RESET Your Thinking to identify the critical gaps in your communication

We hear about them. We read about them. We see them on walls. On computer desktops. They’re mentioned and brought up during interviews. Occasionally spoken about in meetings. They’re handed down from generation to generation; We model behaviors around them; but what are they?

''Values-driven organisations are the most successful organisations on the planet. You may think that sounds like a bold claim: It is a bold claim; and, it is true!''

Alexandra Egan welcomes Alan Williams, to RESET Your Thinking Podcast. In this episode, Alan Williams told Alexandra ‘’the biggest gap is the difference between what’s stated on the wall and the actual concrete, tangible observable behavior.’’

I really trust you enjoy this episode with Alan Williams, I'm a big fan of his work getting to know his work and getting to know Alan has been an incredible experience. 

I had the pleasure of interviewing and having an in-depth conversation on what really matters, with the President of Groomed to Go Inc. Marian Gandy.   

Established in 2008, Groomed to Go Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation that exists to help people in need by providing appropriate clothing and support services.   

Groomed to Go started its journey as Dress for Success Mornington Peninsula, a local branch of the globally recognised Dress for Success organisation, empowering women to achieve economic independence through a dressing and job support service.  And in 2019, Dress for Success changed its name to Groomed to Go, after recognising that there was a real need in the community for such service. A service that supports people from all walks of life and circumstances, not just women. 

Groomed to Go is a not-for-profit organisation that relies on donations, grants, philanthropy, volunteer resources, and support from the community.  

If you are passionate about the work Groomed to GO do to help assist those who need it most.  

If you’re looking to donate your time as a volunteer, please visit Groomed to Go Volunteering Page on: https://groomedtogo.org/volunteer/ 

If you’re a business, corporate, or NFP organisation, please visit Groomed to Go Corporates and Organisations Page: https://groomedtogo.org/support-us-for-corporates/

Renee Gipp, the founder and owner of Mumlife Stickers.⁣ ⁣

Renee is a mother of three beautiful children and knows the real struggles of ‘mum life’, having been a solo parent herself from the age of 18, who was juggling mummy duties and crazy work hours, prior to Mumlife Stickers. ⁣ ⁣

After facing her struggles and connecting with like-minded mums, she then made the decision to pour every ounce of love and energy into her little sticker business, creating new ways of making a difference to Australian families. ⁣ ⁣

From Mumlife Stickers, grew the Mumlife Community, an online support network designed to connect mums with mums, to reduce that feeling of loneliness and isolation through local mummy meets Australia wide. ⁣ ⁣

Mumlife Stickers is more than just a business - it’s a journey, a movement, and a community, born from love and built from consistency.⁣ ⁣

To listen to Renee's journey on how she took a leap of faith to do what she knew she was capable of...Renee says, ''I just had to do what felt good for me and no-one else''.

Ever been frustrated about a team member who shows great potential and a willingness to learn the technical aspects of their job, but their ability to problem solve and show initiative is limited?

In this episode, I’m going to share with you three strategies to help you help your team become more solution-focused instead of problem-focused and find ways to solve any challenge that faces them.

Life’s pivotal moments shape and define us...

We are presented with ‘sliding door moments’ all of the time. Whether it be through relationships we develop, challenging tasks, or unexpected events.

In this episode, I am joined by Lia Zalums, an executive coach who specialises in advancing women and career transition for STEMM executives emerging leaders and female founders.

Lia has been working with CEOs and leadership teams in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) in this episode she shares with us her purpose around STEMM research and in leadership specifically.  Even more than that, we talk about common patterns in behaviour, the difference in STEMM culture compare to other cultures and so much more...

Starting from when he began his career with the Department of Defence Republic of Croatia in Military Police/Security Services, to working for the Department of Foreign Affairs Republic of Croatia in Security Intelligence Services and then a 5-year sting with the Republic of Croatia Consulate General in Sydney, before founding Insight Intelligence in 2003.

Where ever we are on our journey, we all have our own personal Rock Bottom, Mario shares his experiences, challenges, growth and learnings along the way.

