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The Independent Minds

Michael Millward

On the Independent Minds, podcast, you will meet independent thought leaders and learn about the ideas they have developed to help employers and their employees address the challenges that organisations of any type or size, in any location have must address if they are to achieve their business objectives and attain sustainable growth.You will be able to read more about all of the independent minds thought leaders on the Work Place Learning Centre blog.The independent minds thought leaders will be

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All Episodes

33:02

How to Create a New Children's Shoe Brand

The Independent Minds ·

2025/01/09

In this episode of The Independent Minds Michael Millward meets Stuart Davis, joint founder of the comfortable and super sustainable children’s shoe brand Dubs Universe.During lockdown Stuart became a stay-at-home Dad to his young daughter. He was struck by how rapidly she was growing both mentally and physically. Like every parent he also saw how quickly she grew out of clothes and shoes.Stuart explains to Michael the steep learning curve he faced when he was inspired to create a new children’s

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32:26

When Your Job Gets You On TV

The Independent Minds ·

2025/01/07

Have you got a will?If you haven't you could be creating work for people like Ryan Gregory.Ryan is the International Director at Finders International who are probate researchers. He spends his time at work tracing heirs to estates, property and assets.His job made him a star of twelve series of the BBC TV programme Heir Hunters.In this episode of The Independent Minds Ryan explains what it is like doing your profession when your office has become a TV studio.How Ryan and his team had to adapt the

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29:14

The Next Generation of Sales Professionals - a...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/09/10

Next time you are involved in a buying process you might experience a different selling approach from the salesperson.How that new approach will look is explained in SELLING IS SERVING: which author Nick Staab describes as a Master The Art Of Selling Ethically With Confidence And Conviction.In this first episode of The Independent Minds with two guests, Nick explains to Michael Millward what serving means in the context of selling. They explore how the ethics that customers expect sales people to

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25:21

What Every Parent Needs to Know About School – a...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/08/27

There can not be a parent of a school age child who does not want their child to do better at school than they did.Every parent wants to play an active role in supporting their child to do well in every aspect of their school life not just their academic attainment.But our memories of what school was like are not always happy ones, and the way schools teach even the most basic aspects of English and Maths today seems very different from how things were in our day.It is easy to understand why parents

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25:32

Preparing Education Leavers for Employment - a...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/08/20

Regardless of when someone leaves full time education, entering the world of employment is the real 21st Century rite of passage.You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job.Only the biggest employers have the resources to provide training for people entering the workforce.As a result, getting a foothold on the career ladder can feel like an impossible task, especially when you live in a country that does not provide the same sort of support as the UK.Erefa

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22:30

Being Intentionally Good – a conversation with...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/08/13

Heather Holmes is the founder and CEO of Publicity for Good, a North Carolina based PR consultancy that helps businesses achieve their corporate social responsibilities.In the episode of The Independent Minds Heather explains to Michael how any organisation, regardless of size or type can help create a change in their society. It all depends says Heather on making sure that the activity not only supports the cause but is also in line with your own values.It doesn’t have to be a cash donation. Many

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25:23

Understanding Marketing Matrix – a conversation with...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/08/06

Christina Inge is a Technologist for Good. Christina is the founder of Thoughtlight a Digital Agency, in Boston Massachusetts; the author of two bestselling books a b and a and an Instructor, in Professional & Executive Development, for Harvard University Division of Continuing Education.In this interesting episode, of the Independent Minds Christina explains to host Michael Millward why marketers need to listen to the data.We have never had as much information about how our customers and

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31:18

The Mind Canvas – a conversation with author Juan Campoo

The Independent Minds ·

2024/07/30

In this episode of the Independent Minds host Michael Millward is captivated as Juan Campoo explains inner acceleration model and his book The Mind Canvas.The most important possession of any human being, says Juan is their mind, yet very few understand how it works and how to manage its different moods.Juan explains to Michael how by learning how to ask the right questions anyone can manage their mind and improve their performance at work and at home, as well as enhancing their mental health.The

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26:35

Your Have Four Minds – a conversation with John Couper

The Independent Minds ·

2024/07/23

Join host Michael Millward as John Couper explains his “Four Minds” concept of inner communication.More than simply talking to yourself, understanding our four minds and how they influence our behaviour and interactions with other people can result in a happier life.John explains to Michael how the Four Minds model provides both personal insights and an intuitive, practical path to self–transformation.We are grateful for John sharing these complimentary resources.1. Power of Adventure2. Transition

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30:05

All Hand-on Deck a conversation with author Jeff Barnes

The Independent Minds ·

2024/07/16

When Jeff Barnes, the author of All Hands-On Deck asked at a networking event how to explain what his business did to potential customers, the advice he received was to focus on what made him unique.Like many people it is Jeff’s experience that brings something special to what he does today.Success in the first stage of his career meant that Jeff had to rely on his wits and the instruction manual, there was no way to phone a friend, but that is life for a submariner.In his book All Hands-On Deck

