Episode #116 // We tend to talk a lot about how important it is for leaders to give their people feedback, but focus much less on how to receive feedback. In this episode, we turn the tables a little. All great leaders were first great followers, and had to experience how life felt on the other side of the table. Listening and learning should never stop, no matter how high up you go.We look at how human nature can get in the way of our ability to hear the feedback that’s given to us. We then examine the efficacy of formal feedback mechanisms, and I also give some practical tips for how to receive feedback graciously.We've put together a free PDF resource that pulls out the key takeaways from this episode, which you can easily download at https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode116//We are on a mission to hit 1 million listens by the 31st December 2020.To help us to reach this goal, and impact even more leaders just like you who would benefit from the strategies and tools that Marty covers in the podcast, please share the podcast with your network. You can also subscribe, follow, rate and review the podcast, that will help more leaders find us when they’re searching for a new leadership podcast to binge on.If we hit our goal, we will be running a completely free live virtual leadership event in February 2021, and we would love for you to be there!Keep up with the live listener number and see how close we are to our goal at www.yourceomentor.com/stats   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Receiving Feedback: Accept the gift graciously

Episode #115 // Innovation has become a very overused term, which can be found in the bullsh!t bingo dictionary between agility, and strategic. The term has become so hackneyed that it can sometimes be almost meaningless. In this episode, I strip away some of the mystique around innovation, and offer some practical guidelines for managing the innovation process in your organisation.The value of major market disruption is obvious, albeit risky. But how do you create value from a continuous improvement culture, without jeopardising the core value outcomes of your formal work program?//We are on a mission to hit 1 million listens by the 31st December 2020.To help us to reach this goal, and impact even more leaders just like you who would benefit from the strategies and tools that Marty covers in the podcast, please share the podcast with your network. You can also subscribe, follow, rate and review the podcast, that will help more leaders find us when they’re searching for a new leadership podcast to binge on.If we hit our goal, we will be running a completely free live virtual leadership event in February 2021, and we would love for you to be there!Keep up with the live listener number and see how close we are to our goal at www.yourceomentor.com/stats   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Does Innovation Create Value? Sexier isn't always better

Episode #114 // Starting a new role can be a little daunting, whether you’re being promoted to lead the team you used to be part of, or moving to a completely different organisation in a new industry.Every new role requires you to go through a deliberate process to set yourself up, and to establish the right expectations with your stakeholders - your boss, your peers, your team and, depending on the role, your customers and suppliers.As someone who transitioned through lots of roles during my corporate career, I want to lay out a bit of a roadmap for how to transition into any new role, play to your strengths, and stamp your own individual excellence on it.So in this episode I’ll cover three key areas: How to match your skills, capabilities, and experience to any new roleWhat you can do to establish yourself as a credible performer, under any circumstances and; Some tips for drawing a line in the sand and setting or resetting expectations for your team  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Making a Role Your Own: Play to your strengths

Episode #113 // In the last couple of decades, we’ve seen an increasing focus on embracing diversity. The emphasis on this is often limited to gender diversity, as we look to achieve increased representation of women in senior leadership positions. But even though gender is clearly a priority area, diversity needs to go way further if we truly want to achieve better outcomes.There are two distinct steps to harnessing the power of diversity. The first is to select and retain the right people in your team, and the second is to tap into the diverse capability that you’ve assembled.In this episode, we look at what really constitutes diversity, and provide some tips and suggestions for unlocking it. There’s not much point in having a diverse team unless you can liberate people’s unique perspectives, experiences, and insights to improve organisational outcomes, and ultimately deliver greater value.//We are on a mission to hit 1 million listens by the 31st December 2020.To help us to reach this goal, and impact even more leaders just like you who would benefit from the strategies and tools that Marty covers in the podcast, please share the podcast with your network. You can also subscribe, follow, rate and review the podcast, that will help more leaders find us when they’re searching for a new leadership podcast to binge on.If we hit our goal, we will be running a completely free live virtual leadership event in February 2021, and we would love for you to be there!Keep up with the live listener number and see how close we are to our goal at www.yourceomentor.com/stats   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Unlocking Diversity: The Power of Difference

