
The Leader Learner Podcast
The Leader Learner podcast is for readers and leaders of all kinds.
Rather than talk to authors about the professional development books that they have written, the Leader Learner podcast spotlights readers and delves into their process the book(s) that have had an impact on them and their work.
This podcast is brought to you by Theresa Destrebecq, founder of Emerge Book Circles.
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The Leader Learner Podcast
S01E06 The Transform To Perform Tomorrow Episode (with Suzanne Lee)
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Theresa Destrebecq & Vincent Musolino
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Season 1
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Episode 6
With Guest Suzanne Lee from Straumann Group
Big Ideas:
- Intimate relationship between leadership and learning
- Leadership is an invitation to tomorrow that is better than today
- Perform for today, transform for tomorrow - learning and listening is at the core
- Learn faster than the environment is changing
- The I, the We and the It -- learning must happen on those 3 dimensions or you leave others behind
- Learning is a mindset, not a tool, process, or life hack
- Change is speeding up, so must learn faster than the change so we don't get swallowed up
- Taking responsibility for our workloads
- Learning as a value, so I make it happen no matter what is on my plate
- What am I okay with not doing perfectly
- Don't bother with time management hacks, be okay with not getting things done
- Intentionality of own growth, team growth, and individuals on teams growth
- How to reconcile performance with learning and what's on our plate
- Even within a system that won't help you keep your boundaries, if you have a discipline of reflection and perspective-taking, you can focus more on transform
- Create the space and time to reflect and learn
- Reject victim stance
- If not intentional, life takes over
- Learning on the job, not in the job
- Learning will get pushed to the bottom if it is an additional task
- If learning is a business priority to do your current job better, it's not a separate task
- Integrating the learning and reflection into the work as you do it
- Learning not as an additional to-do that no one has time for
- Challenge transforming from doing to learning -- great at perform, not so much at transform
- Building in micro-moments of reflection
- 70% of a learning organization is about the culture and leadership, not the tools
- Unless it is seen around them, they won't do it on their own
- Immediacy bias -- focus on today, not the future
- Persist in the struggle because it shows you are onto something - trust the process
- Debate the topic not the person
- How move from hub and spoke model, to a community of practice where we are all accountable
- Leading more from behind than right out on front
- Curiosity and coaching mindset rather than advice giving
- Bounce your worlds with others
- Shared accountability
References:
- Unleashed by Frances Frei & Anne Morriss
- 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- The Power of Giving Away Power by Matthew Barzun
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