Women at the Top of Telecoms and Tech

We are continuing our celebrations with a fantastic interview with the wonderful Helen Tudor. Helen has generated around £2.5 million just from a LinkedIn mastermind, which I highly recommend. She estimates that she's generated about £10 million worth of business for her clients, probably a lot more now. Through her free challenges and various other projects, she's helped about 40,000 people to make more money, learn to love money, and have a good relationship with money.

Helen is now a director of Candidate Funnels which focuses specifically on recruitment. In this episode, she shares some great ideas on the recruitment process and we are also going to talk about her story, how she got to where she is, and what her biggest lessons have been.

Here are the highlights:

• (08:11) Helen's career
• (18:40) Job plus
• (24:25) Recruitment marketing
• (30:46) People have a choice of jobs
• (34:28) What should companies look at if they are not getting the right candidates?
• (39:40) I'd like to see the whole world recruit with Candidate Funnels
• (42:16) Helen's final message

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About Helen:

Helen is an entrepreneur who helps high-performing entrepreneurs and teams get inbound leads on LinkedIn without sending any DMs.

Over the course of 5 years, Helen has generated over £2m in revenue for herself using these methods and even more for her clients.

She's an experienced businesswoman, with a wealth of knowledge when it comes to generating leads through LinkedIn. Her strategies are tried and tested and have helped many businesses achieve phenomenal success. She has more recently started a new business 'Candidate Funnels' with a view to revolutionising the recruitment industry

Contact Helen:

Website: www.helenpritchardonline.com

Website: https://candidatefunnels.scoreapp.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenpritchard/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/helenpritchard

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This week we're celebrating the one-year anniversary of this podcast and its new name, 'Women at the Top of Telecoms and Tech'. Throughout the week we are interviewing some brilliant and inspiring women who are at the top of their businesses.

Today I'm joined by the fantastic Kirsty Baxter-Smith. Kirsty is someone who has got to a very senior position within a huge organisation without having an absolute career plan. She didn't have a very techy background, or a degree or certain A -Levels and yet she's done it anyway! Kirsty is brilliantly honest and she shares some of her lived experiences, lessons from her career and what organisations can do to retain women at the top.

Here are the highlights:

• (08:54) How Kirsty where she is today in her career
• (12:09) Not giving into imposter syndrome
• (19:05) We are attracting female talent but we need to retain them
• (22:17) What can organisations do around retention
• (28:36) What did she take away from her failures
• (32:34) Having allies and being an ally
• (37:46) Why is there a reticence to self-promote?
• (41:49) Women helping other women is so powerful
• (45:14) Why not me?
• (51:09) Kirsty's final message

Imposter Syndrome article: https://hbr.org/2021/02/stop-telling-women-they-have-imposter-syndrome

Book recommendation: The Promises of Giants by John Amaechi

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About Kirsty:

Kirsty has been working in the Mobile Telecommunications industry for over 20 years, as part of the team delivering several of the UK's major mobile infrastructure milestones, including 4G and 5G.

She led the team supporting EE - the UK's biggest mobile network, during the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdowns and is now a senior leader with BT, helping to build, implement and support the new mobile cloud core network.

She is passionate about creating opportunities for women in technology, particularly retaining women as they develop and progress in their careers, supporting them to move into leadership roles and create opportunities for others.

Contact:

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-baxter-smith-2112601

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We are continuing with our week of interviews celebrating the newly renamed podcast: 'Women at the Top of Telecoms and Tech' and our one-year anniversary.

Today I am joined by one of my incredible long-term VIP clients, Tamsin Allington. Tamsin has worked in a number of different organisations and is now working within a male-dominated industry at St Austell Brewery. She will be sharing some of her lived experiences, some of the lessons from her career and also what organisations can do to really support women in more male-dominated industries.