Episode #112 // We get an enormous number of questions on making better decisions, but we haven’t really addressed this subject directly in quite a while. Ultimately your ability to make better decisions, faster than your competitors provides the foundation for execution excellence.In this week’s episode, we go back to Q&A format, where Em and I pick up a couple of questions from our podcast listeners on the finer points of decision making. First, Olivia asks if there’s a place for ‘gut feel’ in the decision making process.Then we answer Tim’s question on how to manage a situation where a decision that’s already been made by one of your people needs to be reversed.//We are on a mission to hit 1 million listens by the 31st December 2020.To help us to reach this goal, and impact even more leaders just like you who would benefit from the strategies and tools that Marty covers in the podcast, please share the podcast with your network. You can also subscribe, follow, rate and review the podcast, that will help more leaders find us when they’re searching for a new leadership podcast to binge on.If we hit our goal, we will be running a completely free live virtual leadership event in February 2021, and we would love for you to be there!Keep up with the live listener number and see how close we are to our goal at www.yourceomentor.com/stats  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is Gut Feel a Thing? Q&A With Marty & Em

Episode #111 // If you took a poll of 100 leaders, you’d be hard-pressed to find one who’d say that they’d like more meetings in their lives, especially these days where 'Zoom fatigue' has become a factor.However, meetings can be a powerful construct for setting standards, making decisions, and lifting performance. If you're spending a lot of your time in meetings, you want to make them count!In this episode we talk about how to bring together all aspects of the individual AND group meetings that drive your execution tempo, as I let you in on my proven leadership meeting cadence.This is an incredibly detailed episode, so we've created a free PDF guide 'Practical Execution Tips: How to Get Your Meeting Cadence Right' which you can download from our website at https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode111. If this helps, make sure you share it with your team so that you're all working from the same playbook!Some other episodes that we reference:Episode #96 Performance ReviewsEpisode #6 The Psychology of FeedbackEpisode #57 Challenge, Coach, Confront//We are on a mission to hit 1 million listens by the 31st December 2020.To help us to reach this goal, and impact even more leaders just like you who would benefit from the strategies and tools that Marty covers in the podcast, please share the podcast with your network. You can also subscribe, follow, rate and review the podcast, that will help more leaders find us when they’re searching for a new leadership podcast to binge on.If we hit our goal, we will be running a completely free live virtual leadership event in February 2021, and we would love for you to be there!Keep up with the live listener number and see how close we are to our goal at www.yourceomentor.com/stats  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Leadership Meeting Cadence: Bringing the concepts to life

Episode #110 // We all get busy doing the things we do in life, and sometimes we don’t really think about what we’re actually achieving. Some people love to be in the thick of things, happy to risk success or failure. Others appear to be much more comfortable watching from the sidelines, at a safe distance.Unless you learn how to put yourself “in the arena”, you’ll struggle to find success and satisfaction in your career, whether you’re running a start-up business, or a major global multinational.The episode unpicks some of the natural impediments to getting in the arena, and offers a suggestion to help you overcome whatever is holding you back!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Getting in the Arena: At least have a go

Episode #109 // The concept of “Servant Leadership” was first formulated by Robert Geenleaf 50 years ago, most likely as a reaction to the command-and-control leadership style of corporate America in the 1950s and 1960s.Servant Leadership has a lot going for it. Putting the focus on the growth and well-being of the individual, and using this as a means to achieve organisational outcomes is indeed compelling. And despite the fact that there is little empirical research to support the hypothesis, a number of successful companies swear by this approach.Join me as I unpick the key elements of servant leadership, explore the potential downside of adopting it as an overall style, and have a crack at cherry-picking the best features to help us improve and expand our existing leadership repertoire.Link reference: Episode #5 Using Power Wisely: Why how we get results actually matters//We are on a mission to hit 1 million listens by the 31st December 2020.To help us to reach this goal, and impact even more leaders just like you who would benefit from the strategies and tools that Marty covers in the podcast, please share the podcast with your network. You can also subscribe, follow, rate and review the podcast, that will help more leaders find us when they’re searching for a new leadership podcast to binge on.If we hit our goal, we will be running a completely free live virtual leadership event in February 2021, and we would love for you to be there!Keep up with the live listener number and see how close we are to our goal at www.yourceomentor.com/stats

Servant Leadership: Does it work?

Episode #108 // This episode takes a look at the delicate issue of relationships at work. Why do we still see a revolving door of very senior executives exiting organisations at incredible personal, financial, and reputational cost?Cultural standards and policies vary wildly from organisation to organisation and, let’s face it, around 1 in 5 of you actually met your current partner at work.But we’ve seen a massive shift in societal awareness and expectations of relationships in the workplace, especially when these involve a power imbalance.This episode explores some of the nuances of the issues, and offers a simple guideline for leaders to follow.//We are on a mission to hit 1 million listens by the 31st December 2020. To help us to reach this goal, and impact even more leaders just like you who would benefit from the strategies and tools that Marty covers in the podcast, please share the podcast with your network. You can also subscribe, follow, rate and review the podcast, that will help more leaders find us when they’re searching for a new leadership podcast to binge on.If we hit our goal, we will be running a completely free live virtual leadership event in February 2021, and we would love for you to be there!Keep up with the live listener number and see how close we are to our goal at www.yourceomentor.com/stats

Workplace Romance: What could possibly go wrong?!

