Episode #29 // Everyone is driven by self-interest. It is an intrinsic part of the human DNA, so we can never overcome it entirely. However, we can learn to put self-interest aside for the greater good which, ironically, often results in better long term outcomes for us as individuals. This episode explores how we can fight our basic instincts with long term vision and belief. I have centred this episode on an incredible true story of how putting self-interest aside and focusing on the ‘greater ...
Mar 19, 2019•15 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #28 // We have spoken in recent episodes about leadership attributes and competencies. During your career, you will come into contact with many people who are smart, well educated, experienced, shrewd, politically astute, and even some who are downright Machiavellian. So what is it that is going to make you stand out? In this episode, we cover off on the foundational criteria for career success (the ‘ticket to the dance’), and then go onto talk about what it takes to stand out even in th...
Mar 12, 2019•16 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #27 // This week's episode is a de facto part 2 of episode 19 Execution for Results , so if you haven’t listened to that one yet I highly recommend doing it before you get stuck into this one! It focuses on how single point accountability is the most critical factor in being able to successfully execute on your plans, and sets the ground work for where we’re going today with Unleashing the Power of your People. This episode is all about empowerment, which is the flip side of the accounta...
Mar 05, 2019•17 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #26 // This week is Part Two of The Roadmap to Exceptional Leadership! I've taken my 30+ years of practical leadership experience, a LOT of trial and error and lessons from some incredible mentors, and have distilled these learnings into a model, my 'secret sauce'; the 7 Pillars of Leadership Performance, and this is what today’s episode is all about! These 7 pillars are designed to unlock the real, practical strategies and focus areas that we believe will make or break your leadership j...
Feb 26, 2019•16 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #25 // This week’s episode is a big one! Once again I've developed a two part episode to deal with what I think is one of our larger topics, The Roadmap to Exceptional Leadership. Shoehorning this topic into a couple of brief podcast episodes is going to be tricky, but I am up for the challenge! This week in part one, we'll start by looking at common leadership attributes and competencies, the best place to start when we’re defining what an ‘exceptional leader’ actually is, without all t...
Feb 19, 2019•17 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #24 // Did you listen to last week’s episode? If you haven’t, it’s well worth the 17 minutes to listen to it - it’s part 1 of Building Organisational Capability and it will give you a much better understanding of this episode! Today we’re onto Part 2: How do you build capability into your organisation and culture? We’re going to carry on from last week’s episode, by talking about how to build a competitive advantage into our culture - one of the toughest things to do. So I’ll start with ...
Feb 12, 2019•21 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #23 // Today’s podcast deals with the vast area of building organisational capability, so I’ve split it into two episodes. This week, I’ll give you the context for what organisational capability is, how it fits with strategy, and where leaders most often put their focus. Next week, in part two, I’ll delve into what a leader should be doing, at any level, to build organisational capability through their people. Now before I get started, you may have seen on our social channels or received...
Feb 05, 2019•19 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #22 // In today’s episode, we advance the work we did in ‘Episode 6 The Psychology of Feedback’, by answering a question from our dedicated listener James who asked the very simple question, "Once you develop the will, how do you develop the skill?" A great question! So over the next 16 minutes I’m going to give you some strategies and techniques that will help you develop the skills to master the feedback conversation itself. We'll begin by talking about the leadership dialogue, which I...
Jan 29, 2019•18 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #21 // Formal and informal education plays a critical role in any leader's development. Having said that, we need to be realistic about the role that education plays in our career paths and ensure that our experience and achievements are commensurate with our qualifications. Not all education is equal! When I talk about education, I'm going to completely ignore the realm of specific competency certifications. So that's things like undergraduate disciplines (law, architecture, commerce et...
Jan 22, 2019•17 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #20 // There are so many factors to making great decisions. Some of these factors are technical and analytical, but many are based on your leadership skill. In today’s episode, we deal with the fundamental question of how to get the most from your people, to enhance and improve your decision making capability. I start this episode by asking the question, ‘Why all the fuss about diversity and inclusion?’ From there I go on to cover: How great leaders set an appropriate decision making cul...
