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We are writing a book and we need your help! Join Amplifiers Vic & Linds on our TeamX journey
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04/28/23 • 32 min
We’re writing a book! We have the structure and contents – we just need some real-life stories to support each of the chapters to bring the book to life.
And that’s where you come in . . . we’d love you to be part of what we’re doing.
About the book
Title: Finding your TeamXTM - Why leave teamwork to chance when there is a proven process?
If only there was a way to take all the best bits of how we work together as a team and make it sustainable all the time – wouldn’t that be great? Read on...
You’ve just stepped up to lead a team. You’re going to be unstoppable together. You dream of great collaboration, of team members not hesitating to help each other. Your team members can’t imagine working anywhere else. Together you’re a leading light in your organisation.
So where do you start?
When we learn about business we are taught about organisational structure, finance, go-to-market strategy, and sales, but we are not taught the process of building a strong team.
Should it just be down to luck?
We don’t think so. We think this should be taught, which is why we’ve created this book about building great team experience (we call it TeamXTM). We want you to know what we wish we’d known 20 years ago.
Discover a pragmatic operating system that can help any team work more effectively together.
When we enjoy what we do and feel supported, both the people and the business benefit. After all, you are the best asset your business has!
Chapter Contents
If you think you have a story that fits with any of the titles below, good, bad, or ugly, we would love to hear from you!
Part 1 – Purpose
Chapter 1: Find your purpose beyond the numbers
Chapter 2: Take off your functional hat - The importance of having a joint purpose
Chapter 3: Point to your North Star
Part 2 – Trust
Chapter 4: Understand your team dynamics
Chapter 5: Gain psychological safety
Chapter 6: Hire based on values
Part 3 – Clarity
Chapter 7: Build guard rails
Chapter 8: Gain alignment
Chapter 9: Enable accountability
Part 4 – Simplicity
Chapter 10: Order your priorities
Chapter 11: Agree what you are stopping
Chapter 12: Build simplicity as a habit
Book Recommendation
Here’s a link to the Steve Jobs eBook that Vic referenced:
Make Something Wonderful | a book from the Steve Jobs Archive
How to get in touch
Drop us a message: [email protected]
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Teaming: Problem Solving at Scale
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09/12/24 • 52 min
What better way to launch Season 6 of Get Amplified than with the experienced and innovative GTM leader, Ross Brown.
This episode is jam packed with stories and nuggets of partnering strategy. You’ll need your fast listening ears as it is a wild ride with some brilliant metaphors and stories that had us leaning in for more!
With an impressive career that spans over three decades, including senior leadership roles at Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, and Oracle, we delve into the topic of teaming at scale. Ross shares his vast experience and insights into how strategic partnerships can drive efficiency and success.
We discuss how businesses can thrive by focusing on their core competencies and outsourcing the rest. Through relatable examples like the UK's wine industry and the metaphor of house building, we hear how specialization leads to greater value creation.
Getting into the nitty gritty, we discuss driving behavioural change through well-designed incentives, using Microsoft's transition to a rateable revenue model as a case study.
Ross shares riveting stories of deep tech partnerships, such as those between Oracle, Accenture, and Quantify, that showcase the transformative power of clear role alignment and expertise sharing.
This episode offers a compelling take on how effective teaming and trust-building are crucial in today’s competitive landscape.
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The Power of Feedback
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02/05/25 • 51 min
We're delighted to welcome back the inspirational Tracy Reis, Head of People and Joint MD at Nomad Studio, the strategy and brand experience company. This conversation felt like an invaluable coaching session on the importance of developing our feedback skills.
Tracy shares her wisdom on how giving feedback is the roadmap to progress, emphasising that timely feedback, when delivered with respect and kindness, is constructive. She explains that feedback is not just about corrections but is a vital opportunity for growth, elevating both personal and team performance.
This episode is packed with actionable insights you can put into practice right away.
Key Takeaways:
- Building a psychologically safe environment for feedback
- The importance of timely, specific, and constructive feedback
- How to give and receive feedback effectively
- The role of positive and constructive feedback in motivation and performance
- Tips on embedding feedback into workplace culture
Book Recommendations:
Tracy referenced these two books:
- Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS by Shirzad Chamine
- Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
Tune in to discover how mastering the art of feedback can transform your personal and professional life.
