The Independent Minds is the podcast where we don’t tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

The Power of Remote

The world wants to work remotely, but not many employers, of any type or size, nor their employees have really worked out how to make remote working work.

Many managers struggle to adapt to managing people they cannot see immediately.

One manager who has worked out how to make remote working work is Shane Spraggs Partner at Virtira, a provider of project services geared to help revenue growth.

In this episode of The Independent Minds Shane shares with Michael Millward, some of the secrets of successfully managing remote workers that are contained in The Power of Remote the book he co-authored with Cynthia Watson.

You will hear how Shane structures his working day and his relationship with his team which is spread across Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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Travel to Canada

Shane is based in Canada. If you would like to visit Canada, a good place to plan your travel is The Ultimate Travel Club. It is where you will get trade prices on travel including flights, and hotels.

Visit the Ultimate Travel Club and use our offer code ABEC79 to receive a discount on your membership fee.

You can find out more about both Michael Millward, and Shane Spraggs at abeceder.co.uk.

Three – the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for more information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three. And the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Shane, you have something very interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

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In the 16 years since 2008 Dave Valentine has provided hundreds of clients like Target and Real Simple with consultancy and marketing services that have helped them add over a billion US Dollars in business growth.

It is says Dave, all about finding ways to maximise the return on every dollar of marketing spend.

As Dave explains in this episode of The Independent Minds it is the money that should be working, not the person who spends the money.

Listen to this episode of The Independent Minds to learn about the important role played by corporate values in marketing and building relationships between suppliers, and customers that last despite the bad times.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel to the Oregon

Dave Valentine is one hours drive from Portland Oregon, in a wood house situated by the side of a river in the mountains. It’s remote and beautiful. He told me.

If you would like to visit Oregon, and experience the mountain lifestyle for yourself, a good place to plan your travel is The Ultimate Travel Club. It is where you will get trade prices on travel including flights, and hotels.

Visit the Ultimate Travel Club and use our offer code to receive a discount on your membership fee.

• ABEC79

You can find out more about both Michael Millward, and Dave Valentine at Abeceder.

Three – the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds in the United Kingdom on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for more information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three. And the special offers available when you quote my referral code.

WPFNUQHU

Being a Guest

Matchmaker.fm

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Dave, you have something very interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code for a discount on membership.

MILW10

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

If you have liked this episode of The Independent Minds, please give it a like and download it so that you can listen any time anywhere.

To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Thank you to you for listening.

Hutton Henry is the man who can increase the sale value of your technology, digital or creative business.

He provides venture capitalists and angel investors with assessments of the invest-ability of your business.

The value of your tech business is based on the value your tech team delivers.

In this conversation with Michael Millward, Hutton explains how he conducts his assessments and how even if you are not looking to sell your business the same assessments can help to make your tech team more productive and easier to communicate with.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google You Tube Music. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel to County Durham

As well as being a tech expert and really decent bloke, Hutton Henry is also a village in County Durham in the north east of England.

If you would like to visit Hutton Henry (the village), a good place to plan your travel is The Ultimate Travel Club. It is where you will get trade prices on travel including flights, and hotels.

Visit the Ultimate Travel Club, and use our offer code to receive a discount on your membership fee.

• ABEC79

You can find out more about both Michael Millward, and Hutton Henry at abeceder.co.uk.

Three – the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone in the UK, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for more information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three. And the special offers available when you quote my referral code.

• WPFNUQHU

Being a Guest

I met Hutton Henry on Matchmaker.fm.

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Hutton, you have something very interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code for a discount on membership.

• MILW10

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

If you have liked this episode of The Independent Minds, please give it a like and download it so that you can listen any time anywhere.

To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Thank you to you for listening.