The Workplace Podcast in association with Dynamic Partners

Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. She is ranked number 6 among the world’s top 30 leadership thinkers by Global Gurus and number one coach for women leaders by Thinkers50/ 100 Coaches.

Sally joins our host William Corless to discuss Women in Leadership, where we discuss her book "How Women Rise". In this episode we discuss how women rise through the lens of the pandemic and the added challenges that it brings. Topics of discussion include:

• Habits that may hinder success 
• Putting your job before your career
• Impact of the pandemic and the long term consequences for female leadership
• The great reckoning and rethinking our priorities
• The flexible workplace
• Can you have it all - a successful career and a happy family life
• The Sandwich generation
• Conversations with your life partner

Sally’s most recent book, How Women Rise, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, became the best-seller in its category within a week of publication and has been translated into 17 languages. Previous books include The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, hailed as a classic and continuously in print since 1990; The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, which explores how women’s strategic insights can strengthen their careers; and The Web of Inclusion, cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time and credited with bringing the language of inclusion into business.

Click on the link https://allrise.substack.com

To hear more about Sally's new book and to gain more insights from her newsletters

 

Mediation pioneer and trailblazer Michael Lang joins the Workplace Podcast.For over 40 years Michael has mediated family, workplace and organizational disputes. He has designed and presented introductory and advanced mediation and conflict management courses, workshops and webinars in the US and internationally.  

Michael joins our host and fellow mediator William Corless to shares his vast wealth of experience. Michael share his insights on: 

• Hallmarks of mastery in mediation including curiosity
• Insights into reflective practice and understanding the fundamentals
• How to have confidence in your competence
• Demonstrating mediator presence- What to do if you get stumped in a mediation

 

Michael created one of the first graduate programs in conflict resolution in the US at Antioch University in 1992 and served in a similar role at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC.

He has authored The Practitioners Guide to Reflective Practice in Conflict Resolution (2019) and co-authored The Making of a Mediator: Developing Artistry in Practice, (2000).  He is the co-creator and co-editor with his Irish colleague, Peter Nicholson, of Living Together, Separating, Divorcing: Surviving During a Pandemic (2020) and Family Conflict During a Pandemic: Stories of Struggle and Hope (2021).

Michael has created a video series, In Their Voices, www.thereflectivepractitioner.com/video-conversations.

Michael currently facilitates 8 monthly online reflective practice groups for mediators, including a group of Irish mediators.

This episode was sponsored by The Mediation Foundation of Ireland, Europe's premier mediation training provider. To become a mediator or enhance your mediation practice through continuous professional development click on www.mfi.ie 

 

Ken Cloke is a world-recognized mediator, dialogue facilitator, conflict resolution systems designer, teacher, public speaker,  author of numerous books and articles, and a pioneer and leader in the field of mediation and conflict resolution for over 40 years.

In this extensive episode our host William Corless speaks with fellow mediator Ken Cloke. William and Ken explore what it takes to practice masterful mediation. A range of aspects are covered in this episode:

• Holistic approach to mediation - where theory meets emotional intelligence
• Omni-partiality- where the mediators is being on both parties sides
• Radical Acceptance
• Skilful Questioning
• Our relationship with conflict
• Conflict in teams
• The role in mediation in a hybrid organisation
• Using clean language
• Conflict resolution system design
• The costs of conflict to an organisation

This episode was sponsored by The Mediation Foundation of Ireland, Europe's premier provider of certified mediation training. To become certified as a mediator contact MFI via the website www.mfi.ie 

Loretta Dignam CEO of The Menopause Hub joins our host William Corless to discuss why menopause matters in the workplace. Loretta takes an evidence based approach to focus on the impact on women and the workplace.

Loretta was blindsided by her own experience and with a focus on gender equality, she is passionate that no one should suffer like she did. She wants to short cut this journey for others and demystify this for women and employers. This is done through education and taking the fear out of these conversations.

• Over 570,000 women at anyone time will be going through menopause at anyone time
• Over 350,000 of those women will be in the workplace
• Research shows that 80% of women are unprepared for menopause.
• 66% of women no little or nothing about menopause
• There are 37 symptoms of menopause
• 25% will have dehabilitating symptoms

Much like the focus on mental health over the last decade, Loretta is focused on what the future will look like and women health being at the forefront of wellbeing initiatives much like mental health is today.

We also explore how women can have a better quality of life, how the workplace can support. We also gain insights on what managers and employers can do.

 

World Menopause day is October 18th 

#HeForShe

https://www.themenopausehub.ie

 

 

Wendy Ryan, the CEO at Kadabra, speaker, advisor and facilitator joins the workplace podcast. As an advocate for equity & inclusion, Wendy is the author of "Learn Lead Lift: How to Think, Act and Inspire Your Way to Greatness". Her book has received from Marshall Goldsmith "Brave, compelling and thoroughly original". Sally Helgesen, author of "How Women Rise" stated she found valuable lessons in each chapter.

The conversation between our host William Corless and Wendy Ryan explores aspects of her book utilising the learn, lead lift framework™. These include the different lenses that are imperative to look through when leading.

• DEPTH - Demographics, Extreme Weather, Pandemic, Technological, Health
• IEAT - to reflect on your day - Did I demonstrate Inclusiveness, Equity, Authenticity, Trauma informed
• The VUCA context and what leader's should consider as part of their leadership style
• The various dimensions we need to explore and what it means to be a healthy leader and safety in the workplace
• How to get authenticity right
• Kindness with candour and how to get the balance right
• Inclusivity at work
• Implications of decision making
• Avoiding stagnation in systems thinking in a respectful way
• The 3T Model™ -  Ryan developed this empowering mindset for leaders, which supports decision making and resource allocation by Tolerating, Transforming or Transcending.

