"Global Leadership with Greg Parry"
by Greg Parry
Check in with me and explore the behaviours and skills that represent true Global Leadership as it applies to international contexts. Let’s discuss the strategies and skills you can employ to be a truly internationally-minded global leader. (All of my podcasts are one take - no edits - no script - keeping it real - natural dialogue from the head and heart)
Episodes
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Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories have been around since the beginning of time. We may, or may not, believe in superstitions and many stories that were designed to explain phenomenon that are not easily understood. Our governments don't always play these things straight either. If a narrative matches their...
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Shanna Parry - Leadership, Business and Travel in Culturally Diverse Locations.
Co-Founder and Senior Managing Partner of GSE, Shanna Parry has gone from American school teacher to international education expert, widely regarded for her skills abilities to lead education in culturally diverse locations. Twice named as one of the Top 30 Global Gurus in Education she is a…
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Lets Dream
We need to dream! Sadly as we get older our dreams become conditional. We learn so much about “reality” and create so many rules or obstacles in our own minds that our dreams become stifled. Dreaming creates appetite. It creates a compelling vision that we want to reach for. It motivates us…
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Consensus Decision Making Models
I have never been a big fan of traditional voting on complex and important decisions. The outcomes of a yes/no vote rarely represent true consensus. When we are serious about leading a healthy and principled organisation and we genuinely want to move things forward it is important to understand…
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Tamar Hela - Building Community and Embracing Cultural Difference in China
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing International Entrepreneur and Digital Media Expert Tamar Hela! Tamar is an entrepreneur who works with Fortune500 companies on lead generation through LinkedIn. She is the COO of Genius Encel. She’s also the Founder of Shanghai’s official…
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Leadership Skills: To Persuade and Influence
While vision and values, charisma and motivation might be important for leadership you also have to get the job done. The skills of persuasion and influence are essential if you want to turn ideas into reality. We need to have tools that help move people forward and we need to remove objections.…
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Systems Approach to Leadership
In this podcast we explore how systems work and an approach to understanding how to get the greatest leverage for change. We too often focus only on small parts and not the whole. In order to make significant and sustainable change we need to understand the interactions that occur between parts.…
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Decision Making Tools for Culturally Diverse Contexts
Decision making can be difficult in any context but it can be even more challenging in culturally diverse environments. In this podcast we explore the decision making tools called "Ladder of Inference" and "Perceptual Positions" as ways we can become more effective. Decision making tools help us...
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International Schools and their role in developing the next generation of "Global Leaders"
This podcast aims to explain what International Schools are, their history and role in developing the next generation of global leaders. My passion for global leadership includes a belief that we don't learn leadership skills by accident. They need to be developed and applied in order for us to...
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Be interesting (5 minute version)
Most people have a desire to be more interesting. We all know that being more interesting is attractive but it also helps us have better relationships with others and to be more effective. This 5min version on this very popular topic was created for another podcast series where I was an invited…
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How do we turn Xenophobia into Xenophilia?
We need to understand what Xenophobia really is. It is naivety. It is a lack of knowledge. It is previous limited experience that may not represent the whole. It is not knowing the truth! On the other hand Xenophilia means the sympathy we have for a stranger. An affection for unknown/foreign...
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Be Interesting!
Most people have a desire to be more interesting. We all know that being more interesting is attractive but it also helps us have better relationships with others and to be more effective. To "be interesting" makes us more engaging and successful with others both personally and professionally. In...
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Learning from the Pandemic Crisis - Lessons for our youth and ourselves
There is a lot of time for reflection right now as we try to navigate difficult circumstances in the world. What are you reflecting on and what are you learning? This podcast serves to share some of my thinking about the world right now and what we can learn from it. Our children must learn by it...
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How Stress Can Affect Our Clear Decision Making in a Crisis
Recently we have been facing a Pandemic Crisis that is effecting our lives in many ways. It is making decision making difficult and making our lives less balanced. When we have control over events or we have a set of strategies and course of action that we are confident in, then we are less...
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How to Stay Motivated When Your World is Spinning
Its times like this that we need to stay motivated but it is also times like this that we feel like our world is spinning and shaking us from all directions. Firstly, we need to recognise that this is ok. Motivation is not on tap in a regular and constant stream. It gets knocked around, changes...
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Leadership Behaviours - How to make them unconscious habits
Many of us want to become great leaders but we fight daily with the distractions that get in the way of good habits. The greatest leaders seem to have a range of perfect behaviours that are unconscious and natural. This podcast aims to show you strategies that help you change behaviours and make...
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Leadership in a Global Crisis - The Corona Pandemic
At the time of writing this there are hundreds of thousands of Coronavirus cases and a large number of deaths. The numbers are changing rapidly. Billions of dollars are being wiped off the share market and people are suffering immeasurably. The world is suffering under this global catastrophe in…
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The Middle East - Stories from the field
Based on feedback to share more detail about my experiences in different countries I thought I would share some examples from the field. The Middle East is a fascinating region and much more diverse than people may think. With approximately 20 different countries, many religions and a rich…
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China - Stories from the field
Based on feedback to share more detail about my experiences in different countries I thought I would share some examples from the field. Having lived in China for 8 years and continuing to work on many projects there, we have lots of stories to share about cultural differences. China is a...
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What is cultural diversity in practice?
Culture is powerful. It's central to what we see, how we make sense of our world, and how we express ourselves. When people from different cultural backgrounds work together, values often conflict. At times that we don't understand each other we react in ways that make relationships less…
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Daily duties of global leadership that make a difference
There are countless books and literature on effective leadership reflecting theories, values and beliefs about what works best. What are the daily duties of a global leader? We want to become great leaders but where to start? In what ways is global leadership different to standard leadership...
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Underpinning values and beliefs for global leadership
We all have a set of values and beliefs that shape the lens through which we see the world. These sets of rules were created by our circles of influence and a life time of both positive and negative influences. Understand yourself, and others, so that we can be more effective in different…
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About me - let’s start with some background and context
Proudly born in Australia. I now call myself an International Australian having travelled to nearly 60 countries of the world, lived in 6 and completed work projects in nearly 20 unique cultural contexts. Let’s start by describing what I do, where I do it and who I love spending my time with.…
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Global Leadership - an exploration of what matters and what works in a global context.
This regular podcast aims to explore all things leadership in a global context. Informal and conversational. Relax, reflect and respond to some unique ideas and recommendations by a leader who has visited nearly 60 countries of the world and continues to work in many unique cultural contexts.
About this show
Check in with me and explore the behaviours and skills that represent true Global Leadership as it applies to international contexts. Let’s discuss the strategies and skills you can employ to be a truly internationally-minded global leader. (All of my podcasts are one take - no edits - no script - keeping it real - natural dialogue from the head and heart)
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Greg Parry
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