The Independent Minds

Andrew Miller is the creator of the Business Enjoyment Model and author of the book More Than Just Money.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Andrew discusses with host Michael Millward how and why people find it difficult define why they work.

Many people forget the reason why they chose a particular career. Instead, the job they have and where they do that job can become a way to impress other people.

As Andrew says the more successful someone is, the more stress they are exposed to. For other people, who want to appear successful the potential for stress is increased.

Andrew and Michael discuss the real meaning of success and how to achieve success.

This is an interesting discussion in which guest reflects on their career and the behaviours that have generated their success.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, and Andrew Miller at Abeceder.co.uk

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr, because as the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms, Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

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Andrew is based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Members of the Ultimate Travel Club, can travel to Wakefield at trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, package holidays and all sorts of other travel purchases. You can become a member at a discounted price by using my offer code ABEC79 when you join-up.

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Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

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In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins uses foxes and hedgehogs to describe two different types of behaviours that can be attributed to entrepreneurs, investors or employees.

In this episode of the Abecederpodcast The Independent Minds, Andres Klaric, the CEO and co-founder of Fuse Financial explains how when he was a Wall Street banker he was comfortable spending most of his time being one of these two animals. Andres then explained how his animal role changed when he set up Fuse Financial, and how it continued to change as the business evolved.

Host Michael Millward challenges Andres to be specific about when his behaviours changed and what each change felt like.

This is an interesting discussion in which guest reflects on their career and the behaviours that have generated their success.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, and Andres Klaric at Abeceder.co.uk

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr, because as the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms, Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Matchmaker.fm If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Andres, you have something interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

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Andres is based in New York City. The Independent Minds is produced close to old York I Yorkshire UK. Whether you are travelling to old York or New York, remember members of the Ultimate Travel Club, can travel at trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, package holidays and all sorts of other travel purchases. You can become a member at a discounted price by using my offer code ABEC79 when you join-up.

Fit For Work Look after your health and you will be fit for work. I

It is always a good idea to know the risks early so that you can take appropriate actions to maintain good health, that is why we recommend The Annual Health Test from York Test.

York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

A Personal Wellness Hub gives access your easy-to-understand results and guidance to help you make effective lifestyle changes anytime via your secure, personal Wellness Hub account.

Visit York Test and use this discount code ABECEDER2.

Three the network Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

Stephan Szugat is founder of Self Coaching 365 and the author of Interconnected Success in which he explains the connections between business management and the coaching techniques that help businesses to be more successful.

In this episode of the Abecederpodcast The Independent Minds, Stephan explains his seven-point model that breaks down the activities that any type or size of organisation need to undertake efficiently and effectively to become successful.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, and Stephan Szugat at Abeceder.co.uk

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr, because as the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms, Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Matchmaker.fm If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Chris, you have something interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

Travel - Stephan is based in Germany. Members of the Ultimate Travel Club, can travel to Germany at trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, package holidays and all sorts of other travel purchases. You can become a member at a discounted price by using my offer code ABEC79 when you join-up.

Fit For Work Look after your health and you will be fit for work. 

It is always a good dea to know the risks early so that you can take appropriate actions to maintain good health, that is why we recommend The Annual Health Test from York Test.

York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

A Personal Wellness Hub gives access your easy-to-understand results and guidance to help you make effective lifestyle changes anytime via your secure, personal Wellness Hub account.

Visit York Test and use this discount code ABECEDER2.

Three the network If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

Despite more than half a century of DEI initiatives women, and people of BAME communities still face challenges that make accessing senior management roles difficult. The problem is particularly common in the public sector. Traditionally the public sector has drawn employees from these communities, but it is usually still white males who end up in the top jobs.

Now two women who have broken through the glass ceiling have created DIFFERENT, a different way of providing the skills, knowledge, and wisdom that helped them build their successful careers.

Meena Kishinani and Deborah Cadman have both had long and highly successful careers as leaders of public sector organisations.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds you will hear Meena and Deborah share with host Michael Millward examples of why women and BAME public sector workers hit a glass ceiling. They explain what happened that enabled them to break through that glass ceiling.

Now they have brought what they benefited from informally into a structured programme that has been powered by Tile Hill and Newtrality, two organisations that are committed to creating proportional representation in senior Local Government leadership. DIFFERENT

Anj Popat, an associate director at specialist recruiter Tile Hill explains the important impact that this future focused programme, which is sponsored by change consultancy Newtrality, will have on the supply of high-quality candidates by giving women and BAME community members what they need to be application ready.

Anj, Deborah, and Meena reflect on the positive impact initiatives like DIFFERENT will have on public sector organisations that are under increasing pressure to do increasingly more with increasingly less.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, and all his guests at Abeceder.co.uk

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr, because as the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms, Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel

The Independent Minds team are all members of the Ultimate Travel Club, so they can access  trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, package holidays and all sorts of other travel purchases. You can also become a member at a discounted price by using their offer code ABEC79 when you join-up.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

Clare Norman, is the author of Cultivating Coachability

In this episode of the Abecederpodcast The Independent Minds, Clare explains the challenges organisations face when trying to make coaching work successfully, to host Michael Millward.

Clare explains the advantages of coaching as part of the training mix, especially as a way of helping people transfer what they have learnt on training courses into their everyday work activities.

Both Michael and Clare are fans of coaching, but they are also realistic about the challenges of using coaching.

