Friday Takeaway

Abigail and Chantelle take a fresh look at how businesses should deliver SMART objectives for 2023. We know how important it is to create and track short-and-long-term goals in any business. Our hot take is more human-centred and more playful. SMARTY pants will inspire your teams to create the best work of their lives.

Join Abigail Summerfield and Chantelle Morton to celebrate The Game Changers, young women leading major entrepreneurial movements and building businesses to invest in. Joined by Darcy Laceby, Co-Founder and CBO of AbsoluteCollagen and Jessica Chapplow, Reprise Digital, Commerce, Managing Partner and Founder of Heartificial Intelligence.

In partnership with Soho Works

Abigail Summerfield and Chantelle Morton are joined by Tim Greenhalgh from Landor and Fitch and Nick Beighton from Matches Fashion to discus their creative leadership style, their personal mindset and how they motivate and nurture the best in the business.

The Takeaway? Creative Leadership is about values, curiosity and tapping into the team’s super powers to effect change.

What is your current OOOPP? Your out of office passion project or side hustle?

Research shows when we are encouraged to pursue our passion projects it directly empowers, increases positive emotion and boosts motivation.

Flexibility is key, giving time and permission to follow your dreams outside of the workplace increases productivity.

Empowerment is the ultimate win-win situation for team morale.

Leaders…..make time for your team to dream big and lead by example.

Team Takeaway were thrilled to be back in the studio this week with their phenomenal guest, the acclaimed British architect and iconoclast, Nigel Coates.

Launching his autobiography, Lives In Architecture, we discuss Nigel’s phenomenal career, his inspirations, his leadership style and what it takes to be such an extraordinary creative, stirring up the architecture scene for over 40 years.

As we continue to pursue our quest to uncover why creative leadership is so vital for businesses to thrive, in a searingly honest account, Nigel talks about his own personal style, how it has evolved and how being ‘deliberately inconsistent’ enables him to work with outstanding teams around the world.

Exchange, respect and trust are common themes as Nigel talks about group dynamics and how to inspire the people he works with.

The Takeaway? Creative Leadership is about finding balance, being able to listen and above all build trust.

This week we discuss how this vital skill is so crucial to get right. We ask, do you really know how your team is feeling? What are they really thinking?

Understanding the difference between cognitive and emotional empathy is paramount to increasing the good stuff…..innovation, engagement and inclusivity.

The takeaway? Empathy = positive organisational relationships.

How do we ensure we all work better together?

As we start to explore the happiness index within businesses and ask is your training on track?

We discuss the importance of investing in your team and yourself to feel totally valued, develop skills, fortify cultures and keeping the good people good.

From ‘win of the week’ to choosing the right masterclasses and workshops. If you invest in your team, they will feel valued and be loyal to you.

Easy.

Chantelle Morton and Abigail Summerfield from Friday Takeaway discuss “What is The Value of Creativity?”

They are joined by a stellar panel of creative industry guests, Harris Elliott, Creative Director, Jane Richardson, Global Artistry Director at Nars and DINES© Creative Director, Studio Blup.

In collaboration with Soho Works

Writer, speaker and media provocateur, Tom Goodwin joined the Friday Takeaway team and we asked, now that creative teams are reflective but still dislocated, how do we pull the threads back together?

The answer? Creative collisions and hyperbolic functions.

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We think the terminology used in business today is outdated and in desperate need of a rebrand.

Goodbye KPI’s.

Hello CPI’s…your Creative Play Indicators

How do we reframe the terminology used every day in business to take the pressure off ourselves to map our creative thinking and creative output? Our workshops show that by measuring our action points with softer applications positively impacts on individuals and in turn creates more business.