The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

An ex-Chicago trial lawyer shares their perspectives on the not-so-secret secrets of employee engagement and leadership on the Sticky From The Inside Podcast.
 
Andy Goram talks to Paul Glover about making the journey from defending clients to engaging employees, creating positive company cultures and coaching leaders to be more effective, and shares a few surprises along the way.

Being a kind leader starts with being kind to yourself.  Andy Goram & Jen Hope discuss how on the Sticky From The Inside Podcast Episode 31.  Their conversation covers employee engagement, employee experience, employee wellbeing, and skills and practises a leader can use to show how being kind is important. After all, actions speak louder than words.
 
The conversation takes in elements of Kim Scott's - Radical Candor, a whole host of personality profiling tools, such as Lumina Spark and DISC and sees Andy with his head in his hands at the thought of hugging and high-fiving himself! All is revealed in the episode...

Andy Goram looks ahead to 2022. He takes a look at the foundations of how businesses can engage their employees in 2022 and beyond, and what's in store for the Sticky From The Inside Podcast in 2022.

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.

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.

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." 
 
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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.
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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.

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.

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.