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The Leader's Kitbag — 204 episodes

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Why the Best Leaders Treat Themselves Like Elite Athletes

2

The 60-Second Reset — How to Shift Your State Before It Shifts Your Team

3

How to Handle Back-to-Back Meetings Without Burning Out

4

Why Reflection Is Essential for Effective Leadership

5

If You’re In the Fight, You’re Not Leading

6

Focus On Energy Management, Not Time Management

7

What Does-Work Life Balance Actually Mean?

8

Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

9

Helping Your Team Step Up

10

How To Be A Leader

11

How to Lead on a Tight Schedule

12

Leadership and Management – Why You Must Master Both

13

Building Followership

14

Team Development – Don’t Half-Arse It

15

Stop Treating Every Group Like a Team

16

Are You Really Leading a Team?

17

Why Productivity Tools Don’t Work for Everyone

18

Time Orientation and Leadership Under Pressure

19

What Pointing to the Past Reveals

20

The “Cognitive Hunger” That Shapes Successful CEOs with Peter Cohan

21

How Your Relationship with Time Shapes Your Leadership

22

Leading With Thought

23

From Startup to Scale-Up: The 4 Stages Every Leader Must Navigate

24

How to Be Heard in Meetings Without Getting Louder

25

Speak Less, Lead More

26

Tackling Workplace Unhappiness with Lord Mark Price

27

Do I Need To Say More In Meetings?

28

Fire and Forget Goal Setting

29

From Waitrose to WorkL: Lord Mark Price on Leadership, Values and Happiness

30

The Power of Reciprocity

31

How To Frame Goals in the Right Way

32

Fixing the ‘R’ in SMART Goals

33

Using Open Questions in Leadership

34

The Hidden Trap of Active Listening

35

How to Keep Mission and Values Alive When Scaling Your Business

36

How to Make People Feel Heard — Without Saying a Word

37

The Power of Presence: How Great Leaders Truly Listen

38

Keeping It Scrappy: Straight Talk and Scale-Up Lessons from Georgia Aubrey

39

How to Recover When You've Let a Colleague Down

40

Why Nutritional Balance Inspires Better Leadership Practices with James Collier

41

Helping Your Boss Make Better Decisions

42

James Collier on Dietology and How Food Choices Shape Our Organisational Culture

43

How to Keep Your Boss Updated

44

Scaling Huel and Mental Health in Leadership: A Candid Conversation with James Collier, Co-Founder of Huel

45

Managing Up in the Moment

46

Food for Focus: What Leaders Get Wrong About Nutrition with James Collier, Co-Founder of Huel

47

What To Do When You Have a Poor Leader

48

What’s really going on in venture capital

49

How to Break the Top-Down Feedback Trap

50

Uncovering Your Blind Spots?

51

The Founder’s Dilemma: What to Let Go Of—and What to Hold Tight

52

Is There a Grizzly Bear Behind Your Open Door

53

Hiring for True Innovation with Frank Mattes

54

Be More Radar, Less Lighthouse

55

Your Team Can’t Grow If You Don’t

56

Breaking the Bottleneck: How to Stop Being the Decision-Making Log Jam

57

The One in Thirty Rule: Why Most Corporate Startups Fail

58

Leading Is the Job – Not the Extra Bit!

59

Don’t Be The Super-Manager

60

Delivering Sustainable High Performance

61

People vs. Process: The Real Performance Issue

62

The Four Leadership Gaps That Impact Performance

63

Managing to the Invisible Standard

64

How to Lead More Experienced Colleagues

65

How to Lead Other Leaders

66

How to Lead Former Peers

67

Leadership Transitions – Unlocking Success

68

How To Tailor Your Message To The Audience

69

How To Ensure Alignment

70

Effective Communication Begins With Listening

71

The Power of Clarity

72

How To Stay Energised

73

How to Have the Life and Career You Love

74

SHORTS | Energy and Motivation Maintenance with Kate Sikora

75

How to Make New Habits Stick

76

SHORTS | Emotional Regulation, Control & Suppression with Anna Eliatamby

77

How to Set Achievable Goals

78

SHORTS | Why Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Doesn’t Need to Be Hard with Jeff Webster

