2023: Wrap and Roll #64

Crisis management works its way into every job, but you’ll be admired far more for keeping your cool than blowing your top.

This week’s tranquil episode of The Company Doctor covers the composure that’ll help you to avoid making a drama out of a crisis, from dealing with ‘meaningful specifics’ to communicating under pressure.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Anticipate crises before they arrive
• Don’t let someone else break your news
• Listen, Learn, Lead

Gary Gamp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garygamp

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There’s no single, stable route to work, but for that reason it’s absolutely paramount to write your own destiny.

Part 1 of our special live episode teed up this week’s follow-up, which dives into the very heart of students’ questions about carving the best route into the working world.

Join us for part 2 of our career catalysing special episode, with the wonderful Ray Stanton, Lauren Gamp, Niall Anderson, Jeff Parris, Dave Robinson and Elinor Corcoran.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Don’t be afraid to be a bit of a stalker
• It’s not about you, it’s about them
• The goal is to connect

For those at the precipice of starting their working lives, finding that route to work is absolutely vital in kickstarting your dream career journey.

London Academy of Excellence is a wonderful melting pot of talent and potential, and the perfect setting for this week’s LIVE episode of The Company Doctor Podcast.

Join us for part 1 of our career catalysing special episode, with our all-star cast of the fantastic Ray Stanton, Lauren Gamp, Niall Anderson, Jeff Parris, Dave Robinson and Elinor Corcoran.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Keep your dreams alive
• Arm yourself with an open mind and curiosity
• Tech will change jobs, not take them over

2023 is well and truly over, but the last thing we should do is put it behind us and forget all that we’ve learned - especially across our 22 marvellous episodes.

Let’s wrap up the most invaluable lessons and roll them into the next 12 months! This week on The Company Doctor Podcast, it’s time to look at the biggest themes from the year and look at how they’ll manifest in the year to come…

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Don’t give up on finding new, better ways to work
• Keep your dreams alive
• Don’t network only when you’re desperate

Looking to revolutionise your productivity game in 2024? This is the podcast episode for you! 

The Company Doctor, Gary Gamp is joined by productivity expert Graham Allcott who shares his top tips for working efficiently and thinking effectively. He offers practical advice such as structuring to-do lists around attention levels and prioritising physical actions, whilst also highlighting the importance of reflection and planning time each week.

Key takeaways from this episode include:

• Using the 40-20-40 method to manage inefficient meetings.
• How describing physical actions can help to overcome procrastination.
• Why adopting a 4 day work aligns with our natural limits of diminishing returns. 
• How to establish simple systems and habits to get more of the right things done. 

Change is inherently scary, but we don’t make progress by standing still. So how do we make change happen and not only survive it, but come out on top?

Thierry Bujon de l'Estang’s role at BNP Paribas has seen him in such a broad range of occupations, that it’s impossible to deny his experience with managing change at the highest level.

Join us as we peel back how to master the art of change, with Thierry’s change survival guide. 

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Be empathetic in times of change
• Continue to be curious
• Have fun with change

Understanding the brain is the key to perfecting communication with others, and more importantly ourselves.

Once can influence their own thoughts, engage in better conversations and overcome mental blockers through the power of NLP, and there’s no better teacher than the enigmatic author and broadcaster, Tony Wrighton. 

Key takeaways from this episode:

• NLP is a force for good
• Keep a healthy state of curiosity
• Embody the mindset of ‘Good, Better, How’

How often do we offer our expertise, only for it to fall on deaf ears? It’s a frustrating conundrum, but as ever, The Company Doctor has the solution.

In this wonderfully digestible eureka episode of the podcast, we’re teaching you the groundwork that’ll help magnify the impact you have on others in every single conversation.

So you’re out there job hunting - if only there were a formula to take control of your next steps…

Whether you’re suddenly a free agent or you’re claiming agency of your career trajectory, bagging your dream job doesn’t have to be an aimless, scattergun scenario.

Join us on The Company Doctor Podcast for an in-depth look into how to hunt for jobs and hustle your way into them.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Get yourself out the way
• Master the art of selling yourself
• Be a social butterfly (with a rocket launcher)

If you could control anyone at your whim, you’d get help, responses and advice in an instant - what a dream that is…

Back in the real world, everybody has free will, so how exactly do you encourage people in your network to do what you want or need?

In this latest bitesize episode, Gary delivers some invaluable advice on exactly that, which’ll serve you up a gratifying eureka moment!

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Kill them with kindness
• You have to be sincere
• The empathy underpinning one magical sentence