Welcome to Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director with Carrie-Ann Wade.
This podcast is all about developing communications leaders of the future and supporting you to grow and thrive in your comms career. You’ll hear from Carrie-Ann about her own personal experiences and insights and there might even be a special guest or two popping up.
The first series focused on diversity in the communications profession and how to create more opportunities for people to see communications as a profession they would like to work in. The second series explores the lives of communications directors to help inspire and support communications leaders of the future.
Behind the Bob gives you a sneak peek into life as a comms director and provides you with all the "behind the scenes" knowledge to help you thrive as a communications leader.
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You can find out more about Carrie-Ann and Cat's Pajamas Communications at www.cats-pajamas.co.uk
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Carrie-Ann Wade: Welcome to Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms
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Director with me, Carrie-Ann Wade.
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This podcast is all about developing communications leaders of the
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future and supporting you to grow and thrive in your comms career.
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You'll hear from me about my experiences and insights, and there might even
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be a special guest or two popping up.
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So I hope you enjoy.
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Wow.
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What a year 2024 has been already and we're only about halfway through.
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I've had the privilege this year to work with some amazing communicators,
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both one to one and through group and team mentoring programs, as
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well of course as working with the brilliant communications team at North
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East London NHS Foundation Trust.
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Award winning, don't you know?
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Yet still, confidence, self belief, a struggle with boundary setting,
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and challenges in demonstrating the strategic value communicators add to
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an organisation are still cropping up time and time again as themes that
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people are really grappling with.
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Working in communications isn't easy and being a Director of
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Communications can feel tough at times.
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Stepping up as a leader in your organisation, managing the vast array
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of priorities that come your way and positioning yourself and your team,
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all while looking after your mental health and wellbeing can feel daunting.
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But speaking from experience, it can also be really rewarding.
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As well as helping to set the tone and culture for your organisation,
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celebrating the good stuff, dealing with the tricky stuff, and
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supporting the strategic direction and delivery of your organisation,
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you also get to work with other amazing communications professionals.
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In this series of Behind the Bob, I really wanted to understand what has driven some
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of these amazing people to step up as communications directors, to understand
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more about their challenges and their successes, and most importantly, get
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their advice to support you to take the next steps in your communications career.
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And as I take some time out, having stepped away from my previous role as
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a director, to take my own advice and work out what's next for me, more on
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that in a future series, I'm absolutely sure, I have really enjoyed talking to my
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guests and sharing our stories together.
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From agency to in house and private to public sector, my guests this
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series have got you covered.
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These conversations will give you some insights into life as a Director
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of Communications to inspire and motivate you to step up as one of our
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communications leaders of the future.
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I hope you enjoy.
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Thank you for listening to this episode of Behind the Bob.
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I'd love for you to subscribe on your favorite podcast platform
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and leave a rating or a review.
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You can also engage with me over on the socials.
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I'm on Insta and X at @catspjs_uk and of course you can find me over on LinkedIn.
