Podcast appearances and mentions of simon tyler

In this episode of Hope Illuminated, I am joined by Simon Tyler for a deeply insightful conversation. Together, we dive into the complex relationship between masculinity, mental health, and suicide prevention. Simon bravely shares his personal journey, reflecting on the impact of losing father figures to suicide and his own struggles with mental health. Through his experiences in male-dominated environments like the construction industry and Australian Football, Simon sheds light on the critical need for tailored support for men facing mental health challenges.Throughout our conversation, Simon emphasizes the pivotal role of lived experience in shaping understanding and interventions in mental health. His journey drives his commitment to supporting others and fostering meaningful change.Listeners are invited to explore the nuances of masculinity, mental health, and suicide prevention as Simon discussed his important research. Through a mixed methods approach, Simon uncovers the complexities of suicide risk within the construction industry. For more information on this episode go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast

Construction has some of the highest suicide rates of any industry and as psychologist and former construction worker Simon Tyler will tell you, that's partly down to the hyper masculine culture that exists on work sites. Simo's good mate Richie Welch has been in the construction game for more than two decades and there was a time both men were saved by a single conversation, so they know as well as anyone the power of speaking up and being heard. After enduring a multitude of suicides within their tight knit community, they decided enough is enough and have since gone above and beyond to create their own mental health charity, 'The Next Step Australia' - a volunteer service that's been helping to save lives for years, acting as a first port of call for blokes who need help. ------------- Scroll back through our podcast library to June 2020 for the full podcast titled, 'Mental Health In Construction | Simon Tyler and Richie Welch

Born in Hackney, London, in 1964, Simon Tyler spent some of his childhood in Mexico and the USA, attempted to write songs and play the guitar, enjoyed retail work in sport and curtain shops, worked as a support worker for people with disabilities, trained to become an actor, ran a theatre, moved around England a bit... and is now the owner of Creekside Vinyl, the record shop in Faversham. Watch a video version on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/oT1ymGOSJhY More about Simon and Creekside Vinyl: https://cultureinkent.org/profiles/creekside-vinyl/ Recorded in Faversham. Hosting and photography: Nathalie Banaigs

Simon Tyler explores the power of the story we tell ourselves, about ourselves. Changing your story takes work, but can trigger powerful new attitudes and feelings.

Executive coach, speaker and author of 5 books, Simon Tyler is our guest in this episode. Local to Raising the Baa, Simon is a humorous and popular keynote speaker at networking meetings - always a bonus when people have risen very early to be present! His passionate belief in the power of Attitude, creating Impact and above all else to Keep It Simple comes across thoroughly in our conversation. Simon's blog 'Simple Notes' has been running consistently for over 4 years which are reflected in his books which offer bite-size tips prompting simple actions.  One strategy that we discuss in this podcast is "call in the CIA" - not as scary as you might think! We've used the mantra for years and find it wonderfully simple and useful.In 2020 Simon applied his 'simple' thinking to creating an inspiring home office space - needed by more people than ever before. His top tips are available in the Free Resources below.At the end of each show, we always ask our guest to sum up the most extraordinary team in just 4 words (one for each leg of the sheep or dog). Simon is the first guest to use an ovine acronym!Enjoy this episode - and thank ewe for listening :-)Free Resources:Simple Note - Becoming a Webinarist - Top 7 Impact EnhancersIdeas download - Top 9 Elements of An Inspiring Home Office Sheep, Shepherd or Dog - which one are ewe? Take our personality quiz and find out.Connect with the speakers via LinkedIn:Caroline Palmer - Top Dog and Co-Founder, Raising the BaaChris Farnsworth - Head Shepherd and Co-Founder, Raising the BaaSimon Tyler - Speaker, Coach and Author aka "The Simplist"

In Ep 86 this week I am joined by Simon Tyler, author of 'The Impact Book', ‘The Keep It Simple Book’, 'The Impact Code’, 'The Simple Way' and most recently the Business Book Awards finalist, 'The Attitude Book'. Simon is one of the world’s leading business coaches, consultants and inspirational speakers. His entertaining and thought provoking work cuts through complication and frustration and liberates individual potential. A pioneer in Simplicity, Impact and Attitude, Simon has spoken at hundreds of webinars and events for all kinds of organisations bringing his unique brand of connectivity and humour to his audience to shift attitudes and create impact. Simon has personally delivered over 5,000 hours of one-to-one coaching with 750+ leaders and executives, and has positively influenced large audiences at over 700 live events. In this episode you will hear: 06:00 strengthening our let it go muscle 07:20 what do you want? and what stops you? 13:20 how 343 can help you do more of what you love and less of what you don't 17:35 ATTITUDE is a bit like a magnet 25:20 following up on inklings that might help liberate people 32:20 CIA 39:20 the tiring state of vigilance 41:20 what we can learn about being ABTY from chess grandmasters I hope the simplicity of Simon's message makes a positive impact on you and your attitude. Please do share this with someone close to you who would benefit from hearing this too. Much love Ryan Connect with Simon: Website: www.simontyler.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/simplysimontyler LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simontyler Books: https://www.simontyler.com/shop Simple Notes: https://www.simontyler.com/simple-notes Connect with Always Better than Yesterday: Email: ryanbhartley@gmail.com Whatsapp: (+44) 07970339936 Facebook Community: www.facebook.com/groups/weareabty Master Heart and Mind Group Coaching: www.ryanhartley.co.uk Thank you to our friends at WebCreation, proud supporters of the Always Better than Yesterday Interview Sessions. Head to www.WebCreationGroup.com for stunning websites at sensible prices.

The Simplist, Simon Tyler, poses the question 'are you there yet' as an invitation to accept yourself, your situation more fully and release resistance, disappointment and needless efforting.

It's Men’s Health Week! And we’re shining a light on a male dominated industry suffering from higher than average rates of suicide. Men in construction have a history of struggling particularly badly with managing their mental health and as graduate psychologist and former construction worker Simon Tyler says, that’s due in part to the stereotypical hyper masculine culture that exists on work sites - now the focus of his PhD. Simon’s good mate Richie Welch has been in the construction game for more than two decades and both men have lived experience of going through immense struggle and surviving - becoming stronger and more sensitive to the need to reach out for help. After recently enduring a devastating spate of suicides within their tight knit community, they decided enough is enough and have gone above and beyond to create a new service called ‘the next step’ - a messaging service run through instagram that connects men who are struggling to the help they need. Having personally witnessed so much need for more mental health help and awareness within male dominated industries,  they’re now dedicated to serving that cohort that’s notoriously tough to reach. There was a time that both men were saved by a single conversation and they know as well as anyone the power of speaking up and being heard.

Coach and author Simon Tyler discusses the importance of expressing gratitude and giving the simplest of feedback, in situations that we may miss or decide it not necessary. Say it anyway!

Simon Tyler discusses the forces affecting the change to the much speculated 'new normal'. Return to what was, or grasp the opportunity to deliberately create our design of how we live and work from this point on.

Simon Tyler explores communication, connection and feedback in the current socially distant work isolation and the feelings of separation we may be experiencing as the supply of feedback and non-verbal clues diminish.

Simon Tyler, unhosted again, talks through his Simple Note "Changing Days" - bringing your awareness to what is different about your isolation working day, and becoming more deliberate about your routines and practices to bring the best of you to your desk every day.

Simon Tyler explores the forces inside us, that drive our action. Are we being pushed, perhaps begrudgingly or pulled, by something bigger, more meaningful and inspirational. And how these forces align to our incredible outcomes, happiness, satisfaction and confidence.