These moments of rock bottom are powerful resilience sources as we learn to bounce back from these times and our confidence grows while we discover our ability to control our destiny.

Do you know that up to 80% of the average working day is spent on activities with little or no value? Even more than that, do you know that recent survey data sourced from 750 employees shows that a whopping 89% of employees spend longer periods than ever before “wasting time.”? 

In this episode, I share a recent online training I delivered to an incredible group of CEO's whose focus was to learn new, innovative ways, to help their team set up their ideal average day effectively and efficiently for optimum results. 

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One of the most stressful things about being a leader is having to ask that one person in your team, who you know will be resistant, push back, to do something for you, and quickly.

During my time as Leader in one of Victoria's largest Australian Government sites, I managed over 40 employees, in a very fast-paced environment and things changed from min to min and there were many times during the course of the day where I needed people to jump from role to role.

This brings me to what I want to talk to you about today. The secret to how to have ultimate influence.

See, leadership is not about making someone do something for you, it’s so much more than that.

It's about how you make people feel and if you focus on that, then that’s the key to great leadership. It's the key to effective communication. It’s the key to people…

When we make people feel like they matter like we get them, we connect on a deeper level with them and everything flows from there.

What’s critical is learning the skill of decoding how something works from the context of structure and knowing the patterns.

In this podcast,  I share with you the strategy I used to have influence. It helped me to focus, instead of allowing my emotions to get in the way.

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What if for the next 30 days you:

✅Critise no one

✅Engage in no gossip

✅No rumours

✅No judgement of anything or anyone

As leaders, we are observed every minute of every day. Being a Leader is not an easy gig, that's for sure. As leaders, no matter who we are, how good we think we are, how long we've been in leadership for or how much we think people like us, we're always on show. And whether you like to believe it or not, people will judge you. All the time. In fact, as human beings, we are meaning, judging making machines.

What if for the next 30 days you stay silent and observe?

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Martin Stark lives in Sydney where he works as a senior IT Strategic Procurement Leader. I had the pleasure of interviewing Martin at the Empowering Leaders Summit.

We spoke about BRINGING COURAGE TO AUTHENTIC INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

Connect with Martin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-stark-8a3807179/

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The greatest plan in the world is useless if it is not executed correctly.

Managing crisis situations can be stressful and let's face it, no one expects a true crisis to strike, especially when it directly affects you, your business and your team.

2020 has been quite the experience, wouldn’t you agree?

Being forced to act quickly in a difficult situation when we least expect it.

The best way to minimise the effects of a crisis is to have a well-developed plan of dealing with it and then successfully executing it.

Too often I hear people, managers, leaders say, I just wish things would just go to plan…

Here’s the thing, If you’re planning for something that involves you and only you, then generally speaking the execution, if planned right, should be straightforward and things should go to plan.

When it comes to involving other people, however, the key to the successful execution of the plan is effective communication, it’s having the ability to be behaviorally flexible. it's knowing HOW to use the right language in a way that resonates with everyone on the team, that they understand it and are on the same page.

In this episode, I share with you the 6 steps to successfully executing a plan and gear up for 2021.

In this episode, I am joined by an extraordinary change and Culture facilitator who helps individuals, teams, organisations, and communities gain clarity about what is important to them and where they should be focusing their energy. He specialises specifically in helping leaders create values-based cultures, bringing three decades of experience at a leadership level across three countries: Australia, England and India.

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In this episode, I am joined by the Director of Service Support and Quality Contact Centre Operations, NDIA. Ian Mcgowan. 

Ian shares his leadership journey, the challenges, and the crisis situations experienced. He shares with us a little about the Black Saturday crisis, 7the Feb 2009 - ''it could've been a hell of a lot worse'', says Ian...'' a difficult and very stressful, situation and I look back with pride, years later, with all the responses in that first week, in that terrible disaster, it was one of the most coordinated and organised efforts on the ground''...

And imparts with 2 key messages...

An episode not to be missed. 

You can connect with Ian Mcgowan at: ianandsueann@gmail.com

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As 2020 is coming to an end, we can all agree that it's been quite the year, with even the most experienced leaders having their confidence rattled with the ongoing challenges and disruptions of Covid-19.

