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12:24The Meeting Experiment: Cancelling a Week of MeetingsLeanne Elliott: Yeah. Chris Lovett: So we'd probably not waffle around for 15 minutes, or complete, you know, question the work that we would be working on as a team. And I'd be like, is this the most important thing we'EP 325 · 6 Aug 2026·interview· 12:24–17:3031:30Truth or Lie: Work and fun don't mixAl Elliott: 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 really does back it up. Today we're testing the claim that work and fun don't mix. LeannEP 318 · 14 Jul 2026·truth or lie· 31:30–49:4440:58Workplace Surgery: Where has all the energy gone?Al Elliott: It is. It's time for the World Famous Weekly Episode where we wrap up your questions to Leanne. Yes, this is where we take some questions and we put them to Leanne and she answers them effortlessly. Apart froEP 316 · 7 Jul 2026·workplace surgery· 40:58–45:510:02Word of the Week: Dark ShoweringAl Elliott: Coming up this week in work Leanne Elliott: Imagine if there was a simple way to wind down your body and brain after a hard day at work. Something really simple that you're probably doing every day anyway. WeEP 308 · 9 Jun 2026·news roundup· 0:02–12:1610:17Word of the Week — 'Circling Forward'Leanne Elliott: I've got a new word Al Elliott: You love a new word. So just in case anyone's not heard this before, I'm sure you have, but every week Leanne comes up with a new word and we have to guess what it is LeannEP 302 · 19 May 2026·news roundup· 10:17–22:0353:40Workplace Surgery — Q3: Trapped in a culture of meeting overloadLeanne Elliott: Fabulous Al Elliott: Thank you so much. Okay, final question here. And this person, he says, I've got no time to actually think. It said, I spend 3 quarters of my day in meetings. By the time I get to actEP 302 · 19 May 2026·workplace surgery· 53:40–57:1260:35Workplace Surgery: The group chat trapJake Tuber: That hurts. That's really hard. I don't even mean just at work, but just to find out people who you think think of you one way are talking about you differently when you're not around. Gosh, that, you know, jEP 300 · 12 May 2026·workplace surgery· 60:35–65:2120:11Story 3: Is toxic leadership the new norm?Leanne Elliott: 6 in 10 workers say they currently have a toxic boss Al Elliott: Oh, 60% Leanne Elliott: Yeah, it's not, not so much fun really, is it? So this was in, I think this was in Fast Company. Yeah, it was, it wEP 298 · 5 May 2026·news roundup· 20:11–24:1516:45Story 3: The pink ice cream maker fiascoLeanne Elliott: Pink ice cream makers for International Women's Day. I can kind of see it where like the MD walks into the room of HR and goes, guys, I've had an idea Al Elliott: Right Leanne Elliott: Let's buy all the wEP 288 · 31 Mar 2026·news roundup· 16:45–23:2620:03Story 3: The climate of constant connectivityLeanne Elliott: Well, speaking of leaders being annoying, right? This is a bit of research I came across that was basically looking at what is the impact of leaders' late-night behaviour on employees Al Elliott: Where'd EP 280 · 3 Mar 2026·news roundup· 20:03–27:172:26Story 1: The rise of silent disengagementLeanne Elliott: Thank you, Natalie Al Elliott: So I've got to tell you, right? So this morning, you know some of this story, you don't know all of it. We, if you don't know, listener, we live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, sEP 278 · 24 Feb 2026·news roundup· 2:26–13:550:01Winter Olympics banter and the lure of niche sportsAl Elliott: Coming up this week in work Leanne Elliott: The biggest workplace problem in 2026 has been named. It isn't pay, it isn't burnout, it's managers. I am shooketh, Al. Shook. We are asking, who's responsible for EP 274 · 10 Feb 2026·news roundup· 0:01–5:4019:43The rule: unless everyone's laughing, it's not funnyAl Elliott: I like that. I like that. So I think there's, unfortunately, in almost any office of any size, there's going to be one person who thinks they're funny, but they're not. First of all, why are they not funny?EP 269 · 22 Jan 2026·interview· 19:43–19:5738:27Workplace Surgery: culture diagnostics beyond surveysLeanne Elliott: Al is from Scottish descent Al Elliott: I am of Scottish descent, and I cannot do for the life of me. My brother does an amazing— Leanne Elliott: Yeah, he doesEP 266 · 13 Jan 2026·workplace surgery· 38:27–45:089:51Why hope