Jan 15, 2019•17 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #19 // It’s no secret that any number of things can sub-optimise execution inside an organisation. One of the most insidious, in my experience, is a weak accountability culture. So whereas lack of strategy, planning, and resourcing are relatively obvious, a weak accountability model is not always apparent to senior management and this will work against virtually anything you're trying to achieve. So in today’s episode, Execution for Results: Driving accountability in your team, we're goi...
Jan 08, 2019•16 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #18 // As the New Year's hangover subsides, we need to start thinking about what we're going to make happen in 2019, and it is absolutely up to us to make it happen. For ourselves, for our team and for our organisations. So in today’s episode, the first of the year, I’m going to start by talking about why New Year's resolutions don't work - so I hope you made all those yesterday, because today's the 2nd, you can forget about those and move on! From there, I’ll cover: • Why having a great...
Jan 01, 2019•16 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #17 // In this Boxing Day episode, we’re doing things a bit differently! Em is back on the show, and we are going to talk through our five favourite episode of 2018. We released 16 episodes this year, and we might be biased, but we think there's some incredible leadership content there. This week, we’re going to point out the five episodes that we think you should either listen to for the first time, or if you've heard them before, go back and review. Hopefully, if you're in Australia, y...
Dec 25, 2018•15 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #16 // Back by popular demand, this week we're going to do another Q&A episode! It’s likely that you’re winding down as the holiday period approaches, and we've had so many good questions from listeners that there's a few more we need to deal with before the year ends. To help me with this Q&A segment, Em has joined me again. Each of these questions could be an episode in its own right, but hopefully we’ve covered them thoroughly enough for you to take action on some of these iss...
Dec 18, 2018•21 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #15 // I’ve got to say, we get some seriously great listener questions every week! When we started the podcast we were coming up with our own topics, and now we get so many questions, that we get to make what you guys want and need to hear - which was our ultimate goal of the podcast from day one! The question I'm answering today is no different, in fact we liked it so much we moved this episode up the priority order as I suspect this is something that happens far more frequently than we...
Dec 11, 2018•17 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #14 // This week's topic is another slightly controversial one, but has turned out to be a very common question from listeners, so we thought we’d dedicate a whole episode to tackling how you as a leader, can set the right boundaries in your work relationships. The key questions here is, how do you strike the balance between maintaining professional distance, while establishing a trust based, caring relationship with your people? In this episode I’ll answer this question by covering the ...
Dec 04, 2018•19 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #13 // We spoke last month in the Q&A episode about giving your boss feedback. As this subject comes up again and again in your questions to us, this week I've expanded on the topic. To give it some context, I framed it around one of the best questions from our listeners, thank you Jordan. The question was: “I’m finding it difficult determining the boundaries between demonstrating a proactive approach to leadership and work whilst also making sure I don't overstep my current job titl...
Nov 27, 2018•16 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #12 // Building the best team you possibly can is a prerequisite to delivering the results that will make you a successful leader. It begins with the hard yards of capability building that we spoke about in episode two ‘ Building a High Performing Team ’; there's also the need to attract and retain the best talent into your organisation, and you're in competition for that talent with other similar organisations. So in this episode, I’m going to focus on the fact that we all want to hire ...
Nov 20, 2018•18 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #11 // Now, no one can accuse me of not taking on the big issues in this podcast, and this one is particularly vexed because, although there's almost universal acceptance of the value that a diverse team brings to an organisation, very few organisations actually have a diverse workforce. In this episode, we question why it’s so hard to create this. I’ll go straight to the punchline - there is no silver bullet: it takes time, effort and the right approach through every level of the busine...
Nov 13, 2018•17 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #10 // Leaders tend to talk glowingly about their own values, and every organisation has an advertised set of them. But how many actually behave in accordance with their values? In this week’s episode, we’re going to talk about how to get this right. In addition to talking through why corporate values are so often meaningless (with a few fun real world examples to prove my point) I’m going to cover: A really interesting perspective from Denise Lee Yohn who wrote a brilliant HBR article i...
