Over the last few decades, many organisations have moved away from deliberate strategies to more emergent strategic approaches. This has allowed organisations to reman agile, but has this had a longer term impact, preventing organisations from

Episode 94: Breaking the Caste - Creating Inclusive Workplaces

19 days ago 13m 2s

What drives discrimination? If the colour of someone's skin is the only reason, how did the holocaust happen with Nazi Germany creating a 'Master race'? What then do we make of the caste system in India, where some people born into castes are c

Episode 93: Flexible Working and the Hybrid Ceiling

Mar 18th, 2024 17m 29s

Just when you thought companies had adapted to remote and hybrid working, Boots announces that all their employees must come back into the office five days a week. The reason? Because they felt remote and hybrid working was having an impact on

Episode 92: Are You Communicating to Your Employees Like Investors?

Mar 4th, 2024 9m 21s

Have you noticed how when companies have had a fantastic financial performance, they share the great news, but then tell employees they cannot invest in any additional resources because they just don't have the budgets? It leaves employees conf

Episode 91: Leadership - Power and Hypocrisy

Feb 19th, 2024 15m 19s

Is it inevitable that power will corrupt? Is this something we need to accept as the frailty of the human condition, that as soon as we achieve powerful positions, corruption is inevitable, irrespective of who you are and your benevolent intent

Episode 90: Values, Identity and Our Best Performance

Feb 5th, 2024 13m 47s

How much does your reputation matter to you? Obviously, we don't want people around us saying horrible things about us, but for some people, that can matter far more than for others. How important is reputation to those best performers? What ro

Episode 89: Are Your Employees Living in Poverty?

Jan 24th, 2024 12m 41s

Would you know if your employees were living in poverty? What signs would you see? Would a drop in performance towards the end of the month be something you would ever associate with poverty, questioning whether some people are rationing food b

Episode 88: the Post Office Scandal - What can we learn?

Jan 8th, 2024 16m 35s

Many of us will have watched the documentary called 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office', which showed the way sub-postmasters were treated after the roll-out of a new computer system which started to show hundred of sub-postmasters having huge gaps i

Episode 87: Stop Doubting Yourself - Imposter Phenomenon

Dec 11th, 2023 17m 46s

Despite all the experience you have across your career, do you find you doubting yourself? Do you suffer from Imposter Syndrome? Are you afraid of being 'found out'? You are not alone. Many of us suffer from this and for those in senior positio

Episode 86: The Value of Work is the Value We Give it

Oct 24th, 2023 9m 46s

How often do you sit there on Sunday night thinking 'I really don't want to go to work tomorrow'? As winter draws closer, the thought of work on a Monday morning may fill some with dread. But whilst most of us think work is a means to an end -

Episode 85: Multiculturalism and DEI&B

Oct 2nd, 2023 14m 44s

Episode 84: Developing Leadership Open-Mindedness

Sep 4th, 2023 12m 3s

Have you ever been accused of flip-flopping? When we think of leaders, we often have images of strong, charismatic individuals who are clear visionaries, with the ability to immediately know where to go and how to get there. Whilst this applies

Episode 83: Embracing Personal Uncertainty and Change Whilst Being Our Best at Work

Aug 21st, 2023 13m 40s

How is your home life? Perfect and all unfolding the way you planned it out? I suspect not. Whilst there's a huge focus on employee experiences and employee engagement, we can often forget the human beings experiencing life outside of work, try

Episode 82: Stop Blaming Gen Z

Jul 31st, 2023 15m 28s

How many times have you heard the word 'entitled' when people describe Gen Z employees? What's so different about this generation than any other, that they can't seem to handle work? Well, maybe there's nothing wrong with them, and it's our wor

Episode 81: Challenges of Promoting from Within

Jul 20th, 2023 11m 40s

Many organisations are focused on promoting from within and whilst there are huge benefits, promoting someone to manage the team they were part of can be a huge challenge. The balance of still being friends, whilst managing performance can in i

Episode 80: Trust in Leadership

Jul 4th, 2023 10m 48s

Following the report from the Institute of Leadership, the Index of Leadership Trust 2023, trust in CEOs was shown to be lower than trust for line managers. Despite the millions spent on employee engagement each year, what are organisations, an

Episode 79: UK Employee Engagement Levels - What's Holding Us Back?

Jun 20th, 2023 10m 16s

We've just had the release of the Gallup report highlighting that the UK has some of the lowest employee engagement levels across the world - a figure of only 10%! When you combine this with our productivity amongst the G7 countries, you've got

Episode 78: Extraordinary People creating Extraordinary Companies

Jun 5th, 2023 11m 14s

Would you describe yourself as extraordinary? Most of us would have an immediate reaction of 'absolutely not!. But what if we were all extraordinary, but we just hadn't taken enough time to see it, appreciate it, acknowledge it? How can we poss

Episode 77: Leaders: The Weather Makers

May 30th, 2023 11m

In the UK, we've been experiencing lovely weather, and have you noticed how much nicer everyone is to one another when the sun shines? The weather makes a huge difference to our mood and motivation. Yet we don't often think about it, but leader

Episode 76: On Purpose - Passion with Action

May 23rd, 2023 9m 36s

How passionate are you about what your organisation does? Does the purpose statement excite you? What's the point of these purpose statements, if they have no impact on how we work? Passion and action are critical components of Purpose, yet acr

Episode 75: Valuing You

May 15th, 2023 11m 23s

When was the last time you indulged in time for you? We spend our lives focusing on everyone around us, and have little time to do everything we want to achieve, leaving any notion of spending time on ourselves as a luxury that can never happe

Episode 74: Workplace Bullying

Apr 24th, 2023 14m 19s

Following the news that the Deputy Prime Minister has resigned in the UK, following reports of bullying, it has raised a debate of what gets classed as bullying. Are managers who are 'robust' in their approach, bullies? Is there a standard defi

Episode 73: How Work Ready Are We Really?

Apr 18th, 2023 11m 2s

Whilst on the London Underground, during rush hour, Amrit noticed how many people looked exhausted and were sleeping. It's hard to imagine people being able to be the best of themselves when they're exhausted by the time they get to work. How w

Episode 72: Learned Hopefulness

Apr 4th, 2023 10m 34s

During challenging times, it's easy to get caught up thinking about worst-case scenarios and all that could go wrong. Whilst we might do this to protect ourselves, we can get into a habit of learned helplessness - resigned to the situations we

Episode 71: Institutional Trust and Improving Standards

Mar 27th, 2023 11m 56s

With the recent report into the Met police, and the horrific case of the school teacher who took her own life following an OFSTED inspection, it raises questions about how we go about improving standards, whilst using language such as 'Inadequa