All Episodes
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73: Performance Acceleration series - Mastering Risk
How can you achieve both stretch performance and reliability – that sweet spot where you can continue to stretch without jeopardising your promises? By changing the w...
72: Performance Acceleration series - Accountability, purpose and quality dialogue
Steve Cunningham, Director of Talent at BT shares with us the work done at BT to embed more accountability into their culture, and how this has been helped by a strong...
71: Performance Acceleration series - The Right Conversation
Accountability goes up when the right conversations occur. Carolyn explains why, and how you can hold those conversations yourself. Buy the Walking the Talk book - ...
70: Pursuit Of Excellence Series - Relentless Dissatisfaction
Carolyn explores the trait which needs to be present to fuel every pursuit of excellence. Is this an inherent trait or can it be awakened in ourselves and in others wh...
69: Pursuit Of Excellence Series - Setting the ambition
Turning your pursuit into action is given more urgency with an ambition. In this episode, Carolyn describes different types of ambition and shows how to design one be...
68: Pursuit Of Excellence Series - Look outside, be intensely curious
An external orientation is essential to truly pursue excellence, because it is only by going beyond what is familiar to you that you will discover what excellence mean...
67: Pursuit Of Excellence Series - Finding The Achievement Motivation
Pursuing excellence should be such a natural thing to do with a team of people, and yet it can be remarkably elusive amongst the anxieties, pressures and expectations ...
66: Prioritisation series - The Lure Of Shiny New Things
This episode explores the paradox between our curiosity and attraction to explore new possibilities and the value in prioritising and focussing on what really matters....
65: Prioritisation Series - Making The Judgement Calls
Do you ever feel you do a little bit of everything, but struggle to fully commit attention to the things that matter most? Making a judgement call risks of making the...
64: Prioritisation Series - Too many choices, every one good.
Selecting good choices over bad ones is easy. But when every option is a good one, it’s much harder. What do you do when your work serves the needs of to many people,...
63: Special Edition - Paula Harraca, ArcelorMittal, on top team buy in
Special guest Paula Harraca, Head of People & Innovation at ArcelorMittal Long in Brazil, explains how she was able to build top team buy in to a culture strategy whic...
62: Prioritisation series - How heroes constrain
Do you play the hero? Try to take on everything and solve every problem? Or do you live in a culture where this is the norm. In this episode Carolyn explores how by t...
61: Prioritisation series - How being purposeful helps prioritisation.
At every level – personal, team and organisation - becoming clearer on purpose is the start to making better choices. And prioritisation is always about choices on ho...
60: Culture Excellence Series: Intense vertical leadership development at Novartis
This episode of Walking Your Talk uses a new format to hear how one company are taking some radical moves to pursue deep adult development for leaders in pursuit of a ...
59: Culture Excellence Series - Are You Being Radical Enough?
Carolyn draws on what goes on in Netflix to challenge listeners to make some moves that are remarkable – sufficiently radical to really demonstrate the new culture in ...
58: Symbols series - The Role Of Shared Values
Leaders everywhere are being held accountable for the behaviour of those who work for them, and yet worry about how they can be confident that their people will live u...
57: Symbols series - The Light But Persistent Touch Of Intolerance
Carolyn tells the stories of two leaders who have mastered the skill of building high standards of behaviour in the culture they are shaping by using the lightest touc...
56: Symbols series - Don't Be Perfect, Be Real
Leaders feel they need to demonstrate that they always role model the culture they aspire to. And yet some of the most powerful stories come from leaders who are will...
55: Symbols series - New team members: Powerful symbols
Who is appointed, who is promoted are such strong symbols of what is really valued in the emerging new culture. Learn how to capitalise on this opportunity, whether y...
54: Symbols series - What is the one thing everyone does in your organisation?
Carolyn shares a story of best practice in culture, where you can be confident that everyone in your organisation will behave to the same standard in specific situatio...