Simon Tyler is the author of 'The Impact Book', ‘The Keep It Simple Book', 'The Impact Code', 'The Simple Way' and most recently the Business Book Awards finalist, 'The Attitude Book', is one of the world's leading business coaches, consultants and inspirational speakers. His entertaining and thought provoking work cuts through complication and frustration and liberates individual potential.  A pioneer in Simplicity, Impact and Attitude, Simon has spoken at hundreds of events for all kinds of organisations bringing his unique brand of connectivity and humour to his audience to shift attitudes and create impact. You can learn the following from Simon in this episode: How to use your own CTL-ALT-DELETE button Distinction between Complicated and complexed The 4 A's to Action Model How attitude defines our outcomes as leaders The YOU Board of Directors How to keep thinking simple Join our Leadership Hacker Tribe and connect with us: Twitter Instagram Facebook LinkedIn (Steve) LinkedIn (The Leadership Hacker) Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA Find out more from Simon Tyler Below: www.simontyler.com Simon's Simple Notes on Soundcloud Full Transcript Below:   ----more----   Introduction  Steve Rush: Some call me Steve, Dad, husband or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker.  Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors and development experts so that I can assist you developing your understanding and awareness of leadership. I am Steve Rush and I am your host today. I am the author of Leadership Cake. I am a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I cannot wait to start sharing all things leadership with you. I am joined on todays, show by Simon Tyler. Simon is an inspirational motivational speaker, author and business coach, but before we get to speak with Simon, it is The Leadership Hacker News. The Leadership Hacker News Steve Rush: Numerous articles and research papers have been written over the last few years about developing culture in teams and business, where high levels of good culture were observed. There was a common thread across all of these articles and it may be less obvious than other behaviours. Where leaders showed and valued innovation and finding new ways of working this has led to significant higher levels of retention of staff and a higher than average level of engagement. So why is innovation for leadership and leading others so key? Leaders who promote and recognize innovation create and cultivate other visionaries; which, of course, will lead to new ideas and efficiencies but deeper than that, will motivate people around them and turn their ideas into solutions and outcomes. Giving control of innovation is the first step. Leaders don't need all of the answers and ideas, but do need to recognize ideation and innovation in others. It plays to our intrinsic motivation and that is what makes us tick, so creativity in this case is less important than leading innovation through others. Here is an example of two innovations that I found really interesting. Having recently found our podcast charting on Spotify, I also found that Spotify had been innovative in thinking outside the box when it comes to find new audiences and of course, podcasts are one of them, but a new emerging audience is our four legged friend community. Spotify has now created playlist for dogs and pet owners, their research suggests that approximately 74% of owners of pets play music for them, in particular when they left on their own. In other innovation news, most leaders can relate to the fact that being healthy in mind and body will help them make better business decisions. Folks at Fittrack.com created the ultimate health measurement tool to assist leaders and others in keeping fit and well. When you stand on a FitTrack scale, a very low safe electrical signal is sent from four metal electrodes through your feet, into your legs and abdomen. The electrical signal passes quickly through the water that is present in our hydrated muscle tissue and then meets resistance when it hits fat. So it can not only measure body fat, but also measures muscle, bone mass, hydration and other things to help us keep track of our vital functions and in turn helps us focus on what areas of our diet, exercise, nutrition we need to focus on. Of course, health and well-being are key components of all great leaders. That has been our Leadership News, if you have any news, insights or information you would like to share with us. Please contact us through our social media sites. Start of Interview Steve Rush: I am, joined today by Simon Tyler. Simon Tyler is one of the most experienced coaches in the world. He's author of five books and he is now prolific writer and blogger, is the author of the Impact Book, Keep It Simple Book, Impact Code, The Simple Way and the Attitude Book. Simon, welcome to the show. Simon Tyler: Thank you, Steve. Good to be here. Steve Rush: Now there are three kind of themes that seem to parallel across your writing, and that is impact, attitude and simplicity. That just happen by chance or is that through experience?   Simon Tyler: Chance you would say, the whole of my journey practically uncovering some of this conversation is I have allowed my life and my journey to unravel and accept whatever shows up, but it started very much with simplicity being called Simon. Unsurprisingly, to some of the listeners, I was a curse for been simple Simon through most of my life. So people call me “Simple Simon” and I railed against it all the way through our member. My teens, I was desperately trying to prove to people know I am complicated, I am really complicated and pushback against it, pushback against it and I was working with a coach from the U.S. She was in the New England, and she and I did some work together. Her name was Kate, and we jokingly call ourselves Simple Simon and Complikate, which of course is very funny but it was about me accepting simplicity as perhaps the hill on which I stand, and it wasn't until I was coached by a guy called Drew Zel and that was probably 10 years ago where he simply challenged me. He said why don't you just accept it. I said, what you mean. He said just accept the fact that you are simple, Simon and there was a stony silence in the conversation and I just allowed it to be there for me, oh, maybe you are right. And from that point on, I was much easier with that moniker and accepted it and out of that, I thought, well, maybe that is what I do. That is the impact I have with people when I rock up. I tend to ask the really simple question. I try and pull my clients or the teams or whoever I'm working with it, just back in a wall, what is really going on? And that's always informed me in the way I go about things, if ever I get stuck. I always go back to simplicity. How can I make this a little bit more simple? And that starts the moment again. It is a huge answer to your question, Steve but simplicity was the start and everything else is sort of spun on from there. Steve Rush: And simplicity is really complicated to get to. We will kind of unpick some of the reasons why that may be in a moment. You talked a lot about being coached. So how did you end up being a coach yourself? Simon Tyler: A long time back, I was director of a consulting company and one of the big projects for a client, I members putting together as I put together a team of we called them coaches. This was probably in the mid to late 1990s where really the phrase coach was not something that was common in a business setting. And whilst if we were to look back, they didn't really conduct coaching, as now we would understand it to be, it was more about understanding the skill gap and helping people fix a skill gap. It was quite interesting; coaching then was sticking around me as a word. I left that consulting company in 2000 and in not knowing where to go myself, I engaged the coach again in the U.S. because that is where there were much more supply of coaches and I was coached for a period of time. And once I got over my ridiculous Britishness of not really answering the question that they were asking. I really got so much from it and it was a profound shift. And as we all look back in where the big shift in your life, that was definitely one working with Scott Wintrip and he challenged me or helped me realize that the way in which I dialogue with people, the outcome of the conversations that people have with me, he says, in essence, it's coaching dialogue. Consider building a coaching practice. Okay, I will, so I began in 2000. I set up and I backed out of quite a lot of consulting client work and thought right, I am a coach. Here I am. Come on, everybody, come and be coached, and that was a slow old journey. Try to convince people what a coach was first before they agreed to coach with me. That is the way, my coaching began and it was a slow process picking up a client here and a client there. Not really known what fees to charge, so therefore not really making it a brilliantly viable coaching business. I carried on going and it just opened up more, more dialogues. Steve Rush: And it is fair to say if you roll the clock forward, you have now coached hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people. If there was perhaps…  Simon Tyler: Indeed. Steve Rush: …if there was one theme that you can see that is maybe more consistent than not, what would you say that was? Simon Tyler: Well, it is interesting, what shows up when I thought about, what is it? The dialogues that people have had with me for the bulk of the growth period of me as a coach were around leaders in transition, so they were people who been spotted as talent, as potential for growth in them, in their in organizations. But broadly speaking, the companies didn't know what to do with them other than give them more training and send them on more workshops and so on and so forth. And it was me in conversation saying, well, these people should be coached at the point that client used the phrase coaching to describe. A remedial action for somebody who wasn't performing well in their role. That's really interesting cause that's not who I coach, I coach people who want to grow, who aspire to something bigger, better, to be more themselves and to have more impact and I said, okay. We will do it and in essence. Risked the first pilot wave, which was a group of 12 people. I coached all 12 and all of them, to varying degrees, had a significant change effect as a result of the dialoguing with me, so I would say one of the pieces, therefore, and lots came from that. Was people in transition, people ready to move or not sure of where they are at all. Exploring what is next and it's that sort of dialoguing that perhaps formed the rump of the work I did through the early 2000s. Steve Rush: And that is great to hear, and in my experience also of coaching people in similar transitioning; these are people who have already been identified as talent. They have the raw capabilities it just needs unlocking and through that dialogue, right?  