Podcast Episodes

Presence: 'Yes and...' - how the secrets of improv can teach us about work

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office

You might think an episode about improv comedy might be a stretch for a podcast about …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Presence: Fish! Time to revisit a culture classic?

Season 11 Episode 191

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office

In the 2000s a book called Fish! A remarkable way to boost morale and improve results …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Presence: exploring real life culture rituals

Season 11 Episode 190

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office

This is the second episode about rituals - the first one is next to it in the podcast …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Presence: our rituals show what matters to us

Season 11 Episode 189

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office

Kursat Ozenc is a product designer who he teaches at Stanford university, He teaches o…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Presence: Presence starts with positive leadership

Season 11 Episode 188

Flow is the state of being in which people become so immersed in the joy of their work or activity “that nothing else seems to matter.”

Presence is to be in a flow state of connection with others.

Here…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

“Workers watch your feet, not your lips” - changing culture at scale

Season 11 Episode 187

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Today’s top episode goes to the heart of an issue that a lot of people raise with me.

They say ‘where do you start when chang…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

The future of work? "The manager as a therapist"

Season 11 Episode 186

Isabel Berwick is a writer and podcaster who focusses on the evolving state of modern work. I’ve celebrated her podcast Working It many times here

(here’s her specials on the 4-day week for example, …

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Getting real with Employee Experience

Season 11 Episode 185

How should most of us think about the differences between Employee Experience and Employee Engagement.

I first spoke to Emma Bridger, who is the author of a well respected book on this topic and the f…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Better conversations, better relationships

Season 11 Episode 184

Charles Duhigg’s bestseller The Power of Habit was the definitive guide to building and sustaining successful habits.

His new book, Supercommunicators, grapples with the knotty topic of creating succe…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Do bonuses actually make us work harder?

Season 10 Episode 183

Many of us have worked in environments that provided bonuses or rewards for success. Maybe they took the form of team rewards or individual incentives, or end of year profit-share schemes. But do the…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago