Culture Bites
By Human Synergistics
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Oct 3, 2019
A brilliant podcast full of culture theory, practical tips and inspiration.
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We take culture theory and turn it into everyday insights. We're powered by Human Synergistics - a leading consulting, research, and diagnostics firm.
We're known for growing individual's effectiveness and satisfaction by coaching based on the Lifestyles Inventory (LSI), improving leadership effectiveness with the Management or Leadership Impact (M/I & L/I), develop high performing teams with the Group Styles Inventory (GSI), and shape effective organisational culture using the Organizational Culture inventory (OCI) and Organizational Effectiveness Inventory (OEI).
In this podcast, our senior consultants share tips and insights on from their extensive experience in Organisational Development
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254 Humanistic-Encouraging Culture - How to Create a Culture That Helps People Grow
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May 10, 2026 |
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253 Self-Actualising Culture – How to Build a Workplace That Unlocks Creativity, Growth and Innovation
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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252 Achievement Culture – How to Build Excellence, Initiative, and Ownership
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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251 Perfectionistic Culture – When Looking Perfect Gets in the Way of Performance
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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250 Competitive Culture – When Internal Rivalry Drives Performance (and Undermines It)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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249 Power Culture - When Control, Status and Authority Drive Performance (and Undermine It)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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248 Oppositional Culture - When Challenge Turns Defensive
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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247 Avoidance Culture - When Playing It Safe Kills Performance
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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246 - Dependent Culture - When Everything Has to Go Up the Chain
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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245 - Conventional Culture - When Rules Replace Thinking
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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244 - Approval Culture - What is it, what causes it, what you can do
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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243 - Culture Doesn't have to be complex
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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242 - Rules, Approval & Avoidance The Payoffs—and Better Alternatives (With Ash Smith)
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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241 - AI and Culture (Is yours ready?)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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240 - Explaining the Circumplex
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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239 - LSI Digital - Announcement
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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238 - Satisfaction vs Security - explaining what it is and why it matters
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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237 - Why Am I Like This - With Dr Jen Martin
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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236 - Leaders Must Go First
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Join us at the conference in Sydney and Melbourne
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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235 - Neurodiversity at Work: What Leaders & Coaches Need to Know
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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234 - How to receive feedback (even when it's clunky)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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233 - Leadership Courage: How to Change the Culture When You Are the Culture
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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232 - It's Lonely at the Top with Justine Farrington
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May 26, 2025 |
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231 - CEO's 5 Principles of Successful Culture Change with Richard Harding
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May 12, 2025 |
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230 - Giving Kids Back Their Independence with Lenore Skenazy
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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229 - The sun comes up in the morning, live until you die, and the favourite doesn't always win - with Fiona Hogarth
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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228 - Sarah Derry, Homeward Bound CEO
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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227 - The Way We Work (New Report)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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226 - Adaptive Leadership with Max Martina
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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225 - Why should anyone be led by you
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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224 - Mandated Back to Office
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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032 - Blue Year's Resolutions [Re-release]
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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031 - Staying Constructive This Christmas [Re-release]
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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223 - Inheriting an underperforming team
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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222 - A Tool For Team decision Making
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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221 - Cam Aitken - DOING Constructive, But I Didn't See It
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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220 - Gamification (And How To Use It)
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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219 - CLEAR Leadership - Practical Tips
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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218 - Hyper Personalisation Of The Workplace
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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217 - Leader Bite: Darren Sutton - Associate Director, HealthShare NSW
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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216 - Using the New LSI+ In A Debrief
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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215 - Leader Bite: David Walker - Former Naval Aviator, Consultant
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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214 - How To Be Your Best Self
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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213 - How Job Seekers Can Get An Insight To Culture
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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212 - Common Pitfalls Of Teams (and How To Overcome)
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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211 - Rob Murray - Boards Need To Measure Culture
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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210 - Bring Back Team Development
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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209 - Tips To Shift Dependent, Oppositional, Self-Actualising
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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208 - Having The 'You're Not Performing' Conversation
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May 12, 2024 |
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207 - LSI Group Debrief
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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206 - 'Managing Up' Dirty Word Or Necessary Skill
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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205 - Creating And Sustaining Change
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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204 - Put Culture On Your Radar
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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203 - Introducing: LSI +
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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202 - Handing Over Coaching To Their Leader
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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201 - D&I From A Culture Lens
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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200 - Ash Smith's Journey And Leadership Lessons Learnt
