Leadership Shenanigans

Ep 6 - A Psychopaths playground and an employees nightmare

A deadly virus is a psychopath’s dream and although non-criminal psychopaths known as primary psychopaths or successful psychopaths are not normally killers they could essentially become secret killers in a pandemic.
In the workplace, a psychopath may use this time to carelessly put staff in danger. They may appear to be abiding by the rules giving out hand sanitizer or expecting you to bring your own yet not using it themselves believing they are invincible or sadistically hoping they will contract the virus enabling them to spread it around licking your favorite pen when your away from your desk or coughing uncontrollably on your mouse.
This episode discusses psychopaths in the workplace during a pandemic and how they can thrive in an environment of fear and use the pandemic as another tool to manipulate and be crawl to employees and others.
Links
Coronavirus: ‘The future has come roaring at us and it feels as if it doesn’t like us’: Nikki Gemmell – The Australian
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine/coronavirus-the-future-has-come-roaring-at-us-and-it-feels-as-if-it-doesnt-like-us/news-story/ecacd0b85fbad8f876a53b1328a0fa27
Coronavirus: Japanese man dies after going to bar to spread virus: Natalie Brown
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-japanese-man-dies-after-going-to-bar-to-spread-virus/news-story/5a826d923a810d9a0dda604ba1a2b670#.li1di
 JobKeeper: Dodgy bosses ripping off workers over coronavirus – Samantha Maiden – 16th April 2020
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/jobkeeper-dodgy-bosses-ripping-off-workers-over-coronavirus/news-story/2adcdec26b68d693061c9f6f910faba4
 
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Ep 5 -Followership or followship? Every captain needs deck hands

Followership is an important component of leadership not often spoken about. Without followers, you are not a leader and without leaders, followers have no one to ... well, follow.  In this podcast, I draw on pop culture and social media influences to better understand the importance and psychology behind followership.  I, unfortunately, keep calling it "followship" instead of the current term "followership" so you will have to bear with this error as it became a bit of a tongue twister for me. Enjoy! Fiona x
Below are some useful links:
Why Followership is now more important than Leadership? Forbes Magazine January 2016, Rob Asghar – Leadership Strategist  https://www.forbes.com/sites/robasghar/2016/01/17/why-followership-is-now-more-important-than-leadership/#77b194795d64
Are you a leader or a follower? Travis Bradberry – Author, Talent Smart, Entrepreneur Asia Pacific, 16 July 2015 https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/248293
 
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Ep 4 - Beyond the Numbers - Public Value in the Community Sector

Demonstrating the value of a community support organisations (CSOs), can be challenging.  Measuring community impact and client outcomes beyond “numbers through the door” can provide an understanding of the value of CSOs to consumers, the public and Government. 
One way in which outcomes can be measured is through considering the value provided by a service to the public.  Public value (PV) is a framework which has been used as a vessel for understanding the activities of Government and clarifying policy and service delivery (O'Flynn, 2007).  In essence, “public value creation is the process of adding value to public sector organisations through the exercising of increased managerial autonomy” (Grant et al., 2014, p.18). 
The value provided by CSOs could potentially be evaluated with this same framework which has previously served as a structure for health care improvement (Porter, 2010) to benefit all key stakeholders including individual consumers, organisations and Government.  Government is typically responsible for creating an environment and resources to provide PV, while the organisation generates the social impact within the environment (Alford & Hughes, 2008). 
Commonly PV has only been used as a governance tool for performance measurement (Alford & O'Flynn, 2009) and to determine decisions about budgets, policies and laws (Chapman, 2005), however, it is proposed that PV can be used to facilitate mutually beneficial partnerships and collaboration between Government and CSOs.  The PV Framework has primarily been used in the public sector and to date there has been little application of the concept of PV to CSOs. 
The PV Framework encourages managers to seek out opportunities for change that can increase value for money and improve services to the public within current resources (Moore, 2013).  By understanding what the public need and providing services to fill any identified gaps PV is created; building trust between the community and Government or CSOs.  Trust is at the centre of PV and fulfils the desire for freedom and security and the need for flexibility and control (Talbot, 2008).
This research project suggests that the concept of PV can be applied to CSOs as a tool for evaluating services and as a vessel for understanding the broader value these services provide beyond the services delivered.  PV could be used as a quality improvement framework to provide increased service efficiency and quality, better outcomes for consumers and communities, and greater consumer confidence in Government health investments.  This presentation will explore the potential use of PV by CSOs in the contemporary Australian social environment and seek feedback on whether a generic or specific service approach would be most useful when applying the PV framework in the private sector. 
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Ep 3 - I think there’s a psychopath sitting next to me

In Episode 3, Fiona discusses the traits of workplace psychopaths as well as what organisations can do to ensure they do not promote these individuals to leadership roles, where they can do the most damage.  "The wisdom of psychopaths" by Kevin Dutton is the prompt for this episode and recommended as a great read for people interested in this area. 
Fiona
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Ep 2 - So you want to be a Manager? What should you expect.

Episode #2
Episode two covers the topic of becoming a manager and what to expect from this experience and also what things you should consider before moving up in your career.  I talk about my experiences of management and the things I failed to consider when I moved in to a high level role.  Hope this provides some food for thought. Enjoy!
Anne even joins in on the chat this time - meowww
Fiona & Annie
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