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26:04

Unmanaged: Master the Magic of Creating Empowered and...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/07/09

Jack Skeels never wanted to be a manager, but when his career inevitably led to a management role, he decided that he had to find a better way than simply following the established norms of command and control.That eventually led to the establishment of Agencyagile a California, USA based consultancy that focuses on supporting agencies to manage people better and be more productive and profitable.In Unmanaged, Jack advocates that it only by managing less that organisations of all kinds can create

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28:56

The Power of Remote – a conversation with author...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/07/02

The Independent Minds is the podcast where we don’t tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!The Power of RemoteThe world wants to work remotely, but not many employers, of any type or size, nor their employees have really worked out how to make remote working work.Many managers struggle to adapt to managing people they cannot see immediately.One manager who has worked out how to make remote working work is Shane Spraggs Partner at Virtira, a provider of project services geared to

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31:22

The Marketers Mind - a conversation with Dave Valentine

The Independent Minds ·

2024/06/25

In the 16 years since 2008 Dave Valentine has provided hundreds of clients like Target and Real Simple with consultancy and marketing services that have helped them add over a billion US Dollars in business growth.It is says Dave, all about finding ways to maximise the return on every dollar of marketing spend.As Dave explains in this episode of The Independent Minds it is the money that should be working, not the person who spends the money.Listen to this episode of The Independent Minds to learn

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25:30

Assessing Teams like a Venture Capitalist a...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/06/18

Hutton Henry is the man who can increase the sale value of your technology, digital or creative business.He provides venture capitalists and angel investors with assessments of the invest-ability of your business.The value of your tech business is based on the value your tech team delivers.In this conversation with Michael Millward, Hutton explains how he conducts his assessments and how even if you are not looking to sell your business the same assessments can help to make your tech team more

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25:23

Introducing the Paskpartnership People Leadership RADAR®

The Independent Minds ·

2024/06/11

PASKpartnership invited more than 100 senior HR professionals, including Michael Millward to contribute to research, conducted by occupational psychologists into what a competency framework solely dedicated to hr leaders would look like. The result is the Paskpartnership People Leadership RADAR®.PPL RADAR® provides an opportunity for HR leaders to identify and track their development needs for today and the future.In this episode, of The Independent Minds Andrew Thompson Director of Paskpartnership

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27:29

Day Trading and Stockl Dilution a conversation with...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/06/04

It was a fascination for patterns that attracted Alex Naslund to day trading stocks and shares. Aged 17 without using real money he learnt how stock markets work. At 18 he started day trading on the live market. At 21 he launched Dilutional.com a service that warns day traders of companies that are intending to dilute their stock.In this episode of The Independent Minds, Alex explains to Michael Millward how big a problem stock dilution is for day traders, how he created Dilutional.com, and his aims

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29:34

The Lazy Marketing Method a conversation with creator...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/05/28

A sales director once told me that the fastest way to get something done is to motivate the laziest person you know to do it. Why is that I asked? Because explained the sales director, they will want to do it quickly so that they can get back to doing what they really want to do, and they will get it right first time so that they don’t have to do it again.There is some logic in that!It is the sort of logic that inspired Al Tepper, the marketing consultant to create the Lazy Marketing Method.In this

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24:27

Understanding Public Relations

The Independent Minds ·

2024/05/21

Chris Norton is the founder and managing director of one of the largest PR consultancies in the North of England, Prohibition PR.In this conversation with Michael Millward of Abeceder Chris explains why companies and brands use Public Relations Consultancies.He also explores how the role of public relations is changing to meet the needs of both businesses and their customers as the technology used for communicating evolves.Chris explains how as the speed of communication increases regardless of

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28:24

Loving Your Doubt: a conversation with author Adrian...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/05/14

Adrian Ashton helps the leaders of charities and not-for-profit organisations to turn those, some one should do something about this into, I will be that someone action plans.He tells Michael Millward from Abeceder what people who want to create change must do before they can start to create that change.Adrian explains that creating a change requires understanding the history of challenges and solutions help people to adapt to change. learning how relationships between people with different aims

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27:08

Throttle Up: How to Accelerate the Impact of 21st...

The Independent Minds ·

2024/05/07

In his book Throttle UP: How to Accelerate the Impact of 21st Century Leadership John Dentico asserts that leadership in the 21st Century is different to leadership in the past.Traditionally leaders were seen as special, people who were born not made, because they possessed traits that could not be learnt by lesser human beings. What, were seen as an exercise of the abstract ostensibly possessed by the heroic or gifted few will says Dentico in the 21st Century be skills and knowledge that can be

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