Simon Tyler: Yeah, indeed and again, it goes back to my simple question sometimes just tapping, asking the question that people maybe a half asked in their own heads. And I think the questions that you ask yourself. My observation over the years is that you never truly answer it fully yourself. You might reach a difficult point in the thought and stop or you might part answer it and then leave it there, and it is only when you are in dialogue with somebody. One to one, who like me and I like yourself. I am sure and other coaches will just sit in that space and hold you to that question, that your answer gets bigger, deeper, broader and goes to more places and more gets unlocked. Steve Rush: What do you think? The reason is that we don't take it to the 10 degree or that next set of questions, when we try a bit of self-coaching? Simon Tyler: Well, life is very busy and my clients, I am sure that similar groups, the people that you work with, there is a lot going on. There is one of things I wrote about I think it is in the keep it Simple Book is Control Alt Delete, which is a function that we are all very familiar with on the computer. You press Control Alt Delete, you have a look at all programs that are running any one particular time on your PC and it is the same in people's heads. I metaphorically try and help people work that through. If we did a Control Alt Delete, there is a lot going on. So thought to try and manage our own thinking. It is a tough ask if we have got a lot on, we are trying to hold ourselves to a particularly deep question. The brain is going to stop popping around with other stuff and lead us off in another direction. And there are many, I'm so delighted that in years where we've got to today. Mindfulness has been grasped by almost every organization. It is a way that we can improve the way that we connect with ourselves and release creativity and so on. Any step on mindfulness will bear fruit and the mindfulness technique is to just be aware of all the thoughts that are going on and learn. Build the muscle up; just sit with just one thought and it's not standard practice, we human beings tend to take on a lot physically and in our thinking, there's a lot going on, back to my control Alt delete. If you sit in there trying to think about a profound career-changing question and there is someone knocking at your front door, you are not there; your mind is going to drift away and that is a very simple example, but that describes it if it helps. Steve Rush: And in the workplace, I guess the same plays out, doesn't it? So I wonder, what is the reason that people find it so difficult to keep things simple? Simon Tyler: Again, it is the volume of stuff. That is going on in the world we are in now. People tend to be responsible for many things and not just many different things. Just the variety of them, that needs to be involved in all of their job agreement, it just varies so much from a quiet conversation to support someone to a bit of deep calculation type thinking. And that could be butting up against each other, and asking yourself to make that mental shift all the way through the day and to sit quietly and take on some of these more challenging. Potential breakthrough questions and breakthrough thinking is often it is in the too difficult box and I notice people push it out or I will do that when? When I get my next clear day, I am going to do that. I will clear all the appointments out on Thursday and I will do on Thursday. No, you won't. Steve Rush: It is procrastination. Simon Tyler: Yeah and it is clever procrastination and it is not a bad thing because what is that wonderful expression somebody use many years ago? Which is busy people look more important than important people and there's a an intense busyness, I notice, because there's a lot to be done. There is so much to be done, there is never going to be enough time to do everything you really want to achieve. The outcomes of people working with me is. I will get people to just pair some of that back, sounds obvious, but what is really important? What you really want to achieve here? And this lots of techniques I'd written about those sort of things in a number of different ways in all of the books. Just trying to just shift the way my readers and my clients and the listeners to my podcast. Just slowly pare back the noise that is going on then get to the important stuff.  Steve Rush: Thank you so much, that is really insightful and I think our listeners will resonate with that. Where they struggle with their own thinking about how simple they are keeping things or indeed how complicated they are making things. Simon Tyler: You absolutely know. People will know when they reach that point of…there in a complicated zone, and there is a distinction between complicated and complex. Some things are understandably unnecessarily so complex, but complicated causes stuff inside us. When life has become complicated or our thinking has become complicated. That is when we can't think of thought for very long or we start to feel less than great. Our creativity gets stifled, just our mood shifts and all of the stuff I've written about our attitude changes when we're caught in complication and it just changes who we are so my alert to my clients is just notice. Just notice that all, there is a moment, let's come back. Let's come back, see if I can just introduce a little bit more simplicity and start again.  Steve Rush: That there is a real hack there, isn't there? The difference between complicated and complex and noticing the difference and being wise enough to act on what's holding you back versus what can empower you. Simon Tyler: They absolutely feel different. Complex feels different to complicated. If you tune in to how you feel and the thoughts that are triggered in a complex situation compared to a complicated situation, they feel completely different. Steve Rush: I suspect that's got something to do with how we process information in our brain. We will feel complicated, which will trigger some of those neurological threat responses vs complex, which will keep us engaged and thoughtful and energized and looking for the stimulation, the mental stimulation that comes with problem solving. Simon Tyler: Absolutely. Steve Rush: So impact has also been a key theme for you in part of your life's work over the last 10 years. How would you say to leaders that are listening now that are maybe struggling to get the impact that they are intending? Simon Tyler: Oh, that is a good start. What you have just said there. If they have an intention, that is cool. A lot of people don't have clarity over their intention. They just have this umbrella word…I want to have better impact. What do you mean by that? What sort of impact do you want to have? What is the footprint you want to leave? What is the change you want to cause in a room to a group of people? To the situation? To the strategy? Any thinking to get a little bit more clarity on what your impact is. Your intention is important. Starting there, I notice and perhaps this drove me around my work with writing the Impact Book. Is people then often jump from, okay, I've got the impact I want to cause. Now tell me the actions. What actions do I need to take? And as I unravel in that book, it's a path. Action almost is the fourth part whether you driving, causing, forcing, action for your impact and it is interesting listening to the other shows you had. Different people, different guest you talk about this in different ways, too and for me, it's working through the pathway of causing impact and I use four A's. The first (A) is Attraction. How you attract people to the way, you think and getting people aligned to the impact you want to cause, more people on board with you, so in essence developing your magnetism as a leader.  The second (A) is creating appetite. So people find you, your message, what you stand for, your purpose alluring. The third (A) then is advocacy. That is where you start to create people. Who advocate what you stand for, and you nurture them almost in effect as your cheerleaders, but they start to be part of what you are causing. And then the final (A) action. That is where you start to create change and almost at that point, the change you want to create, you seek to create. It starts to happen anyway, because the previous steps you have taken. Steve Rush: I love that Simon. Many of our listeners will be familiar with the good old-fashioned impact to action gap and what you are talking about here is the kind of three elements that sit before action. Which you unlock impact, right? Simon Tyler: Absolutely. Yeah, and I write this, my notes, little impact notes in there, just hacks, if you like, to help people through each of those previous stages. And when you really become desperate to have impact, you're not going to invest in those earlier phases. Just being more authentic, being more authentic on a daily basis, which is you being you truly, does not feel like powerful enough or fast enough and you won't do it, and if you don't invest in that, the end is not going to happen. The action is not going to happen. Steve Rush: You also wrote about this in your latest book, The Attitude Book, so, how do you see that attitude defines our outcomes as leaders? Simon Tyler: Well, attitude. I love it. I did not realize it until I said to my publisher. Yep. Next one is going to be about attitude. They went, great, okay. Here is the deadline. Get it written by then. Oh, okay. Yeah, it is a big thing and a more and more I did my research around attitude and how it plays out and look for examples and stuff that had worked. The bigger and bigger it got, and here's me thinking I've just got to settle on 50 pieces of advice about attitude. It was a really the most difficult writing phase of all of my books was for the Attitude Book because it was just so big. You start to get into such a huge area, but I did obviously successfully managed and I use their deadline to get me to conclude, and I cut out almost as much as has gone into the attitude book. Which therefore leads with Oh, I wish I had. I have written about it subsequently, but attitude is the magic, if you like, or the magnet that makes it happen and attitude get affected all the time by what is going on around us. If we've got no real sense about what we want to have impact on, our attitude is going to just drift. And it's your attitude that attracts people and situations and occurrences to your path. If you are clear, when you become clear and you can narrow your attitude range and I talk about that when I speak at conferences events. The first step is often to become aware of the breadth of the range of attitude that you carry with you and narrow them. Because if you got from your great day attitude, all the way through to a bad day attitude. That is just too great; people don't know where they stand. You attract a mishmash of stuff that just does not help you. Narrow the range, which takes a little bit of thought to just a little bit more control of your attitude initially, which then allows you to shift your attitude in the direction you want it to, and that, as I say, becomes magnetic and different things happen when your attitude changes. You see things differently, your whole body and mind thought, things you see and feel. The experience is different when your attitude is changed. Steve Rush: Right - and it might sound a little cliché. But do you think you can choose your attitude? Simon Tyler: Totally. Totally. At the time when you think, you need to. That is often the time when it is most difficult because you realize my attitude is not helping here. That is a really tough moment to change your attitude. Another lovely expression we would say is the best time to repair a roof is when the sun shining, but most people wait until they realize, ah, it is the winter. Now the time to repair my roof. Not a good time, but you can shift your attitude and it is a choice space thing and it's checking in, maybe when we get to my three hack's, we'll talk about some techniques that just get you back to the middle of you to become more determined and intention full. And that's when it starts, and then there's some other pieces I wrote about in the Attitude Book, which is about your resilience. So your attitude, resilience so that it can withstand the pushback you will get or the counter attitudes or maybe there's a prevailing attitude in your team or in your company that doesn't fill up the one you want to have as well. And just like groupthink as people describe it, there is this attitude cluster I see in organizations. Be careful, just notice how that attitude attracts to that team or group or company. Certain situations, certain occurrences, synchronicities happen around those attitudes. If you are the leader, you're the one that's going to set the tone, set the attitude and it takes starting with just a few of the people around you who are aligned, That is when you start. Steve Rush: You referred to in you are Attitude Books as a lot of this attitude starts with self and you have something, in there called the “YOU” BOARD OF DIRECTORS, just tell us a little bit about that. Simon Tyler: Yeah, I like that one and that's similar, and again, the people who read all of my work will notice some fairly common threads or clusters around which the notes that I write tend to sit, and this