Angela Foster Performance Podcasts - Episode 44
EP 44 – Leadership Hacker
Angela is with Steve Rush, author of the best-selling book, Leadership Cake and the Host of The Leadership Hacker Podcast. As CEO of Improov Consulting, he’s a People and Business Transformation Expert and Leadership Coach, helping organisations and individual leaders globally improve performance, productivity and engagement
Angela and Steve discuss the importance of sleep, recovery and understanding that creating governance, clear structure and discipline are fundamental if you want to achieve freedom and maintain high performance.
Great leadership is about empowering others and having high levels of self-awareness and Steve shares great information about what you can do to grow your own self-awareness and why the support of others to help you understand how your work is perceived is what makes the difference, listen in and learn more.
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Leadership Hacker
Angela is with Steve Rush, author of the best-selling book, Leadership Cake and the Host of The Leadership Hacker Podcast. As CEO of Improov Consulting, he’s a People and Business Transformation Expert and Leadership Coach, helping organisations and individual leaders globally improve performance, productivity and engagement
Angela and Steve discuss the importance of sleep, recovery and understanding that creating governance, clear structure and discipline are fundamental if you want to achieve freedom and maintain high performance.
Great leadership is about empowering others and having high levels of self-awareness and Steve shares great information about what you can do to grow your own self-awareness and why the support of others to help you understand how your work is perceived is what makes the difference, listen in and learn more.
Key Takeaways
- We spend more time in non-verbal communication so understanding sensory acuity is key.
- We are programmed from a very early age but we are able to continually able to pivot and change our thinking. If you want to instil new behaviours it’s about routines and repetition.
- Visualisation and having an end goal is vital but it all starts with basic foundations of what am I going to do today and how am I going to do it?
- We all want to be in control and feel important. Learning to give control away of the things you can give away control of is the key to creating freedom
- If we don’t give ourselves the ability to be organised, disciplined and get things done then we will never be able to do the things we want to do.
- Creating governance and clear structure and discipline is what allows you to maintain high performance.
- Recovery is a paradigm shift – you have to take time out to be more productive. Recovery is about doing something that helps you to regenerate and gives you energy. It could be as simple as taking a walk or being thoughtful for a few minutes.
- Its ultimately about loving what you do and having a passion for what you do. When you have a passion, you will have energy
Best Moments
‘If I am working late there is a give back in my diary schedule’
‘The Charlie Chaplin effect – research has shown that as a species after 15-20 minutes we are looking for a distraction’
‘To maintain high performance, we have to take timeout’
Valuable Resources
- High Performance Health podcast series
- Transform your sleep
- DNA optimization
- High Performance website
- www.improovconsulting.com
- www.leadershipcake.com
- The Leadership Hacker Podcast
- Steve Rush LinkedIn
- The Leadership Hacker Instagram
- The Leadership Hacker Facebook
- Steve Rush Twitter
- Leadership Hacker Twitter
- Leadership Cake Twitter
Contact Details
About the Host
Angela Foster
Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.
After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:
To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.
Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.
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