Are you forever handling team conflict?

You are a leader managing a team of people. You have become aware that there is conflict between some of your team members. You wonder how you can resolve the team conflict. You see it as a difficult conversation.  

But there's good news! Work relationships CAN be fixed... and it doesn't have to be as difficult as you might imagine.

That's why on this episode of Leading The Coaching Change, I'm sharing;

- The true impact and costs of workplace conflict within organisations

- The real definition (and identifiers) of team conflict so that you can spend your time resolving real conflict instead of minor disagreements.

- How you can develop a team conflict management plan that your team gets onboard with.

- The team conflict resolution techniques that help you prevent conflict - and solve it fast.

My favorite quotes are:

– "The hard work is often worth it, especially in a work environment where productivity and performance are at stake"

-"A conflict may become an opportunity for you to build stronger teams by confronting your differences"

- "Listen carefully to different point of views and perspectives. Remember that people see the problem with a different pair of eyes "

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website or message me here on LinkedIn to get the support you need.

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IN A WORLD WHERE YOU CAN BE ANYTHING - BE YOURSELF!

My guest this week is Jo Soley. As a Business Coach, Jo shows you how to harness the power of the energies of Numerology to elevate your business success. 

I first heard about Jo when she was invited to a Podcast with Janet Murray, back in January 2020 and I got curious! I had 2 urgent questions:

1. Why did I need to understand my numbers (based on my date of birth) to elevate my business success when I'd never used those numbers before and was doing quite well so far?
2. How could the day I was born affect my life, work and career?

I hesitated in inviting Jo on my podcast because It’s not the kind of podcast interview I normally do and I knew that potentially we could have a difficult conversation on Zoom because, for a start, I did not believe in numerology.

In this podcast episode of #Leadingthecoachingchange, Jo reminds us that 'Numerology is as old as the hills. Emperor Nero is associated with it. The Egyptians used in the Hieroglyphics. The Ancient Greeks used it. Pythagoras referenced it in terms of the religion of numbers. Music uses Numerology with strings and tones.' 

Jo introduces us to Bizology and says:

- We are all unique - we are meant to be. We can do things and act in a way that no-one else can do

- Be yourself because everyone else is taken

- Today I will do what others won't. So tomorrow I can do what others can't

- There's a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally

- Ultimately our success is down to us

Jo and I talked about

• What Numerology is and isn't
• How to use Numerology in business
• How to move forward our business (there are better times and easier times to do things)
• How we can't go go go all the times - it's impossible

 My favourite quote from this episode:

"I'm saying keep your seatbelts on to the end of the year, stay in your lane with regards to your numeric energies, concentrate on the personal year you're in, do what you have to do until the end of the year. So I'm saying kind of ride it out, energetically'.

If you are concerned that the difficult conversations that your leaders need to have are being compromised by remote working – then you need to speak to me!  Email me today at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com.

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*** I don't know how to prepare for my online interview next week ***

Jeni Ling and I can help you!

Sneek peak of questions we will discuss:
- How to prepare for a remote interview
- What are the best questions that you can ask at interviews?
- Virtual interview dos and don’ts
- What questions to expect during your interview

Do you feel ready now?

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This week, I'm focusing on the impact of coaching, I’ve invited Karen Foy, Lecturer Coaching and Behaviour Change at Henley Business School.

Karen and I did a conversation analysis of one of my coaching sessions when I was preparing my re-accreditation from ICF. I loved the observations and perspectives that she shared with me on my own work.

Karen is quoting Carl Jung in our conversation 'Once you've learned all your techniques and tools and models, you're just a human soul across from another human.'

Karen says:
-      We can pick out and get curious about the words
-      We need to create a safe space
-      They may be very powerful in very high ranking positions but there's still a human who has got the same issues as anybody else

Listen up if you want to know more. Karen and I
⭐️ explore what ‘clean language' for coaches' is
⭐️ focus on the importance of the coaching contract
⭐️ examine the types of conflicts where coaching can help
⭐️ discuss the difficult yet courageous conversations that leaders are having

My favourite quote from this episode:
💬 “If we can encourage people and work with people to be themselves, they have all the wisdom they need to succeed just the way we do.'

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When I feel like saying no!

A non-negotiable is a commitment to yourself that you will not break.

You may have only one or we may have a few.

Here are some questions that we will explore:
- What values and principles are guiding your choices?
- What results do you see by sticking to them?
- Are they part of your daily actions?
- When you follow through on your non-negotiables, what does that tell you about yourself?

Over the past few months, Jeni Ling, Jan Daines and I interviewed some candidates for a leadership post in an international organisation and all were taken by surprise with this question.

What would you respond?

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Are you a Talent Development Specialist who is considering buying my ONLINE LICENSED TRAINING programme on 'Managing Difficult Conversations' but not sure whether it’s right for your organisation?

If so you probably have a lot of questions to ask me. 

🥇 What kind of results can we expect when we buy the online LICENSED training programme (and how quickly)?

🤔 What exactly is included/not included in the online licensed training programme and how does it work?

🤔What’s the hot seat?

🤔 Who can help me if I am stuck?

🤷‍♀️ Is the programme suitable for an HR/ER professional, Junior, Middle and Senior Managers?

⏰ How much time we will need to spend on each module of the online licensed training programme if we decide to buy them separately?

💰 And how much does it cost?

If that sounds familiar then listen to this special BONUS podcast episode where I'm explaining everything you need to know about my online licensed training programme.

I'll even talk you through the results that my clients have had so far 🥇. 

This training programme is no longer available but if you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

"I can be who I choose to be"

If you're curious about the power of coaching conversations and if you are a high achiever, then you'll love this podcast. Linley Rose, MCC, is my very special guest. I've known Linley for the past 16 years. She was my Executive Coach and has supported me through several promotions from being an Assistant Headteacher to becoming a Headteacher. She then coached my senior team and my staff. 

Being a high achiever does not mean that things are easy. They're not! 

Here are some of the questions that I asked Linley (and there were many more in between and after those)

* You are working with leaders and high achievers. What’s your definition of high achiever? What’s the difference with being an ‘elite’?

* Your clients are looking for clarity, focus, confidence and correctness. How do you measure the impact of coaching on those?

* What are the types of conflicts that coaching that is reduced or eradicated when you have coaching?

* You are a certified facilitator of tools: DISC, working style analysis. How reliable are those tools and how do you use them?

* How are leaders challenged by COVID 19 and how can coaching help them?

We agreed that there is a common characteristic that all leaders can have. Not all leaders display it. 

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Me: Have you ever disagreed with a colleague at work?

You: YES

Me: Did you try to correct your colleague's perceptions, lecturing him/her about why you’re right and why they’re wrong?

You: YES

Me: And?

You: It made it worse

I am delighted to be joined by @David Barrett this week in my latest episode of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast to discuss how to resolve conflict with mediation

David shares his philosophy on what successful mediation is about. He explains

✔️ Why arguing can be valuable

✔️ What the three common points between coaching and mediation are

✔️ The five types of courage in mediation

✔️ The two techniques to manage differences of opinions

✔️ Why it is easier to do online mediation

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Every effective communication is an opportunity to build trust”

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In my coaching practice, I often find that my clients want to talk about their goals. They may be clear about what they want to achieve but they do not know how they will achieve those goals.

You might have reviewed and reflected on what has gone well for you in 2019, what you have enjoyed and also what you would like to change or perhaps abandon. 

Goal setting can be a simple process. It's about what you want in your life, what you want to achieve, where you want to go. 

Goal setting is a personal journey. You choose the areas of your life that you want to focus on: Your career, finance, family, health...

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How you can reflect on what don't have and what you don't want

* What are the 3 easy steps to achieve your goals

* How you can develop daily routines that will help you with your goals

* Why it is important to do your own time inventory

 * What opportunities you have to review the goals you set for 2019 and the ones that you are planning for 2020

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

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<sub>In this episode, I discuss what 'managing up' is and I explore the 7 essential tools to influence up.

- When you manage up, you communicate differently
- When you create a level of safety, you encourage a degree of vulnerability
- When you maximise both synergies for maximal impact, you build great relationships

I love sharing my 7 coaching questions so that you can think about managing up' when you prepare for that next meeting with your new line manager.</sub>

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The outbreak of Covid-19 virus has left many of us feeling anxious about the coming weeks and months as many people are facing an uncertain financial future, given the potential impact on everyday life, jobs and income.

But there is advice and support available to help people deal with the potential psychological and financial impact of the outbreak.

That’s why I invited @John Longford, Financial Adviser at St James's Place Wealth Management to talk to us about the world of finance. My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about exploring the steps we can take to reduce our financial fragility.

Find out:

⭐️ How to put in place the right protection plan for your family

⭐️ What a courageous conversation around finance looks like during COVID-19

⭐️ How improving our finances can actually have a positive effect on our physical well-being by reducing stress levels.

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “What’s really important around financial advisers, it can be a very long-term relationship.”

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"Go for a gold medal"

If you're curious about increasing your mental strength, then you'll love this podcast.

Max Roberts is my very special guest. Max is a gym owner and a fitness/mindset coach in the North East of England. Jeni Ling introduced Max to me because she felt that I would share his coaching philosophy. I really do! 

Max says

• "When I climb up the hill, I believe I will be the hero of my own movie."
• "We all have a need to feel significant; on what scale that is is dependent on the person."
• "I've decided not to feel the other way."
• "Be your biggest fan."

In our conversation, we explored 

- How can we define 'mental strength'?

- What is the concept of 'significance'?

- How we can use 'love language' in our lives

- What you can do to get that gold medal every day.

My favourite question from Max: 'If you were to do the exact opposite for 48 hours, what would your life look like?"

Thank you Max for being my guest. I'll take that gold medal!

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This is a stimulating and thought-provoking roundtable on "critical conversations in transformational leadership" with Jeremy Williams, Ph. D, Jeni Ling and Jan Daines.

We are keen to speak about
Radically reframing your questions.
Testing your solutions (and yourself)
Pausing to move faster
Tapping into creativity

3 questions to think about
❓What does effective transformational leadership lool like?
❓How to avoid common mistakes that can derail your transformation efforts
❓How do you change behaviour, thinking, attitudes and emotion?

What questions would you like to ask us?

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How do you demonstrate courageous leadership?

Find out how you can be a courageous and authentic leader with Jeremy Williams.

