# Rick Spencer - How transparent should you be with your teams? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-corner-by-exalto-consulting-6611011/rick-spencer-how-transparent-should-you-be-with-your-teams Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-corner-by-exalto-consulting-6611011/rick-spencer-how-transparent-should-you-be-with-your-teams.md Podcast: [Culture Corner by Exalto Consulting](https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-corner-by-exalto-consulting-6611011) Published: 2025-05-27T08:41:26+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/culturecornerexaltoconsulting/2046473 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/227635/2046473/culturecornerexaltoconsulting/2025_05_27_08_40_52_4509cd92-c33c-476e-bdec-b0cab131faa1.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/culture-corner-by-exalto-consulting-6611011/episodes/rick-spencer-how-transparent-should-you-be-with-your-teams Duration seconds: 2550 ## Resource Rick Spencer - How transparent should you be with your teams? In this episode Adrian chats with Rick Spencer, Engineering Team Leader at Certinia The conversation covers a variety of topics, including: Importance of career frameworks covering the whole business not just individual teams. Benefits of direct customer feedback for software engineering teams. The positive effect of Ricks MBA on his leadership Key elements of high performing teams Biggest challenge as a leader Alternatives to OKR's/SLA's that focus on the business as a whole rather than individual teams. Check out Adrian's profile here: linkedin.com/in/adrianprodger Rick's profile on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rick-spencer-mba-26b6b213 Exalto Consulting: https://exalto-consulting.com/ ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/culture-corner-by-exalto-consulting-6611011/episodes/rick-spencer-how-transparent-should-you-be-with-your-teams/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-corner-by-exalto-consulting-6611011/rick-spencer-how-transparent-should-you-be-with-your-teams.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.