Episodes
This week, Ryan got a fresh perspective on leadership from Jack. Drawing upon his experience working for one of the "Big Four" accounting organisations, Jack shares his top three insights on what can create really impactful leadership.
Published 09/08/21
In this episode, Mike and Ryan talk about how learning must be embedded to create transformation in the organisation, and its the organisation itself that has to change if you want the leaders to change.
Published 08/24/21
This week, we interviewed Ali Hill on what exactly hybrid working is and how you can use it to create a high performing team. She shares the three pillars of success when it comes to creating a framework for your hybrid work environment and how you can implement them in your organisation.
Published 08/17/21
In this weeks episode, we travel back in time to when COVID-19 first hit as Mike and Ryan cover how to successfully work from home.
Published 08/10/21
In this week’s podcast, Ryan interviews Rob Pyne on how focusing on the EQ of your leadership team before your IQ can create a collective leadership that performs better than any one person ever could alone.
Published 08/02/21
This weeks episode covers an important question most business leaders have when they are about to invest in leadership training – How do you measure the results of leadership development programmes?
Published 07/27/21
In this week’s podcast, Mike and Ryan share how to turn clear communication into your teams superpower. They share tips on what to do and what you should avoid if you want to get the best communication and contribution out of your team.
Published 07/20/21
Inspired from the book by Bronnie Ware, Mike and Ryan go over the 5 main regrets of the dying, what can be learned from them, and how to apply these to improve both your business and personal life.
Published 07/12/21
In this week's podcast, Ryan shares how we structure our scrums and how you can implement them into your business. He also shares all the do’s and don’ts that we've learned along the way to keep the scrums running smoothly.
Published 07/05/21
Your business will only change if your managers match your energy for improvement. In this podcast Mike and Ryan chat about the “leadership diamond” framework as developed by McKinsey in their book “Leadership at Scale”, and discuss and relate it to their own insights and experience with transforming organisations.
Published 06/28/21
Mike and Ryan discuss how to effectively run a meeting, and how to deal with people that get your meeting off track.
Published 06/15/21
Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every second Tuesday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. This weeks episode covers how to make your meetings more interesting, less boring and less frequent.Mike and Ryan talk about the importance of team meetings in shaping your company culture. Believe it or not, they are instrumental in creating (or bringing down) energy. No one wants a day full of boring...
Published 06/01/21
We recently conducted a survey with over one hundred operational leaders in the productive sector asking about their challenges, opportunities, growth/decline, focus, and goals. Mike and Ryan have cherry-picked the most relevant insights from the report and interview to discuss in this week's podcast, sharing some of the biggest challenges being faced by businesses in New Zealand.
Published 05/24/21
Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every second Tuesday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. This weeks episode is about how important culture is in any workplace, and surprise surprise, it's actually extremely important.Creating a company culture is not just writing some values on the walls and expecting your employees to live them, or even expecting yourself to live them. Along with defining...
Published 05/18/21
In this week's podcast, Mike and Ryan discuss exactly how you can develop that talent in your team to create greater business results. They provide actionable steps you can take to begin developing your staff along with the most effective way to give feedback.
Published 05/10/21
Mike and Ryan cover mindfulness in a work context. Along with explaining just how important it is that you stay mindful at work, they share their own experiences with mindfulness and tips and practices they use every day.
Published 05/04/21
This weeks episode Ryan is joined by Milena, head of digital at The Breakthrough, to talk why outsourcing work on websites such as Upwork has been a vital part of growing our business.
Published 04/20/21
Mike and Ryan share their knowledge on how to use delegation to take your business to the next level. They explain the different types of delegations and give tips on how to decide what should be delegated and what to do with tasks that no one wants to do, because guess what - you don't actually HAVE to do those.
Published 04/13/21
In this weeks podcast Mike and Ryan share a wealth of knowledge on exactly how to evaluate what should be prioritised and how to be more active throughout the day to make sure you're not being distracted by those priorities you've committed to.
Published 03/23/21
Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every second Tuesday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. This weeks episode is about why marketing is so important, that it should be just as good as the product you are selling.
Published 03/16/21
This week, Ryan was joined by Estelle as she inspires us with her top three insights on what makes a great people leader. She gives us some insight on what it’s like being the HR leader to some of the most intelligent people in New Zealand and the challenges that can bring.
Published 03/09/21
In this podcast episode, Mike and Ryan share their insights around learning and give advice on how to learn effectively. They discuss what learning is exactly, what the stages of learning are, why learning is hard and why it’s supposed to be hard, and how you can motivate yourself to achieve your learning goals.
Published 03/02/21
Diversity of gender, age, ethnicity and everything else is important, however you also need to have diversity of thinking - neurodiversity. In this weeks podcast, Mike and Ryan tell you how to create your neurodiverse team and how to utilize each way of thinking to create incredible business result.
Published 02/22/21