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Today’s guest knows the way to a truly successful business: teamwork. Karen Walker has experienced this first-hand from working for the largest supplier of PC systems - Compaq as employee #104. On the show she shares the power of smart processes, what to do when not all team players are playing at the same level, and her learnings from her latest book ‘No Dumbing Down’. Karen currently works with senior leaders from tech companies, to “help them give form to the vision that they have”. Working with both large companies and startups, she enjoys exploring the differences between these two worlds. Her philosophy is not just about getting stuff done, but how it gets done. Links mentioned in this show www.KarenWalker.us ‘No Dumbing Down’ by Karen Walker ‘Radical Candor’ by Kim Scott Hosted by Gillian Davis, co-author 'First Time Leader; Foundational Tools to Inspire and Enable Your New Team' this podcast is to inspire managers to step up and lead their teams. We talk to those on the front line and get managers to share what has worked, what hasn't and what resources they have tried and tested. This podcast is powered by OverTime an agency that helps new leaders build great teams, products and, companies. For more information, visit www.OverTimeLeader.com.

Keji Mustapha is on mission to empower early-stage startup Founders to have the right leadership skills from the outset, and is Head of Founder Network at Connect Ventures. Gillian meets Keji to uncover why businesses need some form of hierarchy, what to look for when building your first team, and the importance of having space and time to reflect as the company grows. Connect Ventures is a VC firm that supports product Founders. Keji focuses on adding value to Connect’s portfolio companies after investing in them, and bring the community together. By training product Founders to become better leaders, Keji has seen companies go from seed and beyond. Links mentioned in this show ‘Play Bigger’ by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney https://ConnectVentures.co Hosted by Gillian Davis, co-author 'First Time Leader; Foundational Tools to Inspire and Enable Your New Team' this podcast is to inspire managers to step up and lead their teams. We talk to those on the front line and get managers to share what has worked, what hasn't and what resources they have tried and tested. This podcast is powered by OverTime an agency that helps new leaders build great teams, products and, companies. For more information, visit https://www.OverTimeLeader.com.

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Gillian sits down with team and personal coach Kate Rees to talk about the vital role vulnerability plays in leadership. She shares how managers can not only get comfortable with it themselves but how to create the space for teams to feel safe as well.

Welcome to our first #AskGillian episode where OverTime's founder and author of 'First Time Leader' (Wiley 2014) Gillian Davis answers some great leadership questions from our listeners. Have a question, send your question alongside #AskGillian via our twitter (https://twitter.com/OverTimeLeader)or email ([email protected]) In this episode we cover: Q1: I've got an employee who just doesn't seem to care about deadlines. We've spoken about it time and time again. They are quite 'work young'. And honestly I'm just at a loss on what to do as they have been with us for 5 months? Q2: The place I’m working is let’s say, developing their feedback culture. Basically, people don’t feel comfortable doing it and don’t know how to do it in a useful way. They tend to talk about people to their manager instead of the person in question. In the short term I have someone in my team who I’ve had numerous comments + complaints about. However he’s never received that specific feedback to his face, and also feels like he’s doing a better job at things (the comments are all related to his manner and temper (!)) he’s also, always sweet as pie when I talk to him…..so my question is - what would you do as a manager in that instance. I need to make sure his end of year review is based on things that I can validate and I hate 2nd hand feedback, but also don’t want to miss out this bad behaviour if indeed it is still happening Q3: Hey Gillian. I've been asked to run a session for all the line managers at my company on making the most out of the one-to-ones with direct reports. Wondered if you had any material on Overtime leader or could suggest any good material elsewhere that maybe you've used before? Thanks!

Heather works with people to develop the tools, mindset and approach they need embrace change and modern ways of working. She holds certifications in agile and service design, but draws on a breadth of methodology and practical tools from across technology, design and leadership in her work. Heather often works 'embedded' in organisations for a fixed time to support her clients through intense periods of change. For the past eight years, she has been working with fast-changing organisations across design, technology and social good: With stints at three award-winning creative innovation studios (ustwo, Made by Many and Adaptive Lab) and delivering work for high-profile clients, such as Skype, ITV, the NSPCC, and TransferWise.

In this podcast I talk to Bud Caddell Founder of NOBL. Bud knows what it takes for teams and leaders to embrace change and we get into the details of how to make that work. Software engineer, graphic designer, digital strategist, management consultant and now founder. Bud started NOBL to help organizations realize their wildest ideas, unencumbered by silos and legacy systems. Bud was named "one of the most creative people under 30" by Business Insider. AdWeek listed Bud among the top 50 industry professionals of 2012, and The Guardian named him as one of ten digital strategists to watch in 2012. Prior to NOBL Collective, Bud was a partner at the management and strategic consultancy, Undercurrent, heading its Los Angeles office. He also served as SVP of Digital Strategy and Innovation at Deutsch LA. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and AdAge.

Melissa Andrada's purpose in life is to empower people to be their best selves at work. Melissa is the COO of Learnerbly, a VC-backed startup that help companies that include IDEO, GoCardless and ustwo accelerate the growth of their people. She co-founded the corporate learning arm of Wolff Olins to scale their impact with clients. While at Wolff Olins, she also helped shape the original strategic vision for FutureLearn, and co-created their first (and one of their mostly highly rated) MOOC on the Secret Power of Brands.When's she not at work, she organises communities for social justice, and teaches classes at General Assembly on how to find your dream job. In this episode we talk about how managers can approach learning for both their teams and themselves.

Victoria is a podcast and event host, community architect and the founder of Glint - a practice dedicated to designing interdisciplinary collaboration systems. After building communities for ten years, she started researching how communities interact and how information and energy flows between them. What if, instead of thinking of communities as small clusters, we started looking at the creative and tech world as a big, super-connected system, a macro-community? In this podcast Victoria shares with us what it takes to curate strong communities. From organizing pan-European start-up festivals to running weekly Creative Mornings events, Victoria knows what it takes to bring people together around a common purpose. Be sure to check out her amazing interviews on her Work We Do podcast: http://www.theworkwedo.co/

Many of us spend too much time in poorly run meetings but how come despite advancements in almost every area of our lives, we still get stuck in the meeting trap! Leaders of today have to start leading by example and put the energy into running great meetings. Our guest Kirsty Lewis runs us through her practical tips on running more effective and energetic meetings! Kirsty is a passionate and motivated person who loves to enable others to create a change within themselves or their businesses. She applies 10 years of expertise in coaching and facilitating across global markets and teams. When not in meeting rooms facilitating change, she can be found working as part of a team racing boats across the Atlantic or in the Caribbean and Europe or up a mountain skiing.