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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’s the last discussion about the Happiness Track
HBR: The Best Leaders Have a Contagious Positive Energy
HBR: Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
Today is th...
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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 changing a culture’.
To some extent it’s what the episode about the hospital trust in Barking was about, going in and changing the culture of a huge organisation.
I saw one of today’s guests Darren Ashby speak at an event - tal...
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...
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...
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:
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.
This week's Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook.
Roll up roll up as this week we talk the major trends in work and workplace culture and the big stories of the last month.
Including:
- Wellness programs don’t work - in TikTok form, or in Matt’s post on LinkedIn Research from Oxford University looking at the (in)effectiveness of workplace wellbeing interventions at an individual level
- C...
I was flattered to be invited to visit the NHS trust of Barking, Havering and Redbridge last year. I spent an afternoon meeting the team and seeing the place in action.
It was an inspiring question that CEO Matthew Trainer was asking: 'can we improve the results by making it a better culture?'
What does that look like? And how is going for them?
Matthew Trainer's CEO note at the end of 2023
Video: Inside the Trust
We often overlook the fact that trust is the basis for all good culture. I called out some of the remarkable data on this in the Work In 2024 deck.
In Slack’s August 2023 survey of over 10,000 global office workers, trust was the top determinant of employees’ productivity scores. Employees who felt trusted were 2X as productive as those who didn’t. They were 30% more likely to put in extra effort at their jobs. If we d...
The role of managers are pivotal in our working lives but most managers aren't trained or prepared for the responsibilities that they are given.
When we look at the research from Gallup about burnout and why people hate their jobs managers are regarded as having the biggest responsibility. Half of people who say they don't rate their manager say they are looking for jobs. So what can we do to make our relationship with our manag...
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We talk through the hottest topics in work:
- New research says that bosses think going part-time signals the end of career ambition
- Radio 5 Live's Nihal Arthanayake says he feels alienated as the only brown face in a sea of white at his workplace
- Bill Gates advocates for the three-day week but doesn't detail who he think...
Professor Frances Frei is the biggest brain in the field of workplace culture and I was delighted to get another opportunity to talk to her.
She explains the one thing that firms should do to fix their cultures (spoiler: train their managers), why she thinks inclusion is a more important element of culture than just diversity.
The previous episode with Frances Frei
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Is toxic culture driving your team away?
If you’re someone whose job it is think about culture, or maybe you’re a boss who has tried to communicate values to your team then today’s episode is an essential listen.
Donald Sull and Charlie Sull are a father and son research team who have discovered extraordinary insights into val...
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This week we go deep on the latest news about work.
- ITV tell staff to declare ‘friendships’
- Moderation staff at Facebook are suing over PTSD
- BBC staff given help for stress levels
- 'We Had To Remove This Post' - brilliant novella by Hanna Bervoets
- Oobah Butler’s Amazon show on Channel 4
- Reddit anti work
- Reddit r/LateStageCap...
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This week we go deep on the latest news about work.
We discuss:
What Ange Postecoglou changed at Spurs in his first 100 days: ‘The mood has been transformed’
Charlie writes about the oratory of Ange Postecoglou
Last week I read something wonderful about the culture of Tottenham Hotspur, I contacted the writer and it felt like it was worth putting out quickly. We’ve got a couple of podcast recorded with Matt and Ellen so we’ll be back for a fuller episode next...
Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook. Ellen is away this week - we were working hard to squeeze an elite guest in.
Amy Edmondson is the most renowned organisational psychologist in the world. In other words she's looked to more than anyone else for the answers of how to fix work.
In this in depth discussion she talks us through what she understands by psychological safety, how any o...
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Catherine Price is a science and health writer who has written a couple of sensationally timely books.
Firstly How to Break Up With Your Phone
Secondly, and today’s discussion focusses on this, The Power of Fun
I was put on to it by Elle Hunt’s Power of Fun article in The Guardian
Memorise it: fun is ...
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Ellen wrote about her learnings about being a manager
Despite government threats of legal action Cambridgeshire council are continuing their evidence-led trial of the 4-day week. “Nine in ten councils are struggling with job recruitment and retention and a four-day working week could be the answer”
I’m joined again by new cohosts Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook.
Owen Eastwood is the most in-demand team performance coach in the world
He's earned that reputation by delivering break-through results with a diverse range of teams from Gareth Southgate’s England team and the England women’s team, to the senior leadership team of NATO. His former clients represent an elite range of teams who have gone on to ach...
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