ran out during the pandemicAl Elliott: Well, let's move on to this world of work idea because I've got a note down here from my very clever wife and co-host, something about Peterson and Bryan. And this is what she's written. Research shows that hEP 265 · 8 Jan 2026·interview· 9:51–15:240:00Top 1% Employer Certification: What Makes a Great Workplace?Al Elliott: Coming up this week in work Leanne Elliott: Jobs platform Escape the City has launched a top 1% employer certification. They say these employers have passed an in-depth culture audit supported by anonymous emEP 258 · 16 Dec 2025·news roundup· 0:00–9:3738:15Workplace Surgery: Secret Santa for the CEOLeanne Elliott: I dunno Al Elliott: Ask them Leanne Elliott: I don't know this personEP 256 · 9 Dec 2025·workplace surgery· 38:15–40:043:45Why difficult people aren't born—they're createdAoife O'Brien: So, my name is Aoife O'Brien. I work with global organizations on helping them to create thriving organizations. That's all based on my own personal experiences at work and my quest to uncover what those tEP 255 · 4 Dec 2025·interview· 3:45–5:4614:21Nicknames for lazy coworkers: is banter really harmless?Al Elliott: James Hardy, is it? James Hardy? Leanne Elliott: James Hardy. Al Elliott: So go and find James Hardy on LinkedIn and go and give him a follow. Okay, so I was I got a message from my brother-in-law. Hello, JamEP 250 · 18 Nov 2025·news roundup· 14:21–19:238:43What it actually means to be professionalNick Power: This is going to be different for every person. To me, you know, when I think about what it means to be professional, it means, are you good at your job? Are you good at your craft? A lot of people have gotteEP 249 · 13 Nov 2025·interview· 8:43–13:4410:19Navigating modern dress codes and casual dressLeanne Elliott: I'm curious because you always hear, don't you, about stories about how fashion shapes culture, youth shapes fashion, which shapes culture. It's all intertwined, you know. Um, ecosystem. Have we seen any EP 245 · 30 Oct 2025·interview· 10:19–12:1640:57Workplace Surgery: Can I say no to my manager's lunch invite?Al Elliott: Question number 2, my manager invited me for lunch. Can I say no? So last week my manager asked me if I wanted to go to lunch together, and I'm a bit unsure about it. To be honest, I'd rather keep things striEP 244 · 28 Oct 2025·workplace surgery· 40:57–45:093:54Meet Danny Wareham — happy bees make tasty honeyDanny Wareham: My name's Danny Wareham. I'm an organisational psychologist who believes that happy bees make tasty honey. If we have the right environment, the right support, right leadership, right culture, then actuallEP 243 · 23 Oct 2025·interview· 3:54–4:092:25Six ways Gen Z are 'ruining' the workplaceLeanne Elliott: Sure is, Al. Cue the jingle. Okay, Lee, what 6 ways Gen Z are ruining the workplace Al Elliott: Oh God, not another. It's always the Gen Zs. Why don't we do 6 ways that Generation X are ruining the workplEP 242 · 21 Oct 2025·news roundup· 2:25–11:0522:10Truth or Lie — 'Your vibe attracts your tribe'Al Elliott: Keep that in. Welcome back. It is time for Truth or Lie. This is our weekly myth-busting segment. We're gonna take those psychological claims you've seen everyone ask, does the evidence actually back this up?EP 242 · 21 Oct 2025·truth or lie· 22:10–31:430:00The family business that made meetings funLeanne Elliott: What would you think if you saw this in your workplace? So, a junior employee is having a heated argument with the CEO. Voices are raised, disagreements are flying, and the new employees are watching withEP 241 · 16 Oct 2025·interview· 0:00–4:2031:26Workplace Surgery: Toxic superstarsAl Elliott: Well, talking of glorious messiness of human nature, which is a beautiful turn of phrase, by the way, it's time for our world-famous weekly work— work— surgery. Oh no, it's time for our world-famous weekly woEP 240 · 14 Oct 2025·workplace surgery· 31:26–36:446:44The 'Andrew Tates of the workplace' — social media's impactIsabel Berwick: I think this is A huge problem. And I think it's going to be the, one of the most pressing issues in workplaces. And I'm not sure if saying get over yourselves is, would be the way I would frame it becausEP 235 · 25 Sept 2025·interview· 6:44–9:1725:03The £2 coin story and the gulf between colleaguesIsabel Berwick: Honestly, we were just living in a kind of vacuum. And I