The Intentional Leader - a Conversation with Gunnar Habitz of Hootsuite

22/07/2020 50 min Temporada 1 Episodio 11
The Intentional Leader - a Conversation with Gunnar Habitz of Hootsuite

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Episode Synopsis

Today I bring you a you a conversation focused on Intentional Leadership – with Gunnar Habitz, Senior Partner & Alliance Manager Asia Pacific at Hootsuite and eternal creative entrepreneur.
 

Gunnar is a great storyteller and kicks off our conversation sharing how he made the decision to come to Australia from Switzerland and his deliberate move to engage in formal leadership training with the Australian Institute of Management and now as a Chartered Manager through the Institute of Managers and Leaders.
If you are developing yourself or others on the journey from accidental manager into intentional leader, then you’ll find this conversation jam packed with nuggets of learning and roadmaps for decision-making. Here are some of the nuggets of learning I gleaned during our conversation.
How Sydney moved from number 8 to top of the list for a new life
The ‘giver’s gained’ mentality of relationship building
The challenges and triumphs of leading a multicultural, virtual team
‘You manage tools and lead people’
The balance between direction leadership and enabling leadership
Understanding your people’s WHY
Bringing outsourced functions into the tribe
The consequences of promoting experts to leaders without coaching and development and how to do it differently.

The 7 ‘I’s of Intentional Leadership:-
Impact
Influence
Inspiration
Improve
Instruction
Interest
Imperfection

From Laid off to Paid off – what would you tell your younger self? From the book ‘Lessons I learnt’ 
Remember – people don’t get made redundant – roles do.
The ROADMAP for career change and decision-making:
Reality
Off
Alternatives
Deep dive
Mastery
Action
Paid work

You can connect with Gunnar here on LinkedIn
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