Truth, Lies & Work

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23:09Using the Seven Plots with your teamLeanne Elliott: But come back Al Elliott: Yeah, come back. Definitely come back because Nudge isn't as good as this Leanne Elliott: So come backEP 319 · 16 Jul 2026·interview· 23:09–26:0130:03Truth or Lie: Does Nostalgia Make Teams Stronger?Leanne Elliott: So come back Al Elliott: I'll cut that out. Keep that in. Welcome back to Truth or Lie. It's that time of the week where we take a popular workplace idea and ask if the research actually backs it up. ThisEP 310 · 16 Jun 2026·truth or lie· 30:03–45:5530:24Workplace Surgery — unfulfilling work, great teamLeanne Elliott: Lee. In this situation, it's important to know that this is not a long-term solution for you, but it is a good short-term solution while you're figuring out what is gonna be meaningful and fulfilling workEP 234 · 23 Sept 2025·workplace surgery· 30:24–34:4934:49Workplace Surgery — building genuine passion in your teamLeanne Elliott: I mean, it's a big ask for, to expect any employee to care about your business as much as you do. That's not impossible, but it's a big ask and you need to be very intentional about how you build your envEP 234 · 23 Sept 2025·workplace surgery· 34:49–39:4226:56Learning from missteps — and what the team learnedTim Lupinacci: It was interesting after it was a couple really hard years, as I said, like we had about 6 months before the pandemic where we were trying to turn some things around already. So we were already in the trenEP 215 · 17 Jul 2025·interview· 26:56–30:4226:28Q4 — Keeping projects moving with fewer handsAl Elliott: Okay, some really good tips there. Question number 4 I've got here is, what strategies can we implement to prevent project delays during summer? Now, this is one which I think gets a lot of people. Because thEP 203 · 5 Jun 2025·other· 26:28–30:1524:43A real-world MQ transformation storyJames Fleming: We've got lots and lots of stories. Why don't I tell you about a team, a business? So we had a business, a really, really large company based in Yorkshire, and they had taken over, they'd bought other busiEP 165 · 23 Jan 2025·interview· 24:43–27:410:33Editing your ego: why leaders must make the story about the teamAl Elliott: Nice. So you might say, all right, this year we want to be a successful company that grows. That's about me. The reality is, in an uncertain economic climate, A lot of people are worried about how businesses EP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 0:33–0:5816:07Leanne's best day as a managerLeanne Elliott: My best moment knowing that what we were doing was really something cool and I'd orchestrated this situation was when— so I worked for a welfare-to-work company called Pinnacle People, and we— I ran a conEP 17 · 20 Dec 2022·other· 16:07–20:17

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