Still Loading: A podcast all about Leadership for the Digital Age
Ilona Brannen
51 episodes
1 week ago
Still Loading is a podcast dedicated to exploring Leadership for the Digital Age. We have seen the world dramatically shift during Covid-19 with greater pressure and skills needed for leaders to be able to navigate teams remotely and in different ways. Added into that the increasing complexity of navigating a hybrid working work and increasingly digital way of doing things, this podcast explores the changing role and skills needed in today's leaders and a way to learn from each other.
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Still Loading is a podcast dedicated to exploring Leadership for the Digital Age. We have seen the world dramatically shift during Covid-19 with greater pressure and skills needed for leaders to be able to navigate teams remotely and in different ways. Added into that the increasing complexity of navigating a hybrid working work and increasingly digital way of doing things, this podcast explores the changing role and skills needed in today's leaders and a way to learn from each other.
#35 Get your cheerleaders! Cultivating relationships for an empowering work environment
Still Loading: A podcast all about Leadership for the Digital Age
41 minutes 30 seconds
3 years ago
#35 Get your cheerleaders! Cultivating relationships for an empowering work environment
Building relationships is a fundamental key to growth in your business. Whether it’s relationships with your customers, partners, or employees it’s crucial to establish and maintain that trust and comfortability with your brand from the inside out.
Lucy Woolfenden has 20 years' experience of launching brands and developing them across multiple markets. Lucy is the Founder of The Scale Up Collective, working with a wide portfolio of challenger brands and her experience includes launching Skype for Mobile, Starling Bank and Yolt. Lucy also mentors startup founders and teams from disadvantaged backgrounds.
We discuss developing in to the kind of leader that empowers team, collaboration, innovation, and motivation within the walls your company.
(00:52) Ilona’s Reflections; TLDR
Having people in your corner who will be your champion
Who is that person in your life?
(10:16) Who is a leader that influenced you?
Creating relationships to build trust and get results
Leveraging relationships to motivate people
(16:23) What are the characteristics of a good leader/founder?
Understanding that you need sales and marketing to make a business
Being an open and active listener to your mentors, your team, and your audience
(20:01) Tell me about something that helped you on your leadership development journey
Figuring out where your strengths lie and learning how to use that as your superpower
(23:19) What are the trends in leadership that you are seeing in your field?
The concept of customer first vs profit first
(37:53) What are your 3 top tips for leaders in the digital age?
Progress over perfection, transparency within your team, and collaboration vs competition
Resources from this episode:
Thescaleupcollective.com
Linkedin Newsletter: Power Up In Brief by Lucy Woolfenden
Lucy Woolfenden LinkedIn
Coaching Conversations
Audio Book, Take Control of Your Life by Mel Robbins
Heads Together podcast, Episode 021, It’s Not too Late…It’s the BEST Time
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Still Loading: A podcast all about Leadership for the Digital Age
Still Loading is a podcast dedicated to exploring Leadership for the Digital Age. We have seen the world dramatically shift during Covid-19 with greater pressure and skills needed for leaders to be able to navigate teams remotely and in different ways. Added into that the increasing complexity of navigating a hybrid working work and increasingly digital way of doing things, this podcast explores the changing role and skills needed in today's leaders and a way to learn from each other.
