The Thoughtful Leader Podcast
The Thoughtful Leader Podcast provides short, sharp leadership advice for leaders like you, who care about their teams and want to improve performance and job satisfaction. Leadership can be challenging, frustrating and daunting, so hopefully listening to these episodes helps you lead your team with confidence.
Join me as I cover a diverse range of leadership topics. You can subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or your other favourite podcast app of choice!
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Podcast Episode List
What is Purpose for Profit and How Can You Bring It Into Your Leadership?
In this episode I interview Michael Watts, who is a consultant focused on helping business incorporate more purpose into their operations. In our conversation we cover what we mean by [...]
Have you stopped to appreciate these under-rated team members?
Wouldn't it be amazing if everyone in our teams were super high performers? You know, go-getters who are striving to improve their career and going over and above all the [...]
How Leaders Can Build a More Resilient Team
Do you ever wish your team members were more resilient? You know, putting up with the problems and striving forward with even greater motivation? Well, it's not enough to wish [...]
Workplace Issues? Take These Powerful Leadership Actions
If you've ever encountered tricky behaviour or performance issues in your team, it's not pleasant. Sometimes leaders will wait until the problem "sorts itself out" or goes away, instead of [...]
How Being More Strategic Can Improve Your Leadership
Many people think that being strategic is just for company CEOs and executives, but this isn't necessarily the case. In this episode, I'll introduce some of the top strategic skills [...]
Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mindset?
When you're in a tough leadership role, it can be easy to slip into a victim mindset. Nothing is your fault, you can't do anything to fix the workplace problems [...]
Why Smart Leaders Seek Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement is obviously very popular these days. Why wouldn't you want your team to keep improving? But there is more to team improvement than just boosting performance to make [...]
3 Handy Perspectives to Solve Your Next Leadership Challenge
Leadership situations are often complex, because they involve people and competing priorities. Each leadership challenge involves multiple dimensions that need to be considered. Even when you think there is a [...]
Managing Your Boss vs. Managing Your Team
Many leaders need to deal with a tricky situation - balancing the needs of their boss with that of their team. In this episode, I take a look at why [...]
Stakeholder Management Tips to Make Your Leadership Life Easier
Ever had an influential stakeholder who blocked what you were trying to do? What about one who supported you and removed the roadblocks along the way? Leadership always involves gaining [...]