Podcasts by The George Experiment

TGE #67 The MOTO EDITION with Stephanie Redman from 2021-09-10T08:03:05

This is the very first episode of the MOTO EDITION of the TGE podcast, intended for listeners who are passionate about motorcycle riding and racing and track days.

Our gu...

TGE #66 - Public Speaking Mastery Requires You To Be These Things from 2021-08-13T03:34:38

Public speaking is a skill for sure. However many people approach the development of their capability with public speaking with a purely technical mindset. They erroneously think that by learnin...

TGE #65 - Kate Sommerville - Career Development, Mining, Leadership, Management, Remote Teams from 2021-08-13T00:35:51

George has observed the career of Kate Sommerville over the course of many years since first meeting her in the late 1990s.

Given her drive, progre...

TGE #64 - Keith Banks - Drugs Guns Lies, Life Undercover, Dealing with PTSD from 2021-08-05T02:15:31

Keith Banks, author of the best selling book titled ‘Drugs, Guns and Lies’, sat with George and discussed his life as an undercover cop during the most notoriously corrupt period in Queensland's...

TGE #63 - Don McKay - Special Ops, Teams, Bonding, Leadership, Plan Execution from 2021-07-30T02:46:43

This is a discussion between George and Don McKay that looked at principles applied by special operations groups and defence forces to build highly bonded teams and create a strong mission focus...

TGE #62 - Don McKay - Surviving Cancer, Chemotherapy, Resilience from 2021-07-22T01:46:38

Don McKay talks about his experience surviving cancer, specifically Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

The discussion evolved around a range of related topics such as dealing with chemotherapy, maint...

TGE #61 - 6 PowerPoint Presentation Mistakes To Avoid from 2021-07-08T04:06:17

Death by PowerPoint - you know the term - PowerPoint presentations done is such a way you want to die.

Fancy animations, info dripping from the pages, logos and branding on every single p...

TGE #60 - 5 Principles That Help You Succeed With Modern Professional Development Strategies from 2021-07-07T02:45

COVID-19 will be with us for a long time and it has resulted in many changes including how you develop yourself professionally. But it’s not all smooth sailing, as there are problems that have e...

TGE #59 - When Business Improvement Kills Innovation from 2021-07-01T21:36:40

While he has heard it said that “business improvement kills innovation”, George never fully understood it until he heard it and saw it first hand and began to realise that business improvement c...

TGE #58 - The Hawthorne Effect As A Practical Improvement Strategy from 2021-07-01T20:24:16

From 1928 to 1932, a gentleman by the name of George Elton Mayo conducted an experiment at the Hawthorne Western Electric plant (in the USA) to determine if increased lighting would result in in...

TGE #57 - Perfect Practice Makes Perfect from 2021-05-13T03:58:42

The age old saying ‘practice makes perfect’, while well intended, has always been misleading. What we’ve come to realise today is that ‘perfect practice makes perfect.

In this podcast Geo...

TGE #56 - Public Speaking As An Introvert from 2021-05-13T02:21:22

Public speaking is one of the greatest fears people have. Try doing it as an Introvert!

In this episode George talks about introversion, particularly as it affects public speaking. He als...

TGE #55- Get Your Moments Of Truth In Order from 2021-03-09T01:40:50

The backbone of your work is the process you repeatedly use to deliver a product or service to your customers. And the experience your customer has in engaging with that process will cause them ...

TGE #54- Your Proposals Will Be Much Better If You Get The Right Information First from 2021-03-02T03:25:27

Imagine for a moment you have to write a proposal for someone. It doesn’t matter what the situation is, if you have to present an idea for change to solve some problem for someone, you will be p...

TGE #53 - 11 Principles for Delivering Remarkable Presentations from 2021-02-26T05:47:06

No matter what you might think of Apple products or Steve Jobs himself, there is absolutely no doubt that we can learn much from the way he presented Apple products to the world.Listen

TGE #52 - Unusual English Words from 2021-02-16T06:46:22

The English language can be quite difficult to grasp, especially some of the unusual words it contains. 

So here is a little education on some ...

TGE #51 - Expand Your Awareness To Be A Better Presenter And Greater Influencer from 2021-02-16T05:46:26

Target fixation is deadly on a racetrack and on the road. The concept also relates to situations where you are presenting ideas in order to influence a person or audience that you don’t necessar...

TGE #50 - Do Not Pitch Your Idea Too Soon from 2021-02-06T04:59:27

Do you get to your pitch too soon? Do you have the right foundations in place so your audience considers your idea fully before they make a decision about their commitment to it? George talks ab...

TGE #49 - New Year 2021 and Pandemic Driven Opportunities from 2021-01-31T23:30:23

A big fat welcome to the 2021 new year, recorded on new years day in this podcast George talks about the opportunities that can arise from tough times such as those bought on by the COVID19 pand...

