PODCAST · business
Be Fabulous
by ThinqShift
Welcome to “Be Fabulous..... with Vips and Vicki”. The ThinqShift podcast for professionals who aspire to be fabulous leaders. Those who not only succeed but also purposefully seek to reinvent the world.
Episodes
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 10: The word strategy, a double edged sword
In this episode 1. View strategy from a new perspective, no matter where you sit in the organization 2. Learn about the big stressors each group faces 3. Avoid common pitfalls by addressing key challenges before they become roadblocks Join us for this enlightening conversation that will leave you...
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 9: Transparency. Is it all it’s cracked up to be?
1. The Hidden Costs of Transparency: Discover how radical transparency can lead to employee stress, anxiety, and even burnout, challenging the notion that more openness is always better. 2. When Transparency Backfires: Real-world case studies where transparency initiatives created confusion,...
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 8: Fairness: Why It’s So Obvious to Me and Not to Everyone Else
In This Episode 1. The Hidden Complexity of Fairness: Why it’s such a loaded topic and often avoided in leadership conversations. 2. Why Fairness is Never Fully Achievable: Leaders face the impossible task of meeting everyone’s definition of fairness without creating backlash. 3. Fairness through...
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 7: Collective Responsibility. The paradox in Leadership.
In this episode “Siloed Success or Collective Failure?”: Uncover the hidden dangers of focusing solely on your department’s goals and why it might be holding your entire organization back. “Leadership Beyond the Silo”: Discover why true leadership requires more than just managing your own...
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 6: Performance Compassion Clash
In this episode 1. Kindness vs High Performance: is it a trade-off or something deeper 2. External factors that are often not considered 3. The 3 lenses: employee, leader and CEO
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 5: Keeping Perspective: "How much do we really need"
In this episode 1. What changing your environment, even slightly, does for your perspective. 2. What we actually need goes back to our 4 basic needs. 3. Considerations to keep perspective even when the world around seems to be going mad.
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 4: Entrepreneurship - Is it what it's cracked up to be? The light and dark side
In this episode 1. The dark side of entrepreneurship 2. The phenomena of wannapreneur 3. Considerations to decide if you’re all in Until next time, Be Fabulous!
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 3: Promotions - Did you really earn it? Was it worth it? Are you even ready?
In this episode 1. What happens when you’re promoted too soon 2. As a manager, what type of conversation should you have with someone who has been promoted 3. Is the role even right for you? We’ll share the sweet spot of what to look for Until next time, Be Fabulous!
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 2: AI - Is My Job Doomed?
In this episode 1. The Short Term: how to wrap your head around AI over the next 1-3 years 2. Where our value has typically come from and who should be worried 3. What can you start to do now so that you’ll continue to be valuable Until next time, Be Fabulous!
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 1: Implications of Working Remotely
In this episode 1. What we learned during Covid : the employee and employer perspective of working remotely. 2. The longer-term financial and career implications of continuing to work remotely as well as the impact for leaders and the world. 3. What should organizations do: the consequences of...
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2021 Series Episode 7: DEI Accelerate or Fizzle Out?
-The 12 dimensions -Why most organizations are still trying to figure out phase 1 -The importance of the economic underpinnings and the mindset needed to keep it going
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2021 Series Episode 6: Social Conscience Companies Become Mainstream
-Why it’s falling to business leaders to drive a socially conscious agenda -Why many business leaders aren’t equipped to do this -Where to get started … how well read and balanced are you on social and political issues?
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2021 Series Episode 5: Conversations We're Not Trained For
We work through the nuances of this complex topic, exploring - Does the size of your organization matter? - Magic Beans, determining the path you should choose - Putting on the training wheels
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2021 Series Episode 4: RIP Functional Career Paths
-The connection between the speed of information and adaptability -Tours of duty as an alternative to functional career paths -30 day challenge to get you out of your comfort zone
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2021 Series Episode 3: Emotional Kevlar Becomes Key to Success
- Why Emotional Kevlar is becoming more critical now than ever - Shifts and core strengths to be effective in this world without being buffeted by the noisiness of the our daily lives - 30 day challenge to start your journey to becoming emotionally bulletproof
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2021 Series Episode 2: What’s Going to Stick and Rebound in a Post-Covid World
In episode two, we cover - Tactical: we want to believe proximity doesn’t matter, but it does - Operational: manager expectations, they matter - Structured: cultural wars, be ready - Systemic: collective consciousness, don’t underestimate it -Meta: when everyone is a nomad, what happens to the...
