Lead To Succeed: Recent Episodes
Callum and Rebecca Jenkins
Inspirational conversations with today‘s business leaders. Hear their challenges and how they overcame them, their tips to be an inspiring leader and tough lessons learnt along the way.
Whether you‘re a manager leading a team, a business owner, or stepping into a leadership role, you‘ll hear practical advice and experiences that will inspire your own approach to leadership.
Topics include: leading change, wellbeing in the workplace, self-leadership, authentic leadership, overcoming big challenges, emotional intelligence, crisis leadership, engaging millennials, and leading remote teams.
The hosts, Callum and Rebecca Jenkins share their own experiences of leadership. This includes growing a business in the B2B sector, to experiencing different leadership styles.
The podcast style is conversational, always leaving the listener with practical steps that they can implement in the workplace.
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In an AI disrupted world, what do you do when technology is moving faster than your people?Heather Jerrehian, Silicon Valley CEO, investor, and co-author of Sail to Scale, reveals why trust, psychological safety, and human-centred leadership are now the critical skills CEOs need to navigate AI-driven disruption.For most organisations, AI doesn’t fail because the tech isn’t ready.
It fails because people don’t feel safe enough to adopt it.But for Heather, this moment became a masterclass in leading through uncertainty, navigating resistance, and bringing teams with her into the future.In this conversation with Rebecca Jenkins and Callum Jenkins, Heather explains what CEOs must understand about human behaviour, fear, change, and how to build the trust that makes transformation possible.This is not theory, it’s hard-earned insight from someone who has launched, pivoted, scaled, and exited companies at the heart of the AI revolution, including a transformational acquisition by ServiceNow.What you’ll learn in this episode: Why AI adoption fails inside organisations, and the hidden fears leaders aren’t addressing.
* How to build psychological safety so your people don’t resist AI, but embrace it.
* The leadership behaviours that create trust during periods of disruption.
* How Heather’s ‘listening tour’ revealed a market opportunity that changed the trajectory of her company.
* Why futurist leaders must learn the skill of bringing people with them, not running ahead alone.
* The four waves of growth from Sail to Scale,* and how to navigate each one without losing your team.
* Why human-centred leadership is the only sustainable strategy in an AI-powered world.
This is for:CEOs, Founders, and C-suite leaders navigating AI-driven change, organisational resistance, or the complexity of leading people through disruption.
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Connect with Heather:LinkedIn: Heather Jerrehian
X: @Jerrehian
Book: Sail to Scale: Steer Your Startup Clear of Mistakes from Launch to Exit (Amazon)
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What do you do when your CFO calls on Sunday night to say you’re filing for bankruptcy in the morning?
Tim Butchart reveals how he led through chaos, kept every customer, and turned crisis into growth.
For most leaders, that call would trigger panic, client flight, and investor revolt. But for Tim Butchart, it became a masterclass in crisis leadership and customer trust.
Against the odds, his team didn’t lose a single key customer.
In this raw conversation with Rebecca Jenkins and Callum Jenkins, Tim shares what it takes to lead through chaos, scale in high-pressure environments, and prove value when the stakes couldn’t be higher.
This isn’t theory. It’s scars-earned wisdom from SaaS, AI, fintech, and cybersecurity boardrooms, including PE-backed scale-ups where growth targets aren’t suggestions, they’re mandates.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- How to keep customers from walking away when your company’s future is on the line.
- Why “everything is a service” changes how you lead teams and retain talent.
- How to survive PE-backed growth expectations without burning out your culture.
- The four anchors of modern leadership: Vision, Scalable Engine, People, Uncertainty.
This is for: CEOs, Founders, CROs, and PE-backed leaders navigating high-stakes growth, global expansion, or customer retention challenges.
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Connect with Tim: LinkedIn : Tim Butchart
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A leadership psychologist shares the toughest workplace turnaround of her career, the skill most leaders get wrong, and how to restore trust, unity, and results.In this episode Rebecca Jenkins and Callum Jenkins talk with Dr. Mira Brancu, leadership advisor, licensed psychologist, and CEO of Towerscope, to explore how and why leadership needs to evolve.
Mira has over 20 years’ experience helping technical experts transition into leadership roles, navigate complex organisations, and build trust in challenging environments.
Mira is the author of Millennial’s Guide to Workplace Politics and host of The Hard Skills Podcast, where she focuses on the intersection of leadership, behavioural science, and organisational psychology.
Together, we dive into:
- Toxic vs. healthy cultures - what the warning signs look like and how to intervene early.
- Psychological safety - why it’s the cornerstone of innovation and high performance.
- The leadership skill most leaders struggle with right now - and how to improve it.
- Introvert vs. extrovert leadership - busting the myths and understanding their unique strengths.
- Humility and confidence - finding the balance between approachability and authority.
- How to rebuild trust in a team - after conflict, politics, or organisational trauma.
Mira also shares her pivotal career moment, in being asked to lead a “toxic and hostile” workplace early in her career and the lessons that shaped her approach to leadership ever since.
If you’re a leader navigating change, wanting to engage your team more deeply, or curious about how leadership styles need to shift now, this conversation will challenge and inspire you.
Connect with Dr. Mira Brancu Website: gotowerscope.com * LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mirabrancu * Podcast: The Hard Skills Podcast * Book: Millennial’s Guide to Workplace Politics*
Resources & Links* Rebecca Jenkins – LinkedIn | RJEN * Callum Jenkins – LinkedIn * The CEO Revenue Architecture Briefing - access your copy here to avoid revenue growth plateaus
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Teams want certainty, but in an uncertain world, how can you deliver it? Find out how in this episode.We dive deep with Mike Mears, Leadership Theoretician, former GE change-agent under Jack Welch, and ex-CIA Chief of Human Capital.
Mike Mears reveals the neuroscience backed rituals and intelligence inspired frameworks that clear away uncertainty, sharpen your focus, and unleash your team’s full potential.
From GE’s “Workout” sessions to CIA secure briefings, Mike unpacks his three-pillar “Certainty” method.
Mike shares the mindset pivots that turn cautious managers into bold innovators, and the battlefield lessons of building true psychological safety, even in the most critical situations.
Tune in to discover how these proven insights can elevate your leadership, strengthen your culture, and drive transformative results, starting today.
Journey Highlights & Story Beats* GE’s “Workout” Revelation:
Rebecca and Callum discover Mike’s first “aha” moment under Jack Welch, how a noisy, chaotic workshop taught him that culture change starts with listening, not lecturing.
* CIA’s Safe-House Confession:
Mike recounts the night an agent risked their career to report a critical encryption error, because Mike had built a “safe house” of trust. That moment taught him that psychological safety isn’t a luxury; it’s a survival tool.
* Military Roots & Dual-Engine Leadership:
From survival-of-the-fittest drills to commanding a nuclear missile site, Mike learned that drive alone breeds burnout and only paired with genuine empathy will people truly follow.
Key Takeaways1. Certainty Overrides Fear
* Our primitive “survival” wiring clings to the status quo. Weekly 5-minute, agenda-free check-ins and timely praise rewire brains toward confident change.
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Psychological Safety as a Secure Briefing Room
- In covert ops, absolute trust saves lives. In business, it unleashes candid feedback and breakthrough ideas. Start small, smile at every team member, ask one open-ended question, then listen.
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Insight Prompts: Your CEO “Ask”
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Inspired by CIA Director's, assign each direct report a single, high-stakes question. Give them a week to reflect, and then collect ten ideas back. Dopamine-driven “aha” moments follow.
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The Dual-Engine Model: Drive + Empathy
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Military toughness and modern leadership demands both relentless mission focus and genuine concern for people’s well-being.
Notable Quotes“Great bosses don’t force change; they engineer certainty so teams feel safe innovating.”
“You don’t need all the answers, just the right questions and the space for insights to emerge.”
“Pair relentless drive with real empathy, then watch your people follow you anywhere.”
Actionable Steps for Leaders.* Implement CIA-Style Check-Ins: Five-minute, no-agenda chats each week with every direct report: What’s top of mind? How can I support you? * Rotate Your Ops: Structure work into three phases, core execution, innovation sprint, and recovery to maintain peak performance and morale. * Launch an Insight Prompt: Give each team member one strategic question, set a deadline, reconvene for accountability and harvest high-impact ideas.
Connect & Continue the Conversation* Mike Mears on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/mike-mears-leadership-theoretician-4627a889 * Email: https://www.mikemears.com
Tune in to discover how to harness certainty and lead with the confidence of a CIA strategist—wherever you are in the world.
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Callum Jenkins
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Rebecca Jenkins
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In this high octane episode, Callum and Rebecca Jenkins discover how Saahil Mehta, an internationally renowned peak performance coach and author of Break Free, helps to declutter your life, lead with intention, and unlock your full leadership potential, in business and beyond.
Saahil shares his three-step "Break Free" process, the mindset shifts required to let go of people pleasing, and how climbing mountains has taught him how to navigate life’s biggest challenges including those high-stakes conversations leaders often avoid.
What You’ll Learn: The “7 Summits” of Personal Success: Why leaders must define their own* version of success and not borrow society’s. * Decluttering for High Performance: How to remove emotional, physical, and mental distractions to gain clarity and momentum. * From People Pleasing to Personal Power: Saahil’s breakthrough moment on a retreat that changed how he shows up in life and business. * The 5 Steps to Manage Difficult Conversations: How to address conversations with empathy, understanding and clarity * Boardroom Lessons from the Mountains: Why preparation beats improvisation in high-pressure situations
Key Takeaways:* Confidence is built by doing the hard things, and real leadership starts with self-leadership. * Leaders don’t rise to the level of their ambition, they fall to the level of their preparation. * Conversations aren’t won through force, they’re earned through empathy, clarity, and courage.
Saahil’s Wisdom:“You don’t need to react. You need to respond. That’s where the breathwork, the pause, the clarity, it all comes in.”
“You may not know your full purpose today, but your soul should leave this life better than it entered.”
🔗 Resources & Mentions: The Untethered Soul* by Michael Singer * Saahil’s Book: Break Free –https://www.saahilmehta.com/ * Breathwork Mentioned: Box Breathing (3 seconds in, 3 hold, 3 out, 3 hold – repeat)
Connect with Saahil Mehta:* 🌐 www.saahilmehta.com * YouTube: @saahilmehta * LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/saahilmehta
Upcoming:🧗 Bhutan Mountain Retreat in November – stay tuned via Saahil’s site or socials for updates.
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The Power of Emotional Culture at Work Hosts, Rebecca Jenkins and Callum Jenkins are joined by Cara Cunniff, a former British Army Psychological Operations Officer, turned emotional culture consultant. We explore how leaders can create high-performing teams by focusing on emotions, not just actions.
Drawing from her military background in psychological operations, Cara shares powerful insights into how emotions influence behaviour, both on the battlefield and in the boardroom.
We unpack how organisations can co-create emotional cultures, why some leaders resist emotional awareness, and how to spot disengagement before it becomes damaging.
Whether you lead a startup or a large organisation, this episode is full of practical tools and leadership questions you can apply immediately to build stronger, more connected teams.
Key Topics Covered: What emotional culture really means and why it’s your hidden performance driver * Signs your team is disengaged and what to do about it * The Vs” of workplace emotions: Visible, Valued and Validated * Mapping a “Feeling Journey” for organisational change * Why leaders must ask: How do I want people to feel in my presence?* * How to create psychologically safe spaces for honest conversations * Practical steps to start embedding emotional culture in your team * Hybrid & remote teams: how to enhance connection remotely
Cara’s Top 2 Practical Tips for Leaders:1. Reflect on how you want your people to feel this week, then do one thing to move the needle toward that emotion. 2. Remember: Leadership isn’t what you do, it’s how you make people feel.
Connect with Cara Cunniff on LinkedIn* LinkedIn: Cara Cunniff
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Robin Daniels, an experienced leader, discusses the evolving workplace, the importance of recognising effort over outcomes, and how autonomy enables creativity.
Robin also shares his leadership journey having worked at LinkedIn and WeWork, and provides actionable insights from the importance of building an online brand to what makes an impactful leader of the future.
Listen for invaluable leadership lessons and hear Robin’s thoughts about the value of Leadership in the age of AI.
Key Topics Covered:
- Public vs. Private Recognition (17:30): Robin explains the importance of balancing recognition in the workplace to ensure inclusivity and motivation.
- Effort vs. Outcome (18:35): Learn why the future of work should reward input and output, not just outcome.
- The Role of Autonomy (22:46): Discover how giving employees freedom while maintaining role clarity drives success.
- LinkedIn’s Impact(25:08): Robin shares how actively engaging on LinkedIn transformed his career and opened up new opportunities.
- Building a Personal Brand on LinkedIn (28:53): Practical tips for business owners on how to leverage LinkedIn for authenticity and engagement.
- Top Leadership Advice (33:03): Robin’s #1 tip for personal and professional success.
Memorable Quotes:
- “Effort, mindset, and enthusiasm are fully within your control. Recognising these is key to a healthy work culture.”
- “People follow people, not brands. Be authentic, share stories, and be consistent.”
- “Surround yourself with great people. The right network lifts you up and helps you grow.”
Resources Mentioned:
- Robin Daniels on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robingdaniels/
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Nathan Chan has broken every rule in business to have a successful company.Hear his leadership journey and what he's learnt from interviewing over 100 business billionaires. ----more----Nathan is the visionary founder and CEO of Foundr, a global media and education platform dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs to be outstanding business leaders.
With a journey spanning over 12 years, Nathan shares how he transitioned from an IT support role to leading a company that has grown to employ around 50 people.
Lessons from interviews with Richard Branson, Mark Cuban and other impressive leadersThrough insightful discussions, Nathan reveals his experiences interviewing some of the biggest names in business, such as Richard Branson and Mark Cuban, and the invaluable lessons he learned from them.
Dive into the challenges and triumphs of leadership, the importance of cultivating a strong team culture, and the wisdom of surrounding oneself with great people.
Facing BurnoutNathan also opens up about overcoming burnout and the critical role of self-care in sustaining personal and professional growth.
Tune in to discover the secrets behind building a successful online business, scaling for the future, and maintaining a vision-driven leadership approach.
Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or a seasoned leader, Nathan's story offers valuable insights and motivation to ignite your own path to success.
Key Points and Timings
In this episode Nathan talks about :
Surrounding yourself with great people (7:15): Finding great people, surrounding yourself with great people and also retaining great people
Lessons from Top Entrepreneurs (08:04): Nathan discusses key leadership lessons he’s learned from interviewing over 100 successful founders, including the importance of having a clear mission and vision.
Creating a talent wait list (11.38)
Developing an infectious culture (13:18)
The power of vulnerability in leadership (16:13)
Overcoming Burnout: (23:56) Despite his business thriving, Nathan found himself mentally drained, which led him to invest in self-care, therapy, and building a stronger leadership team.
Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs (29:50)
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In this high value episode, Callum and Rebecca Jenkins are joined by Rich Diviney, a former Navy SEAL commander with over two decades of leadership experience, leading elite teams in some of the world’s most challenging environments.Rich is also a human performance expert, and the author of The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance, Rich Diviney offers deep insights into the key traits that make a true leader.
From thoughts of becoming a naval aviator to commanding high-performing units, Rich shares invaluable leadership lessons and attributes that have shaped his career and the success of his teams. He shares practical tips to implement in business.
This conversation dives into the critical difference between skills and attributes, shedding light on why businesses must focus on this to create effective teams capable of performing under pressure.
In this episode, Rich talks about:
- The Key Leadership Attributes (05:12): Discover the powerful traits that define success in high-stakes environments and how they apply to leadership.
- Skills vs. Attributes (08:23): Rich explains why attributes like resilience, adaptability, and emotional intelligence are just as important, if not more so, than technical skills.
- Unlocking Potential with Attributes Inc. (12:56): How Rich’s company applies military, neuroscience, and psychological insights to help organisations build high-performing teams.
- Perseverance vs. Resilience (20:42): The nuanced difference between these two traits and how to cultivate them in your team.
- Building Team Trust (28:11): Rich discusses how small behaviors and consistent actions can build lasting trust, even in the most stressful situations.
- The Science of Team Dynamics (33:59): Learn how subtle behavioral shifts can dramatically improve team cohesion and performance under pressure.
Memorable Quotes from Rich Diviney.
- “When the stakes are high, it’s not the skills you have—it’s the attributes you rely on.”
