Trailblazing with CorbettPrice Podcast - Episode 7
This week concludes our podcast series on organisational health and the seven dimensions of wellness. We hope you have enjoyed the series and find the insights and perspectives of all our trailblazers helpful. In the final episode of our first series, we explore the seventh dimension of organisational health, the relational dimension, which is all about learning and development.
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With changing employee expectations around the learning and development opportunities organisations offer to improve their overall wellbeing, L&D managers face meeting these expectations to future-proof their organisation and attract and retain the best talent.
How and what must L&D managers focus on to provide these opportunities to employees in a hybrid working environment, and how can they empower employees to build and maintain an A-grade team?
David Powell, author, founder, and life skills mentor of The Golden Thread, joins Andy in this enlivening discussion to provide ways that L&D managers can offer learning and development opportunities that build self, relationship, and team interpersonal skills to empower their workforce in their lifelong learning journey to mastery.
David and Andy discuss the importance of mindfulness and provide examples of how powerful meditation practices can be at both the individual level and the potential contribution this can unleash at an organisational level.
This episode is jam-packed with practical advice, real-life examples, and different perspectives on boosting the relational dimension of organisational health. Listen now to hear David’s meditation based on Alpha Dynamics to get you into the blue…
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David’s passion lies in empowering people to achieve the success they seek in life. David is the founder of The Golden Thread’s online toolkit, Life Journey Skills and recipient of The Visioneers’ 2022 global award in recognition of his work to benefit humanity.
Born in the UK, David gained a first-class honours degree in chemical engineering at Edinburgh University and worked in the resources and IT industries for 24 years, leading many teams to success.
Realising that his passion lay in empowering people, he became a business skills trainer, facilitator, and mentor. Over almost three decades, David has helped individuals and teams in hundreds of organisations, across 30 countries and five continents to improve their lives and business performance.
After finishing university, David spent a year driving a Land Rover overland from the UK to Australia and became fascinated with the different religions and cultures that he encountered. These travels were the genesis for his lifelong research into history, religion, gnostic wisdom and psychology - to discover how to best empower people. The result is his unique ability to synthesise the latest scientific thinking and the ancient wisdom to address, and inspire the whole person - body, mind, emotions and the deeper inner being.
This is the lifetime of experience and learning that David has condensed into his online Life Journey Skills program. He teaches the essential life skills - that people don’t learn at school - so that they can thrive at life. David’s book, Life Journey Skills, is also available for free on kindle or to purchase in hardcover from amazon.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/david-powell-89539276/
Amazon: Life Journey Skills
That now concludes the first series of our Trailblazing with CorbettPrice podcast. Stay tuned as we will announce details of series two coming out soon!
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Trailblazing with CorbettPrice Podcast - Episode 6
Thank you for joining us for the sixth episode of our podcast series on organisational health and the seven dimensions of wellness. In this episode, we will cover the essential topic of organisational purpose and leadership.
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The leadership style of an organisation can profoundly impact an organisation's health, affecting the workplace culture, employee experience, engagement, performance, and organisational agility and resilience.
The prolific global expert in open and digital government and former public servant Pia Andrews joins us as we discuss how public sector professionals must lead and navigate their teams now and in the future.
Hear Pia's thoughts on how we need to get back to servant leadership, how any leader's first strategy should be to slow things down, and how human-centered design approaches require you to come from a position of being your best human in the first place.
Listen to also hear Pia share three practices from her background in Gung Fu and Chan Buddhism martial arts that play an important role in her work and career every day.
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Pia Andrews is an open government, digital transformation and data geek who has been trying to make the world a better place for 20 years. She usually works within the (public sector) machine to transform public services, policies and culture through greater transparency, democratic engagement, citizen-centric design, open data, emerging technologies and real, pragmatic actual innovation in the public sector and beyond. She believes that tech culture has a huge role to play in achieving better policy planning, outcomes, public engagement and a better public service all round.
She is also trying to do her part in establishing greater public benefit from publicly funded data, software and research. Pia was recognised in 2018 and 2019 as one of the global top 20 most Influential in Digital Government and was awarded as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Australia for 2014. Pia has also studied martial arts since 1990, and brings the philosophies and practices of Gung Fu and Chan Buddhism into her work every day.
