How to Take the Lead

Confidence is something that comes up in so many of our conversations with leaders and aspiring leaders. In this episode we explore what confidence means in relation to leadership – both in terms of your own leadership and how you create confidence for others.

In this episode we share our own views, thoughts and experiences:

• 05:18 – confidence is subjective
• 10:30 – loud doesn’t equal confident
• 13:28 – don’t assume confidence means you don’t need support
• 15:15 – who is creating the confidence gap?
• 21:12 – developing your confidence
• 28:36 – practical things to support you
• 29:09 – How to – lead with confidence

As always, we share our top takeaways. We want you to be curious and explore that feedback in relation to your confidence, seek out the evidence and reflect on what the issues might be in terms of your confidence. Don’t take feedback, yours or anyone else’s at face value – put the work in to develop your confidence.

In this episode we reference The Confidence Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman.

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Are you spotting future leadership talent?

And if so, are you clear what to do next?

In this episode we discuss how you can identify future leaders in your organisation and what you can do to support them.

We cover:

• how you can identify future leaders
• what happens when you spot leadership potential
• how to ensure your leadership aspirations for someone are aligned with their own
• recruitment processes and how they can help or hinder your leadership recruitment
• ensuring you are looking for leadership potential that brings diversity.

Resources and helpful links

• How to help people to squiggle and stay | Amazing If
• Leadership Potential: Identifying Future Leaders in 2024 - RecruitingDaily
• How can organisations better support leaders? - How to Take the Lead S3 E2

About How to Take the Lead

How to Take the Lead is a show exploring all things leadership.

Every episode we explore a different part of life as a leader, questioning everything we've ever learnt and sharing a few of our own stories along the way.

If you want to learn how to do leadership your own way, join hosts Lee Griffith and Carrie-Ann Wade as they debunk myths, tackle stereotypes and generally put the leadership world to rights.

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In the first episode of this series we thought we should start with a review of leadership so far in 2022, covering some of the highs (there have been a few we promise) and lows of leadership right now.

We share our thoughts on what’s impressing us in the leadership space, as well as the things that are causing us to get on our soapboxes:

• 03:16 – Patagonia, living their values and staying true to their purpose
• 09:47 – Gen Z, the boundary setters
• 22:00 – handling HR processes compassionately
• 26:41 – leading through the cost of living crisis
• 34:30 – the future leader – values, adaptability and wellbeing
• 43:13 – the How To... our top takeaways

As always we share our top takeaways and in this episode we discuss reframing issues into opportunities, what you can do today that has the biggest impact, lobbying for what matters, engaging with your colleagues, taking action and prioritising wellbeing.

Lee shared the example of transparent leadership from Tony Stubblebine at Medium and the statement she mentions is available here https://coachtony.medium.com/news-about-medium-staff-7d334c235789

We also talked about the parallels in our current monarchy and the storyline in To Play The King by Michael Dobbs. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/870760.To_Play_the_King

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Join the How to Take the Lead community

We're now on substack. Join a community of people who want to lead their own way. Get extra content and behind the episode discussions, take part in 'ask us anything' bonus episodes and a new leadership book club, plus much more. Visit www.howtotakethelead.com to sign up.

In this bonus episode of How To Take The Lead it’s our end of series after party ... or reunion show, if you watch too much Below Deck like Lee!

In this episode we reflect on and discuss the things we wished we'd covered in the first series, bits we missed, what we've learnt and everything in between, including:

· 10:22 – that Jack Duckworth moment

· 11:29 – how The Wellcome Trust handled racism

· 14:27 – Virgin Atlantic ditch the power suit

· 16:32 – everyday sexism

· 20:08 – when can we stop asking if a woman can lead the country?

· 24:40 – storytelling when you maybe don’t feel like it

· 26:45 – there’s so much more to explore

There’s no top takeaways from us but we are excited to announce we have launched our How To Take the Lead social media channels. You will be able to find all the good stuff on Insta and Twitter:

Instagram @howtotakethelead

Twitter @how2takethelead

So why not give us a follow to see what we're up to on our summer hiatus and share your thoughts on what we've covered in series one.

If you enjoyed this episode why not subscribe to the podcast. We would love it if you left us a rating or review and feel free to share the link to this episode with anyone else you think would find it interesting, using #HowToTakeTheLead

Series two of How To Take The Lead lands in October 2022!

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You can find out more about Lee Griffith via www.sundayskies.com and about Carrie-Ann Wade at www.cats-pajamas.co.uk

Mentioned in this episode:

Join the How to Take the Lead community

We're now on substack. Join a community of people who want to lead their own way. Get extra content and behind the episode discussions, take part in 'ask us anything' bonus episodes and a new leadership book club, plus much more. Visit www.howtotakethelead.com to sign up.

We just couldn’t resist sharing another bonus episode because we are so excited about our first series of How To Take The Lead. New episodes will be released every Thursday at 6am and you can listen/download on your favourite platform.

We wanted to take the opportunity to share more about those who have inspired us along the way and to thank some of the most amazing cheerleaders and supporters.

In this bonus episode you’ll hear more about the following fabulous podcast and book recommendations.

Podcasts we love to listen to:

• Diary of a CEO – Stephen Bartlett
• You’re My Comms Hero
• Behaviour Change Marketing Bootcamp – Ruth Dale
• The Squiggly Careers Podcast
• Inside the Hive with Quiet the Hive
• Conversations with Cat’s Pajamas (*blush* thanks Lee!)
• Trust Issues with Rachel Botsman
• How to Own the Room with Viv Groskop

Books* we love to read and share:

I Am My Brand by Kubi Springer

Hype Yourself by Lucy Werner

The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis

Your Dream Life Starts Here by Kristina Karlsson

Quiet by Susan Cain

How to Own the Room by Viv Groskop

The Confidence Code Katty Kay and Claire Shipman

And we share our thanks and love for all the support and encouragement from David, Jim, Carolyn, Vicky, Lee’s coach Carol, Daniel, Carrie-Ann’s coach Mikaela, Asif, Bob, Becca, Sara, Liz, Sam and Helen. You are all amazing!

Finally a huge thank you to all of you for listening, sharing and getting in touch to share your views, experiences and ideas.

If you enjoyed this episode why not subscribe to the podcast. We would love it if you left us a rating or review and feel free to share the link to this episode with anyone else you think would find it interesting, using #HowToTakeTheLead

You can find out more about Lee Griffith via www.sundayskies.com and about Carrie-Ann Wade at www.cats-pajamas.co.uk

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