Be a Bigger Fish

A warm welcome to Be a Bigger Fish.

I'm delighted to share this episode featuring the multi-talented Rob Edwards.

With a background in corporate leadership, content creation and acting, Rob's venture into podcasting sees him blend the best of all those worlds into his current profession. 

He shares his expertise and his vulnerabilities with generosity, providing plenty of tips and ideas for anyone thinking of starting or improving their own podcast.

Rob has also delivered a TEDx talk on modern masculinity, which you can find here https://youtu.be/rH0ZE8b_JZY

Find out more about Rob on LinkedIn - he's Rob Edwards at Lifecycle Audio.

Thank you so much for listening and supporting Be a Bigger Fish.

You can share your comments on twitter or instagram with me, your host, @HiDebbieWest.

Our other episodes are hosted on a webpage, beabiggerfish.net, where I've gathered them together under content types, so you can listen and learn about the things that interest you.

A little reminder that, if you're a member of the CIPR, you can log 5 CPD points by listening to this episode!

A warm welcome to Be a Bigger Fish.

The star of this episode is entrepreneur and podcaster, AJ.

AJ's podcast is titled E1B2 - employees first, business second - reflecting his dedication to creating workplaces where employees truly come first. He shares his advice on how to encourage leaders to develop the kind of emotional engagement that's needed to create great employee experience and loyalty.

He also shares some brilliant insight into the importance of internal communication in establishing great workplace relationships. 

If you want to find out more about AJ, check out his LinkedIn profile, where he's listed as Anthony Vaughan, or tune in to the E1B2 podcast.

Thank you so much for listening.

Head over to beabiggerfish.net to find more episodes or read a transcript of this one.

A warm welcome to Be a Bigger Fish.

This episode features internal comms professionals, Shelby Loasby and Dan Holden.

As well as being busy practitioners, they both support new starters and people in the early years of their careers in communications. They've kindly pooled their best ideas, tips and resources for this episode. 

Listen in to find out how to take control of your personal development; how to find a mentor and how to make friends at networking events.

Find out more about Shelby at https://icandme.com

You can find Dan at https://horizoncomms.co.uk

We hope you enjoy the episode!

A warm welcome to Be a Bigger Fish.

This episodes features the brilliant podcasting team, Steve Eccles, Helena Cox and Mark Bateman.

They got together to start up a podcast for the colleagues and community of East Riding Council in Yorkshire, UK. After a fying start, their initial podcast workflow hit the setback of the social distancing measures put in place to halt the spread of Covid-19 early in 2020.

Despite that, the team have bounced back and are now publishing again, connecting their community and giving their colleagues a place to share their personalities and their successes.

If you're on the fence about whether a podcast could be a good addition to your comms channels, tune in to this inspiring team of podcast enthusiasts. They share plenty of tips and techniques you can adopt straight away.

Grateful thanks to Mark, Steve and Helena.

A warm welcome to Be a Bigger Fish.

This episode stars photographer and personal branding expert, Laura Pearman.

If you're wondering whether it's important for an audience to see the person behind the podcast, or the senior leaders in a company, listen to Laura's take on it. She shares brilliant advice on how to show up and share your creativity with confidence.

We also talk about encouraging shy people to step in front of the camera and what online influence is all about.

You can find Laura on Instagram @lpearmanphotos and you can join her selfie challenge here https://www.laurapearman.com/love-ya-selfie-challenge/

Find out more from our show notes on peppermintfish.com

Welcome to Be a Bigger Fish.

This episode is all about Agile. My guest, Shelby Wilson, is an award-winning Agile Coach and a podcaster. She's about to launch the She'll be Agile podcast.

Shelby gives us a breakdown of some of her favourite methodologies under Agile and tells us how we can easily adopt their principles. Find out how those methodologies are shaping her podcasting workflow, as she gets ready to publish her first season and how you can learn how to adopt them too.

There are lots of tips, techniques and recommendations in this episode, for anyone interested in Agile or in podcasting.

Look out for Shelby's new podcast, She'll be Agile, and find the links from this episode on https://peppermintfish.com

Welcome to Be a Bigger Fish. I'm Debbie Aurelius.

This episode is all about online Masterclasses and how they can help communications professionals to expand their skills and gain greater confidence.

I'm joined by Rachel Miller, who has recently launched new online Masterclasses for internal comms professionals, and by Erica Goodwin, who is one of the first of Rachel's learners. Their conversation gives you some insight into both how online courses are built and how they are experienced by learners.

Later in the chat, we spend some time considering the benefits and best uses of podcasts, compared to online courses.

Rachel's Masterclasses are available through her website, https://allthingsic.thinkific.com

I'd love to hear from you if you are a podcaster, or an online course creator. What are your thoughts on the topics we discussed? Contact me on twitter or instagram as @HiDebbieWest.

You can head over to beabiggerfish.net to find more episodes or to read a transcript of this one.

Thanks so much for listening!

Welcome to Be a Bigger Fish.

This episode features Satnam Kaur, HO Internal Communications at Priory Group and Advita Patel, Director of Comms Rebel; both busy professionals with experience of working with large, distributed and often remote employee groups.

We talk about how communicating has changed since the lockdown conditions of the coronavirus pandemic started and how this has heightened most people's need to work well with remote teams. 

Advita and Satnam share loads of tips and words of advice about supporting line managers with difficult messages and about supporting our own communications teams through a crisis.

Head over to https://peppermintfish.com for links to the resources mentioned in the episode.

With thanks to Advita and Satnam.

This episode of Be a Bigger Fish stars formidable in-house podcasting team, Tim Rutter and Gareth Brookes. 

Tim is Head of Internal Communications for Tata Steel UK and Gareth has been in the team since January 2018.

They've recently launched an in-house podcast called SteelCast and they take the time to talk us through their experience, step by step. They talk us through their process for recording, editing and publishing content to creating the right cultural environment for their podcast to thrive.

This is an excellent listen for anyone in internal communications, but especially if you're on the brink of setting up an in-house podcast too.

More information available at https://peppermintfish.com

What does it mean to “Comms it up”?

If you work in communications and you’re often asked to “Work your comms magic”, this podcast episode is essential listening.

Martin Flegg, the original Comms Citizen, tells us about the reaction he has to requests to “Comms it up” and why his recent blog about it sparked so much debate on social media.

Martin is joined by Matt Batten and Sue Palfrey, who tell us how they react to these requests and how they are educating their stakeholders and internal clients about what they do.

We discuss how the way we speak about communications can change the way others see us. We also talk about how we can reduce the amount of anxiety inside the profession, by focusing on the basics of what we’re here to achieve.

Read more about this on https://peppermintfish.com