All Episodes
Displaying 41 - 60 of 93 in total
53: The new (ab)normal series - How To Embed New Elements Into Your Culture
As you prepare to emerge from the lockdown period, Carolyn provides some ideas on how to capture with your team the patterns of behaviour you recently established that...
52: The new (ab)normal series - Anchoring the new habits
COVID has jolted us from our normal patterns of behaviour, and provides the opportunity to choose and practise some new ones to take into the new (ab)normal. Starting...
51: The new (ab)normal series - What are you missing?
The opportunity to build new habits and a new culture is right in front of us. Start with a simple inventory. In this episode, Carolyn explains how. Buy the Walki...
50: Humility series - What it takes to pursue excellence
The shift from good to great requires a mindset of humility, learning and curiosity. Without that, we can be good, but we will always stop short of greatness. In thi...
49: Humility series - The power of not knowing
Want to create an empowered culture, a curious culture or a learning culture? It starts with three simple but humbling words: “I don’t know.” Buy the Walking the Ta...
48: Humility series - A modest view of our own importance
Not too little, not too much, let’s explore what changes if we get the optimal perspective on our own importance, and how that humility changes how we approach custome...
47: Trust series - Do you trust yourself? Take an inventory
In this episode, Carolyn turns our attention inward to how we build (or lose) trust in ourselves. How this impacts the trust others have in us, and what we can do to i...
46: Trust series - Becoming a more trustworthy person
What makes you trustworthy to others? Reliability, authenticity, and intention. This episode shows how you can work on each of these three and thus become the trustwor...
45: Trust series - Supporting roles - it's time to rethink team collaboration
Trust between functions, between teams, between roles in any organisation is the oil that makes the whole system flow. Learn how helping others play their role success...
44: Trust me? If you're in a team where trust is low, here's how to build it - Trust series
The presence of vulnerability builds more trust in a team than any other feature. This episode explores many ways that any team member can open up just a little bit mo...
43: Trust series - Your trust bias - it's running the show, so how do you identify it?
Most of us have a bias towards either under-trusting or over-trusting. In this episode, Carolyn shows you how to understand your personal bias and how you can balance ...
42: Purpose-led series - What gets in the way of us leading a more purpose-led life?
If you approach the ocean with a cup, you take away a cupful. If you approach it with a bucket, you can extract a whole bucketful. How do you shift your world view to...
41: Purpose-led series - Follow in the footsteps of Google & unite your team around a purpose
How to create a purpose for your team or organisation which will provide motivation, direction and meaning. Buy the Walking the Talk book - https://amzn.to/3WunDBA ...
40: Purpose-led series - Finding your daily purpose
A practical approach to starting or enhancing the discovery of your own purpose. Reframe what you do every day and see the patterns of beneficial behaviour and thinkin...
39: Purpose-led series - How I found my purpose - and how to discover yours
Carolyn embarks on a new series about how we can become more purpose-led. In this episode, you'll hear the story of how she discovered her own purpose, how it has shap...
38: Culture shaping series - Shine a spotlight on what great looks like
Imagine you are on a small stage playing to a large audience. Everything you do to role model the culture you want has to be broadcast in larger than life letters. O...
37: Culture shaping series - What you tolerate becomes your culture. What are you putting up with?
What gets tolerated establishes the lowest common dominator of your culture. However hard it may be, not tolerating poor behaviour is an essential part of culture lead...
36: Culture shaping series - Encouraging gives others the courage to be their best
We all want to fit into the community of which we are a member. So we look for signals about how to behave. Find out how, by encouraging the behaviour you want in yo...
35: Culture shaping series - Shaping behaviour requires you to be extreme, lets look at the ‘how'
The first skill to shaping the behaviour of others is to become role model of that behaviour yourself. In this episode, we look at ways to make it easier to do that, ...
34: Culture shaping series - Are you shaping your group behaviours? Pick one and drive new norms
In this first episode of a new series on how to shape the behaviour of others, and thus build a culture, Carolyn explores the benefits of learning to lead and shape th...