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44:23Sally takes agency — cold Kristien's adviceLeanne Elliott: I wanna go back to Sally, 'cause I'm with you. I'm like, Sally, take some agency. You've got this. You can do this. I also know, having been a very passionate middle manager myself at times, That I'm, I'mEP 311 · 18 Jun 2026·interview· 44:23–53:0764:05Advice to younger self and egoAl Elliott: Because I think that ego stands in your way and there are so many people I know who are obsessed with being right about something to the point where they will go bankrupt trying to be right. They will be in aEP 304 · 26 May 2026·other· 64:05–67:0842:11Workplace Surgery — Q1: How do I stop being the person everything falls on?Al Elliott: I'll cut that out. Keep that in. Okay. Welcome back. Welcome back. We— it is time for the world-famous Weekly Workplace Surgery where I put your questions to Cait Donovan and Leanne. By the way, quick shout oEP 302 · 19 May 2026·workplace surgery· 42:11–48:4924:04Advice for aspiring foundersAl Elliott: Keep that in. So let's go back to someone who's listening, who wants to start a business and wants to be a founder, wants to get into entrepreneurship. They are insanely clever, right? Like you were. They're EP 301 · 14 May 2026·interview· 24:04–30:4244:08Advice for leaders who want to flatten their structure and top 3 takeawaysDanni Mohammed: I don't think it's about 2. I think the number 2, I think it's about what is their main output? What is their main focus? What kind of culture do they want? And, you know, for me, I want a culture of everEP 293 · 16 Apr 2026·interview· 44:08–47:5148:45The one thing to take awayLeanne Elliott: And if listeners take away just one thing in terms of hiring better, what should it be? Kate Young: I think I said it a few times, but it's measure what matters, because unless you define what you actuallEP 287 · 26 Mar 2026·interview· 48:45–50:3048:03Be happily confused — advice for leaders who don't know how to feelLeanne Elliott: There are a lot of leaders I speak to, business owners who haven't quite figured out how to feel about AI yet. They're sitting in this space where they're excited by it, they're slightly concerned about iEP 277 · 19 Feb 2026·interview· 48:03–51:1940:59One thing to take away and top 3 takeawaysLindsey Caplan: So, I think if there's one thing I want people to take away, it's the idea that people are not changed or moved by content. They're changed when they are affected by it, right? And so, that is our goal, tEP 273 · 5 Feb 2026·interview· 40:59–43:1832:33Advice for their younger selvesAl Elliott: So as you're either entering or approaching sort of 7-figure turnover, what might you have said to the 2 kids back in 2010 when they were just approaching their first, their first mil? What advice would you gEP 271 · 29 Jan 2026·panel interview· 32:33–38:2648:25Workplace Surgery: I Hate My Job — First StepAl Elliott: Yes. Anyway, right. Okay. On to question number 3. This person simply says, I hate my job. What's the first step? Sorry to hear that. I hate my job. I'm not even sure how it got this bad, but I feel completelEP 268 · 20 Jan 2026·workplace surgery· 48:25–53:1130:39Practical advice for leaders stuck in the messy middleDustin Hillis: There, there are some big businesses out there that, that have very low margins. I think of, um, restaurants, for example. Um, you know, if you're in a low margin business, you, you could have $1 million iEP 267 · 15 Jan 2026·interview· 30:39–36:0614:26Advice to his past self: get focused soonerAl Elliott: I have a question. The question is going to be, what would Jeremy 2025, January 2025, what advice would he have for Jeremy January 2024. But just before we go on to that, I think this is a really important thEP 259 · 18 Dec 2025·interview· 14:26–18:5635:52Advice for business owners and the non-negotiable skill: getting your shit togetherRob Kalwarowsky: But no, but seriously, right, is you need to lean into that, right? And I'm not saying you go and ask everybody, like, you don't walk in the room and go, Leanne, you know, you look very unconfident latelEP 257 · 11 Dec 2025·interview· 35:52–38:496:15Question 6 — what do you wish younger generations knew?Al Elliott: 6 Leanne Elliott: Generations in the workplace. I've deleted the actual question Al Elliott: You've deleted it?EP 222 · 12 Aug 2025·other· 6:15–9:0655:07The one thing to take away from this entire rantLeanne Elliott: And if there's only one thing you take away from this entire rant of a conversation, please, for the love of RuPaul Charles, do not go to Bali Al Elliott: Sorry, darling. See you next week Leanne Elliott:EP 220 · 5 Aug 2025·other· 55:07–55:2431:44One Thing to Take AwayLeanne Elliott: You've given us so much to think about. If there's one thing that a listener would take from this conversation, what would you want it to be? Roit Feldenkreis: Wow. Just one thing. Let's see. I think thatEP 209 · 26 Jun 2025·interview· 31:44–32:4129:39Top 3 takeaways from StuartAl Elliott: Absolutely. So Just quickly then, the top 3 things we're taking away from Stuart's story. Leanne, what are they? Leanne Elliott: Number 1, just talk to people. Communicate. If someone's putting the time and eEP 196 · 13 May 2025·news roundup· 29:39–32:1135:21Advice for leaders considering reduced hoursLeanne Elliott: So, there's probably other leaders listening who are like, Jeanette, I'm with you. I'm this type of leader. I'm this type of entrepreneur and business owner. I'd love to go to a 4-day work week. I'm a bitEP 183 · 27 Mar 2025·interview· 35:21–42:2637:13What future Steve would tell himselfSteve Carse: Oh gosh, good question. We actually just broke one of our things that we said we would never do after 15 years. So We sold a, we call them cartrpreneurs. We make up, I guess, words for everything for some reEP 181 · 20 Mar 2025·interview· 37:13–47:0431:18Workplace Surgery #1: My ex is now my bossAl Elliott: Fabulous. Okay, on to my favourite time of the week, which is the world-famous Weekly Workplace Surgery, where I put your questions to Leanne. You know this, Leanne's a Chartered Occupational Psychologist whoEP 180 · 18 Mar 2025·workplace surgery· 31:18–36:5839:01Does working from home help or hinder and magic wand questionLeanne Elliott: You've shared so much, so much wisdom, Skye. And I'm, I'm wondering if there was, if there was a magic wand and you could just change one misconception, one misunderstanding, or one aspect of what is currEP 173 · 20 Feb 2025·interview· 39:01–42:2722:47One takeaway for every leaderAl Elliott: In terms of work and leadership, is there any kind of one takeaway that you just wish all leaders could take from Fortitude? Bruce Daisley: Yeah, I think for me, especially the moment of work we're in right nEP 162 · 14 Jan 2025·interview· 22:47–24:3646:45The business case for grief support and closing adviceLeanne Elliott: Of course, we've, we've focused on this very much, you know, for the individual. What are the consequences, or, you know, that positive to an organization who manages this well? Maria Georgiou: I think yoEP 151 · 5 Dec 2024·interview· 46:45–58:1625:59Where to start if you've never thought about this beforeAl Elliott: I'm not Angela's target market, but she's definitely got me thinking about what I wear, especially when we do these episodes as videos. In fact, I think I tend to wear the same 3 things apart from today whereEP 149 · 28 Nov 2024·interview· 25:59–30:2842:00Advice for leaders ready to implementGarrett Delph: I would encourage maybe 2 high-level points. One is an agreed-upon approach to business that I learned from Andrew Carnegie and also from Berkshire Hathaway, and that is control your costs. Probably the beEP 147 · 21 Nov 2024·interview· 42:00–46:5440:28Workplace Surgery: Bullying from a managerAl Elliott: Anyway, Leanne, I've got an odd one for question number 2. It's actually from Reddit, so no one's written in with this. I found it, I found it on Reddit, and I thought it was Sure. So I'll read this to you. IEP 146 · 19 Nov 2024·workplace surgery· 40:28–45:5036:16Advice for 14-year-old AnnabelleLeanne Elliott: The other day I'd seen a post, I can't remember what, I think it was on like TikTok or something, and it said if you could sit in a— you get paid a million pounds if you sit in a room with your 14-year-olEP 141 · 31 Oct 2024·other· 36:16–40:5340:08Advice to 25-year-old HarryAl Elliott: Let's get on to my favourite bit, the lessons learned when building an organisation from the ground up. We'll get back into the interview where Leanne did a great job of finding out what went well and what diEP 129 · 19 Sept 2024·interview· 40:08–45:2945:29What Harry wants listeners to take awayAl Elliott: Yeah Harry Cramer: You add that up over the years and people spend thousands and thousands and thousands of hours working with you. So I feel very proud that they've entrusted an element of their career with EP 129 · 19 Sept 2024·interview· 45:29–48:1139:48Advice for creating an office people love and key takeawaysEd Williams: Yeah, I mean, I would start thinking about where do your people like to work today? And if that is a coffee shop, if it's their living room at home or their breakfast table in the kitchen, wherever it is, I EP 125 · 5 Sept 2024·interview· 39:48–48:2726:07Workplace