Hosted by John Veal · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 30 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
Welcome to Blueprint to Building Great Teams. The podcast that takes the guesswork out of hiring and team building. If you’re tired of outdated recruitment advice and buzzwords like “synergy” and “disruption,” you’re in the right place. This isn’t just another recruiter’s podcast, it’s your go-to guide for actionable insights, real-life stories, and expert advice from the people who’ve mastered the art of building high-performing teams.Each week, we sit down with business leaders, entrepreneurs, and Talent pros who’ve been in the trenches, scaling startups, transforming cultures, and hiring smarter. From avoiding the cost of a bad hire to striking the perfect balance between culture fit and skillset, we tackle the challenges that keep leaders up at night.Whether you’re a business owner, HR professional, or just someone passionate about creating great workplaces, this podcast is packed with practical tips and fresh perspectives to help you hire better, lead stronger, and build teams t
John Veal hosts Blueprint for Building Great Teams, a business show with 30 episodes published.
Something breaks in your business. How long before someone writes a job spec? For most teams, about three weeks. Michael Ruiter, interim CEO and transformation consultant, thinks that's the wrong move almost every time.
When you inherit a team you did not build, where do you actually start? Jenny Jarvis (COO, Energy Saving Trust and author of Lead With Confidence) shares how she walks into established teams and reshapes them through tra
How do you build a recruitment process that genuinely tests for values, in a 50-person organisation operating in 120 countries? Sarah Mukherjee MBE (CEO, IEMA, former BBC Environment Correspondent) shares the practical o
What if scrapping probationary periods was the most powerful trust signal you could send a new hire? Ken Mackness (CEO, membership, charity, private and local authority sectors) makes the case for hiring on values, trust
Why do so many employers say they want young talent, then build processes that quietly filter young people out? John Yarham (CEO, The Careers & Enterprise Company) shares 25+ years of practical insight into what genuinel
If you hire the right person, you're 70% of the way there. The rest is process. Frances Ingham (Head of Sales Development EMEA, Vimeo) breaks down why "will to succeed" matters more than skill, why most modern SDR teams
Caroline Oxley (Chief People Officer, Evolve) walked into a business spending £208,000 a year on agencies and reduced it to £38,000 in 12 months, whilst the team grew by almost 50% and Evolve was ranked #15 in the Best C
How do you hire when you don't trust job specs and don't believe in CVs? Mike Winnett (Co-Founder, G&G Studios) built and sold a business for £8 million and admits he sold it too soon because he'd never built the team th
Why does adding more salespeople rarely deliver more revenue? Toby Phelps (Interim CRO, Fulfilmentcrowd, scaled SaaS businesses from £5M to £50M+ ARR) shares the two-pillar framework he uses to assess any commercial team
Your best salesperson doesn't want to be a manager. Now what? Evie Emanuel (Commercial Director, Events Concept | Co-Founder, Elevate New Gen) has led commercial teams through growth, mergers and redundancies in an indus
Over the past 19 episodes, we've been building something. A practical encyclopedia for helping companies recruit better. Along the way, we've sat down with some of the most brilliant HR and People leaders in the UK. And
In this episode, Barry Cochrane discusses innovative recruitment strategies that challenge traditional CV reliance. Barry recounts his experience at Sage, where he scrapped formal CV screening and used a LEGO-based exerc
In this episode of the Blueprint for Building Great Teams, Helen Rose Whitehead, a business leader with extensive experience in recruitment and commercial leadership, discusses effective strategies for building high-perf
In this engaging podcast episode, Marc O'Driscoll, Head of Sales at Help the Move, shares his extensive experience in building high-performing sales teams. He emphasises the importance of understanding the business’s nee
In this engaging podcast episode, John Elworthy, a seasoned commercial leader, shares his approach to recruitment and team building. Emphasising the importance of fitting roles to people rather than the other way around,
In this episode of the Blueprint for Building Great Teams, Andrea Place explores the intricacies of effective organisational design and development. With experience at companies such as Barclays, Andrea emphasises the im
In this podcast episode, Sophie, an experienced people leader, shares her insights into building effective teams in high growth startups and scale-ups. She emphasises the importance of scoping roles accurately, aligning
In this podcast episode, Wendy McDougall, CEO and founder of Firefish Software, shares insights into building high-performance teams and fostering a vibrant company culture. Drawing on her background in recruitment and s
In this episode of the Building Great Teams podcast, Ian Parslow discusses his extensive experience in leading sales teams and transforming sales strategies over the years. Ian shares how the approach to recruitment and
In this podcast episode, Jo Major, a specialist in recruitment talent and inclusion, discusses her two-decade journey in the industry and her transition from traditional recruitment to focusing on diversity and inclusion
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Blueprint for Building Great Teams has a verified contact on file. Create a free PitchCentric account to access it and generate a personalised pitch in seconds. Research at least 3 recent episodes first and lead with a specific angle that serves their business audience.
Blueprint for Building Great Teams is hosted by John Veal. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 30 episodes.
Blueprint for Building Great Teams has published 30 episodes.
Blueprint for Building Great Teams regularly covers business, entrepreneurship, management. It sits in the business category, with a entrepreneurship focus.
Blueprint for Building Great Teams is accessible for guests with genuine business expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
Blueprint for Building Great Teams hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of Blueprint for Building Great Teams average 41 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates Blueprint for Building Great Teams's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 9 days ago.