think that's part of the gulf that we don't really think about generationally. People in Gen X, you know, I'm in my 50s. Now, people in their 40s aEP 235 · 25 Sept 2025·interview· 25:03–29:272:51Why fun matters at workJoel Zeff: My name is Joel Zeff. I am a keynote speaker. I use improv and humor to talk about choices, how we choose to lead with passion, how we choose to celebrate our successes, how we find success during change and dEP 225 · 21 Aug 2025·interview· 2:51–4:5314:14Creating environments of inclusionJohn Michel: Yeah, I think it's important to create an environment where people feel included, right? So an environment of inclusiveness or belonging where people feel like they're part of something that they all identifEP 223 · 14 Aug 2025·interview· 14:14–18:4325:17Back-to-back meetings and the breaking pointLeanne Elliott: But come back Al Elliott: Yeah, come back. Definitely come back because Nudge isn't as good as this. So come back. I'll cut that out. Keep that in. So going back to the young woman who was eating her luncEP 221 · 7 Aug 2025·interview· 25:17–28:0011:04Sticking to boundaries as a leaderElaine Smith: Yeah, definitely. So there's a couple of things. There's, um, doing a handover. Like, if there's somebody else that's going to be taking care of your work, or, I mean, I know it's sort of rarer that there'sEP 219 · 31 Jul 2025·interview· 11:04–14:270:02The intruder paradox: reframing imposter syndrome as a workplace problemAl Elliott: Coming up this week in work Leanne Elliott: Is imposter syndrome really a confidence problem or a workplace one? New research suggests it's inclusion, not insecurity, that's holding people back Al Elliott: AnEP 216 · 22 Jul 2025·news roundup· 0:02–10:4715:41Story 3: The emotion hack that actually works at workAl Elliott: Okay, Lee, what else have you seen, my love? Leanne Elliott: Has science found an actual emotion hack? Al Elliott: Oh, oh, go on, tell meEP 210 · 1 Jul 2025·news roundup· 15:41–21:093:37Digital Incivility: The Passive-Aggressive Problem You're IgnoringLeanne Elliott: I have a new word Al Elliott: Yes, go on Leanne Elliott: Digital incivilityEP 206 · 17 Jun 2025·news roundup· 3:37–10:120:02Intro and coming up this weekAl Elliott: Coming up this week in work Leanne Elliott: Are you a duck shuffler? Al Elliott: A what?EP 202 · 3 Jun 2025·intro· 0:02–4:408:45The $40 loan that went viralAl Elliott: Talking of giving employees things, there was this post on Twitter by a guy called Joey Salvin. He runs a moving company in Boston. That's USA. So Boston, Massachusetts, not Boston, Lincolnshire, if you're frEP 200 · 27 May 2025·news roundup· 8:45–17:1139:40Workplace Surgery — Do anonymous surveys actually work?Leanne Elliott: What a great question. And this is right, right up my street, Al. Like you said, you put 50p in me and now I'm gonna go. Are employee surveys a good way of gaining feedback? Yes, but they're not the only EP 198 · 20 May 2025·workplace surgery· 39:40–45:3214:48Bullying at work: Bad management, not bad peopleLeanne Elliott: Well, sorry to dampen the mood after the holiday chat. Bullying Al Elliott: Oh Leanne Elliott: I know. It was a really interesting study that basically asked, could well-meaning managers be bullying theirEP 196 · 13 May 2025·news roundup· 14:48–19:5123:11Hot Take: Rebecca Taylor on why gossip can be good for workAl Elliott: It can Leanne Elliott: But come back Al Elliott: Yeah, come back. Definitely come back because Nudge isn't as good as thisEP 194 · 6 May 2025·hot take· 23:11–37:0011:07What actually makes employees stay? It's not perksAl Elliott: Le, anything else that caught your eye this week? Leanne Elliott: I saw a new study that asked what actually makes employees want to stay. not just tolerate their jobs, not quite quit, but actually want to stEP 192 · 29 Apr 2025·news roundup· 11:07–16:262:10Story 1: What is 'alonement space'?Leanne Elliott: I've got a new word Al Elliott: You always have a new word. Go on Leanne Elliott: Not always, but this one actually made it into the air. It's being considered for inclusion in the Cambridge DictionaryEP 190 · 22 Apr 2025·news roundup· 2:10–6:2029:43Steve's favorite story from the bookAl Elliott: Fun to some people might feel like no rules. So do you have rules? Steve Carse: Yeah, we have rules. You have to show up on time. So if we have a wedding at 7 o'clock and the slinger decides