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Move over Great Attrition -Bring on Great Engagement - Matt Piercy, Lewis Gee, Lindsey Moore
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11/24/22 • 56 min
Matt Piercy, joins Amplifiers Lewis Gee and Lindsey Moore to bring to life our New Hire Productivity Report: ‘Move over great attrition, bring on great engagement.’
We hope you enjoy this discussion as we look at the impact of the ‘great attrition’ on the tech industry. Organisations and sales leaders are under huge pressure to hit their quarterly revenue targets but in today’s economic climate, combined with a 30% employee turnover rate, we discuss how new hires faring. We explore how to quickly get new salespeople up to full productivity and the role ‘team’ plays in that.
Matt saw his career take off leading NEMEA sales organisations for VMware, then EMEA for ZScaler, and ThousandEyes. Matt shares his thoughts and what he put into practice around setting new hires up for success. Matt suggests starting by measuring objectives vs revenue (that is unrealistic in the first few months) is much more likely to get your new hires off to a strong start.
Lewis, (who promoted Matt into the NEMEA role at VMWare) brings so much experience on this topic, having held leadership positions in high-growth organisations ServiceNow, VMware and Citrix – all of which hit through a billion dollars during his time. Lewis shares the rigorous onboarding he experienced and we explore if this is now missing? We feel incredibly fortunate to have Lewis as one of our Amplifiers as we and our clients constantly benefit from his wisdom!
We hope you enjoy the conversation. We’d also love to hear if any of our listeners have stories or tips to share. You can reach us at [email protected].
Grab a copy of the report here.
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11/01/22 • 33 min
We are finding cross team collaboration is the new big headache organisations face since COVID impacted where we work. The challenge has now become so big for organisations, it is hard to know where to start.
Thanks to Paul Wiefels from the Chasm group we were introduced to Jamie Thomas from Cophi, which is a super simple diagnostics tool to help you measure and identify where to start. Cophi provides the data to support the feelings.
On this Podcast we chat to Jamie, one of the Co-Founders of Cophi to find out more about how they can help. We are excited to share this breakthrough solution 🚀
The image is an example of the collaboration network we spoke about.
Book Recommendation
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The book talks about overcoming resistance and is a great personal development book for individual flourishing.
During this conversation, Vicky referenced the Team of Teams model by General Stanley McChrystal. You can listen to this topic in more detail in our podcast: Going 17x Faster by Building a Team of Teams
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Just Fly The Aircraft - How to fly higher with Sarah Furness, former combat helicopter pilot & squadron leader
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10/20/22 • 30 min
Wow what a conversation. It’s fascinating hearing former combat helicopter pilot & squadron leader, Sarah Furness, share her experience and learnings around how we can all fly higher. There are some great tips and reminders of how we can improve the way we work, starting with understanding our own minds.
Sarah tells us that we are never too old to learn, we can always train our brain. The conversation delves into some interesting topics including stress, focus, stretch and flow. Sarah tells us about Eustress which refers to positive stress, the opposite of distress. If we can stretch ourselves, we’re likely to find our flow to operate at our optimum state.
In a hectic work life of constant competing priorities, Sarah talks about the importance of unitask. We are not built to manage multiple tasks. Focus on one thing at a time and do it well.
“Focus on one thing – Fly the helicopter”
We may have mentioned a few times that Sarah is a best-selling author. You can find her book on Amazon here: Fly Higher: Train your mind to feel as strong as you look eBook : Furness, Sarah: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Foundations of Leadership with Mark Templeton
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12/19/24 • 66 min
We are super excited to bring you an extra special Get Amplified festive present!
Mark Templeton rejoins us to share his wisdom and learnings in this episode, Foundations of Leadership.
We catch up with Mark, who continues to give back through board service and CEO mentoring. As former CEO of Citrix, Mark offers invaluable insights into personal growth, emphasising the importance of gratitude and self-reflection as essential components for enhancing one's role in fast-paced industries.
