-19 virus has left many of us feeling anxious about the coming weeks and months as many people are facing an uncertain financial future, given the potential impact on everyday life, jobs and income.

But there is advice and support available to help people deal with the potential psychological and financial impact of the outbreak.

That’s why I invited @John Longford, Financial Adviser at St James's Place Wealth Management to talk to us about the world of finance. My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about exploring the steps we can take to reduce our financial fragility.

Find out:

⭐️ How to put in place the right protection plan for your family

⭐️ What a courageous conversation around finance looks like during COVID-19

⭐️ How improving our finances can actually have a positive effect on our physical well-being by reducing stress levels.

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “What’s really important around financial advisers, it can be a very long-term relationship.”

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Imagine being the CEO of a startup or the CEO of a new school...

You have your staffing structure, ready to appoint. Adverts are out...

First thing first, remember that for your £27,600 paid new staff member, you’ll actually need to budget for something closer to £50,000 in their first year of employment?

So you'd better get that right!

Of course, you want to appoint the best people for the job and create the best team...the best team to help you and your organisation to succeed.

Sneak peek at some of our questions!

❓What is your candidate journey?
❓What are the best examples of the application and interview process?
❓ What are the best questions that one can ask at interviews?

But let's be clear, you are the candidate, not the organisation!

Once you know all of that, how will you write your application? What will influence what you put in it?

I'd love to hear your views.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

 

Today I publish my 50th episode of my podcast Leading The Coaching Change. I am delighted to have a special guest @Mahmood Reza, director of Pro Active Resolutions, an accountant, business & tax advisor of over 30 years. He walks the talk!

EVALUATE     ELEVATE     ACCELERATE

Do something courageous everyday to unlock new possibilities

In December 2018, I had no podcast. I wanted one so that I could enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversation. Like most problems, the need to have certain talks doesn’t go away just because you avoid them!

When you want something to be different then do something different.

I signed up with @Jessica Lorimer's podcasting course before Christmas 2018 to learn everything about podcasting over 6-8 weeks. I listened all of Janet Murray's episodes... I wanted to learn from the best!

It's ok not to know everything

I first thought that Libsyn was an antibiotic!

I didn't know how to add the music to an MP3 using iMovie.

I had no idea I could even own a piece of music.

 Stay consistent 

17 months later...

I have published a podcast every Friday no matter where I was I the world and no matter what!

My podcast is now ranked #215

 

You can’t succeed on your own

#TeamNadine has been busy with editing the podcast (Thank you @podbear @philpowrie @bethlynch)

 

Listen to my latest episode #50 on the Leading the Coaching Change podcast. We talk about the importance of empathy in Leadership.

 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

8 tricks to make people like you immediately 

"I want people to like me but in taking my chance to have a courageous conversation, I take the risk for them to hate me forever."

That’s not necessarily true. It’s an assumption.

My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about exploring why you’re good at people liking you and it might help you when you are transforming your difficult conversations into courageous conversations.

Find out:

- How you can use the chameleon effect

- How can people forgive you for your mistakes

- The ONE thing that people always remember

 

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Whatever you say about other people influences the way they see you."

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

 

Business reorganisation and restructuring is a common issue that affects thousands of employees every year. It’s a sensitive matter that greatly impact people lives.

I might be controversial here but I believe that restructuring can inspire people to perform better.

A restructuring has always a ‘WHY’ and it starts with the business strategic plan. Shifting the vision, the business priorities to revive a business in decline or to gain competitive advantage so that it continues to grow justifies the ‘WHY’.

In this episode of Leading the Coaching Change podcast, I'll be sharing

⭐️ The ONE group of employees that tend to respond in a particular way during a restructuring

⭐️ The ONE value that your organisation need at this moment in time

⭐️ The benefits of restructuring

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Using the values of your organisation to behave ethically are qualities and actions associated with successful leaders who can inspire during tough times."

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

What are the symptoms of a difficult conversation? 

If you’ve been worrying about your next remote difficult conversation or maybe if you’ve been thinking of delaying it or not having it at all because you’re dreading it and don’t know how to handle it remotely,

👉Well, I have REALLY good news for you.

🎧 Listen to my new Coaching the Leading change episode where I share the 5 symptoms of a difficult conversation.

My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about how you can up level your mindset to create change within yourself and your organisations so that you can transform difficult conversations into courageous conversations.

Find out:

⭐️ What the 5 symptoms of a difficult conversations are

⭐️ How you can treat those 5 symptoms

⭐️ Which of the 3 types of flexibility you can use to develop a mental framework for effective thinking

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “An assumption is an educated guess, a likely condition, circumstance or event presumed known and true in the absence of absolute certainty."

Leadership #NPcoaching

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.