to show up at 8 oEP 181 · 20 Mar 2025·interview· 29:43–32:582:12News: BoomerAsking — the conversation habit we're all guilty ofLeanne Elliott: Yes, it is. It is time for the news roundup. Al, cue the jingle Al Elliott: Jingle's being queued. Leanne, what have you seen this week? Leanne Elliott: I have a new wordEP 180 · 18 Mar 2025·news roundup· 2:12–7:522:37Story 1: Meta's masculine energy and what it really signalsLeanne Elliott: So you know how Mark Zuckerberg said that he wanted to see more masculine energy in the workplace? Well, from what I've seen, it basically means being a dick Al Elliott: Oh Leanne Elliott: Honestly, the dEP 174 · 25 Feb 2025·news roundup· 2:37–8:002:20Story 1: Jamie Dimon's leaked Gen-Z rantLeanne Elliott: JP Morgan CEO lost his shiz. Have you seen this? No, I haven't Al Elliott: Oh, actually, no, I did. Was it like a— was it a sneak Zoom secret recording that was leaked or something? Leanne Elliott: Yeah, EP 172 · 18 Feb 2025·news roundup· 2:20–8:5233:26Workplace Surgery: toxic gossip cultureAl Elliott: Did I say psychology? Leanne Elliott: Yeah, but it doesn't matter Al Elliott: Sorry, you're carried away, you see. And it's her job to help give You, our lovely listeners, advice on work-related problems. HerEP 172 · 18 Feb 2025·workplace surgery· 33:26–37:512:30Floodlighting: The Toxic Boss TacticAl Elliott: Jingle has been cued. What have you seen this week, Leah? Leanne Elliott: I've got a new word John Lee Dumas: Go onEP 170 · 11 Feb 2025·news roundup· 2:30–5:397:16Story 2: Netflix Founder Says Stop Calling Workplaces a FamilyAl Elliott: Well, this is one, an article I saw. Well, it's not an article, it's a post I saw on X or Twitter or whatever we call it now. Stop calling your workplace a family. Now, you have been banging on about this, LeEP 168 · 4 Feb 2025·news roundup· 7:16–12:177:01The Most Misunderstood Aspect of Workplace CultureNora Burns: I think the most misunderstood aspect of workplace culture is that it doesn't matter what the sign says on the wall of the break room. It matters what employees say when the manager leaves that room. That's yEP 161 · 9 Jan 2025·interview· 7:01–8:5330:16The secret of culture (it's simpler than you think)Leanne Elliott: It is that simple. I mean, it sounds silly. I mean, you think, oh no, it can't be that. It is. That's what that— who's your culture as an employee? Your culture is your boss and your work colleagues that EP 160 · 7 Jan 2025·other· 30:16–35:3646:55Sir Cary's biggest lesson on workplace cultureLeanne Elliott: Exactly. Exactly Al Elliott: So before I ask my final question to ask you, um, ask you where people can find out a bit more about you, I'm guessing they can go into Amazon, type your name in, and with 200EP 160 · 7 Jan 2025·other· 46:55–51:3818:08Rob Kalwarowsky on the fall of toxic leadershipLeanne Elliott: Rob Kalvarovsky thinks 2025 could be the beginning of the end For toxic leadership. Oh, Rob, I hope so Al Elliott: My prediction for 2025. So we're seeing this and we've seen this for a while. We've seen EP 159 · 2 Jan 2025·other· 18:08–23:5223:52Leanne's prediction: a reckoning for fractured culturesAl Elliott: Speaking of predictions, Leanne, we haven't shared ours yet. Do you want to go first? Leanne Elliott: I mean, workplace in 2025, who knows? Buckle in, kids. Um, I, and I do think, and I don't mean to be like EP 159 · 2 Jan 2025·other· 23:52–29:5516:44The Little Red Book of GoHenry and workplace cultureLouise Hill: Keep that in Leanne Elliott: Welcome back. Let's look at the workplace culture at GoHenry. I'll ask Louise to tell us more about the Little Red Book of Culture, why the mission is so important, and how LouisEP 155 · 19 Dec 2024·interview· 16:44–21:0444:20Workplace Surgery: Christmas party dilemmaLeanne Elliott: Fancy Al Elliott: The works. It's costing around £300 This is a British person. Hello, Brit. £300 per head, but I felt the team deserved it. Yesterday I accidentally overheard 2 team members discussing plEP 152 · 10 Dec 2024·workplace surgery· 44:20–51:4124:31Is streamlining bad for workplace culture?Garrett Delph: No, emphatically no. Streamlining, I think actually a good, you know, a good resurrection of the term we talked about earlier, is really about load balancing resources for strength and maximize speed withoEP 147 · 21 Nov 2024·interview· 24:31–26:3916:53The pub conversation and complaining