[EP 77] How to Navigate Hybrid Working with Ali Hill

This week, we interviewed Ali Hill on what exactly hybrid working is and how you can use it to create a high performing team. She shares the three pillars of success when it comes to creating a framework for your hybrid work environment and how you can implement them in your organisation.

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[MINISODE EP 29] - How To Make Working From Home Work For You

In this weeks episode, we travel back in time to when COVID-19 first hit as Mike and Ryan cover how to successfully work from home.

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[EP 76] Rob Pyne on Transforming Your Leadership Team Through Emotional Intelligence

In this week’s podcast, Ryan interviews Rob Pyne on how focusing on the EQ of your leadership team before your IQ can create a collective leadership that performs better than any one person ever could alone.

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[MINISODE EP 28] - What's Productivity Worth to Your Business?

This weeks episode covers an important question most business leaders have when they are about to invest in leadership training – How do you measure the results of leadership development programmes?

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[EP75] Make Clear Communication Your Superpower

In this week’s podcast, Mike and Ryan share how to turn clear communication into your teams superpower. They share tips on what to do and what you should avoid if you want to get the best communication and contribution out of your team.

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[MINISODE EP 27] The Regrets of the Dying

Inspired from the book by Bronnie Ware, Mike and Ryan go over the 5 main regrets of the dying, what can be learned from them, and how to apply these to improve both your business and personal life.

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[EP74] The Power of Daily Scrums

In this week's podcast, Ryan shares how we structure our scrums and how you can implement them into your business. He also shares all the do’s and don’ts that we've learned along the way to keep the scrums running smoothly.

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[MINISODE EP 26] Changing the Organisation From the Middle, Out

Your business will only change if your managers match your energy for improvement. In this podcast Mike and Ryan chat about the “leadership diamond” framework as developed by McKinsey in their book “Leadership at Scale”, and discuss and relate it to their own insights and experience with transforming organisations.

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[MINISODE EP 25] 4 Types of People Who Take Meetings off Track

Mike and Ryan discuss how to effectively run a meeting, and how to deal with people that get your meeting off track.

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[MINISODE EP 24] How to Fix Your Boring Meetings

Mike and Ryan talk about the importance of team meetings in shaping your company culture. They talk about do’s and don’ts in team meetings and share examples from our own meetings at the Breakthrough Co, providing a great starting point for you to create a more energising meeting and culture for your team.

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[EP73] Critical Trends for Ops Leaders and What You Can Do About Them

We recently conducted a survey with over one hundred operational leaders in the productive sector asking about their challenges, opportunities, growth/decline, focus, and goals. Mike and Ryan have cherry-picked the most relevant insights from the report and interview to discuss in this week's podcast, sharing some of the biggest challenges being faced by businesses in New Zealand.

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[MINISODE EP 23] You Can't Fake Work Culture

Creating a company culture is not just writing some values on the walls and expecting your employees to live them. In this weeks Minisode, Mike and Ryan share how you can achieve a great work culture, or, how you can keep your culture flourishing.

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[EP72] How to Develop Your Team

In this week's podcast, Mike and Ryan discuss exactly how you can develop that talent in your team to create greater business results. They provide actionable steps you can take to begin developing your staff along with the most effective way to give feedback.

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[MINISODE EP 22] Mindfulness is Valuable for EVERY Business

Mike and Ryan cover mindfulness in a work context. Along with explaining just how important it is that you stay mindful at work, they share their own experiences with mindfulness and tips and practices they use every day.

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[EP71] 3 Things All Staff Want of Their Leaders

In this week's podcast we turn Mike from host to guest to ask him what he thinks are the top three things all staff want from their leaders. Understanding how these three insights can have a multitude of positive effects on your business and how you can implement them into your business.

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[MINISODE EP 21] How Outsourcing and Freelancing Jobs Could Change Your Business

This weeks episode Ryan is joined by Milena, head of digital at The Breakthrough, to talk why outsourcing work on websites such as Upwork has been a vital part of growing our business.

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