Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Owen Eastwood, a renowned performance coach with a focus on team culture and leadership, shares valuable insights on building stronger teams. He discusses the importance of defining roles and expectations clearly and highlights the challenges faced in corporate environments where multiple teams exist. Owen addresses how fostering a culture of belonging and psychological safety is vital for high performance. He emphasizes the crucial impact of the environment on team behavior and offers practical strategies for reconnecting teams, enhancing engagement, and driving productivity.

Mark Price, former head of Waitrose, emphasizes the significance of workforce happiness as a cornerstone for business success. Drawing from his leadership experience, he shares a six-point framework for boosting employee satisfaction, demonstrating how it drove profitability in his organization. He discusses the pivotal role of middle management in fostering a positive culture and the need for genuine engagement rather than superficial measures. Furthermore, Price highlights the benefits of workplace flexibility, urging leaders to prioritize happiness for enhanced productivity.

Exploring how improv skills can enhance workplace dynamics, team performance, and creativity by being fully present and engaged in conversations. Discussing the impact of humor in fostering connections and driving positive change, combating fear and judgment in creative endeavors, and the role of genuine feedback and supportive leadership in employee well-being and performance.

Explore the impact of 'Fish' principles on workplace culture, emphasizing passion, purpose, and presence. Learn about creating memorable customer experiences and cultivating excellence through organizational culture. Discover the power of teaching presence in school and work environments.

Guests like Claudia Wallace discuss Crisp Thursday for connection, Andy Puleston talks Pizza Meetings for connection, Dan Pink shares Friday Night Experiments for creativity, Biz Stone explores Hack Week at Twitter for creativity, and Dr Heidi Edmondson talks Ten at Ten for performance.

Product designer and Stanford University teacher Kursat Orenc discusses designing workplace culture through rituals. He highlights how rituals reflect cultural values and their role in change, creativity, performance, conflict resolution, and community building. Orenc provides five use cases for rituals and emphasizes that rituals show what we care about in our culture.

The podcast explores the concept of presence at work beyond physical proximity, emphasizing positive leadership and connection. It delves into the impact of well-being on productivity, debunking the myth of overworking for success. Insights on emotional intelligence, meditation, and fostering a healthy workplace environment are discussed. The conversation highlights the benefits of positive leadership, emotional intelligence, and personal empowerment for fulfilling work experiences.

Darren Ashby, Speaker at Business Four Zero, discusses changing company culture with examples from Electronic Arts and Tesco. They focus on the importance of internal culture, purpose, and values. They highlight the need for behavior change and unity in the workplace for successful transformations.

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, or her special on meeting-free days was essential listening). I love its ability to react rapidly to the biggest news stories of the moment and to drop a snackable episode midweek.I talked to her about her opinions on modern work, going deep on the rapidly changing world of employment and where we’re going next.Isabel has a brand new book out, The Future Proof Career, which she says is for everyone who doesn’t read books about work but wants to be better at navigating it.Recent episodes you might have missedThe importance of trust at work - and why it's on the declineCharles Duhig on how to be a supercommunicator in your job (and your home life)Can improvements to culture fix a broken NHS trust?The Big Ange effect at Tottenham HotspurFrances Frei on the importance of training managers Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/eatsleepworkrepeat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 founder of the EX Space, a learning community focussed on raising the bar in the Employee Experience field.Then I picked the brains of Melanie Wheeler who leads People Communications at Sutherland, a firm widely recommended to me as outstanding in Employee Experience.Get in touchSign up for the newsletter Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/eatsleepworkrepeat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.