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https://youtu.be/fOlYQ0BwUFk Pete Wilkinson is the Founder and CEO of Reclaro 1-3-5, a company focused on helping ambitious CEOs and MDs accelerate their business results using beautifully presented software. We discuss ways OKRs can speed up business success, how to develop persistence in business, and ways to build an unstoppable attitude.  --- Implement a Simple OKR System with Pete Wilkinson Our guest is Pete Wilkinson, the founder of Reclaro, a provider of OKR software and expertise that helps business leaders set and cascade their strategic vision throughout organization, achieving focus, alignment, and accountability for high performance and faster growth. Pete, welcome to the show.  Hi, Steve. Thank you very much. Great to be here. I'm excited for today. Yes, I'm excited to have you here. Join us from the UK. Some listeners might have noticed your accent is not the regular Virginia accent, which is mine not either. So you're right. You can feel right at home on this show. Yes. So, Pete, let's start with your journey. So what led you to creating a software for accountability, alignment, faster growth? How did you become the founder of Reclaro? And what led you in your career to this to this point? I've always been interested in business and had various businesses from a range of industries started by selling towels around nursing homes and, and residential homes, and then we moved various things. I then my main career really began when I started at a company called Northern Electric. That's a big energy PLC here in the northeast of England. And that was really when I began to understand management and leadership. I've always been interested in the topic, but really when I started my sort of development in that area was with Northern Electric, was there for a number of years. I then ran my own retail business for a short while, about six, seven years. And then in 2013-ish, really got some traction around speaking and consulting. I designed a system called 135, which is a very simple tool to help people to execute better. I was a bit frustrated, Steve, with the amount of emphasis in strategy planning and not the same emphasis on execution. And during my MBA studies, it seemed to be a large focus on building the plan, but not the same on executing the plan. So I kind of dabbled with a few different things and came up with this 135, which I used. And I did use it once to do my first Ironman triathlon, actually, which was to test the model. I then sort of speaking about it, I then did some workshops I designed around it. I then wrote a book on stop rolling on it. And then it was probably around 2016, started considering the idea, 2017ish around. People were using the two in a PDF format, which is good, but there was some shortfall with the execution on that because you've got a template and you've got not a live system. So 2017 built out the first version of Reclaro, which people wouldn't be aware of the concept of MVP, minimum viable products, it was very poor. Then sort of 2019, started getting organized, obviously had COVID. But then 2020, I onboarded a couple of new people to join me. And then since then, I've been working with a couple of hats, really, the consultancy speaking hat, and then McLaren. And then where we are right now is I'm moving more into the full time role as founder of the business, of CEO, building up the team and starting to get some good traction. So that's been sort of a long journey really spanning back current times from sort of 2016, 2017, where we are right now. So it sounds like you transitioning from a speaker consultant role into the founder role. Yeah. Do you understand? And that's stepping the business is that correct? Yes, I did. I did take a very short injection when I first launched around 2017. There's a scheme in the UK called SEIS, which is seed entrepreneurs investment scheme, and you can raise a small amount of money, you know,

When we are able to fulfill our life's purpose, in this case helping ensure that people's voices were heard, inequities were addressed and choice was actioned, as part of the responsibilities of what we are paid to do, we tend to infuse really positive stuff onto those we work with. I was one of the lucky ones provided the opportunity at an early point in my own career to work with such an individual – Bill Howes. Bill is someone who through every action and every word he spoke, exuded leadership, alignment with core values and passion for what he did. He knew what he was good at. He built leaders along the way. And he has continued to make a positive difference in his retirement activities. Bill spent most of his career working for and with unions, as a paid employee within those organizations. It might be something for you to consider too. Our unions need great leaders too. Hope you will join us! About the Guest: Bill Howes is a native Torontonian. He went to school in Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute, and at nineteen he started working at Northern Electric in Bramalea, Ontario. Bill got involved with organizing for the United Electrical Workers while working at that plant. Shortly after, he moved into the office part of Northern Electric, which had a company association. He became active and one of the leaders of a strike by Northern Electric office workers in 1966, the first successful strike ever at Northern. Coming out of the strike, the association members realized they needed a legitimate union, and Howes was on the committee that interviewed all of the unions with a connection to telecom. They chose the United Auto Workers (UAW). Bill became involved in organizing with the UAW and was active in that local for several years. Bill left Northern in 1972 and went to work with the Canadian Labour Congress (the umbrella organization for many of Canada's unions) to organize white-collar workers. He organized the first chapter of the Association of Commercial and Technical Employees (ACTE). Knowing his background in organizing telecom, the Communications Workers of Canada (CWC) asked that Bill be put on loan from the CLC for its organizing drive. The CWC eventually hired him, making him National Representative responsible for organizing in Ontario in 1974. Bill focused on a variety of organizing campaigns through his years with the CWC, primarily with office, technical and operator units across the nation. He also taught seminars on organizing. In 1989 he left the organization which, through several amalgamations over the years had now become the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers' Union, to accept the position of Executive Assistant to the President of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council and the responsibility of being the labour link to social justice movements. Bill left the Labour Council in 2000 to establish Organizing Resources, providing consulting services to unions conducing organizing campaigns. In his “retirement” he also co-founded Not Just Tourists and has worked tirelessly on behalf of feral cats in the Greater Toronto Area – more on these in the podcast! *With appreciation to Joan Roberts and her overview of Bill in her excellent book Cracked: How Telephone Operators Took on Canada's Largest Corporation… and Won!If you wish to contact Bill, he can be reached at bill.howes43@gmail.comThe website for the Toronto and Yukon Region Labour Council is Toronto & York Region Labour CouncilThe book referred to in the podcast is Cracked: How Telephone Operators Took on Canada's Largest Corporation… and Won! by author Joan RobertsAbout the Host: Susan has worked with people all her life. As a human resource professional, she has specialized in all aspects of employment, from hiring to retirement. She got her...

Northern Electric Co-op Communications Director Ben Dunsmoor swings by to *spark* interest in rural cooperatives in the Dakotas. He also *powers* a discussion about his role on the prairie and *ions* out a few misconceptions. (And yes, there are a few more bad puns, but don't let them *hertz* you,)

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The story of Kirkheaton wind farm, run by Northern Electric and AMEC Border Wind.

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The story of Kirkheaton wind farm, run by Northern Electric and AMEC Border Wind.

Transcript -- The story of Kirkheaton wind farm, run by Northern Electric and AMEC Border Wind.

In our made-in-Canada segment, we listen to an episode of The Northern Electric Show, with band leader Mart Kenney. In our Canadians-abroad segment, we feature Montreal-born singer Anita Ellis in an episode of The Red Skelton Show from 1946.