Here are the highlights:

• (07:30) Tamsin's career path
• (11:55) You create your own reality
• (16:54) Using intuition
• (24:27) How do you create genuine psychological safety?
• (26:48) Tamsyn's biggest lessons
• (35:00) What can organisations start to do to get more women at the top?
• (38:32) Are there any particular skills women should focus on?
• (44:9) Tamsyn's final message

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About Tamsyn:

Tamsyn Allington is the People and Communications Director at St Austell Family Group, a Regional Brewing and Pub Company, based in the South West with a 180-strong pub estate and thriving Beer and Brands business, employing 1800 people and with an annual turnover of c£200m. She is an accomplished senior leader, operating at board level with experience gained across Operations, Human Resources, Learning & Development, Organisational Development, Communications, Marketing and Digital within the Restaurant, Pub, Brewing and Retail Industries over the last 20 years. An innovative and creative thinker focused on developing talent through inclusive and empowering strategies that supports commercial delivery, she is passionate about creating the right conditions to help harness and release the potential of everyone. Tamsyn grew up in Cornwall, moving away to develop her career, and returned to the West Country 4 years ago to join St Austell. She now lives in Devon with her husband Lewis.

Contact Tamsyn:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamsynallington/

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Welcome to the newly renamed podcast: 'Women at the Top of Telecoms and Tech'. We are celebrating our one-year anniversary and the rebranding with a week of fantastic interviews with some brilliant and inspiring women.

This week I am joined by someone who I have 'friendly stalked' for quite some time and I am really happy she agreed to be on the podcast, today's guest is the wonderful Tara Rule. Tara combines being a Senior Director at Adobe, raising two young daughters and coaching and helping people grow in confidence, in their careers and in themselves. We discuss her career path, the importance of creating the right balance for you, her big life lessons and sticky toffee pudding!

Here are the highlights:

• (08:08) Being a role model
• (14:13) Being genuine
• (17:55) Tara's career path
• (23:57) Lessons Tara would share with women at the top
• (27:13) Finding your sticky toffee pudding
• (30:28) Changes post-pandemic
• (36:32) What help are organisations offering women within the tech and telecoms world?
• (44:05) I want to empower more people
• (45:44) Tara's final message

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About Tara:

As well as being a Senior Director (and a certified accountant) Tara is also a qualified coach who helps other busy working mums bring balance to their lives, grow in confidence and take control of their careers by helping them identify the things they're already good at, reach outside of their comfort zones and find their 'sticky toffee pudding'!

Tara has navigated growing her career with a high-pressured job AND raising 2 young girls while also doing what she loves most, which is coaching and helping people grow in confidence, grow their careers and grow in themselves. The Question she is asked the most is 'how do you do it all' she says she doesn't do it all, she prioritises ruthlessly, she has boundaries and non negotiables and she understands where she gets her energy from so she can have fun along the way.

Contact:

Freebie: https://www.subscribepage.com/busy-2-balanced

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/busy2balanced

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tararulecoaching/?hl=en

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tararule/

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This week, we are celebrating the one-year anniversary of this podcast! So, today I have left this episode in the hands of my brilliant editing team who have collated my best bits over the past year. I am really proud of this podcast and I love that I get to share my thoughts and ideas, stories from my clients and interviews with my incredible guests.

There's going to be a mixture of hints and tips, things you can put into your leadership toolkit, snippets of the great conversations I've had with my guests and much more. Enjoy!

Here are the highlights:

• (01:53) Five Ways Leaders Live Their Fullest Potential with Margaret Weniger
• (06:47) Leadership Lesson: The Truth About Confidence
• (13:09) Menopause Truth and Empowerment with Jo Fuller
• (20:37) Coaching Mini-Series: Part 3
• (26:05) Burnout to Balance with Amy Wilkinson
• (31:36) Asking for a Pay Rise
• (36:52) Rethinking Redundancy with Eleanor Tweddle

Listen to the full episodes here:

