Stop! Your people need you

It's easy to assume that as we've been hybrid working since the start of the pandemic, now it's just the norm, but is it? In the past couple of years have we just been responding to the restrictions placed upon us by the powers that be?What we have now is *choice* and that is changing the conversations, creating different challenges and requiring us all to STOP! 🛑 and re-adjust.We can't use the past two years as a case study for what we do next with hybrid working, we need to adjust to t...

All throughout our professional lives we hear people say ‘I’m writing my strategy’ and most of us have probably been told we need to be more strategic, but in business what does it even really mean, why is it so vague and do we even mean it at all? It's been a bigger break than intended but Luke & Danny are finally back with another episode of 'Stop! Your people need you' and to kick things back off with a bang, thought they would dive into exactly what do leaders & managers mean...

This weeks podcast was intended to be called ' Removing the biggest blocker to your success' but as you may notice, it quickly took a slight detour to something Luke & Danny never thought they'd question. Having recently started a new business venture together, Luke & Danny thought they had it all worked out, but as time went on they began to realise that there were problems arising at pace, and they simply couldn't solve them on their own.As expected in business, they had ...

This weeks podcast is a direct reflection of Luke and Dannys own recent personal experiences that have occured, as they got invited to go back into the classroom, this time as the learners, to take part in a level 7 qualification in leadership. Are you struggling with getting your people to be more open to learning and developing? Have you thought about how vulnerable a senior leader may feel going into a classroom realising they don't know the things other people at their level are conf...

'Praise isn't just a Leaders & Managers responsibility...how wonderful would it be if you saw people in your team genuinely praising one another?' As series 2 of the podcast continues, in this weeks podcast Danny and Luke discuss 'The Power of Praise' within the workplace.How do you praise your people? Do you miss the chances to? Do they even praise each other and all the deeper thoughts, consequences & results associated with a 'pat on the back'. 'Have you praised someone a...

Danny and Luke are back after a summer break and ready to start series 2 ‘Stop! Your People Need You’.Although the first episode in Series 2 may sound quite negative, the intention is quite the opposite. Having both had some time to Stop! they have been reflecting on bad habits that may have materialised from the effects of the global pandemic. It’s not all bad, in fact in true Danny and Luke style they really start to understand the positive impact of the pandemic on their work/life balance ...

In this week’s episode Danny and Luke are joined by Lisa Whittleton, Founder of Illuminate VR Ltd who are specialists in Mental Health and Wellbeing in the workplace. This comes as Pti Worldwide and Illuminate have agreed to come together in partnership enabling them to bring their collective specialisms and support their customers even more. Danny and Luke have prepared a number of questions for Lisa focused on how organisations can support their colleagues mental health and wellbeing, ...

Who are the people in your team that demonstrate ‘Role Model Behaviours’ and how are you recognising, motivating and rewarding them for being Role Models?How are you leveraging their behaviours within the team and ensuring their behaviours inspire others and hold others to account when they are not meeting that standards of excellence set for the team?These are the questions Luke and Danny explore during this episode leaving them with some reflective moments and as always challenging each oth...

In this episode Danny and Luke are taking a step back in time and connecting to some lessons from their childhood that they still carry with them to this day. They both share personal examples and stories of the lessons they learned at a younger age, the reason they had such an impact on them and how that translates into their personal lives, professional lives and their roles as leaders.

Difficult conversations is a subject that Luke and Danny have briefly discussed on a number of different episodes and with the topic coming up again only a few weeks ago they both felt like it was time to explore it in more detail. Danny highlights some interesting ways of thinking about and approaching a difficult conversation and in their normal style, Luke challenges him throughout but they are both aligned when it comes to the output of their discussion…it’s the intent behind every d...