Best Steve Hunton Podcasts (2025)

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Special: Summer Break 1:40

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A little announcement for you. It’s summer, just about, so we’re taking a little break from the podcast. Time for some holidays, to rest and recharge and regather ourselves ready for more discussions on leading projects and delivery teams, and everything involved in getting big stuff done. So, we’re off for a while. But we’ll be back soon, ready to…

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Episode 009 — The First 30 Days 49:32

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You've started a new role as CDO. How do you get up and running? The first month in a new position is the time for making impressions: for what you can understand about the business and it's for you to make your impression on the organisation too. We talk about what's running through your mind in those first weeks, and discuss some practical things…

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Episode 008 — Creating High Performance Teams 1:01:21

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How do you take a group of competent individuals and bring them together into a high-performing team? We take a look at the presumptions, rules-of-thumb, and particular actions a Chief Delivery Officer can take to raise the water level so all the boats float higher. And then we discuss how things can get off balance and the potential to sink a happ…

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Episode 007 — Strategic Vision, Tactical View (pt. 2) 44:08

1M ago44:08

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Lovely though the views are, you're static on the mountain top. The journey doesn't happen here. To get stuff done you have to come back down to ground level. This is the world of your tactics. In part 2 of the conversation we talk about execution — taking the strategy you created at the top of the hill and turning it into reality, with a thoroughg…

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Episode 006 — Strategic Vision, Tactical View (pt. 1) 48:52

2M ago48:52

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As with many aspects of the CDO role, being able to hold a creative tension between strategy and execution is a distinctive quality. The role requires you to do both to see far ahead, and determine how to get where you're going and, to take one step at a time on the path you've set, without getting distracted or discouraged. Or, to put it different…

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Episode 005 — Professionalism, Process … and Jazz (pt. 2) 35:56

2M ago35:56

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Professionalism demands that project delivery processes are comprehensive and robust. That creates the right foundation for delivery jazz — situational agility and innovation. The delivery principal must hold the tension in a fundamental balancing act between: systematic and thoroughgoing processes on the one hand, and situational agility with spac…

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Episode 004 — Professionalism, Process … and Jazz (pt. 1) 55:15

2M ago55:15

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As the business matures, it stretches forward towards greater professionalism. We talk about the three Cs that are the aim of professionalism: Calmness Confidence Consistency We talk about the essence of professionalism: Capturing 'our ways of working' Making sure there's always value delivered — for customers, and for the standing of the business …

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Episode 003 — The Essential Skill of Great Communication 51:52

2M ago51:52

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Communication is a key skill in all jobs, right? Well, clear and coherent communication is of a different order for a Chief Delivery Officer — unusual excellence in communication is a fundamental requirement of the job and an essential skill that should be particularly well developed. The CDO is responsible for effective communication between all p…

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Episode 002 — The strange role of Chief Delivery Officer 51:31

2M ago51:31

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We're picking up some threads from the first episode, looking in greater depth at the strangeness of a delivery leadership role. In the first half we return to that uncomfortable location for the CDO — sitting between each customer's needs and the objectives of your own business — and we discuss how it's more complicated still, because you also nee…

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Episode 001 — What actually is a Chief Delivery Officer? 50:15

3M ago50:15

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The very first episode of the Deliver That! podcast — a show about delivery leadership for projects, teams, and programs — the big concepts, real-life stories from the front line, and everything involved in the role of a Chief Delivery Officer. In episode 1 we introduce the podcast and ourselves: What’s the reason for the podcast and what are we ai…

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Deliver That! Trailer 1:41

3M ago1:41

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Deliver That! is a new podcast about project delivery leadership. The big concepts, real-life stories from the front line, and everything involved in the role of a Chief Delivery Officer. No filters. No fluff. Just honest conversations about what happens in project and delivery leadership, and how big things really get done.…