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The Leader's Kitbag — 209 episodes

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How to Be Heard in Meetings as an Internal Thinker

2

Why Being Unavailable Could Make You a Better Leader

3

How to prepare your team before going on holiday

4

Why You're Not Delegating - And the Simple Tool That Fixes It

5

High Performance Teams Don't Just Work Hard - They Reset

6

Why the Best Leaders Treat Themselves Like Elite Athletes

7

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

8

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

9

Why Reflection Is Essential for Effective Leadership

10

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

11

Focus On Energy Management, Not Time Management

12

What Does-Work Life Balance Actually Mean?

13

Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

14

Helping Your Team Step Up

15

How To Be A Leader

16

How to Lead on a Tight Schedule

17

Leadership and Management – Why You Must Master Both

18

Building Followership

19

Team Development – Don’t Half-Arse It

20

Stop Treating Every Group Like a Team

21

Are You Really Leading a Team?

22

Why Productivity Tools Don’t Work for Everyone

23

Time Orientation and Leadership Under Pressure

24

What Pointing to the Past Reveals

25

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

26

How Your Relationship with Time Shapes Your Leadership

27

Leading With Thought

28

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

29

How to Be Heard in Meetings Without Getting Louder

30

Speak Less, Lead More

31

Tackling Workplace Unhappiness with Lord Mark Price

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Do I Need To Say More In Meetings?

33

Fire and Forget Goal Setting

34

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

35

The Power of Reciprocity

36

How To Frame Goals in the Right Way

37

Fixing the ‘R’ in SMART Goals

38

Using Open Questions in Leadership

39

The Hidden Trap of Active Listening

40

How to Keep Mission and Values Alive When Scaling Your Business

41

How to Make People Feel Heard — Without Saying a Word

42

The Power of Presence: How Great Leaders Truly Listen

43

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

44

How to Recover When You've Let a Colleague Down

45

Why Nutritional Balance Inspires Better Leadership Practices with James Collier

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Helping Your Boss Make Better Decisions

47

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

48

How to Keep Your Boss Updated

49

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

50

Managing Up in the Moment

51

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

52

What To Do When You Have a Poor Leader

53

What’s really going on in venture capital

54

How to Break the Top-Down Feedback Trap

55

Uncovering Your Blind Spots?

56

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

57

Is There a Grizzly Bear Behind Your Open Door

58

Hiring for True Innovation with Frank Mattes

59

Be More Radar, Less Lighthouse

60

Your Team Can’t Grow If You Don’t

61

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

62

The One in Thirty Rule: Why Most Corporate Startups Fail

63

Leading Is the Job – Not the Extra Bit!

64

Don’t Be The Super-Manager

65

Delivering Sustainable High Performance

66

People vs. Process: The Real Performance Issue

67

The Four Leadership Gaps That Impact Performance

68

Managing to the Invisible Standard

69

How to Lead More Experienced Colleagues

70

How to Lead Other Leaders

71

How to Lead Former Peers

72

Leadership Transitions – Unlocking Success

73

How To Tailor Your Message To The Audience

74

How To Ensure Alignment

75

Effective Communication Begins With Listening

76

The Power of Clarity

77

How To Stay Energised

78

How to Have the Life and Career You Love

79

SHORTS | Energy and Motivation Maintenance with Kate Sikora

80

How to Make New Habits Stick

81

SHORTS | Emotional Regulation, Control & Suppression with Anna Eliatamby

82

How to Set Achievable Goals

83

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

84

How To Be A Festive Energiser

85

SHORTS | Philanthropy is the Best Motivational Tool with Kate Williams

86

Thank You, Be Kind and Support Your Team

87

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

88

How Your Mood Influences Your Team’s Performance

89

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

90

How Leaders Monitor and Manage Their Energy

91

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

92

Managing Your Emotions For Maximum Impact

93

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

94

How to Leave People Energised After Every Interaction

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SHORTS | Mastering Strategic Delegation with Jarrod Lopiccolo

96

The Qualities of a Great Leader

97

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

98

Why You Need a “To-Don’t List”

