Download the App!
show episodes
 
Artwork
 
Nick, Marc, and Ryan are three best friends that love the Bible and dad jokes. Join us as we walk you through the Bible book by book, stopping on the tough topics to discuss as well. You’re going to get the context and content of each book of the Bible along with some terrible puns. Ding on Dingers!
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
I Am Adamant

Lisa Bevere, Messenger Network

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Monthly
 
What is truth? This has become the defining question of our time. But while everyone has an opinion, truth, it seems, is getting harder and harder to find. Join New York Times best-selling author Lisa Bevere as she engages with leaders who will help you become adamant in pursuit of truth. For more information visit IAmAdamant.com. Note: The views expressed by guests in this podcast are theirs and do not necessarily reflect the views of Lisa Bevere or Messenger International.
  continue reading
 
Culture Cuppa’s podcast, Cultural Communication Confidence, is for global leaders who want practical communication skills and to build their cultural intelligence for impact, performance, business and career growth. Each episode is hosted by Victoria Rennoldson, CEO and Founder of Culture Cuppa, where she shares communication tools and confidence strategies, plus cultural intelligence insights for working in global teams. Grow your impact and influence through confident cultural communication.
  continue reading
 
Loading …
show series
 
Why are people not listening to you? What can you do to make sure people listen to you more? This can be frustrating when you have valuable ideas, views and builds to the conversation, and you leave the meeting feeling irritated, limited or even blocked. Moving forward starts with diagnosing why people are not listening to you, and what is holding …
  continue reading
 
Have you ever experienced a team member resistant to your collaboration? Somebody not replying to your emails? Not giving you the information you urgently need? Not accepting your meeting invites? When this happens we may start thinking that they’re doing this deliberately, it’s personal, maybe even ‘they don’t like me’ or ‘they don’t value me.’ Ho…
  continue reading
 
Helen Percival is a RADA trained actor with over a decade of experience as a broadcast journalist. She has worked for The Guardian, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg and as a news anchor for France 24. As a professional actor, she has worked in theatre, film and TV and understands the importance of harnessing the body, breath and voice to de…
  continue reading
 
Lisa is a highly experienced communication skills coach, who hosts a Walk and Talk group in Singapore which has blossomed into a thriving weekly morning Walk & Talk community, boasting over 100 "Walkers & Talkers". This group offers a refreshing departure from traditional indoor networking events and fosters meaningful connections in nature. We had…
  continue reading
 
No. A small word. Loaded with meaning, nuance and connotation. Is it easy for you to say ‘No’? I was asked recently at a workshop about how to say ‘no’ assertively and confidently, without sounding aggressive or being perceived negatively, and I know this topic is on the mind of many of you. Today we talk about saying no assertively so you can esta…
  continue reading
 
We are not islands. We can’t get things done without collaborating with other people, and influence is the magic ingredient. Influence helps you deliver your projects, navigate the challenges, gives you the opportunity to gain share of voice and can enhance your professional reputation. Explore in this episode strategies to improve your influencing…
  continue reading
 
Victoria Dale, Founder of Inclusion 365, is on a mission to support employers and busy HR Leaders to move from reactive to proactive when it comes to driving their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) agenda forward. Her approach is about taking those small steps to build inclusion into everyday conversations, decisions, actions and behaviours. W…
  continue reading
 
Today I am truly grateful on my 9th business birthday. I am so lucky that with my business, Culture Cuppa, I get to support and work with 1000s of people and teams all over the world from over 40 countries. Plus I have the joy of connecting with people every day globally through my social, virtual and in person communities and networks, being energ…
  continue reading
 
The magnet rule of challenging conversations. What happens when we bring 2 magnets of the same poles together? We experience resistance and they won’t meet. The harder we try to push them together, the more resistance there is. It’s the same with challenging conversations and disagreements. So how can you change the outcome? Magnetise the situation…
  continue reading
 
Are you regularly making time and space for connection in your global team? How well are you and your people connecting with each other today? Building connection through your communication is a real superpower, and can help you create trust, engagement and better relationships with your people, wherever they are based around the world. Although co…
  continue reading
 
Dr. Catherine Wu is an interculturalist and cultural intelligence evangelist. A passionate advocate for cultural diversity, Dr. Catherine is currently working towards telling 10 million people about cultural intelligence through speaking, writing, and posting daily on LinkedIn. She joined me in this episode from Singapore for this deeply insightful…
  continue reading
 
Communication confidence - what does that look like to you? What does it feel like? You will have your own version of confidence and I am exploring in today’s podcast episode how we can make it work for you. Confidence is one of the key foundations of my 4 pillars of Global Leader Communication, and I share my reframe on confidence and why it can f…
  continue reading
 
Today we deep dive into a topic which I’m frequently asked about- clarity in speaking. Many global professionals talk to me about how they want to sound more clear, concise and professional in the way they speak, to help them build their influence and impact, and so people listen and act. Clarity is one of the key foundations of my 4 pillars of Glo…
  continue reading
 
