Welcome to Ad Esse Consulting's podcast, Books In Action. Our host, Rhiannon Gibbs chats to guests about how they've applied ideas from business & self-help books in real life to improve your performance.

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Email hello@ad-esse.com with the name of the book you've applied in real life, and introduce yourself. We're more interested in stories & examples of how you've used book concepts in real life, rather than regurgitating the book itself. Looking forward to chatting with you soon.

Let’s focus on you. How can you improve your personal performance?

Welcome to season 1 of the relaunched podcast, Books in Action, where we apply book theory for performance improvement. I’m your host, Rhiannon Gibbs, and I’ll be chatting to guests about how they’ve applied ideas from books to improve personal performance.

A few books we’re discussing this season are Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, The 5am Club by Robin Sharma, and How to Own the Room by Viv Groskop.

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Terry Spillard is the Assistant Director of Customers at Golding Homes, a housing association providing homes and services across Kent on the East coast of England. Build a habit for focus in the morning to win your day with the 20/20/20 formula. See how Terry has sustainably applied this method from Robin Sharma's book, The 5am Club.

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Kate Gondouin is a Possibility Coach and Mentor with 20+ years of professional experience in HR, Procurement, and Change in international companies. Kate helps organisations and individuals to unlock their potential and take control of their incredible life, wherever they are in the world. Own the room know matter what setting you’re in with ideas from Viv Groskop’s book, How to Own the Room.

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Isabel Varey is the Customer Experience Director at Stonewater Housing, founding member & Co-Chair of Women in Social Housing East, and Chair of the Chartered Institute of Housing (East region).

Build relationships by delivering effective feedback to your colleagues and direct reports by implementing ideas from the book, Radical Candor by Kim Scott. Isabel shares her experiences of applying these key concepts in this podcast.

You can watch the author explain the key concept of radical candor at a HubSpot Inbound talk.

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We hope you enjoyed season 1 of the Books In Action podcast, with plenty of practical tips for your personal performance. In this season finale episode, Rhiannon Gibbs shares how she's applied a tool from Stephen R. Covey's book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Want to be a guest on the next season of Books In Action? Email hello@ad-esse.com and tell us how you've applied ideas from a book. Season 2 will focus on problem solving for performance improvement.

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Lead a high performing team. How can you improve your leadership skills?

Welcome to season 2 of Ad Esse Consulting’s podcast, Books in Action, where we apply book theory for performance improvement. I’m your host, Rhiannon Gibbs, and I’ll be chatting to guests about how they’ve applied ideas from books to improve your leadership skills for performance improvement.

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In this episode, Andrew Christophers shares how he’s applied lessons from James Kerr’s book, Legacy at Brand Genetics. This conversation includes applying ideas around the role of a leader, values, and teamwork to build a high performing culture.

More about Andrew Christophers

Andrew Christophers is Co-Founder, Co-Owner and Chairman of Brand Genetics, ‘a start-up with 25 years’ experience.’ He previously worked client-side at Cadbury on food brands, as Head of Marketing for Guinness’s lagers, and as Head of Innovation for KP Foods (United Biscuits).

Brand Genetics is a brand growth consultancy, specialising in front-end insight, strategy and innovation, headquartered in London and with offices in LatAm and North America. Brand Genetics helps its clients answer the question, “what’s next?” using deep-rooted human drivers and a range of different human-centred insight and innovation techniques. This helps to identify scalable opportunities for brand growth. Global clients include ABInBev, Britvic, Diageo, Electrolux, Meta, Mondelez, PepsiCo, Reckitt and Unilever.

Andrew recently published Starting Up & Scaling Up a Human-First Business, which tells the story of the first 25 years of Brand Genetics. Using an A-to-Z structure, this is an easy-to-read guide for anyone who is starting up or scaling up their own business – or anyone who really cares about company culture, and wants to create a uniquely human work environment.

Andrew’s book

Legacy, by James Kerr

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