Celebrating 100 Episodes
Lessons for Leaders
Welcome to Lessons for Leaders. Can you believe it’s episode 100? The goal has always been to share lessons, learnings, tips and advice and even when things got tough with it, I’ve enjoyed it more and I’m proud to be able to say I got to 100. Many of my regular listeners will know that my girls are the reason I do what I do and my eldest girl is about to make me a Granny next month so it seems like a good time to pause the episodes for a while. This last one is a very special episode, with my other amazing girl joining me at the mic to ask some of the questions you, my listeners...
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How to Persuade Leaders to Invest in Wellbeing
Lessons for Leaders
This week I'm sharing top tips and conversations that I have frequently with people in organisations to help them know how to persuade leaders to invest in wellbeing. We're covering: What to do to persuade your leaders The 3 R’s that I like to go with organisations I work with. Why we need to look at revenue in different ways and I dive into specifics here to give you a head start. How to highlight the risks to an organisation Why it’s important to include reputation in this persuasive detail too. It’s easy to say wellbeing can help to reverse employee burnout and reduce stress,...
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Why a Good Leader Will Give Teams Autonomy
Lessons for Leaders
This week I'm joined by Gemma Woodward who is People & Culture Manager for Netsells in York. We are talking about leadership and autonomy. Listen in for: What are the benefits of allowing autonomy. How leaders can encourage autonomy in their teams. Where leaders get it wrong with a top down leadership and how it can affect their people and the organisation what's one key thing that people should remember about autonomy Key comments and take-aways A top down leadership can create a fear of coming forward and fear of making mistake, their ideas and decisions might...
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Why Leaders Need to Get Back to the Floor
Lessons for Leaders
What on earth is back to the floor? I start with that and why I'm covering the subject (it was inspired by my wonderful friend and leader Tina. So I'm also covering today: Why is it important to know first hand what’s happening on your shop floor Some real life examples and stories of how back to floor worked, and how it didn’t One really, really important question to ask yourself I share stories from my experience in corporate and Tina's feedback too to give real life examples - some are funny, some are lovely, one is a little shocking! Here's one of the key things .......
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Why it's Worth Investing in Stress Awareness
Lessons for Leaders
This week on the podcast I'm talking about Why it's Worth Investing in Stress Awareness. I wonder if you've ever had a time when you've ever felt stressed and known what would help ... but not bothered to do it???? This is just one of the reason why I'm sharing information that can help you make a decision on whether it's worth investing in stress awareness. I cover: What is causing Stress in the workplace? How Will Stress Awareness Help Your Organisation? How Does Stress Impact Productivity? Is it Worth Investing in Stress Awareness? Ways I can support you or help for you to do...
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Lockdown Lessons for Leaders
Lessons for Leaders
Two years since the UK locked down from the Covid 19 virus. In fact pretty much the world locked down. It changed so many things About how we live How we work Connections & communication Wellbeing – what were thankful for – fear / perspective Resilience Have you looked back at those pictures from cities that were empty and streets that were bare? I know I have. There were bits that I loved, bits I didn’t love. There was a significant difference in how people viewed the lockdown. Some loved it. Some hated it. For some it was...
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Supporting Female Leaders
Lessons for Leaders
In honour of International Women's Day, I’m here to give ideas of ways that you can support women in leadership roles. There can be a number of reasons why there are less women than men in leadership roles. Data from the House of Commons found that companies led by women outperform those led by men - but despite this, we're very far from achieving gender parity in the workplace I share information about Break the Bias Unconscious biases, opinions, beliefs are formed early in our childhood. We learn these from family, friends, people of authority that are social...
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Why Empathy is Crucial for Great Leaders
Lessons for Leaders
This week I'm talking to you about why empathy is crucial for great leaders. I cover : What is empathy Why does it matter in leadership Whether empathy can be learned How it can improve performance, create connections and What you can do to be more empathic. Why empathy is crucial for great leaders and what is empathy anyway? Empathy is the ability to experience and relate to the thoughts, emotions, or experience of others. So it's about truly feeling what the other person is feeling. You know I often talk about how we don't 'do' emotions. But empathy is about...
