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Leadership Amplified by Dr Karen Morley

By: Dr Karen Morley
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  • Leadership Amplified is a podcast to inspire leaders to get more impact with their teams, to promote inclusion, and to make leadership more satisfying. My philosophy is that leadership is only valuable if it is a resource for the organisation. It is a resource when teams and individuals benefit from being led. The podcast is a practical way to engage and inspire leaders by refocusing the work of leadership as service to teams and the organisation. The podcast focuses on four major themes: •Emerging inclusive leadership frameworks and practices •Gender bias and how to beat it •The value of coaching to leadership and to inclusive leadership in particular •Regulating the leader’s energy and motivation to perform at their best
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Episodes
  • Episode 45: Why things are they way they are - a geospatial perspective, with Alena Moison

    Episode 45: Why things are they way they are - a geospatial perspective, with Alena Moison
    Feb 28 2024

    The key focus for our discussion was on how leaders can successfully navigate the increasingly digital world we inhabit.

    Alena started her career studying English, then moved to Economics and finally settled on Geography in her quest to understand why things are the way they are.

    Geography provides her with an interesting perspective, revealing how much our lives are informed and touched by where we live.

    Over time she’s moved into the technology side: she says we have a big data problem as we’re always collecting masses of geospatial data, and the big challenge is what to do with it, how to learn from it?

    Which is now her day job as Principal, Technology and Strategy, at Digital Twin Victoria.

    Alena counsels leaders unfamiliar with/suspicious or nervous about AI to take the time to become familiar with the technology tools.

    She reassures us that it’s easier than we might think.

    Her tip is to use a simple AI tool and ask it all your ‘dumb’ questions about other tech tools to build your understanding of what’s going on.

    Her three top pieces of leadership wisdom apply both to leading in general, and leading through technology:

    📌 Relationships first – as a leader you have to build the bridge to your people, so psychological safety, reaching out to others, providing support and being empathetic are critical to leading well.

    📌 Ask the stupid question – that way you can direct yourself through situations and information that is unfamiliar. There is so much change we’re always beginners so stay comfortable in not knowing and always asking.

    📌 Leaders are great communicators, that’s they’re real strength, so use these skills to help technical teams to get cut-through for their work, and to help them understand what the organisation needs from them.

    🤔 How does your placein your environment affect the way you lead?

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    36 mins
  • Episode 44: Collaboration is the most powerful style when times are tough, with Glen Sharman

    Episode 44: Collaboration is the most powerful style when times are tough, with Glen Sharman
    Dec 6 2023
    This statement encapsulates much of my conversation with special guest Glen Sharman who is General Manager for MaxiTRANS NSW. He’s always been in the transport industry and has had the happy opportunity to have a diverse career across different working cultures, with global and local brands, working for large and small companies. Glen reflects that from a young age he had a diverse mix of people around him who were invaluable for providing him with advice and suggestions, which he greatly appreciated. He started his career in the transport and manufacturing industries and he’s maintained a lot of passion for it, he loves it. He says ‘I’ve never looked back’. Glen enjoys the creative, innovative side of things and tries to think outside the square.  ‘Where are we now and where do we want to go.’  He describes himself as an early adopter, a disrupter. Much of our conversation focuses on a significant change that Glen’s business has recently been faced with – having to move a large industrial site at short notice – and we discuss his approach to the change. What stands out most is Glen’s commitment to collaboration with his team - having a strong collaborative foundation with the team meant that everyone was prepared to roll up their sleeves and make it happen. ‘I’m proud of our team.’ Glen says yes, it was stressful, yet ‘when you have to manage change, you have open communication and good dialogue with your team, a trusting and safe work environment, it can all come together really well.  I truly believe we've done a fantastic job.’ Congratulations Glen! Three key things Glen recommends leaders do for their teams: 📌  Trust your people, have the confidence they'll do well without you looking over their shoulder 📌  Provide ongoing professional development and training for your team, it's an ever changing environment 📌  Self reflect, what did I do well, what could I have done better, and don't beat yourself up!
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    37 mins
  • Episode 43: Why it’s critical to know the environment you’re going into to increase success, with Donna Stace

    Episode 43: Why it’s critical to know the environment you’re going into to increase success, with Donna Stace
    Oct 31 2023
    It can be challenging knowing what it’s like to work in a particular role, industry or organisation. Not knowing is one of the real impediments particularly for women moving into male dominated work. This is something that Donna Stace mastered very early in her career. Donna is an Operational Specialist in a Functional Safety Team at Rio Tinto. Growing up in The Pilbara as she did, she was exposed from an early age to various trades and to the mining industry, and that sparked her interest. She fed her interest by getting out and finding work experience and became known, which of course helped her immensely when she started looking for work roles. She went on to complete her Mechanical trade qualifications and over her career moved into operational leadership roles and has worked across a range of industries. Her approach remains a key part of the advice she provides to others, especially young women, to encourage them to find out more about joining trades as career options. She encourages women to get out and find work experience options, and to challenge the people doing the hiring – ‘make sure you find out about culture and leadership style, what they are like and whether they will suit you’, she says. She’s a great advocate for women in trades, becoming more so after returning to the maintenance area after many years and finding that the dial just hadn’t shifted. To do something about it, because she likes to be active, she co-founded Women in Rail. WIR continues to focus on increasing gender-balance in apprenticeships and trades. There’s been real success there, with numbers approaching parity over the last couple of years. Great work Donna! Donna’s advice for increasing inclusion at work is for leaders to identify the value that diversity can bring to a team. There are benefits, and leaders should know what they are.  Donna says ‘It’s important to challenge yourself about what are you actually after, what do you want in this team, what are the skillsets, what are the gaps in your team?  Do you need another person that looks exactly like the three other people in your team?  Everyone wants to hire themselves, it's easier.’ To make it easier for leaders to be more inclusive they need a good support team, including people who’ll challenge their thinking.
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    39 mins
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