- “Leadership is about understanding the people you’re leading, knowing their strengths, and pushing them to achieve their best under pressure.”
- “Trust isn’t built with grand gestures—it’s built with small, consistent actions over time.”
Resources Mentioned:
- Rich Diviney’s book: The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance
- The Attributes Assessment Tool: theattributes.com
- Simon Sinek’s work on trust: simonsinek.com
Connect with Rich Diviney:
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richdiviney
- Instagram: @rich_diviney
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Discover the traits of successful maverick leaders, and how to apply them to transform your leadership and business.Episode Summary: We take a close look at Maverick Leadership, what it is and how to apply it, with our guest Judith Germain, a leading authority on Maverick Leadership.
Judith reveals how Maverick leaders,like Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and even political figures like Barack Obama and Donald Trump, embody traits like willful independence, innovation, and the power to influence.
These leaders have transformed industries and driven massive change by staying true to their unique vision and approach.
Judith dives deep into the core principles of Maverick Leadership, showing how business owners and leaders can apply these traits to catalyse transformation and elevate their impact.
From determination to reputation, influence, and adaptability, Judith shares actionable insights that will help you become a more decisive and influential leader, ready to amplify your success and attract the clients you want.
We also explore why execution is the true key to turning plans into results, how to innovate with your product offerings, and why a growth mindset is crucial for any leader looking to achieve long-term success.
Key Takeaways
- Maverick Leadership is about being willfully independent and adaptable to new ideas, with a focus on working for the greater good.
- The DRIVEN acronym outlines the essential qualities of a Maverick Leader: Determination, Reputation, Influence, Versatility, Execution, and Narration.
- Why commitment matters more than compromise.
- How clear thinking and decisive actions are central to creating a lasting impact and driving business success.
- The power of reframing negative thoughts and language to foster a positive mindset and enhance leadership.
- Growth Mindset is critical for leaders, knowing how to hack your brain and use the subconscious to find the best solutions.
- Famous Maverick leaders include Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Each embodies the characteristics of Maverick leadership, with a focus on independence, impact, and innovation.
Resources Mentioned:
- Judith's Scorecard for Influence: A quick 5-7 minute tool to help you understand how to influence others and attract clients. Take the Scorecard
- Judith’s Maverick Paradox Magazine: A publication focusing on lateral thinking and Maverick leadership insights. Visit the Magazine
- Follow Judith on LinkedIn
- Maverick Paradox Website
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About Judith Germain: Judith Germain is a business mentor, speaker, and author, specializing in Maverick Leadership principles. She works with business owners and leaders to help them cultivate clear thinking and become more decisive, all while amplifying their influence and impact. Judith is also the founder of The Maverick Paradox Podcast and Maverick Paradox Magazine.
Connect with Judith:
- LinkedIn: Judith Germain
- Email: judith@maverickparadox.comhttps:/
- Website /www.maverickparadox.co.uk/
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What it takes to build 2 unicorn businesses. Personal and professional insights from Oyster CEO.Tony Jamous, co-founder and CEO of Oyster, a global HR management platform, reveals the core principles of empathy-driven leadership and shares insights on what it takes to build unicorn businesses.
Reflecting on his journey from starting in sales to building 2 unicorn businesses, Tony discusses what it takes, the leadership and culture required particularly in remote work environments.
Throughout the episode, we explore how companies that fail to adapt to remote work risk losing top talent, as today’s workforce increasingly values flexibility and work-life balance.
Tony emphasises the importance of leaders modelling the behaviour they expect from their teams, creating a culture where psychological safety fosters innovation and risk-taking.
He introduces the concept of asynchronous communication, a strategy he uses to reduce emotional triggers and biases.
Additionally, Tony shares insights from his own personal transformation, highlighting the importance of growth, trust and adaptability in leadership.
Tony discusses the key factors in building 2 unicorn businesses.
Key segments
- Empathy-Driven Leadership: A New Paradigm (03:38)
- Building Trust in a Remote Workforce (06.35)
- The Tools for Effective Remote Collaboration (09.37)
- Transformative Leadership: Lessons from Personal Experience (15:15)
- Key Factors for Business Success (18:05)
- Final Thoughts and Tips for Emerging Leaders (20.29)
Connect with Tony Jamous https://www.linkedin.com/in/teljamou/
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Leadership lessons learnt from first hand experience at Amazon, Google and The Gates Foundation.John Rossman specialises in solving complex problems, he shares how leaders can make high-stakes decisions with clarity, velocity, and effective communication.
John shares his experience of observing and working with big bet leaders such as Jeff Bezos, Amazon and Satya Nadella, Microsoft.
Key Topics:
- Big Bet Leadership - Making ambitious decisions with clarity, speed, and communication.
- Lessons from Amazon - Leadership lessons from launching Amazon Marketplace and scaling in today's hyper digital landscape by making bold moves and with sharp thinking.
- Customer Obsession - Aligning strategy with delivering customer value.
- Communication - The role of storytelling and proactive communication in successful leadership.
Books Mentioned:
- Big Bet Leadership by John Rossman
- The Amazon Way by John Rossman
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Connect with John Rossman:
- Visit bigbetleadership.com for more resources and tools.
- Connect with John Rossman on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-rossman/
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An important and thought-provoking episode with Dr Suzanne Wertheim to discover how your leadership language might be negatively impacting you and the business.Suzanne explains why being intentional with the language leaders use is crucial. Yet despite good intentions leadership language is often misaligned and causes problems in the workplace.If you're a leader or managing a team this episode is a must listen to ensure your words encourage clarity, inclusivity, and positive engagement within your team.Suzanne highlights that whilst good intentions guide our actions, it's crucial to reflect on whether our language is in alignment, otherwise our language can cause problems in the workplace.
Suzanne encourages listeners to seek feedback on their communication styles to ensure they’re using language that reflects their values and goals.
In sharing her own errors, Suzanne underscores the risks of language on autopilot. Offering practical advice on how leaders can handle mistakes in a way that builds trust and respect, turning moments of failure into opportunities for growth and understanding.
Key Segments:
- Why our language patterns are sending a bad message (06.42)
- Learning from Personal Language Mistakes (16:40)
- How best to overcome a langage faux pas (20.51)
- Does Your Language land well and what to do if not (25.36)
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Suzanne Wertheim is a national expert on inclusive language and the author of The Inclusive Language Field Guide(2023). Suzanne specialises in analysing and addressing bias at work.
Her clients have included tech giants such as Google and Reddit, financial companies such as Charles Schwab, and national news organizations such as News Nation.
Connect with Suzanne Wertheim
https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannewertheim-inclusivelanguageexpert/
http://www.worthwhileconsulting.com/
Subscribe to Suzanne's monthly newsletter for inclusive language tips and topical analysis: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/worthwhile-language-6942889525505388544/
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In this exceptional episode, Bob Burg, the renowned and prolific best selling author discusses the core principles of the Go-Giver philosophy and how they apply to leadership and success.Bob emphasises the importance of providing value to others as the key to personal and professional success. Our conversation delves into how leaders can develop an approach of giving over getting as the fuel for business success.
Key Points Discussed:
The Go-Giver Philosophy:
The importance of shifting from a "getting" mindset to a "giving" one.
Success is directly proportional to how much value you provide to others.
Five Laws of Sustainable Success:
Bob breaks down the five laws from his book, including the Law of Value, the Law of Compensation, the Law of Influence, the Law of Authenticity, and the Law of Receptivity.
Leadership and Influence
How true leadership is about serving others and helping them achieve their goals.
Influence is about pulling, not pushing—how attraction, not coercion, builds lasting influence.
Blind spots in Leadership
Bob discusses how leaders often have blind spots—areas where they might be unaware of their own biases or shortcomings.
The importance of self-awareness and feedback in identifying and addressing these blind spots to become more effective leaders.
Common Misconceptions
Addressing the myth that giving leads to being taken advantage of.
Explaining how being a Go-Giver is not about being a doormat but about creating value and creating win-win relationships.
Handling Objections
Why trying to overcome objections isn't the best approach.
Memorable Quotes
“Give Exceptional Value to Enjoy Extraordinary Results."
"Blind spots are the areas where we are unknowingly holding ourselves back; addressing them is key to becoming a more effective leader."
Resources Mentioned
- Book: "The Go-Giver" by Bob Burg and John David Mann
- Website: www.thegogiver.com
- Bob Burg https://burg.com/
- Self Determination Theory of Motivation
- https://www.apa.org/members/content/intrinsic-motivation
- Dondi Scumaci https://dondiscumaci.com/compliance-will-never-take-you-where-commitment-can-go/
- 5 Leadership Thoughts from Mark Sanborn
- https://blog.leadr.com/5-leadership-thoughts-from-mark-sanborn
- John Maxwell Books
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B001H6NROC
- Principles of Success, Ray Dalio
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Success-Ray-Dalio/dp/1982147210
- Everybody Matters, Bob Chapman, Raj Sisodia
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everybody-Matters-Extraordinary-Caring-People/dp/1591847796
- Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leaders-Eat-Last-Together-Others/dp/1591845327/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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Innovation in Business: Disrupting a Traditional IndustryIn this episode, we delve into how two visionaries are transforming a highly traditional industry with a world first innovative product that promises both cost savings proven return on investment and environmental benefits.
Episode Highlights:* Meet the Disruptors: Our guests, George Kochanowski, a former chemical engineer and founder and CEO of Staxxon, and Richard Danderline a finance expert are pioneering the development of folding shipping containers. With over $2 billion spent annually on repositioning empty containers, their solution offers significant cost reductions and positive environmental impacts. * The Journey of Innovation: Discover how George’s inquisitive mind led to the creation of this revolutionary product. Despite being told his idea was impossible, George’s perseverance, strategic planning, and entrepreneurial mindset are now challenging long-standing industry norms. * Key Takeaways:
+ Driving Change: Insights on how to effectively introduce innovation in a traditional industry.
+ Mindset Matters: Strategies for maintaining a strong mindset in the face of setbacks.
+ Smart Conviction: The balance between blind faith and informed confidence in achieving success.
+ Uncommon Sense: The importance of unconventional thinking in driving progress.
Join us as we explore the fascinating story of Staxxon, and learn from George and Richard's experiences in innovation, resilience, and leadership.
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Visit their website
https://Staxxon.com
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What is company culture?Our guest Nick Jenkins who has 10 years of leading culture change, highlights the alarming statistics of employee unhappiness and disengagement and emphasises the need for leaders to take responsibility for improving culture.
Nick defines workplace culture as "the way things are done in an organisation" and explains that it consists of behaviours, rituals, traditions, practices, and approaches. He also emphasises that culture exists in various touchpoints, such as communication, collaboration, leadership, recognition, and processes.
What makes a good culture?Nick shares his journey into culture and how he helps businesses unlock their potential and perform at their best.
He provides insights into what makes a good culture, including attracting the right talent, enabling employee development, aligning with business goals, empowering employees, and retaining top talent.
What are the signs of a toxic culture?Nick also discusses the signs of a toxic culture and the first steps companies should take to revamp their culture. He emphasises the importance of engaging employees, co-creating a winning culture, and establishing trust.
Nick offers tips for leaders to implement today, such as assembling a culture team with diverse representation, focusing on quick wins, and measuring behaviors to ensure alignment with values and culture.
He concludes by highlighting the ongoing nature of culture and the need for continuous effort and accountability.
Key Takeaways
- Culture is a critical factor in employee engagement, happiness, and business performance.
- Leaders must take responsibility for improving culture and creating the right conditions for success to flourish.
- A good culture attracts the right talent, enables employee development, aligns with business goals, empowers employees, and retains top talent.
- Toxic cultures can be identified by signs such as disengagement, lack of communication, absence of career progression, and unclear values.
- Changing culture requires clear communication, involvement of employees, prioritisation of actions, and measurement of behaviours.
- Culture is an ongoing journey that requires continuous effort, accountability, and adaptation to changing circumstances.
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Why Revolutionising Leadership Matters andHow To Achieve ItWelcome to an inspiring episode with Todd Kuckkahn, a renowned keynote speaker and leadership coach revolutionising leadership and culture.
We delve into the critical aspects of communication and why many companies consistently get it wrong.
Todd shares his unique approach to performance reviews by focusing on three essential questions that ensure employees are happy and help prevent difficult performance conversations.
We explore the importance of living by our values and navigating situations where team values differ from your own.
Todd emphasises a crucial point: If you lead by title alone, you’ve lost touch with reality.
He recounts his experience where a fear of making mistakes was rife, and why adopting a different perspective is vital to business success.
🎯 Our conversation covers a range of insightful topics, including:
- The challenges of emotional intelligence at the C-suite
- The benefits of being challenged, and accountability with consequences
- How servant and spiritual leadership principles can transform organisational culture
- How we treat others matters to business success
- Why leadership is about influence and connection not titles
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https://toddkuckkahn.com
In the show, Todd references Speak Your Peace.
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Statistics point to only one-third of employees being happy at work.Yet there are considerable benefits to having a happy workforce.We welcome Richard Clarke to discuss how he's achieved workplace happiness. Richard is founder of the tech business Secret Source and has studied behavioural and well-being science.
Having always been obsessed with the concept of happiness from a young age Richard travelled the world to discover how to achieve this state of being.
Realising he wanted to build a business to make people happy, he relocated to Gran Canaria and set up his company.
Richard’s goal has never been about making money, the goal is a higher value, where the team feels psychologically safe and enjoys going to work.
Understand how Richard achieves workplace happiness. The impact it has on business growth and the importance of having a personal WHY – the reason for being.
🎯 We also discuss:
- How to let go of the reins as a leader and trust the team
- Why every decision is focused on the happiness it creates
- How it benefits clients
- How to create psychological safety within the team
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Discover the principles and habits to triple profits, double cash flow, and 10X business valuationWe're delighted to welcome Herb Cogliano, an international executive business coach with three decades of invaluable business experience.Herb shares a wealth of insights from growing a family business, navigating the challenges of scaling a business, and embodying the essence of impactful CEO leadership.
Drawing inspiration from the legendary John D. Rockefeller, the pioneering force behind the Standard Oil Company, now Exxon Mobil Natural Gas.
→ We delve into the transformative power of Rockefeller's 10 Habits to scale a business.
These time-honored principles have stood the test of time for successful entrepreneurship.
We discuss these principles and the five key traits of a high-impact CEO to triple profits, double cash flow and 10X business valuation.
🎯 Tune in to discover how to apply these transformative habits to supercharge your business.
Prepare to be inspired, enlightened, and equipped with practical tools to be an impactful CEO leading a successful business.
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Take the high-impact CEO Quiz mentioned in the episode, here
Read the 2 Rockefeller books mentioned by Herb.
Mastering The Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Rockefeller-Habits-Verne-Harnish/dp/0978774957
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scaling-Up-Companies-Rockefeller-Habits/dp/0986019593
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Elevate your Emotional Intelligence Capabilities and Increase Your Leadership PerformanceIn this episode, #122, we're privileged to explore the wisdom of Joshua Freedman, a trailblazer in emotional intelligence in leadership.
Joshua Freedman is not just an expert; he's a visionary with a best-selling book:
At the Heart of Leadership: How to Get Results with Emotional Intelligence.
World's Largest EQ StudyJoshua is the CEO of Six Seconds - a global emotional intelligence community. He leads the world's largest study on Emotional Intelligence. It reshapes our understanding of emotional intelligence in leadership.
In our conversation, Joshua declares that divorcing emotions from leadership is the most ludicrous advice he's ever encountered.
Why?
Because leadership isn't just about strategy or numbers—it's about people.
It's about understanding the complex tapestry of human emotions that underpin every interaction, decision, and outcome in the workplace.
Joshua unveils his three-step approach to enhancing emotional intelligence, offering clear, actionable insights that can be implemented in just six seconds.
We also talk about:
- How EQ makes us less volatile, more intentional, and more able to stand in complexity and connect with others.
- The massive shifts in emotional intelligence between 2019 and today and how this impacts our approach to leading different generations.
The importance of emotions in businessJoshua shares insights into the importance of the driving force behind our emotions on our behaviours, and the return on investment of emotions in business.
Prepare to be inspired, enlightened, and equipped with practical tools for your journey toward emotional mastery. Enjoy this enlightening conversation with Joshua Freedman.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/freedman/
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Business leaders and managers must have good communication skills and being effective at presenting is vital.Our guest, Andrea Pacini, the Founder of Ideas on Stage, has a compelling story. It led him to become a leading presentation coach and author of the best-selling book "Confident Presenter."
