Coaching Club Podcast

This podcast covers the wide range of topics, that all pop up in the context of my work as a coach & entrepreneur: leadership topics, learnings about entrepreneurship plus societal trends. Have fun listening to the interesting guests as well as my monologues.

Have fun!

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#040 🎙 Create your culture – or it just happens to you. Interview with Borut Jeglič of Thriverse.

• How he became a Chief Impact Creator.
• What kind of impact he is creating with his team.
• The crucial role of the company culture, even for Start-ups.
• The point where it’s useful for a Start-up CEO to think about an intentional company culture.
• How to approach this holistic process.
• The pitfalls of unintentional culture creation vs. an intentional approach.
• Why it is so important to be a good person.
• And finally: His motto „This too shall pass.“.

#038🎙 How to become unforgettable? Interview with Award-Winning Visibility Coach & Motivational speaker Gaëlle Beruel, founder of A Rockstar Mindset® + special gift🎁

We all want to be remembered, recognised and leave a legacy. The first step is here, to become unforgettable. Gaëlle had her lightbulb moment, when she had achieved everything, and every box on her „mental success list“ was ticked: Family, job, holidays. Sitting in the Eurostar on the back home from the holidays, she recognised that something was missing. She asked herself what was next for her. Today, she supports women to be seen, to be heard, to be recognised.
We dive into

• The importance of neuroscience in becoming visible,
• Gaëlle’s personal start into the journey to visibility, which was by pinterest,
• How she defined her purpose and how her business idea evolved by connecting the dots,
• Why the key point is to to give yourself the permission to think & to get creative,
• The main reason why women make themselves invisible,
• The necessity of personal role models.

To make you unforgettable, she shares three steps that you can implement immediately. So think creative, leave your comfort zone & become unforgettable.
As a special gift for you from Gaëlle: 22 Ways To Create Your Visibility Opportunities – 👉🏻Download here
Have fun.⭐️

#037🎙Sales for your success – why marketing is overrated and sales underrated. Interview with Meg Roundell Greene

Two women with one message: do more sales! As somebody with 20 years of experience in digital, marketing and advertising, Meg is the perfect guest. She offers business coaching specialising in sales and so supports women in mastering the art of it. She shares her philosophy of how to sell better and even how she sells her services successfully:

• Is sales really only failure, rejection and bad mood? Spoiler alert: no! It is an underrated, insight generating tool for you.
• Why it’s easier to handle a marketing strategy than a sales strategy – and why we don’t learn from marketing mistakes. Hint: Blaming something else or an algorithm for the failure is always easier than honest self-reflection.
• The important process of detachement from your product or service: When you are not focussed on yourself, you can focus on the client’s needs and sell well.
• How does a successful strategical sales strategy look like?
• What social seling really means vs. what is sold to you by successful consultants: Social selling is completely different to the lead farming and harvesting happening on business platforms.
• The tricky topic of price positioning: Why the money mindset will not work if the rest is not delivering.
• Creating trust by being consistent in every situation & with every touch point in your marketing.
• Three boosters that you can implement immediately to start a great sales strategy: Connect like in the cave, forget about yourself & being honestly curious.

Have fun!⭐️ 

#036🎙How to create a great working environment for you – at home: Interview with interior designer Raluca Racasan of I love this place, London

Our environment does influence and shape us 24 hours a day. It can make us more creative, motivated, happy as well as stressed. Think grey work cubicles in the office building or constant artificial light. New office interior concepts are improving the workplace environment, yet if people work from home, this remain empty.

With the symbiosis of home and office due to the concept of new work, we literally bring our work home into our cave. We are now business professionals in a private, sometimes distracting environment and vice versa. On a subconscious level, this is definitely having an effect on us, which we cannot avoid as human beings. Think of the cosy wear that had a boom during the pandemic. 

So how can we optimise our home to fit the new work requirements? Are there possibilities to separate work and play when they are located in the same room? And what can I do if my budget is close to zero? Raluca’s holistic approach to interior design combines the client’s / your personal objectives, the architectural framework as well as learnings from environmental psychology. Her process starts with an extensive list of easy open questions, which will make you start thinking about what kind of environment you really want and need for your wellbeing. Surprisingly, there are a lot of things we can change within ten minutes. 

She shares her easy-to-implement ideas on the example on three very realistic cases:

1. Rented home & very tiny budget: How can we improve it, if there a lot of restrictions when it comes to changing things?

2. Office space integrated into the bedroom: Is it possible to work & sleep in the same room without negatively influencing the other part of life? 

