David Scarlett, The Soul Millionaire, talks to Philippa Hann, Head of Financial Services, Clarke Willmott.

Key learning points:

-Why assuming that you know your people and your clients is such a dangerous leadership stance.

-How to create a team where everybody has a voice … and the best ideas emerge from every level of the team.

-The one question that highlights whether the culture you’re creating will attract the highest calibre of people to your team.

-Three pointers to becoming an Inspiring Leader.

David Scarlett, The Soul Millionaire, talks to Russell Facer, Managing Director, threesixty.

Key learning points:

-Giving your team clarity of direction and expectation… guided by a clear, coherent business plan… designed to cope with a changing world.

-Why command and control doesn’t work long term in a 21st Century team.

-How communication skills become even more important when you’re leading people, not managing tasks.

-Listening to your clients, to create even more desirable services during difficult times.

David Scarlett, The Soul Millionaire, talks to Chris Budd, Chairman of Ovation Finance, Founder of The Eternal Business Consultancy and Founder of The Initiative for Financial Wellbeing.

Key learning points:

-How to harness the brilliant creative thinking of your team, by shutting up and getting out of their way.

-The empirical evidence that shows that leaders who do all the thinking and all the talking for their firms, actually put the brakes on the firm’s development.

-The three skills that are the minimum baseline for leadership in any industry or profession, particularly the Financial Planning profession.

-How to hold both you and your business accountable for its innovation, it’s excellence, it’s fulfilling culture, and its commercial performance.

-How to create a business which delivers happiness and joy for your clients and for your team.

David Scarlett, The Soul Millionaire, talks to Chris Budd, Chairman of Ovation Finance, Founder of The Eternal Business Consultancy and Founder of The Initiative for Financial Wellbeing.

Key learning points:

-How to magnify your leadership impact by removing your leadership ego.

-What new skills tomorrow’s Financial Planning firms will choose to adopt and how that will completely change the face of Financial Planning in the UK.

-What culture is, how to develop it and why it creates a magnetic business which stands out from its peers.

-How to deal with difficult team members, giving them a chance to flourish or to leave with dignity. The toxic dangers of leaders not being accountable to anybody but themselves.

David Scarlett, The Soul Millionaire, talks to Ruth Sturkey, Client Director London, Paradigm Norton.

Key learning points:

-When leaders get out of the way of their people … the business has a chance of rising to new heights.

-Making every decision in the light of a clear, written culture creates the power to rise above self-serving business performance.

-Every successful strategy is founded upon first nuturing successful relationships.

-Recruit well. Train and develop carefully. Face up to tough leadership decisions.

POWER Podcast launched today on pfspower.org, the Personal Finance Society’s POWER of Financial Planning website.

David Scarlett, The Soul Millionaire, begins a series of conversations with Inspiring Leaders.

The first is with Alan Smith, CEO of Capital Asset Management, a Financial Planning firm established in the City of London in 2004.

Key learning points:

-The importance of making culture the conscious written foundation for any attractive business.

-The exponential benefit of attracting, recruiting and nurturing a team of ‘A-players’.

-How to get out of the way of your team’s potential.

-How to develop a scalable, sustainable business by nurturing tomorrow’s talented leaders.