Get Amplified Podcast

We’ve got a festive treat for you all! Citrix customers, partners, employees and alumni will know Mark Templeton as the inspiration, and the driving force, behind the realisation of the Virtual Workplace vision. Mark former President and CEO of Citrix joined the Get Amplified crew for a heart-warming two-part Christmas special of our Get Amplified podcast; put your feet up, get the fire on and pour yourself a warming drink while you enjoy his pearls of wisdom!

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Order a copy of the Five Behaviors of a Dysfunctional Team HERE 

Hear how Andy Bryars, Director of Customer Success at Okta is partnering with the Amplified Group to invest in his teams future, his team was already in a good place but Andy recognised as a leader that you can’t take fitness of any kind for granted, especially when you are going through hyper-growth as an organisation.

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Download a sample of a Five Behaviors model Team Assessment HERE

Following on from the great episode with Colin Brown of Softcat, we are keeping on the theme of Simplicity. Pippa Hutchinson joins us to share her experience of the growth of Tesco’s in the 90’s. There are startling similarities to the growth of Softcat, we also had some great fun recording it, with Sam revealing a secret and Sia unknowingly transporting us back to the Blind Date back in the 90s! So if you want some cheer as well as great business practice insights, this is not an episode to be missed!

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Want to know the magic behind Softcat’s phenomenal success? We are thrilled to release our latest episode of Get Amplified with Colin Brown former MD of Softcat plc
Softcat’s story is proof that you can scale at speed, go through a successful IPO and still keep the magic. Colin gives us a valuable insight into the ‘Softcat way’ where keeping the strategy simple to ensure the leadership team can invest their time in maintaining their incredible culture really is their recipe for success. Sam, our host describes Colin as the Custodian of Culture – (Sam Routledge should know as he was Softcat’s CTO!)

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Empowered Workforce report (How to achieve an agile organisation) by the Amplified Group download HERE 

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We often use sports analogies in business especially when we are talking about high-performance teams, so its great to have Simon Clarkson on our latest podcast, talking about his experience working with elite sports professionals.

Simon also shares how the principles cross over from sports to business with his three key takeaways;

1. Unity of purpose – where buy-in is key
2. Growth mindset – a mindset for measuring progress
3. A culture allowing vulnerability

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Team productivity; A case study of how IT Security Solutions leader Glasswall hits major milestone through the power of teamwork

With his vast experience at iconic companies like IBM, Microsoft, VMware now VP of EMEA & APAC at Twillio Inc, delighted that DPJ joined the Get Amplified team to share his experience of building a high-performance team that can scale at a rate to match its growth and why it is important that Twilio’s new hires feel like they belong….that and so much more, this is a great listen!

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Jane Rimmer, a renowned IT vet, who played an instrumental part in the early success of behemoths of the industry such as Citrix and was employee #2 at VMware EMEA and now founder of hiviz-marketing, Jane shares with us the importance of leading from the front and how to make the extraordinary happen.

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Stewart Fenton former CEO of Insight inc and CDW inc,  and now Chairman and CEO of Quantiq, shares his story of how he has learnt to become the leader he is today, building Quantiq a company that he would want to work at.  Stuart shares how putting your people first, ensures you retain incredible talent who pull together to undoubtedly deliver extraordinary (and sustainable) results.

Discussed on this episode we talked about what we do at the Amplified Group and also a useful model called the Deficit model, download details here;

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Deficit model explained and More detail

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James McNab, Director, Cybersecurity Marketing, (EMEA, Asia Pacific) at Cisco talks about his experience of being acquired by Cisco and how the art of simplicity made  Sourcefire an attractive acquisition for them. GET EPISODE 

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Chris Collett of Spire coaching and training, a qualified L&D Consultant, Facilitator and Coach talks about

DISC circumplex and guidance on how and when to use your knowledge relating to your personality type. GET EPISODE

Vice President of HR Verena Sunday talks about how to build and maintain a high-trust culture by using a pragmatic approach. With no HR or corporate-speak this podcast gets to the heart of how by picking a lane and sticking to it, your organisation can be set up for long term success.

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The Get Amplified team are joined by Martin Kelly, Global Technology Leader and Former WW VP of IT Infrastructure at Citrix. Find out why being customer-centric enabled Citrix’s IT team.

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We welcome our listeners back to the chat with Martin Kelly, where Martin gets to the heart of how Citrix’s internal IT organisation transformed to be able to keep up with the pace of change.To learn more about the importance of a high trust culture to help organisations keep up with the pace of change – Read our Empowered Workforce Report published here

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Still struggling with remote working? If not, but you know someone who is, please share. Join this special edition of Get Amplified with guest Adam Harding, Chief Technologist for Workspace at Softcat. Sharing our joint experiences of remote working that span over 50 years we hope we can help as we discuss; Best practices of remote working. How best to deal with the tech and how to act as a leader

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On this episode of Get Amplified, Sam finds out more from Vicky and Sia on the best-kept business secret, the Five Behaviours of a Team, discovering the simple and pragmatic formula for teamwork.

You will hear about Microsoft as a case study, how the formula works and tips on how to get started with it.

It’s just us three chickens this time, enjoy!

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If change is a constant, listen to Paul Russell a leader in the IBM Watson Group who shares

the fascinating use of design thinking to help you with your next chapter.

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The Get Amplified team are joined Francisco, founder and former CEO of ITQ. This is a fascinating personal story of how Francisco recognised his blind spots and appointed a new CEO to run his company. ITQ goes from strength to strength, recently winning VMware’s EMEA partner of the year for knowledge.

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In this first special bite-sized daily episode of Get Amplified supporting Mental Health Awareness Week, the Get Amplified team are joined again by Chris Collett, former Army Major and Mental Health First Aid Trainer. The team explore why having trust in the workplace helps our mental health and how a leader can build trust by showing vulnerability.

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In our second bite-sized episode the Get Amplified team are joined again by Chris Collett mental health first aid trainer to discuss how organisations can provide a safe space, where opinions are sought, offered and heard, where disagreements can be aired and overcome through positive conflict. Most importantly –

why this is good for your mental health!

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Our third bite-sized episode of Get Amplified supporting mental health awareness week, the Get Amplified team along with Chris Collett discuss the importance of everybody on the team having a voice and how gaining clarity can help with good mental health.

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As we continue our discussions around good mental health awareness at work, this is the fourth bite-sized episode where the team have a great discussion about how giving feedback with care is the kindest thing. It’s better to have feedback, good or bad, than not to know.

Here is the link to the radical candor video we refer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9GLeNCgm4&feature=youtu.be

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In our last bite-sized episode in mental health awareness week the team wrap up our discussions with Chris where he stresses the importance of making mental health a part of your discussions at work. The check that Sia refers tohttps://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-weekInteresting HR Analyst article that Vic refers to https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6661883214933692416/

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The team are joined by Andy Bacon, Strategic Marketing Consultant, Mentor and Speaker to discuss the challenges when sales and marketing are not aligned. Andy shares how account based marketing (ABM) can be a catalyst to unite them as one team. Amplified Sales and Marketing Alignment assessment

Read Andy’s enlightening article here 

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Jonathan Alexander, Former Director of Cloud Management Sales at VMWare EMEA joins the Get Amplified Team in our penultimate session of the series to share his wealth of experience of working with remote teams. This topic was recorded pre COVID-19 but perhaps is even more important than ever.

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