Leadership Lounge Everyday Leader

Nobody likes to get it wrong and so sometimes we like to reduce the risk to make no chance of failure. But this can then lead to risk reduction ruling us and stifling innovation. Colin speaks to Adam Golding, who is General Manager at Electroglass, & soon to be Chairman of the Charity Sizewell Hall, to explore how we can get the balance to ensure successful change and innovation.

 

We explore ‘risk reduction’, thinking ahead of what could go wrong and reducing the risk of it happening, and ‘risk management’, working out how you will deal with it if it arises. We distil the important components to help you rule the risk, rather than the risk rule you in both leading change and in your personal life. 

 

Adam Golding started out in Engineering & Manufacturing making specialist equipment for the live entertainment industry working up from the shop floor to Managing Director, whilst involved with the growing and merging of various companies before the whole Group was purchased by an American company & he became Operations Director. Covid saw an opportunity to change industries during the downturn and he was invited to help grow a Printing Company before then being Head Hunted to his current role in the Glass container industry.

 

Join us in the Leadership Lounge to discover more about ‘Ruling Risk’.

Any leader knows that successfully leading your team is key to success and taking people with you. Leading a team well does not happen by accident. It must be purposeful and responsive. This month’s guest is Dawn Jarvis, Managing Director of Stellar Leadership Group, author of Leading Corporate Clans, and she explains key components for leading your team well. Using the core components of the Stellar Model, Dawn helps us see what can transform your leadership of your team.

Beyond the purpose and values that drive the organisation, what else helps you ensure you have a culture that helps the organisation and the people thrive? Colin Tapscott and Anna Hennell James interview Nick Osborne who is the CEO of Maritime Academy Trust to explore how you create a strong culture. Psychological safety is a key part of that and Nick explains practical steps he takes to create that, how he develops leadership throughout the organisation and what authentic steps help create alignment from all parties. Tune in this month to help you develop your organisational culture.

 

Before leading others, you have to lead yourself. This means recognising the emotions in us and choosing to respond rather than react. So, this month’s topic is great for anyone and especially for those of us who lead others, making sure we are the best version of ourselves to lead others.

Colin Tapscott and Anna Hennell James explore steps to do that.
•⁠ ⁠What do I know about myself?
•⁠ ⁠What is it that I need to help me be the best version of myself?
•⁠ ⁠What can I use to respond when I find myself wanting to react rather than respond?

They explore your metaphorical pink and blue inhalers, the things that you need to keep you calm, balanced, focused and alert. They finish off with the importance of Pause, Reflect, Respond as a simple technique to not react badly.

By the end of the podcast you’ll have a lot more ideas on how to ‘Manage Me’.

Even an experienced leader can find it hard to have a challenging conversation with someone. We like to get on with people and so having a difficult conversation with a colleague or your line manager about something that isn’t working or talking to a colleague about a performance issue, can feel like a binary pass/fail moment and therefore unsettling.

 

But what if there was a different way of having this conversation that was more about collaboration than confrontation? Could this boost our confidence?

 

In this podcast Colin Tapscott and Anna Hennell James explore how this issue starts with our own internal storyline and how we can change this so we feel more confident going into the conversation with our purpose for the conversation much clearer.

 

They will explore with you four ‘R’s: Realise the Reason; Recognise the issues; Reaction awareness; Raise with 4P’s that will help you grow in confidence for this conversation.

‘Improvement’. It’s a key element of leadership, leading yourself and leading others. Leading involves telling a story, of a journey from here to there. We are here and we need to be there. We need to move forward, to improve. It starts before that though, in us as leaders, being personification of the change that we want to encourage others to make.



So, how do we plan for improvement that engages others? What are the key elements we need?



In this podcast, Colin Tapscott and Anna Hennell James explore the key elements for planning improvement and look particularly and the 7I’s of Kaisen to help us improve things and engage others for greater success.