# summer
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0:00Summer Sessions housekeeping and introducing Danny WarehamDanny Wareham: Our survey said— Al Elliott: This episode contains probably some strong language and likely some adult themes and probably some dad jokes. Listener discretion is advised Leanne Elliott: Hello, welcome to aEP 326 · 11 Aug 2026·intro· 0:00–2:360:02Summer Sessions intro and ranking setupLeanne Elliott: Hello and welcome to Truth, Lies and Work, the award-winning podcast where behavioural science meets workplace culture. We are brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for busiEP 226 · 26 Aug 2025·other· 0:02–4:5852:41Wrap-up and summer plansAl Elliott: I feel like I should say other HR agencies are available Leanne Elliott: And not sponsored Al Elliott: It's not sponsored, but I think that this, hopefully this will become a relatively semi-regular thing becEP 216 · 22 Jul 2025·news roundup· 52:41–56:078:09Q1 — Maintaining engagement when half the team is on holidayAl Elliott: So question 1 is, how can we maintain team engagement when half the team is on holiday? So basically, I mean, this one comes up a lot really, doesn't it? Because basically what we're saying is half the team aEP 203 · 5 Jun 2025·other· 8:09–12:4220:50Q3 — Supporting working parents through the summerAl Elliott: Okay, so the third question that comes up a lot is, how do leaders and managers and business owners deal with people with kids? Now, obviously, we don't have kids, very happily kid-free, but my sister and my EP 203 · 5 Jun 2025·other· 20:50–26:1236:10Q6 — Leveraging quiet summer weeks for strategic planningAl Elliott: Okay, so question number 6, can we leverage the quieter summer period for strategic planning? Now, this I really like. Funnily enough, we've been doing this over the last couple of days. So, coming up for JunEP 203 · 5 Jun 2025·other· 36:10–40:0717:09Summer Book Club: This Is Why You DreamAl Elliott: Yes. Thank you very much. End of the news roundup. Leah, book segment. This is what we— what you came up with last week, I think, the Summer Book Club. Um, if you— we'll leave a link to the books in the, uh, EP 105 · 11 Jun 2024·news roundup· 17:09–24:1117:37Summer Book Club launch — This Is Why You DreamLeanne Elliott: Um, Truth and Lies Summer Book Club Al Elliott: Oh God, you're not in charge of titles Leanne Elliott: Why did you ask me?EP 103 · 4 Jun 2024·news roundup· 17:37–25:080:33Why we're doing lighter summer episodesAl Elliott: Nice. Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses. So basically, high pay means that you can kind of treat your guys like whatever you want, like in Suits or Billions or all thEP 50 · 3 Aug 2023·other· 0:33–2:41
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