Truth, Lies & Work

# insights

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9:01The beauty of AI — surfacing themes, not just dataJeffrey Fermin: I'm gonna get ahead of myself here. I wanna get to a solution already. This is the beauty of AI. This is the beauty of the AI era. And whether it's systems like Hoogly or any of these others, dare I say cEP 285 · 19 Mar 2026·interview· 9:01–12:0638:28The standout takeaways from Season 3Andrew Palmer: Well, if we're talking Pizza Hut, we've gotta talk about takeaways, haven't we? So the standout takeaway, I think, would be that we're in this phase where there are all these kind of barriers to Reaching tEP 277 · 19 Feb 2026·interview· 38:28–42:2115:16Beyond surveys: how to actually gather quality insightsJosh Levine: That's correct Leanne Elliott: And my biggest advice to any business leader who is looking at gathering these insights and what we'd call quantitative data, so more numbers-driven data that you'd get from a EP 264 · 6 Jan 2026·panel interview· 15:16–19:0229:54Short-form content and 'fortune-cookie insights'Leanne Elliott: There are some formats, some topics, some ways of writing that, you know, are more than likely gonna perform really well. Can you give us any little insider secrets? Nick Power: Sure Al Elliott: YeahEP 249 · 13 Nov 2025·interview· 29:54–37:3037:13The 'melting hug' and other takeawaysLeanne Elliott: What are they? Patrick Fagan: So melting hug is where you go up to someone and you hug them, And then you kind of breathe into them. So as you exhale, you kind of like both exhale together and melt togethEP 227 · 28 Aug 2025·interview· 37:13–38:4727:59What research and real conversations revealDanielle Wood: One of the things that we've been coming across time and time again through research and actually speaking to members of Generation Z, Gen Z, is that their views and their values are very different in whatEP 77 · 8 Feb 2024·panel interview· 27:59–31:0135:11Data-led DEI: leveraging insights for changeAl Elliott: Trigger alert for Kulbir, because I asked her a very, very difficult question. I said, the whole point of higher education is to exclude the majority of people who don't get the grades. So that's the whole poEP 62 · 26 Oct 2023·other· 35:11–43:0622:57How can insights shape workplace strategy?Leanne Elliott: Well, the truth is we can't really develop a decent workplace strategy without insights. It's a bit like, you know, we need to put the light on if we're going to find something, or we need to, we need to EP 57 · 21 Sept 2023·other· 22:57–29:3950:05How can insights help in the changing workplace?Leanne Elliott: So on to our last question. How can insights help with changing the workplace? Al Elliott: Change is the only constant. It's cheesy, but it's what is kind of true, because whether we have to react to pandEP 57 · 21 Sept 2023·other· 50:05–59:5140:47Data, Insights, ActionAl Elliott: Absolutely. And as Leanne says, the RX7 is perfect for you for like 3, but roughly 30 to 300 employees. That's sort of our sweet spot. I asked Bernard what the sweet spot for Pep Talk was Bernard Brogan: YeahEP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·interview· 40:47–44:3075:28No. 5: Measure insights, not just outputsAl Elliott: Yeah, I think when it comes to insights, if we're running any kind of marketing campaign, then we're going to use Google Analytics to find out how well each advert is doing, or we'll use our own Fathom or whaEP 34 · 12 Apr 2023·other· 75:28–79:2358:475 lessons from an hour with StellaLeanne Elliott: Me too Al Elliott: You sounded really sad when you said that, like it's never gonna happen Leanne Elliott: I know, it's almost overEP 33 · 5 Apr 2023·other· 58:47–66:26

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