Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

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 managersSign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website.Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley. 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 newsletterSign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website.Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 successful interactions with others.It’s a thorough and dazzling read that has many applications for the way we work (and how we live our lives).We talked about:the single biggest thing that builds psychological safetywhy moving conversation out of small talk into deep discussion proves more satisfying than we expecthow teams should use 'who are we' conversationshow we should think about three different types of conversation (are they looking to be helped, hugged or heard?Read an extract of Charles' book hereSign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website.Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 these rewards achieve what they are designed to?Professor Uri Gneezy is the world's foremost expert on the science of incentives - and he comes with a huge warning about what such schemes actually achieve.Eat Sleep Work Repeat is today hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen Scott and Matthew Cook.Sign up to the newsletterSign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website.Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This podcast explores the challenges and trends in workplace culture, including the (in)effectiveness of wellness programs, the concept of chrono working for productivity and well-being, the shifting nature of work and boundaries, the impact of AI interviews on job applicants, and the limitations of AI tools in hiring.