is definitely one the “YOU” BOARD OF DIRECTORS. It is a moment, too, I suppose in any NLP terms they would say you are changing your position to look at same situation from a number of different angles that is all. And this came out of a conversation with a director in a financial company and he was a bit lost and not sure what to do, but stuck. So oftentimes coaches are very useful to help people get going, get momentum again through that stuck period, and the “YOU” BOARD OF DIRECTORS is a board of directors that is you but it needs a Cap change, if you like. I give the example of the chief executive you. So if you were the chief executive of You PLC, managing you, your brand, what you do, what you're all about. How would the chief executive get involved? What would their role be? How would they in general terms, look at how you are doing? What results would they want to report about you? How would they talk about what lies ahead? They would be more strategically interested in what you are all about, other roles you may have a chief financial you who would look at the performance, the absolute performance, what is the personal finance? What is the financial implications of what you are up to? What are the risks involved right now? Where my investment may needed? And then you might have other roles, Chief Operating Officer, HR You, Chief Marketing You. So if you build that team and it is an opportunity to perhaps take a moment away from your everyday activity on that. Take yourself away for a board meeting for You PLC, and just work through and always invite people. If you have not got a professional conversation dialogue, you've got a range with a coach or a trusted colleague. Then maybe journal this, so put the chief executive You hat on and write as if you were the chief executive of You but just five minutes and it's a really interesting exercise that always bears fruit, and it just helps people shift the way they view themselves.  Steve Rush: It is really powerful to do that self-exploration thing, isn't it? And see the world from a different perspective. Simon Tyler: Yeah, I am sure you have this as a frustration with all of my work. Quite a lot of the time people go, oh yeah, I get that. I really like that. I am going to do that and they never do. The difference is the people that make the grab the hack in your world that works for them, do something with it, work with it, sit with it, reflect on it. If you do that, that makes the difference. Steve Rush: So, Simon, at this point in the show, we are going to go to think about your top hacks. Now ahead of today, you have written in your books over a hundred and fifty. If you include your blog, you probably weigh over 200 hacks and I know that trying to ask you to distil these down to your top few is going to be challenging for you but what would be the kind of two or three that you think would be my nuggets? Simon Tyler: Well, there is never one. Whatever it needs to be for that person in that situation. It is the one, the one. I wrote a simple note, but you inspire this in me. My simple note that came out in the beginning of March was called The One or The One Thing which is about this to look at what would the one thing be. So thank you very much for inspiration on that, so I am going to give you three. Two from the books, but one is the overarching one, which I will finish on.  The first one is in the Keep it Simple Book, which is “3-4-3”, which apart from my favourite football formation, is just a very simple way of looking at what you're all about. And broadly speaking, and I found this in every contact with teams and groups of people through my entire career, broadly speaking of the ten things you're up to, three you'll be awesome at. That is the essence of you. Three you will be absolutely painfully detest and not very good at takes too much time and makes you feel bad when you react to those three. And in the middle of the four things that come with the turf of what you're about right now and you don't know whether they're going to be great things or not. The distinction for people that grow the fastest, that have the greatest impact and results, however they measure results, is you spend more time in your top three, the essence of you. Define what they are; make those the priority for your week ahead. Be the best version of you. I know people because their life gets filled. It seems to fill from the bottom end up those bottom three things. If you spend a day working on those three things, you feel rubbish. You don't like yourself or anyone else around you, and your attitude will change. They do not bring the best out of you and it is a conscious effort. Becoming aware of what my 3-4-3 is and spend all the time, I can pushing to make sure I am involved in my top three. Outsource, pay someone, swap or don't do the bottom three things. They are not going to grow you. They are not going to make the difference. They are not going to get you promoted. They are not going to have the impact. It is the top three that does. That is my one big nugget. Brief one is pause, and that is powerful. If I listened to perhaps how I…one of the most common things perhaps I introduced into conversations with clients is helping them feel more comfortable with pausing and inviting them in their heads to count to three and in that pause, it's almost like an awakening. One, two, three and in that moment, the brain then just starts to relax. You get access to more of your brain's thinking capacity. You hear the question perhaps you just ask. You have a sense for what the right answer might be. You have a sense of what your other answers might be. It just awakens more, so pause and count to three would be my second. And then my third hack would be what I ended up writing about and talking about in my podcast earlier March is about awareness. To heighten your awareness for what is going on for you right now and more and more of what I read about, and now I am writing about is about this, which is if you are feeling disgruntled, off-beat, It is okay. Notice it maybe even name it. The act of noticing what you are experiencing and naming it instantly alleviates the power and the grip it has over you. Just by doing that. Second step in there in the awareness piece is just to become ease. I am just not allow that to be, I am going to, except the fact that I fill up that right now. Just those two steps and there are more steps in this. But those two steps will liberate people from the tough situations they might find themselves in as opposed to trying to grit and work it through. Steve Rush: There is some really fantastic hacks there, practical information and insights people into take away, start practicing. So thanks for sharing those. In my experience of working with people like yourself and others who have developed a huge knowledge base and capability over time is that has not always been that way, so we call this section Hack to Attack and this is to explore maybe time in your life for your work where things did not go as well. Maybe it did not pan out as you had expected, but we are now using that as a tool in our work, in our life. Simon Tyler: Through my life, there has been a number of really challenging situations and I know looking back on them, they have all delivered something for me. And quite often it took a lot longer than just a few days to realize this is going to help the situation but I'm at a point now, fortunately, where I've really simplified my life and I'm fairly chilled about most things and it has come as a result of those situations, and there so many. I could probably talk about this one for the entire podcast in terms of how I've used them, how I resisted things going wrong and didn't want them to be that way, but then just allow them to be.  But the one I will share was a toughie in my speaking business. All of my speaking has gone really well. I have loved my speaking career, I love the challenge of an audience, and I have become a little bit known for not necessarily having content, there will always be a path I will follow my speaking business, but not having content or being able just to move with what is working in the room. That came about as a result of something that went disastrously wrong in a speaking business where I was speaking at a leadership learning group and it was after dinner. The circumstances were not conspiring very well for me. The food was delayed, the drinking was accelerating and I stood up and I had been asked to do something very inspirational for this group of twenty-five, whatever it was. Leaders on this development program, and it did not go well at all to the point that I just stopped and said this is not going well. I am going to sit down now and enjoy the rest evening, and I just stop. And I don't know where that voice came from. Some kind of an inner guidance in me, told me to do that and people were shocked. No, no, this is part of your plan. No, it is just not going well. This is not going well at all. Obviously, my drive home, I was there, there was a train I think so, so my drive home then was probably three hours on my own in the car in the early hours of the morning. I scoured myself and I tore myself to pieces like I'm going to sleep when I eventually got home. Thinking, that is it. I am never going to do it anymore.  I am never do this anymore. Why? What am I thinking? Was I even thinking? And there's a whole pieces of dramatic and nasty dark introspection and it took three or four days for me to realize. There is a gift in this somewhere. There is an awesome in this awful as my coach friend Kate would say, and I just sat with it and thought, well, just wait for it to come up. What is there for me to learn and what it was? It is just confirmed for me that the way I speak events is totally flexible. I am acronym free and arguably I am content ambivalent, and I was trying too hard to push content to a room full of people that was not ready. And that was a great learning for me just to be more fleet of foot and just be me. Just be totally real at speaking events and that served me so well since that time. Steve Rush: It is a super story and I think many of our lessons can resonate with that moment where it is just not working out. The key, of course, in this is not self-coaching and finding that within most problems there is also a solution. Right?  Simon Tyler: Absolutely. Steve Rush: So if you could time travel back to when you were 21 and you know how to meet Simple Simon at 21, what advice would you give him? Simon Tyler: He was having a tough time at 21 I remember and did not really know who he was. I was in work and I was just plodding along trying to please people, and whilst that is still an important part, I think my advice would be to tune in a bit more with who I am. And I think all of my thinking was out there on other people. What did they think? What did they want? What do they want me to do? Who do they want me to be? It was a tough time; I remember 21 was a tough time, so my invitation perhaps to myself would be go to my edge more often. Tune into who I am. What is it I want? The gift now of what we know about coaching dialogues. I would love to have had that then at twenty-one to have had some kind of a mentor or coaching conversation, go to the edge, wherever my edge is? Go to there. I think I played safe and I played inside as much as my career, travelled in interesting directions, and it was great and served me well, I think more could have happened. I want me to believe a bit more in myself. I can remember how self-doubt was a really tough challenge, and that's sting a little bit, that come up every now and then, even at this late stage in my life I'm at now and perhaps finally just decide, decide what you want and head towards it. Because I don't think I just started decide until probably my late 20s. I could have had a different time, but who knows? I am pleased with who I am today. Steve Rush: And that is a main thing, right? No regrets. Simon Tyler: Yes. Steve Rush: I should imagine our listeners have been stirred by what you have talked about and they are starting to think about some of the tools and techniques you have described. How can they find out a little bit more about your work? And where would they ideally go to find that information? Simon Tyler: Well, there is lots, as I say, the simple notes that are not in the books. There are many, many of them that I have written. One every two weeks, so simontyler.com, there is a whole library and click through and the funny titles that hopefully will lead you into the ones that work for you. And also the podcast version of All My Simple Notes is available on Soundcloud. Simon Tyler, search that in Soundcloud. You will find me, so that is probably the best place to go, and obviously the books. Grab a book enjoy the book. Whichever one you choose. I would say there is a number out there for you to grab. Steve Rush: And Simon last thing for me to say is it has been really super talking with you today. There is so much information, and I'm sure that there'll be an opportunity for us to regroup and have another conversation about more things that are simple that are impacting their simplicity in everyday life, so, Simon Tyler, thank you for joining us.  