about bad managersAl Elliott: Is it possible that they're in the pub complaining about their bad manager for 2 reasons? First of all, because it creates commonality amongst your friends and family because everyone's got a bad manager. AndEP 143 · 7 Nov 2024·other· 16:53–20:2333:27Workplace Surgery: Managing political discussions in a diverse workplaceAl Elliott: I love it. Okay. Right. We've got the 3rd question here, which is very similar to the article you mentioned earlier. And we have to— we had to feature this today because for obvious reasons. I manage a team oEP 142 · 5 Nov 2024·workplace surgery· 33:27–39:4126:00Mental health, burnout, and the Gen-X experienceAl Elliott: Now, I'm Gen-X, and back when I started work, there was not really any sort of appreciation of mental health, certainly not in the workplaces that I joined. Also, my father, who's a Boomer, didn't really feelEP 141 · 31 Oct 2024·other· 26:00–32:117:28Amazon's culture crisis: former employee speaks outAl Elliott: Well, Amazon. Amazon had never been renowned for their workplace culture, but are the Amazon employees finally publicly standing up to the recent changes in the culture? And I talk about recent Changes in a sEP 140 · 29 Oct 2024·news roundup· 7:28–13:3942:50Workplace Surgery: Introverts vs forced social eventsAl Elliott: Excellent advice. Okay, question number 2. This person writes, my company has become very focused on workplace culture since we returned to the office. Good, good, good. While I appreciate that they're tryingEP 138 · 22 Oct 2024·workplace surgery· 42:50–48:4611:48Story 3: Cynicism's impact on leadershipLeanne Elliott: Um, well, funnily enough, um, I came across an interesting study looking at cynicism Al Elliott: All right Leanne Elliott: Um, so how cynicism impacts leadership and power dynamics in the workplace. Um, yEP 134 · 8 Oct 2024·news roundup· 11:48–18:5821:05Fresh Voices: Marion Campan on finding your ideal workplaceLeanne Elliott: Welcome back. This is our September segment. I'm calling it Fresh Voices, where we showcase the thought leaders that have caught our attention and share their insights on the modern workplace. Today we arEP 126 · 10 Sept 2024·news roundup· 21:05–27:589:07Wisdom work in a multigenerational workforceLeanne Elliott: So what about you, Al? What have you seen this week? Al Elliott: Well, there, there's a guy called Chip Conley Leanne Elliott: Oh, we love ChipEP 122 · 19 Aug 2024·news roundup· 9:07–14:332:44Stress bragging: the hidden cost of wearing busy as a badgeLeanne Elliott: I have a new word, or a new term. Okay, kind of. Um, I, I don't think you'll need the definition for this necessarily, But it's something that I've seen talked about more frequently and using this term. YEP 120 · 6 Aug 2024·news roundup· 2:44–7:2039:02Workplace Surgery: Encouraging honest feedbackLeanne Elliott: Yeah Al Elliott: I manage a medium-sized team, and lately I've noticed my guys are hesitant to give honest feedback. Either to me or to each other. It started to stifle our innovation and improvement, andEP 111 · 2 Jul 2024·workplace surgery· 39:02–45:0915:27Truth or Lie: Are Motivational Quotes Actually Motivating?Leanne Elliott: Yes, I have a mystery segment for you, Al. It's called Truth or Lie. Bang on brand Al Elliott: I love it Leanne Elliott: I love it. I thought it would be fun this week, um, to start this little segment caEP 109 · 25 Jun 2024·truth or lie· 15:27–22:2930:47Workplace Surgery: Inconsistent workplace initiativesAl Elliott: So this person writes, my manager keeps implementing new initiatives to improve workplace culture, but none of them ever stick. She seems to jump from one shiny new idea to the next without giving any of themEP 101 · 28 May 2024·workplace surgery· 30:47–36:219:00What workers actually want from perksLeanne Elliott: Yeah, HuffPost I was looking at this week. They have reported on work perks. Um, and what people actually want. We hear lots of, lots of ones flying around, don't we, in terms of, um, fancy office complexEP 99 · 21 May 2024·news roundup· 9:00–12:5426:34Workplace Surgery: mini-surveys for team feedbackAl Elliott: So question number 2 is from Amanda Wilcox, which is— who's the operations director at MAP, which is an outsourced accountancy firm based in the UK, growing pretty quickly. Here's the question. One of our manEP 93 · 30 Apr 2024·workplace surgery· 