Side Mirror: Release the handbrake! - The Fulfilling Performance Hub

In this Side Mirror episode I’m excited to tell you about the next steps we are taking to share the concept of Fulfilling Performance.

Check out Release the handbrake! The Fulfilling Performance Hub.

Think of it as a resource for you if you are interested in learning more about Fulfilling Performance and how to enable it for yourself and those you lead and care about.

Over the coming weeks and months you can expect posts and articles, examples and interviews and a warm welcome, if you'd like to engage in discussion on those pages.

About Andy

I'm an experienced business leader and a passionate developer of people in the automotive finance industry, internationally.

During over twenty years, I have played a key role in developing businesses including Alphabet UK, BMW Corporate Finance UK, BMW Financial Services Singapore, BMW Financial Services New Zealand and Tesla Financial Services UK.

At the same time, I have coached individuals and delivered leadership development programmes in 17 countries across Asia, Europe and North America.

I started Aquilae in 2016 to enable “Fulfilling Performance” in the mobility industry, internationally.

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Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk

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ASKE Consulting
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Episode recorded on 4 June, 2024.

Transcript

Ed Eppley: 0:00

I am sitting in lovely Siesta Key Florida.

Sherene Redelinghuys: 0:03

I'm coming from Bangkok in Thailand,

Daniel van Treeck: 0:05

Prague in the Czech Republic,

Osman Abdelmoneim: 0:07

Cairo in Egypt,

Holger Drott: 0:08

Auckland, New Zealand, London, England.