TGE #48 - COVID19 Led To A Better Framework For Professional Development from 2020-09-02T01:58:04

In this podcast, George talks about how COVID-19 and the response to the pandemic forced his company and its customers to take a long look at how they were approaching professional development, ...

TGE #47 - Overcoming The System That Prevents Improvement from 2020-09-01T16:00

In this podcast, George talks about the biggest barrier to business improvement and self development - the system people work within. He also leaves you with a simple, yet vitally important, 5-s...

TGE #46 - What Is The Best Form Of Evidence To Prove Your Ideas In A Pitch from 2020-08-31T13:00

In this podcast, George talks about how to structure your evidence in a presentation so that you are able to raise the likelihood that your audience buys into it. Ultimately you want to structur...

TGE #45 - Pitching Your Ideas to Senior People - Stop Asking for Permission from 2020-08-28T13:00

In this podcast, George talks about the way you go about pitching your solutions or ideas for change to senior people in organisations - executive teams, CEOs, boards etc. the big take away for ...

TGE #44 - Maintaining Momentum for Change from 2020-08-27T00:36:18

In this podcast, George talks about the psychology of momentum from a practical perspective. He explains how you can go about maintaining interest and momentum for many change or initiative you ...

TGE #43 - The Art of Stakeholder Engagement from 2020-07-03T00:16:04

In this podcast, George talks about stakeholder engagement as a change leader - when to engage, how to engage, how to develop a one-on-one communications strategy for engaging a stakeholder; the...

TGE #42 - How To Uncompress Your Time As A Manager from 2020-07-03T00:12:17

We have equality in one thing only - how much time we have each day. Yet the way people approach time and use that time varies greatly.

One of the main focal points of any manager when it...

TGE #41 - The Storming Phase of Team Development Can Be Accelerated from 2020-06-11T13:00

Getting people to work effectively as teams is a talent that can be learnt. And once you understand what it is that holds people in the storming phase of their team development, then you can use...

TGE #40 - Great Leaders Eat Last from 2020-06-10T13:00

If you are a leader, who do you put first - yourself or your people? The true test of this is when things are not going so well; during business downturns, during pandemic isolations, when you d...

TGE #39 - The Art Of Reinforcement For Long Term Behaviour Change from 2020-06-09T02:50:58

Everyone is challenged in getting others to change their behaviour at some time in their life. It can be as a parent or as a leader or as a business owner; doesn’t matter what the situation is w...

TGE #38 - Culture Change Requires Beliefs and Values Change from 2020-05-21T22:53:49

Culture change … one of the most difficult things to achieve at a conscious level. Leaders and managers can definitely influence culture, but doing it intentionally and in a specific direction r...

TGE #37 - Execute Your Business Plan Like A Pilot Flies An Airliner to Los Angeles from 2020-05-21T05:30:23

The ability to execute an idea is way more important than the ability to develop a plan if your goal is to achieve success in anything. 

Many pe...

TGE #36 - So You Want To Run Meetings That Do Not Suck from 2020-05-20T02:42:21

Let’s be self-reflective here for a minute, what would people say about your meetings behind your back? Would they rave about them or would they just look at each other and take a deep breath to...

TGE #35 - YouTube Is Not THE Answer To The Shift Away From Classroom Training from 2020-05-19T12:00

Some people think that if they simply record videos of what it is they teach, and then sell access to those videos; that will be the solution to their current classroom training and competency d...

TGE #34 - 5 Keys to Effectively Sponsoring Improvement as a Manager from 2020-05-18T04:56:17

Back in the late 1990s people didn’t really understand business improvement to the level they do today.

The main focus went to the training and development of the project leaders, but the...

TGE #33 - A Fundamental Mistake in Planning The Military Do Not Make from 2020-05-15T13:00

How well do you really plan? Is your problem solving and planning process robust enough that you could guarantee you’ve come up with the best plan available to you?

In scenarios other tha...

TGE #32 - Increase Your Own Productivity While Reducing Stress from 2020-05-14T02:45:42

Maximum productivity without the stress is what we are all trying to achieve.

Unfortunately much of what happens in our environment, and many of the approaches we use to manage our time a...

TGE #31 - Getting Employees To Solve Behavioural Problems For You from 2020-05-13T00:36:09

Rather than you [as the leader] always trying to solve employee behavioural problems, why not shift ownership of the problem from you to them.

You can do this with George’s 3W approach wh...

TGE #30 - Three Phase Improvement Projects Will Get Results Faster from 2020-05-02T13:00

It’s been a long journey, more than 20 years in fact, to work out the most effective way to lead business improvement work in a minimum of time.

Now George is sharing his 3-phase approach...

TGE #29 - Four Questions That Get The Monkey Off Your Back from 2020-05-01T13:00

So many highly capable leaders end up being overwhelmed with work. And one issue is the constant asking by others for them to do things to help solve problems.

Here’s a way for you to get...

TGE #28 - Strategies for Building Leadership Teams from 2020-04-30T03:36:26

Team building is a challenge all leaders are confronted with at times. While challenging, it’s vitally important that you can build these teams if you are to get the best performance possible ou...

