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8. The Artful Manager Episode 8
30:16||Season 1, Ep. 8Podcast summary: Irrespective of your seniority, please consider making a request to someone to act as your mentor. If a junior manager, ask someone who has a wealth of experience in the discipline and if you’re a senior manager what about asking someone much younger to give you a better perspective of their generation and attitudes. This episode also features a short demonstration of an informal coaching session that all listeners can use together with a more structured approach which uses a coaching process model for you to consider adopting.
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31:21||Season 1Will Clayton returned to the family-owned, family-run enterprise as chief executive after several years away with the management and leadership lessons that he had learned in a completely different environment. Listen to how he thinks and acts in order to shape and drive the business forward through the development of some unique features.
7. The Artful Manager Episode 7
24:59||Season 1, Ep. 7Whether you need to deliver a team talk, a presentation or a conference speech, John explains some of the techniques that can help you to be more relaxed in the delivery and more successful in getting your points across.
The Artful Manager Interviews
28:21||Season 1Vanessa Pesci runs a small business offering dance, gymnastics and drama mainly to school children. Listen to how Vanessa has coped with growing demand; increased staff responsibilities, and using technology to manage her business more successfully. Like many small business owners her management skills have been learned through trial and error and by listening to others whose management style has brought rewards.
6. The Artful Manager Episode 6
33:28||Season 1, Ep. 6Rafael introduces this episode by asking you to re-evaluate the work you and your team perform, examining in detail every step you take. Kevin talks about the tools available to your whole team to understand better your data and identify where changes can be made to improve outcomes, while John tells you how to ask for more resources, more money or a change to the model you are currently using.
Failures of Leadership and Management in the NHS
26:27||Season 1The UK's much vaunted National Health Service is failing the people of Britain. There is insufficient transparency in the way that complaints and concerns raised by both patients and staff are handled. This episode examines three cases which made national headlines
5. The Artful Manager Episode 5
31:16||Season 1, Ep. 5Rafael Gomez, Kevin Money and John Cross join forces to share some of their experiences which reinforce the advice offered for our listeners consideration during Episodes 1 to 4