Nov 06, 2018•16 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #9 // This episode is going to be just a little different to our normal format! We've had a lot of really great feedback on the podcast and quite a few questions from listeners who either want us to do deep dives or look into a specific issue that they're having. I thought we'd turn this into a Q&A episode, where I can answer a couple of these questions for you. We love getting feedback from you, so if there's something that has come up for you this week or anything that you'd like s...
Oct 30, 2018•20 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #8 // There is a common misconception, which has been perpetuated by recent academic research, that happy workers are productive workers. This has changed things somewhat in terms of work perks over the past decade - think ping pong tables, 4 day work weeks and free Friday afternoon wine & cheese. In this episode, I examine the factors that drive workforce productivity, and how your role as a leader influences this. I talk through the following concepts: Sometimes happy workers are j...
Oct 23, 2018•17 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #7 // Many leaders fail to work at the right level. When you're promoted, there is a subconscious tendency to remain at the old level, trying to do the same things that you did before. But just because you were successful at that level, and as much as it might feel comfortable to stay there, this is a sure fire way to kill your career, and disempower the people around you. So in this episode I’m going to talk about why what got you to here won't get you to there. I’ll cover the following...
Oct 16, 2018•16 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #6 // One of the most critical skills for a leader is the ability to challenge, coach and confront his or her people. This requires many direct, honest, empathetic conversations. Many leaders never master this, and spend most of their careers avoiding confrontation, only having a difficult conversation when it is virtually impossible to avoid. If you only listen to one episode of this podcast, I hope it’s this one! Being able to comfortably give and receive feedback is one of the most im...
Oct 09, 2018•16 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #5 // To be an outstanding leader, you need to understand power; what it is, and how to use it. Knowing what the different types of power are, and having awareness of what power you are using when, is fundamental to building a high performing team, that delivers discretionary effort for its leader. We all exercise different types of power each day in our relationships with others, so we’re going to start this episode by exploring what the different types of power actually are. We’ll then...
Oct 02, 2018•17 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #4 // Now that you are getting a flavour for my style, and the type of things I focus on, this episode gives us an opportunity to step back and ask the questions about what leadership is, at its core, and what it would mean to be an exceptional leader. This is just a baseline, as we will have a range of other episodes, to deal with subjects like: The differences between Leadership and Management; The attributes of great leaders; and Quite a few episodes on traps for young players In toda...
Sep 25, 2018•17 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #3 // If you want your organisation to deliver outstanding results, as a leader you must adopt a mantra of “excellence over perfection”. In this episode we uncover why perfectionism can be debilitating for an organisation, and how your people will respond to the goal of delivering excellence. Many of you would be familiar with the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule). However, no matter how much we believe it, driving a culture of excellence through your organisation can be difficult. In th...
Sep 18, 2018•17 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #2 // If you want to be successful as a senior leader, you first have to build a team of successful individuals. A key part of this is recognising when someone is not going to be successful in their current role, and freeing them up to be successful in another organisation. From there, it’s all about culture and team dynamics. So many people say that they have built a 'high performing team' - but how many high performing teams have you actually seen, or been part of? In this episode we’l...
Sep 11, 2018•16 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Episode #1 // Needing to be liked is a symptom of a deeper issue - conflict aversion. This affects everything you do as a leader. How would you know if you, or your people, had a problem with this? Overcoming it is key to any successful leader’s career. On today’s show, we’re looking at why letting go of the need to be liked is critical for your success as a leader. I love talking about this, because it's so closely tied to one of my favourite career killers; the inability to handle conflict. In...
Sep 04, 2018•17 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast No Bullsh!t Leadership is a podcast for experienced leaders who want to become truly exceptional leaders. Each week, your host Martin Moore shares the secrets of high performance leadership; the career accelerators that you can’t learn in business school, and your boss is unlikely to share with you. Step away from the theoretical view on leadership, and learn from a successful CEO who’s already walked the path. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 30, 2018•2 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 
