Leaders in Lockdown with Atholl Duncan

Atholl Duncan is the chair of the leadership development business Black Isle Group. He worked for the BBC as a journalist for over 20 years and been head of the BBC News Scotland, he's a certified coach and author of Leaders in Lockdown. In this episode you can learn hacks galore from Athol including: The new mindset, habits and behaviors to cope with demands of the post COVID world. The new definition of being an entrepreneur - people who are addicted to opportunity. The seven themes for leadership in a lockdown The LEADING model – enabling people to move to the next level Join our Tribe at https://leadership-hacker.com Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA Transcript: Thanks to Jermaine Pinto at JRP Transcribing for being our Partner. Contact Jermaine via LinkedIn or via his site JRP Transcribing Services   Find out more about Atholl below: Atholl on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/athollduncan/ Atholl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AthollDuncan Black Isle Group Website: https://blackislegroup.com Atholl’s Book: https://www.bookdepository.com/Leaders-in-Lockdown-Atholl-Duncan/9781911671015   Full Transcript Below: ----more----   Steve Rush: Some call me Steve, dad, husband or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker.   Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors and development experts so that I can assist you developing your understanding and awareness of leadership. I am Steve Rush and I am your host today. I am the author of Leadership Cake. I am a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I cannot wait to start sharing all things leadership with you. Today special guests on the show is Atholl Duncan. He's the chair of the leadership development business Black Isle Group. He's also worked for the BBC as a journalist for over 20 years and been head of the BBC News Scotland. He's also a certified coach and author, but before we get a chance to speak with Atholl, it's The Leadership Hacker News.   The Leadership Hacker News Steve Rush: I just love it when emerging technology and entrepreneurial-ism come together. In a press release this week, Warner Music and Accenture Interactive announced, “Saylists”, new playlists exclusively to Apple music. And they're designed to augment the speech therapy experience for young people through the power of music and technology. There are 173 tracks in these playlists, including Dua Lipa: Don't start now, and Lizzo: Good as hell, the BBC reported that some, 1 in 12 children across the United Kingdom experienced some form of speech disorder or SSD, and it's also common across the globe. Stammering or stuttering as it's often referred to affects at least 1.5 million children in the UK alone. Using an algorithm, Apple analyze the lyrics of its catalogs, 70 billion songs to identify the sounds and most commonly repeated in speech. As such the playlist centered on the sounds of ‘CH’, ‘D’, ‘F’, ‘G’, ‘K’, ‘L’, ‘R’, ‘S’, ‘T’ as an example. The frenetic sounds that you and I just take for granted. Warner's press release, includes comments from speech and language psychologists, all of whom say that these Saylists are an innovative form of therapy. Every speech and language therapist wants to keep children engaged during therapy sessions, as well as help them generalize their target sounds, both at school and at home said, Anna Biavati Smith. Saylists provide fun, new ways to practice sounds without feeling pressured or getting bored and having fun of course, it's first step on the rung of learning. So, for those that are listening, these new playlists are available to Apple music subscribers worldwide now. And I just wanted to call out what a great piece of innovation that was. That's been The Leadership Hacker News. If you have any inter