213 Leadership skills for having curly conversations with author Kate Christiansen

May 25, 2021

Leadership frameworks for having conversations that move you forward 

Knowledge and information is everywhere - but if you don’t ask the right questions you won’t get the answers you need. Kate Christiansen shares the leadership skills that have helped her have 25 years of curly conversations that avoid default thinking and create connections.

Why you should listen: leadership skills for questions that will move you forward

• Why shifting your leadership perspective from answers to questions will unlock knowledge

• Avoiding mental ‘drift’ by using questions to tether your leadership thinking

• Kate’s top three go-to questions for effective change leadership

We explore flipping the leadership perspectives that result in default thinking

• Leaders as chefs - from following recipes to on the fly ‘cooking’ 

• Getting the people stuff right in transformation

• How recognising that you don’t always know the right answer is a leadership strength

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Shownotes: www.zoerouth.com/podcast/leadership-skills-kate-christiansen

About Kate Christiansen:

Kate Christiansen is Australia’s leading expert on Curly Conversations. She helps leaders and teams to navigate disruption by enabling them to think, feel and take action together, when disruption tries to pull them apart.

Kate is a practitioner, not a theorist and she's an award-winning author. Her latest book, Curly Conversations for Teams: Dive into discomfort. Dare to do things differently. Deliver despite disruption chrystalises 25-years spent confronting some pretty curly conundrums. In it, Kate shares her compassion, experience and deep insight into the world of disruption and shows leaders and teams how to embrace uncertainty and step into the unknown with confidence.

Related episodes on leadership skills:

155 The Leadership skills needed for change with Joe Jackman

137 Strategic thinking is a must have leadership skill with Jo Metcalfe

147 In leadership people skills are so important with Erik Johnson

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About your host,  Canberra leadership expert 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 staff 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.

www.zoerouth.com