Simon Tyler: Thank you for inviting me. I enjoyed the inspiration you gave me, and I hope that happens again too. Steve Rush: Take care Simon, thank you. Closing Steve Rush: I genuinely want to say heartfelt thanks for taking time out of your day to listen in too. We do this in the service of helping others, and spreading the word of leadership. Without you listening in, there would be no show. So please subscribe now if you have not done so already. Share this podcast with your communities, network, and help us develop a community and a tribe of leadership hackers. 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Welcome to the very first Leadership Hacker Podcast. This is the new Podcast for leadership ideas, leadership development and learning about leadership. To celebrate this episode we are giving away 10 signed first edition books and 10 e-copies too. Each show, we will interview best-selling leadership authors, C-suite executives and leadership development experts, so I can hack into their minds and help you learn more about leadership and leading others. Here's some of the topics and guest you can learn from: David Marquet – www.davidmarquet.com "Start your question with How?" Andy Brogan – www.easierinc.com "Followership vs. Fellowship" Byron Low – www.byronlow.com "Turn thoughts into tools" Tony Burkinshaw – www.tonyburkinshaw.co.uk "Vision is not just for Visuals" Govert Van Sandwijk – www.timetogrowglobal.com "Shut up, sit down and ask questions" Andrew Bryant – www.selfleadership.com "Self leadership and self mastery" Simon Tyler – www.simontyler.com "No hack like your hack" John Spence – www.johnspence.com "Be curious" Michelle Boxx - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellemstansbury/ "How you team process internally" Michael G Rogers https://www.teamworkandleadership.com "Really care about your people" Avi Liran – http://www.deliveringdelight.com "Contribution, trust and influence" Steve Rush – That's me www.leadershipcake.com "The essential ingredients in Leadership - C.A.K.E.   If you haven't subscribed to the Leadership Hacker Podcast yet – please do so now, and you will not miss an episode of us hacking leadership tips, ideas insights and leadership hacks. Join our social media Tribe - follow us on: Linkedin (Steve) Linkedin - The Leadership Hacker Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Tumblr   Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA   ----more----   TRANSCRIPT The Leadership Hacker Podcast Episode 1 with Various Guests – Hack Away [Start 00:00:00]   [Music Playing]   Introduction   Steve: Some call me Steve, Dad, husband, or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker.   Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors, and development experts so that I can assist you, developing your understanding and awareness of leadership.   I'm Steve Rush and I'm your host today. I'm the author of Leadership Cake. I'm a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I can't wait to start sharing all things leadership with you.   Welcome to the very first Leadership Hacker podcast. I'm incredibly excited and I'm grateful for you tuning in. Today's show will give you a flavor of what you can expect from future shows, what kind of things you'll experience and how by subscribing now will mean that you won't miss any of our regular lineup of guests, their stories, their future hacks, and their great leadership insights. To celebrate our launch and as a special thank you for subscribing to the show, I'll be giving away 10 signed first edition copies of my book Leadership Cake along with 10 e-copies too. Stick around to the end of the show. Find out how you can win.   Picture the scene. I want you to imagine you're traveling to your favorite destination. You get stuck on your journey or you're delayed, maybe at the airport or train station, and you have got some time on your hands. Perhaps it's lunchtime for where you work, and the restless curious inner self says I want to learn, gather insights, tips and ideas about leadership and leading others. So, you reach for your device, and when you open where you normally download your podcast, you hit The Leadership Hacker and subscribe.   So by now you probably wondering how by subscribing to The Leadership Hacker podcast that will help me fill my time, right? Well, each show I will have a guest or guests join me and share what leadership means for them, how they've learned from others, and how they'll pass on their tips and experiences with you. We'll introduce you to how you can learn more about each guest and grow your knowledge base. Each show will look at the news and explore where leadership is present - or not, as the case may be - in global events, and understand the role that leadership has played in global decision making. As well we've also grow our community of leadership hackers over time, and as we do, we'll learn from each other.    Today's show is going to be a bit of a smorgasbord of future guests and friends of the show sharing their top hacks and tips to give you a snippet of what's to come. Today I'm going to explore with you the principles of leadership comfort, and if that supports growth and results or how in fact, it might hold a team back, but first, it's Leadership Hacker News.   The Leadership Hacker News Everywhere you turn in the news at the moment, you'll bump into a story about Covid-19, or commonly known as Coronavirus. The question we need to ask is, does leadership or has leadership played a part, in either its spread or containment? Just like with a national or international crisis like coronavirus, when disaster happens, it's not about the disaster, but how you respond and you react to it. Some say the World Health Organization was too slow from December to February, in giving clarity and direction and insight as to how to contain the virus, whereas others look to the leadership of China to over trade on goodwill and to damp down its severity, both of which can play an important part in how people respond to a situation. So if you think this is a leadership hack that we need to hack into, send us your insights. Comment on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, and let's get the debate going.   Let's go to our first hack of the show. It's retired US Navy captain and best-selling author of Turn the Ship Around and Leadership is Language, David Marquet.   David: Steve, my top leadership hack. Start your question with how. How sure are you? Not, are you sure?    Steve: Thanks David. What a neat idea, and a great way to find out better data. Are you sure? Yes, or no? Bad data? How sure are you? This means that someone's got respond with a level of certainty or assurance, which gives you as a leader an opportunity to ask more questions. So, let's go to our next hack.   Andy: This is Andy Brogan from Easier Inc. My hack for leaders is to stop thinking of leadership as on a continuum with followership. Leadership isn't about creating followership; it's about creating fellowship, and in that regard, leaders can come from anywhere. It's not a role. It's an activity. Perhaps, more correctly, it's two activities. The first one is the act of leadership, being about ensuring that what really matters really matters here. And the second one being that of leadership is about growing fellowship, and that means that what really matters here has to include what really matters to each other.   Steve: Great words, Andy. I really love that whole principle of fellowship. It's about creating an environment where there is an absolute connectivity with the people who you lead and the people who you work with, and the whole principle of fellowship versus followership I think most people can really resonate with. Superb stuff!   So up next, we have coaching catalyst and leadership expert, Byron Lowe. What's your leadership hack, Byron?    Byron: Hi, Steve. My number one leadership hack is turning thoughts into tools. I believe anyone can learn how to turn their most useful thoughts into tools that can help them grow, solve problems, live the life they want, and experience meaningful and fulfilling work, and it all begins with our thoughts.       Steve: Thanks Byron. What a really interesting philosophy, and we all have our faults, and we all have the ability to influence others, but do we genuinely think of our thoughts as being tools in our kitbag as leaders? So we're going to have one more leadership hack and then we're going to turn our thoughts to think about how we deal with comfort, and whether it helps us or holds us back, but first is over to Tony Burkinshaw, Harley Street cognitive hypnotherapist with his leadership hack.    Tony:  Hi Steve, it's Tony Burkinshaw. When sharing visions, I think vision is a really important part of leadership, but in terms of vision, making sure that each member of your team, the team you're leading, can share that vision. Not everybody does visual equally well so the name ‘vision' is a bit of a misnomer. So be prepared to share your vision in a variety of different ways, to make sure that each member of your team is fully on board with it, and can absorb it in their own preferential way.   Steve: It's a great call, Tony. So, we all see the world, feel the world and experience the world in different ways, and vision by default appeals to those people who have a vision or a seeing experience of the world in the way they represent the world, and therefore we need to be thoughtful of those people who are more auditory or more kinesthetic, and need that feeling and sense. So in describing a vision, make sure that you've described it visually, auditory, and with some feeling too.    So, I want to tell you a little bit of the story as to why comfort could be a problem in us achieving great performance. Just think back on your last 24 hours. You woke up and I suspect you followed many routines - took your coffee, went to the same train station, or airport, took the same route if you're driving. When you get to work, you find there is a little routine or pattern of behaviors that you do throughout the day, most of which might be unconscious, but we've created this bubble. The bubble is there in our life and our work too, and it's a bubble of routine and comfort. We are creatures of comfort and creatures of habit.    However, when we're looking to achieve high performance, holding us back is the enemy called comfort. Why is that such a problem, I hear you cry? Well, feeling good and feeling assured is right, but comfort creates habits and habits don't look for opportunities, unless we create new habits that force us into new behaviors. Perfect example - I'm not a broadcaster, but I am today. So the start of this Leadership Hacker podcast for me is me moving outside of my comfort zone and trying new things and testing new ways so that I can help others broaden their awareness of what leadership is.   