Gary Ryan What Really Matters For Employability Development
By Gary Ryan
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Podcast Description
This series is for people who want to enhance their employability. Maintaining a high level of Employability or Transferable skills are paramount for professional, personal and career success. This Podcast series explores and explains the broad range of key skills that are included in the concept of Employability and Transferable skills. If you want to advance your employability, then download this series NOW! Visit www.orgsthatmatter.com for more information.
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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! | 7/7/10 | 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. | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Andrew O'Brien Interview with author Gary Ryan | Interviewed by Dr Andrew O'Brien, Gary Ryan, author of the new book What Really Matters For Young Professionals!, shares insights on each of the 15 practices featured in the book. This interview includes practical tips to enable you to accelerate your career. | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to host difficult workplace conversations | Difficult workplace conversations are often not addressed. Gary explains a process to make these conversations a possibility within your team. Why? The capacity to hold difficult conversations will enhance your team’s performance. | 3/13/10 | 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. | 2/14/10 | 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. | 2/14/10 | 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 amazing 21,000 flash mob dance. Gary relates this event to the power of questions and how they catalyse innovation. | 11/25/09 | 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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Mentoring in the Master-Apprentice mould | As a trainer of mentors and facilitator of mentor-mentee relationships Gary regularly scans for articles in the field. After discovering and reading an interesting newspaper article about the success of a master-apprentice relationship, Gary wonders whether such relationships can and do exist in modern times. | 11/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Relationship Between Purpose and Goals | A dinner table conversation catalysed by Gary's seven year old daughter helped inspire this episode. Personal goals that are related to a higher level purpose helps both the goals to be achieved, as well as enabling people to live their purpose and create the life that they desire. Gary explains this relationship and provides three questions that enable you to identify the purpose to which your personal goals relate. | 10/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Synchronicity of Inspiration | Gary explains the importance of taking action even when you may think that no-one is being positively influenced by what you are doing. The catalyst for this episode was born in the middle of a marathon in which Gary was participating. While struggling with discomfort, Gary found inspiration from a person who was taking action; nothing more and nothing less. | 10/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Providing Great Service Means That Your Staff Come First | Citing examples from Southwest Airlines in the USA and his own experience when a young manager, Gary Ryan explains why staff come first and not customers when you want to provide great service to your customer! | 10/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Structure Drives Behaviour - A Powerful Concept | The Systems Thinking concept of Structure Drives Behaviour is fundamental to being able to solve many organisational problems. Gary provides three examples to illustrate how this concept works in practice. The three examples include a university student, a career professional and an elite athlete. For more information visit www.orgsthatmatter.com. | 9/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Organisational Community Spaces - An example of creating a c | Gary provides some examples of disrespectful behaviour toward organisational community spaces. A range of underlying mental models for these behaviours are explored. Three steps are described to enable weight of numbers to be developed toward creating a more respectful culture. | 9/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to keep your team focused on organisational objectives | This episode of the Professional and Employability Development Series focuses upon answering a question that I was asked at a recent seminar that I was conducting. The question was, "What is the most important thing that you have to do as a manager to keep your team focused on organisational objectives?". This Podcast provides one answer to this question. A Slidecast (presentation with Podcast) is also available at www.studentsthatmatter.ning.com. Please join if you wish to access the Slidecast presentation. | 9/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Seven Skills of Dialogue | Dialogue is a much used term, but is a poorly understood skill. Gary explains each of the seven skills of dialogue and provides practical tips with regard to enhancing your capacity to practice this form of conversation. The capacity to dialogue enhances performance which is why it is such an important skill to develop both individually and in team environments. | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leveraging Employability Skills for Employment Success | Gary defines 'Employability Skills' and identifies the 10 skills that are included in this concept. A storytelling technique is explained to assist you in preparing for interviews to enhance your success in obtaining your desired employment. | 9/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Importance of Understanding Our 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. | 9/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Personal Values - our rudders that guide us through life | 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. | 9/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Systems Thinking - What is it? | Gary Ryan introduces the five defining characteristics of a system and relates them to the practice of Systems Thinking in an organisational context. | 9/6/09 | 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. | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Danger of Jumping to Conclusions | 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. | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When doing NOTHING can be Great Leadership | Many leaders struggle with their responsibility to develop other people. This is especially true when a leader is allowing their team member to perform a task that the leader could do themself. Gary Ryan shares a recent story about a leader who resisted this temptation and showed great leadership by doing 'nothing'. | 9/3/09 | 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. | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Accept Your Brutal Reality But Never Lose The Faith | 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. | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
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