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2021 Series Episode 1: The Future of Work in 2025 - An Overview
In episode one, we introduce -The six key themes that leaders and organizations will need to start tackling right away -The six hot skills that will be needed to thrive at work in 2025 -Why we predict these are the most important dimensions we need to be thinking about
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Special: The Future of Agriculture - with Special Guest Sean Beard
In Episode 3, Sean helps us to imagine a new world of agriculture as he sees it. Today, you have to be middle class or higher to be able to afford fresh nutritious produce. In this episode, you’ll hear Sean give us a well rounded perspective on this topic, including: -Is 100% automated farming...
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Be Fabulous Series 4 Episode 2 with Sean McCall
Sean reflects on his journey and shares the wisdom he wishes he’d known as a young technologist. -Purity vs “good enough” solutioning -Reluctant leader shift -Asking yourself investigative questions. What do I really want that I would endure for? What would I regret? What would make me want to do...
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Be Fabulous Series 4 with Sean McCall - Techie to Business Leader
Sean talks us through his thought processes of a Superstar Performer to Top Notch Executive. -Adaptability learned early using an early Circle-of-Suck experience to become invaluable to the CEO -Making excel fun by gamifying meetings -What he’d tell his 20 year old self to get his attention...
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Special: Crisis Leadership with Robert Greiner
We explore Crisis Leadership as it relates to you as an individual leader of yourself and others: -Great planning and having a playbook is useless unless the individual leader “opts in” -4 things you can do as a leader in any crisis (MVCL – Minimally Viable Crisis Leadership) -What can you do to...
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Episode 11: The Thinqshift Why
1. Uncover why Fabulous leaders are so important for what the world is facing right now 2. Discuss our expertise working with Fabulous leaders to reinvent the world focusing on the intersection of profit, people and the planet 3. Share why this is so critical right now as the world is getting...
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Special: The Thirteenth Amendment Exception- With Special Guest Sean Beard
In this episode, you’ll hear *The impact of the exception of the Thirteenth Amendment *The genesis of slavery *What -13 is doing to reinvent the world to give those who have done their prison time a chance to be happy and successful
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Special: Imagine a Reinvented World - With Special Guest Sean Beard
In Episode 1, Sean helps us to conceptualize a world without garbage? Is that even possible or just a utopian ideal? Sean helps us navigate through an initiative he’s thought of regarding the minimizing and recycling of the mountains of waste both on land and underwater. He argues that our…
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Special: The Top Notch Executive in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington
Will takes us through the obstacles and what it feels like to navigate that circle-of-suck, when the Awesome Manager programmatic trader is promoted to a ‘Top Notch Executive’. On the one hand it feels great to be promoted, but now success looks like more than being good! 1. How the patterns of...
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Special: The Awesome Manager in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington
Will takes us through the obstacles and what it feels like to navigate that circle-of-suck, when the Superstar Performer programmatic trader is promoted to ‘Awesome Manager’. On the one hand it feels great to be promoted, but now success looks like more than being good! 1. How the patterns of...
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Special: The Superstar Performer in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington
Will takes us through the thought processes of talented young professionals who get into the world of programmatic trading on their journey to being Superstar Performers 1. Patterns of motivations for successful traders? 2. What he perceived as doing a great job at the Superstar Performer stage?…
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Special: Black, Brown & White - Let's Do...
In our final episode, in the series, we turn our attention to what we can actually do to help: 1. What can we do at an individual level? 2. What can we do at a company or organizational level? 3. What can we start doing at a societal level? See you next week and in the meantime, Be Fabulous!
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Special: Black, Brown and White - White
In This Episode In this episode, Vips and Francesca chat with Vicki as they explore what it was like growing up in South Africa during the apartheid years and her experiences and perspectives on race: 1. The environment she grew up in in South Africa, and then elsewhere around the world. 2. The...
