Hello everyone, this is Tom Hallett from the Learn Grow Succeed Podcast. This month is Stress Awareness Month, and we’re looking at aspects of stress you may encounter as the subject for our podcasts this month. By the way, I’ll drop the link to our other podcast, on executive isolation and how to overcome it, […]

Hello everyone, this is Tom Hallett from the Learn Grow Succeed Podcast.  As a topic for today‘s podcast I thought it would be a good idea to look at how leaders communicate with their teams.   Our course participants sometimes tell us that it can be easy for leaders to get caught up in their role and forget how to […]

Hi everyone, this is Tom Hallett from the Learn Grow Succeed Podcast.  Lately I have been thinking about the main attributes of great leaders.   Of course, there are a few, but I believe one of the pivotal traits is the ability to persuade others to take on or consider a different point of view.    The world’s great leaders through the centuries […]

Hi there everyone, this is Tom Hallett from the Learn Grow Succeed Podcast. Thanks for joining me again and this weeks pod is on courage over comfort and why this is a trait of great leaders.  It was Nelson Mandela who said “I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but triumph over it. The brave […]

Hi there everyone, this is Tom Hallett from the Learn Grow Succeed Podcast.  I read the other day, in Harvard Business Review, that changing company culture requires a movement, not a mandate.  They’ve got it spot on.   You can devise any number of plans for change, but without everyone signing up to them, zilch will happen.  Company […]

Hi there everyone, this is Tom from the Learn Grow Succeed Podcast.  It was American President Harry S Truman who said, “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”  The reality is that some leaders reach a sort of plateau in their professional lives; they begin to think they know it all, they’ve heard it […]

As I’m writing this, we’re heading into a new decade, and that gave me the inspiration to think about the past and how it shapes our future as leaders.   And that’s what we’re going to talk about in today’s podcast.  The stories we tell build a connection that inspires others. I’m always inspired by those tales of people down on their luck who manage to turn things around and achieve greatness. Or those people […]

Hi everyone, this is Tom Hallett from the Learn Grow Succeed Podcast.  Lifelong learning is critical to development, for you as a leader, and for your team. It enables growth and fosters creativity.  It’s good to devote time to learning: new skills, new ideas, new ways of working (and leading), but how do you remember everything you learn? And how do you ensure […]

Hi there everyone, this is Tom Hallett from the Learn Grow Succeed Podcast.  We recently wrote a blog on the 5-hour rule, which looks at strategies for learning. It’s used by many world leaders and public figures to enhance their knowledge and skills. (by the way, If you’d like to read it, I’ll pop the link in the transcript of this […]

Sharon Newey: Welcome to the Learn, Grow, Succeed Conversations Podcast, and I’m your host, Sharon Newey. If you want to become the extraordinary leader today’s organisations need, then listen now, because, on this special conversations episode, I’m joined by hugely experienced Excel training partner, Tom Phillips. Sharon Newey: Hi, welcome, Tom. It’s great to have […]