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This podcast is about leadership, authenticity and courage. Every episode is a personal development experience showing you how you can transform yourself and thus transform those around you and ultimately the organisation within which you work. Take a stand, choose a value - accountability, one-team…

Carolyn Taylor


    • Dec 12, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
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    85: Agile Series - Empowerment

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2022 12:01


    To be agile demands teams to be empowered, and that can be a stretch for both the empowerer and the empoweree. Find out more in this episode. Buy the Walking the Talk book - https://amzn.to/3WunDBA Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast Walking the Talk: www.walkingthetalk.com

    84: Agile Series - Customer-centric mindset

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2022 13:01


    Constant interaction with the customer is one of the features of agility, and requires some particular patterns of thinking from those who which to become more agile. Find out what these are in this episode, and how to practice them.

    83: Agile Series - Four Mindsets for Agility

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2022 13:35


    How to be faster, more flexible, more adaptable. Agile work practices have been introduced by many organisations, but they need agile mindsets to make them work. And these four mindsets can help to make all of us more agile, whether we work for an organisation who is practising agility or not.

    82: Walk and Talk Series - Recruiting & Promoting

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2022 12:01


    Who you choose to fill an empty role sends such a strong message about what you truly value. Here Carolyn talks about how to use both external and internal hires to reinforce your reinforce the culture you aspire to.

    80: Walk and Talk Series - How Meetings Shape Culture

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2022 15:56


    In a very practical way, this episode outlines four dimensions through which you can make changes to those meetings you influence, so they become a better symbol of the culture you want to create in your team.

    80: Walk And Talk Series – Messages

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2022 12:24


    In this episode, Carolyn explores how to get engaged in a cultural goal even if you were not a part of creating it. And for those designing the best way to involve others, some tips on the best approach.

    79: Walk and Talk Series - Engaging others in the aspiration

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 14:29


    In this episode, Carolyn provides some tips on what it takes to both describe your aspirational culture and then get others aligned to what it means.

    78: The Trust Equation series – Self-Interest.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2022 15:36


    In this final episode of the series Carolyn explores the most powerful contributor to being trusted, or not: whether others see us as putting our own interests way ahead of their's. Find out what you can do to reverse that perception, were it to exist about you, and thus create all the mutual benefits that come from relationships of trust.

    77: The Trust Equation series - Intimacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2021 16:56


    Building the human side of a trusting relationship has become even more challenging given the transactional nature of most of our virtual meetings. Showing more of who you really are, including the less than perfect sides, takes work and some courage. And pays off as trust builds.

    76: The Trust Equation series – Reliability

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2021 11:23


    What does it take to build trust with others because you are someone who can be relied on to do what you say you will, be consistent in the way you respond to situations and make others feel safe that they can lean on you? Find out in this second episode on the trust equations

    75: The Trust Equation series - Credibility

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 14:12


    The first episode in which Carolyn explores the power of David Maister's Trust Equation, and shows how to build credibility with others as a part of building their trust. Credible people ‘just know their stuff'. What can you do to have others experience you that way and thus build trust with your team, your clients and your boss?

    Walking Your Talk - New Episodes Announcement

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2021 1:00


    The Walking Your Talk podcast will return on November 18th. In this short trailer, Carolyn explains some of the themes to look forward to. This podcast is about leadership, authenticity and courage. Every episode is a personal development experience showing you how you can transform yourself and thus transform those around you and ultimately the organisation within which you work. Take a stand, choose a value - accountability, one-team, customer-centric, and many more - and come away with insights and practical tips on what it takes to authentically live that day-to-day. Many people and organisations hold these values, but don't practise them. Through this podcast you will close that gap and as a result earn higher trust from your clients and colleagues, because they see you walking your talk. Carolyn Taylor is a global thought leader in personal development and culture change, with a reputation for having a practical, insightful and do-able approach. She has coached thousands of leaders and helped hundreds of organisations change their culture, and is the author of the classic best-selling handbook Walking the Talk: How to Build a culture for success and her latest book Accountability@work.

    174: Performance Acceleration series - The roles we play

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2021 47:59


    Carolyn talks with Siobhan McHale, author of 'The Insiders' Guide to Culture Change', about how by understanding and adapting the roles we play, we can enhance our own performance and that of others.

    173: Performance Acceleration series - Mastering Risk

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2021 16:35


    How can you achieve both stretch performance and reliability – that sweet spot where you can continue to stretch without jeopardising your promises? By changing the way you work with risk.

    172: Performance Acceleration series - Accountability, purpose and quality dialogue

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2021 39:51


    Steve Cunningham, Director of Talent at BT shares with us the work done at BT to embed more accountability into their culture, and how this has been helped by a strong purpose.