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Special: Black, Brown & White - Brown
In this episode, Vicki and Francesca chat with Vips as they explore what it was like growing up as a brown kid in London. Vips shares openly and vulnerably: 1. The benefits and challenges of having a mixed race set of close friends growing up. 2. Racism experienced growing up towards him…
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Special: Black, Brown & White - Black
In this episode, Vips and Vicki chat with Francesca as they explore what it was like growing up as a black kid in London and Nigeria. Francesca shares openly and vulnerably: 1. Daily examples of the handicap experienced having black skin. 2. Francesca breaks down as she shares a heartbreaking...
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Episode 09: The Fabulous Vicki
In our ninth episode we … 1. Learn about Vicki’s background in South Africa. 2. Hear about the power of making the right ‘big’ decisions through her life choices. 3. Learn why she’s so passionate about Fabulous People and Organizations. See you next week and in the meantime, Be Fabulous!
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Episode 8: Fabulous People Think in Levels - Part 3
In this episode In our eighth episode we take the 5-Thinking Levels and teach you how to listen for it and adapt.. 1. Are you speaking a different language? The “Different Languages” Metaphor. 2. Hearing the thinking levels in real life day-to-day scenarios. 3. Once again, Vicki sets another...
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Episode 10: The Vips Why
In our tenth episode in this series we… 1. Learn a but about Vips’ background in London. 2. Vicki pushes me on what makes me tick and why I do what I do. 3. Some of the personal and work stories that have seeded the philosophy and tools behind ThinqShift. See you next week and in the meantime, Be...
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Episode 7: Fabulous People Think in Levels - Part 2
In our seventh episode we take the 5-Thinking Levels and apply it to real life scenarios. 1. One real example of Superstar Performers, that you’ll instantly relate to. 2. Another example that Top Notch Executives will be able to relate to. 3. Yes, you’ve guessed it. Vicki sets another challenge!...
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Episode 6: Fabulous People Think in Levels
In our sixth episode we deep dive into what it means to be ‘strategic’ and think in levels. 1. The Fabulous way to think about “being strategic” 2. We’ll introduce the 5-Levels of Thinking as a tool to help you elevate your thinking. 3. We’ll set the Thinking Levels challenge. See you next week…
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Episode 5: Fabulous People Seek Discovery
In our fifth episode we deep dive into what it means to be a person that always Seeks Discovery. 1. Why seeking Discovery makes you inherently more innovative. 2. Dig into some of the ‘rookie errors’ fabulous people make as executives, managers or superstars! 3. We’ll set the Seek Discovery...
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Episode 04: Fabulous People are Dynamic
In our fourth episode we deep dive into what it means to Be Dynamic. 1. Explain why Fabulous People have to be dynamic, and what it means at each career stage. 2. Show the link between the absence of being dynamic and imposter syndrome. 3. Ask you to participate in the “Am I dynamic?” challenge!…
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Episode 03: Fabulous People are Deliberate
In our third episode we deep dive into what it means to Be Deliberate. 1. Explain why Fabulous People have to Be Deliberate. 2. Go deep into why it’s soooo hard. 3. Rookie errors we make by not being deliberate as SuperStar Performers, Awesome Managers and Top Notch Executives. We hope you enjoy...
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Episode 02: Fabulous People are Daring
In our second episode we go into the 4Ds of Fabulous People, starting with Be Daring. 1. What does it mean to “Be Daring” at different stages of your career and why it’s important to your success? 2. We invite you to a “Play Safe | Be Daring” challenge. 3. We share personal stories of being…
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Episode 01: Are you Fabulous?
In our first episode we set the scene for the whole series. 1. What does it mean to be ‘Fabulous’ 2. What are the Fabulous Person Non Negotiables 3. Make you ask yourself if you are truly fabulous. Hope you enjoy it. See you next week and in the meantime, Be Fabulous!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to “Be Fabulous..... with Vips and Vicki”. The ThinqShift podcast for professionals who aspire to be fabulous leaders. Those who not only succeed but also purposefully seek to reinvent the world.
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Welcome to “Be Fabulous..... with Vips and Vicki”. The ThinqShift podcast for professionals who aspire to be fabulous leaders. Those who not only succeed but also purposefully seek to reinvent the world.
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