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
Resilience: Bouncing Back From Toxic Workplaces
Ever struggled working in a tough role in a challenging workplace? How about working for a horrible boss? If the answer is yes, then this episode is for you! This week, [...]
Are You Protecting Your Team Too Much?
Thoughtful leaders sometimes get caught in the trap of trying to shelter their people from harm. While this can be a good thing, it can also slow the growth and [...]
How to Build Trust In Your Team
Trust is a vital ingredient in a productive, cohesive team. When people in a team trust each other, they feel like they are in a safe environment, free from blame. [...]
How to Stay Calm In Tricky, Stressful and Uncertain Situations
Work doesn't always go smoothly, or to plan. As leaders, we are often put in situations where we are under stress and having to work through uncertainty. Leaders need to [...]
Common Leadership Fears and How to Challenge Them
Fear is a natural part of leadership, because leaders are always pushing forward, trying to make change and improve their workplaces. They are taking on responsibility and dealing with difficult [...]
Suffering From a Communication Breakdown? Let’s Fix It.
One of the most frustrating parts of workplace life happens when people aren't communicating effectively. After all, it's easy for communication to break down in the hustle and bustle. In [...]
Difficult Colleague? Let’s Improve the Relationship
It's inevitable that at some point in your leadership career, you're going to come across a colleague that you just don't see eye to eye with. In this episode, I [...]
Are You Being a Weak Leader? Spot the Signs.
Sometimes even the best of us will go down the road of weak leadership... even if we don't mean to. Leadership is complex and can be difficult and sometimes we'll [...]
Too Collaborative? Let’s Avoid This Leadership Trap.
Collaborative and inclusive leadership can be great when used in moderation. But what happens when leaders collaborate too much? Many thoughtful leaders fall into the collaboration trap because they value [...]
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 [...]