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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199 - Time To Re-Test Your LSI
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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032 - Blue Year's Resolutions [Rebroadcast]
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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198 - Ash's Book Recommendations
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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197 - Culture Actions: Communication
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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196 - Culture Actions: Job Design
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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193 - Culture Actions: Reinforcement Systems
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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195 - Culture Actions: Goal Systems
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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194 - Culture Actions: HR Systems
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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192 - Culture Actions: Structures
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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191 - Culture Actions: Mission
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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190 - 7 Tips To Navigate The 'Groan Zone' In Team Discussions
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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189 - 5 Mistakes New Managers Make
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Come To The 2023 Culture And Leadership Conference
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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188 - Giving (and Receiving) Challenging Feedback
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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187 - The difference between Achievement, Perfectionistic, Competitive
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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186 - Never Underestimate The Frontline Leader
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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185 - Psychosocial Hazards And The OCI OEI
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May 30, 2023 |
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184 - Culture Change - Systems Or Behaviours
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May 09, 2023 |
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183 - What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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182 - Setting And Achieving Goals
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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181 - Signs Of A Passive Culture And What To Do
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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180 - Team Development Is Missing
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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179 - The Impact Of Leaders Is Bigger Than They Think
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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178 - 'Get Confident'... But How?
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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177 - New Year Goal Setting
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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176 - Dealing With Cynicism about Culture
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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031 - Staying Constructive This Christmas [Re-release]
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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175 - Is Affiliative Underrated?
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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174 - Group Work Following The LSI
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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173 - Creating A Culture Coalition
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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172 - LSI Aggregate Report
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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171 - Diversity And The Circumplex
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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170 - Psychological Safety
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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169 - Building The Business Case For Culture
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Come To The Conference (and New Episodes Soon!)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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168 - Tips From A Decade Of LSI Debriefs with Ian Crothers
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May 31, 2022 |
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167 - Raising Achievement Kids
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May 17, 2022 |
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166 - Roots Of The Achievement Style
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May 03, 2022 |
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165 - Does Your Team Practice Problem Solving?
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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164 - Culture's Impact On Safety
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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163 - Team Vs Group
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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162 - How To Change An Aggressive Culture
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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161 - How To Change A Passive Culture
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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160 - Office Politics
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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159 - Conflict And Circumplex Styles
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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158 - Designing Jobs To Be Inherently Motivating
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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157 - Is The Generation Gap Real
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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156 - What CEOs Regret On Culture Change
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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155 - KP'Why' Not Just KPI
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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154 - Navigating A Hybrid World Post Lockdown
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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153 - How Blue And Green Can Be Similar.... But Different
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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152 - How Blue And Red Can Be Similar... But Different
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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151 - How To Have Honest Conversations In The Team
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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150 - How to Support Middle Managers
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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149 - Remote LSI Debriefing II
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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148 - How The LSI Is Different From Personality Or Preference
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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147 - Competitive Style (LSI)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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146 - Avoidance Style (LSI)
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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145 - Dependent Style (LSI)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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144 - Staying Constructive In A Defensive Environment
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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143 - Being Aware Of Yourself When Coaching Others
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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142 - Debriefing The LSI Breakout Profiles
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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141 - Awareness Acceptance Action - Bridge the Know-Do Gap
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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140 - Dealing With Push Back In An LSI Debrief
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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139 - Conventional Style (LSI)
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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138 - Creating Effective Teams
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May 25, 2021 |
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137 - Approval Style (LSI)
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May 18, 2021 |
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136 - Circumplex 101
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May 12, 2021 |
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135 - All Your Commonly Asked Questions Answered!