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Easy Ways to Say No
Lessons for Leaders
Do you find it difficult to say no to people? Perhaps it means you end up being busy, stressed, over-committed? Often when we struggle to say no to people it can leave us feeling used, put up-on, juggling too many things. Are you the one who ends up working late because you’ve said yes to others, yet you’re the one with more to do? This episode is for you where I talk about Say no and establish healthy boundaries How to handle the fear, stress, worry and guilt The surprising reason that saying no is good for you Key phrases that you can begin to use to get...
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De-stigmatizing Mental Health
Lessons for Leaders
This week I'm sharing tips and information about De-stigmatizing Mental Health. I share key points on: Why mental health is stigmatized How stigma brings shame and what that looks like How it will impact on your organisation Good news on the wider impact of investing in destigmatizing Key things that you can do and examples too When we prevent people talking openly and transparently we also prevent those who need it from having support. Stigma brings shame. Listen in for information about how people respond then feel ashamed and what the impact will be...
info_outlineIt’s my podcast birthday this week, so even though I’m only on episode 46, I’ve been publishing for a whole year! I had a break during November and December when my lovely mum died, but other than that, I’ve been publishing an episode a week since last July.
As a way of celebrating the year of podcasting I'm asking for you to give me a little gift of a review on the podcast on the I-tunes Podcast app.
Now, I know lots of people have struggled with this, so I've given some tips on the episode and here for you too.
- Open the I-tunes Podcast App.
- Search for my podcast
- Tap the image that comes with my podcast
- Scroll down until you find "Ratings and Reviews"
- Then find the tiny bit that says "Write a Review"
There you can leave some lovely comments about me and the podcast show. You can use your name or a pseudonym
I read out all the reviews on the show too so if you tune in you might hear me mention your name!
Note: If you listen on another device such as stitcher, googleplay or spotify, please leave a review there too, it just shows up differently for me.
If you listen on my website page, then leave a comment at the bottom of the blog text.
Top 10 Episodes
I’ve also given you a Top 10 of the episodes this week, to give you a highlight and help you understand what other people are listening to. Also there might have been a time when you wanted to go back and listen to any you've missed, or if there was something you meant to do after listening and life took over and you forgot, now's the time to do that.
Here's the top 10:
Each title enables you to click the link straight through to the episodes.
I cover in this episode some ways to help you get through tough times. There’s also a funny story about how I trained my husband to help me by listening and not trying to fix everything.
This was a great episode that I did at the start of the year, but revisiting your goals and making them successful is something you can do at any time of year.
I think at the time of recording I didn’t manage much for the Z but lots of people came up with suggestions after I published. But you need to have things in your daily life that help you with that ‘bounce-back-ability” so that you can manage and not just ‘push through’.
Of course I love that boundaries is a popular episode and I give lots of information about great business boundaries, but it’s not just in business, because I talk about people who struggle to switch off, need to respond to texts, messages, emails at ridiculous hours of the day and night.
There’s a fantastic tip in this episode where I talk through using a “worry chair” to alleviate the worries. Rather than trying to ignore the worries, we can train our brain to recognise the moments and have tools to use to stop the worry getting out of hand.
This was a fabulous episode and the top 10 guest episode with Nicola. There’s a fabulous chat that we have about some difficult situations and details of a course that Nicola provides.
This is my most favourite episode. I use this all the time, when things are difficult, when life gets too much or just when I’m at the dentist, waiting for something and even travelling. It talks through how to create your happy place.
There is a free guide to go along with this too, to help you deal with overwhelm. You can get it here at www.emmalangton.com/overwhelm and get the download. The episode talks you through what to do too.
The interesting thing with visualisation is that you can trick your brain to believing that ‘thing’ has already happened. So when you go to do something for real, your brain thinks you’ve already done it, so you are much calmer, more confident and actions become more automatic.
The Top spot on the Business Balance Podcast is talking about self doubt to self belief. There’s also a free guide for this at www.emmalangton.com/selfdoubt This is something I work with an awful lot and I run through the steps I use with all my clients.
If you’re ready to work with me, then contact me and lets talk about how you can move from self doubt, get out of overwhelm, learn visualisation, set your goals, create great boundaries, stop the worries and be awesome.