Leadership Decanted
Curious about leaders, leading teams, or leadership? So are Paul Garcia and Kerry "KG" Butler. In fact, they turned their periodic happy hour chats about life and leadership into the Leadership Decanted Podcast. Join Paul and KG as they discuss all things leadership. Each episode of Leadership Decanted asks fascinating questions about leadership and keeps the conversation flowing over a nice bottle of wine.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 82
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Cheeky Half Episode (14): Leading through Grief.
Life can sometimes beat us around, and it doesn't care who you are or what responsibilities you hold in an organisation. And yet, if you do hold a position where you have responsibility over others, …
(3.06) Leadership in the heat of battle.
"Two sporting teams, both alike in dignity, In fair London, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean." (with sincere apologies to M…
Cheeky Half Episode (13): Leadership and the subtle art of influencing.
Is influence an essential trait for effective leadership?
Join Paul & KG as they explore different notions of influence. Is it persuasion? Is it manipulation? How about the art of telling compelling …
(3.05) This feels awkward... Leading through discomfort.
In leadership roles, we often face uncomfortable conversations and encounters. When experiencing these unsettling situations, we have a few options. These include enduring the discomfort and navigati…
Cheeky Half Episode (12): Leader, Heal Thyself!!
The term 'Self Care' has become a common one. However, the practice itself, as it pertains to those in leadership positions, seems to be as scarce or as ad hoc as ever. Why should we care about 'Self…
(3.04) Learning from our leadership failures.
Celebrating our leadership successes should be a joyful and necessary practice. However, if we are not attentive to our leadership shortcomings, especially our failures, then we are condemned to repe…
Cheeky Half Episode (11): Leadership & the Tyranny of Time
It's not unusual for any of us to feel under the pump, where there just aren't enough hours in the day to get done what needs to get done. It is a perennial challenge that often ends with us spinning…
Cheeky Half Episode (10): Leadership as a Popularity Contest
Leadership can sometimes feel like a cross between a talent show, where your leadership capabilities are always being judged, and a high-stakes survival show, where you constantly have to choose betw…
(3.02) Leadership 'in the wild' (or, running with the 'Banshees'...)
Apparently, there are some things about leadership that make Paul want to squirm and run into the woods, shrieking like a Banshee. On this occasion he was disturbed and triggered by our special guest…
Cheeky Half Episode (9): Leadership & the Voices that speak it
Anyone with any interest in the Australian context will know 2023 is going to be a significant year for many of our leaders holding public office. This is the year a national referendum is put to the…
(3.01) Reframing Leadership: Changing direction.
As a new season of Leadership Decanted kicks off, Paul & KG discuss what it might take to refresh and reframe their leadership practices, as they are very mindful that all of those qualities, practic…
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Our 2023 Leadership Decanted teaser!
KG & Paul are looking forward to sharing ideas, thoughts, conversation - and some very good wine - as we continue to explore the vast leadership landscape.
We'd lov…
(2.11) You must remember this: Leadership in 2022, our reflections and reminiscences
It's that time in our lives when we look back, doe-eyed and in soft focus, to a magical year... Hmm, maybe not. Despite our penchant for a nice glass (or two) of wine during our Leadership Decanted c…
Cheeky Half Episode (8): Leadership, why would you?!?
Thanks to a listener question, KG & Paul are reminded of their leadership 'scars' as they contemplate the question of why anyone would want to lead at all! Is it purpose, is it force of personality o…
(2.10) Vanilla Leadership: Not as bland as you might think
Vanilla has had a bad rap over the years. Often associated with blandness and things vaguely unremarkable, to be called 'Vanilla' can be experienced as a back-handed compliment at best, and a dismiss…
Cheeky Half Episode (7): How much do we trust our leaders?
As it turns out, not a huge amount.
Paul & KG visit the website of the Australian Leadership Index. Driven by Swinburne University of Technology, the index "provides a way to measure how people view t…
(2.9) What We Leave Behind: The Legacy of Leadership
The death of Queen Elizabeth II has generated more commentary, analysis and nostalgic introspection in the last few weeks than we can ever remember. Despite the overwhelming avalanche of words, Paul …
Cheeky Half Episode (6): Leadership in support of Gender Affirmation
Questions of gender identity are becoming more commonplace in public discourse, but not everyone in leadership has necessarily grappled with all the complexities wrapped around those conversations. P…
(2.8) Quantum Leadership: A leap in leadership development
Leadership development takes time. Sometimes it's a painstaking process where the results couldn't come fast enough, teasing us with the smallest of incremental results. But what if you could find a …