Get Amplified

Send us Fan Mail

Martyn Story,  Senior Director Customer Success at Puppet joins the Get Amplified crew to talk about best practices in this new world of constant remote working. 

Martyn shares how he and the Puppet team are using OKRs in place of KPIs to ensure the team have clarity of what is expected of them and feel empowered to be innovative.

This episode is a little different as it also features some best practices from David Parry Jones and Stuart Fenton with regards to this years remote working. (Please note their comments were recorded in September when things were a little different, but are still very relevant)

The OKR software Vicky refers to:
https://weekdone.com/ 

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Send us Fan Mail

Hear how Andy Bryars, Director of Customer Success at Okta is partnering with the Amplified Group to invest in his teams future, his team was already in a good place but Andy recognised as a leader that you cant take fitness of any kind for granted, especially when you are going through hyper-growth as an organisation.

Read more about Andy's approach to Organisational Fitness 

Learn more about the Five Behaviors of a Team methodology here: Meet #fivebehaviors 

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Send us Fan Mail

Following on from the great session with Colin Brown former MD of Softcat, we are keeping on the theme of Simplicity. Pippa Hutchinson joins us to share her experience of the growth of Tesco’s in the 90’s. There are startling similarities to the growth of Softcat, we also had some great fun recording it, with Sam revealing a secret and Sia unknowingly transporting us back to the Blind Date back in the 90s! So if you want some cheer as well as great business practice insights, this is not an episode to be missed!

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Send us Fan Mail

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Send us Fan Mail

Want to know the magic behind Softcat’s phenomenal success?
 
Softcat’s story is proof that you can scale at speed, go through a successful IPO and  still keep the magic.

Colin gives us a valuable insight into the ‘Softcat way’ where keeping the strategy simple to ensure the leadership team can invest their time in maintaining their incredible culture really is their recipe for success.

Sam, our host describes Colin as the Custodian of Culture - (Sam should know as he was Softcat’s CTO!)

Enjoy - we certainly did recording it 😊

Show note links:

Empowered Workforce Report - Amplified Group

Meet #fivebehaviors - Amplified Group

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Send us Fan Mail

We often use sports analogies in business especially when we are talking about high-performance teams, so its great to have Simon Clarkson on our latest podcast, talking about his experience working with elite sports professionals. 

Simon also shares how the principles cross over from sports to business with his three key takeaways: 

1. Unity of purpose – where buy-in is key

2. Growth mindset – a mindset for measuring progress

3. A culture allowing vulnerability

You can learn more about the Five Behaviors of a Team methodology here: Meet #fivebehaviors 

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Send us Fan Mail

With his vast experience at iconic companies like IBM, Microsoft and VMware we are delighted  to have  David Parry-Jones (DPJ) now VP of EMEA & APAC at Twilio Inc,  join the Get Amplified team to share his experience of building a high-performance team that can scale at a rate to match its growth and why it is important that Twilio’s new hires feel like they belong and oh ...so much more....!

You can access the report DPJ refers to related to on how COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation here:
https://www.twilio.com/covid-19-digital-engagement-report

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Send us Fan Mail

Jane Rimmer,  renowned IT vet, who played an instrumental part in the early success of behemoths of the industry such as Citrix and was employee #2 at VMware EMEA and now founder of hiviz-marketing,  shares with us the importance of leading from the front and how to make the extraordinary happen.

Meet #fivebehaviors - Amplified Group

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Send us Fan Mail

Former President of Insight and CDW,  and now CEO of Quantiq, Stuart Fenton shares his story of how he has learnt to become the leader he is today, building Quantiq a company that he would want to work at.

Stuart shares how putting your people first, ensures you retain incredible talent who pull together to undoubtedly deliver extraordinary (and sustainable) results.

Learn more about the Five Behaviors of a Team here: Meet #fivebehaviors - Amplified Group

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Send us Fan Mail

In the last episode of series one, the Get Amplified team are joined by Paul Burke, SVP of Product Marketing at Glasswall and client of the Amplified Group. 

We explore why clarity is needed at every level of the organisations and how lack of it can paralyse individuals and teams and cause silos in organisations.

Drawing on 20+ years in product management, Paul shares how clarity operates at three critical levels: individual, team, and external communication. 

From turning ideas into revenue streams to ensuring scarce engineering resources are focused on the right priorities, he explains that without clarity, even great ideas fail. 

The conversation also explores how clarity impacts accountability. Referencing frameworks like First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, the group discuss how accountability often breaks down not because of lack of commitment, but because expectations were never clearly defined in the first place. 

A key insight is that different personalities require different levels of clarity. What feels clear to one leader may feel ambiguous to another team member.

Paul closes by framing clarity in three tiers:

1. Personal clarity – Know what’s expected of you and communicate it.
2. Team clarity – Align around shared objectives to unlock accountability and results.
3. External clarity – Be crystal clear about what your organisation does and why it matters, or customers won’t engage.

The core message: clarity isn’t micromanagement, it’s direction. And without it, teams stall, silos form, and performance suffers.

You can find the Team Alignment Assessment we talk about that will help you assess where you are as a team and enable you to start the conversation here: Team Speed Check Get Started
 

We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/