Evolve: Reinventing Leadership - Building Freedom Cultures

Power in the Pool: An Exploration of Power in the Workplace

Yvette interviews Joel Mitchell, a developer of educational programmes for international business schools and the convener of the International Peaceful Prosperity Games that gathers visionaries, entrepreneurs, artists, leaders, facilitators, and coaches to propose playful processes and games. Yvette and Joel explore power, where true power originates and how to tap into it to enhance your success.

Evolve: Reinventing Leadership – Building Freedom Cultures with CEO and award-winning author, Yvette Bethel. This podcast provides leaders with solutions to build trust, inspire authentic transformation, and improve engagement. Learn about new and tested ways you can revitalize your culture, empower people, and transform your results.


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Introducing Evolve 2.0 - Reinventing Leadership - Building Freedom Cultures

Hello and welcome. I'm Shann Vander Leek, Producer and Founder of Podcast Bath. I enjoy supporting & interviewing bright minds and successful entrepreneurs about there new podcasts.

Today's it's my pleasure to speak with the founder of this podcast, Yvette Bethel, to discuss the rebirth of her podcast, 
Evolve: Reinventing Leadership – Building Freedom Cultures.

As a consultant, advisor, author, speaker, and trainer, Yvette understands the people side of organizations and how to effectively bring together the corporate vision of business with the talents of staff. She helps organizations take the steps toward resolving strategic people issues. 

Today we cover Yvette's inspiration and direction for the new podcast and discuss who the podcast is created for as well as what listeners will take away from Yvette's interviews and teachings. You'll also learn how Interconnectivity, Flow and Balance (IFB) can enhance an organization’s climate.  

This podcast provides leaders with solutions to build trust, inspire authentic transformation, and improve engagement. Learn about new and tested ways you can revitalize your culture, empower people, and transform your results.
  Learn more at IFBCentral.com

 

 

 

 

Confronting the Personality of Your Organization

Some authors describe the personality of the organization as the culture. In psychology, a personality is the combination of individual characteristics embodies in the patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving.  Leaders who can perceive these patterns can identify dysfunction that can impact the bottom line.

 

Workplace Burnout

In the modern workplace stress levels can run high.  Especially in organizations that place an overwhelming burden on staff, imposing extreme targets.  Burnout, to some, means constantly working, for long hours, making every effort to exceed sometimes seemingly impossible targets.  In this context, it can mean being pushed to the limits, and for some, this means being in a sustained state of anxiety or fear. Listen in for ideas you can use to support your team…

Knowing When to Let Go

In life and business there are three points-in-time you should develop the skills to identify.  There is the point of no return.  This is a time when it is best to keep moving forward because the cost of returning to the starting point is too great. A second point in time leaders can develop the skill to recognize is knowing when to hold onto a position despite external pressures to fall in line.  Then there is knowing when to let go.  

 

A Freedom Culture

Are you feeling stifled in a highly controlled culture? I often encounter various cultures that exhibit control in various ways.  In some of these cultures, employees are exposed to autocratic leaders whose leadership style ensures these employees will not take initiative.  In fact, in some highly controlled cultures, I have encountered leaders who go as far as saying “I don’t pay you to think, just do as you are told”.
I invite you to listen in to learn more about freedom cultures.

Trusting HR Employees but not the Department

This is an awkward dynamic that happens when persons within the HR department are liked or even admired and trusted as individuals, but for multiple reasons, the department they represent is not trusted.  Listen in to learn more…

 

Functional Incompetence

There are different types of functional incompetents in the workplace. They try to give the impression they are in control, but they dedicate hours and hours each day to staying ahead of the game. Survival drives their behaviours and they create a tense workplace.  Tune in to learn more…

Team Change from the Inside Out

There are leaders who decide on a change, plan for it, then execute the plan without giving thought to how they will develop the skills they need to execute their plans.  Building your capacity as a leader to effect change from the inside out is one way you can ensure your change projects are successful, while at the same time, building team cohesion.  Listen in to learn more…

 

Positive Psychology at Work

In modern workplaces where engagement levels are low, it can be almost too easy to slip into a state of frustration.  With constantly growing work demands, increasingly low tolerance for mistakes, some workplaces can be quite difficult to navigate.  Listen in to learn more about how positive psychology can help you as a leader…