How to Develop your Leadership Skills

Developing Leadership Skills for Aspiring Leaders

For some of you, this will land in your inbox/feed whilst you’re on holiday - and for that reason, it really isn’t a business-as-usual edition of the podcast. Instead we’ve focused on building on what we heard in the previous episode from Eleri and Vince around what organisations need in terms of Tech leadership skills.

In this episode we talk with Adam Scoot, a leadership coach, and get his top tips on how aspiring leaders can develop their skills, and what they need to do to successfully lead high performing teams. We talk about how you can empower people, and devolve decision making downwards. We talk about organisational clarity. We also talk about the importance of feedback.

We also get some summer-holiday reading tips for those wanting to find out more about leadership, and develop their skills. In the podcast, Adam recommends the following books:

Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquette Emotions and Life: Perspectives from Psychology, Biology and Evolution by Robert Plutchik Leadership agility by Bill Joiner & Stephen Josephs

If you’ve enjoyed this podcast, why not share it with your team - there are many aspiring leaders out there, and this may be just the right advice at the right time for them to thrive!

Stay Tuned for more insights in future episodes

If you’re new to the podcast - then definitely take a look back at some cracking episodes in the previous two seasons. Whilst there is a storyline flowing through the episodes, they work in any order, so don’t feel obliged to listen to them chronologically.

If you’re keen for me to feature something going on in your charity, please get in touch - and do comment on anything in here, or in the podcast that you like.

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About our host and guests

Adam Scoot, Consultant

Adam is a highly experienced leadership coach and transformation consultant with a strong track record in AI ethics, strategy, and enterprise change. He has led transformative programs across the charity, defence, aerospace, artificial intelligence, and technology sectors, helping organisations build value‑driven teams, streamline delivery frameworks, and drive cultural change. He is a member of a government AI Expert Group

Stuart McSkimming, Podcast Host

Stuart is an independent consultant and founder of the sector-specific Technology consultancy, Virtue Chain . He is an award-winning leader with over twenty years’ experience in NFP/Charity leadership roles, predominantly in the technology/digital and transformation space. He is an expert in getting the most from teams and focusing organisations on strategic goals to get the most from Technology & Digital. He is passionate about organisations focusing on inclusion and finding ways to attract a diverse mix of top talent into their teams. He has worked as a CIO for two organisations – Shelter and Royal British Legion, and also a variety of roles elsewhere. Stuart is extensively networked in the not-for-profit sector both in the UK, and internationally, and is the Vice Chair of top membership organisation, Charity IT Leaders. Stuart enjoys regular public speaking, and also has been known to do stand-up comedy gigs occasionally.

Virtue Chain builds the link between enthusiastic and talented technology teams, and organisation strategic goals. By focusing on people, strategy, governance and decision-making structures, Virtue Chain can help your charity get the right leadership approach across Technology, Digital, Data, AI, and transformation. We use maturity models, and partnering approaches to help trustees, CEO’s and exec leaders see the potential for technology in their organisation, and understand where to start in turning ideas into action.

Get in contact with [email protected] if you’d like to chat. Typically the conversation starts from either a trustee, CEO or CTO level.

In case its not obvious, views expressed are Stuart’s own view, and don’t represent those of any organisations he is working with or mentions