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Nov 17, 2020
How do we develop perspective and vision? How do we develop the skills and abilities to lead organisations with thousands of employees? What is the most important thing in leadership? Experienced Director and farmer Georgie Somerset shares her well-earned wisdom in this awesome interview.
Why you should listen:
- Vision is about being able to make connections between disparate parts
- Getting away and ensuring thinking time allows vision and insight
- CEO as change agent, culture holder and people builder
We explore:
- The movement of kindness and Kirstin Ferguson’s Women Kind
- How to deal with difficult people: focus on how to bring out their best
- Be sure to work with the people who do show up
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About Georgie Somerset:
A beef producer and rural leader with experience in agribusiness, marketing and regional development, Georgie Somerset's work involves identifying opportunities, resolving issues, and creating linkages and networks across sectors.
Actively involved in beef production in Qld's South Burnett, Georgie is General President of AgForce Qld, representing 5500 members of the cattle, grain, sheep and wool and cane industries. She is also a director of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Qld Section) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and chairs the Red Earth Community Foundation South Burnett.
Georgie has served on a range of state and national committees and was a founder, and later president, of the Qld Rural, Regional and Remote Women's Network.
Her life prior to lock down combined cattle yards and board rooms, weeks spent between the farm and the city, and long drives for short meetings. These past months, she has been thankful for years of telecommunications advocacy resulting in reliable internet with sufficient data to utilise online platforms efficiently!
She believes in lifelong learning and education, and is passionate about regional communities, agriculture and its opportunities.
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About your podcast host, Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted stuff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.