Helping leaders to be better at 'leading under pressure' by leading with conscious control, care factor and courage.
Anton Guinea was a 21-year-old sparkie when he survived a near-fatal workplace incident that changed his life forever.
Current Work:
For 15 years, Anton has worked with over 150 businesses globally and has dedicated himself to supporting businesses to create psychological and physical safety through empathetic leadership. Anton has developed and implemented methodologies that create lasting and impactful safety change, through a combined approach to psychological and physical safety.
With a Business Degree in Human Resource Management and currently studying a Psychology Degree, Anton is the lead speaker that leaders listen to.
Talking Points
Upgrade Your Mindset (With resilience, the leadership superpower)
The Upgrade model covers topics including how to use resilience as part of your psychological capital and your mindset; how advancing despite adversity is the key to goal attainment; developing a future focus and finding your ‘why’; and learning how to use conscious control and emotional literacy to manage pressure and professional relationships.Upgrade Your Mindset (With resilience, the leadership superpower)
Start with a future focus: As a leader, decide who you’re becoming
Develop a positive perspective: Practice the art of putting things into perspective
Think about your thoughts: Develop and practice the skill of introspection
Lead under pressure: Manage the pressure; don’t let it manage you
Know your leadership style: Find your leadership style, and lean into it
Upskill Your Leadership (Through reflection and reframing)
The Upskill model covers topics including creating conscious control and developing your emotional quotient to lead well even when leading under pressure; learning care factor to ensure the emotional wellbeing of your team members; and drawing on courage to develop your leadership skills and reach your leadership goals.Upskill Your Leadership (Through reflection and reframing)
Key Takeaways:
- Create conscious control: Learn to respond, not react, to BOOM events
- Have high care factor: Learn how to be a good human, and a good leader
- Develop your EQ: Lead with emotional intelligence, and social intelligence
- Lead under pressure: Stay in control and lead well even when the pressure rises
- Be courageous: Take action when it matters, even if it scares you
Uplift Your Teams (For high performance and psychological safety)
The Uplift model covers topics including using the Platinum Rule of communication; dealing with people who go BOOM when things go BOOM; avoiding the Deficit Dialogue Dilemma; role modelling leadership while leading under pressure; and demonstrating radical candour to create psychologically safe workplaces.Uplift Your Teams (For high performance and psychological safety)
Key Takeaways:
- Uplift your team: Create a high-performing and psychologically safe team
- Facilitate team discussion: Give your team members a voice, and let them challenge you
- Role model leadership: Lead by example, so team members do as you say, and as you do
- Deal with difficulties: Lead your team out of turmoil and into productivity
- Demonstrate radical candour Care first, and show it, before you challenge directly
Uphold Your Safety How to not get killed at work: stories from a survivor
The Uphold model covers topics including slowing down and not putting safety at risk by trying to meet deadlines and KPIs; oxygenating your brain and not compromising on your priorities by learning to lead yourself under pressure; and standing by your commitment to safety to avoid making poor decisions that put yourself at risk.Uphold Your Safety How to not get killed at work: stories from a survivor
Key Takeaways:
- It's just not worth it: Seriously, it's not
- Just stop and breathe: You'll make better decisions
- Don't do safety for others: Do it for you and your wellness
Uplevel Your Identity The three ways to conquer the spectrum of perspective
The Uphold model covers topics including slowing down and not putting safety at risk by trying to meet deadlines and KPIs; oxygenating your brain and not compromising on your priorities by learning to lead yourself under pressure; and standing by your commitment to safety to avoid making poor decisions that put yourself at risk.Uplevel Your Identity The three ways to conquer the spectrum of perspective
Key Takeaways:
- It's just not worth it: Seriously, it's not
- Just stop and breathe: You'll make better decisions
- Don't do safety for others: Do it for you and your wellness
Video
Anton Guinea | Saxton Speakers
“Leaders suffer with their mental health , too. And how can they support their teams, if they are not feeling supported? That’s where we come in…” As the regional Queensland born founder of The Guinea Group, Anton Guinea (Dip Eng, BBA, Postgrad Dip, BPsyc) has become a valued resource for organisations, helping them to create conscious control, and to be better at leading under pressure. An international best-selling author, and thought leader since 2005, Anton’s work transforms organisations and saves lives.What an amazing speaker. Really gets the audience rocking. Great work, Anton, looking forward to you speaking at another one of our events ... keep reading Dane Linforth
Anton Guinea and TGG are safety thinking and safety culture experts. They just know how to gather safety data, safety knowledge and safety information … and they know how to turn that information into safety strategy that engages staff and provides solid safety frameworks. Thanks TGG for being a valuable partner in our safety culture journey.
Thanks for the taylor made program Anton ... Our team responded well and I have already noticed multiple “learnings” from the day...