Episode #107 // The amount of disruption, challenge, and uncertainty we’ve dealt with in the past six months has tested us all. Who is committed to coming out the other side better for the experience?This episode illuminates the road to true resilience, as we tap into the experiences of those who’ve come before us. How do we cope when everything appears hopeless, and the barriers seem insurmountable?The Stockdale Paradox is a roadmap to surviving even the most difficult and gruelling circumstances, and fits perfectly into our current paradigm as we look to an uncertain global future.

Resilience, Faith, and Optimism: The Stockdale Paradox

Episode #106 // In this episode, we take a look at part of a mentoring session I did with a fantastic young leader named Kate.Kate is a leader in a financial services company that supports a major global manufacturer. We covered a lot of ground in the session, so I actually found it really difficult to select the most valuable piece.But the dialogue I liked best, is the part about enabling people. We go into some detail about what the 3 key things are to focus your leadership attention on each day, and of course, this invariably comes back to people’s performance.How do you enable people to perform, without over-functioning for them? It’s simple conceptually, but whenever we’re dealing with issues that affect people’s lives, they’re tough to execute on.A big thank you to Kate for allowing us to share this mentoring session with our leadership community! //If you would like to chat about working with Marty in a on on one mentoring capacity, email Emma at emma@yourceomentor.com and she will take you through availability and options. 

Live Mentoring Session #4: Enabling Your People

Episode #105 // Sometimes, you come into a new leadership role where the team you take over is broken. This happens with surprising regularity. Why? Because there’s a strong correlation between poor culture, poor performance, and poor leadership.We know that great leaders are in short supply, and the role models we look towards don’t necessarily show us how to improve.So how do you pick up the pieces after a poor leader has left? If you haven’t had to do this yet in your leadership career, just wait - you will. We’re going to help you to work out how to take stock of the situation and move your team forward.Don’t miss my seven tips for rebooting your team culture - download them in a free PDF resource, the '7 Ways to Reboot Team Culture'!

Steadying the Ship: Following an incompetent predecessor

Episode #104 // Leaders often struggle with their workload, as they move to more senior levels in an organisation.Hard work is a given if you want to be successful in any field, and I certainly wouldn’t make a case for trying to avoid any of that hard work…it builds resilience and character. However, it’s sad to see people become myopically focused on work, to the exclusion and detriment of everything else in their lives.To have a sense of balance, you need to choose where to put your energy, focus, and attention. How do you maximize the return for the energy you invest into work, so that you can make room for the other things in your life that are arguably important?

Balancing the Load: Keeping Perspective

We’ve had lots of questions lately from listeners asking how to implement the learnings from the podcast into their organizations, and to get their leaders to pick up on the concepts and actually use them!Unfortunately there are no simple answers to this question. The podcast is designed for leaders like you, to expose you to different ways of thinking, and to give you some practical tips, from the leadership “front line”.But for most of us, including me, when we listen to a podcast, we do so without any commitment to actually changing. It’s a great way to shift our thinking, but I know hundreds of executives who, despite having the right leadership knowledge, are genuinely awful leaders, because they never develop the habits that would truly help them to lead better.In this episode, Em and I talk about what it takes to change. This is why we developed Leadership Beyond the Theory (LBT) - if you love the podcast, LBT is the next step - it’s there for you when you’re ready to commit to taking the No Bullsh!t Leadership concepts, and embedding them as repeatable habits and behavior.If you’re not ready to commit, that’s perfectly fine - everyone is at a different stage in their lives and careers, and only you know when you are ready to get serious. But this episode is still worth listening to so that you can understand the difference between involvement and commitment.In this episode we mention the below links:Learn more about Leadership Beyond the Theory https://www.yourceomentor.com/programThe case study interviews that we have done with past students https://www.yourceomentor.com/casestudiesEpisode #26 The Roadmap to Exceptional Leadership: The 7 Pillars of High Performance https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode26For our die hard fans, we've also put a very rare blooper at the end of the podcast for a laugh :) 

When You're Ready to Commit: Leadership Beyond the Theory

Episode #102 // It’s no surprise that leaders increasingly fall into the trap of acting only for short-term results, not really considering what they leave behind in the longer term.This trend seems to have accelerated with the instant availability of information (both true and fabricated).Do leaders ever think of their legacy after their postings? Do most even care?The issues that drive leaders to act in the short term are complex: Why is there such a disproportionate focus on short term results? How much of a role does self-interest play, and what would a good, long-term legacy look like?

Leaving a Legacy: The curse of short-termism

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