- Change Leaders Playbook
- Posts
- Your Best Year is yet to Come!
Your Best Year is yet to Come!
Reflections from 2024, helping you achieve more in 2025
Cliff Oguzie
December 30, 2024
In partnership with
It’s hard to believe the Change Leaders Playbook podcast and newsletter only kicked off in May 2024.
The aim was simple, to share my personal experiences and those from other experts in their field, giving you a shortcut to win at leading teams and innovating brilliantly.
I want to thank everyone who subscribed to the newsletter, read the articles or listened to the podcasts. Your engagement makes it all worthwhile!
As we close out the year, there’s so much more to look forward to in 2025, and this post gives you a quick recap of key themes and content from the past few months, giving you something to call on when you need it.
Get the App!
Did you know, you can download the app and have all my articles available in one place?
1. First make sure you’re subscribed to the newsletter.
2. Select “read online” at the top of any newsletter email. This will take you to a prompt to download the app.
3. Enjoy!
High Performing Teams
Podcast & article: Exploring essential strategies for achieving team success in delivery roles, addressing autonomy, conflict resolution, encouraging participation, juggling priorities.
Podcast & article: Understanding the importance of organisational culture to help project teams work effectively, how leaders can set the right culture, effective stakeholder management and adopting the best parts from startup and large corporate cultures.
The basis of high performing teams, exploring clear roles, shared goals, autonomy and Trust.
Continuing the theme of building high performing teams with a focus on ownership, diversity, strong communication and conflict management.
There’s a reason 400,000 professionals read this daily.
Join The AI Report, trusted by 400,000+ professionals at Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Get daily insights, tools, and strategies to master practical AI skills that drive results.
Delivering AI
Podcast & article: Learning from AI founder Ikum Kandola on building Agile teams, time management and how he built his AI-first education startup.
Podcast & article: Meeting Jaymie Thakordas, CEO of AI-driven startup helping small to medium businesses access secure, privately hosted LLMs through an easy-to-use app.
Podcast & Article: Meeting Jora Gill, CEO of AI software provider ConnectingYouNow. Jora shared his valuable experience as a former fortune 500 CTO and board member, revealing why projects fail, how to streamline your projects and much more.
There is an argument that all projects or change initiatives can be delivered the same way. This post highlights extra considerations to think about when delivering AI solutions.
Leadership & Mindset
What is a growth mindset? Having the right mindset can set you apart from others over time, informing how you prioritise learning and how you turn learning into meaningful action.
Getting projects and strategic initiatives off to the right start with an overarching vision. Introducing the portfolio canvas and related examples.
Planning to deliver products that resonate with users can feel like throwing darts blindfolded. Value streams are a way of organising large teams into the value they need to deliver, rather than traditional department silos.
Applying budget management to value streams, reducing the overheads and slowness that comes with traditional project budgeting approaches.
Learning how world class executives save time and bring order without the need for individual 1-on-1 meetings.
You and Your Stakeholders
Delivering the right product, not just the right project.
Understanding how business agility can help your department or organisation streamline critical work. Focus on vision and purpose, continuous learning and cross functional teams.
Continuing the theme of Business agility, focussing on prioritising customer feedback, open and collaborative communication, measuring and adapting to changing needs.
Podcast & article: I was a guest on the Talent Smart podcast, hosted by Philip Fanthom, discussing change management and bring people on the journey to enable the changes to land and embed.
That’s a wrap for 2024!
If you want more delivery leadership insights, subscribe to the Change Leaders Playbook podcast series on Youtube, Spotify, Apple and Audible.
P.s. don’t forget to share your feedback, suggestions and ideas, it really helps👇
How was this article?Your feedback helps to make future posts even more relevant and useful. |
Reply