Gary Ryan - What Really Matters For Undergraduate Students
By Gary Ryan
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Podcast Description
Undergraduate students are regularly unaware of the employability skills that they are developing at university or in part time jobs or volunteer opportunities. As a result many undergraduate students believe that they don't have any 'relevant' experience. Employability skills are generic skills that are important in any technical field of expertise. This series helps undergraduate students to indentify these skills and to commence practicing them in a way that will acclerate their careers.
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Three steps for planning - anything! | Gary Ryan explains a practical three step approach for creating effective plans for just about anything! | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Storm Damage - Why leading with integrity matters | Gary Ryan uses the recent poor behaviour of some elite sport executives in Melbourne Australia to highlight how leading with integrity matters. | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To improve your academic performance, increase your fitness | Many students don’t realise the direct relationship between their fitness and their academic performance. Gary explains this connection and includes simple tips for eating and exercise. | 3/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to leverage part time and volunteer work | Part time and volunteer work are essential for developing employability skills. Gary explains each of the ten core employability skills and provides clear examples to help you to put these skills into practice. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Setting Groundrules - The Why And The How | Groundrules are a simple and effective way to significantly ENHANCE team performance. Yet most people don't create them. Don't be like them, be different. Follow the simple Three Questions Structure set out in this episode to both create groundrules and to keep them ALIVE for your team. Your team's experience of working together as well as your performance will both be ENHANCED. | 2/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Plan for personal success | Many people make New year resolutions that simply don’t work. Gary explains three key reasons why they don’t work, and then offers seven steps to effectively plan for personal success. | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Mental Models | Gary explains what mental models are in a simple and effective way to enable you to become more effective, both personally and at work. | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learn How To Accept Your Brutal Reality | Many of us experience difficult times in our lives. While we are experiencing these difficult times it is often hard to see beyond them. Recognising our Turning Points can assist us in developing confidence from our past difficult experiences. Our lives often teach us that we are able to make our way through our challenges. We must accept the brutal reality of our challenges, while at the same time never losing the faith that somehow we will be better for having had the experience. | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Danger of Jumping To Conclusions | While on a long run one winter's morning, Gary Ryan took some action based on a false conclusion. Discovering his mistake inspired gary to use his experience to explain a very useful tool, the Ladder of Inference. This tool helps us to slow down from jumping to conclusions that can cause us to take incorrect actions. | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Little Ideas Can Make a Big Difference | On a recent service excellence site evaluation of a call centre in a large Australian based financial institution, Gary Ryan discovered how a couple of 'little ideas' can make a BIG difference during difficult economic times. | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discover Your Personal Values | Gary Ryan defines personal values and uses examples to help illustrate what they are and how they are used. An activity is included to assist you in identifying your personal values. | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Questions, Oprah, Dancers and Innovation | Oprah's 24th year program opening celebration in Michigan Avenue Chicago was the scene of an amzing 21,00- flash mob dance. Gary relates this event to the power of questions and how they catalyse innovation. | 11/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leadership For Kids Provides Lessons For Adults | Gary shares three key lessons from his work with children that adults could do well to understand. The three lessons are: 1) Everyone is a leader 2) The Figure 8 of Leadership 3) Being responsible for your choices | 11/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dee Hock - an example of a Servant Leader | Dee Hock, founding CEO of VISA International was the driving force behind the creation of one of the most dynamic, complex organisations of our time. Despite being pragmatic in its pursuit for profit, VISa is also a highly values based organisation. Dee Hock was a Servant Leader and his approach is an example to us all. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Shared Mental Model That Chokes Truth To Power | Mental models about leadership can stop people from sharing what they think. Based on a real life example in elite sport, Gary highlights the power that mental models have and shares a way to ensure that teams perform to their potential. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 15 Episodes |