His mission is to help business owners, leaders, and their teams become the best presenters they can be, ultimately growing their businesses and increasing their influence.
In this episode Andrea shares valuable insights, including:
- Why the objective of a presentation is not just to share information
- How to use your voice for impact in delivering a powerful message
- The three key areas for a successful presentation
- How to avoid confusing and losing your audience by structuring the presentation effectively and using engaging visuals
- Why the curse of knowledge will kill your presentation, and how to overcome it
- Insights into Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs' communication styles, highlighting their ability to captivate and inspire through effective presenting
- How to become a dynamic vocal speaker, including tips for improving the vocal variety and maintaining the audience's attention
- The impact of non-effective communication on businesses, and how improving presentation skills can drive growth and success
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Andrea's expertise and commitment to empowering entrepreneurs and business leaders are evident in his work. His insights are invaluable for anyone looking to advance their presentation journey and make a lasting impression.
Contact Andrea at:
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Welcome to another insightful episode of Lead To Succeed.Today, we're joined by Marcus A. Chan, a dynamic sales expert, and author of "6 Figure Sales Secrets." Marcus has a compelling journey from facing challenges in the sales world to becoming a top performer.
Marcus didn’t think he was cut out for sales after working harder than any other sales executive but not getting results.
It was a visit to his Doctor, that made Marcus realise how he needed to change his approach to sales and shift from pitching to consulting.
Instead of blaming his territory, the economy, and everything else on his lack of results, he had a mindset shift and started to learn about modern sales.
He invested in his own personal development and committed to being better.
Then he consistently became the number one top performer and in one company he gained 12 promotions in 8 years.
Marcus shares his experience of what it takes and the three critical steps to have a top-performing sales team.
Listen to Marcus’s tips and experience to achieve the following:
- Faster onboarding of sales teams to become high-performers
- Practical steps on what to do if sales results aren't hitting targets
- How to manage the sales process
- A three-step process to lead a sales team
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https://www.venliconsulting.com/
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WOULD YOU SAY NO TO HAVING APPLE AS A CLIENT?That’s exactly what our podcast guest Jacqueline Samira did.Jacqueline is the founder and CEO of Howdy.com. Her company provides dedicated product-oriented developers with experience in over 100+ technologies and Jacqueline puts her team at the heart of the business.
Jacqueline shares her inspiring story of starting her business, funding it herself then facing it coming off its tracks as the Covid pandemic hit. At that point, she was down to her last $400.00 and expecting her first child. Not knowing what to do next.
Hear her full story, how Jacqueline and her team tackled that situation, what happened and how it shaped her business today.
It’s an outstanding conversation, not to be missed, especially if you’re a business owner with big growth plans.
We also discuss:
- Why Jacqueline turned down Apple as a client
- How to be collaborative yet decisive
- Why having a vision is critical to business success
- Why it’s important to hire people smarter than yourself
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Are you a business owner wondering why your team isn't performing?If you're frustrated by a lack of progress, it's time to listen to sound advice from guest Dominic Monkhouse.
With extensive experience in growing two £30 million businesses, Dominic shares his views on accountability and leadership. We touch on topics such as how to avoid office politics which prevents success and his triangulation method to bust it.
We discuss:
- What makes a great leader
- How to have difficult conversations
- Why we must focus on outcomes not tasks
- The importance of radical feedback and how to deliver it well
- Why we must own and recognise our own weaknesses
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About Dominic Monkhouse.
Dominic Monkhouse is on a mission to demystify business growth.
Dominic has a track record of scaling 2 technology companies from zero revenue to £30m in less than 5 years and turning around a net promoter score of -7 to +55.He now helps ambitious business leaders achieve fast and sustainable growth by building high-performance teams.
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Here’s a question for you, are your team the heroes in your business?Leadership has changed, the leader is no longer the hero, and a successful leader will energise their team and coach them to become the best they can be.Our guest Hortense Le Gentil is a world-renowned executive leadership coach, speaker, and author. Hortense has been ranked #5 on the List of World Management Global Gurus.In this episode Hortense shares leadership insights that span 30 years, showing us how to become a human leader.
Listen to this episode if you want to:
- Be inspired and be an inspiring leader
- Bring out the special talents of your team
- Identify your talent and be able to express it
- Be in the zone and catch the perfect wave
- Finding the courage to overcome the fear of failing
Hortense shares her own personal story of leadership. In hitting a brick wall and recognising that her own leadership needed to change.
You will be inspired and encouraged by Hortense and it will ignite your own leadership potential.
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Hortense le Gentil is a world-renowned executive leadership coach, speaker and author. Her coaching work focuses on CEOs and senior executives on their journey from hero leaders to human leaders.
Le Gentil’s thought leadership is informed by 30 years in business, working across industries including media consulting and advertising—and as an entrepreneur.
She was a 2021 and 2023 nominee for the Thinkers 50 Coaching and Mentoring Awards and has been ranked #5 on the Global Gurus list by World Management Global Gurus.
Hortense is a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered™ coach and a member of MG100 Coaches.
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Contact Hortense and find out about her latest book, The Unlocked Leader here.
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Guest, Myles Downey is the author of three business books, "Effective Modern Coaching", "Enabling Genius", and "The Enabling Manager". We dive into what enabling genius means and how to tap into our own genius as a leader, along with how to embody our fullest potential.
We discuss how to avoid being frazzled at work, and the power of visualisation to reach our goals.
We cover intriguing insights from research conducted by Myles and colleagues to evaluate the lives of those who have achieved great accomplishments.
The good news from the research is we can all develop the traits revealed.
Take a listen to hear what they are and how to develop them.
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About Myles Downey.
Myles is a leading business performance coach in Europe, He has worked across the C-suite in prestigious, global organisations over 30 years, in a wide variety of industries: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Professional Services and the Public Sector.
Myles has run performance coaching programs with the Senior Coaches of the England Rugby Team and with the New Zealand Elite Rugby Coaches.
Myles has spoken at leadership conferences such as the BBC’s Conference for the top 400, McKinsey Partners Conference and the ICF Global Conference.
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Our guest Kevin Thiele takes us through the skills required to be a successful sales leader. We discuss personal sacrifices, mental health, and the price you pay to be an outstanding leader.
With extensive sales leadership experience Kevin shares what it takes to create a winning sales team including research-backed strengths top sales leaders must develop and master.
We also discuss:
Tough decision making
Belief in humanity
Valuing the difference in your people
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Kevin has been living and breathing sales since first picking up a phone at Yellow Pages some 30 years ago. He is driven by making a difference to his clients by delivering lasting change and results.
Kevin established Sales Code, 5 years ago to help technology leaders build the great sales teams they need to scale in rapidly growing and dynamic markets.
Kevin has expertise as a Gallup®Certified Strengths Coach enabling him to help individuals find insights into themselves, their colleagues, and their customers.
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We are delighted that our podcast has been ranked third by in the Top 35 Best UK Leadership Podcasts by Feedspot.
Plus top 4 in the 15 Best Self Leadership Podcasts by Feedspot
2023
Our guest, Deb Crowe, explains how to look at leadership differently. To focus on honouring your people, to put them first and look after them, and then profits will follow.
Deb Crowe is a certified professional life and leadership coach from Canada. Her work involves helping entrepreneurs, leaders, and executives to achieve heart-centred leadership.
With years of experience, starting her entrepreneurial journey at just 24 years of age, Deb shares her expertise and insights on why heart-centred leadership matters and the difference it makes to business success.
We talk about the power of imperfection and how it allows up to connect with each other, and why self-belief and self-acceptance are at the heart of leadership success.
Deb provides practical tips and insights to become a heart-centered leader.
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We are delighted that our podcast has been ranked third by in the Top 35 Best UK Leadership Podcasts by Feedspot.
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Our guest, Barbara Waxman is passionate about building leaders’ personal and professional skills so they thrive with more energy and increased effectiveness.
Barbara, is the founder of Odyssey Group Coaching and takes a holistic approach to helping clients lead and communicate authentically. To sustain high performance and expand their influence and impact.
We discuss how leaders can build resilience in a more hectic and complex environment, and Barbara takes us through her 5 steps to manage change, starting with knowing your own stories.
We particularly liked Barbara’s take on bundling activities to maximise time such as walking meetings, which I am a big fan of, or exercising whilst listening to a podcast.
We also discuss:
✔️ Practical tips to manage our personal energy reservoir.
✔️ How to address burnout
✔️ Tapping into our own wisdom
✔️ The importance of evaluating our social currency
✔️ Loyalty, yes but at what cost?
You can find Barbara's energy quiz at Odyssey Group Coaching
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Get ready to take back control of your business and become the leader you were meant to be!In this episode, our guest and author Chuck Knabusch shares his 28 years of corporate operational experience, as well as a wealth of knowledge from his time in the Army and National Guard.
Chuck gives practical insights on how to stay in control of your business, rather than letting it control you. We discuss the importance of setting standards, planning effectively, optimising your processes, and improving communication to increase the success of your small business.
Don't miss out on this practical and informative discussion that will help you take your leadership and business success to the next level.
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The Essential Ingredient To Sustainable GrowthWelcome to today's podcast episode where we dive into the topic of creating a valuable human exchange within an organisation.
We are excited to have Drew Neal, a thought leader, and expert in breaking barriers and adaptive change, join us.
Drew shares his extensive experience in creating emotionally intelligent cultures that grow people and profits, especially in hyper-growth companies.
We discuss the importance of culture in sustainable business performance and how to align li it with leadership.
Drew provides insights on how to foster a culture of feedback and shares his five-step process for cultural assessment that everyone in a business can take.
Join us as we explore how investing in the human experience can be the ultimate game changer in sustainable business growth.
Key Points We Discuss
What to do when the leader isn't self-aware and their journey of discovery
How to turn around a chaotic culture
Why slow employee onboarding creates better long-term benefits
The critical aspects of culture and their link to governing behaviour
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What Does It Take To Create A High-Performing Team?
Our guest, industry leader Andrew Jenkins provides an invaluable opportunity to gain insight into the strategies to unlock and cultivate high-performance teams in businesses.
With his vast experience and knowledge, he demonstrates how to build better businesses through teamwork excellence.
Business leaders won't want to miss out on this unique chance to learn tangible techniques, including practical tips and stories of success, to apply in their own organisations.
Join us as we explore:
- Effective delegation techniques
- Signs of dysfunctional team dynamics
- Managing conflict
- Utilising feedback and conflict resolution in the workplace
- Essentials for a high performing team
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What does it take to be a successful leader in a world of significant change?Guest, Vijay Mistri shares his personal leadership journey and how success changed his leadership style.
Vijay talks about modern leadership skills and the challenges that many leaders face.
He shares practical tips from his extensive experience, which includes coaching over a hundred CEOs, executives, and leaders to have a clear navigational path to self-mastery.
This episode is packed with leadership stories, tips and anecdotes.
We discuss:
- Toxic leadership and how to manage it
- How to lead in challenging times
- Why your mindset influences your leadership success
- Top tips for both aspiring and experienced leaders
- Understanding the undercurrent in your company
- How to change the energy and why it matters
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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijay-mistri/
Vijay is a leading expert helping executives achieve leadership mastery and boardroom excellence.
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Guest Jack Milner is an expert in communication. He teaches professionals how to move and speak in such a way that captures attention and communicates their message to different audiences. But, as we know, the world has changed and many meetings, presentations, and events are now virtual.
This means we have to adapt our delivery style to communicate with influence and captivate our audience.
Delivering with impact is a skill that all leaders need, and the techniques Jack shares in this episode will improve your virtual presentations.
Jack shares many practical tips, from how to enhance virtual meetings by 10% to his top 4 must-do’s when presenting.
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Bob Tiede shows us how to lead with questions Bob's view is that leadership is not so much about knowing the right answers, as it is about asking the right questions.
Bob explains how one book changed his approach as a leader, from being a benevolent teller and setting direction to becoming a leader that leads with questions.
Now he has written numerous books on this topic.
In this episode, he shares many examples, not by telling us, but by asking Callum and me for our views which made this a very interactive episode. Bob walks his talk!
Very practical, simple, and highly effective techniques and tips for everyone.
You are guaranteed to walk away with new ideas for immediate implementation.
We discuss:
How much speaking as opposed to listening should be your meeting objective?
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How to be 10x more effective as a leader
Why leading with questions is important for leaders of today and the future
The 4 best questions to ask your team
How to set the stage for an honest answer
How Mike Abrashoff captained a navy vessel turning it around from lowest morale to the highest performing ship in the US Navy.
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What can we do with the oceans of plastic on our planet? Find out how Johnny Pearce, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Oltco, has turned waste plastic including food packaging, into domestic driveways, patios, pathways, balconies, and pool surrounds.
As co-founder, he has built a successful business from HQ in Cornwall, and now plans to expand globally.
But most important is the culture at the heart of their business and his approach to leadership.
Take a listen and be inspired by Johnny’s inspiring views on leading a team, and how he sees his role as a coach.
We Discuss:
- Why failure is never an option
- His views on total transparency with his team
- The company ethos
- Why culture is everything
- The message to his team
- Creating the coolest place to work
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Adrian Simpson, of Wavelength shares hugely valuable leadership insights from the world's most successful companies. Over the last 20 years, Adrian Simpson, co-founder of Wavelength, has taken leaders into the boardrooms and shop floors of globally revered, successful, and innovative companies.
The purpose is to understand what makes them successful and learn from their strategies, techniques, and approach.
These companies include Netflix, Apple, Tesla, LEGO, Google, and Four Seasons, to name a few.
Discover insights that Adrian has gained from their senior executives about leadership and the golden thread that is consistent across many of these outstanding businesses.
If you're keen to learn what creates the success of top-performing companies, this episode is for you.
We discuss
- Why you can only lead your people if you know them
- Leadership and compassion
- The key role of a leader
- Air BnB - Doing the right thing even when it’s not your responsibility
- Defining business purpose
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Tajinder Banwait founder and managing director of Urban Apothecary London shares her inspiring story of leading and growing a successful business. Tajinder speaks with passion about her team and the culture she has created. Her team loves working in the business so much that they don’t want to take their holidays as they feel they are missing out!
Discover how Tajinder led the business when her largest customer no longer wanted to stock her products and how she reinvented the business as a result.
We also discuss:
- How to create an outstanding culture
- What it takes to expand into 46 countries and win the Queen’s Award For Enterprise: International Trade 2022
- Overcoming challenging situations
- Practical tips for success
- What leadership means to Tajinder
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Steve Rix brings energy and passion to the importance of play in leadership. Steve asks a poignant question. Are you more likely to find the qualities of timeless energy, emotional safety, high levels of imagination, and connectivity with others, in your workplace or in the playground?
Often it's the playground, and as such traits are valuable at work, Steve recommends incorporating play in the office to ease tensions and break down barriers.
You might find Steve's ideas fun and enlightening or crazy. Either way, your perspectives will be challenged as Steve provides insights and examples as to why play matters.
We also discuss
- How play saved the day in a roofing business
- A very creative way to use play in developing a five-year strategy
- Why investing in human capital is essential
- A leader’s moral obligation
- Examples of play at work
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Why Leadership Starts With You Guest Jeremy Ryan Slate, the founder of Command Your Brand, talks about growing a business and the challenging aspects of leadership.
Jeremy candidly shares his thoughts on the art of delegation and how challenging it can be for a business owner. You’ll enjoy his three core principles for leadership, starting with handling yourself first, this includes your health.
We also discuss:
Leadership skills of the future
Even though perfection isn’t possible, still strive for it
Why documenting every process is crucial
Team empowerment
Your leadership language
If you're a business owner, leading a team, and looking for tips on delegation and leadership, this episode provides tips and ideas on just that.
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Jeremy is a leader in the world of podcasting having achieved many podcast accolades, such as:
"𝟐𝟔 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥" (Ranked #1) INC Magazine "𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬" (Ranked #78) "𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟐𝟔 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖" (Ranked #2) - CIO Magazine
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Discover the impact of a servant leadership style on business growth John and the team have grown the business by adopting a people-centric approach, ensuring that the team is invested in the business's future success.
We discuss
- Learning to listen to what is under the radar
- Why you need to be prepared to say goodbye to clients and team members who are not a good fit for the business
- Creating a safety net for mistakes
- Why it's essential to track your time
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Have you ever considered your negativity bias or if you react or respond? In this episode with the author, NLP Practioner, and mindset coach, Christina Beauchemin we explore the impact of mindset on leadership and team building.
