SHOW SUMMARYIt’s double trouble in this episode of What The Duck?! Today, we chat with Anna McGovern, the Founder and Managing Director of Pondview Consulting and Rachel Hassall, a CPG procurement executive with over 15 year’s experience ranging from personal care to home care cosmetics. These ladies discuss developing direct materials procurement talent and teams. They dive into bosses, the good (Rachel is a previous employee of Anna’s from their time at Unilever) and the bad ones, finding talent and self-awareness of your own strengths. If you work for a manufacturer and want to train up and retain your procurement team, then this episode is for you.  Show Highlights Introduction to the Show Having Amazing Bosses Training on a Budget Horrible BossesNever Stop Learning Define Your Values Nurturing Relationships Ongoing Finding Talent with the Right Skills Onboarding is the BIGGEST Miss Development Planning Supporting Teams During Turbulence   MOMENTS TO DUCK AROUNDANNA: Learning is Continuous Work“You need to have respect up, down, and sideway. Everybody has something to teach you, whether it's, the janitor that's walking around cleaning out the wastepaper baskets or it's the person who's serving you in the cafeteria line or it's, you know, the chief procurement officer or it's one of your peers on the team, they all have a story, and they can all teach you something. Value every single relationship because what goes around comes around. Your peer that you're in competition with may someday be your boss, you may be somebody else's boss.” RACHEL: Having Advocates, Not Just MentorsThe key difference, a mentor will talk to you, an advocate will talk about you when you're not there, yes, right? So they're there to be that voice for you. So, you know, having a mentor to talk through how do I do expires, that is great, having someone who will talk about you when you're not there in those key forums, that is what you need in an advocate, and I highly recommend you get at least one internally and you get one externally as well.” ANNA: Spotting Talent“If I don't know, I know where to get the answer. That is hugely critical. I always said that, that's my secret sauce, that is my superpower. I know I am smart enough to know I'm not the smartest person in the room, but I'm smart enough to know who to go to for the answers.” Connect with Anna and learn what she’s been duckin’ around with:Anna McGovern |Pondview Consulting Connect with Rachel and learn what she’s been duckin’ around with:Rachel Hassall  Connect with Sarah and find out more about what the duck she’s up toLinkedIn |Twitter |SourceDay |SourceDay.com Had fun with the podcast? Leave us a like, share our content, and subscribe! See you soon on the next episode of What The Duck?!