The Culture Nerds - A Leadership Podcast
Want to constantly grow as a leader and shape a great culture in your workplace? This is the podcast for you.
Of course, if you’re a yoghurt fan who typed in ‘culture’ and ended up here …(sorry, nerdy workplace culture joke). If you’re a serious person who believes serious topics must be covered in a serious way, we may not be the petri dish for you either.
But, if you want lived executive experience and decades working with corporate clients, government agencies & NFPs, all topped off by the hilarious hosts (at least we think so!), welcome - we're glad you could join us!
We nerd out on leadership and workplace culture – which is why we’re good at them. We tackle the topics you need to develop as a leader and to transform the workplace culture you have into the workplace culture you want. And we have fun doing it.
Hard hitting topics. Easy listening.
Episodes
63 episodes
The Rules of the Pool
The Rules of the Pool-This episode focuses on the role of accountability in shaping workplace culture and emphasises the impact of individual contributions. We discuss how open communication, courageous conversations, and shared ...
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Tim Davenport (Director at OzFish Ltd.) on Delivering Bad News with Incredible Humanity
This week’s podcast features an interview with Tim Davenport, the Director of Fundraising & Sponsorship at OzFish Unlimited. Tim spent a significant part of his career as a senior exec...
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The Role Values Play in your Organisation
The Role Values Play in your Organisation. How often do you revisit and refine your company's core values? In this milestone episode, we promise you'll discover the transformative power of regularly reassessing your organisational ...
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18:43
The Contemplative Leader with John Hardy (CEO, RSL Tasmania)
In today's episode, we spoke with the incredibly insightful (and entertaining) John Hardy, CEO of RSL Tasmania.John is the ultimate story teller, and takes us on his own leadership journey which started in the UK Military and has led hi...
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Building a Robust Culture with Kathryn Keenihan from Junction Australia
Discover how to foster an exceptional workplace culture and drive organizational success with insights from Catherine Keenahan, Executive Manager for People and Culture at Junction Australia. Catherine reveals the secrets behind her organizatio...
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🗣️ Audio Blog: A 5 Minute Test of Authenticity
https://reallearning.com.au/No one does it as well as you do, right? Have you ever had that feeling that if you want a job done properly, you'll have to do it yourself? Have you ever asked the ques...
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🗣️ Audio Blog: The three needs your workplace culture must deliver on
Why does your organisation exist? In fact, why does any organisation exist? It really comes down to meeting needs. At a superficial level, it is obvious that we need to meet the needs of the people we serve. But, in reality, for org...
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🗨️ Authentic Conversations: The Urgent Conversation We Need to Have.
In this episode we have an Authentic Conversation, a raw and honest conversation about men's violence against women. To say it's a massive problem in Australia is an understatement. Violence and aggression can take many forms that ...
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🗣️ Audio Blog: A Snake Under Every Rock - How Leadership Style Impacts Performance
A few years ago, one of my sons and I completed a four-day bush walk, lugging an enormous backpack along the extraordinary Tasman Coastal Tr...
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🗨️ Authentic Conversations: Leadership v Management: Exploring Career Progression & Leadership Obligations
In todays episode we delve into the often overlooked aspect of career progression: leadership obligations and the unconscious journey many individuals embark on when they accept promotions solely for career advancement without fully considering...
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🗣️ Audio Blog: Managing Poor Performance - there are only three outcomes
Do you have a poor performer in your team? No someone who is doing well but could do better, which describes most people in most workplaces. We're talking about someone whose performance or behaviour is below a threshold of acceptability.
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🗣️ Audio Blog: 7 types of leader that create toxic workplace culture
I finished my presentation and the CEO beamed at me.‘That’s brilliant,’ he said. ‘It’s great to have confirmation that we are doing all the right things.’He smiled around at the rest of the assembled executive ...
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🗨️ Authentic Conversations: The Bookends of High Performance
If we want high performance from team members, we have to set them up for success.There are two critical things that you, as the leader, can provide make that high performance significantly more likely. They are both free and abundantly...
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🗣️Audio Blog: Should you be Throwing People in the Deep End?
Every leader has done it - 'thrown someone in at the deep end.'But is it the right thing to do? Does it help people grow, sort those who can cope from those who can't, or make them stronger?Or are those just comforting ...
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📰 Front Page Leadership - Flexible work arrangements - a right or a privilege?
The line between flexible work arrangements and some emerging employee trends is becoming blurred.On one had, too many employers refuse to offer flexibility because of outdated systems and beliefs - leading to employees being dissatisfi...
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🗣️Audio Blog: Who creates culture? Leaders... Team members... or Both?
This epsiode is an audio blog A theme has emerged in several workplaces we are currently working with to help them shape their culture. Each of these workplaces have solid workplace cultures but are striving to create excellent ones. In...
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🗨️ Authentic Conversations: The Pygmalion Effect.
“If you treat an individual as they are, they will remain how they are. But if you treat them as if they were what they ought to be and could be, they will become what they ought to be and could be.”Quote by Goethe (with slight...
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35:45
🗣️Audio Blog: Are Your People Highly Engaged but Leaving Anyway?
https://reallearning.com.au/podcast/Have you done an engagement survey in your workplace that suggests that you should find it easy to retain and attract excellent people, everyone shou...
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🗨️ Authentic Conversations: If you don't measure workplace culture, how can you improve it?
Most people want to work in the best workplace culture possible. Assuming that you don't already have a perfect culture (spoiler alert: you don't) that means change.The problem many organisations have is that they make knee jerk changes...
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🗣️Audio Blog: Eight ways to set your team up for great results in 2024
When people return to work after a break, there are two, and sometimes three, reasons that are driving them to come back. 1. They are compelled to because their approved period of leave has ended, and simply not ...
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🗨️ Authentic Conversations: New Years resolutions don't work. But coaching can make the difference
There is a strange dynamic about the end of one year and the start of the next. A disproportionate number of people spend time reflecting on where they are, and how that compares to where they want to be.That's a great thing - and an op...
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Welcome to The Culture Nerds - A Leadership Podcast
Welcome to the podcast formerly known as Authenticity, Transforming Workplace Culture.We decided we need a freshen up and let's face it. The old name was a bit stiff and starchy. So we looked for something fun, something that d...
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🗨️ Authentic Conversations: Are you - and your team - excited about returning to work? Or dreading it?
Workplace culture is how your people feel on Sunday evening about going to work on Monday morning.That's not a 100% accurate description of culture - but let's not let being pedantic get in the way of a critical message ...
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Engage or Avoid? Lead with pride 🏳️🌈 | Archie Beetle, Founder and Director of Queer Town
What if the path to a more inclusive, diverse, and fulfilling workplace culture was just a conversation away? Archie Beetle (they/them) is the Founder and Director at Queer Town (IG:
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The Quiet Ones in the Room - Leadership & Workplace Culture with Sarah Horton
Sarah Horton, a senior leader at Mars, is an inspiring leader, a culture shaper, and a natural story teller. Her leadership journey has spanned continents, cultures, and challenges. Sarah shares insightful leadership lessons and her reflections...
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