Future Focus with Tom Cheesewright

What are the key behaviours and attributes of high performing teams? In this episode we speak to high performance expert and facilitator Paul Teasdale on what makes a high performing team high performing. Drawing on his experience as a Performance Specialist with the F1 McLaren team and with questions from our guest audience this live podcast helps to uncover the mindsets, processes & techniques high performing teams adopt to increase their performance. Explore the importance of communication, the role 'trusted' data has and how integral the debrief is to drive performance.

In this episode we speak with systems, data, people and analytics expert Andreas Kyprianou on an introduction to Systems Thinking. Explore what systems thinking really is, how it works and how to apply it to your own work and processes to improve performance, understanding and results. Break down the silos and understand how to look at problems, opportunities and the way we work in a systems-thinking way. Discover how to translate the theory of systems thinking to day-to-day leadership and work-related challenges.

In this episode we explore 'Confidence' with certified coach and brain trainer Anna Manning. Discover some of the thinking traps and unhelpful habits that influence our sense of confidence. Anna will provide insights on her experience of where confidence saboteurs come from - often in the form of the inner and external cultures, and how we can change the narrative from within by building self-awareness and taking positive action to allow confidence to grow. Finally, understand the role company culture has in boosting individual and group confidence and measures you can take to help drive organisation-wide confidence. 

In this episode we speak with clinical psychologist, Dr Hazel Harrison on the subject of 'relationships'. Often we see wellbeing as mental and physical health, the food we eat, getting enough sleep and reducing stress, etc In our far reaching conversation we explore the power of relationships over our wellbeing. Drawing on research and publications by Robin Dunbar, Amy Edmondson, Jane Dutton and Hazel's own practice we explore the way to approach relationships, how to build them, why they are so important for workplace culture and how you can build awareness of your own relationships and actively manage relationships that give (and take away) energy.

Feedback is integral to our personal growth, it helps us learn new skills, grow in confidence and opens up new possibilities. It is a fantastic tool for building relationships, establishing trust and developing a positive team culture, so why does it feel so difficult, so pressurised and, at times, out of reach? In this podcast, we speak to Susie Heale, founder of Heale Solutions, trainer, designer, and coach on all things feedback - why it is important, how to approach it, how to make it work, how to celebrate it and how to include it in your everyday life. 

Innovation and creativity is something we all want for ourselves and for the organisations we work for. Creating the right conditions for innovation to flourish can be tricky; as the team grows, so do the ideas, as the ideas grow so do the options and decisions we have to make. Unchecked, we can find ourselves solving the wrong problems or building the wrong solutions. In this episode, we speak to Innovation Strategist and Expert Sprint Facilitator on the power of sprint thinking to unlock new thinking, test ideas and create prototypes quickly to empower great innovation and creativity for yourself and your team. 

What do we mean by a space of ‘belonging’? What factors in a professional working space help someone feel they can and do belong? What is different about the ways in which we relate to the same and How can we respect that difference? In this podcast Milly and Zach, members of the Chicken Shed, a theatre company and charity dedicated to creating performance in an inclusive manner, answers these questions and explore what it means to 'belong' - how individuals, teams and organisations can change their mindsets, adapt, develop & improve and build more inclusive communities.

Wellbeing has become a much more centralised, celebrated element of workplace life. In this podcast we speak with registered nutritionist Sophie Trotman on the importance of nutrition for supporting individual health, productivity & wellbeing, but also the role organisations and leaders can take in promoting and supporting nutritious-friendly practices. Discover ways of boosting your own nutrition awareness, what strategies you can employ to build better practices and tools for creating better nutrition habits.