Jeremy Williams is the Head of School at Manor Hall International School in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.  As a 2018 Middle East Education Influencer Award finalist, Jeremy shares ideas and practices surrounding leadership, school culture, entrepreneurship, innovation, and authentic learning through Twitter and LinkedIn.  In addition to leading his school, Jeremy is also the host of Dismissed, a podcast about entrepreneurship, education, and expatriate life that is part of the DisruptEd TV network.  Currently finishing his Ph.D in organizational leadership, Jeremy is currently researching the impact of transformational leadership on organizational commitment of teachers in high poverty urban schools in the United States.

[1.48]: What are Jeremy's priorities in his life?

[4.40]: Jeremy's journey to become a Head of School

[5.01]: How Jeremy's experience in America has shaped him as a leader?

[10.01]: Jeremy on leading with courage

[13.07]: The difference between persuasion and infuence

[14.58]: The challenges that Jeremy is facing as a leader

[17.33]: Jeremy on being a resilient leader

[19.52]: Jeremy on being an inclusive leader

[21.54]: Jeremy on the courage of having difficult conversations

[27.57]: Jeremy on his passion for students to learn more

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Welcome to the 65th episode of my latest podcast #Leadingthecoachingchange.

I’ve invited Fay Wallis who is a Career Coach, an Executive Coach and Outplacement Specialist. I met Fay when I was a member of Janet Murray’s community 4 years ago. What I really like about Fay is her authenticity, her sense of perfection, her professionalism and her positivity.

Be not mistaken, the next few months and years are going to be not only challenging but uncertain because of the ongoing economic impact from Coronavirus around the world. In this episode, Fay and I are going to share with you how she is supporting employees and HR professionals with redeployment and redundancies.

Fay says:

• Some of the most difficult conversations HR professionals have is around redundancies
• It’s hard to deliver bad news. How do you do that?
• It’s ok to feel upset or confused or angry
• As a Career Coach, you’ve got to be able to make that call and decided when it might actually be more helpful for that client to be offered counselling.

Fay and I together, we

- explore how we can best help people when their role is being made redundant

- share strategic steps that people can take to find a job as there are jobs available.

- examine what the ‘survivor syndrome is’ and how you can best navigate it

- discuss the courageous conversations that HR professionals are having

And if want to know the ONE tool that you should be using if you are writing up your CV or a letter of application, Fay reveals it all.

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “This time is yours: what do you want to use it for”.

Fay and I have put together a list of professional bodies to help you:

• CIPD: for HR professionals
• ACCA: for Accountancy professionals
• CIM: for Marketing professionals
• CMI:Chartered Management Institute – for anyone in a management or leadership role
• A full list of professional bodies can be found at this site:https://www.ukecc-services.net/ukpbata.cfm

Fay’s website at https://www.brightskycareercoaching.co.uk/

If you are concerned that the difficult conversations that your employees need to have are being compromised by remote working – then you need to speak to me!  Email me today at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Christine Billy and I share the passion for coaching high performing teams around the world. We also share the same birthday!

It's funny how we hesitate when describing a high performing team as a crystal or as a diamond. Every diamond is a crystal but every crystal isn't a diamond.

We're interested in the invisible and in the magic of high-performing teams.  

It's not because you are a high-achiever that you don't have barriers, invisible blocks or that little voice tormenting you. After all, whoever you are, you are a human being with a heart and lots of emotions. 

In our conversation, we spoke about

- The need to align our mind and our heart

- How to accelerate the success by implying the strategic transformation (and how to measure it)

- The types of conflicts that high performing teams are facing and how to resolve them

- The role of our intuition 

I love Christine's final message of hope. 

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This is the end....the end of my 'Leading the Coaching Change Podcast'. They say the end is the beginning. 

Leading the coaching podcast has been even better than I had imagined. How did it really happen? A combination of the right time, right place, right people, instincts, hard work, attention to details, teams work and a lot of luck and magic. I still remind myself to keep thinking ahead, stay positive, and dream big.

I just wanted to take that moment to thank all of you around the globe for taking the time to listen to my podcasts, to implement anything that you’ve learned from them, to leave a review, as you become the best leader you can be. I’ve met incredible people, all my amazing guests.

It’s been an incredible journey and I hope that you continue to listen to my conversations with remarkable people over on my LinkedIn live and that you continue learning from me.

I've learned a great deal and share with you my 4 key points. 

It’s been my absolute pleasure to serve you. I wish you all the best and I leave you by saying Thank you.  

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Do you speak the language of change when you are driving change?

What if the language that you use makes it harder to bring about the difference that you want to see?

As an Executive Coach who helps Leaders manage change effectively and as part of the Leadership training programmes that I deliver, I often draw on John Kotter’s research, a professor at Harvard Business School and world-renowned change expert.

In this podcast and if you would like to explore where you are with the language of change and what you could do to expand, I invite you to do FOUR exercises. They are simple and quick to complete.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How you can can undo the habits that you have created with the default language you use

* What emotion your own language create and the likely impact it may have on people

* How you can expand your repertoire by using the Thesaurus

* Why it is important to be consistent in the language that you use to promote change 

- "When you talk about change, how do you adapt your language to offer different possibilities?"

-"What tools and processes do you use in your conversations to promote change?"

- "What library of thoughts do you use?"

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Has your new remote working changed any of your well-being habits or routines? Have you been trying to create a new daily routine that prioritises looking after yourself?

If any of that sounds familiar, then listen to my new 🎧 podcast as I have a special guest, Claire Paphitis who shares practical advice and guidance on Ayurveda medicine. Ayurveda is entirely holistic and creates harmony between the body, mind, and spirit.

Claire is sharing:

* The 3 Dosha types and how your type influences your ‘behaviour’

* The importance of the food you eat everyday  

* The impact of the 4 seasons on our emotions and well-being

My favourite quotes from this episode;

💬 “I like to think that Ayurveda gives people the tool that they need to know how to properly take care of themselves.”

If you want to know more about Claire Paphitis:

E: claire@theayurvedacoach.com

W: theayurvedacoach.com

If you think that Generation Z is a lost generation, then think again!

The 2020 Deloitte Global Millennial Survey, now in its ninth year, reveals that millennials and Generation Z remain resilient in the face of adversity and is determined to drive positive change in their communities and around the world.

Deloitte survey reveals "resilient generation": Millennials and Gen Zs hard hit by COVID-19 pandemic, yet view this period as an opportunity to reset, take action.'

Listen to this stimulating and thought-provoking roundtable on 'What we can learn from Generation Z: persistent positivity' with Jeni Ling, Jan Daines, Izzy MacKellar, Ruchika Sharma and Asyia Iftikhar.

Izzy MacKellar, Ruchika Sharma and Asyia Iftikhar are 3 final year students at King's College London and University College London.

Topics which they are excited to talk about include resilience, flexibility and shifting paths, mental health, maintaining positivity, cultural/racial/disability/sexuality intersectionality, student activism, identity, and social media.

What questions would you like to ask them?

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I am delighted to welcome Marie Coombes, who is the National Workplace Mediation Award 2020 Winner on this podcast. 

What I love about Marie is her enthusiasm, her energy and her passion for mediation. She genuinely and truly cares for people, so it is not a surprise that she is a mental health first aider.

We talked about the relationship between conflict, and mental health and Marie is clear about her role 'we are not there to diagnose, we are there to support.' 

In this episode, you'll learn:

What it means for them to be the 'Workplace Mediation Award 2020 Winner.'

What you can do in mediation in advance when you know that one person has mental health issues? 

The 5 areas of research that Marie use to support her work

One advice to manage the difference of opinions

My favourite quote from the podcast

'Language is a fascinating subject. It's absolutely fascinating how people use language in conflict and in resolving it.'

Please leave your review on iTunes. It means the world to me when I read your feedback, and it can help others decide to 'press play' & listen to my podcast. Thank you.

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Do you know this Airline Pilot Maxim: Do we want pessimism in the cockpit? (Hope Theory: Rainbows in the Mind, C.R. Snyder, 2002)

"Do we really want the pessimistic pilot, filled with anxiety, tension, worry, sadness, rejection, anger, self-criticalness, and profound uncertainty, to be at the controls when our jet is landing in a thunderstorm?"

Not me. I want a high-hope pilot in that cockpit."

But for me, there’s more to it with ‘Hope’ so let me share something that is driving my passion around these 4-letter words.

I am currently writing a PhD proposal where hope is at the core of my research. My research will investigate and analyse how hope determines the outcome of a difficult conversation related to the performance review in a business context.

Hope involves estimation of conscious or unconscious probabilities so my hypothesis is that on choosing the odds to be in our favour, we demonstrate confidence, patience, determination and courage that the ‘perceived’ difficult conversation will transform into a courageous conversation to achieve better outcomes.

Hope will not only determine the future of a strong relationship), influence future performance but also shape the future capacity and capability of a person and ultimately plays a part in the business organisational growth.

So yes, I believe that hope can determine the flow and outcome of a conversation.

In this podcast, I share 5 practical ideas to shift your thinking and your feelings. I challenge you with 3 questions so that you can start using different words. Different words lead to different conversations with different outcomes. 

“Change your way of thinking. Use your energy to accomplish more productive things. The choice is yours and it can be made today!” Garrett Kingston

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Dr Phyl Hughes is a Business Psychologist at H2Pro. She is a coach, working with a range of mid to top layer leaders in the UK. Her USP as a coach is at the meeting point of you-your strategy-your organisation. She asks if this is the strategic direction of your firm, what do your leadership behaviours need to look like to deliver it. Dr Phyl’s work on culture change piece from top level to mid level.

I always love finding a common denominator with the people I interview on my podcast and with Dr Phyl, it is the definition of what a leader is “the role of a leader is about being a translator.”

– “It is about guiding people to be clear about their strategic direction, and then how that has a genuine meaning on how they are as a leader with that.”

– “People have a curious psychology around change, in that they crave it, but then when they do engage with it is daunting, even if that change is what they’d wished for.”

–  “Organisations have their own particular habits in how they go about managing change and a whole set of expectations, mindsets , fear, fantasies, and enablers, blockers that either make change fly or get in the way of it .”

– “I suggest to people that they need to think about change in 3 areas: what it needs to change, why it does need to change and how we go about that change”.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you’ll also hear:

* How to understand the difference between efficient and effective ways of approaching, engaging and being comfortable with change

* What Dr Phyl’s views are on models of change

* What the role of a leader is about being a translator

* How use the concept of congruence within the language of change

(And there were so many more points in this one I can’t even cover here – be sure to listen to get them all.)

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We will never forget 2020 and we have reflected! 

2021 is yet to be written. You might have mixed feelings and emotions about it. Let's be clear, 2021 will hold new challenges for us and that's life!