Michelle Bradley, our guest on the podcast this week, is a bridge-builder, coach, and trainer based in Taipei, Taiwan, who grew up in the multicultural environments of NYC, London, and Cape Town. She is bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese and is passionate about all aspects of cultural intelligence. As a certified PCC-level coach, Intercultur…
  continue reading
 
Michael Quigley is a twice published author and regular blogger as well as the creator of multiple online professional and personal development courses with his company Kataholos. His Online Learning Platform empowers over 8000 professionals in 100 countries. He is a former primary school teacher with an extensive experience of teaching, leadership…
  continue reading
 
This week we’re talking about the 4 pillars of global leader communication. This is for you if you are a global manager who is ready to get promoted and wants to speak clearly, confidently and with impact. Levelling up your communication skills is important for influencing your senior stakeholders, creating impact with your communication and enhanc…
  continue reading
 
Today we are talking about how to identify your leadership communication challenges and prioritise your development areas for 2024. I will be guiding you through a series of self-reflection questions, so you can pinpoint where your specific issues are, and start working on them to develop and grow your leadership communication skills. Listen to the…
  continue reading
 
Leadership presence - do you have it? Maybe you are like many people I meet who have all the skills, experience and talent, and are ambitious to progress their career for the next promotion or job move, to break into the c-suite or the next level of management. But something is missing in the way you show up, connect and engage with other people, w…
  continue reading
 
Happy New Year! Hope you had a great time over the holiday season, and started the year well. As we kick off this January with new topic episodes, we’re focusing on the big ideas for 2024 for you to focus on in communication and cultural intelligence. This is for you if you are a leader or manager of a global team, or part of a multicultural team, …
  continue reading
 
Kathryn Read is an international sales and marketing consultant with over 25 years’ experience developing niche products in emerging markets. She helps small and medium companies to break through international barriers, creating successful entrepreneurs and a thriving global marketplace. Kathryn firmly believes that business is done between people,…
  continue reading
 
Thank you. It's a real joy to create and share my podcast episodes here, but it is also important to me that I’m not only speaking into a mic to myself, I am also building conversations and connections with you all over the world, sparking new ideas and behaviours which impact people in places that I don’t even know about. What always amazes me is …
  continue reading
 
Vanessa Paisley, trainer and lecturer in the field of intercultural communication and English as a global language, was born in Tanzania, grew up in the UK, lived and worked in Austria for 23 years, and repatriated to the UK 9 years ago. In her work she helps people to meet the challenges of living and working across cultures, both in relocating in…
  continue reading
 
7 tips for a successful informational interview. In this fourth and final episode of my new mini podcast series about strategies to optimise your communication for job searching, we are exploring how to maximise the time you have available to talk with a connection who has agreed to help you on your job search. You may have only 15-20 minutes, so h…
  continue reading
 
Career outreach: crafting compelling cold messages. In this third episode of my new podcast mini series about strategies to optimise your communication for job searching, we discuss how to send messages to connect and meet people who can help you with your job hunt. Some of you may feel uncomfortable sending cold and outreach messages to people you…
  continue reading
 
First impressions in networking: the power of impactful introductions. In this second episode of my new podcast mini series about strategies to optimise your communication for job searching, we are talking about how to answer that deceptively simple question, ‘What do you do?’. We start with exploring how you want to show up at networking events to…
  continue reading
 
Make your CV/ resume stand out. Following on from our recent podcast mini series on interview success, I have received questions about other aspects of job searching and applications. So in this new mini series I am going to be sharing more strategies on optimising your communication for other job related themes, including strategies for CV/ resume…
  continue reading
 
Corina Goetz is our guest today on Cultural Communication Confidence. She is the Founder of Star-CaT, a Middle East Strategist and Cultural Expert for the Gulf. Corina helps Westerners further their cultural understanding, and create better relationships in the region and therefore grow and expand their businesses. Corina and I had a fascinating co…
  continue reading
 
Today’s guest is Katie Keith, Executive Director with Global Chamber London and also Head of B2B Partnerships with Currencies Direct. She talks about creating space for effective communication in global teams, including how to build psychological safety in teams, we explore authentic global leadership, and how listening skills are critical in conve…
  continue reading
 
Today we are starting a new era on this podcast as we start hosting guests to share with you a range of perspectives on successful communication, developing confidence and cross-cultural working from leading experts in the business world. Our first guest is Febronia Ruocco, Strategic Insights Professional & Executive Coach, who talks about encourag…
  continue reading
 
First impressions are critical in interviews, and so are last impressions at the end of the interview. How are you closing your interviews impactfully? In this competitive global job market, many people are currently asking me questions about preparing for interview success with global companies, and that’s why I have created this mini series of 3 …
  continue reading
 
33% of hiring managers claim to know whether or not they would hire a candidate within 30 seconds of meeting them, and 4 in 10 employers would reject a candidate if they showed no enthusiasm, according to research in the UK from StandOut CV. Wherever you are looking for a new role, in this competitive job market many people are currently asking me …
  continue reading
 
