The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

How To Improve Employee Onboarding

A great employee onboarding experience will create a real sense of belonging, connection and exciting possibilities for the future. This is the moment your shiny, newest asset is at their most excited; enthused to properly understand how they will play their part in the future success of the company. So why, in general, are they so awful? There has to be a better way.
 
My guest on Episode 29, is Jerome Deroy from Narativ, a company that helps businesses engage their people through better storytelling. In this conversation, he takes us back to the AIDS crisis of 1994, the genesis of Narativ, and how that inspired the work they do today. He shares the insights and processes that make great storytelling and the impact that has on individuals and businesses, and how it can improve your employee onboarding experience exponentially.

Creating A Coaching Culture

Once the bastion of executives, coaching is now being offered to many more employees to counter the low levels of global employee engagement.  
In this episode of the employee engagement podcast, Sticky From The Inside, your host, Andy Goram, talks to Jo Wright, CEO of Coaching Culture about how she is on a quest to bring coaching to the masses and get companies to build coaching cultures within their businesses.

A Cure For Zoom Fatigue

Video meetings are here to stay. But we've all experienced the endless cavalcade of soulless video meetings, where half the cameras and microphones are turned off, you suspect (or can clearly see) that other participants are doing other things, and the whole experience lacks engagement, productivity and any sense of collective wellbeing. The whole video-thing can lack any emotion or personal connection. But what if there was a better way?
 
My guest on episode 27 of employee engagement and workplace culture podcast, Sticky From The Inside Podcast, Paul Hills from Konektis, believes he has found the cure to what we all know as "zoom fatigue." 
 
Check out the show notes below to find out more about some of the topics covered in the show.

Principles Behind An Innovative Culture

Dan Toma, a leading thinker on innovation shares his thoughts and insights on the guiding principles that lie behind having an effective and innovative, workplace culture.
Is there a blueprint or a magic formula to having an innovative culture that we can all follow?  Your host, Andy Goram and Dan, discuss the processes. measurements and actions that lie behind making your business truly innovative, and not just a company that has the word innovation in its vision statement.
The pair follow the chapters in Dan's book "Innovation Accounting", to outline the steps that should be taken to ensure sustainable innovation lies at the heart of your company culture. They dig into the problems companies face in trying to do that and Dan offers up some advice on how to improve the situation in your business.
Check out the show notes below to find out more about some of the topics covered in the show.

The Evolution of Teams and the Workplace

Perry Timms, Chief Energy Officer of PTHR shares his thoughts and insights on the evolution of teams and the workplace.
The way the workplace functions and how teams best perform is changing, rapidly.  Your host, Andy Goram and Perry, discuss how the emergence of transient and self-managed teams is changing the way that some forward-thinking businesses function, for the better, and the central role that purpose plays in that. Which is something that the CBI recently threw their backing behind.
In a packed 40 minutes the pair cover employee engagement, culture, purpose, motivation, systems, processes, authenticity and seek to prove that purpose and profit can work together in harmony.  The lively conversation covers such great examples as Dan Price at Gravity Payments, Jos de Blok and the Buurtzorg model, Peter Aceto at Tangerine Bank, John Stepper at Deutsche Bank, and the Bob Chapman, Barry Wehmiller story, whilst also highlighting where it can go wrong as we saw recently with the Basecamp controversy.
Check out the extensive show notes below to find out more details on the topics and examples covered in the show.

What Makes A High Performing Team?

Rory Underwood MBE DL shares his insights across elite sport, the military and business as to what lies at the heart of high-performing teams.
Andy Goram, your host of the employee engagement and workplace culture podcast, Sticky From The Inside, chats to Rory about life as an elite player, fighter pilot and businessman and the influences that have shaped his views on what really lies at the heart of the very highest level of team performance.

The Secrets To Values That Live

What separates companies that successfully embed their values, from the rest?  What does it really take to transfer ownership for the behaviours that the business, its customers and employees really value, to the front line?  Andy Goram is joined by Andrew Stothert and Gary Moss, from Brand Vista, who've built a successful company, helping businesses from Astra Zeneca to Alton Towers do just that.  In this episode, the 3 combine to form a circle of trust and share the secrets behind having values that live and breathe within successful businesses.

Mediation. It‘s good to talk

By the time the mediator comes in to sort out a problem, it's too late, right?  Wrong.  Pete Colby, owner of Pragmatism talks to Andy Goram about why he thinks mediation can be the key to open, progressive and productive go-forward relationships, how it can improve employee engagement, why the old adage, "It's good to talk" is so true.

Accelerating Trust

Episode Overview
 
If you're familiar with Patrick Lencioni's work on the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, you'll know that the secret to sustainably high levels of performance and results from your team, is to first establish a strong foundation of trust between leader and team members.  So why, do too many leaders still forego that, and immediately put all their focus on outcomes and results and then wonder why the whole thing collapses in pretty short order?
In this episode, host, Andy Goram is joined by seasoned Operator, Bill Walker.  Over the last 25 years, or so, Bill has learned a lesson or two about Operations.  And whilst he's still a red meat-eating, results-orientated Operator, he understands the value of People and how important building the levels of trust are to sustainable success.  But with results needed yesterday, he's developed some simple practices to accelerate the levels of trust in his teams and be able to climb Lencioni's pyramid to success a little more quickly.

How To Create A Culture Of Innovation

Episode Overview
 
It's probable that right now, that fostering a culture of creativity and innovation has never been more important, as the world continues to crack on around us at a furious, non-linear pace, with increased hyper-competition and ever-emerging new markets.  So, what is needed and why do so many businesses fail in this quest to build such a culture?
In this episode, host, Andy Goram is joined by a leading thinker on innovation, and someone once described as "The David Blaine of Innovation", Cris Beswick.  Today, Cris and his boutique innovation consultancy, Outcome, helps big, global corporate businesses deal with this challenge, and passionately shares some of the issues, insights, and solutions that can bring about lasting change, innovation and great rewards for all concerned.