TGE #27 - A Tribute To The ANZACS and All Service Men and Women from 2020-04-25T02:27:29

Sometime in the 1970s before he died in 1982, my father (George Lee Sye Snr.) wrote a poem about the last Anzac. As it turned out Alexander William (Alec) Campbell was that final surviving Austr...

TGE #26 - A Coaching Style of Leadership Causes Sustainable Performance Improvement from 2020-04-23T07:27:05

The concept of coaching is often misunderstood. The ultimate goal of an effective coach is to put the person being coached at cause. The moment you do that, you create a situation where the pers...

TGE #25 - How Coaching Programs Can Enhance Your Business Improvement Initiative from 2020-04-22T04:02:53

The global corona virus pandemic is forcing companies to look at new ways to do business and ways for up-skilling their people. Here George explains how an effective coaching program (as opposed...

TGE #24 - How To Become A Genuine Master In Your Field from 2020-04-21T03:32:03

Genuine mastery of a topic in your chosen field is not a matter of doing some training, writing a book and then wallah … you’re the guru! No, it’s a journey that you must choose to make consciou...

TGE #23 - Building Trust Quickly as a Leader or Business Owner from 2020-04-17T06:40:05

How important is trust if you want to influence or sell or get buy-in to your ideas? Well it so important in fact, that if you can't get it, you are unlikely to get anyone to do anything .. with...

TGE #22 - Servant Leadership Drives Accountability and Ownership from 2020-04-16T06:19:27

The term servant leadership is bandied around but is often misunderstood. After running a hospital for a year in the late 1990s and going into the job without any technical knowledge, George got...

TGE #21 Don't Be A Cost, Become An Indispensable Asset from 2020-04-15T03:24:39

Tough times mean tough measures, unfortunately many people will become victims of layoffs as CEOs fight to protect $s and companies (and their own families). How do you future proof yourself so ...

TGE #20 - Stop Asking Does It, Start Asking How Can I from 2020-04-14T03:41:04

In times of change, people get mentally caught up in what used to be, rather than what could be. When it comes to the current drive towards use of technology, stop asking "does it do this" and g...

TGE #19 - How To Write And Publish A Book In 6 Easy Steps from 2020-04-11T02:52:02

After 30 years of writing and 17 published books, George Lee Sye is clearly qualified to offer advice on how to write and self publish a book. And in these tough times of home isolation, the tim...

TGE #18 - How To Make Yourself Valuable To High Performance Leaders from 2020-03-26T04:43:49

High performance leaders are fantastic to work for as they can be incredible mentors and also take you along on the journey they will be making …. If you do certain things.

Here’s some ti...

TGE #17 - 8 Tips for Navigating Through Tough Times from 2020-03-21T05:59:26

We’ve all experienced tough times. What makes the present times interesting is the level of sharing we have with the challenges.

George wanted to share 8 things he’s learnt over 35 years ...

TGE #16 - How To Differentiate Yourself for Promotion or Jobs from 2020-03-19T04:46:50

Tough times ahead for everyone, that’s for sure. Are you ready for it, how good is your CV, are you in a position to differentiate yourself from others when it comes to promotion or job prospect...

TGE #15 - Adding Value and EnterpriseIS with Craig Hurkett from 2020-03-04T02:49:28

In 2009 Craig Hurkett transitioned from employee to self employed with the creation of  his company EnterpriseIS and since then he’s gone from strengt...

TGE #14 - Six Improvement Scenarios That Kill Innovation from 2020-02-25T23:50:02

Have you ever heard it said that “business improvement kills innovation”. George has, numerous times.

Though he never fully understood that because he was of the opposite opinion based on...

TGE #13 - 17 Life Lessons From Riding Superbikes from 2020-02-25T18:53:45

What can we learn about life and business from riding a motorcycle on track at 300kph? Well if you can do it successfully, some key principles can be mapped back.

George Lee Sye spends ap...

TGE #12 - Leading High Performance Employees with Don McKay from 2020-02-23T01:53:26

As weird as this might sound, it can be quite challenging for many supervisors and managers to effectively lead high performance employees.

So after thinking about this topic and those pa...

TGE #11 - Thinking Patterns That Will Enhance Your Life from 2020-01-29T08:37:07

The review of a number of George’s books on performance, lifestyle and problem solving psychology, prompted Sheena Livesey to ask George a bunch of questions about his thinking ...

TGE #10 - Talking Performance with Don McKay from 2020-01-29T02:32:24

George speaks with long time friend (from special operations days) and now commissioned officer in the QPS, Don McKay, about his personal approach to high performance, and his r...

TGE #9 - Talking CI with Ross Turnbull and Wade Pritchard from 2020-01-24T03:53:38

Continual [business] improvement (CI) is a vitally important discipline in any business if you are going to consistently deliver on your business plans. Here George speaks with Ross Turn...