Employers will interview an average of 6 candidates for every job vacancy they advertise and 93% of candidates admit to experiencing job interview anxiety at some point in their career, according to recent research in the UK from StandOut CV. Wherever you are looking for a new role, in this competitive job market many people are currently asking me…
  continue reading
 
Conflict happens. It’s something we all experience at some point when working in teams, even if generally we have great relationships with our colleagues, co-workers, customers or partners. Conflict can cause short-term issues with collaboration, such as getting projects agreed and progressing forward. However, it clearly can impact the ongoing rel…
  continue reading
 
I am excited to share that today’s show marks the 1st birthday of my podcast, which launched in September 2022. This podcast is part of my vision to help 100,000 leaders and teams around the world to speak up confidently, and support teams to connect and grow globally in 100 countries. In today’s episode I share my own communication learnings from …
  continue reading
 
Your communication skills in English are a key enabler for your next promotion. They are part of your skills toolkit, so you have everything on your side, ready to make that next job move, to go for that promotion, or to expand your role. Sometimes they are known as soft skills, but they are anything but soft. They are the difference between influe…
  continue reading
 
Are you talented and ambitious, but it doesn’t always come across when you’re working in English? Do you feel frustrated by your professional English communication skills, and wish you sounded more confident? Today I want to talk about the 8 most common myths I commonly hear from the people I work with about their English communication and how it’s…
  continue reading
 
What was your a-ha moment… ….when you listened to last week’s episode about cultural values? Did you recognise that some of the challenges you might be experiencing with colleagues, co-workers, customers or partners are culturally-driven? What shifted in your perspective? It can be so easy to divide into ‘them’ and ‘us’ within a team, or with custo…
  continue reading
 
What happens when you find yourself in a situation where a team member is being ‘difficult’? What happens when people say things in meetings which leave you frustrated and wound up, because they’re acting ‘unprofessionally’? Do you roll your eyes, moan to your colleagues and blame it on ‘them being them’? It can be so easy to divide into ‘them’ and…
  continue reading
 
And now for the final one in the summer re-release season: What makes a good global leader? In this special re-release episode from April this year, I explored different leadership approaches, and how cultural values impact a team’s view of good leadership, plus the cultural intelligence strategies you can use to be more effective. Enjoy listening …
  continue reading
 
Week 3 of the summer re-release season: Giving & receiving feedback- a very popular topic from June this year. In this episode, I explored the purpose of feedback, how to set up the conversation, adapting your feedback approach with cultural intelligence, and best ways to approach receiving feedback to make sure feedback really lands with you. Enjo…
  continue reading
 
Next in the summer re-release season- week 2 of the top 4 podcast episode topics from the last year. This week we are going back to ‘The Future of Work- working cross culturally’, a topic from June which many of you had views on. In this episode, I explored the critical skills for working cross culturally in the future of work, navigating a cultura…
  continue reading
 
And now for something a little different…. I have covered many varied topics on my podcast in the last year, and so in this episode and the next 3 episodes I am sharing my summer season of re-releases. These are the top 4 topics which were most popular when they first came out, and are also among my favourites, and this gives you a review time to l…
  continue reading
 
Influencing through concise communication is a topic which comes up time and time again with my clients. In our coaching conversations, they tell me they want to sound professional, clear, to the point, and like a leader, so people listen and act. However they worry they end up speaking too much, or only think afterwards how they could have said it…
  continue reading
 
As you progress your career, the way you engage senior stakeholders will not only be critical to delivering your objectives, projects and business results, but also impacts your personal reputation and opportunities to be promoted. However, I know from my coaching clients that issues can come up all too often, when you need to align stakeholders wi…
  continue reading
 
Your voice is a powerful tool which we can use for impact when speaking, whether for presentations, public speaking or talks. We need to know how to use it well and the techniques to use it more effectively, so you can amplify your voice as part of your communication and be heard. In today’s episode, learn how to amplify your verbal communication w…
  continue reading
 
Vulnerability is a hot topic and seems to be spoken about everywhere. Leaders are being encouraged to be vulnerable with their teams for teams to be vulnerable with each other, and yet there is also a sense of wanting to be a leader. A client, who is a senior leader in their organisation, was recently asking me in coaching about vulnerability and h…
  continue reading
 
When you are job searching, you want to communicate professionally and confidently in your interviews, and also when you start your new role. You want to know the key cultural dynamics so you can make a great impression and connect well with recruiters, managers and your new team when you start. These were the themes of a recent workshop I did for …
  continue reading
 
Feedback is a gift, according to the old adage, and yet sometimes that gift is unwanted, rejected or causes problems we did not anticipate. We have to understand when we give feedback, this is our observation of the situation in the moment from our point of view. We may not be aware how our culture influences our perceptions of the context, the dri…
  continue reading
 
Nick, Marc, and Ryan reflect on this past season and everything they learned about eschatology. They also look back at the past 4 years of covering the entire Bible and talk about some major takeaways. Lastly, they look forward to what's ahead for the future of the podcast now that the Bible has been covered. Thank you to all our listeners who have…
  continue reading
 
Loading …

Quick Reference Guide