Our Watch CEO, Patty Kinnersly, on how to use your team to change your mindset on hard days.

03/27/23 • 28 min

When you’re not feeling like you’re on your game, motivation’s waning, and you can’t talk yourself out of your funk, no matter how many positive affirmations you recite, it’s time to look towards your team.
In this episode with Patty Kinnersly, Chief Executive Officer of Our Watch + Vice President of the Carlton Football Club Board, we discuss a really powerful technique to use your team to change your mindset in an unexpected way.
Our Watch, a not-for-profit organisation established to drive nationwide change in the structures, norms and practices that lead to violence against women and their children. A leading health, welfare and education professional, Patty was Chief Executive Officer of Women’s Health Grampians for nine years, before joining Our Watch. Patty has extensive governance experience, serving on the boards of Ballarat Health Services, the Australian Women's Health Network, Rural Northwest Health, and Child and Family Services Ballarat.
In this episode, we discuss:

How Patty fuels and engages her team, even during change
The lessons Patty draws on to keep herself and her team motivated, even on hard days
Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging leadership

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If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat.

Find out more about the workshop + register here: https://topfivemovement.com/teams/

How Patty fuels and engages her team, even during change
The lessons Patty draws on to keep herself and her team motivated, even on hard days
Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging leadership

Links:

If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat.

Find out more about the workshop + register here: https://topfivemovement.com/teams/

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A client recently shared that we’ve made their team unbreakable.
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As a team of award-winning mindset coaches, we deliver innovative leadership programs that disrupt unhelpful thinking + patterns, develop new perspectives, raise the bar on solutions, and help your leaders create high performing teams.
Led by Clare Desira, International Coach of the Year and Fellow of the Centre for Sustainability Leaders (now Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Top Five has worked with thousands of people across 40 countries to flip the script on mindset, resilience + leadership. They don’t call us the most refreshing take on mindset, resilience, and leadership for nothing.
In this episode, we discuss:

How we make teams unbreakable
Who we work with + why
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UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Co-Chair, John Thwaites on timing those tricky and charged conversations

We’ve all heard the saying it’s all about timing, which eludes to waiting for the right time in the calendar or season. But what if it’s not about waiting. It’s about getting into the right mindset before you nosedive into those tricky and charged conversations.
That’s what we spoke about with John Thwaites in this week’s Top Five Movement Leading Generous Teams podcast.
John is a Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (“SDSN”) launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations to provide expert advice and support to the development and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
John is a Professorial Fellow, Monash University, Chair of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Chair Climateworks Centre and Chair of The McKinnon Institute for political leadership.
John is Chair of Melbourne Water and a Director of FairTrade Australia New Zealand.
In this episode, we discuss:

How John fuels and engages his leadership across diverse + complex roles
What “it’s all about timing” really means
Insights into techniques for resetting + recharging leadership

Links:
If you'd like to talk about how our programs can support your team's resilience, fuel their confidence or help them get unstuck, book some time in my diary and let’s chat.
Find out more about our next workshop + register here: https://topfivemovement.com/leaders-workshop/