Andy Follows: 0:10

Welcome to CAREER-VIEW MIRROR, the automotive podcast that goes behind the scenes with key players in the industry looking back over their careers so far, sharing insights to help you with your own journey. I'm your host, Andy Follows Hello, listeners, and welcome to this side mirror episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR. If you're a regular listener, thank you and welcome back, you'll be aware that most of our episodes feature interviews with people with a link to the automotive industry who kindly share their life and career journeys with us. We celebrate their careers, listen to their stories and learn from their experiences. From time to time. We also publish these side mirror episodes to introduce concepts, tools and experts to help you enable Fulfilling Performance. Let me take a moment to tell you about our sponsor. This episode is brought to you by ASKE Consulting who are experts in executive search, resourcing solutions and talent management across all sectors of the automotive industry in the UK and Europe. I've known them for almost 20 years and I can think of no more fitting sponsor for CAREER-VIEW MIRROR. They're the business we go to at Aquilae When we're looking for talent for our clients and for projects that we're working on. ASKE was founded by Andrew McMillan, whose own automotive career includes board level positions with car brands and leasing companies. All ASKE consultants have extensive client side experience which means they bring valuable insight and perspective for both their employer and candidate customers. My earliest experience of working with Andrew was back in 2004, when he helped me hire regional managers from my leasing Sales Team at Alphabet. More recently, when Aquilae was helping a US client to establish a car subscription business, ASKE Consulting was alongside us helping us to develop our people strategy and to identify and bring onboard suitable talent. Clients we've referred to ASKE have had an equally positive experience. Andrew and the team at ASKE are genuinely interested in the long term outcomes for you and the people they place with you. They even offer the reassurance of a two year performance guarantee, which means they have skin in the game when working with you. If you're keen to secure the most talented and high potential people to accelerate your business and gain competitive advantage, do get in touch with them and let them know I sent you. You can email Andrew the team at Hello@askeconsulting.co.uk or check out their website for more details and more client feedback at www.askeconsulting.co.uk. ASKE is spelt A S K E. You'll find these contact details in the show notes for this episode. Okay, let's get back to our episode. Imagine some people going about their jobs, each has a percentage floating over their head. That's the proportion of their available talent, intelligence, creativity, capability and resourcefulness that they're bringing to their activity. How many are at 100%? At the same time, many people tell me they're under pressure to deliver more each year from fewer resources. And it's draining. It's ironic isn't it? To deliver more, we need each individual to perform at a higher level. And for people to feel fulfilled, they need to be able to bring more of themselves to their roles. Imagine if they were bringing closer to 100%. The positive impact on their performance, their development, their sense of fulfilment, and their families. If after work, they're not drained, but filled up and energised to be great partners, parents and human beings. This vision you're imagining I call Fulfilling Performance. I've shared before that I'm on a mission to enable Fulfilling Performance and in Episode 60 to 62 I explain the origins of Fulfilling Performance and how you might use the Fulfilling Performance concept and framework to your own advantage. In this side mirror episode I'm excited to tell you about the next steps we're taking to share the concept of Fulfilling Performance. In January of this year 2024 I took part in a 10 day business book proposal challenge led by the publisher and book coach Alison Jones of Practical Inspiration Publishing. If you're at any stage of considering writing a business book, I can highly recommend Alison and her programme. Thanks to her structure and guidance, as I record this less than five months later, I have a completed proposal and the first draft has been reviewed by the development editor who said amongst many other valid able pieces of feedback, I very much enjoyed reading this book. During the process of creating the business book proposal, I decided that I wanted to share my writing and the publishing process online. I signed up to a platform for writers called Substack and started publishing weekly posts on the first of March 2024. Please go to Andyfollows.substack.com to subscribe, we'll put a link in the show notes to this episode. I had a few reasons for going public with my writing so soon. In our increasingly agile world, it made sense to me to get a minimum viable product, in this case in the form of a few 1000 words out into the market as soon as possible and get some customer feedback. I know from publishing these podcast episodes that I respond well to having a weekly deadline, and I figured I'd benefit from writing the book within a similar structure. I also wanted to start to build an audience for the book when it's published since a lot of the responsibility for book sales falls on the author. As Alison taught me so very clearly, the purpose of this book is to help grow my business, and I saw no reason to wait until it's published before leveraging its benefits. Mostly though my ambitions for the Substack go beyond using it as a sandbox in which to develop this first book. The working title for the book is Released the Handbrake. Enabling Fulfilling Performance is all about harnessing capability that's already available within us and those we lead and care about. To do this, we need to remove some of the factors that cause friction and prevent us bringing 100% of ourselves to what we do. The analogy of releasing a handbrake works well to illustrate that concept. The Substack is called Release the Handbrake, the Fulfilling Performance Hub. It's called the Fulfilling Performance Hub because I want it to be more than a weekly newsletter. I'm on a mission to enable Fulfilling Performance and to help others enable it for themselves and those they lead and care about. The Fulfilling Performance Hub is a virtual place for us to build a community of like minded individuals and when you share your comments and feedback, it becomes a platform for us to communicate. I invite you to become part of a community of people who believe that we and the people we lead, parent and mentor can perform at a high level and be fulfilled by what we do. I encourage you to participate in our mission to whatever extent works for you. Subscribe to the newsletter, share it with others, engage in the comments section, introduce the ideas to those you influence or don't, just do what feels right for you. And if you're ready to go further, ask me about joining one of my international guided peer mentoring teams in the Aquilae Academy, or invite me to work alongside you to enable Fulfilling Performance for you You've been listening to CAREER-VIEW MIRROR with me Andy and your team. Follows. I hope that you'll take a look at Release the Handbrake, the Fulfiling Performance Hub and see it as a potential resource and virtual community designed to help you enable Fulfilling Performance. If you enjoy listening to our episodes, please could you do me a huge favour and share them with someone you lead parent or mentor or a friend do you think will also appreciate them. Thank you to our sponsors for this episode, ASKE Consulting and Aquilae. And thank you to the CAREER-VIEW MIRROR team without whom we wouldn't be able to share our guests life and career stories. And above all, thank you to you for listening.

Osman Abdelmoneim: 8:29

No matter how hard you try, no matter how hard working you are, you're never going to be able to do it on your own. It's just not possible.

Paul Harris: 8:36

You know, at the end of the day, you're steering your own destiny. So if it's not happening for you, and you're seeing what you want out there, then go out there and connect.

Sherene Redelinghuys: 8:45

Don't rely on others. You you have to do it yourself. You have to take control.

Rupert Pontin: 8:50

If you've got an idea if you've got a thought about something that might be successful. If you've got a passion to do something yourself, you just haven't quite got there, do it.

Tom Stepanchak: 9:01

Take a risk. Take a chance stick your neck out what's the worst that can happen? You fall down okay, you pick yourself up and you try again.