Episode #8: Growing your First Team with Joe Trodden

#8: Growing your first team with Joe Trodden – Tools & techniques to overcome the initial challenge.

Welcome to the UK Educators Community Podcast, with your host, Syd, who's an award winning science communicator, serial entrepreneur and educational consultant.

On this episode, you'll hear Syd chatting with Joe Trodden.  Joseph has been in the entrepreneurial leadership space for the last seven years, working with over 300 entrepreneurs at every stage of business. He now specialises in working with leaders who are in a growth phase of their business.

As always, this episode contains  lots of practical advice and actionable tips, including:

• Understand the personality types on your team, and build around them with complimentary personality types.  You can use this tool to help define personalities: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
  
  
• Now Syd's team is more established, she often lets members interview and pick  new team members who they'll work best with.  Whilst it's hard to hand over the power initially, it's always worked out well and helps grow collaboration and wellbeing within the team.
  
  
• Don't feel under pressure to grow a team.  You don't need to be entrepreneurial in your approach, and grow a large team.  Do business YOUR way. 

There's more about Joe's services here: https://josephtrodden.com/

For show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/

To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators

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More about Syd.

Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.

Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.