Pia is currently taking something of a public sector sabbatical, working as a Strategic Advisor to the Public Sector in AWS. She is in a newly formed team made up of experienced public servants who provide futures oriented policy and outcomes focused advice, support, exploration and experimentation, to agencies and departments across Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.
In 2023, Pia joined Apolitical’s Advisory Council on 21st Century Government, where some of the world’s most distinguished government leaders, innovators, and thinkers have come together to help accelerate Apolitical’s mission to help build 21st century governments that work for people and the planet.
Web: pipka.org
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/pia-andrews/
The Mandarin articles: www.themandarin.com.au/author/pia-waughgmail-com/
Tune in next week as we talk with David Powell on our final dimension of organisational health – recreational health, learning and development.
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Trailblazing with CorbettPrice Podcast - Episode 5
Welcome back to our podcast series on organisational health and the seven dimensions of wellness. This week in episode five, we continue to explore the theme of employee experience by looking into one of the crucial factors that impact this positively or negatively, an organisation’s culture. Workplace culture is our fifth relational dimension of organisational health.
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Workplace culture, as defined by BambooHR, is the personality of an organisation – it’s a shared set of workplace beliefs, values, attitudes, standards, purposes, and behaviours. Research by Gallup shows that employees with a strong connection to their organisation’s culture are more likely to be engaged and less likely to experience burnout as often as those without.
Cherie Canning from Luminate Leadership joins us to discuss this essential topic, where she draws on real organisational case studies to talk through the attributes leaders need to have to create a people-centric culture, how this starts with psychological safety and how to create that, how organisations can overcome toxic workplace cultures, why mental health first aid is essential for everyone throughout an organisation, and how to build a connection with employees regardless of whether they are in the office, or working from home.
This episode is must listen for anyone who wants their organisation to be more people-centric or learn how to maintain a positive and strong workplace culture.
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Cherie’s passion lies in inspiring people to achieve their potential by developing their 'human skills'.
Cherie is a passionate optimist, an avid traveller and the Founder and Director of Luminate Leadership.
With almost two decades of leading and developing leaders at Luminate and previously at Flight Centre Travel Group, Cherie has proven results and her authentic communication style and workshop content continue to leave a long-lasting impact on leaders and their businesses.
Cherie founded Luminate Leadership in 2020 with one purpose in mind; to grow and inspire leaders of today to create a better tomorrow. Her intention is to embrace human based Leadership traits such as connection, collaboration, courage, empathy, compassion and kindness.
It’s her mission, and the mission of Luminate to share these skills with as many Leaders as possible, inspiring them to be the best humans they can be and bring as much joy and fulfilment to their work and lives. Cherie will also host Luminate Leadership’s annual IGNITE conference this August, celebrating Women in Leadership through coming together to connect, learn, inspire and be inspired.
Web: www.luminateleadership.com.au
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cheriecanning
Tune in next week as we talk with Pia Andrews on our sixth dimension of organisational health – Purpose and leadership.
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Trailblazing with CorbettPrice Podcast - Episode 4
We hope that you are enjoying our Trailblazing with CorbettPrice podcast series on organisational health and the seven dimensions of wellness. In episode four, we dive deep into the fourth dimension which is occupational health and the employee experience. COVID pushed many organisations into different ways of thinking about how and where we work. With employee attrition being a key challenge that many organisations are facing worldwide; this may be the most fundamental component of organisational health in our series.
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To help explain what design thinking is and how it can be used to design a good employee experience that engages and empowers an organisation's workforce, Rodger Watson joins us.
Rodger is the founding course director of the Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation at the University of Technology in Sydney.
If you have always wanted to understand design thinking and hear an example of how it has been used to solve a key societal challenge, then you won’t want to miss this!
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Rodger is an innovator for public good and has worked as a public servant, a strategic human centred design consultant, a bartender, a pizza kitchen-hand and deliverer, an emu farmhand, and the leader of a multi-award-winning academic research centre.
Rodger is the Founding Course Director of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation at the UTS TD School and co-author of Creative Reboot; catalysing creative intelligence and Designing for the common good.