Mark enlightens us on the concept of strategic renewal, stressing the importance of self-disruption to stay ahead in rapidly changing industries. By sharing stories of Apple's reinvention and Intel's struggles, Mark highlights the challenges of maintaining relevance and navigating innovation. Mark cites "The Innovator's Dilemma" revealing the crucial balance between stability and innovation.
Referring to Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Mark tell us, "It’s probably the one reading that changed the course of my career more than any other single thing"
The books Mark covers are:
- The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- Leaders Make the Future by Bob Johansen
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- The Growth Mindset by Dr Carol Dweck
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Finally, with inspiration from "The Velveteen Rabbit," we celebrate authenticity as a path to personal freedom and success, advocating for vulnerability and self-awareness as keys to growth.
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Building a Powerhouse Sales Team with Andy Wills, EMEA Sales Enablement Director, Dynatrace
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01/18/24 • 48 min
If steering a sales team to greatness has ever felt like herding cats, you're in for a treat.
In this episode, we chat with Andy Wills, EMEA Sales Enablement Director at Dynatrace. Andy tells us when a business has all the ingredients to be successful it is the people that will make the difference, yet businesses very often neglect to invest in leadership skills.
We share laughs and learn about the grit it takes to face rejection head-on and convert it into a stepping stone for success. We uncover the secret sauce that turns a high-performing salesperson into an impactful manager.
We dissect the art of leadership with Andy, where management is not merely about oversight but about vision. Listen to tales of inspiring teams to rally behind a common goal, the transition from sales leadership to enablement, and the joy of crafting a culture where leaders breed more leaders. The Dynatrace story will leave you itching to redefine your own approach to leadership and team motivation.
To cap things off, we get a peek into the framework that moulds sales leaders at Dynatrace. It's a thrilling insight into the company's nine-month leadership curriculum, now going global, that does more than just impart skills—it instils a way of being that's synonymous with the company's forward march.
We hear about the program's inception and the collaborative spirit that drives organizational growth. It's a masterclass in nurturing your most valuable assets—your people—and preparing them to conquer the tech world's ever-evolving landscape.
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Why we should build a more diverse network - Lee Higgins Founder Diverse Talent Networks
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04/12/23 • 47 min
Diversity - hot topic or over used word? Whatever your view on this, so many of us are guilty of hiring who we know. It’s hard to disagree with Lee when he says we all need to build more diverse networks.
Lee Higgins, Founder of Diverse Talent Networks, shares with us why we should think ‘culture add’ instead of ‘culture fit’ and why thinking value aligned will allow for more diversity of thought - a topic we are very passionate about at the Amplified Group.
Here’s the key takeaways and book recommendation:
Key takeaways
· Widen your circle and diversify your network
· Be proactive so when it is hiring time you are starting with a more diverse pool of talent
· Think about culture add – even if hiring through traditional means. Who’s adding to that culture?
· Recognise that you have more influence than you think
We like Lee’s comment, “Make change happen for good” with actions instead of window dressing.
Find out more about Diverse Talent Networks
https://www.diversetalentnetworks.com/
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Book Recommendation:
Alex Budak - Becoming a Changemaker
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Mental Health Week - “Is anyone listening ?”
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05/19/20 • 6 min
Our third bite-sized episode of Get Amplified supporting mental health awareness week, the Get Amplified team along with Chris Collett discuss the importance of everybody on the team having a voice and how gaining clarity can help with good mental health.
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How many episodes does Get Amplified have?
Get Amplified currently has 94 episodes available.
What topics does Get Amplified cover?
The podcast is about Culture, Management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Trust, Transformation, Productivity, Podcasts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Get Amplified?
The episode title 'How to Improve Cross Team Collaboration - Jamie Thomas, Cophi.io' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Get Amplified?
The average episode length on Get Amplified is 40 minutes.
How often are episodes of Get Amplified released?
Episodes of Get Amplified are typically released every 13 days, 21 hours.
When was the first episode of Get Amplified?
The first episode of Get Amplified was released on Jan 20, 2020.
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