99

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

100

Finding The Time To Lead

101

SHORTS | Debunking Sleep Tracking Tech with Dr. Bijoy John

102

The Difference Between Leadership and Management

103

SHORTS | Take Control and Stop Blaming Others with Steven Gaffney

104

Values and Team Performance

105

SHORTS | Build Meaningful Relationships with James Mitchell

106

Dogs Are For Life But Values Aren't

107

SHORTS | Why Leaders Need Their Own Brand with Ky Furneaux

108

The Number 1 Mistake With Values

109

SHORTS | Political Relationships in the Workplace with Michael Watkins

110

Ditch The Leadership Style

111

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

112

Five Strategies For Decision Making In Teams

113

SHORTS | Warning Signs That You’re Demotivating Your Team

114

Five Tips For Making Better Decisions

115

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

116

The Water Bottle Moment

117

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

118

Four Tips For Overcoming Decision Fatigue

119

SHORTS | Managing Transformation, Not Change with Paolo Gallo

120

Do What Works For You

121

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

122

Energy and Motivation: Don’t Do This

123

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

124

Strategic Recovery

125

SHORTS | The Moonshot Phase with Tim Creswick

126

Why Is Your Energy Low

127

SHORTS | The internal vs external thinker with Matt Abrahams

128

Coaching Skills For Leaders

129

Season 11 Highlights and A Big Announcement | Episode 176

130

Why Leaders Should be Selfish with Anna Eliatamby | Episode 175

131

Five Tips For Coaching Your Team

132

How to Engage the Resistors with Kate Sikora | Episode 174

133

The Difference Between Coaching and Mentoring

134

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

135

How To Get Your Team Thinking For Themselves

136

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

137

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

138

How To Delegate the Right Task to the Right Person

139

The Entrepreneurs Journey with Jeff Webster | Episode 170

140

One Simple Trick To Dramatically Improve Your Delegation Skills

141

A Leadership Masterclass with Kate Williams | Episode 169

142

Shifting Your Focus – Improving Delegation

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

144

The 5 Fears of Delegation

145

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

146

Feedback – When to Give It

147

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

148

Biting The Feedback Bullet

149

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

150

The ‘Feedback Sandwich’ – Good or Bad?

151

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

152

Be Their Cheerleader and Coach

153

SHORTS | Listening to Learn

154

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

155

Increasing Commitment Through Shared Values

156

SHORTS | Get Unfiltered Feedback with Cheryl Giovannoni

157

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

158

Strategic Relationship Building

159

SHORTS | The Fear of Being a Bad Boss

160

SHORTS | Take a beat

161

Why We Must Prioritise Human Connection

162

SHORTS | Overcoming ‘un-knowing’

163

SHORTS | Meeting people in the middle

164

Why Leaders Are Bridge Builders

165

SHORTS | Breathe to Notice More

166

Season 10 Roundup and Insights with Ben Morton | Episode 161

167

Building Resilience In Surprising Ways

168

SHORTS | Self-Learning and Development

169

Unlocking the Secrets to Consistently High Achieving Organisations with Steven Gaffney

170

How To Stay Resilient

171

SHORTS | It’s Not About Marginal Gains

172

Unleashing Passion and Entrepreneurial Success with Alex Higham

173

Why Wellbeing Initiatives Don’t Work

174

SHORTS | Prioritising at Scale in Politics with Daisy Cooper

175

Empowering Leadership: Strategies for Growth and Resilience with James Mitchell

176

Managing Your Energy and Staying Resilient

177

SHORTS | Thinking Like an Athlete vs Entrepreneur with Luke Doherty

178

Stepping Into Your Next Leadership Role – Advice from the Best

179

The Best Motivational Tool Ever

180

SHORTS | Amplifying Downtime with AI with Garik Tate

181

Navigating Strategic Thinking and Cultivating Effective Communication with Michael Watkins

182

Why Rewards Don’t Work For Everyone

183

SHORTS | Listening: the 1 Missing Step

184

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

185

The Formula For Motivation

186

SHORTS | Why is it so hard to slow down?

187

Navigating Challenges and Cultivating Team Success with Peter Fletcher

188

How To Keep Your Team Motivated

189

SHORTS | Don’t Let Comparison Become the Thief

190

Keeping Your Team Motivated with Ben Morton

191

SHORTS | An MP’s Leadership Lesson with Daisy Cooper

192

Cultivating Respect and Discourse: Leadership Insights with Sarah Powell

193

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

194

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

195

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

196

Leadership Alchemy and Mental Health with Rebekah Cresswell

197

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

198

How To Improve Your Ability To Focus

199

How To Become a Prioritisation Ninja

200

How To Get More Great Ideas and Solutions

201

How To Make Time for Forward Planning

202

Talking Leadership, Innovation and Slippers with Katie Baker

203

SHORTS | 3 Ways To Leverage AI with Garik Tate

204

SHORTS | Setting Healthy Challenges in the Workplace with Craig Moody

205

SHORTS | Review, Reflect and Debrief with Adam Hickman

206

Navigating the Inner Journey of Leadership with Paolo Gallo

207

SHORTS | Refusing to Not be Nice with Sophie Hooper

208

Leading at Seventy Percent with Archana Mohan

209

SHORTS | Have the Courage to Brag with Lisa Bragg