Helping Organisations Thrive with Julian Roberts 100th episode with special guests Carey Davis-Munro | Mark Roberts | Cheryl Dixon | Kon Apostolopoulos | Jim Kerr
I can't believe the Helping organisations thrive podcast has hit the 100th episode.
So thankful to all the guests who have come on the show and poured out their wisdom and passion to truly help organisations thrive.
And also to all the listeners who tune in and download the episodes, so appreciate your support.
To mark this momentous milestone, I decided to invite some guests back and have a multi-guest show, providing you with loads of inspiration and insight to help your organisation thrive. This episode is jam packed with brilliant insight and advice to help your organisation grow and thrive right now.
Carey shared her passion and expertise of well-being, encouraging us to 1. Replace the work hard mindset to having a well-being strategy 2. Develop your diversity and inclusion strategy and 3. Upgrade your hybrid working model on trust and listening to your employees.
Mark shared how the customer landscape had changed, and that we need to understand through data insights to become 1. Trusted advisors to our customers 2. Brand loyalty is now about efficiency 3. Be transparent as an organisation and ensure what and how you share is a driver for increased trust.
Cheryl shared from a communication perspective that we need to 1. Have a cadence of communication 2. Priorities of what info we want to share 3. Communicate to all stakeholders internal and external 4. Listen to your teams and final ensure that the source of the communication is based on your vision, beliefs and values.
Kon focused on how we motivate and create engagement for our talent development by 1. Make your employees feel valued, combination of empathy and tough love 2. Create a connected team and individuals, employees who are connected with each are 8 times likely to stay 3. Create a culture of contribution, where people are valued for their contribution in a psychological safe environment and finally 4. Continually help your employees learn and develop.
Jim then shared 3 key areas we need to be mindful for the future of our organisation. 1. Pandemic dividend - those who boomed in the last 2 years, start to play catch up and develop strategies to bridge the gap. One way is to create a incubator approach to innovation, create companies in companies with your teams, almost a start-up mindset in a bigger secure structure. 2. Stakeholder capitalism - go beyond the usual stakeholders and engage those like your employees and customers. 3. There is an expectation that the CEO will step into challenge government policy and thinking, be a thought leader and embrace the challenge.
Helping SME’s build resilient, high performing teams and businesses, quickly, so they can innovate, deliver, and thrive.
The SME’s I work with typically struggle/suffer/ with one or more of these challenges:
- no clear strategy
- dysfunctional team dynamics
- not knowing their vision or mission
- feeling stuck and procrastinating
- business not growing
- leadership challenges
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