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May 04, 2021 |
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134 - Why Culture Is Important To An Organisations Performance
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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133 - Can you build a culture for X,Y and Z?
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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132 - 5 Things Leaders can do to build a Constructive Culture
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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131 - How We Measure Culture with OCI OEI
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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130 - Is an Isolated Approach to Leadership Development Effective?
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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129 - Do you have culture confusion?
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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128 - Power Style (LSI)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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127 - Oppositional Style (LSI)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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126 - How to give challenging feedback to a CEO
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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125 - RISE Moving to Blue
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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124 - Pros and Cons for Centralising culture
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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123 - Setting up a program for success
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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122 - Tips for Culture Change
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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121 - Tips To Handle Previous Experiences Of The Tools
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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120 - Effectiveness and the Circumplex
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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119 - What are the Impact (L/I & M/I) diagnostics?
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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118 - Tips On Moving People From Awareness to Acceptance
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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117 - Key elements to approaching an LSI debrief
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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116 - It's Ok Not To Be Ok - Spotlight On Men's Mental Health
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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115 - How to build trust in your organisation
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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114 - The Future of Work has Arrived
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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113 - The Advice Trap, with Michael Bungay Stanier
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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112 - Phocas, with Myles Glashier and Karen Hailwood
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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111 - Sandoz, Guy Strong and Clarette Crame
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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110 - Can You Copy Culture?
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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109 - How To Measure The Success Of Culture Change
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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108 - Growing Affiliative (LSI)
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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107 - Growing Humanistic-Encouraging (LSI)
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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106 - Growing Achievement (LSI)
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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105 - Remote Leadership
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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104 - Advice for new Managers / Leaders
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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103 - Leading After Covid - What's Next
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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102 - With Gerard McMahon, SHAPE
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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101 - How Does A Crisis Impact Your Organisations Culture
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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100 - Debriefing a Constricted LSI Profile
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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099 - Debriefing an Expanded LSI Profile
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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098 - Introduction To The Life Styles Inventory (LSI)
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May 27, 2020 |
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097 - How We Are Supporting You
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May 19, 2020 |
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096 - How Needing To Be Right Goes Wrong
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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095 - How to stop burn out
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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094 - LSI™ Items which are most commonly questioned
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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093 - Mental Health And Covid-19 With Oliver Brecht
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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092 - COVID-19 Special Edition Episode
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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091 - How To Debrief A Leader With A Defensive LSI 2
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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090 - Dealing With Bargaining In A Debrief
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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089 - LSI And The Family System
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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088 - Values And Culture - Are Yours Working Together
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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087 - Situation + Thinking = Response
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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086 - Dealing With Subcultures
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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085 - Remote Debriefing And Coaching
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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084 - History Of The Circumplex
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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083 - Lyn Goodear - Now is HR's Opportunity To Step Forward
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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082 - Perfectionistic Style (LSI)
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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081 - How To Mend Fences After Conflict With A Colleague
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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032 - Blue Year's Resolutions [Rebroadcast]
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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031 - Staying Constructive This Christmas [Rebroadcast]
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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080 - Imposter Syndrome And The LSI
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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079 - Lyn Goodear, CEO And Managing Director Of AHRI
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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078 - How To Position an LSI Or Coaching Program
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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077 - What Makes a Good Coach - Tips and Tricks
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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076 - Culture; Another Day, Another Scandal
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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075 - Catching Waves - Culture & Leadership Conference 2019
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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074 - Getting Culture Right, Shaun McCarthy - Culture & Leadership Conference 2019
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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073 - Frasers Property, Ranna Alkadamani - Culture & Leadership Conference 2019
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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072 - IBM's David La Rose - Culture & Leadership Conference 2019
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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071 - Events We Put On To Help You Sharpen The Saw
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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070 - Pat McCafferty, MD, Yarra Valley Water
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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069 - Growing Self-Actualising (LSI)
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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068 - Catching Waves - Getting Culture Right
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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067 - Getting The Most Out Of Your Consulting Engagement
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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065 - The Leader's Shadow With Gerard McMahon
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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064 - I'm New, how Can I Get Momentum On Culture?