For more information on Wendy Ryan's approach check out her website

https://www.learnleadlift.com

Wendy and her talented team are also available via https://www.wearekadabra.com/wendy/

 

 

 

Fiona Buckley, a work behaviourist and International Key Note speaker joins the workplace podcast to discuss the evolution of coaching through the pandemic. This special episode was broadcast live from the 10th annual EMCC conference. EMCC, The European Mentoring and Coaching Council has over ten thousand members globally.

Fiona who is an executive, empowerment and performance coach, discusses the trends, insights and experiences from  the 250+ coaching sessions delivered during the pandemic alone)

Fiona was perfectly poised when the pandemic abruptly turned our working lives upside down, as she isHybrid/Virtual work expert. Fiona is also the Dublin Solo Business Winner 2021.

Sonata Kucin joins our host William Corless to discuss creating a culture of mentoring in the workplace. Sonata is a Mentoring Culture Consultant, Program Manager, Mentor, Conference speaker, a member of the International Mentoring Association  (IMA) and European Mentoring and Coaching Council  (EMCC).

More than ten years ago, Sonata started her Mentoring Journey.One day at work, she was trying to solve a problem that she had with her team. She realized that the reason for this was one Mentor. Then Sonata acknowledged how powerful Mentoring is. In both ways. Positive and negative.So, she has faced the negative impact of Mentoring, and, as a manager, she had to do something. Sonata decided to look more deeply at what Mentoring is. There she started.

She designs Mentoring programs or collaborates in building a Mentoring Culture for different companies. In this episode we gain insights on the following:

• Peer mentoring
• Mentoring vs coaching
• Reverse mentoring
• Being a champion and an advocate
• Benefits of mentoring
• What organisations can learn about implementing a culture of mentoring
• Choosing your mentor wisely
• Mentor selection criteria
• Managing expectations of the mentor relationship
• Supports for the mentors themselves
• Ideal mentoring programme

Listener Giveaway.

Sonata is offering a free 30 min consultations for the first five companies who will contact her after listening to this podcast.  

More about Sonata Kucin you can find on her website

www.mentoring-culture.com

Neil Mullarkey, co-founder of the Comedy Store Players with Mike Myers joins us on the workplace podcast joins us to discuss improv and his book  “Seven steps to improve your people skills”. Neil has appeared on television shows Have I Got News For You, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Saturday Live and QI as well as the Austin Powers movies. Neil an executive coach and facilitator has been teaching improv and leadership for over 20 years,.

 

Neil provides our listeners with the origins of improv, how it developed and it’s application in the world of work.

• What is improv
• How improv enhances your presence
• We expose the myth that improv is winging it
• How improve improves communication
• Networking tips
• Improv allows is to be flexible and improve our interpersonal skills through seven steps

1. Learn
2. Look
3. Listen
4. Link
5. Let
6. Lighten
7. Leave

 

Neil has become synonymous with bringing the agility and innovation of improvisation to the boardrooms and sales teams of the world’s biggest corporations; transforming businesses from the inside by encouraging communication, collaboration, engagement and creativity, and simplifying some of the most complex of problems into the most compelling of solutions.

Be it designing bespoke workshops through to immersing himself in individual executive coaching on communication skills, Neil is now helping businesses across the globe communicate better, build high performing teams and deliver genuine, tangible results.

For more information:

https://neilmullarkey.com

Sertrice Grice, an industrial organisational psychologist joins our host William Corless to discuss how we can support people of colour in the workplace.

Sertrice has deep experience helping complex, global organizations interpret organizational data and create action plans that help drive meaningful change. Sertrice writes and presents frequently on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion and is passionate about helping clients build cultures focused on anti-racism and allyship.

In this episode we discover where organisations can improve their approach to diversity and inclusion while also giving people insights on how they can practice allyship. This episode covers the following area's:

• An evidence based approach for organisations to utilise the data and interpret hard numbers
• Potential pitfalls in the employee life cycles where organisations can improve
• What to look for in D& I diagnostics
• Where discrimination occurs in the workplace especially around promotions
• Unconscious bias
• People who are eager to make a difference and don't know how
• Micro aggressions and micro affirmations
• Lived experiences and what people should avoid in conversations

Sertrice is offering a 50% discount on an AllyUp Udemy Course. Click on the link below for more details.

 

https://www.mattinglysolutions.com/workplace-podcast

Colin James is one of Australia’s most respected and well-known keynote speakers and facilitators; his deeply engaging, humorous and provocative presentations are the highlight of any conference. He excels at imparting practical skills and workable knowledge – whilst making the whole audience howl with laughter! Winner of Australian Educator of the Year in 2008, Australian Keynote Speaker of the Year in 2020, and voted the highest-rated speaker at all global Gartner conferences in 2019 - scoring higher than both Tony Robbins and Simon Sinek.

In this episode Colin and our host William will explore:

• The role of storytelling in business
• The no slides approach and how to avoid death by PowerPoint
• Engaging your audience by using skilful language and vocabulary with eloquence
• Creating memorable presentation and the role of sketch noting on a Flipchart 
• Dealing with nerves
• Preparation of your presentation and refining your style

Colin has kindly offered a free Ebook and webinar for our listeners

Ebook - https://bit.ly/3sDaXJ2 

Free webinar recording - https://bit.ly/3n4jzY0

 

A gifted cartoonist, he is never far from his trusty flip-chart and pens; his drawing providing a unique and welcome diversion from the influx of PowerPoint presentations that soak up the imagination of your audiences fast. 

With 30-years’ experience in 34 countries globally his experience and unique style set him apart. Whether it is speaking to a crowd of 10,000 as he did in 2012 at the United Nations Conference or facilitating a small group of 20 CEO’s and executives to ensure that their contributions are superb and profoundly relevant - he leaves a lasting impression