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Welcome to Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director with me, Carrie-Ann Wade. This podcast is all about developing communications leaders of the future and supporting you to grow and thrive in your comms career. You’ll hear from me about my experiences and insights and there might even be a special guest or two popping up. Behind the Bob gives you a sneak peek into life as a comms director and provides you with all the "behind the scenes" knowledge to help you thrive as a communications leader.
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S2E8 Behind the Bob - the one with me (Carrie-Ann Wade)
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In this episode, Carrie-Ann Wade shares the highlights, challenges and insights from her communications career to date and her life as a communications director. From careers advice at school to the importance of her support network, she shares her journey so far. Opportunity is the word of the episode - grabbing the ones that feel right as they co…
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S2E7 Behind the Bob - the one with Nick Pearson
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In this episode of Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director, Carrie-Ann Wade is in conversation with Nick Pearson about the successes and challenges of his career to date and his advice for aspiring communications leaders. Nick is a communications leader with more than 25 years’ experience and runs Pearson & Pearson (communications) Ltd with his w…
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S2E6 Behind the Bob - the one with Amanda White
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Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director Welcome to Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director with Carrie-Ann Wade. This podcast is all about developing communications leaders of the future and supporting you to grow and thrive in your comms career. You’ll hear from Carrie-Ann about her own personal experiences and insights and there might even be…
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S2E5 Behind the Bob - the one with Simon Jones
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In the latest episode Carrie-Ann Wade talks with Simon Jones who is the Executive Director for Communications for Westco and the former Chair of LGcomms, a professional body representing local government communicators. We talk about his 15 years’ experience at director level in local government where his remit not only covered communications but in…
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S2E4 Behind the Bob - the one with Ranjeet Kaile
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In this episode of Behind the Bob, Carrie-Ann Wade is in conversation with Ranjeet Kaile about life as a communications director and some of the highlights and challenges of his career to date. Ranjeet is the Executive Director of Communications and Engagement for South East London Integrated Care Partnership and for South London and The Maudsley N…
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S2E3 Behind the Bob - the one with Mary Whenman
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In this episode, Carrie-Ann Wade and Mary Whenman discuss Mary's career highlights and her advice and insight for aspiring communications directors. Mary is Director, Group Communications at the British Business Bank, the UK’s economic development bank. Before moving in-house, Mary had a 25-year global agency career. She is a Fellow of the CIPR, ha…
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S2E2 Behind the Bob - the one with Darren Caveney
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In this episode of Behind the Bob, Carrie-Ann Wade is in conversation with Darren Caveney. He is the creator and owner of comms2point0 specialist consultancy, Creative Communicators Ltd. His 28 years in communications, PR and marketing includes communications leadership in local government and in the NHS. From a potential career as a stained glass …
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S2E1 Behind the Bob - communications leadership
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Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director Welcome to Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director with Carrie-Ann Wade. This podcast is all about developing communications leaders of the future and supporting you to grow and thrive in your comms career. You’ll hear from Carrie-Ann about her own personal experiences and insights and there might even be…
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Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director Welcome to Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director with Carrie-Ann Wade. This podcast is all about developing communications leaders of the future and supporting you to grow and thrive in your comms career. You’ll hear from Carrie-Ann about her own personal experiences and insights and there might even be…
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In this episode of Behind the Bob, Carrie-Ann Wade talks with Shak Rafiq about his communications career to date, diversity in the profession and how we can attract new talent into public sector communications. Shak is an Associate Director of Communications and Engagement in the NHS and shares his insights and advice about being a communicator. 03…
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In this episode of Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director, Carrie-Ann Wade shares her thoughts and reflections on what you might want to consider during times of change and uncertainty. 01:31 - your role as a leader in your organisation 05:00 - intuition and empathy 05:33 - your role with your communications team 08:55 - impacts on you as an ind…
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Behind the Bob - the one with Kirk Millis-Ward
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This is another guest episode of Behind the Bob and Carrie-Ann is talking with Kirk Millis-Ward, Director of Communications and Engagement at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust. Kirk is also the Executive sponsor for the Disability and Long-Term Conditions Network and Neurodiversity Network. In this episode Kirk talks about his own personal journey and ex…
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Behind the Bob - when comms pros rule the world
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In this episode of Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director, Carrie-Ann Wade shares her thoughts and reflections on why communications professionals make good leaders. 03:26 - it's all about communication 04:04 - decision making 05:35 - taking action 06:57 - caring about the consequences 09:38 - creativity and curiosity 10:58 - "being strategic" T…
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Behind the Bob - the one with Shameema Ali
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It's another episode with a special guest and this time Carrie-Ann is talking with Shameema Ali, Senior Communications and Engagement Manager at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Shameema shares her thoughts and advice on diversity in the profession and why communications professionals should consider a career in public sector …
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In the latest episode Carrie-Ann talks all things demonstrating value as a communications professional - a topic listeners have been keen to hear more about. The key elements are relationship building, evaluation and performance reporting and impact. 02:45 - relationships and the nuances 04:55 - key questions to ask yourself 08:33 - impact over out…
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Behind the Bob - the one with Lewis Williams
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In this episode of Behind the Bob, Carrie-Ann talks with Lewis Williams, Senior Communications Officer at NHS Blood and Transplant, about his career to date and his advice for improving the diversity of the communications profession. 04:06 - routes into public sector comms 11:01 - the Socially Mobile programme 16:47 - the value of work experience (…
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Behind the Bob - boundaries, what boundaries?
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In this episode, Carrie-Ann Wade talks about the importance of boundary setting as a communicator and as a leader. Sharing her own experiences of boundary setting, and recognising when boundaries are slipping, Carrie-Ann invites you to reflect on your boundaries and how you are communicating them. 00:54 - recognising when your boundaries are slippi…
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This is the first of Carrie-Ann's conversations with public sector comms pros focused on how to encourage diversity within the profession and make a career in public sector communications attractive to new talent. In this episode Carrie-Ann talks with Lisa Ward, a former NHS communications director, about her career so far, challenges she has faced…
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Behind the Bob - what's helped my comms career?
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In the first episode of Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director, Carrie-Ann Wade shares a few of the things that have helped her communications career to date. Sharing some insights into what has supported her, as not only a communications professional but as a leader, Carrie-Ann hopes to encourage you to think about your career to date, as well …
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Welcome to Behind the Bob, Diary of a Comms Director, with me, Carrie-Ann Wade. Behind the Bob is my new podcast that provides an insight into life as a communications director to support aspiring communications leaders as part of your development. As well as a behind the scenes peek into my working life, I will be shining a light n the issue of di…
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