{"podcast":{"title":"Leadership Today - Practical Tips For Leaders","slug":"leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049","podcast_index_feed_id":572049,"rss_url":"https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/129287/destinations/781896.xml","website_url":"https://leadership.today/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/6/7/8/a678d18a0f990d2388c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Practical_tips_for_leaders.jpg","author":"Andrew Beveridge","episode_count":305,"summary":"Practical tips for leaders. Hosted by psychologist and founder of Leadership Today - Andrew Beveridge. Leadership Today is a weekly leadership podcast for managers, team leaders and executives who want practical, evidence-based leadership advice. Hosted by psychologist Andrew Beveridge, each episode translates the latest leadership and organisational psychology research into simple strategies you can use immediately. Discover practical tips on leadership, management, coaching, emotional intelligence, difficult conversations, delegation, employee motivation, psychological safety, team effectiveness, change leadership and workplace performance. Go to www.leadership.today for episodes and more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T08:18:51.819028+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 224 - The Leader's Mindset - Part Four - Options Thinking","slug":"episode-224-the-leader-s-mindset-part-four-options-thinking","published_at":"2024-09-20T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049/episode-224-the-leader-s-mindset-part-four-options-thinking","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049","url":"https://leadershiptoday.libsyn.com/episode-224-the-leaders-mindset-part-four-options-thinking","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/leadershiptoday/Leadership_Today_-_Episode_224.mp3?dest-id=781896","summary":"Summary We each have mindsets that we bring to our leadership. In this fourth of a five part series, we explore Options Thinking and the role it plays in The Leader's Mindset. Transcript Hello and welcome to episode 224 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we share practical tips to improve your leadership. In this fourth of a five part series, we explore Options Thinking and the role it plays in The Leader's Mindset. We are continuing to explore The Leader's Mindset which has four elements: Goal Orientation, Optimistic Outlook, Options Thinking and Drive for Growth. I encourage you to listen to the three previous episodes first and also take the time to complete our free Mindset to Action assessment. This provides detailed feedback on all four areas along with development suggestions. Just go to https://leadership.today/mta We often aren't great at coming up with multiple options when we encounter challenges. Typically we will generate one option, and then become stuck if that option doesn't work. Options Thinking is like identifying various pathways to the destination on your journey. With Options Thinking, a person identifies ways around emerging challenges and problems. They are confident in their ability to come up with another way around obstacles they might face. Without Options Thinking, a person gets stuck when things don't go to plan. They find it hard to identify new ways to reach their destination when the first pathway is blocked. So Options Thinking has two parts - the identification of options up front, and then immediately focusing on options when you become stuck. There are five ways you can build your Options Thinking: Brainstorm Options: When you face an obstacle, immediately start to brainstorm options. Recognise that option generation an…","meta_description":"Summary We each have mindsets that we bring to our leadership. In this fourth of a five part series, we explore Options Thinking and the role it plays in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":230,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049/episodes/episode-224-the-leader-s-mindset-part-four-options-thinking/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049/episode-224-the-leader-s-mindset-part-four-options-thinking.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}