Insights

Podcast

Leading high performing teams

Sibling relationships, team identity and creating the conditions are three key ingredients in “making the magic happen” in this latest Mezzana Partners podcast on leading teams, featuring two Australians. Jo Markham is an experienced executive with extensive automotive experience and Mezzana Partners MD Jonathan Males.

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Australia – the lucky country or just more optimistic?

It’s no exaggeration to say that we (in the UK at least) are living through difficult times. The aftermath of Covid, the impact of the Ukraine war on energy prices, the rising cost of living and public services at breaking point. It’s all too easy to feel overwhelmed, anxious, and even despondent.

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Podcast

Emma Wiggs MBE talks to Jim Constable

The most recent podcast from Mezzana Partners features Paralympic canoeist Emma Wiggs MBE. Emma talks about high performance but also her work in the corporate world – the parallels, her learning and the transferable knowledge, skills and attitudinal aspects.

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Podcast

“I was the queen of destructive thinking!”

Emma Wiggs, 9 times world champion, 3 times Paralympian, double Paralympic gold medal winner, talks to us about how she’s learned to cope psychologically, prepare for upcoming challenges, use comparisons and maintain her motivation even now.

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Summertime; making the most of your leadership off-season

In the world of sport, there is always an off-season. A time to vary the pace and type of training, to take a rest, to review the season just gone and look ahead to what comes. Business doesn’t always offer the same clear-cut rhythm, but summertime is perhaps the closest many leaders come to an off-season.

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Taking Stock

The end of the year (and the start of another) is a good time to take stock – but especially now, as we come to the close of two years riven by a pandemic that has made us question ideas of ‘normal life’ and ‘business as usual’. Hetty Einzig explains more…

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