Leaders are starting to focus on and looking at new strategies, new ways for 2021 that will be flexible enough to adapt to any changing conditions.

What will you do as a leader today that you haven’t done in the past to create a space where people feel connected, supported, and that they matter?

Another incredible hour with Mario Bekes and Darryn Capes-Davis from Alive 90.5 FM - Business Insights.

Some of the topics we covered in the hour:

How important is communication for leaders?

What type of communications exists?

What are the most desirable skills for leaders and skills for best leadership?

You don't want to miss this episode. Bit of banter between Mario Bekes and Darryn Capes-Davis...

An interesting conversation with Yaja from Empowering Leaders - where we delve deep into Above the Line/Below the line,  an effective strategy to move someone to cause.

How is it that we can utilise this ''strategy'' to positively improve and innovate, so as to bring about success in any workplace?

An interesting conversation with Yaja from Empowering Leaders - our conversation starts with the steps to building a flea circus. That's right, a flea circus...who would've thought. 

You might be wondering; what does this have to do with leadership? In this podcast, we explore disruption and compliance and then the pros and cons of both. How is it that we can utilise this ''strategy'' to positively improve and innovate, so as to bring about success in any workplace. 

Mark Philpott, Award-Winning Filmmaker Founder and Publisher of a Global Magazine for three years TED Speaker. 22 Years as a Global Corporate Executive working across 162 countries.  10 years as a Founder of a Global NGO.  Global Keynote Speaker across Multinational Events. A Long Distance Cross Continent Motorcyclist. Mark conducted a Social Experiment and spent 18 Months as a Homeless Man visiting 42 countries across the world. Long Distance Ultra-Marathon Athlete and several near-death experiences including a deadly sea snake bite, dengue fever, and two emergency plane landings.

In 2017, Mark started living aboard his current home, a forty-foot fiberglass sailboat that rises and falls every day with the tide and runs a global media platform called Humaneity that enables him to engage every day with people from across the world as they share their stories with his global audience.

Dakota 17-year-old who battles with autism spectrum, doing her VCE, the battles of depression, suicidal tendencies and so much more. She uses singing-songwriting to get through. In this episode, we talk about  ''self-parenting'' and what that means for Dakota. 

Connect with Dakota at https://www.facebook.com/dakota.redigerjones

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What would make a champion kickboxer and loving husband and father turn to ice? 

Simon Fenech, a successful sportsman, and committed family man tried crystal meth for the first time after a traumatic work accident. 

He was instantly hooked and before he knew it, was dealing to support a $1000-a-day addiction.

What follows is a story straight from the plot of Breaking Bad...Simon was shot by underworld hitmen. A brutally honest, harrowing and roar interview, a story of survival and proof that even the most appalling fall from grace can lead to redemption.

A guest on Empowering Leaders Podcast, today Yaja and I had a conversation around how we handle those tough conversations that can appear challenging.

Why do some people shrink at the thought of having difficult, challenging conversations, and why others see them as opportunities?

We explore why people respond the way they do and how they can create new ways of responding and communicating.

Stephen Berkeley is a Change and Culture Facilitator. I had the pleasure of interviewing Stephen at the Empowering Leaders Summit. 

We spoke about the importance of values and how our values impact the way in which we think, act, and communicate, with ourselves and those around us. 

Connect with Stephen at https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenberkeley/

Website: https://www.alexandraegan.com.au/

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A common problem that can exist in language is the inability to connect with another person because of where they sit in terms of their hierarchy of language.

Our language, the words we use impacts communication, culture, efficiencies, policy and so much more...

In this episode, we will be exploring ways in which we can navigate a conversation with ease.

Ever wondered why most people find it so hard to set and achieve their goals? 

In this episode, I thought we’d have a chat about why goal setting doesn’t work…and then 

I"m going to share with you some steps on how to achieve your goals... in every aspect of your life. 

Grab a cuppa, or if you're driving, turn up the sound and let's dive in...

Thanks for listening and If you like and are enjoying this podcast series, please leave us a review or send us a message. 