What matters most is how we respond to challenges and how we apply the lessons that we've learnt to move forward in our relationships, career, leadership and life

Decide how you want to experience 2021. What's your highest vision? What's inspiring you right now?

We all have a different DNA and we're all work in progress. 

Psychologist William James said 'Most people live in a restricted circle of their true potential'. How will you rise to the challenges of 2021 with courage, creativity and resilience? 

In this podcast, I share 4 different ways of setting your new year resolutions.

What you choose not to do is as important as what you choose to do. It's not about having the highest number of goals. It's about setting what's right for you and only you know that. 

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"I have a concern because we live in a racist society and within institutionally racist institutions, that minority communities have a difficult challenge to be able to live their lives" says Rotimi Akinsete.

"How can I do better as a human? How can I do better as a woman? How can I do better as a white woman?" says Nadine Powrie

I am delighted to be join by Rotimi Akinsete, Associate Dean Of Students at University of the Arts London, in my 64th episode of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast to discuss racial equality.

We discussed

✔️ The importance of doing what we say we're going to do

✔️ What we are prepared to do about making the necessary changes

✔️ What discriminations we need to eradicate in the world

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “We can think about being part of solution, or we can continue to be part of the problem”

As an Executive and Leadership Coach, I enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversations.

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In this podcast episode, I talk about the key ingredients that could change everything for you when you attend a training. 

A lot of people tell me that they don’t really like role plays. It puts them off. I get that.

Your learning style influences you more than what you think. it changes how you internally represent experiences, how you recall information and what words you choose.

Studies at the Surrey Baby Lab at the University of Surrey have investigated colour perception and cognition across development. Did you know that brown and grey are the least attractive colours?

Did you know that research shows that learning appears to be affected adversely by inadequate light, extreme temperatures, and loud noises?

When I run my Masterclasses, it’s all about how I can create environments that facilitate collaborative activities. I learnt a great deal from being of a team who design a new school in Sheffield and from Cisco and so this is why I carefully select the venue for each of my Masterclasses.

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Back in August 2020, when I filled in the online application to be able to broadcast my own LinkedIn live, I had no idea about that very decision would test my resilience. This is why:

On the one hand, I had that little voice in my head telling me:

There are 706 million LinkedIn users so

- Don't mess this up (I'd never used Streamyard before)

- What if people didn't think that it was relevant or helpful

- What if there was no impact

On the other hand, that little voice was also telling me:

What a WONDERFUL opportunity to

- Share thinking, engage people in a conversation that I don't know from around the world

- Have a global voice, speak up and be heard

- Grow a global network

Resilience can be tested by adversity but also by positive changes.

Listen to my podcast, where I talk about what the core components of resilience can be and where I share 9 tools to equip you with developing your own resilience.

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Business reorganisation and restructuring is a common issue that affects thousands of employees every year. It’s a sensitive matter that greatly impact people lives.

I might be controversial here but I believe that restructuring can inspire people to perform better.

A restructuring has always a ‘WHY’ and it starts with the business strategic plan. Shifting the vision, the business priorities to revive a business in decline or to gain competitive advantage so that it continues to grow justifies the ‘WHY’.

In this episode of Leading the Coaching Change podcast, I'll be sharing

⭐️ The ONE group of employees that tend to respond in a particular way during a restructuring

⭐️ The ONE value that your organisation need at this moment in time

⭐️ The benefits of restructuring

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Using the values of your organisation to behave ethically are qualities and actions associated with successful leaders who can inspire during tough times."

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

If you want to hear good news, read on…

My guest this week on #Leadingthecoachingchange podcast is Janine Capaldi and her opening statement is ‘people are actually generating leads from Linkedin at the moment.’

That’s true. It’s not an assumption. It’s actually happening. There is hope and we should never lose sight of it.

My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about exploring the successful conversations that we all need to have to design a clear roadmap, a strategic plan to generate leads from Linkedin. #Janine capaldi is the expert and shares with us some useful tips

Find out:

⭐️ How to qualify your future clients on Linkedin

⭐️ How to have the ‘right’ conversation to co-construct the ROI

⭐️ How to assert your boundaries in a conversation

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “What I did find really difficult was telling people that they were not the right fit "

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

How do you assess leadership talent?

Find out how you can develop, identify and assess leadership talent with Jeni Ling

Jeni has been involved in school leadership, in a variety of roles since she was appointed Deputy Head in 1988. She has experience of working at school and system level in the UK and Internationally and is very skilled at planning, delivering and evaluating adult learning. After a successful Headship Jeni moved into advisory work for LAs leading in AfL and Change Management, and was a School Improvement Partner. Her last substantive post at NCSL (NCTL) involved a varied experience in a number of leadership roles a National College Consultant Leader, Lead Coach, Lead Facilitator, Programme Lead, Associate Director in The International Business Unit. Since leaving the College in 2012, she has worked independently and has been involving in delivering leadership programmes across the UK, India and in Kenya. For the past two years she has been an Inspection Team Lead and member in Dubai for KG to Grade 13.

[2.09]: What boosted Jeni's confidence?

[4.48]: Jeni on working for the National College

[7.33]: Jeni on taking a mentoring role in UAE

[9.00]: What has Jeni learnt about her leadership

[15.44]: Jeni on the challenges that leaders face at the moment

[20.08]: Jeni on talent management

[23.13]: Jeni on recruitment

[35.00]: Jeni on letting staff go

[37.49]: Jeni on the courage of having difficult conversations

[46.37]: Jeni on the impact of the learning environment on performance

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Trust is the basis for almost everything we do and research shows that trust is based on 3 pillars

-      Positive relationships

-      Expertise (walk the talk)

-      Consistency

But trust is more than that!

HRB reports that "Employees in high-trust organisations are more productive, have more energy at work, collaborate better with their colleagues, and stay with their employers longer than people working at low-trust companies. They also suffer less chronic stress and are happier with their lives, and these factors fuel stronger performance."

This week, in my latest episode of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast, I have a special guest Tarek Alami.

Listen up if you want to understand

⭐️ What skills you need to be a #change leader

⭐️ How to influence your colleagues and your clients towards a common goal

⭐️ How #ROI was always important (and now only suddenly now!)

⭐️How to use your 6th sense

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “If people have faith and #trust in you, then you’ll have a greater success in influencing the direction in which you want to go.’

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

I am afraid I have bad news for you!

50% of the people who took my survey on ‘Managing Difficult Conversations’ responded that they spend between 3 to 6 hours a week dealing with difficult conversations and 73% of them say that it is around the level of support that they receive.

This means that you are spending between 6% and 10% of your year at work dealing with difficult conversations. That means daily pain, defeats, frustration, anger, disappointments, hurt, grudges, mistakes and missed opportunities.

And when you are not dealing with those difficult conversations, you are avoiding them.

And that’s just work until it catches you up.

That’s why on this episode of Leading the Coaching Change, I’m sharing:

* The 3 levels of support that could help you move forward with any significant project

*  How you can influence the decision makers and gate keepers

*  How to have the courage to speak up for your belief in spite of the risks

My favourite quotes from this episode;

- “Understanding the strategic goals of your organisation is essential”

 - “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” John F Kennedy

-  “It’s about reducing the gap between dependence to empowerment”

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website or message me on LinkedIn to get the support you need.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you’ll hear

* How you can use an employment gap to your advantage

* What the research says about working mothers and promotion

* How flexible working can help women returning to work

* Why it is important for organisations to have a programme for women returning to work after their maternity leave

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Welcome to the 69th episode of my latest podcast #Leadingthecoachingchange.

You may know that 2 weeks ago I qualified civil, commercial and workplace mediator. It makes sense to start talking more about the power of meditation in my podcast. So for this week's podcast, I invited David Liddle as my guest of honour. David is the director and CEO of TMC. David and I got into a 45-minutes conversation about the power of mediation.   

If you want to listen to someone who truly loves what he is doing in his working life, then listen to how David talks passionately about mediation. 

David says:

• Dissonance and lack of clarity are the major antecedents of conflict
• One of the beauties of mediation is an opportunity for insight growth and learning

In our conversation, David and I 

⭐️ explored what mediation really is

⭐️ delve into how to manage the difference of opinions

⭐️ examined the future of mediation in the UK and globally?

⭐️ discussed the courageous conversations that disruptive leaders are having

We referred to Marshall Rosenberg and non-violent communication, Sidney Dekker and Daniel Goleman. 

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬  “We're not taking those moments to stop to check-in and to check me,  am I feeling as well?"

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Really enjoyed our stimulating and thought-provoking podcast on "Financial resilience in leadership" with Mahmood Reza and John Longford DipPFS.

Now maybe you’re asking, “How can I improve as a financial leader, regardless of where I am on the career continuum?”

Deloitte defines "Financial resilience" as "the ability of an organisation to withstand events that affect their capital structure, liquidity, revenue and assets."

Without financial resilience, commercial and operational resilience cannot be maintained.

We were keen to explore have a conversation around
- financial strategic planning (and forecasting)
- critical cash flow risk management
- communicating financial resilience to create value and foster trust
- helping the board make informed decisions
- conflict resolution (with yourself and with others) and responding to a crisis
- networking skills to hire the expert you trust

My favourite quotes:

"Part of a plan might be not to have a plan"

"Surround yourself with the experts that you trust"

"Challenge what you do and know your why"

"Being qualified is not necessarily being good at what you do"

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How you can use an employment gap to your advantage

* What the research says about working mothers and promotion

* How flexible working can help women returning to work

* Why it is important for organisations to have a programme for women returning to work after their maternity leave

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

How do you choose your continuous professional development?

In this episode, I explore with you my 7 favourite questions to get clarity on professional development:

• What would it look like if you were entirely successful?
• In six months, if things were going exactly the way you want, what would you see?
• What would you do if you had unlimited resources?
• What is your current biggest problem or challenge?
• How do you plan to approach them?
• What resources do you have access to?
• What is one step you could take right now that would indicate you were moving forward?

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Dr. Nadine is an executive coach, consultant, author, and speaker based in San Francisco, California. Her mission is to make the executive experience exceptionally enjoyable and effective.

She believes that the world needs great leaders, so she has dedicated her career to helping them. Her clients range from A-Z, from Apple to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She has helped hundreds of executives feel happier and be more successful.

As an organizational psychologist and former corporate CEO, Dr. Nadine understands the pressures and demands executives face. She offers her clients the high expertise that only comes with decades of consulting success and a dual Ph.D. in Organization Development and Clinical Psychology. Dr. Nadine has written two books, “The Art of Executive Coaching” and “Stress-less Leadership”, both available on Amazon.