We also discuss:
- The role of observance in leadership
- How to create a calm and fun work atmosphere
- Useful NLP techniques for leading a team
- How to address the gap between perspectives and reality
Join us for practical tips that you can instantly apply in your business all based on experience, not theory.
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The impact of fear is neglected in business, perhaps because it is considered weak to talk our fears. Yet the impact of fear is significant, it causes procrastination and prevents innovation, in can stop us in our tracks from taking bold steps forward.
Fear is a basic human emotion, causing a flight or fight response. But in the context of business, how can we reframe fear and see it as a positive learning experience?
Business transformation specialist, consultant and author of Unfear, Mark Minukas is our guest. He explains how to address fear in an organisation and use it as a force for beneficial change.
We discuss
- The fear archetypes, one of the fear archetypes are in the N.I.C.E club, meaning Nothing In me Cares Enough, to tell you the truth.
- The consequences of fear
- Practical steps to reframe fear
- How to build a culture of trust
- How leaders can address fear
Join us for an insightful conversation to address fear and unleash the hold it has on business.
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Whilst I.T. and design departments are familiar with sprints, Simon explains how they can be highly effective for managing and growing a business. Simon is the author of Strategy Sprints a blueprint for business growth and a TEDx speaker.
Simon recommends 7-day sprints to unblock a business bottleneck and to achieve 10X more.
In this episode, he shares his views on how to solve the weak point in the business, how to harness the team's superpowers, and double revenue in 90 days.
You will leave the podcast with lots of excellent ideas for business growth.
We also discuss
- The 3 habits of leaders
- What you need to work on most to be a leader
- Bitcoin
- Why giving freedom faster to your team is good for your business
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How energised is your leadership? Does this mean being extremely energetic or slowing down? In this episode, author, keynote speaker, award-winning life and executive coach, Simon Alexander Ong, explains why it's both.
Simon's view is that an outstanding leader is a great coach.
Simon refers to Project Oxygen where Google determined what makes a manager great. It's interesting to note that number one is being a good coach, and empowering others to become their own leader first.
In this enlightening episode we discuss:
- An effective way to become self-aware
- A top leadership tip that Simon received from Simon Sinek
- Management of human capital and why it matters
- Why shifting from a performance-driven culture to a growth-centric culture is essential
- How to transform the way we live and work
- Understanding how to manage our four areas of energy
- Lessons learnt from Simon's personal challenges
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Richard Newman, founder of Body Talk and author of You Were Born To Speak, shares his leadership experiences and the power of business storytelling for impact and engagement. Many of Richard's clients are leaders who are expected to improve their communication skills. This could be to inspire their team, meet with important clients, be an ambassador for their business or speak at a conference.
We discuss the power and science of communication, including the challenges Richard has addressed in leading the growth of his company.
Be inspired by Richard's advice and ideas for outstanding communication in leadership and what he considers to be the greatest gift of leadership.
We also discuss.
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Who the hero is in your story
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Seeing the greatness in others
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How to communicate with power in every business situation
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Helping others to reflect by shining a mirror on them.
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In his book, Executive Loneliness, Nick shares how he was dependent on alcohol, and/or valium, and lorazepam, and could not go without such substances for 24 hours, and how he felt as if he was going to die.
Nick feels that executive loneliness still isn’t openly talked about, sufferers don’t discuss it with their partners, and friends and certainly not with those they spend most of their time with, at work.
Nick shares his personal story of executive loneliness and how he got through it, and how he now helps others to prevent them from feeling this way.
We also discuss:
- Practical tips for overcoming executive loneliness
- Why vulnerability is a strength
- The importance of having a mentor
- The traits of a great leader
- Why the fear of judgment impacted Nick
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Here is the link to Nick's book | Executive Loneliness, Overcoming Isolation
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Leadership lessons from Patrick Cootes are firmly rooted in humility and in acknowledging the skills of others. Patrick has transitioned his career from teaching to tech, as Head of Product at Mindstone Learning.
He firmly believes in earning the respect of his team and having a culture that allows for fearless feedback to each other. To help achieve this Patrick talks about rewarding the team for giving tough feedback. Patrick also commits to sharing the feedback he receives from a one-to-one openly with the whole team.
We also discuss:
How to have alignment in meetings
Why the discomfort of disagreement is beneficial
Why leaders need to refrain from speaking
Managing upwards
The importance of sharing ‘screw ups’
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Our guest Paul Glover, author, and no B.S. Work Development & Resilience Coach has challenging views on the future of management. Paul considers the role of managers to become extinct with the advancement of AI, and he’s pleased about that.
Find out why Paul feels strongly about this, his rationale, and the future he sees for leadership.
His forthright opinions and practical tips create an engaging, lively and thought-provoking listen.
We discuss:
- The three A’s of employee engagement
- Why being a good listener is no longer sufficient
- Why leaders should talk about their failures
- The future is self-directed teams
- Why employees at Amazon USA have pushed to recognise a trade union for the first time.
- Why leadership has to be personal for it to be effective
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We can all cite examples where business leadership has come under fire.
Understanding the reasons behind it, such as why it happened, and how to avoid it, is the topic of our conversation with Pepyn Dinandt.
Pepyn has 30 years of experience in leading the restructuring and transformation of companies in challenging situations, he is the author of Leadership Under Fire, with Richard Westley.
In this episode, we explore the 4C's of neglect that causes significant problems to companies. We touch on some of the 9 practical steps businesses can take to avoid leadership being in the firing line or how to turn it around.
We also discuss:
What makes a great leader
What you need to consider about your competitors
Defining leadership
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Benjamin Lancaster, co-founder, and owner at VCL Vintners is continuing to disrupt the traditional market of whisky cask investment. In just 13 years his company has around £80 million pounds worth of whisky under management. With a small team of 13, Ben describes his leadership style as unorthodox.
Ben's determination and steely-minded approach, shows us what can be achieved when starting a business from scratch.
With a pioneering spirit and innovation at the heart of the business, Ben strives to be ahead of the curve and be the leader in his field.
We discuss:
Being resolute and determined to reach your goals.
Not taking no for an answer.
Focusing on where you want to be, not where you currently stand.
Managing expectations.
Developing decisiveness.
Standing out and being different.
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When it comes to leading change, our guest, Brendon Baker is a leading expert in the field, having consulted on over $10 billion in key transformation projects. His mission is to help change leaders drive real value under the mantra of keeping it simple.
In this episode, we discuss the fundamental questions that must be asked when leading change. In Brendon’s experience, only 15% of the companies he’s consulted with can succinctly answer such questions.
If you are commencing a change programme, or in one, this episode provides many pointers for success with ongoing validation and a simple exercise to get to the heart of why change is needed and what it will deliver.
We discuss:
The biggest factors that will undermine all change programmes.
Biggest mistakes when implementing a change programme.
The three ripple effects of change that you need to be aware of.
The need for radical honesty and positive disruption.
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Clear communication is so much more than what you say. Our guest David Klaasen has transitioned his career from Michelin Star restaurant Chef to Leadership Development and Executive Coach.
His Clarity Matrix considers 4 four key areas; people clarity, people performance, business clarity, and business performance.
One of the key topics we discuss is how to strike the balance between assertive and frank communication, whilst making your communication effective, impactful, and clear.
Knowing how to achieve this is important for all communication to be successful.
We also discuss:
Self-awareness and how it impacts your communication.
The Stockdale Paradox – the balance of optimism for resilience.
How our body responds to stress and the impact it has on our ability to think and communicate clearly.
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation – understanding these factors and their impact on motivation.
How to respond to and manage feedback.
The role of diplomacy for effective communication.
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In a new era of Leadership, our guest, Jason Marc Campbell talks about the importance of creating psychological safety for teams and the role of the leader as coach.
We live in turbulent times, and the importance of creating the right environment at work continues to be a high priority for top-performing leaders.
In this episode, we take a deeper dive into what psychological safety at work, really means, why it matters, and how to achieve it.
We also discuss:
How to encourage teams to speak up.
Is it ok for the leader not to have all the answers?
The place for vulnerability as a leader.
Why the impact for the individual is more important than the needs of the leader.
Past, present, and future authoring to get clarity of what’s important to you.
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Find out if being an authentic leader and showing a degree of vulnerability brings improvement in financial performance. Amanda Coulson founded her successful business over twenty years ago and has learnt a lot about leadership during that time.
In her early days of leadership, she was told that vulnerability was not a good trait to show. When she began to appreciate that it’s ok to share your vulnerabilities, it considerably changed her approach and the success of the business.
We also discuss:
Delegation not abdication
Leading from the heart
The impact of vulnerability as a leader on financial performance
Taking a hard look at clients that don’t align with your values
Facing big challenges, and how your team can help you through them.
If you would like to find out about Amanda’s leadership programme, contact Amanda at https://svcsolutions.co.uk
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How A Poor Leadership Experience Shaped Nicholas's Approach Nicholas leads remote sales teams and provides practical leadership tips on this. He shares what he learnt from an unsatisfactory leadership experience, and how he is using that to be a better leader. We also discuss;
Setting team expectations
Correlations between a team spirit in sport and top performance in business
Tips and techniques that help a team perform better
Leading with intention
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Start with the end in mind when launching your business This is the advice of Michelle Seiler Tucker, a merger and acquisition specialist who has sold over 500 businesses. Michelle considers leadership to be everything when it comes to growing a business and a good leader gets to really know their team.
With Michelle's extensive experience of helping companies to become saleable, we talk about what's needed for a founder to maximise the value of their business
We discuss;
The importance of understanding employees perceptions
Tips and advice to create a business you can sell
The one question you need to ask every potential new recruit
You can contact Michelle at Seiler Tucker
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What does it take to successfully lead a remote team, regardless of whether you employ that team directly or not? Brett has a passion to help managers hire teams, delegate, and be a great person to work with. We talk about the challenges of leading a growing business, the importance of having an earn it mindset, and why leaders should focus on their team, not the outcome.
We also discuss;
How to be successful leading remote teams
Why you fundamentally can't have a great team with a poor leader
The paradox of vulnerability
A great way to improve communication efficiency
You can connect with Brett here.
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Leading Teams - what makes a successful team for outstanding performance?
Our guest is Matt Schlegel, author of Teamwork 9.0. We discuss the importance of knowing your team and their personality dynamics to achieve high levels of team resilience and performance.
However, as Matt explains the starting point to leading successful teams is having a high degree of self-awareness yourself and knowing how to complement your skills with those of the team.
We also discuss
- How using a diagnostic assessment on yourself and your team helps in communication and building trust.
- Knowing your dominant start point, i.e., head, instincts, feeling, and what that means to you as a leader.
- Why knowing yourself first is essential to building a powerful and effective team.
- How the 9 Enneagram dynamics fit together to optimise team performance.
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Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Having previously grown a business £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. Rebecca now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
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Our guest, Tom Flatau, is an accredited brain and behavioural specialist and CEO of Twi. Tom works with business leaders and teams globally to improve business performance by understanding how we can change our brain to become more effective leaders.
Tom’s interest and understanding of neuroscience started at an early age when he was told that his brother is the intelligent one. This left a niggle that Tom wrestled with, the impact of which fostered his interest in neuroscience and how it impacts leadership and team dynamics.
We also discuss:
- The scientific evidence of a growth mindset and why it matters in business
- Why we must exercise our brain and the type of exercise it needs
- Unconscious bias – its impact on leadership and team performance
- Creating awareness of unconscious bias and how to balance it
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Tom mentions his upcoming webinar – Click Here - to find out more about it.
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If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Having previously grown a business £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. Rebecca now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
Click here to book a complimentary business strategy session
Thank you for listening, please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
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There is a revolution in business, which is turning on its head, the old adage of getting it right first time, to getting it wrong first time. Instead, fail fast and learn from it. Our guest Tamer Shahin has an incredible business story to share. He has experienced growing a business to over $100 million and losing it all overnight, and then becoming personally in debt to the tune of $2 million.
Not having experienced failure before, this changed Tamer's perspective on life, leadership, and growing a business. Now he believes in embracing and integrating failure into every business because you will learn fast, and have a better business as a result. There is a caveat though, which we discuss on the podcast.
We also discuss -
The fear of failure and why it's not healthy
How Tamer is helping others to grow their businesses
How a culture that embraces failure actually encourages innovation and transformation
Why it's important to encourage your team to be themselves
If you'd like to take the Business Quiz mentioned in the podcast you can access it here. https://ceoentrepreneur.com/business-triage/
If you'd like visit Tamer's youtube channel, The CEO Entrepreneur, here's the link.
https://www.youtube.com/c/CEOEntrepreneur
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If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Having previously grown a business £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. She now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
Click here to book a complimentary business strategy session
Thank you for listening, please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
If you're ambitious to grow your business take a look at the free resources at RJEN.co.uk.
Reg Rix is the co-founder and CEO of CarFinance 247. We hear his extremely down-to-earth and pragmatic approach to leadership, and growing a business. Reg has experienced many business challenges, including facing the responsibility of putting a previous business into administration. This didn’t stop him; he used that experience as massive learning when it came to his next business venture.
Reg shares his views on leadership, resilience, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Reg speaks candidly about the personal sacrifices he has made in growing his company, and what is important for continued business success and growth.
We also discuss:
- Why Reg has changed his mind about culture
- Future challenges
- Managing a successful day
- Why it’s all about talented people
- Practical leadership advice
Join us for a conversation about leadership and what it takes to achieve success.
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Find out more and connect with the podcast hosts
If you are interested in becoming a guest on our podcast or finding out about our business growth consultancy and coaching programmes; we welcome your feedback or questions you may have.
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential and achieve results beyond expectations.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Connect with the hosts here:
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights.
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Take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Having previously grown a business £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. Rebecca now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
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With over 70 inspiring and successful leaders sharing their insights, thoughts, and experiences on our podcast, we summarise the key themes, messages, and characteristics that make them successful and outstanding leaders.
From creating a vision, authenticity, emotional intelligence, decision making, leading in challenging times to adapting to the shifts in leadership required when leading a millennial team.
Self-leadership stands out as the start point. How can you lead others if you're not leading yourself and aiming to be the best you can be?
Being authentic, highly emotionally intelligent, understanding your team, and being kind has also been strongly emphasised across many episodes.
Helping your team to flourish and encouraging creativity at work to allow for the development of new ideas is also considered a top priority. Along with having the right mindset, putting customers at the heart of your business, being resilient and asking why.
Find the topic that you want to learn more about and listen to the guest episode for practical tips and ideas for implementation.
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If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Having previously grown a business £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. Rebecca now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
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Our guest David Nour is a top thought leader on business relationships, he shares how Curve Bender relationships can dramatically alter your growth trajectory. A prolific author, David talks about the 15 forces that are reshaping the world and heavily influencing what we do.
Join us to find out why you should run fast in the opposite direction from companies that have a disconnect between elite executives and those in the mailroom. David shares his views on why Servant Leadership is the future to attract and retain the best teams.
We also discuss:
✔️ Using intuition as a data point
✔️ Be hard on performance and soft on people
✔️ Separate emotion in decision making
✔️ Entrepreneurialism, growth mindset, and being digitally aware
✔️ How to have a Curve Bender Relationship
David invites you to join his forum for further discussions on Curve Bender Relationships at Nour Group Forum
Find out more and connect with the podcast hosts
If you are interested in becoming a guest on our podcast or finding out about our business growth consultancy and coaching programmes; we welcome your feedback or questions you may have.
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential and achieve results beyond expectations.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Connect with the hosts here:
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights.
Do You Want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business faster and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a V.I.T.A.L consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Having previously grown an 8 figure business, before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. She now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth fast.
For a complimentary copy of the book Winning Big in Sales - visit the RJEN website
Democratising health data to prevent disease is the big mission of our guest Rod Reasen of Springbuk Rod share’s how his business was inspired by his daughter's health, and why it’s important to never settle. Rod is an action taker, but he has learnt the importance of taking time and pausing before taking action and shares examples of why this matters.
Rod talks about the need for transparency in client relationships and why you never want to be the smartest person in the room.
We also discuss:
- Why character has to match company culture
- Facing difficult decisions
- Why slowing down the decision-making process can be necessary
Find out more
Connect with the podcast hosts
If you are interested in becoming a guest on our podcast or finding out about our business growth consultancy and coaching programmes; we welcome your feedback or questions you may have.
