Miscellaneous
Today we spoke with Mark Prendergast - Director at Prendergast Leadership, and former Irish soldier. Brought to you by Hauora - a whole person performance wellbeing growth partner. Visit www.HauoraLife.com Mark served in the Irish Army Defence Forces and as a commanding officer in his time with the army. He founded Prendergast Leadership in 2017, which was born from 30 years developing high performing military leaders. It designs and delivers leadership programmes for clients in the financial services, security industry, IT and manufacturing services inside and outside Ireland. In this episode we trace the origin story as to why Mark joined the Irish army - and interestingly, why he left - one of the most challenging leadership questions of his illustrious career. We hear about missions in Kosovo and Syria - and what Mark learned from these. We ask what business can learn from the military and what Mark has had to unlearn over the years. We discuss leadership development, coherence and strategy, horizontal alignment and Marks' personal pillars of wellbeing. Human performance. specifically creating an environment where people can deliver high performance, barriers to that, team effectiveness, teamwork and embracing challenges are unpacked; plus the importance of being able to clearly articulate ones' values - and clarity and unity of purpose.