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Business Leader Breakthroughs helps you unlock the potential in yourself, teams and businesses.
Hosted by Ryan Castle, along with Dr Mike Ashby, we share insights, experiences and stories on achieving breakthrough successes in business and life.
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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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreCreating 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreMike 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreMike and Ryan share their knowledge on how to use delegation to take your business to the next level. They explain the different types of delegations and give tips on how to decide what should be delegated and what to do with tasks that no one wants to do, because guess what - you don't actually HAVE to do those.
Read MoreMike and Ryan talk around 3 big strategic questions that they use to help clients think about where their business is currently at, how it can do better and why it isn't reaching the heights that they want it to.
Read MoreIn this weeks podcast Mike and Ryan share a wealth of knowledge on exactly how to evaluate what should be prioritised and how to be more active throughout the day to make sure you're not being distracted by those priorities you've committed to.
Read MoreWelcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every second Tuesday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. This weeks episode is about why marketing is so important, that it should be just as good as the product you are selling.
Read MoreThis week, Ryan was joined by Estelle as she inspires us with her top three insights on what makes a great people leader. She gives us some insight on what it’s like being the HR leader to some of the most intelligent people in New Zealand and the challenges that can bring.
Read MoreIn this podcast episode, Mike and Ryan share their insights around learning and give advice on how to learn effectively. They discuss what learning is exactly, what the stages of learning are, why learning is hard and why it’s supposed to be hard, and how you can motivate yourself to achieve your learning goals.
Read MoreDiversity of gender, age, ethnicity and everything else is important, however you also need to have diversity of thinking - neurodiversity. In this weeks podcast, Mike and Ryan tell you how to create your neurodiverse team and how to utilize each way of thinking to create incredible business result.
Read MoreThis weeks episode is about the no bullsh*t approach to fitness, health and wellness and how we need to shift the focus from crash dieting to living a healthy lifestyle.
Read MoreOn this weeks podcast, Angela shares the secret of the success of her company – people. We also hear her journey to becoming an entrepreneur with two daughters and her top 3 insights on what has made her the successful leader she is today.
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