The Building Podcast
Mark Wakeford is Chairman of the National Federation of Builders, vice-chair at Constructing Excellence Midlands and a Governor at Construction College, Moulton College. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide CPD on the go. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast
Mark talks to Professor Elaine Limond
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Leaders are everywhere. All businesses have one, all organisations have them at various levels throughout their management. Within construction we can not lay a brick without an NVQ 2, yet there are no requirements for qualifications to run our companies and even the largest of our companies have few requirements for trained leaders.
Prof. Elaine Limond, Vice-Dean of the Business School at University College Birmingham talks about the opportunity to train our leaders and the value that this can generate within a business. She answers the age-old question on why our world class athletes have a myriad of coaches and yet the leaders within our world class companies do not, believing that they know all there is to know about effectively leading a business.
Listen to this podcast if you would like to hear the benefits of coaching and mentoring our leaders; showing that leaders can be trained from a willing candidate to a world-class leader, running strong, growing companies. Listen to find out how to appoint a coach and how to use one effectively. Elaine also explains why companies with diverse leadership groups tend to out-perform their competition, and the opportunity for construction businesses to grasp this opportunity to make a significant difference to their bottom lines.