• Ep 050: Five Ways Leaders Live Their Fullest Potential with Margaret Weniger
• Ep 041: Leadership Lesson The Truth About Confidence
• Ep 043: Menopause Truth and Empowerment with Jo Fuller
• Ep 046: Coaching Mini Series Part 3
• Ep 039: Burnout to Balance with Amy Wilkinson
• Ep 021: Asking for a Pay Rise
• Ep 052: Rethinking Redundancy with Eleanor Tweddle

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This week, I'm joined by the brilliant Wendy Harris. Wendy is the Queen of Conversations and she is going to be talking about how to make conversations count. She's a telemarketing trainer with over a million calls made and so she really knows how to have impactful and influential conversations. What really strikes me about Wendy is her dynamism, her positive energy and how she brings it back to being who you are, being true and authentic which is a huge part of what I teach and coach in my leadership program.

Here are the highlights:

• (04:27) How Wendy came to do this work
• (09:01) Steps to becoming aligned before conversations
• (15:15) How can women prepare themselves before a big meeting/conversation
• (30:35) Visual prompts
• (33:15) We learn best by doing
• (35:52) Acknowledge the achievements
• (39:07) What is Wendy's powerful conversation?

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About Wendy:

Queen of conversations. Telemarketing trainer with over a million calls made, hundreds of agents steered to starting conversations with strangers to create a great first impression, build relationships and grow their business.

Author of Making Conversations Count: How to sell over the phone. Podcast host asking business leaders for their experiences and that one conversation that created a turning point.

Contact:

Website: www.wagassociates.com

LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/wendyannharris

Podcast: https://wagassociates.com/podcast/

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I'm super excited today because we are coming up to the one-year anniversary of the Female Leaders on Fire Podcast. This podcast is something I'm really proud of as I didn't know the impact it was going to have. I didn't know that we were going to be getting thousands of downloads a month and that we were going to be listened to in 30 countries across the world.

To celebrate being one, we have got some things coming up that I want to tell you about. So first of all, we are gonna be changing the name of the podcast, I'm really excited to share that with you so watch out for that at the end of July. We're also going to have a week of interviews with some women at the top of different organisations in different industries that are absolutely incredible.

Then we're also going to have two bonus episodes; one is gonna be edited together, with my best bits for the year and then we've also got my lessons from this year and what I've learned and what's changed for me.

Finally, we also have a competition running and you can find out all the details below.

Competition details:

Do you need some you time? Time to relax, switch off and just be? Then the competition is perfect for you.

Throughout August to celebrate the anniversary of the Female Leaders on Fire podcast and the shift to a sexy new name, Women at the Top of Telecomms and Tech we're running an amazing competition, with something you will LOVE!

When you share the podcast on Linked In and tag me Nicola Buckley, or you post a review on iTunes. You'll be entered into a free prize draw to win a Solo Journey Spa Day worth £300 at the luxury eco-hotel in Cornwall. If you don't know the hotel it's a beautiful eco spa hotel perched on Cornish cliffs overlooking a beautiful beach, it's the perfect place to rest and unwind. https://www.scarlethotel.co.uk/spa/day-spa

Conditions:

From Friday 29th July to Friday 2nd September

One prize draw entry per share or review.

Prize draw on Friday 2nd September and winner notified within 1 week

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This week, I'm joined by two fantastic women, Hannah Hall-Turner and Rachel Maguire who together are the co-founders of The Job Share Pair. Both women had great careers and reached the role of HR Directors and coincidentally they had their children at similar times. When the time came to return to work they found it difficult to find the right part-time job. So, they suggested a job share, which at their senior level was very unusual. They made it work incredibly well and are here to talk about their business and the benefits of job sharing.

Here are the highlights:

• (05:25) Their background story
• (10:19) Where are we in the corporate world of job sharing?
• (20:58) Making that shift to job sharing
• (26:30) Myth busting around job sharing
• (36:05) What makes a job share work in your experience?
• (41:46) What's your profile in a job-sharing partnership?

