Lead Like YOU! The Courageous Leadership Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In today's episode, I am sharing powerful strategies to set boundaries at work, especially as a leader.

Why is it important to talk about boundaries as leaders?

Setting boundaries is a significant leadership skill. As you move up the leadership ladder, you will have increased demands on your time. You will have to manage your own work, the work of your team members and manage relationships at all levels of the organisation.

Setting boundaries means defining what is "ok" and what is not "ok". It means defining where you place your attention, which habits you want to build, and which processes you set with others.

Enforcing boundaries can be difficult. It also often comes with consequences and might disappoint people. But by managing your boundaries, you will build trust, manage your emotional energy and lead by example.

In today's episode we dive into why boundaries are important and how you can implement them in your leadership.

The different types of boundaries I mention:

• Emotional
• Material
• Time
• Physical
• Mental

These questions are here to help dive deeper into how you can implement these boundaries and discover more about where you stand with them. Try them for yourself:

• Where do I need to set and define better boundaries for myself?
• What are the areas that I am finding I have not really defined for myself? But are very important to me?
• How much do I want to give myself?
• Which area do I need to define and set better boundaries with others?

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Want to keep listening?

Discover your leadership values in Episode 5

Learn more about psychological safety in Episode 10

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How do you navigate difficult conversations in the workplace?

As a leader, you often have to engage in difficult conversations. It can feel tempting to avoid the conversation and wait for things to pass. This does not lead to any resolution and can cause more issues in the future. So how do you handle difficult conversations in the workplace?

Avoiding these conversations can have a negative impact on the relationships with your peers, with your colleagues, with your manager and with your team members. It's important you engage in difficult conversations because it shows you have the courage to speak up, to be vulnerable and to talk about things that might cause discomfort at the start. However, they can lead to great progress.

Your direct reports also need your feedback. They want feedback. 

In todays we look at five tips that will help you to make this a little bit easier for the next time you have to prepare and engage in a difficult conversation.

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Want to keep learning?

Watch: Navigating your emotions at work

Ready for more? Download my free workbook - Lead with your values Discover your Authentic Leadership Superpower. Take the quiz now!

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Developing the ability to hold space for effective coaching conversations allows leaders to empower others to develop themselves and encourage independent problem-solving.

Leaders and organisations that develop coaching skills also see increasingly higher levels of employee engagement, motivation and efficiency.

In this episode, I talk to Kristy Battista, CTO at Allume Energy.

Together we explore:

• How to develop your coaching skills
  
• The benefits of the “leader as a coach” style
  
• The key to deep listening
  
• Important tips about asking the right questions
  

Download the GROW Model Coaching Tool here.

www.annekoopmann.com/grow

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More about Kristy Battista

Kristy is the Chief Technology Officer of Allume Energy, an Australian company with the world's first solar sharing technology for multi-dwelling buildings. Kristy is an expert in leading tech and product teams that commercialise innovations that solve problems that matter. She has over 10 years of experience as a project leader with a product market fit focus at Planet Innovation.

Kristy has an authentic leadership style and a deep passion for creating inclusive environments and teams that give individuals the opportunity to thrive. She is using her passion and talent for coaching and developing people, to inspire engineers and the next leaders to use their talent and time to solve problems that truly matter to the world.

Connect with Kristy

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristy-battista-35177819/

Find out more about Allume Energy

https://allumeenergy.com.au/

Find out more about the Innovation Practice Program at Melbourne University

https://ipp.eng.unimelb.edu.au/

How can we set boundaries as a leader, at work, in business and in life?

In this episode, I am talking to Carina O’Brien, a wife, employee and founder of Working Mumma - a community & podcast.

Together we will discuss:

• The different types of boundaries
• Why it is essential to set our boundaries
• How to define your boundaries and communicate these
• Lots of examples and tips to set boundaries at work, in business or life
  

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A full transcript of the episode can be found here: https://www.annekoopmann.com/?p=50849

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More About Carina O’Brien

Carina O’Brien is a mum to a 2.5 year old energetic son, an angel baby, with another little bub due in February and a fur baby.  She is a wife, employee and founder of Working Mumma - a community & podcast she started when going through her parenting journey.

Carina is passionate about supporting working mothers have the confidence and mindset to find their balance between family, career & self-care to help them thrive.

