Human Skills Videos
Upskill yourself and your team using our ‘Thinka Micro’ approach.
Understand yourself and your team better by taking a look at these micro videos and application tools. Learn in the flow of work with skills that can be applied in a few minutes or less.
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This month’s feature skill: Create Habits
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Skills for Teams
Build Resilience
Manage Time
Flip Mindset
Set Priorities
Create Habits
Become Adaptable
Practise Mindfulness
Regulate Self
Master Communication
Stimulate Creativity
Understand Strengths
Solve Problems
Land Presentations
Promote Empathy
Enhance Collaboration
The Dip
2:35 MIN
How can we break through resistance when we’re trying to make changes and ride out ‘the dip’ to make new habits permanent?
The 96 Minute Rule
2:10 MIN
Are you constantly running out of time? There are strategies you can use to make the most of your time and accomplish more sooner.
Action Priority Matrix
3:15 MIN
Measured on two axes, ‘impact’ and ‘effort’ – the Action Priority matrix helps us identify where to spend our time to get the best return on investment.
Growth versus fixed mindset
3:00 MIN
What is a growth mindset and how does the power of application and effort make a big difference to our success?
Inner Critic Vs Inner Coach
3:19 MIN
To better react to your everyday mistakes and challenges, use constructive self-talk.
The One Touch Rule
1:51 MIN
How can we avoid procrastination and focus on certain tasks to make sure we complete them quickly?
Tiny Habits
2:57 MIN
We don’t have to be overwhelmed by big goals and huge changes. We can break these down in ‘tiny habits’ – small tweaks that make a big difference.
Atomic Habits
2:39 MIN
Having a system of small, stackable habits that compound over time enables you to work progressively towards more radical goals.
Thinking Styles
2:55 MIN
What’s the difference between divergent and convergent thinking and what value do both styles bring to our teams’ success?
Mindfulness
4:00 MIN
How present are you throughout the day? Practising mindfulness helps us listen deeper, think more clearly and solve problems.
Multi Tasking Vs Mono Tasking
2:02 MIN
Focusing on just one task at a time allows your brain to get into flow on that task, before moving to the next one.
Negativity bias and reframing
3:36 MIN
How can we overcome our bias to hone in on the ‘bad’ and reframe using constructive statements that open up possibilities?
Amygdala Hijack
2:45 MIN
Understanding why you or your team members respond in certain ways during difficult conversations can help you to be a more effective and calmer leader.
Ladder of Inference
2:40 MIN
The thinking process we go through from making meaning of the facts to taking action on the assumptions and conclusions we’ve drawn.
Communication Styles
2:43 MIN
How does being assertive, rather than defaulting to other unconstructive communication styles, make a difference to our relationships?
Radical Candour
3:24 MIN
Radical Candour is the behaviour we need to communicate assertively and build strong relationships.
The Six Thinking Hats
3:12 MIN
How can we generate creative thinking (on our own or in teams) that guides us in solving problems and innovating?
Strengths
2:29 MIN
What are strengths? How do they come naturally to us and how can they be used productively and unproductively in our role?
The Six Thinking Hats
3:12 MIN
How can we approach various problems from creative yet comprehensive points of view to ideate solutions?
Double Diamond
2:32 MIN
The double diamond is a four-step framework that combines divergent and convergent thinking to solve a problem.
The Four Speaker Personas
2:46 MIN
What does an engaging presentation look like and how can we deliver information that sticks and has impact?
Empathy Mapping
2:05 MIN
How is empathy different from sympathy? How can we use empathy to better understand others?
Empathy Vs Sympathy
3:11 MIN
When people to come to us to talk through their challenges or problems, how do we know what the right thing to say is?
Groupthink
2:20 MIN
How can we encourage teams to think differently and share their ideas without being swayed by others?
Double Diamond
2:32 MIN
The double diamond is a four-step framework that combines divergent and convergent thinking to solve a problem.
Skills for Leaders
Apply Coaching
Win Negotiations
Deliver Feedback
Celebrate Recognition
Drive Accountability
Improve Delegation
Boost Assertiveness
Resolve Conflict
Lift Motivation
Be Authentic
Enable Strengths
Generate Influence
Foster Inclusion
The Six Coaching Styles
4:04 MIN
How do we provide the best coaching experience to uncover the power and potential in each of our team?
Tips on negotiation
2:28 MIN
What is the best outcome from a negotiation and how can we guide our discussions towards it?
Feedback: The BIO Model
2:51 MIN
What does productive feedback involve and how can we deliver it so that it results in positive action and constructive change?
Bias In Feedback
2:53 MIN
For leaders, it becomes your responsibility to minimise bias – especially when you deliver feedback to your team and its individual members.
Giving Recognition
3:13 MIN
What role does recognition play in an effective team and how can we recognise achievements while balancing feedback?
