High Performance Groundwork Podcast

15. How to be assertive without being aggressive with Ivna Curi

October 10, 2022 05:42 - 58 minutes - 110 MB

The Mayo Clinic, one of the top hospitals in the US, recommends assertiveness to reduce stress, anger, and improve coping skills. Assertiveness is one of those skills that nobody teaches, everyone misunderstands, and that can solve many problems. Ivna Curi is the CEO and founder of assertiveway.com, which helps people in organisations (with a big focus on women), to speak up effectively with assertive communication eg: disagreeing, getting ideas across, asking for what they need to be succ...

14. The language of elite performance with Adelaide Goodeve

September 11, 2022 00:49 - 1 hour - 138 MB

Adelaide Goodeve is an elite performance coach working with the worlds best companies, leaders, teams and athletes to achieve elite performance. In the last three years she's focused on helping athletes re-wire their brain to master their mental game for unstoppable performance. Adelaide had sever chronic fatigue syndrome which caused her to be almost bedridden. After years of countless trials with little success, she was able to transform her life with just three days of brain training, an...

13. Creating trust in organisations with Marie-Claire Ross

August 25, 2022 02:50 - 42 minutes - 78.9 MB

Marie-Claire Ross is a trust leadership speaker, facilitator and coach, helping senior executives, leadership teams and middle managers build trust within their teams and improve performance. She is the author of the book "Trusted to thrive: How leaders create connected and accountable teams." We discuss why trust is so fundamental (in many cases it's more important than performance), how it benefits both people and business, and the value of always sending signals of safety and trust. She...

12. The critical role of empathy in decision making at work with Daniel Murray

August 02, 2022 00:51 - 59 minutes - 111 MB

Daniel Murray helps frustrated leaders unlock the true performance of their people by developing curious and empathic skills to harness the 'tough skills' of leadership. His degree in mathematics and background in corporate strategy provides Daniel with a unique perspective blending strategic thinking with empathy and emotional intelligence in practical and pragmatic ways. He is a professional speaker, trainer, coach and consultant, and along with Miranda Murray, they run Empathic Consultin...

11. The giant effects of small communication with Chris Redmile

July 18, 2022 01:28 - 1 hour - 117 MB

What Chris Redmile shares in this episode is the reason I started doing this podcast. Chris Redmile is a behavioural change management consultant for a Big4 consultancy in the UK. He focuses on culture in the workplace, organisational transformation and stakeholder management. He is an NLP master practitioner, professionally trained coach, parent, and military veteran. He also runs a performance and productivity coaching practice, mentoring people around the world. Ultimately, he helps peop...

10. Conflict resolution at work with Dr Debra Dupree

June 28, 2022 01:03 - 1 hour - 127 MB

Dr Debra Dupree is the founder and CEO of relationships at work, where she offers dispute resolution services. She has nearly 30 years of experience in dispute resolution and working with people in conflict. She works with leaders on how to leverage the mindset to work with people from different walks of life. Find out more about Debra here: relationships-at-work.com www.linkedin.com/in/debradupree www.youtube.com/channel/UCJLPWGoEaaltkhqp70I13ZA (on here, you will find her podcast "deco...

9. The power of being intentional about workplace culture with Wayne Mullins

June 11, 2022 03:27 - 49 minutes - 92.3 MB

Wayne Mullins is the founder and CEO of Ugly Mug Marketing. We talk about leading from the heart and how our businesses are very often a reflection of ourselves. He shares how the Pygmalion effect occurs in the workplace and what leaders can do with this to enhance the workplace. We dive into workplace culture, how it relates to high performance, the importance of being intentional and Wayne's own journey in transforming the culture at Ugly Mug Marketing into one that is high performing and ...