I am so excited to have Dr Nadine on the show today, and to learn about how people can be happier and better at work.

We talk about Executive Coaching, her 2 books, difficult conversations, behaviour change, personality and competency.

If you want to know more about Dr Nadine Greiner, you can visit her website or social media

• https://www.drnadine.com How audience can get in touch with Dr. Nadine
• amazon.com/author/nadinegreiner Dr. Nadine’s books
• https://twitter.com/DrNadineGreiner   Dr.Nadine tweets about all things leadership, globally
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadinegreiner/ Dr. Nadine’s professional life and recommendations
• https://www.instagram.com/drnadinegreiner/ Cute pictures, inside scoop

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

If you’re feeling anxious or overwhelmed right now, you’re not alone. Many people are feeling this way with what’s happening around the world.

At the moment, things feel fragmented and disrupted - and I'm seeing a lot of the individuals and organisations that I work with, facing different challenges to 'normal’...

But this difficult time will be overcome... and it's also giving us opportunities to elevate our leadership and show true compassion so that we become a better leader

🙋‍♀️ *** GOOD NEWS *** This gives you opportunities to elevate your leadership and show your true compassion so that not only you continue to engage your staff and retain them, you help them thrive in adversity.

That’s why on this episode of Leading the Coaching Change, I’m sharing:

* The 2 core values that leaders need to seriously think about  

* The 4 ‘basic needs’ in a time of crisis

* What is the best communication strategy for your organisation?

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “The average duration of the relationship with the most influential leader in their life is ten years.”

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

How to be a successful disruptive leader

Welcome to the 60th episode of my latest podcast #Leadingthecoachingchange.

This week, I’ve decided to focus on disruptive leadership and to support me, I’ve invited Simon Harmer as my guest of honour.

Simon is the director of a creative agency ‘Thursday’. My friend Jenny Plant introduced me to Simon during lockdown. Simon and I got into conversations (on zoom) about ‘disruption’, ‘creativity’.

If you don’t know about Simon, do visit thursday.studio and have a look at the first message ‘Clarity feels good. Confusion doesn’t’. It feels like BANG! 5 words but hey…what a powerful message. I want to read more…don’t you?

Simon says:

• He is a very curious and always starts with the ‘why’
• He thinks with agility
• He always been a good people person

Are you like Simon? If yes, you may be a disruptive leader. Listen up if you want to know more. Simon and I

⭐️ explore what ‘being a disruptive leader’ really means

⭐️ share what creativity looks like

⭐️ examine the types of questions disruptive leaders use

⭐️ discuss the courageous conversations that disruptive leaders are having

And if you listen right up to the end, Simon reveals what ‘LUCK’ means

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Why do we do things this way? The next time you find yourself doing something, start questioning, is there a better way?

Thank you Simon for being my guest on this 60th episode. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Gemma Stow helps female introvert leaders to have more impact and presence by increasing their confidence around self promotion. She supports them to step out of the shadows and into their spotlight.

I love how Gemma describes herself 'Hey I’m Gemma a proud and fierce introvert.'

Her motto resonates well with me 'Do what you can’t' and I am applying it everyday.

'It's about doing it in your own way and remembering all the strengths and superpowers that you've got and bringing those up and using them to your advantage.'

'if you don't put your hands up, then you don't seem to be learning and know things. Maybe you do know, you just don't want to put your hand up.'

'You can see what other people are doing. It's about realising that you don't know the full picture, their story and you can't compare your chapter one with their chapter 20. It just does not work like that.'

'Don't try to fill in the silence. Just be the silence.'

In this episode we talk about:

- Gemma's mission to help introvert female leaders

- The types of difficult conversations you may have when you are an introvert

- Self doubt and confidence

- What's holding introvert female leaders back?

- The importance of silence in conversations

Let us know what you think

Gemma's  website: https://www.gemmastow.com/about-me-shift#aboutme

Gemma on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemmastow/

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Thanks for the good times in 2018 and for the lessons! You have reviewed and reflected on what has gone well for you in 2018, what you have enjoyed and also what you would like to change or perhaps abandon. 

We are now in 2019 and you are ready to identify some goals as you want to make 2019 the best year ever. Yes, let's do this...

Goal setting can be a simple process. It's about what you want in your life, what you want to achieve, where you want to go. 

Goal setting is a personal journey. You choose the areas of your life that you want to focus on: Your career, finance, family, health...

Imagine being in an online interview and being asked by the CEO "what makes you unique?"

- How would you respond?

- What examples would you use to back up your statement?

I am also curious 
What is the best ever response you heard from a candidate (if you were on the interview panel)?

Lisa Barrow, CEO of Kada Recruiting has a possible answer "A good tip in answering this question is to start with this sentence opener. 'I was the only one who.' Or I was the first to. And fill in the blank with what you've accomplished that many others in the same situation didn't or took longer to do. Use the opportunity to respond as a way to share a special achievement that you're particularly proud of accomplishing"

Listen to Jeni Ling and I in this podcast where we give you 10 ideas about how to make your uniqueness shine.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

*** How can you make people like you? ***

You know that:

- You’ve got an open mind and you listen

- You smile

- You do what you say you’re going to do

- You don’t really know

- You think you’re average

- You’re just you

And that you love everyone until they give you a reason not to!

You know that people like you because they tell you but you’re not sure about the exact reasons, listen to my latest Leading the Coaching change podcast to help you get it. What if they stop liking you?

So listen up if

⭐️ You want to get clear on the language to use

⭐️ You are desperate to be liked

⭐️You are ready to be happier (as more people will like you)

🎧Listen here

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I was very honoured to interview Andrew Miller QC for my 73rd podcast on #Leadingthecoachingchange.

Hands up that I felt a little intimidated as Andrew is a QC and I've never done a podcast with a QC before but as Andrew said: "I've always been approachable, the letters just get stuck on the end of your name".

Andrew is a highly respected barrister, mediator, arbitrator and conciliator. As I was preparing for our conversation, I was seriously wondering if there was anything Andrew can't do!

Genuinely kind, humble and approachable, Andrew and I talked for over 55 minutes over:

- What the Civil/Commercial Mediator Award 2020 meant for him

- What the qualities of a successful mediator are

 -The impact of COVID-19 on commercial mediation and the resolution disputes in general

- How he manages the difference of opinions in mediations

- His mediation style

Andrew is also the Chair of the Trustees for the Charity 'The Compassionate Friends' (TCF). Please TCF to offer support to families in their time of greatest need. Make a donation. Thank you.

My favourite quote from this episode
💬 “Listening isn't enough in my view. In mediation, I always say this phrase 'we always listen but we don't always hear'. You have to be able to hear what they are saying. When you repeat it back to them, they've got to know that they've been heard. Where parties start at the beginning of the mediation, there can never be a settlement. it's not possible. Something has to change on both sides for there to be a settlement."

If you have any questions or if you’d like to discuss how conflict resolution training can help your organisation, email me at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

What do people thank you for most often?

How do you feel when your colleague(s), your line manager, your boss congratulate you, say thank you to you?

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How practising workplace gratitude can transform relationships

* What routines and daily habits you can develop to express your gratitude

* How you can develop a 'happy brain'

* Why it is important to say thank you

- "Appreciation changes everything"

-"What do people around you do well everyday that you might be taking for granted?"

- "Celebrate how other people have shifted, their creativity, their success, their risk, the difference that they are making. "

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

<< Courageous Conversations around Imposter Syndrome>>

Clare Josa is a leadership and Mentor trainer and who is the author of ‘Ditching the Imposter Syndrome’ book due to be published on 30th September.

'I don't do sticky plasters or band aids'

'People have to get the right headspace to create change'

'A lot of people when they are talking about imposter syndrome actually mean lack of confidence and self doubt. Confidence and self doubt come at what I call the behavioural level. You actually need to go much deeper for imposter syndrome.'

In this episode, we talk about

✔️ Clare's 2019 imposter syndrome research study

✔️ The myths of imposter syndrome

✔️ The steps to create change

✔️ Courageous conversations around resisting change

If you want to contact Clare Josa, please visit:

https://ditchingimpostersyndrome.com

http://www.clarejosa.com

https://fromexperttoauthor.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarejosa/

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

"I'm writing to encourage us to look at what we can do because it's so easy to become despondent and to really feed defeated. How can I make the world a better place with my actions" says Leisa Grace Wilson

"How can I do better as a human? How can I do better as a woman? How can I do better as a white woman?" says Nadine Powrie

I am delighted to be join by Leisa Grace Wilson in one of my episodes of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast to discuss racial equality.

We discussed

✔️ How we can make a difference through our actions

✔️ The types of questions that we need to eradicate in our daily conversations

✔️ How to analyze problems from a broader perspective and challenge established ways of thinking

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “You're not going to get rid of ideological thinking and white supremacy by marching through the streets”

As an Executive and Leadership Coach, I enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversations. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Are you struggling with difficult conversations? Here are 5 questions you've always wanted the answer for...

#1: Am I the only one to constantly feel that all i do is deal with conflict work?

#2:How do I prepare for a difficult conversation that I am scheduled to have next week?

#3: Why do I always seem to remember the negative comments in those difficult conversations?

#4: Are there any great examples of difficult conversations that are turning out well that I could look at or listen to?

#5: Why you are not the right manager for me?

Whether you choose to change your perspective and perception, there will always be complex people around you. How you choose to respond to their behaviours is ultimately up to you.  You don’t have to give up who you are to work with a complex person. But you may just have to learn new skills and challenge yourself to do more and be more for yourself and others. Life is a negotiation.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Are you a leader who likes to ‘win’ at work?

You enjoy getting the results that you’re working towards?

Then you’ll know that it doesn’t *always* come easy and that sometimes you have to negotiate to get the outcome you want.

That’s why you’re going to love today’s episode where I’m going to show you;

• How you can avoid being ‘blind-sided’ when it comes to negotiation conversations.
• How you can prepare to have ‘mutual win’ conversations so that neither party feels like the negotiation process has been a loss.
• What the biggest mistakes are that leaders make on going into negotiation conversations - so that you can avoid them at all costs and get better outcomes!

My favourite quotes from this episode;

• “Preparing thoroughly means being smart with your time”
• “What do you bring to the table?”
• “Do I have what it takes?

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website or message me here on LinkedIn to get the support you need.

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless" Mother Teresa

Thank you Jeni Ling, Leisa Grace Wilson for a thought-provoking conversation on 'Kindness and Leadership 🤔'.

