The Curious Leader

Written by: Karola Sakotnik
  • Summary

  • It is a humble way with impact. Creating your culture means cultivating people, teams and communication, along with adapting frameworks and principles how to work together. The Curious Leader´s podcast takes you on to meaningful conversations. My guests and I, we reflect and exchange on New Leadership, the importance of trust, courage and curiosity, on future skills farming such as developing the art of listening and how to create a culture for creativity and innovation. And as sometimes it is far better to listen to good music than more good advice, each podcast ends with one selected piece of music. My name is Karola Sakotnik. I am your host, a keynote speaker, facilitator, coach, trainer and also author and performing artist. I work with Leaders of all areas to improve their impact, support them in creating new cultures and new leadership styles. - Want to browse through my keynotes? https://www.mutig-menschsein.at - Want to book a Meaningful Conversation for your team? https://www.mutig-menschsein.at/meaningful-conversations/ - Want to develop your culture with us, the transformation pilots: www.future-skills-farming.com - Want to know more about me? www.karolasakotnik.com Have a question? Contact me at: office(a)karolasakotnik.com
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Episodes
  • Leadership, creating safe spaces and taking bold decisions
    May 30 2023
    We are talking about an expert organization and the impact of bold decisions, and what happens they are even unpopular decisions. What role does listening play? It is a short talk this time and after roughly 12 minutes we suggest you stop listening to good advice and start listening to good music. Our episodes talk has come to an end and the music part starts. Horst Michael Schaffer offers today the piece "Vertigo" of Jazz Big Band Graz. Today it is at the point when the director of an orchestra needs to take decisions about ot taking on certain ideas. The question of how to speak about it, how to address it and how to encourage them for keep exchanging on ideas. If that work well the result is an enhanced curiosity, a genuine interest on the thoughts and actions of the leader. This results in a more thorough engagement and pride to be part.
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    31 mins
  • Leadership when the Goal is Inspired Excellence
    Feb 20 2023
    When an orchestra sets out to explore new sounds, it is all about co-creation ad still there is one or two masterminds. Jazz Big Band Graz and its leaders, Horst Michael Schaffer and Heinrich von Kalnein, are walking on an interesting path. On one hand there is the vision of creating new soundscapes on the other hand there is an ensemble of highly qualified experts - how to combine those and create great results? My guest this month is Horst Michael Schaffer, who claims that in his compositions he is thinking from the perspective of the audience - listen to what this means.
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    20 mins
  • Future Skills: The Impact on the Organisations´ Success
    Jan 30 2023
    Important to know: applying New Leadership results in increasing business success including having a thorough approach to climate and wellbeing of manhood.
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    18 mins

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