Don't be a Linda: Lessons in better leadership with Kate Waterfall-Hill (#139)
The Internal Comms PodcastShow Notes
In this episode of The Internal Comms Podcast, host Katie Macaulay is joined by leadership coach Kate Waterfall-Hill, the brains behind Linda the bad manager, a wonderfully awful alter ego who demonstrates everything that can go wrong with leadership.
A leadership coach and true social media star, Kate shares what she’s learned about leadership with Katie, covering making better decisions, communicating with confidence and empowering others to take ownership. She introduces a simple 1-3-1 decision-making framework, the PREP technique for clearer communication and her three-room model for understanding how we spend our time as managers.
Together, they explore why so many managers are set up to fail, what makes a genuinely useful team meeting and one deceptively simple question every leader should ask themselves at the start of the working day: “What am I about to do that somebody else could be doing?”
This is a conversation packed with practical wisdom, fresh perspectives and some familiar reminders of what not to do as a leader.
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