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Podcasts

Quick Audio Tips

Below you'll find extracts from my first podcast series, The Performance Podcast, offering easily digestible insights, tools and techniques you can put into action immediately.

How To Kill Engagement By Building
A Burning Platform

How this dangerous business cliche sends
you in exactly the wrong direction

Be more competitive by
shifting from push to pull

How pushing technology on customers
makes you look like your competitors

Maximise Results With Minimal Energy

Andy's discusses nine keys to getting

great results with less effort.

How to Raise Fees in Professional Services

Use some well-targeted questions to build your understanding and tailor more valuable solutions.

Practical Keys To Innovation – Part 1 of 2

Don’t think that innovation is just about technology, and treat half-baked ideas well.

The Two Types of Managers

I finally realised that there really are only two types of manager! Which are you (and who are you hiring?)

How To Accelerate Cross Functional Projects

The businesses that are good at this have a much easier time with digital transformation.

How To Get Your Own Feedback

‘Feedback’ is much misunderstood, yet it is crucial for learning and performance.

Avoiding Communication Traps

How to smooth collaboration and 

make best use of the talent in the room.

Does Your Strategy Depend On Clairvoyance?

Lessons for leaders attempting to plot their course into an
uncertain future.

How To Boost Your Influence Over
Culture and Change

One of the most elegant ways to create change is to
influence the influencers.

Biggest Mistakes In Strategy Implementation

Andy discusses five key issues that often undermine
strategy implementation.

Classic Mistakes Organizations Make

Andy shares his experience of mistakes he has seen and offers suggestions to avoid them. 

How to Lead in
Ambiguous Situations

Especially in uncertain times, leaders need to reduce ambiguity for their followers. 

Small Change,
Big Results

Nudging things in the right direction can be better than pursuing grand all-at-once change efforts.

Remarkable Customer Experience

Lessons from a High St optician, an old Disney cartoon and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Why Use Consultants?

Thinking about using consultants? Is it a good idea? Can’t you just do it yourself?

Communicating Strategy: The Three Stories

The Three Stories You Need To Tell About Your Strategy, from Andy's book, The Performance Papers.

Practical Keys To Innovation – Part 2 of 2

Andy continues his discussion of 

keys to foster innovation:.

Will Your People Pass The Ball?

Andy offers three questions to ask to determine whether your organization fosters true teamwork.

Coaching and Mentoring As Leadership Styles

Five ideas to use the next time you have the opportunity to develop an employee’s skills.

How To Delegate

Andrew shares his 'REWARDS' formula for
dramatically improved delegation results

Baffled By People’s Behaviour?

Why won’t people just do what they are 

damn well told?!

Organizational Change: Don't Create Unnecessary Resistance

Andrew explains how leaders’ efforts to drive change often end up creating unnecessary resistance.

Strategy Formulation Basics

The back-to-basics questions that any business-unit leader should clarify about their strategy.