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential and achieve results beyond expectations.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Connect with the hosts here:
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights.
Do You Want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Having previously grown an 8 figure business, before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. She now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
Click here to book a complimentary business strategy session
For a complimentary copy of the book Winning Big in Sales - visit the RJEN website
Alex Seery is the founder of Shifts To Success, the world’s first public sector accelerator. Alex is also best selling author of Police Officer to Entrepreneur. He is passionate about business and entrepreneurship and helping others to lead a fulfilling life with their own business. We discuss his leadership style, challenges faced in growing his successful business along with practical leadership tips.
We also discuss:
✔️Why Alex champions a non-hierarchical structure in his business
✔️Letting ego go to be a better leader
✔️Managing remote teams
✔️Why it’s essential to get comfortable with sales
✔️The big challenges faced of hiring the wrong people and getting blinded by skillset
✔️Why a problem-free life isn’t the answer to success
✔️The advice Alex would give his younger self about failure, success, and freedom
Join us for insights, practical tips and thoughts on Leadership.
Do You Want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Having previously grown a business £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. Rebecca now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
Click here to book a complimentary business strategy session
Thank you for listening, please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
For a complimentary copy of the book Winning Big in Sales - visit the RJEN website.
In a world of change, and the unfamiliar patterns we've been forced into, how your team feel is crucial to success and results achieved. Low levels of resilience impede performance and detract from having a highly motivated workforce. But what are the signs, and what is the best way for leadership to address the issues of stress, anxiety, and fear?
We discuss
✔️ The theory of DOT and how to use it to change perspectives
✔️ Practical tips to help a team feel far less stressed
✔️ Empathic Leadership - how it gets immense results
✔️ Recognising patterns of stress
✔️ Why it's important to listen to your gut
Connect with Gee at Wellbeing Wizards.
Do You Want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck, or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Her previous business grew to £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. Rebecca now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
Click here to book a complimentary business strategy session
Thank you for listening, please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
For a complimentary copy of the book Winning Big in Sales - visit the RJEN website.
It can be a daunting prospect to set up your own business, our guest Catherine Hyde of Hooper Hyde has taken the plunge.
Catherine talks about riding the waves to embrace the high and lows of business, and why it's important to be bold, brave, and jump in.
We discuss:
✔️ How different leadership styles and experiences have influenced and shaped Catherine's approach
✔️ What great leadership looks like
✔️ Practical tips to challenge leadership that isn't progressive or inclusive
✔️ Why working collaboratively with clients is at the heart of her business
✔️ Overcoming the fears of setting up your own business
Want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Her previous business grew to £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. She now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
Click here to book a complimentary business strategy session
Thank you for listening, please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
For a complimentary copy of the book Winning Big in Sales - visit the RJEN website.
Our guest is seasoned crisis management specialist Carl Courtney of Hard Rain. Carl has 40 years of leadership experience, having set up his first business at the age of 20. He shares insights into leading companies through a crisis that has the potential to devastate their business. We talk about the do’s and don’ts when the crisis spotlight falls on the leadership team. We cover how to avoid it escalating and causing significant disruption, financial and reputational loss.
We discuss:
✔️The best crisis strategy to adopt
✔️How to prepare in advance to mitigate reputational damage
✔️The importance of trust and relationships at such a crucial time
✔️The role of social media in inflaming a situation
✔️How to reduce the problem before it becomes a disaster
✔️What businesses need to do to reduce the problem before it emerges
Want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Her previous business grew to £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. She now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
Click here to book a complimentary business strategy session
If you’d like to find out more about the LinkedIn Lead Generation System mentioned in this episode, click here.
Thank you for listening, please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
For a complimentary copy of the book Winning Big in Sales - visit the RJEN website.
Challenging binary decision-making and organising tasks are just two of the topics we discuss with entrepreneur Asad Ansari, founder of Mayfair IT Consultancy. Asad shares why being kind to yourself and self-belief are important contributors to leadership.
If you're an entrepreneur or leader you'll enjoy Asad's down to earth approach and insights into what it takes to grow a business.
We discuss
✔️The importance of networking
✔️Leading with clean intentions
✔️Organising tasks by economic benefit
✔️Lessons learnt from growing a team
Want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Her previous business grew to £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. She now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
Click here to book a complimentary business strategy session
Thank you for listening, please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
For a complimentary copy of the book Winning Big in Sales - visit the RJEN website.
By 2025, Millennials will form 75% of the global workforce. This episode is a must-listen for leaders wanting to know how to engage and retain them. Our guest, Vivek Iyyani is a Millennial specialist and author of Engaging Millennials. He shares the 7 fundamentals to recruit, reward, and retain the largest generation in the workforce, and how leaders need to adapt their leadership for this generation. We discuss:
✔️Why the annual performance review doesn’t work for Millennials
✔️Why leadership needs to be more informal, chilled, and relaxed
✔️The importance of psychological safety in the workplace
✔️How to inject fun, friendships, and a forward framework to engage this generation
✔️How to incorporate a futuristic mindset and freedom to retain millennials
You can get a copy of Vivek’s using the link below
https://www.vivekiyyani.com
Want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has over 25 years of growing businesses. Her previous company grew to £55 million in sales revenue before selling to a FTSE 250 business. She now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
For a copy of Rebecca's book - Winning Big in Sales - visit RJEN.co.uk
Leading yourself is the key theme of our conversation with Dan Stanley of BetterMen. We dive into Dan's experiences of not living an authentic life, with 35 years of pretending to be himself, and how that impacted his personal life and work.
Now Dan helps professional men whose personal lives are impacted by their professional success leaving them with a deep sense of disconnection, isolation and lack of fulfilment.
We discuss:
✔️ Not feeling good enough
✔️ Overcoming stoic attitudes
✔️ Leading life on your terms
✔️ The choice in adversity
✔️ How to have true fulfilment
If you would like to read about the 5 Regrets that Dan Mentions - click here
To find out more about Dan's work, click here
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
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Are you leading change? Do you want faster, easier and better results?
If so, this episode will tick all those boxes, as we talk about the key components to leveraging change in an organisation, with Jake Jacobs of Jake Jacobs Consulting.
We discuss
Why middle managers are not the often perceived blockage to making change work
How to make change programmes effective with group consultations
Why it's important to develop a future that teams want to call their own
Find the resisters to change, they can become your biggest change advocates
Think and act as if the future is now
Why the leader's behaviours are vital to the success of change programmes
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with Rebecca Jenkins and gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome your challenges and reach your goals.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
With extensive leadership experience, our guest John Dembitz talks with passion about the good, bad, and ugly of leadership. We hear about his early leadership lessons at McKinsey, to growing a business, and now as Chairman of various organisations.
We discuss:
✔️ The most important question to ask as a leader and why
✔️ Crucial leadership skills
✔️ Managing difficult conversations
✔️ Why micromanagement is death to a business
✔️ Examples of exemplar leadership
✔️ Why there needs to be more Govt. support and press coverage for small businesses
✔️ Managing big challenges
John is the author of Do it Right, Do it Now - for effective leadership. Published by The Conrad Press.
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Our guest Sally Spicer faced burnout and challenging leadership times during Covid-19 Sally openly talks about how she dealt with burnout during the pandemic, how it challenged her as a leader and the lessons learned that are now taking her forward in an exciting and positive way.
We discuss
✔️ Why asking for help is essential for growth
✔️ Embracing failure
✔️ Questioning your doubts, changing your self-talk and narrative
✔️ The importance of pushing yourself out of your comfort zone
✔️ The power of networking
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Mateusz is co-founder of Sellizer. We discuss the challenges of managing and leading a remote team and the importance of values in leadership success. We also discuss: ✔️ Fast and slow decision making
✔️ Why having a mastermind group is making a big difference
✔️ One of the most important questions to ask new recruits
✔️ Leaving your ego behind to be an effective leader
✔️ Tips for dealing with tough situations
You can find out about Sellizer here
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Our guest Kay Kukoyi is the founder of Purposeful Group, author, speaker, and lecturer. Kay shares her leadership lessons and why she doesn't want members of her team to be heroes. Kay considers leadership to be daily work in progress and shares very practical steps for managing difficult conversations.
We discuss:
✔️ Why self-reflection is essential to growth
✔️ Managing difficult conversations
✔️ 3 practical pieces of advice to be a better leader
✔️ The art of communication
✔️ Big leadership lessons
✔️ What to do when others have different expectations and priorities
If you are interested in finding out about the Tech Start Up Academy that Kay mentions, here is the link to it. Tech Start Up Academy
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN Book a FREE Leadership Consulting Session. If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more successful leader, book a free consulting session with podcast host Rebecca Jenkins. Gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to overcome challenges and reach your goals.
Rebecca has grown and led a number of businesses and now helps businesses to grow and leaders to flourish and achieve exceptional results.
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Ahmed is an entrepreneurial leader on a mission to make healthcare fairer and patient-centric. We discover the leadership challenges of scaling a start-up business with a new product in a risk-averse industry.
We discuss:
✔️ Why courage comes first
✔️ The importance of patience
✔️ Strong self-awareness for leadership performance
✔️ Essential considerations for good decision making
✔️ Managing difficult conversations
✔️ How self-education reduces stress and builds confidence
Connect with Ahmed here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aahealtheconomics/
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Connect with the podcast hosts
If you are interested in becoming a guest on our podcast or finding out about our business growth consultancy and coaching programmes; we welcome your feedback or questions you may have.
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential and achieving results beyond expectations.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Contact the hosts here:
https://linktr.ee/rebeccaRJEN
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
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Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
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Connecting how to your why and your purpose. This is at the heart of our discussion with guest Brenda Rigney. Brenda is a leadership and business coach working with entrepreneurs. Join us for a lively and informative discussion.
We discuss:
✔️ Practical tips for coping with challenging times, in Brenda's case, leaving corporate life and going through a divorce
✔️ Great leadership traits
✔️Why we need to make leadership more accessible
✔️Why putting yourself in a different situation will help you find your purpose
✔️ Why making an inventory of your priorities and setting new boundaries is a valuable exercise
✔️Aligning your choices to your purpose
You can connect with Brenda here
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We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, leadership development to finding the best clients for your business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential by finding, gaining and growing highly profitable clients.
To find out more contact us at
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Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Nick is the founder of Sempre and he shares openly the challenges of leadership, from recognising that despite being the founder, he was part of the problem of developing the business and learning to leave your ego out of the equation.
We discuss
Always be defining what good looks like.
What to do when the data and your gut feeling are giving 2 different messages.
Why he regrets not investing in himself and have a mentor earlier in his career.
His recruitment criteria, to hire on high culture over high talent.
What to do when a member of your team isn’t behaving in alignment with the company values.
The big challenge of client communication and being relevant as we emerge from a global pandemic.
Engaging the team to be innovative in ideas to challenges.
Why he likes failing fast.
Having a culture where the team feel completely at ease in telling leadership that their idea is rubbish.
Two areas to never lose focus on when growing a business.
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Connect with the podcast hosts
We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, leadership development to growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
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Our guests, Leigh and Paula are leaders of a global digital business. Their mission is to put to bed the myth that you can't have a successful business as an artist. They want everyone who has a creative passion and artistic talent to step into it and grow a hugely successful company. We discuss:
✔️Why customer-centricity is at the heart of their business
✔️Helping their clients to see and value their self-worth
✔️Why leadership is to inspire action and why leading with joy is crucial
✔️Taking responsibility for reflecting the mirror back on their customers
✔️Why hiding your talent is doing yourself a disservice
✔️Changing your narrative for success
✔️The universal tipping point to success across all aspects of life
✔️Why adapting is crucial
✔️Always be curious and learn more
✔️Why all business owners should fall in love with marketing
You can connect with Leigh and Paula here.
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Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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'We don't use the word failure' - explains Anuj, CEO and founder of I8Labs. Instead, Anuj's focus is on experiments and having a good number of them. We kick off by asking Anuj what complex leadership problems he has faced, and how he has learnt to hand over control to others as the business grows. With 15 minutes of daily self-reflection, Anuj shares his leadership principles, we discuss:
✔️Asking if you are worthy of being followed?
✔️ Why everyone in his business is a leader
✔️ Practical steps for growing your leadership skills
✔️ Why every action should have a positive impact
✔️ How to be forthright and authentic in difficult conversations
✔️ How to increase resilience when embracing challenging times
You can connect with Anuj Agarwal here.
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Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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The importance of humbleness and encouraging your team to flourish. These are just two of the leadership topics we cover with guest Kieren Windsor. We discuss:
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What makes a great leader
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Is leadership a mindset?
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Taking responsibility for the company vision
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The importance of introspection
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Learning from leaders you admire
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Lessons learnt from starting a new business in challenging times
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We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, to leadership development and growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
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A big dose of leadership inspiration from guest Tim O'Brien. Tim has faced many challenges in growing his family business to $8m in revenues since 2010 when he opened his first store, The Healthy Place. We discuss: ✔️Tim's biggest leadership lesson
✔️Setting his business apart from your competitors
✔️How he stayed true to his vision even when the numbers were pointing in the wrong direction
✔️How to overcome the challenge of having every employee as passionate about the business as the founder
✔️Why it's people first
✔️The importance of renewing yourself daily to be the best you can be
✔️Rethinking the business model as a result of the Covid pandemic
✔️What to do when it feels as if everything is conspiring against you
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We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. From being a guest on our podcast, leadership success to growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Guest Nikki Hill shares her views on leadership, defining great leadership as seeing the potential in others that they don't see in themselves. "Leadership is a constant evolvement, it's like a first date," and Nikki is an advocate of sharing vulnerabilities and being authentic as it brings the human dimension to leadership. We discuss ✔️Keeping yourself re-energised to be able to lead
✔️Being both self-aware and aware of others
✔️The importance of delegation and doing what you do best
✔️Why men are more likely than women to push through imposter syndrome
✔️Charisma in leadership
✔️Having the confidence not to conform
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Callum Jenkins
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The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Creativity is an aspect of leadership that is often overlooked. Our guest Tii Ricks shares her views on this and explains why it matters, along with other leadership insights. Tii has evolved her career from directing films to leading sales teams at a variety of companies and we discuss how creativity can make a difference to people and outcomes. We talk about imposter syndrome and why it's completely acceptable as a leader not to have all the answers, as well as the importance of kindness in leadership.
We discuss
✔️Finding a way to be the best you can be
✔️ What makes a great leader
✔️ How to encourage creativity within your team
✔️ Why tomorrow doesn't matter
✔️ 3 practical tips and traits for better leadership
✔️ A new way to optimise the 1-2-1 meeting
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Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Tom Peters is a world-renowned author of 19 books including In Search of Excellence, and an international speaker on leadership and management. He shares his experiences, wisdom and views on what is needed to be a leader during tumultuous times. His latest book, Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism is packed with practical actionable steps, a checklist for leading both teams and businesses.
We discuss
✔️ Why on average, women are better leaders than men
✔️ Why kindness, caring and forgiving are essential leadership traits
✔️ How kindness = repeat business = PROFIT
✔️ The reason for 50-75% of front line workers being disengaged with their work
✔️ Putting people first
✔️ Why intimacy is key in leadership
✔️ How essential it is to walk in the other person's shoes
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Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, successfully helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Insights into authentic leadership Join us with guest Piers Mummery, who shares insights into authentic leadership and why shifting your energy provides greater awareness, increased quality of life and new opportunities. We discuss
➡️ Reaction V response to challenging situations
➡️ Catabolic and Anabolic states and the impact they have
➡️ How to manage challenging situations
➡️ 3 key leadership principles to lead with
➡️ Leading from within first to be an authentic leader
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We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. Â From being a guest on our podcast, leadership development to growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
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Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Business ethics, market-driven decisions and the importance of the human dynamic in leadership. Our guest Misch Dohler is a serial entrepreneur with 5 companies, a professor in Wireless Communications King's College London, and a composer & pianist with 5 albums on Spotify/iTunes. Mischa is a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence and a policy advisor to Governments on issues related to digital, skills and education.
We discuss
✅ Top traits need to succeed in leadership ✅ How to overcome procrastination ✅ Making decisions quickly in your high decision phase ✅ Why leadership is a state of mind ✅ Why getting in the trenches is important ✅ Cutting off politics without mercy for business success ✅ Investing time for daily upskilling
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We welcome your feedback or any questions you might have. Â From being a guest on our podcast, leadership development to growing a business.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
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If you have your own Mount Everest to scale, whether that's as an entrepreneur, leader or executive, you will get incredible insights and ideas from this episode with entrepreneur, author and mountaineer, Erik Severinghaus.