26:34–31:4428:12Workplace Surgery: pride in being busy and hustle cultureLeanne Elliott: No. And yes. And leave Al Elliott: There you go. So what you're saying is that no, you shouldn't try and fit in. Yes, you should just do your work, um, in, in the hours that you're allowed. And if that's EP 86 · 2 Apr 2024·workplace surgery· 28:12–31:180:37Rebrand reveal: from Truth, Lies and Workplace Culture to Truth, Lies and WorkLeanne Elliott: Hello and welcome to the Truth, Lies and Work podcast, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. My name is Leanne. I'm a business psychologist Al ElEP 84 · 26 Mar 2024·news roundup· 0:37–5:570:00Understanding cults: from extreme to insidiousAl Elliott: The dirty little secret is that most businesses think they know their customers. They have the data, the records, the history, but it's scattered across 3 teams and 4 systems. And in our case, it's about 216,EP 80 · 29 Feb 2024·interview· 0:00–1:4320:47Trust, hierarchy, and the stacking effectLeanne Elliott: One of the signs of an amazing workplace culture Is that there is trust between leadership and the teams they lead. Quite simple, actually. So, why do most leaders struggle to trust their employees? PetraEP 80 · 29 Feb 2024·interview· 20:47–25:290:00Intro and Bruce Daisley's backgroundBruce Daisley: The issue around here isn't that we're not resilient enough. The issue is that we're in a toxic culture. And what you've attempted to do there, you've attempted to, I guess, to appropriate a term from datiEP 78 · 20 Feb 2024·intro· 0:00–4:3134:00The receptionist who changed a workplaceBruce Daisley: I've always been relatively fortunate that most of the jobs I had, I enjoyed. And so, you know, I would always say to myself, it had been a good day if I'd laughed 10 times that day. And, you know, it'd beEP 78 · 20 Feb 2024·interview· 34:00–40:200:00Intro: Nora's story stopped Leanne mid-conversationNora Burns: I think the most misunderstood aspect of workplace culture is that it doesn't matter what the sign says on the wall of the break room. It matters what employees say when the manager leaves that room. That's yEP 74 · 18 Jan 2024·intro· 0:00–5:565:56The Undercover Candidate project beginsNora Burns: I am Nora Burns. I am based in Denver, Colorado, in the United States, and my area of expertise is workplace culture, very specifically how your hiring process and your onboarding process really sets the stagEP 74 · 18 Jan 2024·interview· 5:56–8:4417:50Why recruitment is the foundation of workplace cultureLeanne Elliott: the framework of the relationship has been I 100% agree, but I also know that recruiting is often done by management within a company, and therefore that's often where you need to start. Nora thinks the pEP 74 · 18 Jan 2024·interview· 17:50–21:3211:51Why we talk about generations (and why it matters)Leanne Elliott: What's interesting about generations is that, and the reason we talk about generations and the reason we consider them in, in psychological research as well, it's not just a pop culture thing that we bitcEP 64 · 16 Nov 2023·other· 11:51–13:5823:15Belonging: the heart of DEIBLeanne Elliott: So that is allyship. The second area trend that we're seeing is belonging, and that's what we will be exploring next. As a leader, you might have heard, probably heard of DEI, but more recently there has EP 62 · 26 Oct 2023·other· 23:15–28:5850:44Culture-led DEI: nurturing inclusivity from withinAl Elliott: And I think this leads us nicely onto the culture-led DEI, which is the 5th point we're trying to make here. This means that in order for us to take DEI seriously, it has to actually become part of the culturEP 62 · 26 Oct 2023·other· 50:44–57:5412:04What is corporate BS and who's affected?Al Elliott: Brilliant. So in this episode, we're gonna lead you through how you can start making your own ministry of sense in your business to transform it, um, and your culture. We'll be asking Martin 5 key questions. EP 59 · 5 Oct 2023·panel interview· 12:04–20:3140:02Building authentic workplace cultureLeanne Elliott: Maneesh went on to explain how being accessible translates into workplace culture and specifically creating an authentic workplace Maneesh Goyal: It's a bit of a dream. Um, I'll start by saying that. BecaEP 56 · 14 Sept 2023·interview· 40:02–43:480:33What does human-centric mean?Catherine de la Poer: Nice Al