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The Curious Choice Leader Podcast
Step Into your Leadership One Curious Choice at a time. You are brilliant at what you do and you want to keep doing it, but your success means you have a bigger role and a team to go with it. Suddenly you are facing a new challenge - leadership! And it’s a challenge that keeps changing and growing with you, Being a leader is easier said than done and you are not really sure what a leader actually does each day.This show is dedicated to helping experts like you become the leader you want to be, to create working worlds that work for you, your business and everyone connected with it. The show is hosted by Bekka Prideaux who shares practical hints, tips and ideas you can take action on based on her 30 years experience as a leader and developing other leaders. You can learn more about becoming a Curious Choice Leader and get access to all the shows and show notes at TheCuriousChoiceLeader.com This first season is all about leading change - in an increasingly uncertain world, one of our few certainties is that we are going to have to lead change for ourselves, our teams and our businesses. We are going to get curious about change itself, about our experiences with change, see what lessons we can learn and then make choices about how we apply them to the next set of changes we need to make.Are you ready to get curious and make some choices?
Episodes
27 episodes
What's the best way for leaders to review 2020?
I think its safe to say 2020 hasn't been the year any of us planned, but it has given us many learning opportunities and there will be wins and things we can be proud of. So, since this is the last episode of The Curious Choice Lea...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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12:04
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How having Imposter Complex Makes You A Better Leader
We all doubt our abilities from time to time, and when it goes too far it can become an episode of Imposter Complex. With the amount of change we have all been experiencing recently, it's been especially prevalent.What if I was to...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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13:01
How leaders can use coaching skills to unlock performance
Being a coach and using coaching skills are not the same thing - almost all of us can benefit from using coaching skills as part of our role and as leaders, we can use them to unlock the performance of our teams.As we develop our skills...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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9:41
The best way for leaders to respond when everything suddenly changes
The week this episode is published in the week the UK, like much of Europe, enters a second national lockdown and the week of the US Elections. Not for the first time this year, it feels like everything around us is changing.As le...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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7:22
How to choose the right style of coach for you
With so much change going on around us both at work and in the world, in general, it's not surprising that more people are looking for answers and are looking for help with their work, their leadership and their business. And...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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13:45
How to show you are trustworthy as a leader
Working environments with a high level of trust between people makes everything else is easier, so naturally, as leaders, we want to cultivate more of it. Trust is a living organic thing that grows between people, and despite what I commonly se...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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12:42
The problem I have with the way we talk about trust in business
Trust - we know teams and businesses where trust is high do better than those where trust is low, so it's no wonder that we hear a lot of people talking about creating or manufacturing trust.And I have a problem with that.In thi...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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11:22
How To Combat Change Fatigue When You Are Leading Change
If you find yourself rolling your eyes at letting out an involuntary groan when someone suggests something new, or you spot your team doing it when you talk about a change you all need to make, the chances are change fatigue is setting in.<...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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10:41
Leading Change - Working From Home and The People Points Game
Working from home - do you love it or hate it? With the latest UK government guidelines reverting to telling people to work from home where possible and that we should expect that advice to last for at least six months we are facing more ...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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10:15
The Top 9 Mistakes Leaders Make Leading Change
In all my years leading change and working with leaders leading change I've never seen a leader get it 100% right 100% of the time - some have come close, and yet despite the very best intentions, many haven't. In this episode, I pull tog...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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14:14
Leading Change - Balancing Leading with everything else you need to get done
Being a leader is hard! Even when things are going well and there is not much changing around us there is a lot to do. Add with all the changes that are happening around our businesses, how we are working, where we are working, where our ...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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13:29
Leading Multiple Changes At The Same Time
If it ever happens at all it is very rare that in business we are only dealing with one change at a time. Our jobs as managers and leaders are to continually improve performance, even when we are not in the middle of change projects or a rapidl...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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9:39
Is Becoming A Freelancer For You?
With unemployment rising and more and more companies making people redundant, I’m having a lot of conversations with people about the merits of becoming a freelancer or a contractor. According to IPSE, the Association of Inde...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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12:29
Leading Change - How to Lead Your Team Through A Redundancy Programme
No one wants to have to lead their team through a redundancy programme but when you do have to, how can you make sure its a constructive process that positions everyone for a successful future either inside or outside your organisation?
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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13:56
Leading Change - Why Leaders Should Love Being Asked Difficult Questions
It's a mistake I've seen many leaders, especially inexperienced ones make more times than I can count - avoiding answering difficult and challenging questions. In this episode, I talk about why it's such a big mistake and why leaders shou...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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11:50
Leading Change - Bridging The Post Furlough Divide In Your Team
As the UK Government's job support scheme is being phased out, it leaves a very tricky team dynamics between those who have worked through and those who are returning from furlough, for leaders to manage. This post furlough divide is goin...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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12:05
Leading Change - Supporting Your Team When They Are Worried About Their Jobs
Right now, many of the people you work with are worried about their jobs - are they going to have to start going back into the office, how safe will it be to travel to get there, how safe will they be when they get there, how secure is their jo...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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11:36
How will you know you are successful?
There is more to being successful than hitting your targets and in this episode, we turn the lens of curiosity inwards and talk about how we define success for ourselves, so we can work in alignment with our definitions and be the best leader w...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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15:11
Leading Change - Why Your Why Matters When You Are Leading Change
When we ask people to do something difficult, like change the way they work, they are very unlikely to do it unless they understand the reasons that sit behind the changes, but the rationale itself is often not enough. Unless not changing...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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11:52
Leading Change - Making Decisions When Everything Is Changing
How can we possibly make decisions when everything around us is changing?When we are in the middle of change and surrounded by uncertainty, the feeling of not being able to get your head around decisions grows, it’s very unsettling and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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11:37
Leading Change - Planning in an Uncertain World
Is it worth planning when everything around you is so uncertain? We know we don't know what a post-pandemic world is going to look like or if we are even going to get there this year, all we know is that we don't know how what the environment o...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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12:20
Leading Change - Why Active Listening Isn't Enough
If you want to get the benefits of being a good listener, active listening isn't enough. Great listening is a key leadership skill, yet one which surprisingly few people are taught. In this episode, Bekka breaks down the different l...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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12:04
Leading Change - Having Difficult Conversations
We’ve all been there - worrying about a conversation we need to have because we know it could be a difficult one, maybe because we think the person we need to talk to won’t like what we have to say, or because the subject is charged with emotio...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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11:32
Leading Change - What Leaders Need To Do - Part 2
In this episode, Bekka continues the discussion about what we need to do when we are leading others through change. Change is a process and there are some things that we need to do consistently through the process, and others that change ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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12:19
Leading Change - What Leaders Need To Do - Part 1
In this episode, Bekka starts the discussion about what we need to do when we are leading others through change. Change is a process and there are some things that we need to do consistently through the process, and others that change as ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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11:00