We discuss:
✔️How leading a business is more challenging than climbing Mount Everest
✔️Why pushing forward all the time to achieve more isn't always the answer
✔️Lessons learnt from climbing Mount Everest that we can all benefit from
✔️The importance of recovery and rejuvenation
✔️Being able to communicate with those who are different to you
✔️How to deal with those dark moments of ambitious goals, when you're exhausted and feel like giving up
✔️The death trap of imposter syndrome and delusions of grandeur
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Callum Jenkins
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To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Our guest is Ian Hogg - Chairman and CEO of fastPAYE With over 40 years of leadership experience, starting in the Navy and now leading a team and growing a business, Ian shares lessons learnt and how he's adjusted his leadership as a result.
We discuss:
- How Ian receives critical feedback from his team for ongoing leadership development
- Essential leadership traits
- Practical leadership tips
- Servant style leadership
- How to demonstrate leadership at the start of your career
Hear the advice that Ian would give his younger self and why self- reflection is an essential part of his approach to leadership.
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Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Leadership is unselfish and trust has to be earnt.
Today our podcast guest is Nuno Soares, author and owner of Clear IT solutions.
Nuno's view on leadership is that it's not a title, you need followers to be a leader and earn trust, you can't simply ask people to follow you. It's not a LinkedIn title.
We discuss
- Leadership traits
- Why there are huge opportunities for SME businesses that leverage technology
- How to avoid challenging times pull you down
- Why persistence pays off
- Why leaders need to care about their people
- The importance of self-assessment
- How to accelerate performance
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Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
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The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies to unlock the growth potential in their business.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
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Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is more highly valued by employers than IQ. We explore what it is and why it's such an important leadership trait. Callum and I shine a spotlight on emotional intelligence. We discuss what it is and its role in leadership. We review the various aspects of EQ, what it entails and how leaders can exhibit this highly valued trait in order to have positive working relationships, greater returns for the business and lead to higher levels of motivation and happiness in the workplace.
According to Daniel Goleman in his book - Emotional Intelligence, EQ can be learnt whereas our level of IQ remains constant throughout life. So with self-awareness we can increase our quotient of EQ and become empathetic, be better able to manage our emotions, be self-reflecting and as a result create strong relationships and be able to effectively resolve conflict.
We share our own examples of emotional intelligence and its impact at work.
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The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies to unlock the growth potential in their business.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Justin's Roethlingshoefer shares his perspectives on the key to success, not just in leadership, but in all areas of life. We discuss:
High Performance
High performance has become an overused term, describing everyday things such as bed linen to clothing and even habits! Justin seeks to enhance conscious leaders as he takes us through sports analogies to share his perspectives on leadership today.
Justin's four-step process for conscious leadership
Justin takes us through his 4 step process, of awareness, allowing, acknowledgement and action to be a more conscious leader and to reset yourself in challenging times. He shares practical examples that can be easily implemented into your daily life.
Emotional Buy-in - why it matters
We talk about emotional buy-in and why it matters, because as leaders as we are constantly 'selling' concepts and ideas to our teams and colleagues.
Consistency and self-experimentation
Why consistency is the key to success and an insight into the habits of the best leaders.
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Callum Jenkins
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Welcome to a new style episode where we take a leadership topic and discuss its importance and relevance in business today. In this episode, Callum and Rebecca discuss the impact of company culture on performance and results. Callum shares his perspective from working in an organisation and Rebecca shares hers in growing a business where the majority of the workforce were out based.
We discuss:
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The importance of feeling valued
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Why defining your culture isn't enough
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The benefits of developing a clear culture
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How to measure the impact of your culture
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The experience of having a senior executive not uphold the company values
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How to review and improve your company culture
If you'd like to find out more on this particular topic and how to develop the culture in your business get in touch with Rebecca at email @RJEN.co.uk.
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Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
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Our podcast guest is Kiki Stanton, of Kiki Kirby Consultancy.
A very heartfelt, open and insightful discussion. Kiki talks about humility, being humble and leading from the heart. Being open as a leader and willing to be open to criticism and to show vulnerability.
Kiki first learnt about leadership by not doing it right, focusing on action, striving for success around money and status. Kiki highlights the importance of feedback and looking inwards, being focused on bringing the team with her, and listening to them.
Kiki shares how losing her mother to cancer she had to go deep into herself and realised that she wanted to help people and set up her coaching consultancy business. She talks about autonomy, listening, sharing the detail with her team and how her own challenges have made her the leader she is today.
At the core. Kiki's thoughts on leadership are centred around her 5S's:
1) Seek: what do you need to achieve what you want?
2) Solve: eliminating procrastination, daily habits, intentions, lifestyle and inner-peace.
3) Systems: eliminate waste
4) Status: balance to support your needs
5) Scaling: rediscover who you are and what you want
This is an insightful and inspiring perspective on leadership.
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Callum Jenkins
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Our guest this week is Bryn Ible - Regional Managing Director of Advantedge Commercial Finance.
Bryn shares his experiences in his first leadership-oriented role, where he applied his learnings from previous mentors and managers.
Bryn talks about how he sees the two aspects to leadership; the financial aspect - ensuring the numbers align on the P&L statement, what drives the business and the departments forward and then also the personal aspect to leadership - finding the right people, ensuring they have clarity in their role and that they feel supported, especially during tough times.
Bryn discusses how in his role as Regional Managing Director you naturally pick up traits from experience. He goes onto share how Covid was one of the big challenges he faced from both an internal perspective, ensuring his staff and team felt supported both emotionally and to carry out their role. Also externally with how Advantage Commercial Finance continued to support and service their customers.
We discuss;
- The importance of communication
- Being there for your team
- Taking the time to reflect on what is good and what could be done better.
Connect with Bryn and Advantage Commercial Finance on LinkedIn.
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Our podcast guest is - Evan Carmichael - author of Built to Serve, founder of Evan Carmichael Communications, Inc top 100 leadership speakers, Forbes top 40 Social Marketers.
An inspiring conversation, we discuss:
- Why leadership is an endless mountain to climb but help others climbing behind you
- Why it's important to do things that scare you and give you a boom, boom moment!
- Help others get where they want to be
- Why he fired a great employee
- How to deal with self-doubt
- Evan's 3 practical tips for getting ahead as a leader
- The importance of the 2% rule
Connect with Evan at his website
The Lead To Succeed podcast is presented by Callum and Rebecca Jenkins.
Sponsored by RJEN, unlocking the growth potential in businesses.
This week our guest is Danny Matthews, the Founder & Creative Director of Danny&co. Danny has had significant experience in two different industries, the financial sector and creative graphic design and shares insights on leadership and entrepreneurship.
Danny kicks things off by sharing a leadership analogy he remembers from a picture he once saw, a pack of wolves climbing a mountain, but being led from the back by the lead wolf, not the front. For Danny this summarises his perspective on leadership - it's all about empowering and motivating your team from the back, encouraging them to be their best selves so they want to get better, rather than being the leader at the front who is 'pulling' their team forwards.
Danny's take on effective leadership is centred around the beliefs that a leader has, not necessarily the traits they exhibit. For example, Danny is currently growing his team from 3 outsourced members of staff to 8 fully-fledged employees, which in itself is a great achievement, but his focus is on a results only work environment (ROWE) style of working, which is about results output rather than hours worked. This gives employees a sense of freedom and builds trust in the team, going back to a core belief of how leadership should be, rather than a specific trait.
Danny goes on to share his views on the challenges he has faced in growing an SME business. This is about the trade-off he experienced between focusing on creativity and focusing on lead generation and growing the business. Coming to the realisation he had to step away from the creative side of things for a period of time in order to focus on growing his business for it to have the impact that he desires.
Lastly, Danny shares his advice for aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs about purpose. Understanding what is your purpose for creating a business and having a clear answer to this will enable you to put in the long hours and go above and beyond to deliver your goals of setting up and growing your business.
You can follow Danny on LinkedIn.
A big thank you to Danny for being on our podcast with us!
The Lead to Succeed podcast is presented by Callum and Rebecca Jenkins. It is sponsored by RJEN a business that unlocks the growth potential in companies by finding, gaining and growing the best fit clients.
Our review episode with guest Jordi Ferrer of ServiceNow.
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Our guest this week is Jordi Ferrer, VP & GM ServiceNow - UK & Ireland, one of the fastest-growing global SaaS companies.
We talk about what traits make an effective leader and this comes down to the ability to listen to your team, seek to understand them and enabling a sense of trust. Jordi shared an analogy we really liked, 'allow the team to take the risk & I'll provide the safety net.' This relates to helping your team feel supported and empowered, knowing that if things don't quite go to plan they will not be negatively affected or blamed. As a leader, Jordi is there to encourage people to be proactive and give them praise when it works out, but if things go South, he is there to be held accountable, not pass the blame to his team.
We discuss one of the challenges he first faced when he became manager of a team, many people unfortunately referred to as the 'screw ups' team. However, after taking the time to understand each person in that team and building the right culture of transparency, respect and purpose, the team went on to become very successful within the organisation.
We discuss the importance of building mutual trust with your teams, in order for both parties to get more out of the relationship of working together. Listening more to one another to ensure both are understood, especially important if the relationship between an employee and manager is perhaps not as smooth as one would like. But also being able to reflect and be hungry for feedback as a leader is essential, like holding up a mirror to yourself, how do you know how well are doing if your team don't tell you? This comes back to the aspect of building mutual trust so that your team feel enabled to give you honest feedback, without fear of recrimination.
We wrap things up by discussing what the future holds for business in the UK. Jordi believes we will continue to see the creation of new jobs that don't currently exist, flatter structures in organisations (such as managing upwards) and more emphasis on being an emotionally intelligent business - exciting times ahead!
As always a big thank you to Jordi for being on the podcast with us today and thank you for listening.
The Lead to Succeed podcast is presented by Callum and Rebecca Jenkins. It is sponsored by RJEN a business that unlocks the growth potential in companies by finding, gaining and growing the best-fit clients.
Our guest this week is Jordi Ferrer, VP & GM ServiceNow - UK & Ireland, one of the fastest-growing global SaaS companies.
We talk about what traits make an effective leader and this comes down to the ability to listen to your team, seek to understand them and enabling a sense of trust. Jordi shared an analogy we really liked, 'allow the team to take the risk & I'll provide the safety net.' This relates to helping your team feel supported and empowered, knowing that if things don't quite go to plan they will not be negatively affected or blamed. As a leader, Jordi is there to encourage people to be proactive and give them praise when it works out, but if things go South, he is there to be held accountable, not pass the blame to his team.
We discuss one of the challenges he first faced when he became manager of a team, many people unfortunately referred to as the 'screw ups' team. However, after taking the time to understand each person in that team and building the right culture of transparency, respect and purpose, the team went on to become very successful within the organisation.
We discuss the importance of building mutual trust with your teams, in order for both parties to get more out of the relationship of working together. Listening more to one another to ensure both are understood, especially important if the relationship between an employee and manager is perhaps not as smooth as one would like. But also being able to reflect and be hungry for feedback as a leader is very important, like holding up a mirror to yourself, how do you know how well are doing if your team don't tell you? This comes back to the aspect of building mutual trust so that your team feel enabled to give you honest feedback, without fear of recrimination.
We wrap things up by discussing what the future holds for business in the UK. Jordi believes we will continue to see the creation of new jobs that don't currently exist, flatter structures in organisations (such as managing upwards) and more emphasis on being an emotionally intelligent business - exciting times ahead!
As always a big thank you to Jordi for being on the podcast with us today and thank you for listening.
The Lead to Succeed podcast is presented by Callum and Rebecca Jenkins. It is sponsored by RJEN a business that unlocks the growth potential in companies by finding, gaining and growing the best fit clients.
Today we have the pleasure of talking with Lauren Tickner, the CEO of impact school and Forbes 30 under 30! Lauren kicks off with an insight into how her 7 figure business came to be. From deferring entry to university, Lauren decided to work at an asset management firm where she had the realisation that by staying in a role like this she might ultimately end up feeling unfilled and unsatisfied. Combined with the difficulties her brother faces in his daily life, Lauren realised her ability to create freedom for herself whilst impacting the lives of others, she felt almost a moral obligation to live her life to the fullest and achieve the freedom she desired.
Around this time she was hugely obsessed with the world of fitness and always dreamt of creating a physical product somewhere in the fitness niche, but having tried several attempts at this, it didn't quite go to plan. Lauren was massively intrigued by the growing number of people she saw online, providing fitness coaching for others and being able to travel the world. Lauren decided against the advice of her colleagues to start making content that helped others and get herself out there!
After being dropped from sponsorship by one of the industry's leading fitness companies, Lauren was still able to travel and live the life she wanted, which gained the interest of her friends who were in a similar position. By sharing what she was doing with her friends and word of mouth marketing - led to the creation of what is now Impact School.
Following this story, we talk about the importance of mindset and taking care of yourself, physically. Whether you aspire to run a lifestyle business or leave a legacy and create something huge, fundamentally it comes down to the mindset you have, that dictates the decisions you make. As well as this is the importance of personal development, being able to grow as a person to become the individual that delivers on the goals and vision you set for yourself. Taking time to focus on yourself every day and doing the things that will move your business forward the most, is really important.
By overcoming some of the challenges faced, Lauren shares how this has ultimately made her a stronger person and completely transformed how she handles certain situations and having an outlook such as 'how can this make me stronger?
Lastly, we discuss how anyone can start to hit their goals and achieve their dreams:
Get real with yourself and don't put off making a start, don't wait for things to be perfect, get yourself out there and listen to the feedback from your customers to improve. But make a start.
Focus on who are you serving, exactly, and constantly focus on your business development based on the needs of your clients.
This was a really inspirational and motivating podcast! A big thank you to Lauren for sharing her story and the lessons learnt along her journey.
You can check out Lauren's free course at: https://www.impactschoolmba.com/optin-424046561599145628038
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Our podcast guest is Leon McQuade - Technology Evangelist | Co-Founder, Think Cloud | Trustee Andy's Man Club | The Pig Wrestling Podcast What we discuss
Leon shares insights into his career and how it was an appointment with the Doctor that made him appreciate that he needed to gain leadership skills.
We talk about:
- How his children helped him to make up his mind to make a big decision about his work.
- How he has to work at not making everything perfect, better to get it out there.
- Why being authentic as a leader and asking for help is essential.
- How being so focused on the goals might not always the best way forward.
- Leon's commitment to helping others through Andy's Man Club.
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We'd love to hear your feedback on our podcast, such as how to improve it, so feel free to get in touch with us
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Our podcast guest today is - Matt Giggs | Property Industry Leader | Agency Mentor | Entrepreneur. What we discuss - How Matt went from lacking direction in his life when he faced challenging times, losing his brother and being rejected at football, to growing a number of profitable and successful businesses.
We talk about:
- Is working from home at the peak of its trend?
- What is emotional intelligence?
- Know your direction as this enables you to have the right team onboard
- How the right role model makes a significant difference to your progress as a leader
- Learning every day is essential
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We'd love to hear your feedback on our podcast, feel free to get in touch with us.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
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The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies to unlock the growth potential in their business at pace and with tangible results.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Today we talk with Leanne Bonner-Cooke, the founder of e-bate LTD, which provides Rebate Management Solutions.
Leanne shares her story of leaving her corporate consultancy role to start her first business and what she learnt from this experience. We talk about having the right vision, strategy and values in place in your business so that you can use this as a target and evaluate progress against it in order to keep driving forwards and push through tough times to achieve the vision. In addition to knowing your vision, it's the ability and importance of communicating this to everyone in your team.
We go beyond talking about vision and discuss how to evaluate if this is the right vision, based on where your business is vs the competition - is the strategy correct? And appreciating that whilst we are a team everyone is also on their own journey. It's about getting buy-in from the team and breaking down the overall vision into objectives for each team and how that translates into specific KPIs for each team member.
Leanne also shares her views on the importance of looking outside of the business, both for new team members, to recruit individuals who share the same values and attitude you hold as a business but also for support, mentorship and networking, to help you grow as an individual.
Leanne shares a very personal story of how she was diagnosed with cancer, yet still had funding to complete, a team to support and a business to run and the resulting worries that arose from this. A really helpful piece of advice was shared, that will help others in challenging situations.