    171: Performance Acceleration series - The Right Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2021 12:12


    Accountability goes up when the right conversations occur. Carolyn explains why, and how you can hold those conversations yourself.

    170: Pursuit Of Excellence Series - Relentless Dissatisfaction

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2021 12:19


    Carolyn explores the trait which needs to be present to fuel every pursuit of excellence. Is this an inherent trait or can it be awakened in ourselves and in others when provided with the right ambition?

    169: Pursuit Of Excellence Series - Setting the ambition

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021 12:03


    Turning your pursuit into action is given more urgency with an ambition. In this episode, Carolyn describes different types of ambition and shows how to design one best suited to what excellence means for you.

    168: Pursuit Of Excellence Series - Look outside, be intensely curious

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 13:57


    An external orientation is essential to truly pursue excellence, because it is only by going beyond what is familiar to you that you will discover what excellence means in your field. Otherwise what you call excellence may actually turn out to be mediocracy.

    167: Pursuit Of Excellence Series - Finding The Achievement Motivation

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2021 11:04


    Pursuing excellence should be such a natural thing to do with a team of people, and yet it can be remarkably elusive amongst the anxieties, pressures and expectations of day to day working life. This episode starts a journey of re-finding the satisfaction that is possible in such a pursuit.

    166: Prioritisation series - The Lure Of Shiny New Things

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2021 13:04


    This episode explores the paradox between our curiosity and attraction to explore new possibilities and the value in prioritising and focussing on what really matters. Both are important, but the former can also offer way too many distractions.

    165: Prioritisation Series - Making The Judgement Calls

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2020 10:38


    Do you ever feel you do a little bit of everything, but struggle to fully commit attention to the things that matter most? Making a judgement call risks of making the wrong move, but the bigger mistake is the opportunity lost. Pick up ideas in this episode to hone your skills in prioritising and backing your own decisions.

    164: Prioritisation Series - Too many choices, every one good.

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2020 13:15


    Selecting good choices over bad ones is easy. But when every option is a good one, it’s much harder. What do you do when your work serves the needs of to many people, everyone you want to please and make happy?

    163: Special Edition - Paula Harraca, ArcelorMittal, on top team buy in

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2020 33:07


    Special guest Paula Harraca, Head of People & Innovation at ArcelorMittal Long in Brazil, explains how she was able to build top team buy in to a culture strategy which has enabled a very successful business to gain an additional competitive advantage.

    Prioritisation series: How heroes constrain

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2020 12:08


    Do you play the hero? Try to take on everything and solve every problem? Or do you live in a culture where this is the norm. In this episode Carolyn explores how by taking on more and more, prioritisation gets postponed, and in the end, the benefits of focused action is lost. Lose your hero persona and transform your ability to prioritise.

    Prioritisation series: How being purposeful helps prioritisation.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2020 10:36


    At every level – personal, team and organisation - becoming clearer on purpose is the start to making better choices. And prioritisation is always about choices on how you allocate precious resource such as time, money, people.

    160: Culture Excellence Series: Intense vertical leadership development at Novartis

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2020 25:57


    This episode of Walking Your Talk uses a new format to hear how one company are taking some radical moves to pursue deep adult development for leaders in pursuit of a new culture to support their purpose.

    159: Culture Excellence Series - Are You Being Radical Enough?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2020 11:30


    Carolyn draws on what goes on in Netflix to challenge listeners to make some moves that are remarkable – sufficiently radical to really demonstrate the new culture in action. And warns against being too bland in the way you as a leader engage others in the intended culture.

    158: Symbols series - The Role Of Shared Values

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2020 15:55


    Leaders everywhere are being held accountable for the behaviour of those who work for them, and yet worry about how they can be confident that their people will live up to the expected standards. In this episode Carolyn shows how shared values, more than controls, are the key to building that confidence.

    157: Symbols series - The Light But Persistent Touch Of Intolerance

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 13:02


    Carolyn tells the stories of two leaders who have mastered the skill of building high standards of behaviour in the culture they are shaping by using the lightest touch, but with a consistency which uses peer pressure to make it clear what is tolerated and what is not.

    156: Symbols series - Don't Be Perfect, Be Real

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2020 10:06


    Leaders feel they need to demonstrate that they always role model the culture they aspire to. And yet some of the most powerful stories come from leaders who are willing to acknowledge when they got something wrong. In this way, they show that everyone has to grow and learn to build the best culture.

    155: New team members: Powerful symbols - Stories of symbols series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2020 12:18


    Who is appointed, who is promoted are such strong symbols of what is really valued in the emerging new culture. Learn how to capitalise on this opportunity, whether you are the leader, a colleague, the new member yourself, or an advisor.

