Leadership Amplified is a podcast to inspire leaders to get more impact with their teams, to promote inclusion, and to make leadership more satisfying.
My philosophy is that leadership is only valuable if it is a resource for the organisation. It is a resource when teams and individuals benefit from being led. The podcast is a practical way to engage and inspire leaders by refocusing the work of leadership as service to teams and the organisation.
The podcast focuses on four major themes:
•Emerging inclusive leadership frameworks and practices
•Gender bias and how to beat it
•The value of coaching to leadership and to inclusive leadership in particular
•Regulating the leader’s energy and motivation to perform at their best
Episode 46: Look for the learning opportunity to be better, with Janice Hoogeveen
As Janice Hoogeveen, Head of Marketing at Terrywhite Chemmart reflects on her career in the latest episode of Leadership Amplified, one key piece of advice that she passes on is to always look for the learning opportunity.
She was and remains keen to receive feedback, as she knows just how important it has been to her.
She says, ‘If I learned the hard way, I found out what I could do better next time.’
‘What did I do well, what could have
been done better, is there a learning opportunity?’
Her career has spanned Australia, Switzerland and the US, and through that she’s learned a lot about understanding different cultures, and the impact on problem solving techniques and leadership styles.
She found that having frameworks helped to navigate these differences, manage relationships with stakeholders and reduced the guesswork in decision making.
Here’s a summary of her key lessons:
✅ Get in quickly with new roles, and within the first 60-90
days find a way that you can add value, otherwise it’s easy to get lost in analysis
paralysis.
✅ Be really honest and authentic: with experience you become
more comfortable in your own skin.
✅ Build relationships with people at all levels across the
business
✅ Learn continuously because it could take you down a different
path: you can pass on what you learn to your team
✅ Create a team charter – this is a recipe for how the team
operates and a way to keep everyone accountable
✅ Share the love, because passion motivates. If you have a particular skill set and people
need help in that area, share your skills across the wider business.
28 Feb 2024
Episode 45: Why things are they way they are - a geospatial perspective, with Alena Moison
The key focus for our discussion was on how leaders can successfully navigate the increasingly digital world we inhabit.
Alena started her career studying English, then moved to Economics and finally settled on Geography in her quest to understand why things are the way they are.
Geography provides her with an interesting perspective, revealing how much our lives are informed and touched by where we live.
Over time she’s moved into the technology side: she says we have a big data problem as we’re always collecting masses of geospatial data, and the big challenge is what to do with it, how to learn from it?
Which is now her day job as Principal, Technology and Strategy, at Digital Twin Victoria.
Alena counsels leaders unfamiliar with/suspicious or nervous about AI to take the time to become familiar with the technology tools.
She reassures us that it’s easier than we might think.
Her tip is to use a simple AI tool and ask it all your ‘dumb’ questions about other tech tools to build your understanding of what’s going on.
Her three top pieces of leadership
wisdom apply both to leading in general, and leading through technology:
📌 Relationships first – as a leader you have to build the bridge to your people, so psychological safety, reaching out to others, providing support and being empathetic are critical to leading well.
📌 Ask the stupid question – that way you can direct yourself through situations and information that is unfamiliar. There is so much change we’re always beginners so stay comfortable in not knowing and always asking.
📌 Leaders are great
communicators, that’s they’re real strength, so use these skills to help technical teams to get cut-through for their work, and to help them understand what the organisation needs from them.
🤔 How does your placein your environment affect the way you lead?
6 Dec 2023
Episode 44: Collaboration is the most powerful style when times are tough, with Glen Sharman
This statement encapsulates much of my conversation with special guest Glen Sharman who is General Manager for MaxiTRANS NSW.
He’s always been in the transport industry and has had the happy opportunity to have a diverse career across different working cultures, with global and local brands, working for large and small companies.
Glen reflects that from a young age he had a diverse mix of people around him who were invaluable for providing him with advice and suggestions, which he greatly appreciated.
He started his career in the transport and manufacturing industries and he’s maintained a lot of passion for it, he loves it. He says ‘I’ve never looked back’.
Glen enjoys the creative, innovative side of things and tries to think outside the square. ‘Where are we now and where do we want to go.’
He describes himself as an early adopter, a disrupter.
Much of our conversation focuses on a significant change that Glen’s business has recently been faced with – having to move a large industrial site at short notice – and we discuss his approach to the change. What stands out most is Glen’s commitment to collaboration with his team - having a strong collaborative foundation with the team meant that everyone was prepared to roll up their sleeves and make it happen.
‘I’m proud of our team.’
Glen says yes, it was stressful, yet ‘when you have to manage change, you have open communication and good dialogue with your team, a trusting and safe work environment, it can all come together really well. I truly believe we've done a fantastic job.’ Congratulations Glen!
Three key things Glen recommends leaders do for their teams:
📌 Trust your people, have the confidence they'll do well without you looking over their shoulder
📌 Provide ongoing professional development and training for your team, it's an ever changing environment
📌 Self reflect, what did I do well, what could I have done better, and don't beat yourself up!
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