VitalBytes Podcast

Darren Cox is the school Principal for St Philips Christian school based in Cessnock, New South Wales

In his LinkedIn profile, Darren refers to himself as a motivational speaker, educational influencer, and a strategic change manager!

He was also in the top 5 for Principal of the year in 2019

Apart from his extensive experience in education, Darren has extensive experience in podcasting, video shoots and is regularly requested to speak on stage with a range of educational and other organisations.  When you meet and connect with Darren, you’ll understand why

Facilitating a podcast with Darren was an absolute pleasure.  He made my job very easy

Darren had started to prepare his school for ‘flexible education’ quite some time before the recent COVID incident.  So, during the recent lockdown his school was more than prepared, and his staff and students thrived in their own individual virtual environments.

Right now, Darren is preparing the school for the future.  This looks like a blended system of classroom/synchronous virtual/asynchronous training to allow for the best education opportunity.  The schools’ students and their futures

In the podcast we covered:

1. Leadership – leading the teaching-learning
2. Well-being
3. Communication

If you want more information about Darren’s blended education process feel free to reach out to him on LinkedIn.

I had recently Stephanie Bowman and Reta Clyde as guests on one of the most impactful [and timely!] podcasts in the series to date!

HCA Healthcare [www.hcahealtcare.com] was founded in the USA in 1968. They have 280,000 staff with hospital facilities in 20 states. The organisation is committed to the care and improvement of human life.

Stephanie Bowman is the Director of Organisational Development, and Reta Clyde is the National Group Senior Leadership Training Specialist.

HCA Healthcare have been a VitalSmarts customer for more than 10 years. With 9500 Charge Nurses alone, the task of training and developing the organisation is massive!

HCA invest well in the people. A big part of Stephanie’s and Reta’s roles is to use Crucial Conversations training to give the people a framework and a vernacular - to help humanise people as well as conversations!

Their ongoing work in developing people at all levels within the organisation continues to pay real dividends.

They witness their teams across the organisation having real confidence in their leaders, and more importantly also in their senior executives. In the current crisis, their leaders are all seen moreso than ever to be doing the right thing!

Thanks for joining us and we hope you enjoyed learning about the power of being productive on purpose. If you enjoyed please leave us a review on iTunes.

As we mentioned in the podcast, click here for a link for the VitalSmarts healthcare research The Silent Treatment.

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Kate Selway is the People and Capability Director for Jade Software, based in Christchurch in South Island of New Zealand.

Kate has a passion and obvious empathy for people that has been shaped by background in psychology. She has had a successful career in HR (a term she greatly detests), enjoyed various People & Culture (much better than HR) roles, and is relishing her time at Jade Software.

Kate has been delivering Crucial Conversations to the organisation over the past 18 months. Their leadership development framework uses 'The Rocket Model', based upon the work from Gordon Curphy and Robert Hogan. Kate's work in driving culture has created a significant shift to much more openness and engagement.

Combining the power of People, Data and Software to create unique customer experiences, Jade Software delivers business-critical software for a range of industries including banking, insurance, agriculture, retail, aviation security and more.

In our experience through VitalSmarts in working with the largest IT companies across the globe, such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc, we already know what Kate experiences every day in driving culture - Software engineers and developers range of finely tuned skill, not so much including communication skills and creating psychological safety!

In the podcast Kate’s passion around their leadership development was obvious. She continues to drive a strong focus around redefining the organisation’s values as well is the implementation of soft skills

Inside this episode you’ll learn:

1. About the power of investing in people
2. How and why leaders should lead in IT
3. The value of teaching people to ‘dare to be different’
4. Why psychological safety is integral
5. How and why to hold people accountable to the values

Thanks for joining us and we hope you enjoyed learning about the power of being productive on purpose. If you enjoyed please leave us a review on iTunes.

As we mentioned in the podcast, click here for a link for the work of Gordon Curphy and Robert Hogan – ‘The Rocket Model’

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Dr Shaun Ridley is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer for the Australian Institute of Management WA

Shaun has been an integral part of AIM WA for 35 years. As a result, he is one of experienced leaders in WA in organisational professional development as well as adult learning.  

