1 • Life at the Sharp End–A podcast to inspire and inform

With insights, analysis and interviews, Life at the Sharp End helps people who want to create safe, respectful and high-performing workplace cultures.

• People who want to do their best at work, leading by example;
• People who want to learn and improve from others' experiences;
• People who want to find out what it takes to make a real difference in life;
• People who want to know what it feels like, when actions and decisions affect others' lives (for good or ill);

People like you.

Together, we'll go beyond the bullet-points and explore the how and the why of real-world situations.

This is about learning from the reality of Life at the Sharp End. Would you like to know more?

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Episode Transcript

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In work, as in our personal lives, one
would like to think that most people want
to make a positive difference with the decisions
they make and the things that they'll do.
To do a good job, to improve and
learn about new ideas that'll help make things
simpler, easier and better for themselves and for
others.
With insights analysis and interviews, Life at the

(00:22):
Sharp End is a podcast for people who
want to create safe, respectful and high-performing
workplace cultures.
People who want to do their best at
work, leading by example.
People who want to learn and improve from
others' experiences.
People who want to find out what it
takes to make a real difference in life.
People who want to know what it feels

(00:44):
like when actions and decisions affect other people's
lives, whether that's for good or for ill.
People like you.
Together, we'll go beyond the bullet points and
we'll explore the how and the why of
real-world situations.
We'll look at practical ideas that'll help you
make a difference in your work and life

(01:06):
and we'll hear from interesting people sharing their
stories and experiences.
They've already got the T-shirt, so you
don't have to learn their lessons the hard
way.
In every professional and personal situation, there'll be
insights that can help us reflect and do
things differently.
That doesn't change whether you're at the top

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of an organisation, on a Board or in
an Executive role, or you're at the front
line, doing the best you can with what
you know and what's available to you.
Creating a positive and respectful workplace culture within
a high-performing team doesn't happen by accident.
It takes leadership, professionalism and integrity to ensure

(01:48):
that people can do their best and be
themselves, free from the harm caused by workplace
incivility, bullying or harassment.
Wherever you are and whatever it is you
do at work, we all have something to
learn each and every day.
"If I have seen further, it is by
standing on the shoulders of giants."

(02:10):
Those are the words of Sir Isaac Newton
when he wrote to fellow and rival scientist
Robert Hooke in 1676, graciously acknowledging that advances
by any of us come from building on
the knowledge of others who have gone before.
This is a podcast intended to inspire and
inform, to give you new ideas and insights

(02:31):
that help you make a positive difference, whoever
you are and whatever you do.
This is about learning from the reality of
Life at the Sharp End.