Become the leader you know you can be or want to be
Our new leadership development podcast series is now live, offering support and encouragement for existing, new and aspiring leaders in voluntary, community or social enterprises across North Yorkshire.
‘Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders’ is the first podcast series produced by our Community Support North Yorkshire team with the aim of offering leaders an easily accessible and flexible development opportunity – with something for everyone, no matter where they are in their career.
Episode 9: Snakes on a plane
The ninth of our ‘Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders’ podcast series, listen to Mike Hickman, Leadership Development & Training Manager at Community First Yorkshire as he explores how bad incentives can undermine good intentions – with a snake or two thrown in along the way.
Episode 8: Change management by changing management
Liz Lockey, Chief Offer of Hambleton Community Action, discusses how leadership is about creating the conditions for change and encouraging behaviours that support change, while knowing when to consolidate and stabilise.
Episode 7: In Trustees we trust
Shahida Iqbal, Director of Manar Associates, shares how her experience as a trustee has helped her on her leadership journey – not just in terms of building relationships, but also with critical thinking and listening skills, and career progression. She challenges us to think about why people should become trustees and explores how such a vital role can help you steer the strategic direction of a charity as well as shape your own personal development.
Episode 6: Meet Peter Principle
Mike Hickman, Leadership Training and Development Manager at Community First Yorkshire, invites you to meet Peter (or Petra) Principle. What happens when someone is promoted to the point of incompetence? Mike explains why this isn’t necessarily a bad thing with the right support to help leaders to grow. He explains that, if you are conscious of what it is you can’t do, if you’re conscious of your incompetence, it just means you don’t know how to do something yet, and with the right development, you’ll be able to progress in the next phase of your career.
In this podcast, Mike makes reference to a number of useful resources:
- The Guardian, Burnt Out Britain (5 March 2024) article – which inspired this podcast
- The Johari Window
- A Donald Rumsfeld quote
- A TED talk on the Growth Mindset from Carol Dweck
- Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development
Episode 5: Be a purposeful pioneer
Listen to JK McQuinn, from Where the Mind Grows, as she exhorts us to return to nature as a resource to support ourselves and grow as leaders. JK calls for us to break our own rules, be a maverick and prioritise our wellbeing.
JK challenges us by asking how can we do good things if we’re not good to ourselves? “We can do much more when we’re in a state of calm and replenishment – and nature helps us to achieve that.”
Episode 4: Once upon a time
Listen to Jill Quinn, CEO of Dementia Forward as she takes us on a leadership journey from a playground in Cornwall to her happy ever after at North Yorkshire’s Dementia Forward. Share her love of leadership and aspirations for the future of VCSE leaders.
Episode 3: Sex, Power and Politics in the VCSE sector
Listen to Chris Hailey-Norris, CEO of Up For Yorkshire as he explores people, relationships and how, as a leader, you interact with people based on different perceptions.
Episode 2: How not to break people
Mike Hickman, from the Community Support North Yorkshire team, runs through a Top Ten of tips, concluding with the wise words that you avoid not breaking people by taking care not to break yourself.
Episode 1: What I've learned from bad leaders
The first in our ‘Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders’ podcast series, listen to Mike Hickman, Leadership Development & Training Manager at Community First Yorkshire as he creates a composite Frankenstein’s Monster of bad leadership and shares what good leadership looks like.