Vitalsmarts ANZ partner with AIM WA as part of our training delivery platform across Australia and New Zealand. Working with Shaun and his team for us is an absolute pleasure!

Of all of the AIM organisations around Australia, AIM WA is by far the most experienced and successful, thanks to Shaun and his team

In the podcast Shaun shared openly about his experience in partnering with organisations in developing and nurturing their internal leadership capability. He explains that whilst learning and development frameworks contain a range of facets to help grow and maintain performance, attending to the small things makes a really big difference in developing and engaging leaders!

Inside this episode you’ll learn:

1. Why small things really do matter – and surely gives a great example!
2. How to develop leadership capability
3. About developing your people others into the best leaders that they can be
4. Why psychological safety is integral
5. How to use new age skills with the modern worker

Thanks for joining us and we hope you enjoyed learning about the power of being productive on purpose. If you enjoyed please leave us a review on iTunes.

As we mentioned in the podcast, click here for a link for the work of Barry Posner – The Leadership Challenge.

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It is always a pleasure to connect with Justin Hale

Justin is a Master Trainer and Training Designer with VitalSmarts LLC based in Utah

He is a very dynamic and upbeat speaker and host of One Productive Minute at VitalSmarts. Justin’s work in promoting the power of productivity on Linkedin is nothing short of highly engaging and very professional.

This podcast is all about the power of productivity to achieve one thing – to look back at the end of a week and know that you achieved way more than you set out to! It is all about how to be ‘productive on Purpose’!

Whilst the aim of using Crucial Conversations skills is to get better results faster, Justin also promotes [and practices] – how to begin your day, how to handle emails one time, and most importantly how to do/decide /take action!

Inside this episode you’ll learn:

1. Why to NOT be engaged with lots of things
2. How to use active memory
3. About capturing ideas – but not in your mind
4. The skill of compartmentalising  
5. About the power of implementing do, decide, renegotiate   

Thanks for joining us and we hope you enjoyed learning about the power of being productive on purpose. If you enjoyed please leave us a review on iTunes.

As we mentioned in the podcast, click here for a link for the work of Roy Baumeister – Consider it Done.  

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I connected with Kingsley Weber from Imdex Limited.

IMDEX develop cloud-connected devices and drilling optimisation products to improve the process of identifying and extracting mineral resources for drilling contractors and resource companies globally. All our current mining clients across the world use Imdex services

Kingsley is the global HR Director for Imdex. He is always very upbeat and passionate about driving culture. He is the most highly travelled person that I have ever worked alongside! We connect anywhere from Europe, to Africa, Dubai and also Central America. Occasionally Australia!    

This podcast is all about the value of establishing leadership behaviours and how this connects with and helps drives high performance results.

Imdex use Crucial Conversations alongside business acumen training and a range of other PD to help equip their leaders to deal with the demands of competing in their marketplace

Inside this episode you’ll learn:

1. What do I do as a leader to engage with my teams
2. The value of congruence
3. About the need to clarify a compelling vision
4. Why values need to be aligned with leadership behaviours
5. Value of building respect and setting clear expectations

Thanks for joining us and we hope you enjoy learning about why setting and clarifying leadership behaviours leads directly to high performance and significantly better results. If you enjoyed please leave us a review on iTunes.

As we mentioned in the podcast, click here for a copy of the work of Steve Glowinkowski ‘Its Behaviour, Stupid’

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I had a high energy and very engaging chat with Scott Robley from VitalSmarts USA.

Scott is a speaker, Trainer, Coach, and Client Solutions Engineer at VitalSmarts. We met with Scott at the recent VitalSmarts global conference where he presented the 40/20/40 model for high impact learning, based upon model developed by Robert O. Brinkerhoff

This podcast is all about how to maximise your training ROI and ROE by preparing well, high engagement delivery, followed by implementation.

The skills are based on more than 30 years of research, strongly evidence-based and well-grounded in the fundamentals of human behaviour – and completely counterintuitive! Whilst the two day Crucial Conversations training is very comprehensive, there is much more to be done to embed the skills and create a common language around performance and accountability

Inside this episode you’ll learn:

1. To always start with ‘Why’
2. The value of sponsorship and senior executive engagement
3. To maximise training always have their ‘EAR’
4. How to ‘share the music’ and create ‘opportunities to dance’
5. Why high impact learning creates high performance cultures

Thanks for joining us and we hope you enjoy learning how to significantly improve your training delivery through a formalised embedding system. How to create and sustain a common language around performance and accountability. If you enjoyed please leave us a review on iTunes.

As we mentioned in the podcast, click here for a copy of the Robert Brinkerhoff model

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I had a very engaging conversation with Anna Ranaldo. Anna is a Brene Brown Thought leader as well is a certified ‘Dare to Lead’ facilitator. She is currently working extensively with corporations, organisations, education etc across Australia and New Zealand.  Anna has an extensive organisational development/HR background across global organisations like Santos, PWC and Shell. Her specialty is helping organisations to navigate change. Anna is also a certified Crucial Conversations trainer

I loved how Anna weaves in her extensive Crucial Conversations experience around her work in helping leaders to create psychological safety. She referred to trust as the bedrock of true vulnerability

Anna’s work around ‘Dare to Lead’ is currently helping leaders in all industries to not only ‘show up’ as the leaders they should be, but also how to really ‘lean in when situations get tough when they need to be powerful, not powerless’

Inside this episode you’ll learn about:

1. Vulnerability and why is it an accurate measure of change
2. why ‘clear is kind ‘and what that looks like
3. Enabling high-quality trust
4. How creating safety is pivotal to vulnerability
5. Why leaders need to remove their ‘armour’ and ‘lean in’ to tough situations

To find out more about how VitalSmarts can help you create a culture of speaking up visit vitalsmarts.com.au and click ‘I need help now’.

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I connected with my good friend Caroline White today in a really enjoyable and engaging podcast. Caroline spoke passionately about her extensive 20+ year experience across a range of industries, and explained about the systematic process that she used to equip leaders in creating a high-performance culture and environment:

• Getting the environment to create and support leaders
• Creating leadership Capability
• The Essential leadership skill sets and behaviours

Caroline has worked across a range of industries including hospitality [Marriott Hotel Group], banking and finance and education. She is passionate about leadership and capability and is also a very experienced Crucial Conversations trainer. Caroline has been personally involved in helping organisations across Australia to create sustainable cultures of high-performance

Inside this episode you’ll learn

1. Why getting the environment right is the foundation to creating culture and capability
2. Why leaders need confidence through building competence
3. The essential skill sets required to equip leaders for success
4. The impact of informal check ins and why they can be so powerful
5. The essential Crucial Conversations required by ALL leaders

Thanks for joining us and we hope you enjoy learning how to build your own leadership culture and equip your leaders the success. If you enjoyed please leave us a review on iTunes.

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I had great discussion with Terry Terranova who is the Head of Leadership and Capability at Newcrest Mining Company. Newcrest is one of the world’s largest gold mining companies, with mining sites in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and also Africa.   

Since 2015, Newcrest have been building upon their ‘cultural’ safety program with one primary objective in mind - Everybody going home safe and healthy every day

With all the improvements in safe work practices over the last 30 years, accidents occur not so much because of a lack of awareness and training, but still primarily because of a culture of silence!  

Inside this episode you’ll learn

1. The 3 pillars of the NewSafe safety strategy
2. Why all the current safety initiatives were now effective
3. The power of developing stories and themes
4. The process of creating leaders, mentors and coaches  
5. Why NewSafe is much more than a cultural initiative

Thanks for joining us and we hope you enjoy learning about Newcrest and their NewSafe program. If you enjoyed please leave us a review on iTunes. 

As we mentioned in the podcast, click here for a copy of ‘Silent Danger’ research.  

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