3. Blow the budget: When you have a spare room without budget limitations.

4. As a bonus: How to create a recreation zone for the quick break in-between.

We will discuss not only ergonomic chairs, lighting, wall papers and even the surprising importance of your coffee mugs. Enjoy and have fun re-designing your home.⭐️

#035🎙 Diversity/DEIBJ: 🙌🏻Relevance & importance, 📝definition, equality vs. equity, four simple steps for a sustainable strategy & strategy development🚀

• What we can learn from Star Wars 
• Why diversity is relevant & important for your company 
• Which dimensions are summarised under diversity/DEIBJ 
• Is there something like „the one golden“ approach for a diversity strategy? 
• Why it’s recommended from my side  to apply the the approach of equity rather than equality 
• Four steps to kick-start a diversity strategy in your company, including proposals for quick measures 
• The use & importance of KPIs 

#034🎙 Role Models: Proceed until apprehended – find your motto and stick to it. Interview with Natascha McIntyre Hall

Natascha McIntyre Hall has an Executive Role in the Development & Construction industry, and was nominated as one of the Top 5 most influential female clients to work with in 2022. Yes: She made it up the ladder in a very male industry. She also has a Masters in Pure Mathematics. And her current major goal & driver is to redefine profit in the industry, from solely monetary to the true benefit to a community through inclusive design. So you should definitely meet her.
My personal reasons, why she is a role model to me: Her outspokenness, the openness & passion she talks about the topics important to her. Also, our shared acknowledgment that we have to make the best of our time & think it’s important to talk to strangers.

• As a start, due to current developments, we also talked about the role model function of Queen Elisabeth II. So what did she do? She showed people what was possible. She drove the King of Saudi Arabia around behind the steering wheel, changed the law of succession, had a big heart for her horses as well as dogs. All this by devoting her own life to a role/career that she even did not pick herself. With massive amount of self-discipline.
• So what is Natascha’s advice to climb the career ladder? What are her notable achievements & further plentiful ideas to make housing more socially profitable? She gives detailed hands-on-learnings, how to approach the needs of people & why a diversity of ideas is vital to make a project inclusive. Big hint: Gen Z is hugely important as well to create the living of the future.

Finally, we discuss, why it is important to be outspoken, and to live your life, because „life is when you have other plans.“.
My favourite quote: „The ability to speak the truth is sometimes a blessing but sometimes a curse.“

• How can you approach developing an authentic tone of voice for your brand?
• How the language of things like recruitment ads reveals the true culture behind the marketing ‘gloss’. What are the simple techniques HR teams can use to make your job advertising more effective?
• The importance of brand coherency at every touchpoint, internally as well as well as facing outside.
• Can any brand become a friend by using fun and humour? Or might there be limitations?
• Ist Apple wieder einmal das Paradebeispiel – oder geht es einfach darum, geschäftliche Silos aufzubrechen?
• How important is an approachable, easy to understand Purpose statement?
• Does the CEO have a big role to play? Hint: as they say in Japan, ‘the fish rots from the head.’

#030🎙Wie kann man Talente anziehen? Mit einer 4-Tage-Woche. Interview mit Margaret Cox, CEO der ICE Group

New Work ist derzeit weltweit ein sehr aktuelles Thema, auch aufgrund der durch Covid-19 veränderten Arbeitsumgebung. Ich hatte das große Glück, zufällig eine echte Innovatorin und Disruptorin der Arbeitswelt zu treffen: Margaret Cox, CEO der ICE Group mit Sitz in Galway, Irland.

Sie spricht nicht nur über New Work sondern hat einen viel größeren Schritt getan, als Home Office, Obstkörbe und kostenloses Wasser anzubieten: Die Einführung einer 4-Tage-Woche ohne Lohnkürzungen für die Mitarbeiter und eine 100%ige Verfügbarkeit für die Kunden.

Und wie haben sie das geschafft?

• Der ganze Prozess begann mit einer der drängendsten Fragen, die sich Arbeitgeber heute stellen: Wie kann man als KMU in einem sehr wettbewerbsintensiven Umfeld, in dem große Marken den Lebenslauf glänzender machen, Talente anziehen? Die Lösung: Ein echter Mitarbeitervorteil in Form der 4-Tage-Woche ohne Gehaltskürzung.
• Was sind die Ergebnisse nach zwei Jahren? Z. B. eine Produktivitätssteigerung von 27 % und eine deutliche Verringerung der Krankheitsfälle, die fast bei Null liegt.

Margaret ist auch eine begeisterte Botschafterin für die 4-Tage-Woche und möchte sie in ganz Europa einführen. Wenn du mehr erfahren möchtest, besuche einfach https://4dayweek.ie/.

Hört hier die ganze inspirierende Geschichte an, einschließlich exklusiver Einblicke, wie die Vision zum Leben erweckt wurde und die detaillierten Prozessschritte.

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