Here are the kind of questions we explored

There are some immediate questions:
- How do we define 'kind leadership?
- What does kind leadership look like?
- Why kind leadership matters?
- How to develop a kind and compassionate leadership style
- Is being a kind leader a weakness?

In our conversation, we shared our 10 thoughts related to Kindness in Leadership.

What would you add to those?

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Listen to this podcast for a stimulating and thought-provoking roundtable on "How we can support neurodiversity in the workplace, as parents and as educators?" with Prof Amanda Kirby, Jeni Ling and Jan Daines.

In the past 15 years, Prof Amanda Kirby has published extensively in the field of Developmental Disorders/Neurodiversity and have 8 books including 2 very practical books on 'How to succeed'-one for Further and Higher Education one for employment for neurodiverse people including those with Dyslexia, DCD (Dyspraxia), ADHD, and ASD) to help at home, in education or in work.

Here are some questions that discuss:

- What is neurodiversity?

- Is it a condition or just a positive reframing of differences in brain functions?

- Are we all neurodiverse, with unique profiles?

- Do all neurodiverse people struggle with everyday actions?

- How can we embrace and support our children as they struggle with being perceived as different?

- What steps can we take to ensure our schools and workplaces are more supportive of neurodiverse people?

Big thanks to Amanda, Jeni and Jan for this podcast. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Chardet Durbin is a certified nutrition specialist and personal trainer.

"When you get deeper into the mindset of what motivates people to want these changes in these transformations, that's when you start to have some really challenging and emotional conversations with people, especially working with women, because there's like a whole lot of expectations."

"When they don't get that and they're doing everything, right, they just have that guilt and a lot of that resentment about their body instead of trying to embrace what you have, and be the best you can"

"What if we could get you to this point, right, where you're super strong, and you're doing this, and but you can still have all of those things in the way to enjoy your life and still be strong and fit is that you might have to give up this notion of something that is perhaps not attainable without great effort."

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll also hear

* Why difficult conversations are challenging and emotional 

* How you look in the mirror and what you choose to see

* What is a wellness long life journey

(And there were so many more points in this one I can’t even cover here – be sure to listen to get them all.)

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Are you finding it hard to handle difficult conversations with colleagues that you line manage?

Having a difficult conversation does not always mean that we are dealing with difficult people. In many instances, it will be colleagues we like, we respect and who mean a lot to us as part of our teams. Equally, not everyone you are going to meet in your life is going to be someone you like and can work with; and not everyone you meet is going to like you and can work with you. Being with a difficult person is perceived as difficult. A difficult person can make you defensive, exhausted, fearful, miserable, angry, unhappy. You are left with no time and no energy. Your stress hormone called Cortisone is your public health enemy number 1. Elevating your cortisone level interferes with your learning and memory, lowers your immune system and bone density, increases your weight gain, blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease; and the list goes on.

Would you agree that the cost of resolving conflict is small relative to the high cost of leaving conflicts unresolved? Most importantly, unresolved conflict can be toxic to both you and your organization.

What if I gave you the opportunity to look at the situation with a different pair of glasses? 

One of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself is ‘How am I managing difficult conversations at work?’

In this episode, I am exploring the fear that we have at the idea of having difficult conversations. I am sharing some tips that will help you to overcome those fears. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Meet two amazing women!

Audrey Dorival and Susanna Diegel are both SEND mediators and managers working for KIDS, a charity that supports over 13,700 disabled children, young people and their families every year by delivering over 80 services throughout England.

In this episode, you'll learn:

- How the 2014 Children and Family Act brought major changes for children and young people aged 0 to 25

- Some of the key themes of the research paper from Margaret Doyle 'A place at the table'

- What it means for them to be the 'SEND Mediation Award 2020 Winner'

- How they have supported their 40 mediators working for the charity KIDS. 

- The ONE project that they need funding with (can you help them with it?)

PLUS you'll hear about the guidance jointly developed with the Department for Education and Mott MacDonald that they have published, click here.

My favourite quote from this episode

"I think a key difference is that the relationship that the parties will have, could potentially go from birth to 25 years."

Please leave your review on iTunes. It means the world to me when I read your feedback and it can help others decide to 'press play' and listen to my podcast. Thank you.  

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How to resolve team conflict?

You are a leader managing a team of people. You have become aware that there is conflict between some of your team members. You wonder how you can resolve the team conflict. You see it as a difficult conversation. You can fix a work relation gone sour. 

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How workplace conflict can have a hugely negative impact on organisations.

* What is the definition of team conflict

* How you can develop a team conflict management plan

* How you can use team conflict resolution techniques

- "The hard work is often worth it, especially in a work environment where productivity and performance are at stake"

-"A conflict may become an opportunity for you to build stronger teams by confronting your differences"

- "Listen carefully to different point of views and perspectives. Remember that people see the problem with a different pair of eyes "

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

What are the symptoms of a difficult conversation? 

If you’ve been worrying about your next remote difficult conversation or maybe if you’ve been thinking of delaying it or not having it at all because you’re dreading it and don’t know how to handle it remotely,

👉Well, I have REALLY good news for you.

🎧 Listen to my new Coaching the Leading change episode where I share the 5 symptoms of a difficult conversation.

My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about how you can up level your mindset to create change within yourself and your organisations so that you can transform difficult conversations into courageous conversations.

Find out:

⭐️ What the 5 symptoms of a difficult conversations are

⭐️ How you can treat those 5 symptoms

⭐️ Which of the 3 types of flexibility you can use to develop a mental framework for effective thinking

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “An assumption is an educated guess, a likely condition, circumstance or event presumed known and true in the absence of absolute certainty."

Leadership #NPcoaching

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

You are a leader managing a team of people. You have become aware that there is conflict between some of your team members. You wonder how you can resolve the team conflict. You see it as a difficult conversation.

You can fix a work relation gone sour. Fixing a relationship takes serious effort but it can be done. Brian Uzzi, professor of leadership and organizational change at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, has written an article — ‘Make your enemies your allies’ — in which he says that ‘the hard work is often worth it, especially in a work environment where productivity and performance are at stake.

In this episode, I share some statistics with you about conflict at work in the UK and I take you through some team-conflict resolution strategies that will help you.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

In my coaching practice, I often find that what's often holding back a person from moving forward is the fear of letting go. People feel unable to move forward, they feel stuck. 

" Letting go requires that you change a pattern, a behaviour, a habit."

" Have you ever explored the consequences of letting go and not letting go?"

" Using visualisation enhances performance and productivity."

"Letting go means other people are giving you an opportunity to learn and grow."

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll also hear

* What are the 5 proven scientific effects of the power of letting go

* How a simple exercise can help you understand the consequence of your attachment

* Why visualisation is powerful to enhance motivation, confidence and self efficacy

 * What opportunities you have to learn and grow

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Melaine Coward is a Professor and Head of School of Health Sciences at the University of Surrey. She qualified as a Registered Nurse and worked in the field of Oncology and Haemato-oncology nursing in a variety of areas including London teaching hospitals and a specialist cancer hospital. 

She has a keen interest in enabling students to utilise their previous knowledge and experiences in Higher Education to further develop themselves. This aspect of her teaching practice aligns to her pedagogical research around approaches taken to teaching reflection in nurse education.

- 'I think some of my ability to deal with those challenges comes from my clinical practice. I have spent years breaking bad news to people, significant bad new with cancer diagnosis but also supporting people's reactions to that.'

- 'Sometimes, if you're having a conversation with a colleague and they are not comfortable with the silence, I will often say, I am being silent to let you reflect.'

- 'A patient once told me: Don't ask me questions, unless you have time to hear my answer. This was so powerful because unless you have time for people, don't even give them a look. As a nurse, it made me feel guilty. It was the greatest feedback. It hurt.'

In this episode, we talk about:

- Courageous conversations around performance

- What makes you a high performing leader

- The feedback of one of her cancer patients that changed everything 

- The structure of a courageous conversation

Let us know what you think about this podcast.

This is Melaine Coward's webpage. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

You are a leader managing a team of people. You have become aware that there is conflict between some of your team members. You wonder how you can resolve the team conflict. You see it as a difficult conversation.

You can fix a work relation gone sour. Fixing a relationship takes serious effort but it can be done. Brian Uzzi, professor of leadership and organizational change at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, has written an article — ‘Make your enemies your allies’ — in which he says that ‘the hard work is often worth it, especially in a work environment where productivity and performance are at stake.

In this episode, I share some statistics with you about conflict at work in the UK and I take you through some team-conflict resolution strategies that will help you. 

Tune in and find out how I can help you resolve your team conflict at work.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

'There is usually more than one story'

One of the biggest challenges in a conflict is to listen. Emotions can run high. Anger tends to be a surface emotion. But if you look at what drives the anger, you will often find hurt, pain, or fear. 

Laura Kirkpatrick and Julie Farrell are both Mediators, Trainers, Conflict Coach and Restorative Justice Facilitators. They both work for Solution Talk, a North West based conflict resolution company specialising in Mediation, Training, Conflict Coaching & Restorative Justice.

I love what they say about the role of Mediators 'Mediators ensure that people have an opportunity to have their say, be heard and work out what needs to change so they can work out a mutually acceptable solution.'

In this podcast, we discussed: 

• How to resolve the neighbour dispute?
• How do you handle people who say ‘I am right, you’re wrong’?
• What has COVID changed for them as a Mediator/Trainer?
• What research do they use to support your work?
• How do they manage the difference of opinions?
• What legacy do you want to have as a mediator?

My favourite quote from the podcast
💬 'We all have a choice & sometimes you have to let your feelings go in order to move forward. The #mediation process can help you get ahead.'

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This week, I am exploring what is a difficult conversation and how perceptions and assumptions are sometimes in the way for us to remain neutral, objective and fearless. 

You are not the only one. 29% of UK employees reported at least one case of isolated dispute or incident of conflict last year and 28% reported ongoing difficulties.

There are many different types of difficult conversations. 

What makes those conversations difficult is fear so we end up focusing on our fear at the expense of dealing the conversation. 

Leaving the conflict unresolved is not the solution.

It's about seeing the situation with a different pair of glasses. 

A difficult conversation can become a conversation. You just 'abandon' the word 'difficult'. Yes, drop it :). In this way, you will be in control of your public health enemy number 1, your cortisone. 

What would it take for you to see things differently? What simple actions can you start taking today?

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

What do people thank you for most often?

How do you feel when your colleague(s), your line manager, your boss congratulate you, say thank you to you?