79

How To Be A Festive Energiser

80

SHORTS | Philanthropy is the Best Motivational Tool with Kate Williams

81

Thank You, Be Kind and Support Your Team

82

SHORTS | Modelling, Accountability, and Elevating Team Performance with Erika Sinner

83

How Your Mood Influences Your Team’s Performance

84

SHORTS | Step Off the Busyness ‘Hamster Wheel’ with Darren Cassidy

85

How Leaders Monitor and Manage Their Energy

86

SHORTS | Define Your Strategy and Choose Your Words with Alex Brueckmann

87

Managing Your Emotions For Maximum Impact

88

SHORTS | The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Spots of Leadership with Nuala Walsh

89

How to Leave People Energised After Every Interaction

90

SHORTS | Mastering Strategic Delegation with Jarrod Lopiccolo

91

The Qualities of a Great Leader

92

SHORTS | Can You Make Your Own Luck? with Andy Lightfoot

93

Why You Need a “To-Don’t List”

94

SHORTS | How Our Environment is Shaping Our Brain with Lisa Wimberger

95

Finding The Time To Lead

96

SHORTS | Debunking Sleep Tracking Tech with Dr. Bijoy John

97

The Difference Between Leadership and Management

98

SHORTS | Take Control and Stop Blaming Others with Steven Gaffney

99

Values and Team Performance

100

SHORTS | Build Meaningful Relationships with James Mitchell

101

Dogs Are For Life But Values Aren't

102

SHORTS | Why Leaders Need Their Own Brand with Ky Furneaux

103

The Number 1 Mistake With Values

104

SHORTS | Political Relationships in the Workplace with Michael Watkins

105

Ditch The Leadership Style

106

SHORTS | Outdoor Leadership and Learning from Adventures with Alex Brooks-Johnson

107

Five Strategies For Decision Making In Teams

108

SHORTS | Warning Signs That You’re Demotivating Your Team

109

Five Tips For Making Better Decisions

110

SHORTS | Learning from Cabin Crew: Working with a New Team Everyday with Alex Chisnell

111

The Water Bottle Moment

112

SHORTS | 3 Things to Know When Stepping into Your First CEO Role with Katie Baker

113

Four Tips For Overcoming Decision Fatigue

114

SHORTS | Managing Transformation, Not Change with Paolo Gallo

115

Do What Works For You

116

SHORTS | Why Values are More Important than Success with Cheryl Giovannoni

117

Energy and Motivation: Don’t Do This

118

SHORTS | The Five-Minute Pause for the Mind with Rebekah Cresswell

119

Strategic Recovery

120

SHORTS | The Moonshot Phase with Tim Creswick

121

Why Is Your Energy Low

122

SHORTS | The internal vs external thinker with Matt Abrahams

123

Coaching Skills For Leaders

124

Season 11 Highlights and A Big Announcement | Episode 176

125

Why Leaders Should be Selfish with Anna Eliatamby | Episode 175

126

Five Tips For Coaching Your Team

127

How to Engage the Resistors with Kate Sikora | Episode 174

128

The Difference Between Coaching and Mentoring

129

How to Be a Great Boss with Debra and Ken Corey | Episode 173

130

How To Get Your Team Thinking For Themselves

131

How to Lead Stars and Mavericks with Darren Cassidy | Episode 172

132

Sculpting a Leader’s Brain with Lisa Wimberger | Episode 171

133

How To Delegate the Right Task to the Right Person

134

The Entrepreneurs Journey with Jeff Webster | Episode 170

135

One Simple Trick To Dramatically Improve Your Delegation Skills

136

A Leadership Masterclass with Kate Williams | Episode 169

137

Shifting Your Focus – Improving Delegation

138

How to Make Good Decisions in a Noisy World with Nuala Walsh | Episode 168

139

The 5 Fears of Delegation

140

The Tangible Benefits of Creating an Empathetic Culture with Erika Sinner | Episode 167

141

Feedback – When to Give It

142

How To Lead a Team of Former Peers with Andy Lightfoot | Episode 166

143

Biting The Feedback Bullet

144

The Power of Strategy and Identity with Alex Brueckmann | Episode 165

145

The ‘Feedback Sandwich’ – Good or Bad?

