Welcome to Transformation from the Trenches.

Welcome to Transformation from the Trenches.

In this episode, David and Kwasi speak to Richard James who is the Ways of Working Enablement Leader at Nationwide Building Society.

Curiosity and Bravery are 2 of the enablers he steps into for his leadership stance and how curiosity can be infectious.

We had a great conversation around these topics below as the highlights of this episode;

Highlights and Take-Aways:
- Showing up as a leader
- Enablers for being the leader
- Bravery and how to support teams to show up Brave.
- Finding the balance between Inflicting vs Inviting
- Organisational social constructs and the behaviours they create
- Humanising our organisations
- Adaptive leadership

Hope you enjoy this episode and the conversation we had with Richard and you look out to the follow-up conversation.

Let us hear your thoughts.

Hi All,

There is a lot here, and we scratch the surface on most of these topics while diving a little further into others. It was just great for Kwasi and me to reconnect with each other and for you to share how things have gone through Covid and these past 12-18month's.

Hi All,

We are back!! 

It's been a while and just like many of you Covid swept in and impacted our lives and forced us to re-focus and prioritise. We are now back with a fresh perspective and renewed focus on how the world and we have changed in reaction to it.  

This episode was recorded around a month or so ago and is a start to us getting back into the conversations we enjoy and sharing with the community we love. This is a very casual conversation about what we experienced during Covid, the challenges we faced and the topics we now reflect upon. We conversate around the following areas:

1.  Being swept up in a Covid world:
   • The shift in focus to our families
   • Recognising how we have changed and what's next
2. The blurred line of work and home
   • The benefits of being at home
   • The challenges we personally faced
   • How companies are and can support people
3. How to connect fully in a Covid(remote) world
   • How those connections feel different
   • The filter that exists while connecting through digital channels
   • The challenges we faced
4. The ability to be a 'Team' while being remote
   • What team connection looks like while being remote
   • The tools we use to try to compensate for face to face interaction
   • The gaps and what essence of a team is missing
5. The impact that Covid has had on our Health
   • The benefits we miss from passive exercise e.g. Walking Meetings, Travelling to work, running sessions etc.
   • The shift in our thinking of how we view exercise and forcing it to become an active part of our lives
6. Positive Impact Covid has had on certain companies
   • Forcing companies to transform and being that catalyst for change 
   • Putting companies in a position where they have to increase the trust in their people to get stuff done wherever they are 
   • The creation of new customer interaction patterns and the shift towards digital engagement
7. The word and social impact of Covid
   • How the world was allowed to health a little with reduced travel and pollution
   • Forced us to stop and pay attention to the planet
   • How maybe the government could look at a long term strategy for healing the planet through periods of reduced travel etc.

There is a lot here and we scratch the surface on most of these topics while diving a little further into others. It was just great for Kwasi and me to reconnect with each other and you to share how things have gone through Covid and this past 12-18month's.

We hope you enjoy this and there will be more Podcasts soon 🙏 

Kwasi & Dave

Welcome to Transformation from the Trenches.

In this episode, David and Kwasi speak to Elizabeth Sherman who is a Life and Weight Loss Coach. We had a great conversation around eating, sleeping, exercise and stress management and how she helps her clients connect on a deeper level around these topics.
We also draw on synergies of weight loss and stress management into the world of business and organisations. 

Highlights:
- Identity and Values: how powerful they are in achieving impactful fulfilling change.
- Managing Stress: including before the stress happens in the first place
- Self-Care: and the link back to Identity
- Emotions: leveraging any form of emotion that shows up in us 

Take-Aways:
- We speak about logical levels and how truly understanding of our identity and values aligns us to our goals and how that helps us make an impact on life fulfilment - same is true for organisations.
- We tap into the real power of understanding your true identity and how that triggers our behaviours
- We draw on a connection of overfeeding and underfeeding analogy in organisations

Hope you enjoy this episode and the conversation we have with Elizabeth and stories she shares we us all.

Let us hear your thoughts.

Welcome to Transformation from the Trenches.

Welcome to Transformation from the Trenches.

In this episode, David and Kwasi speak about three key topics, Transformational fallout, being careful about workplace trauma and a concept of distributed transformation.
We also discuss the benefits of putting people first within organisations and the emphasis of building meaningful and intentful relationships which transcends to how people truly show up.

Highlights:
- Transformational Fallout
- Being careful about workplace trauma
- Distributed Transformation

Take-Aways:
An insight into some of the transformation fallouts we've seen on our journey. 
The invisible trauma caused in the workplace that most aren't aware it's happening.
We touch on briefly distributed transformation (we'll do a podcast on this to explore further and share with you all).

Hope you enjoy this mini-episode and find this useful.

We'll be keen to hear your thoughts.

Welcome to Transformation from the Trenches.

Welcome to Transformation from the Trenches.