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Executive Central Podcast
by Executive Central
Podcast by Executive Central
Episodes
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Executive Central and 4C Organisations, Working Together
In this edition, Executive Central Managing Director Rob Balmer tells Phil Dobbie a his company’s new partnership with 4C Organisations. Together with 4C’s Prof Michael Anderson – author of ‘Transforming Organisation’ – they explain the benefits the partnership will provide, in helping companies…
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Why transformational change goes wrong
From time to time companies need to make big changes to stay ahead of their game. It can be a risk – changing the way you do things – but not as risky as preserving the status quo, allowing nimble competitors to grab your market share. The problem is, these transformations often go badly wrong,...
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Owning Your Own Career
Have you planned your career, or have you just taken the easy path that was laid about before you? In this edition of the Executive Central Podcast, Rob Balmer talks to Phil Dobbie about the importance of owning your own career. That means understanding your key strengths, that make up your...
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Selling – Everyone In Your Organisation Should Be Doing It
There’s nothing less productive than a salesperson without any leads. They resort to inefficient cold calling. Yet your company is filled with people who could potentially identify new sales opportunities, if they only knew how. In this edition of the Executive Central podcast Rob Balmers talks…
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Leaders embracing the power of vulnerability
We tend to assume that leaders need to come from a position of strength. After all, doesn’t their team want to feel reassured that someone is in charge with a vision and a clear understanding of what to do next? In this podcast, Rob Balmer suggests leaders need to be prepared to be a little...
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Leaders and Managers as Coaches
Lots of managers and leaders spend their time working on specific tasks, rather than coaching their staff. They work hard to avoid being with the people who work for them. Rob Balmer describes it as a destructive work environment, where staff quickly become disillusioned. It’s also, of course,...
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Influencing Change
In the last podcast Phil Dobbie spoke to Executive Central’s Rob Balmer about how leaders need to be constantly driving change in an organisation. Nothing stands still in the corporate world. In this episode, Rob explains how change can never be achieved without influencing the whole team to...
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Leading and Managing Change
We’ve been looking at managing a performance culture in recent episodes of the Executive Central podcast. To move to a performance culture you, inevitably, must change how things are done. In this episode, Phil Dobbie asks Executive Central’s Rob Balmer about how, as a leader, you drive the…
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Building a Performance Culture: Unlocking the Full Potential of People
It’s vital, if you are to build a performance culture, that you get that best of out everybody in the company. That means unlocking everyone’s full potential? So how do you achieve that. In this podcast Executive Central’s Rob Balmer explains to Phil Dobbie that there’s a very straight forward...
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Building a Performance Culture: Inclusion and Diversity
Almost every company will say they support inclusion and diversity in their workforce, usually because it seems like the right thing to do. Many wouldn’t expect to see it drive productivity improvements. Yet, that’s exactly what can happen if the policy is implemented and supported in the right...
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Building a Performance Culture: Leadership at all levels
For many organisations the focus on developing leadership potential is focused entirely on the top rung of management. In this podcast Rob Balmer, Managing Director at Executive Central, explains how leadership needs to be developed throughout the company, with a different focus dependent on the...
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Building a Performance Culture: Focus on What Matters
Every organisation needs a performance culture – achieving the best outcomes by having your team working well together and, importantly, focusing on what matters. In this podcast Phil Dobbie asks Rob Balmer, Managing Director at Executive Central, how you create a culture where the focus is on…
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Coaching for an Innovative Culture
Is it possible to coach your workforce into innovation? Can you actually teach people to come up with innovative ways of working? It’s a question Phil Dobbie puts to Rob Balmer, MD of Executive Central, in this latest edition of the Executive Central Podcast. Rob suggests that innovation comes...
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The Three Horizons to Innovation
To many people innovation relates to creating something new, such as a new product or a new way of promoting your services. In this edition of the Executive Central Podcast Rob Balmer, the Managing Director Executive Central, explains that innovation needs to relate to the three horizons of…
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Is your immune system destroying your business?
In this second edition of the Executive Central Podcast Rob Balmer talks to Phil Dobbie about controlling your corporate immune system. When we make big changes to our body – like a heart transplant, for example – our natural self defence system kicks in. The same thing happens in business when…
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Why training fails – could you be targeting the wrong people?
Is your organisation getting the returns it expects from corporate training? In the first episode of The Executive Central Podcast, Phil Dobbie talks to Rob Balmer about why companies are failing to achieve the outcomes they expect. Often, he suggests, it’s because the emphasis is on the wrong...
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