Gary Ryan What Really Matters For Employability Development

Gary Ryan explains a practical three step approach for creating effective plans for just about anything!

Gary Ryan uses the recent poor behaviour of some elite sport executives in Melbourne Australia to highlight how leading with integrity matters.

Interviewed by Dr Andrew O'Brien, Gary Ryan, author of the new book What Really Matters For Young Professionals!, shares insights on each of the 15 practices featured in the book. This interview includes practical tips to enable you to accelerate your career.

Difficult workplace conversations are often not addressed. Gary explains a process to make these conversations a possibility within your team. Why? The capacity to hold difficult conversations will enhance your team’s performance.

Many people make New Year resolutions that simply don’t work. Gary explains three key reasons why they don’t work, and then offers seven steps to effectively plan for personal success.

Part time and volunteer work are essential for developing employability skills. Gary explains each of the ten core employability skills and provides clear examples to help you to put these skills into practice.

Oprah's 24th year program opening celebration in Michigan Avenue Chicago was the scene of an amazing 21,000 flash mob dance. Gary relates this event to the power of questions and how they catalyse innovation.

Gary shares three key lessons from his work with children that adults could do well to understand. The three lessons are: 1) Everyone is a leader 2) The Figure 8 of Leadership 3) Being responsible for your choices

As a trainer of mentors and facilitator of mentor-mentee relationships Gary regularly scans for articles in the field. After discovering and reading an interesting newspaper article about the success of a master-apprentice relationship, Gary wonders whether such relationships can and do exist in modern times.

A dinner table conversation catalysed by Gary's seven year old daughter helped inspire this episode. Personal goals that are related to a higher level purpose helps both the goals to be achieved, as well as enabling people to live their purpose and create the life that they desire. Gary explains this relationship and provides three questions that enable you to identify the purpose to which your personal goals relate.

Gary explains the importance of taking action even when you may think that no-one is being positively influenced by what you are doing. The catalyst for this episode was born in the middle of a marathon in which Gary was participating. While struggling with discomfort, Gary found inspiration from a person who was taking action; nothing more and nothing less.

Citing examples from Southwest Airlines in the USA and his own experience when a young manager, Gary Ryan explains why staff come first and not customers when you want to provide great service to your customer!

The Systems Thinking concept of Structure Drives Behaviour is fundamental to being able to solve many organisational problems. Gary provides three examples to illustrate how this concept works in practice. The three examples include a university student, a career professional and an elite athlete. For more information visit www.orgsthatmatter.com.

Gary provides some examples of disrespectful behaviour toward organisational community spaces. A range of underlying mental models for these behaviours are explored. Three steps are described to enable weight of numbers to be developed toward creating a more respectful culture.

This episode of the Professional and Employability Development Series focuses upon answering a question that I was asked at a recent seminar that I was conducting. The question was, "What is the most important thing that you have to do as a manager to keep your team focused on organisational objectives?". This Podcast provides one answer to this question. A Slidecast (presentation with Podcast) is also available at www.studentsthatmatter.ning.com. Please join if you wish to access the Slidecast presentation.

Dialogue is a much used term, but is a poorly understood skill. Gary explains each of the seven skills of dialogue and provides practical tips with regard to enhancing your capacity to practice this form of conversation. The capacity to dialogue enhances performance which is why it is such an important skill to develop both individually and in team environments.

Gary defines 'Employability Skills' and identifies the 10 skills that are included in this concept. A storytelling technique is explained to assist you in preparing for interviews to enhance your success in obtaining your desired employment.

Gary explains what mental models are in a simple and effective way to enable you to become more effective, both personally and at work.

Gary Ryan defines personal values and uses examples to help illustrate what they are and how they are used. An activity is included to assist you in identifying your personal values.

Gary Ryan introduces the five defining characteristics of a system and relates them to the practice of Systems Thinking in an organisational context.