146

7 Proven Strategies For Better Sleep with Dr. Bijoy John | Episode 164

147

Be Their Cheerleader and Coach

148

SHORTS | Listening to Learn

149

How To Survive in the Corporate Jungle with Ky Furneaux | Episode 163

150

Increasing Commitment Through Shared Values

151

SHORTS | Get Unfiltered Feedback with Cheryl Giovannoni

152

How to Master Delegation, Personal Branding, and Work-Life Balance with Jarrod Lopiccolo | Episode 162

153

Strategic Relationship Building

154

SHORTS | The Fear of Being a Bad Boss

155

SHORTS | Take a beat

156

Why We Must Prioritise Human Connection

157

SHORTS | Overcoming ‘un-knowing’

158

SHORTS | Meeting people in the middle

159

Why Leaders Are Bridge Builders

160

SHORTS | Breathe to Notice More

161

Season 10 Roundup and Insights with Ben Morton | Episode 161

162

Building Resilience In Surprising Ways

163

SHORTS | Self-Learning and Development

164

Unlocking the Secrets to Consistently High Achieving Organisations with Steven Gaffney

165

How To Stay Resilient

166

SHORTS | It’s Not About Marginal Gains

167

Unleashing Passion and Entrepreneurial Success with Alex Higham

168

Why Wellbeing Initiatives Don’t Work

169

SHORTS | Prioritising at Scale in Politics with Daisy Cooper

170

Empowering Leadership: Strategies for Growth and Resilience with James Mitchell

171

Managing Your Energy and Staying Resilient

172

SHORTS | Thinking Like an Athlete vs Entrepreneur with Luke Doherty

173

Stepping Into Your Next Leadership Role – Advice from the Best

174

The Best Motivational Tool Ever

175

SHORTS | Amplifying Downtime with AI with Garik Tate

176

Navigating Strategic Thinking and Cultivating Effective Communication with Michael Watkins

177

Why Rewards Don’t Work For Everyone

178

SHORTS | Listening: the 1 Missing Step

179

Navigating Difficult Conversations and Leading Culture Change with Alex Brooks-Johnson

180

The Formula For Motivation

181

SHORTS | Why is it so hard to slow down?

182

Navigating Challenges and Cultivating Team Success with Peter Fletcher

183

How To Keep Your Team Motivated

184

SHORTS | Don’t Let Comparison Become the Thief

185

Keeping Your Team Motivated with Ben Morton

186

SHORTS | An MP’s Leadership Lesson with Daisy Cooper

187

Cultivating Respect and Discourse: Leadership Insights with Sarah Powell

188

SHORTS | The Risk with ‘Safe’ Decisions with Professor Adam Boddison

189

Branson's Blueprint: Leadership Lessons from the Clouds with Alex Chisnall

190

SHORTS | What’s Your Happy Place? with Luke Doherty

191

Leadership Alchemy and Mental Health with Rebekah Cresswell

192

SHORTS | Challenge Your Comfort Zone in an MD Role with Ben Fletcher

193

How To Improve Your Ability To Focus

194

How To Become a Prioritisation Ninja

195

How To Get More Great Ideas and Solutions

196

How To Make Time for Forward Planning

197

Talking Leadership, Innovation and Slippers with Katie Baker

198

SHORTS | 3 Ways To Leverage AI with Garik Tate

199

SHORTS | Setting Healthy Challenges in the Workplace with Craig Moody

200

SHORTS | Review, Reflect and Debrief with Adam Hickman

201

Navigating the Inner Journey of Leadership with Paolo Gallo

202

SHORTS | Refusing to Not be Nice with Sophie Hooper

203

Leading at Seventy Percent with Archana Mohan

204

SHORTS | Have the Courage to Brag with Lisa Bragg