We are just over halfway through our first series of the How To Take The Lead podcast so we wanted to share a short bonus episode to thank you for your support and let you know what we’ve got coming up for the rest of the series.

Still to come this series...

01:30 – leadership storytelling

01:46 - trust and leadership

02:20 – allyship and your role as a leader

03:31 – where should leaders focus their time?

We are looking forward to sharing these episodes and would love to hear your views and thoughts. And don’t forget we want to know what leadership topics you would like us to cover in the next series.

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Hello.

We thought we would pop back in because we're halfway through series one, new

episodes are out every Thursday and we thought, well, we've got a whole

other half of a series coming up, let's tell you what you've got in store.

I know it's not our usual day to be dropping into your inbox.

And we did so many bonus episodes.

Part of the launch, we were missing the whole bonus episode vibe.

So we were like, right, we've gotta do another one.

We need to do a bonus.

You haven't got my singing this time though.

Thank goodness.

So do you wanna kick us off Carrie-Ann and talk about a couple of the

episodes that we've got coming up.

Hopefully you are avid listeners.

So you've been listening to our conversation so far this series, and

we're gonna build on a few of those.

We talked about leadership brand and narrative, so we're gonna move

into that sphere of storytelling.

We are going to explore a little bit more about why storytelling might be important

from the point of view of leadership what that really means and how you can do it.

So I'm quite excited about having that conversation.

And we are also going to be talking about the T word, which is trust.

We're gonna be, I dunno why I said it like that.

I was trying to really build it up into something.

I felt like maybe should have done a drum roll.

I don't know.

Anyhow, anyhow, so.

I nearly said a word, then it would've just been highly inappropriate.

What another T word that was not trust.

The T word I am talking about is trust.

And we are gonna talk about what trust means in the context of leadership,

particularly around leading teams and groups how trust impacts

performance, or does it, we'll have that debate and conversation I'm sure.

Fantastic.

And we're also gonna be talking allyship.

And I say it in that way, because every time I say the word ally, I've been

saying ally quite inadvertently, I just obviously is a word I can't say properly,

but I don't want to mess this one up.

so allyship and how to be an ally because we talk about leaders needing

to get involved in speaking up on issues that are important, but there

are a lot of issues that leaders think, oh, I'm not really sure what to say.

I don't know how to get involved.

How do I do something more than just say I'm supportive.

So we really want to go deep and explore that topic.

And then also we wanted to have a bit of a broader discussion around as a

leader, your priorities shift and change.

You're responsible perhaps for broader stuff.

The expectations of you in your role are much greater.

talked about getting down in the weeds and how you pull yourself up in the past.

In this episode, we really want to talk about what should you be

making the time for as a leader?

How do you divvy up your day?

What should be your focus?

What do you leave for others?

We thought that be quite an interesting topic to explore.

And we'd love your thoughts and ideas on either what you do spend your time on or

where you wish you had more time to spend?

I'm excited for that one, cuz I think it's also gonna

be one of those episodes that's a good refresher for people who are

already in leadership positions.

They're feeling a bit overwhelmed and they don't have time for

everything they need to have time for.

I think that's gonna be a good reminder for us all about how we

should focus our time and energy.

So we've got so much to say, and it feels quite sad that we are

at that halfway point of the series.

We, I mean, don't worry, we've got several series mapped out in our

heads of other stuff we could cover.

Don't worry.

If one series as a podcast was not enough for you, we can keep on talking.

But we would absolutely love for you to share any ideas or

suggestions for topics you'd like for us to cover in future episodes.

Maybe you don't like the idea of one of these topics and you

want to give it the heave-ho, give us a better suggestion then,

I love it.

Throwing that challenge out there, Lee, like, come on then.

As ever tag us on social media, DM us, or maybe drop

us a good old fashioned email.

And if you have been listening to this series and you have enjoyed what

you've heard so far, or you found it interesting, it's given you a different

perspective on things, or as Lee said, there's more that you want to explore.

We would absolutely love it.

If you could rate us or leave a review.

So please do that on your listening platform of choice, that would

be hugely appreciated by us.

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all these episodes again, over the summer holidays, so you can drown

out your kids whilst they're playing

Or your neighbor's kids.

If you don't have your own, that's been one of my issues today.

So that's it really short and sweet.

We just wanted to drop in to let you know what we've got planned for the rest of