I want to share a story with you about one of my childhood heroes. As a young boy growing up, I was a big racing fan. There was a Formula One World Champion at the time called Mario Andretti, and year on year he managed to find new track records, and new ways of driving, and engineers and spectators alike were really spellbound by the way he used to control his car, and I remember as a young child watching him being interviewed, and in one particular interview he was asked, so Mario, how is it that you find new ways of doing things behind the wheel of a car? And his response was, when I find myself being too much in control and feeling too comfortable, I know I'm not pushing myself hard enough.    And we can all look around our towns and our cities, and when we look back 5 years and 10 years ago, there were stores on the corner that are no longer there, that were vibrant businesses that were no longer there. And when we transfer that to sports teams who are sometimes top of the leagues and top of their games and then don't sustain it, when you dig deep, what you find is complacency and comfort. Only way to change new things and find new ways of working is to get hold of your discomfort. And being really clear about what it is you want to achieve and how you're going to do that.     What's most important is doing nothing creates more comfort and more satisfaction, and we need to find a way as leaders to help our team move away from what they know to be true and comfortable and to help them explore new, exciting and alluring ways of working, and in doing so you could find great performance. So, let's hear from one of our other friends of the show. Who's up next with their leadership hack?       Govert: So… Govert van Sandwijk here, and I've got the following leadership hack and this goes for leaders on all levels so it doesn't matter whether you're a team leader, a frontline manager, or the Chief Executive Officer. You find yourself in front of your team during a team meeting. You start to think, hey, why is my team so passive? And actually, you're a little bit irritated.    As soon as you as a leader start to have those feelings, then basically, you have to check your own behavior. Sit down, shut up, ask a question which will for sure activate the team. So again, the leadership hack is when you start to feel, hey, my team is too passive. Why are they not being more participative in the meeting? Why are they not saying anything else? Check your own behavior. Shut up, sit down, ask a question, and let them become active.   Steve: Thanks for that hack, Govert. What this tells us guys is we are all human, and we will all have a natural neurological response, and what Govert's sharing is that strategy for dealing with that moment where that chimp inside us, or the amygdala in our limbic system has triggered a neurological threat response in us, take some time out, ask a question. It allows us to regain our cognitive awareness of how we can respond and respond in the right way. So let's go to another leadership hack. Who's up next? Andrew: Hi.. This is Andrew Bryant, Author of Self Leadership, how to become a more successful effective and efficient leader from the inside out; and of course my top leadership hack is to practice self-leadership which I define as, “the practice of intentionally influencing your thinking, feeling and actions towards your objectives. You see, self-leadership contains self-mastery, that ability to move yourself towards your vision, and alignment with your values. You see, when you practice self-leadership and personal mastery, you become an influencer and a more effective leader, so this is my top leadership hack from Andrew Bryant – the self-leadership coach.   Thank you Andrew. He's right isn't he, the reason why you are listening to this Podcast today is part self-mastery which we can also define as life long learning. The more we learn, the better leader we become, the better leader we become,  the more we have to give and offer others.   Now out next guest has become renowned for creating simplicity   Simon: Hello, Steve. This is Simon Tyler, coach, facilitator and author, author of The Attitude Book, Keep it Simple Book, The Impact Book, The Simple Way, and I'm here today to talk to you about my hack you've asked me to come up with. There's no hack like your hack.    There's something about the whole world of all these wonderful ideas that come at us that we pick them all up or drawn to them, we think we want to do something about them. But in truth, the ones that we need are really appropriate and curtailed and personal just to us. So, I say again, there's no hack like your hack. But if I was to land on one thing, Steve, it would be awareness. Anything you can do to wake up your awareness, to heighten what you know about you and notice about you, the better it will be for you. And as you go through any exercise to heighten your awareness, it's not about what you do with it. Simply the awareness can be enough. First, pause more often. That means in your speech, in your day, in your working week, even if it's just for a minute, or an hour every few days. It's just those gaps and in those gaps is that moment when you can slow stuff down, and will start to notice stuff around you and about you. And I look forward to helping you and any of the people that listen to this podcast heighten their awareness.    Steve: And awareness is a real key attribute for great leaders, isn't it? The perception of a situation or effect of being able to adjust our style, so that we can be the best we can be. And to our next hack, we go to friend of the show, John Spence.    John: Hey, Steve, this is John Spence. And my leadership hack is to be curious, to ask thoughtful questions, focused questions, and then be an intense listener. If you hire great people, which you should be, then you want to take every opportunity you can to get their feedback, best ideas, suggestions, to get their help, which will help you grow your business and become an even better leader. So that's my leadership hack. Steve.   Steve: That's a great message, John. Thank you, and for me curious is about wanting to learn, wanting to learn more about my people, wanting to learn more about my clients, my environment, my community, and actually just learning about me too on that, where curiosity can stimulate things in me to ask questions about my capabilities and can I do and can't I do, and what's causing me to think that way. So great message. So, let's get to our next hack.    I want to introduce Michelle Boxx, CEO at Boxxbury Business, Speaker, Columnist, and all-around business advocate, Hi, Michelle.   Michelle: Hey, Steve, this is Michelle Box, the blonde fixer. My leadership hack would be to get aware of how your team processes, whether it be internally or externally. It's not that the quiet person in the room doesn't have anything to offer. They just need a few minutes in the meeting to process internally before they speak up. Creating that space within a meeting allows everyone to be heard and the best ideas to come forward.   Steve: And that's great, and in my experience, the best ideas are ones that just take a little bit of nuancing and a little bit of thinking. And if you have people in your team who are sound in their ideas, they're being thoughtful, they're being introspective, it's our job as leaders too to make sure that we're involving them, and being thoughtful. Keep an eye out for the body language, the nonverbal cues. The book tells us people have something to say and it's important that we help them say it. So, I'm now going to introduce you to a future guest and friend of the show, Michael G. Rogers. Welcome to the show, Michael.   Michael: If I was to provide one leadership hack, it would be to really care about your people. And the reason why is because when you care about your people, they will care about their work.  There was a Gallup survey done, where people were asked whether their supervisor or anyone else at work cared about them. Only four out of ten strongly agree with that statement. That means six out of ten people don't feel cared about or at least had the perception of not feeling cared about at work. We have to bridge that gap. Perception of reality are not the same thing here. If I ask the leader whether they care about their people, I'm sure every one of them would say they would, but that's not how employees feel. So we have to get to a point where we can demonstrate that and employees can feel that because again, care about your people and they will care about their work.   Steve: Such a simple message, Michael, but I wonder how many of us as leaders take the conscious time out to evaluate how we're caring about people, and ultimately caring about people helps create trust. The more trust you have, the more honest and more candid conversations you have, and the more of those conversations you have, the easier is to cut through complexity and drive great results too.    Okay, we're going to go to our final hack for today's show. I'm going to take you to Chief Delighting Officer, Avi Liran.   Avi: My name is Avi Liran, and my leadership hack tip is actually starting with a question. What is the one thing, one action, one verb, one mind-state way of life, that if you do that one thing - unconditionally, consistently, continuously - it will be the quickest way for you to earn trust, gain influence, be accepted and feel a sense of belonging, even if you're very new, and feel happy together with the people around you? Well, the answer is very simple. It's contribution, and the difference between contribution and giving is contribution adds value that the other people need, so go, contribute and make a better world for yourself and others.   Steve: Avi, thank you for giving us that delightful message around contribution. I think it's incumbent on us all as leaders to really create value when we contribute to others. So hey, it would be unfair of me to leave you today without me passing on my contribution of my lifelong leadership and dedication to learning about leaders and leadership. And I find that there are four essential ingredients in leading others. not the only ingredients, but they are essential ones.   All great leaders I've ever worked with, and for, have been great communicators. They learned to adapt their communication style. I call them communication adapters. They're able to flex in an instant how they can change their tone, their pitch and pace, so that they can build rapport, affinity and still be relevant. I find that all great leaders are authentic. They just demonstrate who they really are and what they're really about. They don't mimic, they don't copy, they are just who they are, and knowledgeable but not overly knowledgeable, about the business they're running. Too many leaders spend so much time immersing themselves into the detail of the complexity of their business, it gives them no room for asking crazy questions.   And the most important ingredient that I find in leaders that binds people together - empathy! Empathy and understanding about what people do, how they do it, their motivations and their reasons, creates the real context and cohesiveness in helping others lead too. Communication. Authenticity. Knowledge, and Empathy.   So at the beginning of the show, I said to stick around to find out how you can get a copy of my book, The Leadership Cake. We're giving away 10 signed first edition copies and 10 e-copies, and here's how to do it.     First things first, you need to subscribe to our podcast. That's number one. 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We do this in the service of helping others and spreading the word of leadership. Without you listening in, there would be no show. So please subscribe now if you haven't done so already. Share this podcast with your communities and network, and help us develop a community and a tribe of leadership hackers.   And finally, if you'd like me to work with your senior team, your leadership community, keynote an event or you would like to sponsor an episode, please connect with us on social media, and you can do that by following and liking our pages on Twitter or Facebook. Our handle there is at @leadershiphacker. Instagram, you can find us there at the_leadership_hacker, and on YouTube, we're just Leadership Hacker.   So that's me signing off.     I'm Steve Rush, and I have been The Leadership Hacker.     Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA  