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How practising workplace gratitude can transform relationships

* What routines and daily habits you can develop to express your gratitude

* How you can develop a 'happy brain'

* Why it is important to say thank you

My favourite quote from this episode:

- "Appreciation changes everything"

-"What do people around you do well everyday that you might be taking for granted?"

- "Celebrate how other people have shifted, their creativity, their success, their risk, the difference that they are making. "

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

No I am not a robot and no I am not Alexa!

What I can do is give you a framework that can help you prepare those difficult conversations. Yes research shows that if you have a positive mindset and if you focus on developing better relationships as opposed to focusing on getting what you want (which is not necessarily what your organisation need), then those conversations can be constructive.

Have you ever thought of the financial impact of not having this courageous conversation?

A 2016 survey of 1,025 employees from VitalSmarts also points to the cost of conflict, reporting that every single conversation failure costs an organization $7,500 and more than seven work days.

In this episode, I talk about the cost of not having those difficult conversations, the immediate impact that you can expect with the quality of your conversations and the hypothesis that might make given the future trends on communication. 

Tune in and find out how I can help you prepare for the difficult conversations that you know you need to have.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Why Values Matter?

Find out how we all have our unique values with Jackie Le Fevre.

Over the last 13 years Jackie Le Fevre finally feels like she has developed a better understanding of 'why'. Originally a zoologist Jackie's early career has involved working with chimpanzees, ducks, geese, swans and flamingos amongst other animals.

Today she is wholly focussed on the drivers behind the most complex beings of all - humans. As Chair of the Minessence International Co-operative and founder of her own company, Magma Effect, Jackie combines her understanding of behaviour with the theory and practice of leadership and learning to bring values to life with individuals and organisations.

Jackie is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute where she serves as a member of the Subject Matter Experts group and she is the UK and Ireland lead accreditor for the Minessence Values Framework.

In This Episode:

[3.05] Jo's story and limiting belief

[5.06] Value profilers

[8.07] Placing limits on yourself

[13.14] Are there any better values than others?

[16.57] The values we need for difficult conversations

[29.41] Values and outcomes

[34.08] Searching for your values

[40.22] Role of values in recruitment and retaining talents

[44.19] Values for the future

More on Jackie:

http://www.magmaeffect.com/

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Speak up!

73% of the people who took my survey on ‘Managing Difficult Conversations’ responded that the difficult conversations that they have at work is around the support and help that they receive (or not receive!)

This means daily pain, defeats, frustration, anger, disappointments, hurt, grudges, mistakes and missed opportunities. 

And when you are not dealing with those difficult conversations, you are avoiding them.

And that’s just work until it catches you up.

That’s why on this episode of Leading the Coaching Change, I’m sharing:

* The 3 levels of support that could help you move forward at work

*  How you can influence the decision makers and gate keepers for supporting you

*  How to have the courage to speak up for your belief 

My favourite quotes from this episode;

- “if you do not have the support of your line manager or senior management team, you're not going to be moving forward with any significant project."

 - “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” John F Kennedy

-  “You need more training to offer more solutions and be less dependent on your line manager to spoon-feed you”

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website or message me on LinkedIn to get the support you need.

What is going to make you successful is your resilience. Fact is there is always going to be difficulties even we have the best planning in the world. Adversity is a fact of life! So it's about finding that quality that allows you to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than before. How can you become more resilient? Tune in and find out. 

In this episode:

- the 4 factors that make people more resilient

- the 4 happy chemicals

- flexibility is key

* If you want to learn more about

Become the change that you want to see

How to invest in a personal strategy development

Master the language of change

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

You’re thinking of hiring an Executive Coach? Great news as you’re not alone!

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the best advice he ever got was to get a coach. Bill Gates emphatically says everyone should have a coach.

You get results – At the heart of coaching is a creative and thought-provoking process that supports individuals to confidently pursue new ideas and alternative solutions with greater resilience.

In this podcast episode, I talk about how an Executive Coach can help you. I explore the 'how' and the positive transformation it can have on your life. The impact of Executive Coaching affect your life, no just your work life!

So let's explore

- How to learn about yourself

- How to ensure that time becomes you ally

- How to become clear of what you stand for

- How to develop specific skills to impact all aspects of your life

- How to become the person you want to be I’d love to know what you think?

I'd love to to know what you think and have your feedback on Itunes.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

In my latest episode of the #Leadingthecoachingchange, I invited a special guest Andy Storch. Andy is Talent Development Consultant, Author, Podcaster @The Talent Development Hot Seat, Conference Host and Multipliers Certified Facilitator.

In this episode Andy shares how leaders need to examine how they are connecting with their colleagues to foster positive #relationships so that there is a significant impact on colleagues’s health, happiness and ultimately within the organisation.

Leading a successful career means making the right decisions. Andy talks about making the right choice in training. Discovery-based learning is an environment that helps people make challenging decisions with others in a specific timeframe. The difference is that it is a safe environment where you figure it out, try different answers and discuss them.

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Networking is like a bank account, you don't start off by trying to withdraw, you have to make deposits first.”

Thank you Andy for sharing your thoughts with us in this episode #52 of #Leadingthecoachingchange

#growth #leadership #relationships #strategy #success

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Why wait until your annual review to review your career goals with your manager?

When done right, career conversations are a series of conversations designed to help you address your career development needs. A Career Conversation is a valuable platform to raise such issues within the context of your immediate and long-term prospects.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How to have clarity about what you want to get out of your career conversation

* Why it is important to match your career goals to your values, motivation, abilities, talent and dreams

* How you can focus on non verbal cues when your manager is talking to you

* What's next for you?

- "Make a list of your ‘why’ before starting the conversation"

-"Doing a SWOT analysis might also help you being clearer about who you are"

- "Do you have all the answers you need to be clear about your current performance? "

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Imagine being the CEO of a startup or the CEO of a new school...

You have your staffing structure, ready to appoint. Adverts are out...

First thing first, remember that for your £27,600 paid new staff member, you’ll actually need to budget for something closer to £50,000 in their first year of employment?

So you'd better get that right!

Of course, you want to appoint the best people for the job and create the best team...the best team to help you and your organisation to succeed.

Sneak peek at some of our questions!

❓What is your candidate journey?
❓What are the best examples of the application and interview process?
❓ What are the best questions that one can ask at interviews?

But let's be clear, you are the candidate, not the organisation!

Once you know all of that, how will you write your application? What will influence what you put in it?

I'd love to hear your views.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

8 tricks to make people like you immediately 

"I want people to like me but in taking my chance to have a courageous conversation, I take the risk for them to hate me forever."

That’s not necessarily true. It’s an assumption.

My new Coaching the Leading Change podcast episode is all about exploring why you’re good at people liking you and it might help you when you are transforming your difficult conversations into courageous conversations.

Find out:

- How you can use the chameleon effect

- How can people forgive you for your mistakes

- The ONE thing that people always remember

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “Whatever you say about other people influences the way they see you."

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”- Brené Brown

🙋‍♀️ The truth is that there have been many occasions when frankly I thought, I didn't know how I was going to manage to do this LinkedIn live last week.

The thing is I am committed to doing my LinkedIn Live every Thursday at 4 pm, no matter what. I have an audience, my analytics and feedback are clear evidence that people enjoy listening to me and my guests.

Last week, I decided to go solo with my LinkedIn Live. I've never done that and I was slightly terrified 😨. After all, there are 713 million LinkedIn users!! Imagine if they are all watching 😮

So what was going to talk about?

I was going to respond to questions that I've been asked and that I am asking myself.

Have you ever done something that you feared doing?

In this podcast, I share some practical ideas to have the courage to do something. I challenge you with 3 questions so that you can dare do something different. Nothing is in the way really! 

“Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience mould us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together” Linda Thompson

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

I am delighted to welcome Srdan Simac to my latest episode of #Leadingthecoaching change podcast.

Srdan Simac is a judge, a mediator, arbitrator, lawyer in Croatia. If you follow his work, you'll see that he walks the talk. 

Srdan Simac shares his compelling story about his journey, his career and his philosophy of life (and mediation). He is humble, caring. 

• What skills a mediator need to have to be successful
• Why do people like saying 'I am right' (and you're wrong)
• The importance of listening when managing difference of opinions
• Why is mediation the "most powerful' tool in the world of dispute resolution

Srdan made reference to:

• Professor Tom Tyler, "Why people obey the law".
• Professor (and judge) Victoria Pratt "How judges can show respect" TED Talk

My favourite quotes in this episode

"Mediation is teaching us about communication skills, how to communicate, how to use words, how to change our perspective."

But as a mediator, can you imagine, I have so-called "natural authority"? What does it mean? They choose me because they believe that I can help them. That is a huge privilege that somebody with the big problem in his or her life or business, choose you as a person and give you trust to help them, so I feel so privileged."

Thank you Srdan Simac for this unforgettable moment.

I improve employee well-being through conflict resolution training. Email me at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Kay Fabella, who is is a storyteller and communications strategist. She helps entrepreneurs around the world develop their brand and marketing strategy to meaningfully connect with clients — and meet their business goals.  She is a world-recognized author, speaker, and trainer. A Los Angeles native, she’s built her dream business from Spain to train her clients from the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia to bring their brands to life.

'I think when it comes to visibility, we tend to struggle because we are almost waiting for permission for somebody whose journey mirrors ours, to kind of give us permission and say oh they've done it so I can do it too.'

'A lot of the work that I do, doesn't exist, you have to create it.' 

'The fact that there are platforms like Thrive to talk about burnout is great...Arianna Huffington also experienced burnout.'

'Sometimes you can have a difficult conversations with yourself.'

'A lot of my work starts from that place of what you value most.'

If you want to contact Kay:

Kay's website: https://kayfabella.com/ 

Kay on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayfabella/

Stories = visibility = diversity = equality — and it's Kay's mission to lead a movement for WOC business owners who are ready to step into the spotlight and grow their audience of raving fans and paying clients.

After experiencing burnout at age 22, Kay Fabella eventually went on to launch her business as the Story Finder in 2014. She created a bilingual English/Spanish brand that reached an audience in 27 countries in less than 3 years. She's been featured in Fast Company, Thrive Global, Huffington Post and in El País and leveraged her experience as a Filipina-American expat based in Madrid, Spain, to help solopreneurs to Fortune 500 companies grow their visibility through the power of storytelling.

She now teaches her simple *three step visibility system* to entrepreneurs who want to learn to grow profitable businesses with integrity, amplify their platform and reach the clients who need their talents most.