Accountability: above and below the line
2:18 MIN
What role does accountability play in an organisation and how can we develop a culture of stepping up to take responsibility?
5 Pillars Of Accountability
2:35 MIN
When leaders establish clear parameters and provide enough support, they remove the genuine confusion that makes it hard for people to own their role.
Ladder of Accountability
3:06 MIN
The ladder of accountability describes the eight levels of accountable behaviour, spanning from below the line behaviours to above the line behaviours.
Do, decide, delegate or delete?
2:33 MIN
How can we work out what needs to be delegated and communicate tasks effectively to improve our team’s performance?
Tough Conversations
3:55 MIN
What is the best way to handle a tough conversation with a team member and what key things do we need to do as leaders to show ‘we’ve got it’?
Resolve Conflict
2:22 MIN
Why does conflict occur and how can two parties work together to reach a mutually beneficial resolution?
Emotional Agility
3:06 MIN
Emotional agility is about developing self-awareness, learning how certain situations evoke certain emotions, and designing healthy responses to stressors and triggers.
The Blame Cycle
2:17 MIN
‘The Blame Cycle’ is a model we can use to see the impact blaming has on us, our team and our organisation.
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
2:22 MIN
What makes up motivation and how can we use it to empower our team and produce powerful outcomes?
Authenticity: the Trust Triangle
2:26 MIN
What role does authenticity play in leadership and how can we use it to build trust with the members of our team?
The Drama Triangle
3:05 MIN
The drama triangle describes the dysfunctional ways in which we respond to others in the face of conflict, usually to abate feelings of fear, confusion or anxiousness.
Personal Branding
2:37 MIN
Personal branding is about communicating who you are, what you do, and how you get things done.
Strengths
2:29 MIN
What role does an individual’s strengths play in our team and how can we channel them to maximise results?
Influence (The Trust Triangle)
2:43 MIN
Why are some people considered to be great influencers, while others aren’t? Well, in most cases, it comes down to ‘trust’. The greater the trust, the greater the ability to influence.
Diversity: unconscious bias
2:59 MIN
How do our unconscious biases affect our behaviour and how can we disrupt them to make more balanced decisions and achieve better results?
6 Signature Traits
3:15 MIN
Being an inclusive leader means demonstrating particular behaviours, such as the ‘six signature traits’ identified by Deloitte. Developing each of these six traits helps build your capability. You become a leader who actively works to involve everyone; leading to higher levels of performance, creativity and empathy.
7 Social Differences
3:54 MIN
There are seven social differences that shape who we are, and each of us are a combination of these differences.
Skills For Executives
Advance Diversity
Encourage Innovation
Craft Strategy
Inspire Vision
Empower Culture
Realise Purpose
Embed Strengths
Elevate Results
Diversity: unconscious bias
2:59 MIN
How do our unconscious biases affect our behaviour and how can we disrupt them to make more balanced decisions and achieve better results?
6 Signature Traits
3:15 MIN
Being an inclusive leader means demonstrating particular behaviours, such as the ‘six signature traits’ identified by Deloitte.
7 Social Differences
3:54 MIN
There are seven social differences that shape who we are, and each of us are a combination of these differences.
Four Types of Innovation
2:10 MIN
What are the different types of innovation and how can we take the lead to achieve positive changes?
Data Driven Decisions
2:26 MIN
How can we use data when we’re crafting decisions to deepen our knowledge and ideate more objective strategies?
4 Hurdles To Strategy Execution
2:59 MIN
Implementing a new strategy is going to come with some hurdles that you, as the leader, have to overcome.
Storytelling: The Hero’s Journey
2:47 MIN
Why is it important that our team understands our vision and how can we inspire them to execute strategy?
Mission, Vision, and Values
2:03 MIN
A business’s mission, vision and values are different from one another but each plays an important role in clarifying goals, future direction and behaviours.
Culture: values and behaviours
2:26 MIN
What comprises culture in a team or organisation and how can we develop a new culture or strengthen an existing one?
Bystander, Perpetrator, Advocator
2:45 MIN
If unfair and potentially divisive situations present themselves, you need to identify the bystanders, the perpetrators and the advocators in these situations.
The Five Whys
2:25 MIN
Why does ambiguity emerge and how can we get to the core of it to achieve the desired result?
VUCA
3:02 MIN
Organisations are increasingly using the term VUCA to refer to this ‘next normal’, describing a situation of constant, unpredictable transformation.
Purpose: find your why
2:24 MIN
What is purpose and how can we uncover it to provide a clear, driven direction for our organisation or team?
The Six Coaching Styles
4:04 MIN
How do we provide the best coaching experience to uncover the power and potential in each of our team?
5 Drivers Of Results
3:35 MIN
To see sustained, long-term success in your organisation, empower your people to become results-focused.
