The Strategic Leader
de Gemma Bullivant and Fiona Craig
6.09 Three Practical Tools for Effective Leadership Decision Making
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The Strategic Leader is a podcast for busy leaders to learn how to be naturally strategic, so that you can operate with impact and sit at the top table with confidence, with clear and actionable tips to demystify strategy and help you to succeed. With your hosts Gemma Bullivant, Executive Coach and Strategic HR Consultant, and Fiona Craig, strategist, founder and coaching lead at Good Thinking.
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- 6.09 Three Practical Tools for Effective Leadership Decision Making · 33 min · Saison 6 Épisode 9How can you make better strategic decisions when you're dealing with complexity, uncertainty and competing opinions? Making clear, timely decisions is one of the most important…
- 6.08 Four Ways to Strengthen Your Leadership Resilience · 32 min · Saison 6 Épisode 8How can you build resilience when leadership pressures mount? Discover four practical ways to stay flexible, manage uncertainty and maintain your effectiveness through…
- 6.07 Critical Thinking in Leadership. How to Think Better with AI · 30 min · Saison 6 Épisode 7How can you benefit from AI without allowing it to do your critical thinking for you? Critical thinking is an essential strategic leadership skill, helping you question…
- 6.06 How to Shift Perspective and Become a More Strategic Leader · 31 min · Saison 6 Épisode 6How easily can you move beyond your own viewpoint and see a leadership challenge through a completely different lens? Perspective shifting is an important strategic leadership…
- 6.05 How to Build Self-Awareness to Become a More Effective Leader · 35 min · Saison 6 Épisode 5How well do you really understand the impact you have on other people, not just the impact you intend to have? Self-awareness becomes increasingly important as you become more…
- 6.04 Handling Conflict Well: The Five Skills Every Leader Needs · 39 min · Saison 6 Épisode 4What if getting better at conflict could make you a more effective leader, strengthen relationships and help you make better strategic decisions? Conflict is part of leadership…
- 6.03 The Prioritisation Tools Every Leader Should Be Using · 34 min · Saison 6 Épisode 3If you're constantly busy but still feel like you're not making the progress you want, it may may be a sign that you need to sharpen your prioritisation skills. Effective…
- 6.02 How to Develop Strategic Clarity · 30 min · Saison 6 Épisode 2Do you ever leave a meeting wishing you'd made your point more clearly? Have you ever presented a great idea only to find the conversation getting lost in the detail? Whether…
- 6.01 Strategic Leadership Essentials: Defining the Essential Tools · 25 min · Saison 6 Épisode 1What if you could cut through leadership complexity and focus on the handful of tools that consistently make the biggest difference? Every leader collects ideas, models…
- 5.08 When Departmental Goals Clash: Making Better Decisions at the Top Table · 28 min · Saison 5 Épisode 8What happens when doing the right thing for your department is not the right thing for the organisation? Senior leaders regularly face decisions where functional priorities clash…
- 5.07 Every Leadership Interaction Leaves a Trace · 37 min · Saison 5 Épisode 7We explore how senior leaders can better understand their leadership impact, communication style and executive presence, particularly when operating at the top table. Paul…
- 5.06 Leading Beyond Your Function: How to think and act at enterprise level · 31 min · Saison 5 Épisode 6Stepping into a senior leadership role is not just a promotion, it is a fundamental identity shift that reshapes how we think, act and contribute. The move from functional…
- 5.05 What stops SLTs being strategic · 32 min · Saison 5 Épisode 5Feeling stuck in back-to-back meetings yet still not moving the business forward? This explores why senior leadership teams struggle to think strategically and how to reset that…
- 5.04 - Moving Between Detail and Big Picture as a Strategic Leader · 33 min · Saison 5 Épisode 4What does strategy actually look like when you’re juggling running projects, leading teams and sitting at the executive table? In this episode we explore that question with…
- 5.03 - Moving from Operational to Strategic Leadership - a COO Perspective · 33 min · Saison 5 Épisode 3What actually changes when you move from operational leadership into the strategic conversations at the top table? In this episode we explore that question through the lens of…
- 5.02 Why Executive Teams Struggle Without Behavioural Awareness · 33 min · Saison 5 Épisode 2If you have ever left an exec meeting feeling frustrated by how people behaved rather than what was decided, this episode will change how you see senior teams. Being strategic at…
- 5.01 The Three Hats of Senior Leadership - do you wear all three? · 28 min · Saison 5 Épisode 1Getting a seat at the senior table is one thing. Knowing how to use it well is something else entirely. This series demystifies what senior leadership really involves, We set out…
- Six Christmas Wishes for HR Leaders in 2026 · 31 min · Saison 4We explore six Christmas wishes for the year ahead - and each one gives you something to think about as you step into 2026 with intention. • Performance management - we…
- 4.10 Is It Possible to be Too Nice at Work? · 30 min · Saison 4 Épisode 10Is being ‘nice’ at work doing more harm than good? Many of us equate niceness with being a good leader. But we suggest that when we soften messages, it is more about avoiding…
- 4.09 Why are there still so few women in senior leadership? with Geraldine Gallacher · 35 min · Saison 4 Épisode 9If you’re wondering why the number of women in senior roles remains low despite all the progress we think we’ve made, this episode unpacks what’s really going on beneath the…