To wrap things up, Leane shares her key pieces of advice for aspirational leaders and business owners:
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remember to focus on the health of the business and your vision - it's your responsibility,
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try not to instruct others, but inspire them,
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the importance of adapting and continuous professional learning.
A big thank you Leanne, for sharing your learnings throughout your journey of setting up and running multiple businesses, in addition to the major personal challenges you've overcome. All of which showed insights into your resilience and leadership.
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and sponsored by RJEN - helping companies to achieve high-performance growth.
Our review of our recent episode with Mark.
Original podcast description:
This is a really insightful discussion into the concept, values and intricacies of leadership, well worth listening if you are a senior member of staff or an aspiring entrepreneur, with Mark Terrell, Founder of the Reluctant Leader Academy.
We kick things off discussing what leadership meant to Mark and this was all around setting a vision, communicating this vision to your team and being consistent with everyone. As a leader its important to be clear on these things; what are we doing? why are we trying t change the way the is done? how are we doing it? And then in combination with a clear vision its about supporting your team to achieve goals relating to this but also finding the balance between challenging them too.
We discussed supporting your team and Mark shared a very effective way of doing this is can be recognising people doing things right, having an honest conversation and simply feeding back to them on a job well done, either verbally or with a note.
Lastly we go on to discuss the change from a push style of leadership to a pull, early in a business leaders need to get people going on their tasks, push them in the direction that they the business is trying to go in and making sure everyone has clarity, then it's about transitioning to a pull-style, where the team take on more responsibility, you're investing in their personal development, the team are growing by being outside of their comfort zone, and in effect, you are aiming to make yourself redundant. You change from the biggest cog in the machine to become the oil.
We wrap up with the importance of being explicit, having solid self-awareness as a leader and helping your team to grow by placing trust and confidence in them.
A fantastic podcast on leadership, thank you to Mark for taking the time, enjoy everyone.
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and sponsored by RJEN - helping companies to achieve high-performance growth.
This is an extremely insightful discussion into the concept, values and intricacies of leadership. Well worth listening if you lead a team as a business owner, entrepreneur or manager. Our guest is Mark Terrell, Founder of the Reluctant Leader Academy.
We kick things off discussing what leadership means to Mark and this is around setting a vision, communicating this vision to your team and being consistent with everyone. As a leader its important to be clear on these things; what are we doing, how are we doing it and why it's important? Then in combination with a clear vision, it's about supporting your team to achieve goals relating to this but also finding the balance between challenging them too.
We discussed supporting teams and helping them to know when they are making a difference and contributing to the outcomes and goals of the business. Mark shared a very effective way of doing this by recognising people doing things right, having an honest conversation and simply feeding back to them on a job well done, either verbally or with a note.
Lastly, we go on to discuss the change from a push style of leadership to a pull. In the early stages in a business, leaders need to get teams progressing on their tasks, pushing them in the direction that the business is trying to go in and making sure everyone has clarity. Then it's about transitioning to a pull style, where the team take on more responsibility, you're investing in their skills development, the team are growing by being outside of their comfort zone, and in effect you are aiming to make yourself redundant. You change from the biggest cog in the machine to become the oil.
We wrap up with the importance of being explicit, having solid self-awareness as a leader and helping your team to grow by placing trust and confidence in them.
An essential insight into leadership, thank you to Mark for taking the time, enjoy everyone.
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and sponsored by RJEN - helping companies to achieve high-performance growth.
Our review of the episode with Tony.
Original podcast description:
Welcome to another episode & today we are joined with Tony Barritt, MD of Investor in Customers.
To kick things off Tony shares his analogy that management is about 'getting things done' and leadership is more to do with 'making things happen', with favourable qualities a leader should exhibit is about being fair, the ability to make tough decisions & have a balanced judgment.
Tony shares his past experience about being the captain of his cricket team in his post-university days where it was important to find the balance between fun & winning - a helpful concept when working with teams in the workplace no doubt. We discuss the importance of being able to 'step up to the plate' and breaking large problems down and think strategically about how to solve these issues, not being too proud to ask for help, and thinking about who is needed.
To wrap things Tony shares his thoughts and the importance of relating business decisions back to the customer - with Jeff Bezos' Empty Chair Experiment - if a customer was sat in the boardroom, would they be happy and benefit from these decisions?
An insightful take on leadership from Tony whose business, at heart, is about helping their customers.
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Welcome to another episode, today we are joined with Tony Barritt, MD of Investor in Customers.
To kick things off Tony shares his analogy that management is about 'getting things done' and leadership is more to do with 'making things happen', with favourable qualities a leader should exhibit fairness and have the ability to make tough decisions with balanced judgment.
Tony shares his past experience about being the captain of his cricket team in his post-university days where it was important to find the balance between fun & winning - a helpful concept when working with teams in the workplace no doubt. We discuss the importance of being able to 'step up to the plate' and breaking down large problems and thinking strategically about how to solve these issues, not being too proud to ask for help.
To wrap things up, Tony shares his thoughts and the importance of relating business decisions back to the customer - with Jeff Bezos' Empty Chair Experiment - if a customer was sat in the boardroom, would they be happy and benefit from these decisions?
An insightful take on leadership from Tony whose business, at heart, is about helping customers deliver a remarkable customer experience.
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Our review of our recent podcast with Selina Bolton, Director & Founder of Seed Partners.
Original podcast description:
On today's episode we are joined with Selina Bolton, Founder and Investor in Seed Partners who shares her very astute views on leadership.
Selina starts things off by sharing her views on leadership, with an effective leader being someone who enrols and inspires change and drives innovation, moving onto an important trait being the ability to understand the challenges around you. This is all about engaging with and empowering everyone, listening to all members in your team using effective communication to work together.
We move onto to an area we both really liked Selina's views on and this was how someone can demonstrate leadership qualities at any stage of their career, it's all about taking initiative, coming up with a proposal for change on your own terms, not having to wait for a budget, using this to get buy in and sell the vision to take a 'leap' - which all ties in to going above and beyond in your role.
We go into more detail on this and how this can be done within an organisation; being active in your role, identifying the change makers, creating a feedback loop and empowering others.
It's all about how you can contribute to the future of your company or your own business.
To summarise, in Selina's own words, being a leader is akin to be the 'Architect of Change'
A big thank you to Selina!
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and sponsored by RJEN - helping companies to achieve high-performance growth.
On today's episode we are joined with Selina Bolton, Founder and Investor in Seed Partners who shares her very astute views on leadership.
Selina starts things off by sharing her views on leadership, with an effective leader being someone who enrols and inspires change and drives innovation, moving onto an important trait being the ability to understand the challenges around you. This is all about engaging with and empowering everyone, listening to all members in your team using effective communication to work together.
We move onto to an area we both really liked Selina's views on and this was how someone can demonstrate leadership qualities at any stage of their career, it's all about taking initiative, coming up with a proposal for change on your own terms, not having to wait for a budget, using this to get buy in and sell the vision to take a 'leap' - which all ties in to going above and beyond in your role.
We go into more detail on this and how this can be done within an organisation; being active in your role, identifying the change makers, creating a feedback loop and empowering others.
It's all about how you can contribute to the future of your company or your own business.
To summarise, in Selina's own words, being a leader is akin to be the 'Architect of Change'
A big thank you to Selina!
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and sponsored by RJEN - helping companies to achieve high-performance growth.
Listen to our views, takeaways and thoughts on the podcast interview with Rebecca Galley.
Below is the original description.
Today we are joined with Rebecca Galley, the Managing Director at Hydroscand UK. Rebecca has held numerous leadership roles from Commercial Manager to Operations Director to now MD.
To kick-off, Rebecca shares her views on the differences between management and leadership, in that managers tend to be task-oriented whilst leaders focus more on traits, getting results through their team and providing support. This leads on to be one of Rebecca's tips for being an effective leader; being part of the team and getting the best from everyone, as well as being a good communicator. Rebecca talks about critical thinking and considering all the options when having to make difficult decisions.
Rebecca shares her views on leadership by saying that leaders should get to know everyone in their team, who are they, what they're interested in and what issues they might have? Also the importance of having conversations where you get to really know your team.
Responsibility and the ability to make tough decisions was another of Rebecca's points and that sometimes a leader will have to make a decision that won't be favourable with everyone. This requires emotional intelligence which helps you to become a more empathetic leader when you might have to do the uncomfortable thing.
And lastly, something that has come up a few times, LEADERS DON'T HAVE TO KNOW EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME!
Our podcast with Rebecca is full of practical advice and thoughts on leadership. It is a brilliant listen for anyone who is a leader or wants to improve their approach to leadership. A big thank you to Rebecca.
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and sponsored by RJEN - helping companies to achieve high-performance growth.
Today we are joined with Rebecca Galley, the Managing Director at Hydroscand UK. Rebecca has held numerous leadership roles from Commercial Manager to Operations Director to now MD.
To kick-off, Rebecca shares her views on the differences between management and leadership, in that managers tend to be task-oriented whilst leaders focus more on traits, getting results through their team and providing support. This leads on to be one of Rebecca's tips for being an effective leader; being part of the team and getting the best from everyone, as well as being a good communicator. Rebecca talks about critical thinking and considering all the options when having to make difficult decisions.
Rebecca shares her views on leadership by saying that leaders should get to know everyone in their team, who are they, what they're interested in and what issues they might have? Also the importance of having conversations where you get to really know your team.
Responsibility and the ability to make tough decisions was another of Rebecca's points and that sometimes a leader will have to make a decision that won't be favourable with everyone. This requires emotional intelligence which helps you to become a more empathetic leader when you might have to do the uncomfortable thing.
And lastly, something that has come up a few times, LEADERS DON'T HAVE TO KNOW EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME!
Our podcast with Rebecca is full of practical advice and thoughts on leadership. It is a brilliant listen for anyone who is a leader or wants to improve their approach to leadership. A big thank you to Rebecca.
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and sponsored by RJEN - helping companies to achieve high-performance growth.
Sara Flay is one inspiring woman. She has overcome massive challenges in her life to be where she is today as CEO of her business. We loved having her as our podcast guest, she takes transparency with her team to another level. Listen to our thoughts and key takeaways from the podcast with her and what we learnt from this inspirational leader.
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and RJEN which helps companies to achieve high performance and growth through consulting and training.
Our review of our recent discussion with Tony Sciarrotta includes his insights and approach to leadership and the intricacies of the reverse logistics industry, and how it became his life passion.
This episode demonstrates what can be achieved with passion - a big thank you to Tony - enjoy everyone!
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and RJEN which helps companies to achieve high performance and growth through consulting and training.
P.S. Don't forget to subscribe and listen to the key takeaways which we share the next day.
What an inspiration! Today we interview Sara Flay the CEO of Legacy International Group, who at 23 years of age, was told she would never work again. Refusing to take this as the answer Sara has gone on to set up multiple businesses and now runs Legacy International.
We hear stories from Sara of how she overcome this set back at such a young age and became who she is today, her views on leadership and the correlation between age and being a leader (or lack thereof!)
Sara discusses with us her high degree of transparency with her team when she is having a bad day and needs to take some time out - for example, how open and comfortable would you be sharing this with your team?
Big thank you to Sara for sharing your stories and your insights into leadership!
This podcast series is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and RJEN which helps companies to achieve high performance and growth
The podcast series is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and is sponsored by RJEN - helping companies to achieve high performance and growth through coaching and training.
Callum and Rebecca share their views on the podcast episode with Taz Thornton.
Here is the original podcast description
A very exciting and energetic discussion with Taz - an award winning coach trainer and motivational speaker, likened to Tony Robbins but with pink hair!
Taz shares with us her very personal story of working in a corporate job at a young age and unfortunately being very unhappy, feeling down and struggling with depression, wondering is this what it's all about? It was around this time when Taz found solace in helping others who were feeling the same and helping them get through tough times and ultimately helped her out of her own situation. Taz goes into more details around this and if you're in need of an uplifting story - have a listen...
We talk about Taz's views on leadership and Taz strongly believes that the role of leading teams needs to change. From encouraging leaders to allow employees to use social media for positive purposes such as talking positively about their employers and also empowering teams to have an opinion, all of this is underpinned by truly getting to know your employees and understand their primary motivating factors. A very useful and insightful listen for anyone working with others in their team!
Big thank you to Taz for sharing your story and your views on leadership - enjoy everyone!
You can reach Taz on LinkedIn
The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and RJEN which helps companies to achieve high performance and growth through consulting and training.
Welcome to another episode of our Lead to Succeed podcast, today we are joined with Tony Sciarrotta, Executive Director of the Reverse Logistics Association. Tony shares some really useful insights into his views and approach to leadership.
We move on to discuss, when working at Phillips, how Tony was tasked with handling and figuring out how to significantly reduce the returns rate and problems they were having with their products. This was very much an emerging sector at the time, and there were very little or no best practices or industry-wide policies to handling reverse logistics.
Tony shares with us how he took a comprehensive approach to this problem by looking at the entire process of how Philips's products were packaged, marketed, their instructions manuals and other areas, not just 'how do we reduce returns?' - a very interesting and technical discussion with Tony. If getting down to the details of solving significant problems is your area - this is the podcast for you!
Thank you very much to Tony for being on our podcast and thank you to you for listening, enjoy!
The podcast is brought to you by the
Callum and Rebecca
P.S. Don't forget to subscribe and listen to the key takeaways which we share the next day.
A very exciting and energetic discussion with Taz - an award winning coach trainer and motivational speaker, likened to Tony Robbins but with pink hair!
Taz shares with us her very personal story of working in a corporate job at a young age and unfortunately being very unhappy, feeling down and struggling with depression, wondering is this what it's all about? It was around this time when Taz found solace in helping others who were feeling the same and helping them get through tough times and ultimately helped her out of her own situation. Taz goes into more details around this and if you're in need of an uplifting story - have a listen...
We talk about Taz's views on leadership and Taz strongly believes that the role of leading teams needs to change. From encouraging leaders to allow employees to use social media for positive purposes such as talking positively about their employers and also empowering teams to have an opinion, all of this is underpinned by truly getting to know your employees and understand their primary motivating factors. A very useful and insightful listen for anyone working with others in their team!
Big thank you to Taz for sharing your story and your views on leadership - enjoy everyone!
You can reach Taz on LinkedIn
You can meet the podcast presenters here;
Callum
Rebecca
Summary of our recent interview with Dr. Feb Idahosa.
Original Podcast Intro below.
What a fantastic and inspiring episode! Today we talk with Dr. Feb Idahosa, President of Benson Idahosa University, about driving change through leadership and education to inspire the next generation of Nigerian leaders.
Feb shares his thoughts on the benefits of finding a mentor to help guide you through your leadership journey and that by finding someone who has already 'climbed the mountain' will really help you get to where you want to go and accomplish more. We go on to discuss mindset and the importance of having the right one, we loved an analogy he shared with us 'having a poor mindset is like having a flat tyre, you're not going anywhere until you change it!'.
Lastly, we go on to discuss Feb's plans for the future to help inspire the upcoming generation of young Nigerians through leadership and education and his hugely ambitious plans of creating and building a truly sustainable city in Nigeria - no small goal!
A very powerful and inspiring episode - big thank you to Feb - enjoy everyone!
Callum and Rebecca
P.S. Don't forget to subscribe and listen to the key takeaways which we share the next day.
Review of our discussion with Steve Rix.
Original podcast description:
You are going to love this podcast with Steve Rix of #imaginethat. Steve shares his mission to achieve world peace and liberty for everyone using imagination and play and how he is achieving this with 100 hours of video content to be aired on Amazon Prime and a United Nations project.
One of his first businesses, a scuba diving school in the desert (yes the desert!) built to over $1 million in sales in 12 months with 21 staff where he learnt after a close shave with a mutiny from his team that the art of leadership is letting go, listening and letting others lead.
Having made $millions and lost it he realised that he was the common factor, from which he learnt a lot about leadership. Now Steve is razor-focused to achieve his gigantic and ambitious goal of releasing the superhero in us all and solving the worlds biggest problems through imagination and play.
Listen to his three big pieces of practical advice to achieve more in your life than you might think is possible.
A hugely insightful, fresh and stimulating conversation with Steve Rix.
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
What a fantastic and inspiring episode! Today we talk with Dr. Feb Idahosa, President of Benson Idahosa University, about driving change through leadership and education to inspire the next generation of Nigerian leaders.
