High Performance Groundwork Podcast Hugo Ménard

The Mayo Clinic, one of the top hospitals in the US, recommends assertiveness to reduce stress, anger, and improve coping skills.

Assertiveness is one of those skills that nobody teaches, everyone misunderstands, and that can solve many problems.

Ivna Curi is the CEO and founder of assertiveway.com, which helps people in organisations (with a big focus on women), to speak up effectively with assertive communication eg: disagreeing, getting ideas across, asking for what they need to be successful, handling conflict, giving effective feedback etc, without coming across as aggressive or difficult.

She has a background in electrical engineering, specifically analytics, as well as international business, and management consulting.

She is a Forbes contributor and holds a Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD (a leading MBA program outside of the U.S). She has also lived and worked around the world in 4 continents for Fortune 500 companies.

In this episode Ivna explains that one of the big misconceptions we have about assertiveness is that we think it’s about being aggressive, when in reality, it’s very different. This misunderstanding can cause problems. She shares what assertiveness actually is, some key mindsets to cultivate it, how to start being more assertive, and what to do if you make a mistake as you’re learning to be more assertive.

Find out more about Ivna Curry and her work:

https://assertiveway.com/free/



Find out more about High Performance Groundwork:

https://www.highperformancegroundwork.com/

Adelaide Goodeve is an elite performance coach working with the worlds best companies, leaders, teams and athletes to achieve elite performance. In the last three years she's focused on helping athletes re-wire their brain to master their mental game for unstoppable performance.

Adelaide had sever chronic fatigue syndrome which caused her to be almost bedridden. After years of countless trials with little success, she was able to transform her life with just three days of brain training, and is now an endurance athlete. She shares how we can use the same principles to improve our performance. The language we use when talking to ourselves is at the core of this. She explains how to handle some common problems many of us face when trying to utilise language to our advantage, and how to make the process more potent.

Find out more about Adelaide Goodeve below:

Website: https://www.adelaidegoodeve.com/

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelaide-goodeve

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adelaidegoodeve/

Marie-Claire Ross is a trust leadership speaker, facilitator and coach, helping senior executives, leadership teams and middle managers build trust within their teams and improve  performance. She is the author of the book "Trusted to thrive: How leaders create connected and accountable teams."

We discuss why trust is so fundamental (in many cases it's more important than performance), how it benefits both people and business, and the value of always sending signals of safety and trust. She shares how people do better when they have agency and autonomy, the three pillars of her trust building system, how to have trust even when there is competition in the workplace and more.

You can find out more about Marie-Claire Ross here:

Website: www.marie-claireross.com

Book: www.marie-claireross.com/trusted-to-thrive

Daniel Murray helps frustrated leaders unlock the true performance of their people by developing curious and empathic skills to harness the 'tough skills' of leadership. His degree in mathematics and background in corporate strategy provides Daniel with a unique perspective blending strategic thinking with empathy and emotional intelligence in practical and pragmatic ways.

He is a professional speaker, trainer, coach and consultant, and along with Miranda Murray, they run Empathic Consulting which is based on the belief that empathy is the most important capability to create improved outcomes for businesses, leaders and communities.

We talk about the practicality of empathy in the workplace, ie: understanding why people do what they do. From the impacts of stress, the value of being consciously curious, the effects it has on decision making and why it's not about making everyone happy. He also shares real life scenarios of how to use empathy in situations such as firing someone and taking something up with the boss, and why doing what initially seems right isn't always the best thing.

Find out more about Daniel Murray and his work below:

Website: https://empathicconsulting.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-empathicconsulting/

What Chris Redmile shares in this episode is the reason I started doing this podcast.

Chris Redmile is a behavioural change management consultant for a Big4 consultancy in the UK. He focuses on culture in the workplace, organisational transformation and stakeholder management. He is an NLP master practitioner, professionally trained coach, parent, and military veteran. He also runs a performance and productivity coaching practice, mentoring people around the world. Ultimately, he helps people to overcome their limitations, solve problems and realise what they are actually capable of, be that through corporate consulting, coaching or parenting.

We talk about changing workplace culture by starting with the end in mind, and not trying to make every workplace like Google. He shares how frontline workers often have many solutions, but are often never asked (listen to find out why), and how this dynamic leads to loss of money, poor culture, and the miss-perception of there being fat, greedy, uncaring people at the top of organisations. He also shares productivity tools and the ADKAR methodology for creating change in organisations.

You can find out more about Chris Redmile with the links below:

redmilecoaching.com

instagram.com/redmilecoaching

facebook.com/redmilecoaching

twitter.com/RedmileChris

linkedin.com/in/chris-redmile

Dr Debra Dupree is the founder and CEO of relationships at work, where she offers dispute resolution services. She has nearly 30 years of experience in dispute resolution and working with people in conflict. She works with leaders on how to leverage the mindset to work with people from different walks of life.

Find out more about Debra here:

relationships-at-work.com

www.linkedin.com/in/debradupree

www.youtube.com/channel/UCJLPWGoEaaltkhqp70I13ZA (on here, you will find her podcast "decoding the conflict mindset" as well as other videos).