phil fraser

In Episode 9 of Don't Work With Tossers - The Podcast, Phil Fraser, a Business Sounding Board,  talks to host Tina Boden about how to identify people around you who are not a Tosser but a Brilliant Jerk.

Phil shares his 10 tips for identifying a Brilliant Jerk, some of them fit in Tina's top Tosser traits apparently! Phil and Tina chat about how both Brilliant Jerks and Tossers can have a negative impact on workplace culture and the importance of 'grasping the nettle' and taking action to deal with a Briliant Jerk to help a business, the business owner and the people that work in that business. Tina talks to Phil about how we often look at someone's CV rather than the personality of an individual, a process that does not always see the best person being recruited for the job.

Phil Fraser went from an accidental kitchen table start up, with no investment, all the way to multi-million pound sale to a PLC 18 years later. He has travelled the full SME business journey. During that journey he won many awards, appeared numerous times online and in print and even set up an annual industry report and awards ceremony.

Phil now works with ambitious SME-owners as a Business Sounding Board (think somewhere between Business Coach and Business Mentor). In simple terms, he’s ‘a pair of ears and an extra pair eyes’ for SME Owners helping them to be better at what they do. Phil’s mantra is 'It doesn’t need to be lonely at the top’. He helps Business Owners to be better business owners, by helping with their clarity and focus.

Host of his own podcast, Leeds Business Podcast,  Phil has appeared on over 60 podcasts, webinars and interviews, from around the whole globe, talking on a variety of business subjects. He is a regular contributor to the ‘Voices’ section of The Yorkshire Post, is an active Angel Investor and has also been a volunteer mentor with a number of organisations including The Prince’s Trust and Young Enterprise and speaks regularly at Leeds schools to pupils about careers.

Want to know more about Phil Fraser ? Follow this link https://www.linkedin.com/in/philfraser/

Thanks for listening to Don't Work With Tossers - The Podcast.

For more business tips and life lessons to help you rid yourself of the Tossers around you visit - https://dontworkwithtossers.com

To find out more about podcast host Tina Boden and how to work with her to improve your work life blend visit - https://worklifeblendcoach.com/about-tina/