    154: What is the one thing everyone does in your organisation? - Stories of symbols series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 12:34


    Carolyn shares a story of best practice in culture, where you can be confident that everyone in your organisation will behave to the same standard in specific situations. And what it takes to achieve that.

    153: How To Embed New Elements Into Your Culture

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 12:18


    As you prepare to emerge from the lockdown period, Carolyn provides some ideas on how to capture with your team the patterns of behaviour you recently established that served you well and you want to hold onto.

    152: Anchoring the new habits - The new (ab)normal series

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2020 10:40


    COVID has jolted us from our normal patterns of behaviour, and provides the opportunity to choose and practise some new ones to take into the new (ab)normal. Starting with yourself, what new habits will you adopt?

    151: What are you missing? - The new (ab)normal series

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2020 11:34


    The opportunity to build new habits and a new culture is right in front of us. Start with a simple inventory. In this episode, Carolyn explains how.

    150: What it takes to pursue excellence - Humility series

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2020 11:38


    The shift from good to great requires a mindset of humility, learning and curiosity. Without that, we can be good, but we will always stop short of greatness. In this final episode of the first series, Carolyn show us how setting an aspiration to pursue excellence means we always need to be in a state of reinventing and examining where we are with a humble mind.

    149: The power of not knowing - Humility series

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2020 8:25


    Want to create an empowered culture, a curious culture or a learning culture? It starts with three simple but humbling words: “I don’t know.”

    148: A modest view of our own importance - Humility series

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2020 11:01


    Not too little, not too much, let’s explore what changes if we get the optimal perspective on our own importance, and how that humility changes how we approach customers, competitors, colleagues and our own levels of curiosity and open-ness to learn.

    147: Do you trust yourself? Take an inventory - Trust series

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2020 12:20


    In this episode, Carolyn turns our attention inward to how we build (or lose) trust in ourselves. How this impacts the trust others have in us, and what we can do to improve it.

    146: Becoming a more trustworthy person - Trust series

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2020 13:12


    What makes you trustworthy to others? Reliability, authenticity, and intention. This episode shows how you can work on each of these three and thus become the trustworthy colleague, supplier or boss for whom the doors to success are opened wide.

    145: Supporting roles - it's time to rethink team collaboration - Trust series

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2020 12:26


    Trust between functions, between teams, between roles in any organisation is the oil that makes the whole system flow. Learn how helping others play their role successfully, rather than judging them from the sidelines, will build a culture of collaboration.

    144: Trust me? If you're in a team where trust is low, here's how to build it - Trust series

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2020 12:04


    The presence of vulnerability builds more trust in a team than any other feature. This episode explores many ways that any team member can open up just a little bit more. Showing this vulnerability can dramatically improve the effectiveness of the team.

    143: Your trust bias - it's running the show, so how do you identify it? - Trust series

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2020 11:00


    Most of us have a bias towards either under-trusting or over-trusting. In this episode, Carolyn shows you how to understand your personal bias and how you can balance it so that your trust instincts become an asset rather than a liability.

    142: What gets in the way of us leading a more purpose-led life? - Purpose-led series

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2020 11:03


    If you approach the ocean with a cup, you take away a cupful. If you approach it with a bucket, you can extract a whole bucketful. How do you shift your world view to build an enabling mindset that liberates your purpose and enhances your contribution to the world?

    141: Follow in the footsteps of Google & unite your team around a purpose - Purpose-led series

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2020 9:58


    How to create a purpose for your team or organisation which will provide motivation, direction and meaning.

    140: Finding your daily purpose - Purpose-led series

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2020 10:24


    A practical approach to starting or enhancing the discovery of your own purpose. Reframe what you do every day and see the patterns of beneficial behaviour and thinking which emerge as a result.

    139: How I found my purpose - and how to discover yours - Purpose-led series

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2020 13:44


    Carolyn embarks on a new series about how we can become more purpose-led. In this episode, you'll hear the story of how she discovered her own purpose, how it has shaped her life, and the benefits for others and ourselves when we start living a more purpose-led life.

    138: Shine a spotlight on what great looks like - Culture shaping series

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2020 11:08


    Imagine you are on a small stage playing to a large audience. Everything you do to role model the culture you want has to be broadcast in larger than life letters. Otherwise, a lot of your efforts will be wasted.

    137:What you tolerate becomes your culture. What are you putting up with? - Culture shaping series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 13:07


    What gets tolerated establishes the lowest common dominator of your culture. However hard it may be, not tolerating poor behaviour is an essential part of culture leadership. This episode shows how.

    136: Encouraging gives others the courage to be their best - Culture shaping series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2020 13:13


    We all want to fit into the community of which we are a member. So we look for signals about how to behave. Find out how, by encouraging the behaviour you want in your culture, you can shape things to be the way they need to be to support your success.

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