Lab To Leadership™️ from Clearworks

One of the biggest complaints we hear as Coaches working across STEM is that the diary is jam-packed with useless or wasteful meetings.How can you get the very best from the time you spend with those people on that call?How can you quickly transform the meetings culture in your organisation, if you want to?What eats time, switches people off, disengages people?How demotivating might it be for your talented people, to be wasting their Monday morning, sitting on "receive" rather than getting cracking?Who talks most? What else might be possible?Executive Coaches Aly King-Smith, Gill Martin and Fiona Pawley take a wander through their observations, suggestions and reflections to help you quickly improve the meetings culture in your STEM organisation.Read more about Clearworks here and connect with Aly on linkedin in here.You can find Clearworks on Linkedin here.

Clearworks founder Aly King-Smith talks today to Nana-Efua Lawson who is a Business Psychologist and Executive Coach on the Clearworks team.What are the values of your business beyond the glitz of a shiny brand with all the bells and whistles? What if your business is an unknown brand with a tiny budget, but you need good folk to come and work with you? How can you share your vision to recruit and retain talent?As a leader, what's your north star? What is the big change you're looking to make in the world as a result of the work you do? How can you capture the hearts as well as the minds so people can buy into that purpose?Aly and Nana discuss ways that you can think differently about your business story to encourage leadership talent to choose to stay working in your business.Read more about Clearworks here and connect with Aly on linkedin in here.You can find Clearworks on Linkedin here.

Episode 2 of the Lab To Leadership™️ Podcast!About SianDr. Sian Rowsell had a career in science and leadership, a PhD in biophysics and is now an award -winning coach. and a valued member of the Clearworks coaching team. In this short, "snackable" episode of "Lab to Leadership" by Clearworks Coaching, host Aly King-Smith & Dr Sian Rowsell explore crucial strategies for retaining talent in STEM organizations.They delve into the challenges faced by parents in balancing work commitments with family responsibilities, emphasising the importance of flexible work arrangements and clear communication.Instances of mismatched expectations during the hiring process are discussed, underscoring the need for honesty and transparency. This can be a critical moment for encouraging people to choose your organisation over another, when skills are short. The conversation also touches on the impact of social activities that seem great fun, but are actually not inclusive for people with caring roles - and their impact on team dynamics. Sian discusses the significance of understanding and accommodating employees returning from parental or caregiving leave - and the benefit of doing that, on your bottom line! Throughout the discussion, themes of empathy, continuous dialogue, and challenging assumptions emerge, highlighting the importance of creating an inclusive and supportive work culture.Gain valuable insights and actionable strategies for fostering employee retention and organizational success in you STEM organisation.Find us at https://clearworkscoaching.co.uk or find Aly on Linkedin here

Episode 1 of the Lab To Leadership™️ Podcast!Focused on how to retain great people.Nic Armitage is an Executive and Team Coach on the Clearworks Coaching team.In this episode he proposes the idea that there’s no point in constantly hunting for and recruiting new people, if you’re losing them out of a “leaky talent pipeline.” How can you keep the good people you’ve already got? What might stop them jumping out of your organisation into a competitor?Welcome to episode one of Lab To Leadership™️:“Keep the people you want to keep: Retention first” About Nic Armitage:The 20 years as a leader in the big guns like Pepsico, as Senior Director at Costa andWhitbread, gave Nic Armitage his corporate spurs.Nic’s passion is in helping teams to form,accelerate and deliver. Nic works 121 with senior leaders as well, in his warm and pragmatic style.In recent yearshe has worked with endless senior lead teams in all sectors, including STEM,developed an on-line leadership profiling system for a pharmaceutical client and developed a global leadership programme in the biotech sector which equipped their leaders to implement a newly developed strategic direction across multiple markets.About Clearworks Coaching:If you're developing leaders and leadership teams in STEM, Biotech and Pharma, you are in exactly the right place.The Clearworks team specialises in working with scientific and technical leaders from these sectors to build leadership confidence, flexibility, courage and balance. Established in 2013.Find us at clearworkscoaching.co.uk or on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/company/clearworks-coaching/

This first season of the Lab To Leadership™️ Podcast coincides with us joining The Silverstone Technology Cluster.This inspired these conversations between the expert coaches on the Clearworks team, as a way to support leaders who are responsible for developing leadership talent in their STEM organisations, without a great big budget.Please join host Aly King-Smith to hear about the plan for these conversations in this first season of Lab To Leadership™️.What can you do on a daily basis to retain the people you want to keep, and attract and retain more of them?Introducing Season One.Find us at clearworkscoaching.co.uk or connect with Host and Director of Clearworks Aly King-Smith on Linkedin here