Making conversations about team development count!

Wendy is joined by Andrew Deighton today, who helps build and develop high performing teams through strategy and processes in today’s remote working world.

Wendy has worked with Andrew in a second business through mentoring and knows firsthand how his advice relates to many aspects of running a business. Andrew shares his time at Rolls Royce which leads to his pivotal moment.

This conversation discusses different opportunities and how they can positively affect your business, work/life balance and your family. 

When Andrew was offered a promotion, that was perfect for him, it led to some interesting conversations and thinking about what opportunity looks like in reality…

Connect with Andrew:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdeighton/

https://www.awddevelopmentsolutions.com/

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT 

Making Conversations Count – Episode 5

November 19th 2020

Wendy Harris & Andrew Deighton, AWD Development Solutions Ltd

Timestamps

00:00:00: Introduction 00:01:08: How Andrew and Wendy met 00:01:47: The new world of online conversations 00:02:33: Video meetings expanding the global reach 00:03:32: Some useful tips for hosting zoom meetings 00:04:56: Andrew’s feedback from his online sessions 00:07:42: Andrew’s pivotal moment 00:11:53: Memories of Singapore 00:14:06: How the children coped as expats 00:17:04: The typical day of an expat worker

00:18:23: Final thoughts

 

Wendy Harris: Welcome to Making Conversations Count, the podcast that shares business leaders’ pivotal moments to help aspiring entrepreneurs.  Today, I’m excited because I have Andrew Deighton here with me.  I met Andrew about three years ago, and he has actually helped me in my business, so I know that I’ve had a couple of pivotal moments just off the back of meeting Andrew; so, it was great to be able to ask him to come on the show and share his with you too.

So, Andrew, welcome to the show.  Thank you so much for joining us.

Andrew Deighton: Thank you, thanks for asking me.

Wendy Harris: I know that we’ve known each other for a while.  Tell each other what you do and how we first met.

Andrew Deighton: I run a training and development business now, so particularly focussing on helping businesses to build high-performing teams; and now, the situation we’re in, remote high-performing teams.  And, I also help businesses who may be a bit bigger who need some outsourced training and development support, so putting strategies and processes in place around developing their people and their teams and their organisation.

So, we first met when I volunteered to do some work with Staffordshire Chamber as a mentor, and they introduced me to you and Colette and we started having a few business mentoring sessions.

Wendy Harris: Absolutely.

Andrew Deighton: The Holiday Inn in Burton!

Wendy Harris: The Holiday Inn and their cappuccinos, yes, because Colette is also known as my work wife for the sales and marketing workshops that we were delivering.  We’ve not delivered