Podcast show host Si Emmett talks with author, coach and simplist, Simon Tyler about his Simple Note "Absolutely!" - raising our awareness of the absolutes we speak and the impact it has on flow, creativity confidence, resistance and impact.

Simple Note Podcast host Si Emmett talks with coach and author Simon Tyler about the roles people play around you on the projects and initiatives in which you are involved. Some people help accelerate and others seem to decelerate progress, but all have value. Find out who's on your team.

Podcast host Si Emmett talks with coach, author and speaker Simon Tyler about leadership magnetism, what it is, how to attracts followers and ways to explore, find and articulate it.

SN Podcast host Si Emmett talks with coach, author, speaker Simon Tyler about "React or Respond" and how to enhance your impact in the world through heightening your awareness at times when you are triggered by people and situations.

Podcast host Si Emmett talks with author, speak and inspirational facilitator Simon Tyler about autonomy and the role it plays in the enjoyment and impact we have everyday. Inspired by Daniel Pink's recent book "Drive".

Host Si Emmett explores 'Noticing' from the latest Simple Note of coach, speaker, facilitator and author, Simon Tyler. In his view it is the number one skill for the future in enhancing our emotional awareness and growth mindset

Host Si Emmett discusses the power of gratitude with coach, author and speaker Simon Tyler, specifically developing the skill and application in the toughest and grittiest situations - Grititude!

Podcast Host Si Emmett talks with coach, speaker and author, Simon Tyler about rebooting his attitude, following a tough period of overwhelm, where his focus and mood went awry. This simple note podcasts explores ways to reboot when times your attitude drops in tough times.

Podcast Host Si Emmett talks with coach, author and speaker Simon Tyler about 'Clear The Drains', raising awareness on the energy boosters and drainers that fill our days and weeks and influence how we feel about things.

Host Si Emmett and speaker, author and coach Simon Tyler explore what sits underneath our commitments and how to increase our success through validating them and making them meaningful.

Host Si Emmett talks with coach, author and speaker Simon Tyler about annoyance! We change when we are triggered to become annoyed and the chances of connection and effective collaboration diminish. Exploring our annoy-triggers and shifting our pattern-response can lead to significant relationship benefits and positive results.

Host Si Emmett talks with coach, author and speaker Simon Tyler about his Simple Note "Addicted to Meetings? Meetings have taken over some corporate cultures and have lost their potency could now be the time for you to break the pattern and make the change to liberate your, and colleagues greater potential?

Host Si Emmett and author, coach and speaker Simon Tyler discuss our relationship to things we deem 'Impossible'. Once badged impossible, even at an unconscious level, restricts the chances of anything happening in spite of the impossibility.

Host Si Emmett talks with coach, speaker and author Simon Tyler about his Simple Note "The Path to Powerful You", noticing how we change in the moments following something not going as we hoped or planned, and finding the quick way to regain wisdom and power.

Host Si Emmett talks with author, speaker and coach Simon Tyler about his Simple Note Sliding Doors, activating our choice about the paths we follow to create better outcomes. With guest Richard Maddocks, author of the soon to be released Concise Advice title The Energy Book.

Host Si Emmett talks with author, speaker, coach and consultant, Simon Tyler about what to do when we lose our mojo, and life becomes lacklustre and trudging. Simon shares 3 Mojo-Igniters to get it back.

Host Si Emmett interviews author, coach and speaker, Simon Tyler on his Simple Note 'Decisions, Decisions, Decisions'. When we become used to adjusting to misalignment on decisions or get caught in patterns of deferring decisions it affects our impact, fulfilment, enjoyment, belief and sense of purpose.

Host Si Emmett talks with coach, speaker and author, Simon Tyler, about two Simple Notes in this blogcast. Bringing simplicity to leading change and using your words for greater impact in presentations.

Host Si Emmett talks with coach, speaker and author, Simon Tyler about his Simple Note exploring being in the now, and the greater potential that is there, not lost to thoughts of the past or the future. Including 3 ways to return to now.

Reflecting on last week's incredible Champions League results, inspirational author Simon Tyler talks to host Si Emmett about his latest Simple Note blog on how miracles do happen and how you can create them in your own world.

Host Si Emmett talks with speaker, author and coach Simon Tyler about commitment - when it is lost how we switch to complying or rebelling to the cause, direction or intent. Left uninvestigated these two states can become unhelpful for us individually and for our teams and organisations.

Host Si Emmett talks with Simon Tyler about his Simple Note "ACT - Attitude Change Time?", having observed the use of attitude with rower James Cracknell and golfer Rory McIlroy. From this Simon talks about the three elements that underpin the power of attitude for anyone.

Host Si Emmett talks with Attitude Guru, Simon Tyler, about what triggers attitudes... the attitude mode. Applying deliberate choice about your mode sets in motion the attitudes you truly want in order to bring the results and outcomes you seek in even the most challenging situations.

Host Si Emmett interviews author, motivational speaker and coach Simon Tyler on his simple note on Influence - observations from the world today of the lack of leadership influence and challenging leaders in any stage of their career to re-evaluate their influence intentions.

Show host, Si Emmett interviews author, coach and simplicity guru, Simon Tyler on his Simple Note about Gravitas. Having and displaying executive presence isn't a given thing, and is not dependent on your role, your age or seniority, it is available to all but through applying a deliberate first step... a GAP!

