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Brendan McGurgan and Claire Colvin – Recapping on our favourite moments from Season Two
Description
In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce Claire Colvin. Claire has worked as a partner to business leaders and entrepreneurs of high growth businesses helping them to scale through their people. As the former Talent Director on the Board of a rapidly growing global organisation, Claire built the optimum people centred structures and systems to enable the company to significantly scale across 6 continents. Prior to that, she spent almost 15 years with an award winning, technology SME, which operated in a highly competitive environment.
Finding great talent is the #1 reason why businesses are unable to scale. In 2019, Claire became my business partner and we set out on a journey of discovery to extensively research exemplars of scaling to identifying the key attributes that made them successful.
In today's episode, Claire and Brendan talk about:
- Their favourite moments from Season Two
- The importance of slowing down to go faster
- The importance of setting a vision
- How paying your communication debts can make you feel better
- Why we need to take the complex out of lean
- Everything we do as leaders should be to enable those around us to be successful
- We are not always appointing the right people into leadership roles and when we do we're not developing them to be able to communicate with influence
- The three underlying values instilled into a RAF Fight pilot are humility, approachability and credibility
- Companies who had a purpose aligned to the UN SDGs did 11% better in terms of their profitability than those without
Timeless takeaways
- Tom Kolditz - It's not all about you.
- Amy Rowlinson - Are we living or are we existing?
- Maura Nevel Thomas – Make a choice or live a life of distraction.
Key Takeaway
If you're constantly affirming to yourself that you're not good at something, then ultimately that will trigger certain thought patterns, which will determine how you act and the results that you get. That inner work, understanding that your subconscious is actually the operating system or paradigm or collection of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, beliefs is actually our programming.
Contact Claire
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-colvin-586a162b/
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.