Clare introduces new ways to describe the different roles and activities in the coaching process.

Using their different experiences, Michael and Clare to identify and explore the reasons why coaching does not work, how to avoid those problems and how to improve the way an organisation implements a coaching programme.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, and Clare Norman at Abeceder.co.uk

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr, because as the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms, Zencastr really does make creating content so easy. Try podcasting yourself using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

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Clare is based in Hampshire a county in Southern England. Members of the Ultimate Travel Club, can travel to and around the UK at trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, package holidays and all sorts of other travel purchases. You can become a member at a discounted price by using my offer code ABEC79 when you join-up.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

Stuart Burlton and his wife are the entrepreneurial team behind Make an Entrance, a manufacturer of door mats.

When the company faced supply chain challenges many entrepreneurs would have looked to international manufacturers. But Suart and his wife decided to open their own factory instead.

In this episode of The Independent Minds Stuart explains to Michael Millward of Abeceder, why that decision may not have been the logical solution but why it was the correct decision.

Stuart also describes the approach to managing Make an Entrance that enables him and his wife to both focus on working on their business and spend the school holidays away from that business.

This episode of The Independent Minds was produced on Zencastr If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use the offer code ABECEDER.

Make an Entrance is based in Lincoln, England. If you would like to visit the city of Lincoln, the best way to plan your travel is with The Ultimate Travel Club.

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Michael Millward and Stuart Boulton first met when they were appointed to the National Scrutiny Body of the Federation of Small Businesses, regularly referred to as FSB. 

You can find out more about FSB by visiting this link.

Steve Martin is an Enterprise Agile Coach.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Steve explains Business Agility to host Michael Millward.

Steve explains what business agility is by comparing different types of business. He explores with Michael the role that HR professionals and departments play in preparing a business to start on a business agility journey, guiding the business through, and sustaining the business agility approach.

They discuss what a business agile culture is like and what it feels like to work in an agile business for both employees and managers.

Steve explains what the role of the Scrum Master a new role that the business agility approach requires is and how it impacts the operation of a team and an organisation.

Michael asks Steve to explain what the entry of Gen Z to work will impact how a business agility approach can be implemented.

You can find out about events and webinars that Steve Martin is speaking at.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, and Steve Martin at Abeceder.co.uk

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr, because as the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms, Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

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Linda is based in Texas USA. Members of the Ultimate Travel Club, can travel to Texas at trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, package holidays and all sorts of other travel purchases. You can become a member at a discounted price by using my offer code ABEC79 when you join-up.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

In this episode of the Abecederpodcast The Independent Minds, Bright TrainerLinda Salazar explains being Volun-Told to host Michael Millward.

Linda describes the start of her career in training, and how she has developed her career.

A key reason for Linda’s success has been recognising the times when she has been told to volunteer, what Linda describes as Volun-Told to take new opportunities.

Michael and Linda explore what Volun-Told involves and what it feels like. They discuss ways to welcome that change and how build counter arguments to being Volun-Told.

They also look at how a manager can effectively Volun-Told any employee.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr, because as the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms, Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, Linda Salazar at Abeceder.co.uk

Travel

Linda is based in Texas USA. Members of the Ultimate Travel Club, can travel to Texas at trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, package holidays and all sorts of other travel purchases. You can become a member at a discounted price by using my offer code ABEC79 when you join-up.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

In this episode of the Abecederpodcast The Independent Minds, host Michael Millward meets Alan Lazaros, the CEO of the Next Level University.

Next Level University helps individuals work out what they need to do to be able to lead a fulfilled life., which as Michael and Alan discuss has undoubted benefits for an employer.

Alan uses his personal experience, and the four bucket model to explain how happiness is linked to how well we balance achieving our definition of success, with being fulfilled as individuals.

Their discussion explores how people are defined by teh goals that they set for themsleves and how those goals impacts the ability of the person to live a fulfilled life. 

Nevertheless, says Alan we can all be 1% better today than we were yesterday, which means that our work can also be 1% better. Magnify that 1% by the number of employees in a company and you soon start to see some big improvements.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, Alan Lazaros and Next Level University at Abeceder.co.uk

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr, because Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel

Whether you want to visit Worcester in the UK or the USA make your travel arrangements with the Ultimate Travel Club, and access to trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, package holidays and all sorts of other travel purchases. Use our offer code ABEC79when you join-up.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Matchmaker.fm

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fmthe introduction to Alan.

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Alan, you have something interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code MILW10for a discount on membership

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

In this episode of the Abecederpodcast The Independent Minds, host Michael Millward discusses with Sid Madgefounder of Meee the commercial reasons why employers should seriously consider employing ex-offenders.

In April 2024 data from the UK Police National Computer showed 11 million people in the UK have a criminal record.

A third of men and nine per cent of women will have been convicted of an offence by the age of 53.

Numbers like these suggest that employers who are reluctant to employ ex-offenders, are probably already employing someone with a criminal record.

Sid explains to Michael the work that Meee is doing to prepare offenders for employment and the results they are achieving.

You will learn about some of the causes of crime, and the role employment plays breaking the cycle of crime prison crime, that many offenders struggle to break.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms.

Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, Sid Madge and Meee at Abeceder.co.uk

Travel

Members of the Ultimate Travel Club, have access to trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, package holidays and all sorts of other travel purchases. You can become a member at a discounted price by using my offer code ABEC79 when you join-up.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.