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Recruitment website mentions:

Investing in Women: https://investinginwomen.co.uk/

Daisy Chain: https://daisy-chain.com/

Valued Recruitment: https://www.youarevalued.co.uk/

About The Job Share Pair:

Hannah and Rachel met over 10 years ago whilst working in the HR department of a large, fast-paced, high volume, real estate services firm, meeting as colleagues and becoming firm friends. They progressed up the corporate ladder quickly, achieving the role of HR Director, loving the influence they had at a strategic level to improve business results and impact upon the employee experience.

They had their first babies 6 days apart and whilst on their respective maternity leaves discussed their desire to achieve work-life balance with their new family commitments. With their ambition, drive and commitment, they didn't want to leave a career and qualifications they had worked so hard for, or miss the precious "firsts" with their babies. Job sharing seemed a perfect solution!

They broached the idea of a job share with their line manager to each work 3 days per week with one critical cross-over day, and after many discussions and much planning, they became the first job share duo in the UK arm of that Fortune 500 firm. This gave them the work-life balance that they had hoped for, and as a result, they felt a duty to shout about the benefits to help others.

As the arrangement was new to them and their business, they began researching best practice, networking with job sharers and other flexible workers and allies and soon realised the rarity of job sharing allowing for a route back into work following maternity leave. They passionately believe that this is a hugely missed opportunity for business and working women the world over.

Their Instagram page @thejobsharepair was born first and foremost to share their experience, best practice, useful practical tips and profile other job sharers to educate and inspire others about the power of job sharing. Currently, at over 1,250 followers, Hannah and Rachel post 6 times a week, highlighting case studies, reports and research, as well as personal experiences and those of their network, with an aim to increase awareness of job sharing and the benefits it can bring to individuals, organisations and the community.

Hannah and Rachel are proud and qualified members of the CIPD. Both accomplished HR leaders and Board Members, they are collaborative, communicative and pioneers for continuous positive change.

They are passionate about stamping out flexism at work and making flexible working options accessible for all. Their ambition is for more people to access meaningful, progressive, senior roles through job sharing, encouraging a truly diverse workforce through flexibility.

Contact The Job Share Pair:

Website: https://www.thejobsharepair.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejobsharepair/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejobsharepair

In this week's leadership lesson, I'm going to be talking about self-leadership. I will be sharing some really simple steps to help you start to really cultivate and focus on your own self-leadership. We've already talked about why self-leadership is important and why women struggle with it and so these steps are going to help you become focused on leading yourself first.

Here are the highlights:

• (01:03) Self-leadership begins with awareness
• (02:14) Ask yourself these questions every morning
• (03:50) Do some stream-of-consciousness writing
• (05:10) Think about your feel-good foundation
• (06:26) Look at your percentage split of time

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This week, I'm joined by the fantastic Eleanor Tweddell who I have known for a couple of years and I was lucky enough to do my coach training with her. Eleanor is the founder of Another Door and is the author of 'Why Losing Your Job Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You'. She helps individuals to rethink work and see opportunities through change.

We chat about what we can learn through change, how we can approach it differently, how it can help us evolve and so much more.

Here are the highlights:

• (06:05) Eleanor's career history
• (12:56) Questions about "who am I?" Can be overwhelming
• (21:51) The best leaders allow people to be bigger than them
• (26:15) There is always opportunity in change
• (32:31) Slow down so that you don't miss the opportunities
• (35:07) How can you take a more grounded approach to change?
• (45:46) The cleverest thing a CEO can do is ask questions at the right moment

Listen and subscribe to the podcast now, and find out more about me at www.nicolaskorko.com

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About Eleanor:

Eleanor founded Another Door after a 23 year career in senior management for brands including Costa Coffee, Virgin Atlantic, Vodafone and now runs a consultancy supporting businesses to support employees through change.

Eleanor is the author of 'Why Losing Your Job Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You', podcast host and clients include Channel 4, Harvey Nichols and Reach plc. She also coaches individuals to rethink work and see opportunity in change.

Contact:

Website: anotherdoor.co.uk

LinkedIn: @EleanorTweddell

Podcast: Another Door Podcast