Feb shares his thoughts on the benefits of finding a mentor to help guide you through your leadership journey and that by finding someone who has already 'climbed the mountain' will really help you get to where you want to go and accomplish more. We go on to discuss mindset and the importance of having the right one, we loved an analogy he shared with us 'having a poor mindset is like having a flat tyre, you're not going anywhere until you change it!'.
Lastly, we go on to discuss Feb's plans for the future to help inspire the upcoming generation of young Nigerians through leadership and education and his hugely ambitious plans of creating and building a truly sustainable city in Nigeria - no small goal!
A very powerful and inspiring episode - big thank you to Feb - enjoy everyone!
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
You are going to love this podcast with Steve Rix of #imaginethat. Steve shares his mission to achieve world peace and liberty for everyone using imagination and play and how he is achieving this with 100 hours of video content to be aired on Amazon Prime and a United Nations project.
One of his first businesses, a scuba diving school in the desert (yes the desert!) built to over $1 million in sales in 12 months with 21 staff where he learnt after a close shave with a mutiny from his team that the art of leadership is letting go, listening and letting others lead.
Having made $millions and lost it he realised that he was the common factor, from which he learnt a lot about leadership. Now Steve is razor-focused to achieve his gigantic and ambitious goal of releasing the superhero in us all and solving the worlds biggest problems through imagination and play.
Listen to his three big pieces of practical advice to achieve more in your life than you might think is possible.
A hugely insightful, fresh and stimulating conversation with Steve Rix.
Our review of the recent episode with Sue Byrne.
Original episode description:
In this episode we talk with Sue Byrne, Director of ByrneBright Solutions.
We discussed Sue's personal story of her experience with management and leadership throughout her career and go into the details of a tough situation she had to go through. Facing imminent strike from employees and the threat of closure from company executives, Sue was given a short timeframe in which to turnaround the manufacturing site she was now at the helm of! Sue shares her thoughts of being tough and having the right mindset that helped get her through this situation.
Gaining trust from the employees as a key attribute to the successful outcome of this situation. She developed buy-in from the staff, built relationships between management and factory staff and was ultimately able to turn the site around.
If we wait until we are ready or the time is perfect, the time will never be right. This was something Sue shared and we discuss the ability of being adapt after throwing yourself into the deep end and growth comes at the end of your comfort zone.
A big thank you to Sue for being part of our podcast series and thank you to you the listener!
Rebecca & Callum
In this episode we talk with Sue Byrne, Director of ByrneBright Solutions.
We discussed Sue's personal story of her experience with management and leadership throughout her career and go into the details of a tough situation she had to go through. Facing imminent strike from employees and the threat of closure from company executives, Sue was given a short timeframe in which to turnaround the manufacturing site she was now at the helm of! Sue shares her thoughts of being tough and having the right mindset that helped get her through this situation.
Gaining trust from the employees as a key attribute to the successful outcome of this situation. She developed buy-in from the staff, built relationships between management and factory staff and was ultimately able to turn the site around.
If we wait until we are ready or the time is perfect, the time will never be right. This was something Sue shared and we discuss the ability to be adaptable after throwing yourself into the deep end and growth comes at the end of your comfort zone.
A big thank you to Sue for being part of our podcast series and thank you to you the listener!
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
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Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
This week we had the pleasure of talking with James Segal, Founder of SynergyMode, a recently created business advocating and facilitating a better world of board-level advice to help businesses succeed.
One of James' core points is that leadership is about your ACTIONS NOT about your TITLE. We go on to discuss the importance of self-confidence and self-belief for two main reasons: 1 - to be able to address a large audience (back in the days when we could do public speaking!) and also, perhaps more importantly 2- to get yourself in the right mindset, being able to challenge the status quo and belief in yourself that you can in fact be a leader.
We go on to discuss the importance of really getting to know your employees and understanding what their primary motivating factors are. I (Callum) could relate to this as earlier this year I employed my first intern and we got to know each other well, however with the position being remote, I was a little unsure as to how many personal questions I should ask. So for me, this was a really useful perspective to hear from another great leader.
Again a big thank you to James for recording the podcast with us and a big thank you to you for listening!
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
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Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Our short summary of our recent episode with Andy.
Original podcast description: A very, very insightful and honest discussion with Andy Neilson the Founder of Twisted Orange. We discuss the importance of awareness of mental health and hear from Andy’s own personal stories of his struggles within aspects of his professional career. We discuss the importance of being able to delegate tasks and being aware of the impact of pressure in the workplace. Andy offers his view on the importance of leaders listening more and being open to potential solutions coming from alternative areas. For example Andy works in the private sector, but wouldn’t exclude exploring other sectors for innovation and ideas.
Andy also very kindly offered his support to anyone that would like to just have a chat with him about mental health, he can be reached via his LinkedIn profile here https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewneilson1/
Check out Twisted Orange's website at https://www.twisted-orange.co.uk
As always, thank you for listening!
A very, very insightful and honest discussion with Andy Neilson the Founder of Twisted Orange. We discuss the importance of awareness of mental health and hear from Andy’s own personal stories of his struggles within aspects of his professional career. We discuss the importance of being able to delegate tasks and being aware of the impact of pressure in the workplace.
Andy offers his view on the importance of leaders listening more and being open to potential solutions coming from alternative areas. For example Andy works in the private sector, but wouldn’t exclude exploring other sectors for innovation and ideas.
Andy also very kindly offered his support to anyone that would like to just have a chat with him about mental health, he can be reached via his LinkedIn profile here https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewneilson1/
Check out Twisted Orange's website at https://www.twisted-orange.co.uk
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Our short summary of our recent episode with Frank.
Original podcast description: Frank is the Founder of 2Y3X, an exciting accelerator programme for promising companies to triple their sales revenue over the course of 2 years. Frank discusses his leadership stories, his appetite for risk-taking at the various companies he has worked at, and his collaborative approach to sales with clients. Most notably, Frank discusses his entrepreneurial flair; whilst noticing an opportunity in an unserviced market whilst on holiday, led he and his team to create a very successful magazine, with relatively little funding in the US market for new Spanish-speaking mothers.
We discuss Frank’s experiences of being a leader and he describes this as the one who brings a creative flair to creating solutions for his clients and working with managers in his organisation to ensure the promises can be and actually do get delivered upon. Find out why Frank also believes in the importance of leaders having experience in cold-calling!
Connect with Frank on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankkelcz/
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Frank is the Founder of 2Y3X, an exciting accelerator programme for promising companies to triple their sales revenue over the course of 2 years. Frank discusses his leadership stories, his appetite for risk taking at the various companies he has worked at and his collaborative approach to sales with clients. Most notably, Frank discusses his entrepreneurial flair; whilst noticing an opportunity in an an unserviced market whilst on holiday, led he and his team to create a very successful magazine, with relatively little funding in the US market for new Spanish speaking mothers.
We discuss Frank’s experiences of being a leader and he describes this as the one who brings a creative flair to creating solutions for his clients and working with managers in his organisation to ensure the promises can be and actually do get delivered upon. Find out why Frank also believes in the importance of leaders having experience in cold-calling!
Connect with Frank on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankkelcz/
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Our short summary of our recent podcast with James.
Orginal podcast description:
This week we had the pleasure of talking with James Segal, Founder of SynergyMode, a recently created business advocating and facilitating a better world of board-level advice to help businesses succeed.
One of James' core points is that leadership is about your ACTIONS NOT about your TITLE. We go on to discuss the importance of self-confidence and self belief for two main reasons: 1 - to be able to address a large audience (back in the days when we could do public speaking!) and also, perhaps more importantly 2- to get yourself in the right mindset, being able to challenge the status quo and belief in yourself that you can in fact be a leader.
We go on to discuss the importance of really getting to know your employees and understanding what their primary motivating factors are. I (Callum) could relate to this as earlier this year I employed my first intern and we got to know each other well, however with the position being remote, I was a little unsure as to how many personal questions I should ask. So for me, this was a really useful perspective to hear from another great leader.
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Our short summary of our recent episode with AC.
Original podcast description: Aritra ‘AC’ Chakravarty is the Founder and CEO of Project Imagine a FinTech startup based in London. AC started his career at a large global bank, moving into numerous roles, with his latest position as the Global Head of Digital FX and Investment Products in Hong Kong. Realising that he had an appetite for risk and resonated more as a leader than a manager, he took the leap to set up his own company, Project Imagine in 2017. Social contracts, salary transparency & prioritising values over performance are at the top of his leadership agenda. Recognising the cultural shift that exists in the younger generations' desire to work for themselves at some point in their career, compared to previous generations. AC values the importance of developing social contracts with his team. Recognising that as individuals younger generations have their own aspirations and this is crucial to consider to retain the best talent.
A strong team culture is present throughout the company and transparency is at the core of this, with total internal transparency over every team member’s salary. Furthermore, AC discusses his value vs performance matrix and providing each team member has the right values at heart, a dip in performance will not result in disciplinary action. We discuss how this fosters a culture of improved risk taking. A fascinating discussion from a leader who has experienced a very successful career in both the corporate and start-up environments!
Connect with Aritra on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/aritroc/
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Aritra ‘AC’ Chakravarty is the Founder and CEO of Project Imagine a FinTech startup based in London. AC started his career at a large global bank, moving into numerous roles, with his latest position as the Global Head of Digital FX and Investment Products in Hong Kong. Realising that he had an appetite for risk and resonated more as a leader than a manager, he took the leap to set up his own company, Project Imagine in 2017. Social contracts, salary transparency & prioritising values over performance are at the top of his leadership agenda. Recognising the cultural shift that exists in the younger generations' desire to work for themselves at some point in their career, compared to previous generations, AC values the importance of developing social contracts with his team.
In understanding that as individuals, younger generations have their own aspirations and this is crucial to consider to retain the best talent.
A strong team culture is present throughout the company and transparency is at the core of this, with total internal transparency over every team member’s salary. Furthermore, AC discusses his value vs performance matrix and providing each team member has the right values at heart, a dip in performance will not result in disciplinary action. We discuss how this fosters a culture of improved risk-taking.
A fascinating discussion from a leader who has experienced a very successful career in both the corporate and start-up environments!
Connect with Aritra on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/aritroc/
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Our short summary of our recent episode with Tracy.
Original podcast description: Tracy Pound is the Managing Director of Maximity, a business she founded in 2000 to provide effective, innovative and friendly IT services to other businesses. However, it could have turned out so differently - after Tracy's first experience of working with an ineffectual leader, she questioned whether working in business was even the right route for her. Thankfully her second role was led by a really inspiring leader who encouraged Tracy to flourish and achieve high performance as a manager at a young age. Through experiencing both types of leadership, it shaped Tracy's approach to leadership in how she leads her team and businesses today.
Tracy hosts a free webinar offering technical support, last Resort Support and this can be found at Maximity's Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MaximityLtd/events/?ref=page_internal
Connect with Tracy on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximity/
As always, thank you for listening!
Tracy Pound is the Managing Director of Maximity, a business she founded in 2000 to provide effective, innovative and friendly IT services to other businesses. However, it could have turned out so differently - after Tracy's first experience of working with an ineffectual leader, she questioned whether working in business was even the right route for her.
Thankfully her second role was led by a really inspiring leader who encouraged Tracy to flourish and achieve high performance as a manager at a young age. Through experiencing both types of leadership, it shaped Tracy's approach to leadership in how she leads her team and businesses today.
Tracy hosts a free webinar offering technical support, last Resort Support and this can be found at Maximity's Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MaximityLtd/events/?ref=page_internal
Connect with Tracy on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximity/
As always, thank you for listening!
Our short summary of our recent episode with Cherie.
Original podcast description: Cherie Concannon is the Founder of RPO Manufacturing, which operates in multiple countries helping to build motivated, self-directed teams in the manufacturing sector.
Cherie offers amazing insights into the world of management and leadership, with ‘self-direction’ being one of her key concepts. We discuss that finding the hidden talent and natural leaders within a team is a key part of being an effective leader. During one of Cherie’s projects with a manufacturing company, she discusses how she declined the offer of a bodyguard (!) and by really getting to know the team, discovered what they really wanted from their work. This process of getting to know individuals helps to remove any hidden assumptions and the ‘them and us’ culture that can permeate organisations in this traditional industry.
Developing emotional intelligence and supreme self-awareness are another two of the core themes of Cherie’s ‘self-directed’ teams approach and by removing the layers of management that can exist between shop floor operatives and upper levels of management, communication is greatly improved and this helps empowers teams to make their own decisions.
Connect with Cherie on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherieconcannon/
Check out RPO Manufacturing at https://www.rpo-manufacturing.com
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Cherie Concannon is the Founder of RPO Manufacturing, which operates in multiple countries helping to build motivated, self-directed teams in the manufacturing sector.
Cherie offers amazing insights into the world of management and leadership, with ‘self-direction’ being one of her key concepts. We discuss that finding the hidden talent and natural leaders within a team is a key part of being an effective leader. During one of Cherie’s projects with a manufacturing company, she discusses how she declined the offer of a bodyguard (!) and by really getting to know the team, discovered what they really wanted from their work. This process of getting to know individuals helps to remove any hidden assumptions and the ‘them and us’ culture that can permeate organisations in this traditional industry.
Developing emotional intelligence and supreme self-awareness are another two of the core themes of Cherie’s ‘self-directed’ teams approach and by removing the layers of management that can exist between shop floor operatives and upper levels of management, communication is greatly improved and this helps empowers teams to make their own decisions.
Connect with Cherie on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherieconcannon/
Check out RPO Manufacturing at https://www.rpo-manufacturing.com
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
Our short summary of our recent episode with René.
Original podcast description: René Voorhorst, Senior Head of Key Account Management - Nordics & Benelux of National Instruments offers a fresh perspective one of the fundamental qualities of a great leader, putting the self-development of others, over yourself. Rene strongly believes that everyone can be a leader and that it is never too late to move into this role. Leaders have a genuine interest in the development of others and have the ability to influence their team. We discuss that leaders of the future should have strong communication skills, involving active listening and ensure that they as the leader understand their team, before getting the team to understand what is required and the importance of leading by example.
René kindly welcomes you to connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/renevoorhorst/
Also check out René's blog here http://www.voorhorst.se/about-me.html
As always, thank you for listening!
René Voorhorst, Senior Head of Key Account Management - Nordics & Benelux of National Instruments offers a fresh perspective one of the fundamental qualities of a great leader, putting the self-development of others, over yourself. Rene strongly believes that everyone can be a leader and that it is never too late to move into this role. Leaders have a genuine interest in the development of others and have the ability to influence their team. We discuss that leaders of the future should have strong communication skills, involving active listening and ensure that they as the leader understand their team, before getting the team to understand what is required and the importance of leading by example.
René kindly welcomes you to connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/renevoorhorst/
Also check out René's blog here http://www.voorhorst.se/about-me.html
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale. Book a strategy call to take your business to the next stage of growth.
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Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
As always, thank you for listening!
Our short summary of our recent episode with Peter.
Original podcast description: Peter Hathaway is the sales director of DX Solutions, a leader in the parcel and document deliveries sector. Peter discusses his opinions on the fundamental differences between managers and leaders and the skills that a leader tends to exhibit, such as: willingness to learn from others, setting a great example and taking time to reflect on how others perceive you. These are some of the reasons why a team ‘wants’ to follow a leader, rather than ‘having’ to follow a manager. Peter kindly offers a story of how he lead his team through a very challenging time and commented ‘in challenging times you become a leader’ it was by facing the challenge of informing each customer and negotiate new contractual terms that he learnt huge amounts about his ability to lead a team during a tough time and a sometimes awkward situation.
Connect with Peter on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-hathaway-78875530/
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
As always, thank you for listening!
Peter Hathaway is the sales director of DX Solutions, a leader in the parcel and document deliveries sector. Peter discusses his opinions on the fundamental differences between managers and leaders and the skills that a leader tends to exhibit, such as: willingness to learn from others, setting a great example and taking time to reflect on how others perceive you. These are some of the reasons why a team ‘wants’ to follow a leader, rather than ‘having’ to follow a manager. Peter kindly offers a story of how he lead his team through a very challenging time and commented ‘in challenging times you become a leader’ it was by facing the challenge of informing each customer and negotiate new contractual terms that he learnt huge amounts about his ability to lead a team during a tough time and a sometimes awkward situation.
Connect with Peter on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-hathaway-78875530/
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success? If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.
Click here to book your session.
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
As always, thank you for listening!