In this edition, Executive Central Managing Director Rob Balmer tells Phil Dobbie a his company’s new partnership with 4C Organisations. Together with 4C’s Prof Michael Anderson – author of ‘Transforming Organisation’ – they explain the benefit

Why transformational change goes wrong

Feb 20th, 2019 17m 52s

From time to time companies need to make big changes to stay ahead of their game. It can be a risk – changing the way you do things – but not as risky as preserving the status quo, allowing nimble competitors to grab your market share. The prob

Owning Your Own Career

Nov 15th, 2018 18m 18s

Have you planned your career, or have you just taken the easy path that was laid about before you? In this edition of the Executive Central Podcast, Rob Balmer talks to Phil Dobbie about the importance of owning your own career. That means unde

Selling – Everyone In Your Organisation Should Be Doing It

Sep 20th, 2018 18m 52s

There’s nothing less productive than a salesperson without any leads. They resort to inefficient cold calling. Yet your company is filled with people who could potentially identify new sales opportunities, if they only knew how. In this edition

Leaders embracing the power of vulnerability

Sep 13th, 2018 16m 8s

We tend to assume that leaders need to come from a position of strength. After all, doesn’t their team want to feel reassured that someone is in charge with a vision and a clear understanding of what to do next? In this podcast, Rob Balmer sugg

Leaders and Managers as Coaches

Aug 13th, 2018 19m 49s

Lots of managers and leaders spend their time working on specific tasks, rather than coaching their staff. They work hard to avoid being with the people who work for them. Rob Balmer describes it as a destructive work environment, where staff q

Influencing Change

Jul 31st, 2018 15m 7s

In the last podcast Phil Dobbie spoke to Executive Central’s Rob Balmer about how leaders need to be constantly driving change in an organisation. Nothing stands still in the corporate world. In this episode, Rob explains how change can never b

Leading and Managing Change

Jul 10th, 2018 17m 35s

We’ve been looking at managing a performance culture in recent episodes of the Executive Central podcast. To move to a performance culture you, inevitably, must change how things are done. In this episode, Phil Dobbie asks Executive Central’s R

Building a Performance Culture: Unlocking the Full Potential of People

Jun 19th, 2018 21m 30s

It’s vital, if you are to build a performance culture, that you get that best of out everybody in the company. That means unlocking everyone’s full potential? So how do you achieve that. In this podcast Executive Central’s Rob Balmer explains t

Building a Performance Culture: Inclusion and Diversity

May 3rd, 2018 17m 11s

Almost every company will say they support inclusion and diversity in their workforce, usually because it seems like the right thing to do. Many wouldn’t expect to see it drive productivity improvements. Yet, that’s exactly what can happen if t

Building a Performance Culture: Leadership at all levels

May 3rd, 2018 14m 58s

For many organisations the focus on developing leadership potential is focused entirely on the top rung of management. In this podcast Rob Balmer, Managing Director at Executive Central, explains how leadership needs to be developed throughout

Building a Performance Culture: Focus on What Matters

May 3rd, 2018 14m 11s

Every organisation needs a performance culture – achieving the best outcomes by having your team working well together and, importantly, focusing on what matters. In this podcast Phil Dobbie asks Rob Balmer, Managing Director at Executive Centr

Coaching for an Innovative Culture

Mar 28th, 2018 17m 33s

Is it possible to coach your workforce into innovation? Can you actually teach people to come up with innovative ways of working? It’s a question Phil Dobbie puts to Rob Balmer, MD of Executive Central, in this latest edition of the Executive C

The Three Horizons to Innovation

Mar 7th, 2018 21m 41s

To many people innovation relates to creating something new, such as a new product or a new way of promoting your services. In this edition of the Executive Central Podcast Rob Balmer, the Managing Director Executive Central, explains that inno

Is your immune system destroying your business?

Nov 28th, 2017 12m 8s

In this second edition of the Executive Central Podcast Rob Balmer talks to Phil Dobbie about controlling your corporate immune system. When we make big changes to our body – like a heart transplant, for example – our natural self defence syste

Why training fails – could you be targeting the wrong people?

Sep 19th, 2017 11m 47s

Is your organisation getting the returns it expects from corporate training? In the first episode of The Executive Central Podcast, Phil Dobbie talks to Rob Balmer about why companies are failing to achieve the outcomes they expect. Often, he s

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