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We met Kim Scott last year when she was on the podcast talking about how to give difficult, impactful feedback in the workplace, following the release of her book, Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity .  Today Kim is back, but with Trier Byrant this time, to discuss their latest book, Just Work, Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair .  While bias, prejudice and bullying may be pres...

What is your employee experience like? Would your employees write rave reviews about their experience working at your organisation? Today’s guest, Ben Whitter, is an employee experience expert and a bestselling author. He works with a number of global companies helping the CEOs fix their employee experience so that it's in keeping with their preferred customer experience and their brand.  “We look...

If you need help with your recruitment, then you need Lou Adler. At 75, he’s spent the last 50 years in the recruitment game. He knows how to play it.  “My name is Lou Adler. [I’m here] to talk about hiring and business strategy and how to have a successful life, and how to hire great people and how not to screw up making important business decisions.” Lou is CEO and founder of Performance-based H...

If you lack confidence, or you’re faking it ‘til you make it, don’t miss the Queen of Swagger, Leslie Ehm, on this week’s episode of The Melting Pot.  From TV host to advertising executive to training guru for some of the biggest global brands such as Disney and Uber, Leslie has had a few careers in her time. Today, she is a full time Swagger Coach.  “Your swagger is not something external to you....

If, over the course of the last year, you’ve come to enjoy working from home and don’t want to have to revert to the daily commute into the office. Or if you’re scaling a business and wondering how you can attract the right level of skill and experience without having to hire someone full time. Then don’t miss Romanie Thomas, an experienced headhunter, founder and CEO of Juggle Jobs, a platform co...

2020 Summit Special: The Rules for Aggressives Sales Growth with Justin Roff-Marsh Today's Summit Special is  Justin Roff-Marsh . On a wet and windy day in Wiltshire it is great to look at the video of Justin speaking at the Monkhouse & Company Summit September 2020.  Justin helps people revolutionise their sales function. If the question you ask yourself is, "if I double the number of sellers, wi...

How do you solve problems? Are you even trying to solve the actual problem that needs solving? Today’s guest is so good at solving problems they named him twice, Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg.  Thomas has developed a theory of problem-solving, but that’s not what he talks about in this latest episode.  No, in this conversation, he talks about how you can deliberately spend time stepping away from the...

Today we’re in conversation with Daryll Scott, author, speaker, consultant and performance coach, and boy did we have a wide ranging conversation covering a number of disparate topics.  Daryll’s unifying theory of everything, which is leadership and culture are responsible for all of the performance gain inside an organisation. And also they’re the reason why every company that he's ever worked wi...

Do you know anyone that’s worked with Sir Elton John and Elon Musk, sent people down to see the wreck of the Titanic on the sea bed, closed museums in Florence for a private dinner party and then had Andrea Bocelli serenade guests while they ate their pasta?   Meet Steve Sims, a biker with face piercings, a goatee and a bald head. He’s heavy set, into heavy metal, yet Forbes and Entrepreneur magaz...

Decline  At the original point of writing his presentation, Jim had been struck by the sudden realisation that he was “a man in decline’”. In a whirlwind of 00’s nostalgia, he re-examines with the audience, his thought process. Following his then-recent device, Jim was staying at his mum’s, and having been compared to decreasingly attractive celebrities, he was forced to do some soul searching. He...

If you’re the owner of your business and you’re keen to improve productivity, or you want your business to run 200X better when you’re not there, why not get your employees to step up, not step back, from the challenge of running the business as efficiently as you do.  Don’t miss Andrew Holm and Julian Wilson of Matt Black Systems on this week’s episode. Some of the challenges that they’ve solved...

If there's a problem in your organisation, but you can’t put your finger on what it is, have you considered it might be a trust issue? Today’s guest studied trust as an undergraduate and 23 years later, David Horsager, CEO of Trust Edge Leadership Institute, has dedicated his career to researching trust, looking at the data, and seeing how trust is built with individuals, in companies, in countrie...

