Why leaders should focus on making their team members happy

Lindsay Tsang is a Toronto based organizational Psychologist, and the founder of Reset Barrie and Happy Hires. He is also the author of Live Free: Re-Write Your Story

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds Lindsay explains to host Michael Millward the reasons why leaders should put more focus on making their team members happy, and the tools he has developed to help make that easier.

Gary and Michael discuss

• How a worker’s experience of work is determined by the quality of leadership
• What being happy means
• What happens when workers are not happy
• The language associate with teams
• Self-Sustaining Teams and the Self-Sustaining Team Index
• Action learning team development learning experiences
• The evolution from manager to leader to owner

This is the podcast for anyone who wants to build and lead a more effective and efficient team.

Discover more about Lindsay and Michael at Abeceder.co.uk

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How to make Ai work so that your company can earn more

Gary Dhanda, is the founder of Tekmait and Ai Twin.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds Gary explains to host Michael Millward the approach any organisation could take to ensure that they maximise the benefits of implementing Ai as a business tool.

Gary and Michael discuss

• The history of Ai
• Absence of imagination in how Ai is used
• How to use Ai correctly
• The role of Ai within an organisation
• How to become an Ai first organisation
• The jobs that Ai will create

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Growing Your Own leaders ensures the sustainability of your organisation.

Rich Ashton is an entrepreneur who rescued a company from bankruptcy and over more than thirty years developed Toms Mechanical into a successful business.

When Rich developed an interest in retiring, he started to look for ways in which he could exit that business. After investigating all the options, he decided that the people to continue his work were the people he had been working alongside. The problem was that those people knew how to work in the company, but they did not know how to lead it.

Rich decided to launch a leadership development programme.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds Rich explains to host Michael Millward the highs and lows of trying to develop leaders and how that experience led to the publication of his book about developing leaders as part of your succession plan; Growing Your Own.

Rich reflects on the lessons he learnt when things did not go as well as expected and the joy of people exceeding their own expectations of the hand life had dealt them, and seeing them take over the leadership of Tom’s Mechanical

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