Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast

Composure is the doorway to better leadership. It allows us to respond rather than react, and to make better decisions as a result. I wrote a whole book about it! Here are some key insights to help you. How to tame the dragons, our innermost fears, and make them serve us rather than slay us How to use quests to best express our personal purpose How to use crucibles to explore what we are capable of

Winter can be a real bummer. If you find yourself wanting to crawl in to a hole and hibernate, fear not! Here’s how to make the most of the winter, while honouring the desire to curl up and sleep. Seasonal Affective Disorder: signs and evolutionary reasons of its impact Learning from the Norwegians and other northern hemisphere folk The Be-Think-Do strategy for hibernation, and what we can learn from bears

Navy SEALs are some of the toughest human beings on the planet. Their training is brutal. Their war experiences even more so. What can we learn from them as leaders? War stories: experiencing the warrior life Warrior mindset: books that take us through the primal high performance mind Fit as a SEAL: workouts and mindset training from the super elite

Adventure is an essential aspect of being a Boundless Leader - to explore new horizons keeps us in growth and contribution. Yet not all journeys need to be physical. There are 3 journeys you can explore to expand your capacity as a leader. Insights from the Jatbula trail What focus we need as Boundless Leaders How do you ‘spend’ a day?

Camp is not a ‘thing’ in Australia. And it totally should be! Daniel Levine, entrepreneur in the tech and legal space, has been hosting a unique and powerful tech community event since 2015. He’s got a great philosophy when it comes to creating meaningful connections - a great way to be a boundless leader. The recipe for great connections and a meaningful event: it starts with the premise, “Attendee first”, and “Disconnect to connect”. Best tips include: no name tags, no VIP break outs, speakers stay for the entire event, all inclusive ticket, and choose your own adventure. All we can do as leaders is “set the table”, do that right, and things progress well.

Ever find yourself doing something you know is bad for you? Could be food, staying up late, drinking one too many gin and tonics...We’ve all got an inner saboteur. Here’s how to rein it in and get rest, back on track. How to tighten up your red line so you’re not driving on empty Know your red flags to stop the downward spiral 4 steps to re-set that are completely do-able and will get you back on track, fast!

Want to play a bigger game? How about being part of a community of game changers? Of folks who want to create great cultures? Of leaders who want to make a big difference and contribution? Here are some insights of what you need to believe in order to make a bigger impact. What a transexual person’s story can mean for the future of humanity The four beliefs you need to know in order to craft your leadership focus Why stories matter

Being lonely sucks. We can be surrounded by people and feel completely alone. Community matters! Here’s how we can create it. Three levels of community participation. What separates leaders from participants and why it’s not all that altruistic. The currencies we gain from each level of participation.

Al Ramos is a business coach with over 30 years of successful business coaching, 21 years where he also set-up, grew & successfully sold his own professional services firm - giving him “real hands-on business ownership experience”. He had 10 years in senior corporate leadership roles.

It’s fabulous to meet engaging people like Simon. His straightforward manner and humility has a big gravitational pull. Some quotes that stick out for me in the interview: “In the end it’s all about people.” This was in response to what makes great leadership. “The secret to Boundless Teams is finding the right balance on developing individuals, creating learning and growth opportunities for the team, and achieving the business goals.” It’s a balance between task and people. “It’s easy to be the leader you want to be when things are going well. It’s much tougher to be the leader you want to be when things go wrong. That’s where I focus my growth edge.” Keeping composure and focus in tough times is the real test of leadership.

In this awesome interview Megan reveals: Why ‘Human Resources’ is so passé and why she loves her title, “Head of Employee Experience” Why RedBalloon has been voted “Best Place To Work” by BRW for five years in a row The 3 key components that make RedBalloon’s culture so attractive How the organisation’s values evolved organically and are embedded not only through processes from recruitment and performance management but in well-promoted company lore Funky employee reward schemes like the Monthly Oscar Award, Annual Values Award, and the employee Dream Catcher The Happiness Revolution and the RED Principle – “Recognise Every Day” and its impact on high performance culture Measuring success through the usual business performance measures as well as the 3 Personal Promises, aligned and publicly tracked against the company’s strategic plan How to track and monitor cultural performance and health through the Employee Net Promoter Score and the more regular Pulse Checks The Employee Experience Framework with its

You won’t learn anything new about the now famous incident where President Trump sacked the then FBI director, James Comey. In fact, less than a third of the book deals with the interaction with Trump. This is what you will get out of the book:

Many leaders work with me on their productivity. It’s a fundamental for leading Self and essential to master if we are going to expand our impact. Getting stuff done, the RIGHT stuff is every leader’s challenge. In today’s workplaces, our biology is not equipped to thrive in conditions where our survival is mostly assured. So we’ve got to hack ourselves and make use of resources to counter our biological equipment. Stay focused when we’d prefer to chase the dopamine thrill of distraction. This delightful interview with Peter Cook, one of the most inspiring leaders I know and have had the pleasure to learn from, is a great resource for being best version of yourself, and getting cool stuff done.

Workers crave freedom and flexibility. It’s the biggest driver for remote working: do work you love, where and when you want. The one hurdle is this: how do you know they are actually getting work done? That they are being as productive as possible and not just getting a free meal ticket? This is the challenge that Liam Martin and his Aussie business partner set out to address. In this AAHHHHMAAAZZZZING interview, we explore: The war against the Distraction Economy and what it’s costing us The Big Data that facebook collects and what it can predict A world where transparency builds better interpersonal connections and business cultures How to build a great culture with remote teams Why remote teams are way more engaged than regular office-based teams The biggest challenge to overcome with remote teams: loneliness Creating an engagement culture with remote teams Gamification and e-recognition tools: breakthrough or bullshit?

SHOWNOTES: zoerouth.com/podcast/hanzifreinacht Hanzi Freinacht has written a fantastic book, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics Book One, on adult development and why it matters. He lays out an analysis of the various leadership development models and adds a few other layers of development needed. His main point is that development matters. We need to develop our mental and emotional capacities in order to contend with the world we have created. We need to develop our inner dimensions to keep up and manage the complexities of what has evolved in our various cultures and economic systems. He is a little short on practical how to's, so I endeavour to offer some practical steps to help us evolve. This week it is on morning routines. Resources mentioned: Hanzi Freinacht The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics Book One Tian Chi 

Shanyn Payne is the Executive Director of Human Resources at Online Education Services (OES.edu.au) where she has been since 2011, part of the start up team. She guided the creation and implementation of all people related initiatives across the business including recruitment, remuneration, leadership development and organisational culture and engagement. All this through rapid expansion and growth. The efforts have not gone unnoticed, and OES has achieved and maintained Aon Hewitt Best Employer accreditation in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2017 they were named “The Best of the Best”. *** SHOWNOTES: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/oes In this interview, Shanyn reveals: How you merge two distinct cultures - Swinburne University and Seek - to create a new business that thrives, instead of imploding like many joint ventures. The secret is in defining the culture from the beginning and making a decision to be a people first business. Culture of trust: what they did from the start to set them on track to be the Best o

Imagine quitting your corporate job to start not one, but two, companies at the same time? CEO Faith Rees did just that. In our candid interview, she shares what worked and what didn’t in building high performing remote teams in the competitive IT sector.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Edge of Leadership Un-Conference expert presenter, Dr. Amy Silver overturns rationale for performance reviews and why we need to do them completely differently. She explains: What has changed in the nature of work that has led to frustration with performance reviews The bad habit we need to break to reclaim the effectiveness of performance reviews Why we need to get achievement and the problem out of the person and into the system itself How we can start building a whole system of competence

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