Surgery: 'Am I stealing from my boss?'Al Elliott: So we are now at the part where it is the world-famous Weekly Workplace Surgery with Leanne Elliott, my co-host and wife Leanne Elliott: That's me Al Elliott: You should know by now she's a chartered psycholoEP 121 · 13 Aug 2024·workplace surgery· 26:07–31:2543:02Geoff's parting wisdom + what's next for OutsetaAl Elliott: What an incredible story. I recommend you go and follow Geoff on Twitter or go to the Outsetter blog. The link is in the show notes. Geoff's unique outlook on life would lend itself perfectly to a podcast, anEP 106 · 13 Jun 2024·interview· 43:02–48:3031:14Workplace Surgery: Managing your circleLeanne Elliott: I've hijacked the final question, Al, and I have one for you Al Elliott: I wondered why, why I hadn't got a note down here for the third one Leanne Elliott: I thought it was one that is one that popped upEP 105 · 11 Jun 2024·workplace surgery· 31:14–39:4418:39Workplace Surgery introAl Elliott: In talking of, uh, of getting every— letting everyone have a voice, I think it's time for us to let HubSpot have a voice, who pay our bills. So we're going to take a short break. We're back in a second with tEP 97 · 14 May 2024·workplace surgery· 18:39–19:2540:25Amelia's message to women listeningLeanne Elliott: If you are a woman listening to this who has been out of work for a while, who may have lost a little confidence, hopefully you now know where to start your journey back into the workplace Lydia & Amelia EP 94 · 2 May 2024·interview· 40:25–41:1334:53Final nuggets of wisdom and HR adviceAl Elliott: So there is the story of Charlie HR and its founder Ben, and, and a whole bonus heap of advice around culture which is added absolutely free of charge Leanne Elliott: Before we go, let's get another little nuEP 89 · 11 Apr 2024·interview· 34:53–36:1634:37Advice for startups entering the D&I spaceSophie Wood: One of the things I would say, if I was kind of, if I want to see a new startup coming into the marketplace and they set aside money, they think, yeah, let's do some DE&I work, then I would urge them not to EP 77 · 8 Feb 2024·panel interview· 34:37–35:0928:13Advice to his past selfAl Elliott: I asked Joe that if he could go back in time and give advice to himself, what would he say to himself? Joe Fier: I was moving too quickly and making decisions very fast and not listening to my gut, my intuitiEP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 28:13–32:1028:14'I Wasn't Listening to the Signs' — Advice to Her Younger SelfJodie Hill: Really unfortunate in that I wasn't self-aware enough. So, one of the things that I would recommend everybody does is start to journal and try to be more aware of their emotions, their behaviours, and reflectEP 73 · 11 Jan 2024·interview· 28:14–29:5359:06Parting words of wisdomOliver Yonchev: What I would like to say to young people, there are some undeniable truths that I think need to— we don't need to be ashamed of. Like, hard work, um, actually sets you up for success. What you work hard aEP 38 · 10 May 2023·interview· 59:06–62:3888:34The advice each generation would give the restLeanne Elliott: And that leads me nicely to my final question, maybe to all of you. You know, I think everything we've talked about seems to come back to a, I guess, a headline of we all experience the world slightly difEP 35 · 19 Apr 2023·other· 88:34–98:3955:38Practical advice for male leadersAl Elliott: That is such a big question, isn't it? Because the feminist in me wants to say, well, of course we can have it all. I, I think that, I think that perhaps that is an unrealistic expectation given how society iEP 32 · 29 Mar 2023·other· 55:38–59:5170:28Final advice and takeawaysAl Elliott: I would say find a mentor as soon as possible. Find someone in your organization, female, if you're a female, another female who you trust, respect, and you want to learn from, and start now. Invite them to cEP 32 · 29 Mar 2023·other· 70:28–73:3459:18Simon's final advice & the Make a Difference communityAl Elliott: So let's wrap things up. We asked Simon if he had any more advice or resources that might help, and he talked about his events, which are amazing Simon Berger: Well, for us, we do these annual events. One is EP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 59:18–64:3747:02Tactical advice for employer brand and wrap-upLeanne Elliott: Yeah Al Elliott: How do we not overwhelm them with training and internal communications? How do we make sure that we have a communications plan similar to the way the marketing team develops one to reach EP 23 · 25 Jan 2023·other· 47:02–50:32
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