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Skills Sprint : Facilitated Discussions in Conflict

Conflict is the gap between expectations and reality. It is the source of many leadership challenges, trying to deliver team performance and build trust.
Kate Waterfall Hill shared tips on how to facilitate conversations between team members who don't get along.
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Here are my reflections on the conversation with Kate
Conflict is the gap between expectations and reality. It is the source of many leadership challenges, trying to deliver team performance and build trust. Kate Waterfall Hill shared tips on how to facilitate conversations between team members who don't get along.
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk⁠
-Kate Waterfall Hill LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-waterfall-hill/

Difficult Conversations & Facilitated Mediation

Difficult conversations are key for any leader to be able to navigate in order to coach, deal with conflict and create a strong culture. 
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In this episode we talk to Kate Waterfall Hill about how to manage conflict between colleagues. Her insights will help you to bring conflict to the surface and resolve it in a way that minimises clashes and builds trust from difficult relationships. 
www.waterfallhill.co.uk
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk⁠
-Kate Waterfall Hill LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-waterfall-hill/

Skills Sprint : Being a Sustainability Leader

Sustainability leadership and hitting climate goals are challenging but as leaders you have the power to achieve them.
Will spoke of how the skills you have that deliver excellent performance can also deliver these incredible objectives for change.
Here I share my tips from what he said.
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk⁠
- Will Silverwood LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-silverwood-8656ab/

Becoming a Leader of Sustainability

Will has spent his career to date helping organisations build new capabilities and solve strategic challenges.
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Working both as a consultant and as part of the management team for operationally complex businesses like Siemens, trainline.com, Intercontinental Hotels, Will's roles were typically focussed on weaving together the activities from cross functional teams to build solutions that increased customer engagement, spend and profitability.
In 2016, based on the hypothesis that the levers to drive sustainability focussed outcomes were the same as those he had build his career on, he started his pivot towards sustainability.
Since then he has helped a tech business leverage data to reduce food waste for a budget airline, digitise the UK’s largest tech skills apprenticeship provider to materially reducing their carbon footprint, he was ESG programme lead the for Wagamama’s owner, The Restaurant Group and now is Head of Sustainability at Whitbread PLC, owners of Premier Inn who have over 850 Hotels in the UK and Germany and over 200 UK restaurants with brands such as Beefeater and Brewers Fayre – where he leads their ESG programme called Force For Good.
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk⁠
-Will Silverwood LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-silverwood-8656ab/

Skills Sprint : Sustainability as a Business Opportunity

When you push for a no it changes the tone of meetings. Bradley learned that it accelerated finding investors.
We also learn that building a successful business isn’t always about following a passion. It can be about finding a trend and a need that you can fulfil.
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk⁠
-Bradley Hornby LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-hornby-22a4a452/

Sustainability as a Business Opportunity

Bradley Hornby is the co-founder of Homebound, a direct-to-consumer "Furniture as a Service" marketplace, launched to plug the gap of both an ever-growing rental market and increasingly environmentally conscious consumers who wish to avoid high prices and fast furniture. Before Homebound, Bradley was a commercial leader with over 13 years of business development experience most notably took Fever through rounds A-D 70M+ grew the team from 4 to over 160.
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk⁠
-Bradley Hornby LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-hornby-22a4a452/

Building a Business Community for Sustainable Goals

With a background in Psychology and Philosophy, Richard spent 20 years creating behaviour change through training and education in the retail environment. He is one of two co-founders of Play It Green an award-winning, B Corp-certified sustainability business built on a transparent conscious capitalist model. 
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Having helped his previous employer scale and plant over 1.5 million trees in the developing world, Richard soon realised that whilst tree planting was great, it did not solve the climate change issue! This has to be solved through behaviour change and a consciousness shift in consumers, employers and manufacturers!
With that in mind, Play It Green was born out of a desire to create a solution to climate change and to do it in a transparent and conscious way.
Play It Green helps its customers with behaviour change, education, and positive environmental and social impact. They also support the sustainability journey at each and every step. From footprint reporting to science-based targets, from carbon literacy training to sustainable suppliers, they can help, and it all starts with their unique Climate Positive Workforce initiative!
Best of all, 10% of all turnover generated by Play It Green is regiven to good causes, as chosen by its customers!
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk⁠
-Richard Dickson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardiandickson/

Tracking & Measuring Sustainability Targets

Considering himself as a global citizen,
Hain has been fortunate to live in 6 countries. Prior to joining EcoCertify, Haindeveloped 20 years of international management experience in multiple sectors.
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He has advised businesses in emerging and complex markets and has worked in
Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.
Having started his career as an ArmyOfficer, Hain then moved into the corporate world. After roles in Management Consulting and Communications Technology, he then joined a Negotiation
Consultancy prior to his current role leading a SAAS startup in the Sustainability space.
He was drawn to Sustainability after spending time evaluating the impact of enterprise level Supply Chains across multiple geographies. Through his experiences he knows first-hand the
challenges of cross-cultural alignment around global initiatives.
Hain resides in the beautiful state of
Colorado and enjoys the amazing year-round outdoor environment offered on his doorstep.
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk⁠
-Hain MacKay-Cruise LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hainmc/

Self Imposed Carbon Tax & Sustainable British Rum

Gemma & Russ are founders of Two Drifters Distillery, the world’s first distillery to have a carbon negative footprint. A self-imposed carbon tax forces the business to avoid creating CO2 emissions, rather than offsetting ones that have already been created.
With Russ’ Chemistry background and Gemma’s marketing skills, the two are making sure that Two Drifters rums are in the mix on the global rum stage, but are leading the way when it comes to credible sustainability in the drinks industry.
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
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-Two Drifters Distillery LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/two-drifters-rum/

How to Make Smart Leadership Decisions

This is part two of a two part special to celebrate our first birthday.
We invited ⁠⁠Jon Bircher⁠⁠, who is passionate about decision-making and leadership, to come and share his wisdom with us and a live audience.
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In this episode we explore some questions from the expert audience such as the impact of U turning, the difference between corporate decisions and start up decisions and having a cathedral mindset in decision making.
Jon runs a specialist consultancy, Salt and Light Leadership Coaching who work with senior leaders from clients in the healthcare sector, helping them to make better more considered decisions. 
⁠Home | Salt & Light Coaching | Leadership Coach (saltlightcoaching.com)
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-Foxleigh Commercial Website: ⁠https://foxleigh.net/⁠
-Chris Webber's LinkedIn: 
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk⁠
-Jon Bircher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonbircher/