Podcast Episode 5: Leadership team accountability, Recalibrating priorities, Shifting from health to economic crisis
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Leadership team accountability - How do great leadership teams create accountability, and what is the best way for leaders to create accountability within their teams? Kevin and Brad talk about what leaders need to do to create real accountability in their teams.
Recalibrating priorities - With COVID19 leadership teams are focussing on the immediate problems and often not paying attention to the broader plan and priorities. Is it acceptable to stop executing your business plans? The Growth Whisperers talk about the ‘Coronavirus excuse problem’ and whether or not CEOs and leaders should accept the excuse that people were working on other things and haven’t been working on the business plans.
Shifting from health to economic crisis - With many parts of the world beginning to see Coronavirus case numbers decline, people are waking up to the economic hangover as they look into the future. Brad and Kevin talk about the economic crisis small to medium businesses are facing.
Podcast Episode 4: Finding A-Players during COVID-19, MeUndies Profit per X
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Finding A-Players During COVID19 - During the Coronavirus pandemic one of the greatest opportunities is improve the effectiveness of your team, to use this time and improve the productivity and culture of your team by finding and hiring the best talent in your industry. The reason is that A players, the top 10% of available candidates typically don’t apply for jobs, in fact they are almost always asked, and they decide when their employer makes a mistake. Kevin and Brad talk about the opportunities in the market right now to improve the quality of your team.
MeUndies Profit per X - MeUndies is a subscription underwear service that have developed a fantastic strategy to win loyal clients with a direct relationship, and a subscription service to send you new underwear each month. The Growth Whisperers talk about how this business model works and why it is so attractive.
Podcast Episode 3: Disagree and commit, Pivoting cinemas
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Disagree and commit - To create a high performing leadership team one of the most important principles is disagree and commit. Leaders must enter healthy, vigorous debate and be prepared to individually disagree with the decision, but commit to its successful execution. Brad and Kevin talk about how they use disagree and commit with leadership teams
Pivoting cinemas - In the coronavirus pandemic one of the most difficult business models to adapt due to social distancing is cinemas. The Growth Whisperers talk about two example of cinemas pivoting to generate new revenue.
Podcast Episode 2: Getting Back to the Office
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Kids disrupting homeschool - Through Coronavirus kids have been sent to homeschool, Kevin & Brad look at a couple of examples where kids have been innovative in their new digital environment.
Getting back to the office after COVID19 - The Growth Whisperers discuss what getting back to work after the coronavirus means for many businesses. It might not be as easy as simply telling staff to come back. Some staff might not be able to, or might not want to come back to work. Or may only want to do it on their terms.
Government opening the economy - How will Governments open up the economy and how will that impact business owners? Brad & Kevin discuss things you should consider.
Podcast Episode 1: The Growth Whisperers
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Who are The Growth Whisperers - Kevin and Brad discuss their background in helping CEOs and leadership teams of high growth entrepreneurial companies as well as why they decided to start The Growth Whisperers podcast.
The Stockdale Paradox - During the Coronavirus outbreak and pandemic it’s important to not be too optimistic or too pessimistic. Brad and Kevin discuss the Stockdale Paradox from Jim Collins and why it is so relevant during this crisis.
Coronavirus back to work - When will the lockdown be lifted and when will we be heading back to work? It’s the question many leaders are asking right now. The Growth Whisperers provide some interesting thoughts about when, why and what you should start doing to prepare.
Conserving cash - Kevin and Brad talk about a few ideas they’ve seen to conserve and optimize cash now.
Government COVID19 modelling - Last week the Australian Government released the modelling that they have been basing their Coronavirus response on. Within this data there are some interesting insights into how the Government views the future, and what you need to consider in your business right now.
Productivity - In the COVID-19 lockdown, how can you maintain productivity for yourself and employees? The Whisperers’ discuss interesting ideas to help remote working productivity.