• Free opt-in: https://kayfabella.com/free-visibility-guide/
• Book: https://kayfabella.com/rewrite-your-story-book/

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Today I publish my 50th episode of my podcast Leading The Coaching Change. I am delighted to have a special guest @Mahmood Reza, director of Pro Active Resolutions, an accountant, business & tax advisor of over 30 years. He walks the talk!

EVALUATE     ELEVATE     ACCELERATE

Do something courageous everyday to unlock new possibilities

In December 2018, I had no podcast. I wanted one so that I could enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversation. Like most problems, the need to have certain talks doesn’t go away just because you avoid them!

When you want something to be different then do something different.

I signed up with @Jessica Lorimer's podcasting course before Christmas 2018 to learn everything about podcasting over 6-8 weeks. I listened all of Janet Murray's episodes... I wanted to learn from the best!

It's ok not to know everything

I first thought that Libsyn was an antibiotic!

I didn't know how to add the music to an MP3 using iMovie.

I had no idea I could even own a piece of music.

 Stay consistent 

17 months later...

I have published a podcast every Friday no matter where I was I the world and no matter what!

My podcast is now ranked #215

You can’t succeed on your own

#TeamNadine has been busy with editing the podcast (Thank you @podbear @philpowrie @bethlynch)

Listen to my latest episode #50 on the Leading the Coaching Change podcast. We talk about the importance of empathy in Leadership.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Dr Phyl Hughes is a Business Psychologist at H2Pro. She is a coach, working with a range of mid to top layer leaders in the UK. Her USP as a coach is at the meeting point of you-your strategy-your organisation. She asks if this is the strategic direction of your firm, what do your leadership behaviours need to look like to deliver it. Dr Phyl's work on culture change piece from top level to mid level.

I always love finding a common denominator with the people I interview on my podcast and with Dr Phyl, it is the definition of what a leader is "the role of a leader is about being a translator."

- "It is about guiding people to be clear about their strategic direction, and then how that has a genuine meaning on how they are as a leader with that."

- "People have a curious psychology around change, in that they crave it, but then when they do engage with it is daunting, even if that change is what they'd wished for."

-  "Organisations have their own particular habits in how they go about managing change and a whole set of expectations, mindsets , fear, fantasies, and enablers, blockers that either make change fly or get in the way of it ."

- "I suggest to people that they need to think about change in 3 areas: what it needs to change, why it does need to change and how we go about that change".

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll also hear:

* How to understand the difference between efficient and effective ways of approaching, engaging and being comfortable with change 

* What Dr Phyl's views are on models of change

* What the role of a leader is about being a translator

* How use the concept of congruence within the language of change 

(And there were so many more points in this one I can’t even cover here – be sure to listen to get them all.)

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Matthew Dashper-Hughes creates predictable, consistent sales & management results through people, processes, and personal development. He is a Sandler Training Associate. 

- '' You get sucked into this cycle of giving presentations, quotes, emails, and never actually closing any deals or very few. And what that looks like is basically giving away all your stuff for free because this prospect have never actually paid you for anything that you've actually given them."

- "The sort of difficult conversations you get are about objection handling. If you end up in a situation where you have objections from your prospect then frankly your process is wrong."

-"Without identifying the reasons to do business, there is no reason to do business."

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll also hear:

* What are the typical sales frustrations 

* How trust is a key element in building lasting relationships

* How to recognise the warning signs of a failing process 

* What the secrets of the Sandler approach are

(And there were so many more points in this one I can’t even cover here – be sure to listen to get them all.)

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Apparently, to be the most interesting person in the room, you need to be confident, smile and have things to talk about. Do that and people will be intrigued by you. That’s what people say!

To be the most interesting person in the room, be disruptive. That’s what I'd say.  

Explore the power of conversations. Light the fire and sit in it. See the process unfold and work with it. How do you notice the disruption in the room?

Give yourself permission to ask 3 questions. Keep asking those questions.

1 of them you must ask 5 times (at least)

Guaranteed results...

I challenge you to try!

My favourite quotes from this episode:

💬 “What genius do you bring to your organisation?”

💬 “What is the level of safety here”?

I enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversations. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

I am excited to speak with Tracy Sinclair, Corporate Executive and board-level Coach, who has worked with a wide range of organisations within the UK and internationally and who sits on the various UK, EMEA and Global ICF working groups to promote and enhance professional coaching.

Tracy says: “I love to work with organisations, individuals and teams who want to be at their best and reach their fullest potential.

In our conversation, we spoke about:

• the impact and the future of coaching 
• the importance of NOT niching 
• the (new) ICF competency 2
• One of Tracy's favourite book
• Tracy's work with Marshall Goldsmith

We also explored some questions:

• What is the optimal human condition?
• How transformational positive change and learning can be achieved
• What are the ingredients of a transformational conversation?
• How can coaching reduce conflict?

On impact: 'we're really looking at all of these ways of strategies for how to bring coaching into organizations, how to have a social impact, how to maintain standards.'

On niching: 'whether that human being works in the financial sector, or is a young parent, or a single mother, or someone transitioning into retirement or, you know, whatever context they have, they are a human being.'

Tracy has been my trainer, mentor, supervisor. I love her passion and her commitment to high-quality coaching. She's truly inspiring.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Nancy Radford, who is my special guest on this new episode of #leadingthecoachingchange, brings something to the table "we're here to kind of help people in a way that helps them not need us anymore. So in effect, I'm really all about making myself redundant. Because you know, you're not going to be here forever." 

Nancy is a passionate mediator and speaks with her heart. She shares with us her insights on:

-     The importance of understanding someone else's pain 

-     The benefits of using online mediation

-     How the work of Martin Seligman, Tom Rath, Mark Goulston have supported her own approach to mediation

-     How ONE book changed her life

-     Her passion for SEND mediations

Aren’t you sold yet to listen to this episode? I am!

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬 “People need to feel heard people need to feel that they matter. And I think good mediators and great mediators make everyone feel they matter. And once you feel you matter, you calm down and the flight and fight response lowers. And you can think logically, and most people, if they can think logically it can find a way out of more situations." 

Thank you, Nancy, for being a guest on my podcast.

If you have any questions or if you'd like to discuss how conflict resolution training can help your organisation, email me at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com.

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Sarah Banks is a qualified Life Coach working in the field of fertility, supporting patients in coping with TTC and fertility treatment. She also works with fertility professionals to enhance their patient experience by helping them create a strong emotional support service. She runs online and face to face support groups, regularly supporting over 1000 patients, so she has vast experience of what a good experience looks like.

Through her work with fertility clients, running support groups and her own personal IVF journey, she has a deep understanding of the impact to emotional and mental health that infertility causes and the support that is needed. 

'NHS funding is reducing so going abroad for treatment is becoming a more desirable option for cost.'

'The most difficult things that patients find is that they lose all control over the process.'

Sarah's website: www.sarahbanks.coach

Sarah's email: sarah@sarahbanks.coach

Sarah's TTC Support UK Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/196864180826882/?ref=bookmarks

Sarah on Instagram: Sarahclairebanks

Sarah on Twitter: @SarahBanksCoach

Sarah on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-banks-97834846/

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Do you remember when I talked about Disruptive Leadership with Simon Harmer ‘Zig when everyone zags’ in my podcast?

Louise Hall, Director of HR and OD at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust commented on Linkedin that 'It’s easier to do this when you are a senior leader'. Well, I invited Louise Hall on my latest episode of #leadingthecoachingchange podcast to discuss transformational leadership and she immediately accepted. I love that! 

Louise and I talked about

- The importance of doing the right thing

-  How relationships can shape the transformation

-  What the best teams look like

-   How not to become the leader that you don't want to be

My favourite quote from this episode:

💬  “As you get more senior, it’s easier to challenge the status quo. There is an acceptance, whether it’s right or wrong, because of the position you’re in, that you can do what you think is right, as opposed to just do what the policies or standards of ways of doing things is’

As an Executive and Leadership Coach, I enable leaders to influence change faster through the power of conversations. 

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

I am delighted to welcome Claire Pedrick, PCC to my podcast.

Claire believes that a 'coaching style is more a behaviour that is formed through practice and reflection, than a box of knowledge that can be learned. Becoming a master coach is like winning Masterchef – it’s all about distilling what you know into something more powerful, more simple and more effective.'

If you've not bought her book, then, please do 'Simplifying coaching - How to have more transformational conversations by doing less'.

Like Tracy Sinclair, and Karen Foy, Claire does not niche and I find this refreshing. It's nice to go against the flow. 

In this podcast, we're having a passionate conversation about coaching. We explore:

- The reasons behind writing the book ‘How to have more transformational conversations by doing less’?

- Some of her key thinking and ideas that were born from real-life events: ‘rightsizing a conversation’, ‘cocreating the container, STOKeRS

- The quality of conversations and how to improve them

Ultimately in the end, as Claire says 💬 'it's about the value of simple conversations'.

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VULNERABILITY IS POWERFUL 

Nadine Powrie, MA, ACC, Assoc CIPD: "What if people call me out and say negative things about me?"
Gemma Stow (she/her): " It's not about you. It's about them."

Jeni Ling: "I don't know what my top 3 strengths are."
Gemma Stow (she/her): "What is it that you don't know about yourself that you could use to your advantage? Ask 3 colleagues what they think your top 3 strengths are."

Jan Daines: "I don't have an audience."
Gemma Stow (she/her): "You don't always need an audience."

Nicki Deeson on being visible when it's too late: "and suddenly I have my back to the wall, trying to explain what the team did and how valuable they were."

and that's just a snapshot 😊

We explore great questions:
- Are you ready to give yourself permission to be first? How will you do that?
-  Do your female employees feel supported with career progression? If not, then what are you going to do about it?
-  Does self-promotion make you feel awkward? If yes, then how can you shift your mindset
-  How to get feedback that helps you?

What's in it for you?
- A visibility plan

Thank you, Gemma Stow (she/her), Nicki Deeson, Jeni Ling Jan Daines for being part of this conversation.

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If you want to hear from a paediatric Dietician discussing nutrition for kids, then listen to this podcast. 

Bahee Van de Bor is a Specialist Paediatric Dietitian working privately and for the NHS. Her clinical areas of expertise include food allergy, autism, and ketogenic diets.  

'The conversations can sometimes be difficult because I am asking parents not to just manage the child's diet, but also to make a change to the way they eat as a family and to their lifestyle as well.'

'Sometimes, you might follow a specific diet because of a medical condition and sometimes, because of your ethics.'

In this podcast, we explored

- the cost of not following the diet advised by a paediatric dietician

- the diet trends

- the support network 

I'd love to know what you think of this podcast. 

