The Turnaround Mindset

Adam Smith and Phil Slade •www.theturnaroundmindset.com

The Turnaround Mindset podcast is for leaders seeking ways to improve their businesses and careers coupled with the emotional intelligence needed to manage anxiety and fear at those critical decision points. Behavioral economist and psychologist Phil Slade and successful business leader Adam Smith provide straight up advice in an unprecedented time where businesses need to be smarter, nimbler and more innovative than ever before. Leaders need to think and act differently knowing what life skills and management tools are necessary to remain relevant, flexible and adaptable.

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Episodes

Is it family or career?

Striking the right balance between family and career will differ depending on the circumstances facing the person, the family, their stage of life, their chosen career. As human beings adapt to life during this pandemic, has provided people with more options around working from home and working around family life. However, in an attempt to be both good at family and good at career, can sometimes mean doing an average job at both. Some will find it easy to justify the long hours at work because w...

Feb 03, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 4

How do I keep my staff from leaving my business?

Good employees are hard to find. They say that when you lose your best people, the first place to look is at management. When your top talent decides to leave your business, productivity reduces, morale suffers, and resentment sets in with the employer as the tasks of the exiting employee are loaded onto the remaining staff. In these unprecedented times, there is no new normal when it comes to work arrangements. With so much of our work day being conducted from home offices or through virtual me...

Feb 03, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 3

The Devil Inside: How do I let go of my ego?

Ego can either make or break your company. Ego is defined as a self generated identity of what we believe to be who and what we are. A strong ego centric nature is linked to our core identity as humans, and therefore we want to protect it at all costs. As a leader, an ego left unchecked can warp our perspective and values and corrupt our behaviour. As we advance up the corporate ladder, people are more likely to want to please us. As leaders we can fall into the habit of always wanting to be rig...

Feb 03, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 2

How do I make myself more valuable?

Today businesses are more acutely aware that to remain competitive they need to innovate and deliver services more efficiently. More positions are being outsourced, cut, or revamped, which makes it very difficult to believe that anybody's job is completely safe. However, in any organisation you will still find a group of people who are absolutely indispensable regardless of the environment, economy or market. What separates them from other employees, is the value or the perceived value that they...

Feb 03, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Introduction to the Turnaround Mindset

In 2021 society is still grappling with the economic aftermath of coronavirus and the wider ramifications of how we will conduct business going forward. In these unprecedented times, decisive and fearless leadership is critical to any business transformation. The Turnaround Mindset podcast was created to give people and companies the opportunity to have the difficult questions about their businesses and their careers answered as well as manage their own anxieties and fears more effectively. Each...

Feb 03, 2021•5 min0

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