Rodger has an academic and practice background in Psychology, Criminology, and with his colleagues at the Designing Out Crime Research Centre pioneered the Designing for the Common Good approach to multi-stakeholder collaboration (2010-2018).
This body of work received many industry awards (including multiple Good Design Australia awards) and academic awards (UTS Vice Chancellor’s award for excellence in research collaboration). The work was assessed by the Australian Research Council as highly impactful.
In recent years Rodger has contributed to government strategy and policy across topics ranging from domestic and family violence, mental health, built environment, counter terrorism, night-time economy, waste & circular economy, environmental protection, cybercrime, transport innovation, and digital transformation.
Rodger’s UTS work is underpinned by a methodology developed under industry conditions, community engagement, and academic rigour since 2010. This body of work includes product, service and policy innovations that are experienced by millions of people each day in communities across the world.
Web: www.uts.edu.au/study/transdisciplinary-innovation/creative-intelligence-and-innovation
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rodger-watson/
Bispublishers: Creative Reboot; catalysing creative intelligence and
Tune in next week as we talk with Cherie Canning on our fifth dimension of organisational health – Relational health and workplace culture.
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Trailblazing with CorbettPrice Podcast - Episode 2
Welcome back to our second episode in the Trailblazing with CorbettPrice series on organisational health. This episode will explore the 2nd dimension of organisational health: Mental – organisational agility and resilience.
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The past few years have been tough on organisations with constant uncertainty. As these shocks grow in numbers and complexity, organisations must focus beyond crisis responses to build resilience to survive now and into the future.
Scott Johnston, Deputy Secretary of Revenue, New South Wales, Chief Commissioner of State Revenue, and Commissioner of Fines Administration, joins Andy in this episode to discuss how Revenue NSW has applied agile principles to transform their organisation to become adaptive and responsive now and in the future. Hear how Scott manages to be a regulator while also delivering excellent customer service to Revenue’s three-and-a-half-million customers, his thoughts on empowering the whole organisation to innovate, his top tips for how leaders can respond to changing customer priorities, and much more.
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Scott Johnston is a highly experienced senior leader with a career spanning the Australian and United Kingdom public sectors.
An internationally recognised statistician specialising in economic analysis, his work at the UK Office of National Statistics guided key decision making for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and European Union.
Scott joined the Public Service Commission in June 2014 where he held the roles of Director Workforce Information Branch and Assistant Commissioner, Performance and Analytics Division.
He then moved on to the NSW Public Service Commission as Acting Public Service Commissioner, leading the NSW Government’s agenda - driving diversity, work of the future and reform across the sector. In April 2020, Scott was appointed to his current role of Deputy Secretary, Revenue NSW, Chief Commissioner of State Revenue and Commissioner of Fines Administration.
Since joining Revenue NSW, Scott has focused on providing flexibility and an improved customer experience for Revenue’s 3.5 million annual customers, with a focus on digital transformation and supporting the State’s most vulnerable customers. Over the past two years Revenue NSW has become sought after for its automation achievements, collaboration skills, innovation, and customer centred design.
Scott is passionate about shaping future workforce strategy through evidence-based decision making, innovation, diversity, and inclusion, and building digital capability.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/scott-johnston222/
Tune in next week as we talk with Futurist Dave Wild on our third dimension of organisational health – organisational financial and performance health.
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Trailblazing with CorbettPrice Podcast - Episode 1
Welcome to our inaugural series of Trailblazing with CorbettPrice. Over the next seven action packed weeks, we'll be introducing you to an amazing line-up of trailblazers who will share their insights on the fascinating topic of organisational health.
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In our first episode, Andy Corbett leads us through an overview of organisational health and the seven wellness dimensions that this series will explore. As a trailblazer in operating model design and implementation, Andy will switch hats to be interviewed by Associate Director and Head of Training of CorbettPrice, Lauren Chowdry.
Together, they discuss the first dimension of organisational health: the physical operating environment, which encompasses how leaders connect their organisation’s purpose with its operations, creating an effective operating model that includes people, culture, processes, technology, and more. If you have ever wanted a clear explanation of what an operating model is and how this can transform your organisation, this is a must-listen!
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Tune in next week as we talk with Scott Johnston from Revenue NSW on our second dimension of organisational health – Mental – Organisational Agility and Resilience.
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