If you want to contact Bahee Van de Bor, please visit:

Website: https://ukkidsnutrition.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKkidsnutrition/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/baheevandebor/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ukkidsnutrition/

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Jenny Plant is helping creative agencies retain clients and increase lifetime customer value. Her approach includes in-house workshops with monthly accountability coaching to help them implement the learnings, online courses.

I love when Jenny Plant tells me  "I'm a perpetual learner. I don't think I'm ever going to know enough." 

- "So there's a multitude of different, difficult conversations. It's less about how they prepare their conversation, and it's more about how they react to someone else's approach."

- "It's more about how can I bring you a new idea that's going to be relevant to your business that's going to be new. You're going to see me as someone who's adding value productivity and as a trusted advisor."

-  "It is between having having all your tools and which one is going to help you the most."

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll also hear:

* Why account managers have multiple different reasons to have difficult conversations

* How to teach the skills of negotiation and influencing

* What transactional analysis and the drama triangle are

(And there were so many more points in this one I can’t even cover here – be sure to listen to get them all.)

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

Leading teams can be a lonely job. You have fewer people to turn to when things get tough.

Who in the organization, after all, has had to sign off on the types of decisions that you must make each day?

 It can certainly be difficult to confide in direct reports. And those who sit above you in the corporate or organizational chain (such as the chairman of the board or other board members) are also not the ones to whom you want to display weakness or vulnerability.

 STOP! 

 In this Podcast episode, I explore the fears that are holding you back.

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It should not take a global pandemic to shift to remote working

Why shifting to remote teams demand new collaboration skills?

Before the coronavirus outbreak, we knew that according to a recent estimate from Gallup, 22% of Americans work from home and nearly 50% are involved with remote or virtual teamwork. In the UK, only 6.1% of UK adults work from home. Well, all of those statistics look to be irrelevant for now.

As the coronavirus outbreak is getting worse, public health experts have started asking people to practice social distancing. Remote workers make up anywhere from about 5 percent (those who typically work from home) to nearly two-thirds (who sometimes work remotely) of the workforce, depending on the measurement at the moment around the world and this  increasing by the day as companies navigate the current outbreak.

When you are working with remote teams, you face consistent challenges because you still need to hold those difficult conversations like giving feedback on poor performance or restructuring or even pay – but it also gives opportunities to improve our leadership and communication skills. Collaborating effectively when your team is remote is essential so that it impact positively on your team’s moral, engagement, productivity and innovation

Body language is what is missing from emails, *WhatsApp, digital communication opening doors to misunderstanding and creating unnecessary anxiety.

But there is good news: Productivity improves by around 13% when individuals work from home.

That’s why on this episode of Leading the Coaching Change, I’m sharing:

* How you can be aware of the ‘affinity distance’

* How to communicate ‘ultra’ clearly

* What is the best communication strategy for your organisation

My favourite quotes from this episode;

💬 “Choose your digital volume wisely”

💬 “Clarity does not always mean brief and short communication’

💬 “As a leader, you have a responsibility to create a team space for social connection”

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website or message me at npowrie@nadinepowrie.com to get the support you need.

Have you ever felt like you’re in a ‘no-win’ situation?

For me, it was the day that I interviewed for a job that I didn’t *really* want… but that I *did* need.

I’d hated my job for two years and was finally at the end of my tether.

I’d decided that I needed to move… and that it needed to be NOW.

So here I was, interviewing for a job that I was over-qualified for - and that they wanted to pay me peanuts to do.

It felt like a no win situation.

I was frustrated.

But I interviewed well… and they offered me the position.

I sat back and breathed for a second.

And then opened my mouth to have a bold conversation…

Negotiation is going to come up at various points of your career; whether it’s on getting that promotion, negotiating on salary expectations or even negotiating your workload.

That’s why on this episode of Leading the Coaching Change, I’m sharing:

* How to identify your negotiation style

*The importance of perception  

*The 5 specific skills to help you become a top negotiator

So that you can develop your negotiation style and feel totally confident in your role.

My favourite quotes from this episode;

• “Would you be open to discussing…”
• “Negotiating is not manipulating people into what you want”
• “When you have empathy, you enjoy stronger collaboration, less stress, greater morale and you bounce back more quickly from difficult moments”

In the end? I managed to negotiate a salary rise in the job (based on early performance) and ended up being completely happy with my role… there’s ALWAYS a win. You just have to negotiate sometimes to get there!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website or message me here on LinkedIn to get the support you need.

When I research Jonathan Rodrigues to prepare for my podcast, I wasn’t surprised that he put a like to a post on LinkedIn from Charlie Irvine “We shape the world by our choice of words, so the world of other people’s conflict shapes us."

Jonathan is a lawyer, civil, commercial and cross-border mediator in India. He speaks with passion about mediation and is very clear about the legacy that he wants to have with 1.3 billion in India “there is scope for mediation. It’s about creating a different future for those people."

Jonathan says “every morning we wake up to #missionmediation”

In our conversation, we talked about:

- The landscape of mediation in India

- How to promote mediation in India

- What he learnt by doing his TED Talk on ‘multi-door dispute resolution’

- The role of AI in mediation

- How to manage the difference of opinions

Jonathan speaks about the influence that  Owen Fiss (Yale Law school) "Against settlement" has had on his way of thinking. 

My favourite quote from this episode:

“The most thrilling part of mediation is when you take away all that noise to start a proper conversation”

*** What does talent acquisition look like in the midst of a pandemic? ***

The short answer is digital—very, very digital.

Thanks to Covid-19, the traditional hiring process has been harder than ever this year as recruiters and candidates scrambled to adapt to a fully remote experience.

Here's the thing: 'According to a Sage report, 24% of businesses have started using AI for their talent acquisition needs, with 56% of managers planning to adopt automated technology in the next twelve months.' (Forbes, 2021)

Success-capable candidates in 2021 will demonstrate strong communication, ease with technology and a flexible, adaptable approach to their work.

Sneek peak of questions we discuss:
- How to adopt hiring technologies such as automation and AI
- How to stay personal when the organisation uses AI as part of your recruitment process
- How to eliminate bias in the hiring process
- What are the long-term hiring strategies?

Thank you for choosing to listen to my podcast. I'd love to hear your views on what Jeni Ling and I discussed. 

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Alessia Pandolfi is a tech expert and online business strategist who rescues online coaches from tech-disasters so they can grow their biz

'Technology isn't an obstacle to your business growth; it's actually there to support it.'

'It happened sometimes that I came across people who were so stubbornly focused on one or two tools they wanted to use because they thought that that would solve all their problems. Unfortunately, those tools don't.' 

'Another type of difficult conversation I have with clients is when they come to me asking for advice on a strategy, and I don't do strategy! I do the technological part and I do that part of the strategy.'

In this episode, we talk about

How to identify the best technology tools for your business

The importance of precise communication when you client has a different idea

Always having a plan B when you use technology

Courageous conversations around technology change and risks

If you want to contact Alessia Pandolfi, please visit:

http://alessiapandolfi.com/

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I loved being a leader until this happened!

If I told you that I have a track record of leading change with over 20 years + experience in leadership managing a £15-million budget in the public sector. Would you believe me? Would you think ‘do I care?’ or ‘so what’?

Yeah you are right, ‘so what’?

Well this is the 'so what'! Being at the top can be a lonely job. You have fewer people to turn to when things get tough. You don’t know who to trust.

Behind my successful leadership journey, I felt lonely and this was tough.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear:

* How to identify the fears that are holding you back

* Nine strategies to overcome those fears (so there is hope)

* How listening to some TED Talks could help you feel differently (we all learn differently)

* The latest apps to give you that headspace

• “As Sheryl Sandberg pointed out, she said the best way to gain confidence is to do what you're afraid to do."
• "What people think of you is really none of your business"
• “Everything happens for a good reason”

Thanks for joining me on today's episode. If you've enjoyed it, please head over to iTunes and leave a review so that new listeners can find Leading the Coaching Change in the charts.

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Jennifer McDonald-Nethercott is a marketing Expert who is getting small businesses in front of more customers through marketing campaigns, social media, email, content and websites. She has worked in Marketing for over 18 years.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll hear

* How you can can make the leap and become an entrepreneur

* What the different types of courageous conversations you can have with a board of directors

* How you can deal with different subjective perspectives on marketing

* Why it is important to not rely too much on social media as a marketing channel

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Tina McDonald is a Leadership Facilitator and a youth career coach. Tina has a no nonsense attitude to development, she believes the best way for businesses to thrive is to invest in the skill you already have.

'Some people get promoted or cover for somebody and they end up stuck in a rut. They don't perform. That's the conversation that is the most important to have, to sit with somebody who is not performing and to actually have the courage to ask 'what is happening'.

'If you had a job vacancy and had 3 people to interview for it, would you give the job to one of those 3 people rather than waiting, not filling the role and waiting for the right person to apply?'.

'When you are in a leadership role, you are so busy, you're doing so much that you forget about managing yourself. When do you do your strategic thinking?'.

'I am not going to ring you every month to make sure you're managing your time better'.

On this episode of the Leading The Coaching Change, you'll also hear

* Why difficult conversations are pretty much what leadership is about

* How any organisation need to evaluate the impact of their onboarding process

* What HR could do to support managers to have courageous conversations.

(And there were so many more points in this one I can’t even cover here – be sure to listen to get them all.)

I would love your review! If you enjoy what I share in this episode, please leave a review and comment on Apple Podcasts. Just select ‘Listen in Apple Podcasts’, and then click the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ tab to share your kind words. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website.

The X Factor: what is it and do you have it?

When I was a Headteacher, people would always say that I had leadership presence. I wasn’t sure what it meant to be honest!

I didn’t know if it was a compliment or not.

Was it the way I was dressing (I once had a colleague of mine who had written an article and quoted me as ‘the lady with the high heels)?

Was it what I was saying or not saying?

Was it the way I was looking at people, observing what they were doing?

It turns out that having the 'X factor' isn't always defined by what you wear or even the way you lead... check out my latest episode of The Coaching Change where I'm sharing:

*What is leading from within

*What are the 3 ways in which we are perceived

*How you can connect with your stakeholders

*How to be aware of other’s perception of you

*How to develop your leadership presence

My favourite quotes from this episode:

• “appearance can greatly determine the way people perceive you”
• “When people in your organisation are impressed with your intellect and expertise, they may be more likely to gravitate toward the message you're delivering”
• “Each new leadership position brings with it challenges.”

If you are curious about how can help leverage your leadership strengths, please visit my website or message me here on LinkedIn to get the support you need.