If you’re tired of being overworked and underpaid,  If you lack the ideal clients, or you don’t know how to find, attract and close clients,  If you keep experiencing project creep, If you’re an expert in what you do, but you’re constantly overlooked and having to explain the value of what you do, Then you need to listen to Pia Silva on this week’s episode of The Melting Pot.  Pia is a partner and...

Do we really need another book on leadership? Well, when it’s been written by two global heavy hitters - Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer, yes we do. Adam was a 30 year journalist and editor at the New York Times where he did a weekly column called From The Corner Office , where he chatted to CEOs about the transferable skills that they've learned, not so much about their industry or their business, b...

If your company is an early stage or scaling startup looking for support to help you hire and attract the best talent when you don’t have a brand.  If you need help building a highly engaged, productive, high performing team, (and that’s not the destination, it's a journey).  Or if you’re wondering how to create another layer of management underneath the founders and management teams, then don’t m...

Does your team need training and coaching to help people find a fit, alignment, productivity and clarity to exceed their potential?  Do you feel like you were made for more?  Are you ready to take your team’s communication up another gear? Then you might need Bert Robinson, President at Inpowering People. “I do coaching and consulting with my company Inpowering People. I'm in Firestone, Colorado,...

Happiness vs work Nic Marks grew Friday Pulse from a career-long passion for work-life happiness. He draws from Daniel Kahneman's 2004 Day Reconstruction Methodology, in which people were asked to divide their day up into activities they did and then rate each in terms of how happy they felt. The data shows that the time spent on the activity is almost exactly opposed to the amount of happiness ga...

So many of us are waking up to the fact we no longer have to live where we work. COVID has shown us that we can be just as productive, if not more so, WFH. And Paul Bennett, co-founder and CEO of PerchPeek, the AI-powered relocation agent, is cashing in on this realisation.  Prior to COVID, Paul and his co-founders set about trying to solve the problem of relocation, having suffered through the pr...

How is it possible that somebody who (in his own words) literally couldn’t lead a silent prayer, become a Hall of Fame speaker and a speech coach to Verne Harnish, author of Scaling Up and Rockefeller Habits? In today’s episode we speak with Joel Weldon about how and why he became Verne’s speaking coach, because Verne has been public speaking for decades, so why would he now need someone to help h...

If you’re looking for a virtual, hybrid and in-person meetings software that maximises audience engagement, retention and monetisation, then don’t miss this latest episode of The Melting Pot, with Mike Piddock, founder and CEO of Glisser, the award-winning audience engagement software. Just over a year ago, Mike’s original platform was all about how to drive interactivity in a physical meeting, bu...

In this episode - Decision making against disasters - Growth mindset - Choosing to grow is even more challenging with a team - Lead by example   Re Empowering the team    "This is where I had to step up as a leader, the first time I'd had to deal with something like this, and you know we'd done a bunch of psychometric tests before the race.... you know they'd said your good at dealing with crisis"...

Today’s guest needs no introduction. Essentially, if you run a startup and you haven’t heard of Steve Blank, can you even call yourself an entrepreneur? Steve is the ultimate serial entrepreneur, retiring in 1999 with eight high technology startups under his belt. He coined the term ‘customer development’, codifying what that was in the inaugural start up book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany - the...

If you’re wondering how your team’s happiness is, or how you can support employee wellbeing and sustain team morale, then you don’t want to miss Nic Marks, CEO and Founder of Friday Pulse, Dom’s employee engagement, employee happiness, employee measurement tool of choice.  “When I ask how engaged you are, people don't know. You know, it's like, if you ask people, how meaningful is your work? It so...

Chris Croft is a writer, a keynote speaker and a bit of a guru on Linkedin Learning, with 34 video courses on subjects including Project Management, Time Management, Process Improvement, Assertiveness, Negotiating, and Happiness, with 20,000 views a day and over 11 million views in total.   His Project Management Simplified course is thought to be the most viewed project management course in the w...

David Tudehope is co-founder and CEO of Macquarie Telecom Group in Sydney, Australia, providing telecommunications, phones, data, data connections, data centres and cloud services.  He co-founded the company with his brother, Aiden, back in 1992 and throughout their existence, they’ve tried to strike the balance between being entrepreneurial and running a public company with risk management and go...