Host Si Emmett interviews author, consultant and inspirational speaker, Simon Tyler on his latest Simple Note - exploring the impact of the 'why' question and a better way to uncover your purposeful life and career path.

Host Si Emmett interviews Simon Tyler, Attitude, Simplicity and Impact guru on his Simple Note 3 Ways of Emotional Self Management. Exploring how we create unconscious rituals in relation to our emotions and the opportunity that exists to step in and positively disrupt the patterns to more effectively manage negative emotions.

Host Si Emmett talks with Simplicity, Attitude and Impact guru Simon Tyler about this latest Simple Note "Evolving the 5 Environments of You" - exploring how to initiate positive change.

Host Si Emmett in discussion with inspirational author and speaker, Simon Tyler, exploring the challenges of resolutions, making them meaningful and bringing them into life as 'in focus' and more likely to be achieved!

Si Emmett interviews coach and author Simon Tyler on his Simple Note "How to Redefine Your Attitude Story" - exploring the way we tell our story and the affect that has on our attitude and recurring everyday outcomes

Host Simon Emmett talks with The Simplist, coach, speaker and author Simon Tyler about his latest simple note, "Up and Down" - how our habitual ways of describing life's situations can affect our attitude, creativity and the positive flow.

Host Simon Emmett interviews coach, author and speaker Simon Tyler on his Simple Note 'Being in the now' and two simple yet powerful questions that can liberate overwhelm and being stuck emotionally.

Simon Emmett interviews coach, author and speaker Simon Tyler on his latest Simple Note about confidence and ways to draw it back out when it has gone into hiding! The secret? Act confidently, to draw your confidence back

Do we have a choice when it comes to attitude? Absolutely! Author and motivational speaker Simon Tyler discusses his insights in The Attitude Book and talks about how we can deliberately shift our attitudes to create positive change and outcomes. Visit https://www.bodyshotperformance.com/podcasts-blog for the complete show notes of every podcast episode. Topics Discussed in this Episode: What it means for Simon to be ‘a pioneer in Simplicity, Impact and Attitude’ How increasing his awareness of attitude and writing The Attitude Book have changed the way Simon approaches his own life and his coaching practice Changing your emotional soundtrack and ways to shift your attitude Some of the chapters contained in The Attitude Book: 50 Ways to Make Positive Change in Your Work and Life ‘Roomitude’ and how it affects culture change in companies Saying ‘no’ nicely The concept of the ‘thousand thank yous’ What it means to ‘sharpen your axe’ Key Takeaways: We can be really deliberate about our attitude. Music can help us get in a more positive frame of mind and become more resilient. What we read can profoundly shape our attitudes, mindsets, moods, and emotions. The ability to say no nicely can be an immense learning for some people. Asking review questions when you do work for others increases your strength and fortitude to begin to be able to say no, or notice when a ‘no’ is better than a ‘yes’. Gratitude is a very positive way to be engaged with what’s going on in your life. Action Steps: Spend a bit of time noticing what music you feel better in or more focused on and build your playlist. Consider doing a news ban. Explore how to say no nicely. Tip: Respond to a request with “Tell me more about what you’re asking me to do.” For people who have difficulty saying no, take the time to do a review: What work have I taken on for others this week? What have I enjoyed doing? What could somebody else have done of those things? Have my efforts been noticed? (Doing this kind of review heightens your awareness of what is going on.) Challenge yourself to deliver 1,000 thank yous in a calendar month. Take micro-breaks and find ways to rejuvenate yourself to keep yourself sharp, engaged and motivated. Simon said: “We are now in a world of choice... We can take all of this information whenever we want in the volume that we want, so we’ve got a choice. If you’re not deliberate about it, you are caught in a flotsam and jetsam… Your attitude is vulnerable.” “If everybody is consuming and allowing their attitudes to be just blended to what’s going on, all of a sudden, we’ve all got a cumulative group of bad attitudes. It’s no surprise.” Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out what your health IQ is, take the Health IQ test to find out, and get a free 39-page report built around our six signals, which are sleep, mental health, energy, body composition, digestion, and fitness. If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard on this episode and it’s added value to you, share the episode with someone you think could benefit from it. And don’t forget to leave a rating or a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Links to things we discuss in the show: Books by Simon Tyler: The Simple Way: 52 Ideas to Find Your Way Through Our Complex World The Keep It Simple Book The Impact Book: 50 Ways to Enhance Your Presence and Impact at Work (Concise Advice) The Attitude Book: 50 Ways to Make Positive Change in Your Work and Life 2017 (Concise Advice) More from Simon Tyler: Simon’s Website Simon’s Twitter (@simplysimont) Simon’s Instagram (@simplysimontyler) Simon’s LinkedIn Simon’s Email More from Leanne Spencer: Bodyshot Performance Bodyshot Performance Limited Facebook page Remove the Guesswork BOOK by Leanne SpencerRise and Shine BOOK by Leanne Spencer   Leanne’s Email

Simon Emmett interviews speaker, coach and author Simon Tyler on his Simple Note about the doubts and demons that gnaw at our attitude. When bad things happen, we have a choice about how we engage with the incident, before it changes our attitude.

Simon Emmett interviews speaker, coach and author, Simon Tyler on his most recent Simple Note which takes the sailing metaphor of being Downwind and looks at how it applies to seemingly perfect conditions in a work scenario.

Simon Emmett talks with Simon Tyler exploring leadership, and enquiring 'why people follow leaders'. Delving into what lies ahead of great leadership.

Simon Emmett interviews author, Simon Tyler on his latest Simple Note about the pace of leadership and a leader's impact on the pace of their followers and teams.

Simon Tyler talks through another of his Simple Notes, "To Erm Is Human". Focusing on the affect of over using umms and erms, and the way they may be reducing your impact when speaking.

Simon Emmett discusses Simple Note 131 'Expunge' with Simon Tyler. When we carry incomplete thoughts and emotions they influence and impair our attitude. It is time to 'expunge'!

Simon Emmett discusses Simple Note 133 - Stuffocation with author Simon Tyler. Our own sense of purpose can become suffocated by the accumulation of purposeless stuff.

Author Simon Tyler joins us to talk about his new book in the Concise Advice series "The Attitude Book". As human beings, we often find ourselves locked into certain habits, patterns and behaviours. However, that is not to say we do not have a choice, especially when it comes to our attitude toward people, situations and outcomes.  We discuss the various ways of how we can shift our attitudes into a positive direction plus how to handle negative outlooks and long term sustainability within teams and organisations.  Find out more: [Website](https://www.simontyler.com/) [Book](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DRFTCR3) [Episode 2](https://audioboom.com/posts/5751622-lid-radio-episode-23-keep-it-simple) [Episode 1](https://audioboom.com/posts/4251420-lid-radio-episode-4-impact) [Orphan X](http://gregghurwitz.net/orphan-x-thrillers-uk/)

Simon Emmett interviews Simon Tyler on his Simple Note #130 Peak Time. Noticing when we are at our best (our peak) and shifting expectations and focus accordingly can significantly enhance our impact.

Simon Tyler discusses his Simple Note with Simon Emmett. "Your Face Says It All" focuses on the effect our often unconscious facial expression has on our impact.

Simon Tyler talks through his Simple Note number 126 on Self Confidence. He explores ways to boost and bolster that magic attribute.

Podcast 562: The Impact Code with Simon Tyler by Greg Voisen

Simon Tyler on personal Impact. Links: www.lidpublishing.com https://twitter.com/lidpublishing https://www.facebook.com/lidpublishing https://www.linkedin.com/company/lid-publishing Simon can be found at: www.simontyler.com Twitter: simplysimont Linkedin: Simon Tyler

In this edition of The Productivityist Podcast Mike speaks with Simon Tyler, author of The Impact Code and The Simple Way. They talk about raising your impact level in business, simple ways to be more productive, and much more. Relevant Links http://simontyler.com/ (Simon Tyler | Website) http://amzn.to/1U8SjBC (The Impact Code by Simon Tyler) http://amzn.to/1RKO9T1 (The Simple Way by Simon Tyler) http://simontyler.com/simple-wisdom/simple-notes/ (Simple Notes | Simon Tyler) http://effortlessgent.com/ (Effortless Gent) https://twitter.com/simplysimont (Simon Tyler (@simplysimont) | Twitter) Thanks again for listening - and happy holidays!