Elliott: Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses Mel Murphy: A lot of the work of a really good people team is identifying what's needed and what we can, EP 54 · 31 Aug 2023·panel interview· 0:33–2:4239:28What leaders can (and can't) do — environment over emotionsAl Elliott: So we talked about wellbeing as something in your teams, in your company's wellbeing is really, really important. Is it down to the leader? Is it the leader's responsibility to increase happiness? Leanne ElliEP 51 · 10 Aug 2023·other· 39:28–43:570:33Why 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· 0:33–2:412:41Myth 1 — Workplace culture is just a passing fadAl Elliott: Yeah. Go to Instagram. Okay. So today we're gonna tackle a number of lies about workplace culture. Now, I say a number because we'll just see how long we've got because we wanna keep this around about 40 minuEP 50 · 3 Aug 2023·other· 2:41–10:3010:30Myth 2 — People only care about payAl Elliott: So when I was putting this episode together, I was just Googling, like, what do people not really believe about workplace culture? So these are less about lies, more about myths. But to stay on brand with TruEP 50 · 3 Aug 2023·other· 10:30–17:460:33Intro and Welcome to Truth, Lies and Workplace CultureAl Elliott: Nice Bernard Brogan: So you need to be a lot more intentional about how you create that culture, and it needs to be actions. Actual physical things need to— things need to happen rather than kind of saying, oEP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·intro· 0:33–2:3028:59Culture: You Have One Whether You Like It or NotLeanne Elliott: The audio destination for business professionals Bernard Brogan: And we talk about the behavioral science behind fandom and how that encourages people to enjoy the music and all of that good stuff, and doEP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·interview· 28:59–30:040:33Intro — the £160BN, 350,000-employee roomKate: Nice Kate: It's about listening and it's helping people to feel heard because arguably that's one of our biggest challenges. People don't feel that they don't have time, they're not paid attention to, they don't knEP 47 · 13 Jul 2023·intro· 0:33–2:1433:02Shades of gray — why one-size-fits-all is the worst of all worldsRoss: I'm a big believer in that there's like, there's a lot of shades of gray, and every human is kind of like an onion. And this is a Shrek reference, but every onion, every human has different layers, and every layer EP 42 · 7 Jun 2023·panel interview· 33:02–40:047:33Word of the week: Corporate villain eraAl Elliott: So if you've not heard this before, this is, this is still in testing phase, maybe in its like 9th week, but we kind of like it. It's where we sit back, we just get a gin and tonic, we sit by the fire, and weEP 34 · 12 Apr 2023·other· 7:33–9:278:50Why are we still having this conversation?Al Elliott: Well, first of all, anyone saying that, I would say, why are we still having this discussion? It's 2023. Why are we still having this discussion? And the reality is our society and world hasn't learned how yeEP 32 · 29 Mar 2023·other· 8:50–11:0144:51Creativity, play, and shrinking to fit inLeanne Elliott: Creativity and Play is actually my favorite chapter in Hannah's book. And I— and It really resonated with me. I've had times in my life and my career, if I'm being honest, where I have felt like I've needEP 32 · 29 Mar 2023·other· 44:51–46:599:24Prediction 8: Why transparency will be vital in 2023Al Elliott: So that brings me on nicely to prediction number 8, which is mine, which is going to be a lot more transparency, or there should be a lot more transparency in a business. Now, whether it's— I mean, why I origEP 19 · 4 Jan 2023·other· 9:24–14:213:12Introducing the 7 Rs of workplace cultureStephan Wiedner: Yeah Leanne Elliott: So I think just to give it a little bit of context, when we look at kind of psychological research within organisations, there's lots of overlap between wellbeing, employee engagemenEP 15 · 6 Dec 2022·intro· 3:12–9:480:58What this podcast is about (and who it's for)Al Elliott: Hello and welcome to episode 2 of the Truth, Lies and Workplace Culture podcast. I'm Al Leanne Elliott: I'm Leanne Al Elliott: And just to give you a bit of context, this is a podcast for generally service-baEP 02 · 12 Jul 2022·other· 0:58–2:00
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