She loves sport, going for a run, and enjoying a nice glass or two of red wine with her husband.

Follow Carina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workingmummacommunity/?hl=en

Find out more about the Working Mumma Community here:

https://www.workingmumma.com.au/

How can we position ourselves and build a strong Leadership Brand in 2021?

In this episode, I am talking to my friend, award-winning business leader, engineer and entrepreneur Felicity Furey to explore what is key to develop our leadership brand this year.

Together we will cover:

• What makes a strong leadership brand?
  
• What is going to be the key in 2021? (Especially after the big influence Covid-19 had on us all in 2020)
  
• How can we best position ourselves as leaders this year?
  

If you would like to get started with developing your leadership brand, download this free workbook to get clear on your core values:

www.annekoopmann.com/values

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More About Felicity Furey

An award-winning business leader, engineer and entrepreneur, Felicity

Furey has made a career out of making the ‘impossible’, possible. Named one of

AFR’s 100 Women of Influence by age 26 and Boss Magazine’s Young Executive of

the Year, Felicity has led multi-million dollar engineering projects across

Australia, founded several successful businesses, Power of Engineering,

Machinam and the Professional Leaders Institute, secured partnerships with the

likes of Qantas, Toyota and Energy Australia. Felicity now works with

high-performing teams to give emerging leaders across every industry the skills they need to make an impact and drive meaningful change.

www.felicityfurey.com

Do you feel safe to speak up in meetings, even if your opinion or idea might be going against the view of your manager? This is where the essence of psychological safety comes into play.

If the answer is no, your workplace or team may be lacking when it comes to creating psychological safety.

Today, we’re diving into what this means and why it’s important to build a more psychologically safe environment for your team.

In this episode, I talk about:

• What psychological safety means
• Why psychological safety is important
• What the benefits of psychological safety in your team are
• Strategies you can implement to build a more psychologically safe environment for your team

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Tune into episode 003. 5 Steps to Build an Effective Team

Listen to episode 005. How To Lead With Your Leadership Values

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People with a growth mindset believe that their brain and talent is just a starting point and from there they can study, practice and grow to achieve anything that they envision. Pretty powerful, right? So in today’s episode, I’m talking about how we can foster a growth mindset, as well as some tips on how to maintain it.

In this episode, I talk about:

• What a Growth mindset is
• Fixed vs Growth mindsets
• Embracing challenges & obstacles
• How the success of others can tell us about our mindset
• Building our own self-awareness
• Tips on how to maintain a growth mindset
  

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2020 was a challenging year for many of us, but it was also a year that brought us new opportunities to grow and develop our leadership skills.

There are some key leadership lessons I have learned through the work with my clients and for myself as a business owner.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why empathy has proven to be one of the most important leadership skills
  
• Effective Communication skills leaders have learned
  
• The power of Connection
  
• How leaders have learned to be more adaptable
  
• The importance of leading by example
  

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Check out my new program “Lead with Courage” HERE

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As we near the end of the year, a topic that’s on a lot of people’s minds are Performance Reviews and setting objectives for the new year. Whether you’re the employee or the manager, this process can be quite daunting and stressful, so I’m sharing with you today my top tips for having effective (and not awkward!) Performance Reviews.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Being mindful the extraordinary difficulties of 2020 we’ve all faced and how that may have affected employee performance
• The importance of investing in training yourself
• How to get prepared for Performance Reviews
• Investing in your Emotional Intelligence
• How to set clear expectations and define success
• Frameworks for providing effective feedback
  

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Get your free guide “8 Tips for Employee Performance Reviews” here

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This week I’m talking all about how to build your Resilience Support Kit as a Leader so you can be ready for challenges and lead your team through challenging times. I’ll be running you through the seven C’s for Resilience.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why having a Resilience Support Kit is important
• The seven C’s for Resilience
• How confidence and competence helps to build your Resilience
• Reflecting on who can support you during challenging times
• Why having clear core values helps build your Resilience
• What is your purpose and how it can help you to stay motivated when things get tough
• Having coping strategies to look after yourself
• How to focus on what you can control

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• Join the Lead Like You! Facebook Community
• Episodes referenced: Episode 05 - How to Lead with your Leadership Values
• Get your free “Lead with your Values Workbook” here
• Register for my monthly Lead Like YOU! Newsletter by clicking here
  

Connect with me:

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