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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063 - Chorus With Louise Forster - Culture in Aged Care
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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062 - Culture Change In Blue Collar Environments
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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061 - How To Receive Feedback
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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060 - Culture in High Performance Sports
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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059 - Shape Group Case Study
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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058 - How To Stay Constructive With A Defensive Manager
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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057 - Does Culture Eat Strategy For Breakfast
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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056 - Dealing With Big Life Changes
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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055 - Risk Culture with the GRC Professional Podcast
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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054 - Do Sales People Need A Competitive Style
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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053 - GSI Getting The Most Out Of Teams
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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052 - How To Make Innovation Work
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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051 - Change Fatigue Is Bullshit
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May 28, 2019 |
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050 - Conversations To Have After Being Debriefed
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May 21, 2019 |
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049 - Debriefing a Defensive LSI1 with Constructive LSI2
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May 14, 2019 |
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048 - Debriefing a Constructive LSI1 with Defensive LSI2
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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047 - How To Debrief A Constructive Profile
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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046 - The Power Of Rapport Building In Debriefs
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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045 - Developing Teams With The Group Styles Inventory
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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044 - Leadership Impact (How They Cause Others To Behave)
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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043 - Sydney Roosters Psychologist Grant Brecht
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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042 - Banking Royal Commission - Action Plan
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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041 - Handling Tough Conversations - Constructively
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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040 - Team Development Pyramid
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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039 - Sydney Swans Psychologist Grant Brecht
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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038 - But In This Industry We Have To Be Like That
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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037 - Does Every Country Value Constructive Styles
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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036 - Culture Change and Development in Unionised Industries
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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035 - Changing Culture In 4 Phases
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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034 - Childhood Origins Of Your Thinking And Behaviour
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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033 - How Culture Made Headlines In 2018
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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032 - Blue Year's Resolutions
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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031 - Staying Constructive This Christmas
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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030 - Coaching Questions For Aggressive Styles
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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029 - Coaching Questions For Passive Styles
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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028 - 8 Keys To Team Effectiveness
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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027 - Conference Highlights - Leadership and Organisational Culture
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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026 - SuperMind - The Neuroscience of Creativity
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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025 - Breaking Down Silos
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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024 - Aggressive LSI Action Tips
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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023 - Passive LSI Action Tips
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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022 - Dear C.B., My Manager is Cold
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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021 - Recruiting Using The Circumplex
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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020 - Tips & Tricks For LSI Debriefs
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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019 - Does Teamwork Work?
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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018 - Is Conflict In Teams Good Or Bad?
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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017 - Rebecca Kardos, CEO Aurora Energy
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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016 - How Culture Works Pt5 - Leadership
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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015 - How Culture Works Pt4 - Job Design
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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014 - How Culture Works Pt3 - HR Systems
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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013 - How Culture Works Pt2 - Mission, Philosophy, Structures
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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012 - How Culture Works Pt1 - Overview
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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011 - Myth Busters: "If I'm not Aggressive I have to be Passive"
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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010 - How The Banks Got Here
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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009 - My Manager Is Resisting Culture Change
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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008 - Is Culture, Climate, Engagement The Same Thing
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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007 - How Leaders Impact Culture
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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006 - What Is a 'Toxic Culture'?
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May 31, 2018 |
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005 - My Teammate is Competitive - Help!
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May 17, 2018 |
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004 - What's Wrong With Being Competitive?
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May 10, 2018 |
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003 - Telling someone they have a blind spot
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May 01, 2018 |
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002 - Dealing with Delegation
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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001 - Kick Starting a Passive Team
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Apr 03, 2018 |