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With anything in life, we must know where we're headed, where we want to go before we set off on the journey.

Too many people jump straight into the processes without even knowing why they do it. It’s what they’ve always done! That’s all they know.

In this episode, I will share with you 5 Steps to help set you up and get you on your way to your ''End In Mind''.

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An incredibly inspiring discussion with Dakota. 

Dakota is 17 years of age, currently challenged by her experience with mental health and Aspergers. In this episode, Dakota shares her strategies on how to better manage self-talk. She shares the importance of knowing when to ''STOP"'. 

Do you avoid doing thins? 

Do feel challenged or maybe even struggling with balancing things in your day?

You know those long lists of things to do and you just can’t seem to get through everything or they become intimidated or overwhelming.

In this episode, I share with you ''why'' you avoid things and then ''how' to get started. 

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If you want to become an above the line thinker, then this conversation is something you want to dive deeper into. 

Knowing this concept, this model is a quick way to RESET your thinking and get you above the line, where things are lighter… where you can see choice, possibilities, opportunities and you start to feel in control. 

Ideally, this is where you want to be as an individual, as a leader, and then help those around you get there too.

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To learn about upcoming training on effective communication:

Effective communication and breaking down communication barriers starts with knowing ourselves and then having the skills to notice others.

To be effective communicators, we must become experts at observing others.

Once we know what to look for, the next step is to know what to do with it.

In this episode, I will give you a helicopter view on how to develop these skills and improve your ability to notice and observe others.

It's useful to learn how to observe nonverbal behaviors in people.

Calibration skills are best learned in person, demonstrating, and enabling you to have the experiences that help you refine your skills continually.

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In this episode, I share with you a structure, a methodology on how to move from effect to cause, from unclear to clear, from nonresults to results, from good to great, keeping you focused and enabling you to expand and evolve your thinking to the next dimension.

To change our actions, we must first be prepared and willing to change our thinking. What this means, is to change our thinking, we must be willing to challenge our own built-in desire for the ‘status quo’ and for certainty in an uncertain world.

One thing's for sure, absolutely no decision has power unless you commit to taking action and certainty comes only when we become more flexible in an ever-changing world.

The flexibility of our thinking is therefore the key to our success.

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Do you check in with yourself regularly?

What’s your strategy? Is it effective? What are your results by doing this?

Checking in with yourself is a very powerful way to purposefully transform your mindset from old limiting beliefs to creating new, resourceful ones.

It takes continual self-awareness, self-management to shift a lifetime of deep-seeded programming.

In this episode, we talk about Self -management and why it matters...

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In this latest episode of RESET Your Thinking, I am joined by the lovely Dakota.

Dakota is a 17-year-old fulltime student and a courageous one at that.

In this episode, Dakota shares her experience with Aspergers and mental health and the strategies that she's put in place to help her better manage the peaks and troughs of mental health.

Her purpose for doing this podcast is because she's so very passionate about raising awareness and reaching all who may be feeling not heard or validated.

She has this message for you ''I will tell you there is always someone out there that will listen''...

Thank you Dakota YOU ROCK!

If you are listening to this podcast right now and feel that you need to reach out to someone, know that there is always someone here for you and that You are not alone.

In this episode, I was interviewed by Yaja from Empowering Leaders, where we discuss how to establish trust as a mentor. 

Trust IS NOT showcasing the things you know this is not enough to build trust... It's so much more than that.

Trust works on different levels.  It’s the most valuable currency there is. And there will always be hesitation when there’s low trust.

Developing our mentor skills is crucial because here's the thing, we mentor all the time, whether we're aware of it or not...

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Uncertain times can be quite difficult, stressful, scary, and even overwhelming.

When something happens in our world and shakes us up a little, suddenly, we get a flood of negative thoughts.

In this episode I share with you how to better those thoughts to help you get through times of uncertainty...

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Our conditioning can either limit our opportunities or create extraordinary possibilities for us.

We spend so much of our time wondering about what could be...

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The way in which we present, our facial expressions, physical appearance, what we wear…it all tells a story….

Our body language may shape who we are if we do it long enough.

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