8. Not overwhelming at all with Ashlee Livingstone

May 11, 2022 04:24 - 57 minutes - 108 MB

Ashlee Livingstone is the founder of Our Forté where her and her team help create thriving, sustainable cultures to help everyone succeed. They help strengthen relationships with teams, clients and donors. In this episode we discuss overwhelm in the workplace. Ashlee shares both the environmental factors that have contributed to the current state of overwhelm as well as personal things we can each do to help with this challenge. Relationships are what underpins much of Ashlee's work, and we...

7. Cohesion culture with Dr Troy Hall

March 04, 2022 07:29 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Dr Troy is an award-winning culture strategist, speaker, bestselling author, and global talent retention expert with more than 40 years of practical leadership experience and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship. He helps transform organisations through talent retention and helps leaders and companies thrive. We discuss what cohesion culture is, how it benefits organisations and individuals, and the different principles that underlie Dr Troy's work. He explains that cohesion is ca...

6. Doing one thing, thinking models and environmental factors at work with Gayle Smerdon

February 10, 2022 07:03 - 1 hour - 114 MB

Gayle Smerdon helps focus and re-energise workplaces by doing what matters. As a passionate and experienced Learning & Organisational Development professional, she knows that given the right environment and support, people have immense capability waiting to be revealed. She helps government and not-for-profit organisations be their best by bringing out the best in their people, their leaders and their teams. Her qualification include a PhD in the Social Sciences, a Grad. Dip. in Psychology a...

5. Workplace abuse with Tom Sarsons

December 21, 2021 05:38 - 24 minutes - 45.7 MB

Tom Sarsons experienced workplace abuse while simultaneously going through conflicts in his personal relationship. This lead him to experiencing PTSD, depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. In this discussion he shares his experience of the abuse and his healing journey. He touches on what could have been different, how true healing is about discovering that you are not your thoughts or emotions but rather that you are the observer, the importance of brave choices, self awareness, having...

4. The altruistic capitalist: mindfulness, curiosity and grit with Lynn Yap

November 15, 2021 05:38 - 49 minutes - 90.3 MB

I talk with the author of “the altruistic capitalist” Lynn Yap. She shares stories of how business can be used as a force for good, with examples like the sneaker with the lowest carbon emissions, to empowering elderly folks with electronics. In the research she conducted for her book, she pulled out three key mindsets of the altruistic capitalist. Here she tells us what they are and shows different ways they can show up at work (some of these things can be implemented almost immediately). S...

3. High achievers, setting boundaries, checking assumptions and handling work loads with Terry McDougall

November 12, 2021 01:12 - 1 hour - 118 MB

I talk with executive and career coach Terry McDougall on the challenges high achievers face when it comes to their wellbeing at work, the importance of boundaries and how to set them in a humane and kind way, showing up differently and checking your assumptions. She shares stories on being curious in real life situations, and handling challenging circumstances. Terry also covers ways of handling all the work we need to get done by using things like the Eisenhower box, task batching, delegat...

2. Game theory, Conway's law, systems and more with Noah Healy

October 24, 2021 23:46 - 1 hour - 69.4 MB

We talk about Noah Healy's work in using game theory to change finance. We discuss Conway's law, systems, their many affects, and how this applies both to software and humans in the workforce, and how the technical and social aspects of work mirror one another. We touch on google guy's in the Whitehouse, why meaning is not just important for humans but also computers, creating physical feedback mechanisms to quickly see when problems occur, the importance of conversations to create change an...

1. High performance teams, servant leadership and intuition with Trish Bishop

October 19, 2021 04:34 - 1 hour - 123 MB

A discussion with Trish Bishop on why leadership is key to wellbeing in the workplace, high performance teams: the elements that make them up plus the importance and benefits of safety and care in teams. We also talk about intuition and practical methods for applying it to the workplace. Links: Find out more about Trish Bishop here: https://www.trishbishop.com/ Find out more about Heartmath and intuition: https://www.heartmath.com/ Steve Jobs movie clip mentioned in the episode: https://...

1) High performance teams, servant leadership and intuition with Trish Bishop