It was an absolute delight to speak to Michaela and learn from her experience as an entrepreneur of several businesses. This was such an informative podcast with such an authentic guest. Michaela is full of energy and is willing to share her knowledge and experiences.

Just to start with, Michaela’s favourite quote is “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not followers.” – Ralph Nader

Here’s what we covered:

🎖 Adaptability

🎖 Shoe Dog

🎖Micromanaging

🎖 Avocados

🎖LinkedIn

🎖 Authenticity

🎖The Apprentice

🎖 Leaders don’t need degrees

🎖 4 day week

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In this episode, Andy Davies and Iain Moffat interview the podcast's first special guest, futurologist, trainer, and author Dickson Tang. In the conversation, the team contemplates future leadership challenges, the automation of jobs, and how creativity is a fundamental part of a culture for growth. Based in Singapore, Dickson Tang shares his insights on how the nature of the workplace is changing and the new mindset and skillsets that are needed to embrace this. He also leaves leaders with an actionable plan of implementing the three 'i' model to drive creativity within a team:

Please subscribe, rate and review and look out for the next special guest episode where Andy and Iain will be in conversation with BBC's The Apprentice finalist Michaela Wain, and feel free to connect with Andy and Iain on LinkedIn.

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S01E06 Bonus edition - What are good or novel examples of wellness initiatives?

We’ve got some great examples of wellness initiatives and Deborah provides a wonderful example why marathons aren’t for everyone. Please join us to hear some novel thoughts about what you can include.

Please subscribe and look out for the next episode and feel free to connect with Andy, Iain, Deborah and Hiten on LinkedIn.

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Why is a wellness strategy so essential in our current world of work, and why should leaders invest in this? In this episode, the team discusses wellness in its entirety, and how a leader can support the wellness agenda. Touching on the essential elements that make up a wellness strategy and who should own it, the team debate how this can be balanced against concerns over data privacy or discrimination.

Find out more about the team and connect with them on LinkedIn here: Andy, Iain, Deborah and Hiten.

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In the main podcast for S01E05 Leading the culture, we talked about building a high performance culture and what this means to a business.  In this bonus episode we look at some of the good and bad stories that have emerged from businesses.  This is a never-ending source of case studies that is dominated by many of the tech giants and we talk about several of them.  

Please subscribe and look out for the next episode and feel free to connect with Andy, Iain, Deborah and Hiten on LinkedIn.

In this episode, the team dive into a topic they are all very passionate about company culture. 

Between them,  Andy, Hiten and Deborah, have spent many years delivering cultural change projects and seen plenty of examples of what works and what sadly does not work. 

Listen to learn about what makes a great culture and why it is so important, as well as to gain tips on how to assess, improve and drive forward your own company culture. 

Connect with the team on LinkedIn here: Andy, Iain, Deborah and Hiten, and don't forget to share your thoughts on leading the culture with them!

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Here’s the bonus discuss where we asked the team ‘What was the best customer service you have experienced’? There’s a variety of answers including flights, hotels, Disney and Deborah’s butcher!

Please subscribe and look out for the next episode and feel free to connect with the team on LinkedIn.

In this episode, Andy, Iain, Hiten, and Deborah talk about all things customer service. The team delves into the reasons why great customer service helps not only the immediate business needs but leads to other benefits across the organisation, including the people aspects and how they can be supported to deliver great customer service.

Happy listening and please don't forget to subscribe and rate the podcast! We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts. 

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In episode 3 of Leadership, the future and tea, Andy, Iain, Hiten, and Deborah focus on communications from leaders and looks at a range of examples where the communication has worked, and compare it to others where micro-actions affect the transmission of the message. 

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In this episode, Andy, Iain, Hiten, and Deborah talk in detail about change management and leading through the change. The importance of identifying the challenge; the emotion, and fear associated with that, and the human impact that often prevents change from sticking.

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