The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

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.

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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.

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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.

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How is working like a comedian the key to a happier working culture? Andy Goram discusses the surprising parallels with guest, stand-up comic, trainer, coach and founder of "Happy At Work", Mel Byron. The pair talk about the process comedians go through to get to the outcomes they are looking for and how that directly relates to how leaders and employees can up their engagement, productivity, performance and positive outcomes.
 
During the lively conversation, the pair discuss the parallels between the processes a comedian goes through to make people happy, and how many of these follow-through at work. Topics such as storytelling, spaghetti towers, Norvig's interpretation of The Gettysburg Address, Voltaire, Archimedes, Thomas A' Beckett and the 40's film actress Kay Francis are all covered and give listeners some practical thoughts to take away and start making their working lives a bit happier.
 
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Belief can do amazing things.  It can create razor-sharp focus on a vision, create an iron-will, build resilience to the toughest challenges, and unleash your maximum potential.  Belief can form a major foundation of a great and successful culture and be a heavy influence on, engagement, alignment and ultimately performance.
 
In episode 18 of the Sticky From The Inside podcast, host, Andy Goram goes solo for a change and uses the remarkable turnaround in the fortunes of the Premiership Rugby team, Harlequins, to illustrate the incredible power culture can play in extracting the maximum personal and team benefits of aligning purpose, authentic identity and belief.
 
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The future of an engaging, post-pandemic workplace is a matter of debate right now. Is hybrid-working here to stay? Will remote-first be the norm? Or will we all be back in the office 5 days a week before we know it? Who knows? In all this debate, where is the voice of the employee, and are managers and supervisors emotionally equipped to ask the right questions to hear it and respond effectively?
 
Well, in episode 17 of the Sticky From The Inside podcast, host, Andy Goram is joined by the Founder of EI Evolution, Emotional Intelligence Coach, and Ted X Talker, Sandra Thompson to work all that through.
 
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Nowadays we rarely purchase anything before checking out the reviews. Why? Because we believe they will give us the real, reliable, honest inside track on whether we're about to make a great purchase or help us avoid a terrible mistake. The same is happening when it comes to job-hunting, for the same reasons. Checking out websites like Glassdoor, to see what employees really think, feel and say about a business is becoming more and more popular.
 
In episode 16 of the Sticky From The Inside podcast, your host Andy Goram, talks to Caroline Cuthbertson, from Sky Betting & Gaming, a company who recently made it onto Glassdoor's Top 50 Places To Work in The UK, who looks after the marketing strategy for their employer brand and is well placed to reveal what it really takes to make it onto such a list and what the real benefits of that are.
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Is asking who owns company culture and employee engagement a good, provocative, or just plain daft question? Well, in episode 15 of the Sticky From The Inside podcast, your host Andy Goram, talks to ex-Madison Avenue agency guy and international business consultant, Michael Taylor, to see where the answers may lie.
 
But did they answer the question? Well, it was a bit more complicated than that and their conversation is a journey that covered everything from traditional ownership, the creation of fiefdoms and silos, the employee eco-sphere, customer experience, brand alignment, leadership, shortening returns horizons and the positive opportunities that lay ahead.
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"There's a war for talent", or so we've been told, but in Episode 14 of the employee engagement and company culture podcast, Sticky From The Inside, Andy Goram of Bizjuicer, chats to Dr. Maggi Evans, who sees it very differently. She believes there are huge benefits to liberating the talents of your existing workforce and provides some simple, practical steps to begin doing that.
 
Maggi is a business psychologist, consultant and author of the book From Talent Management to Talent Liberation and in this episode, she and Andy discuss the practical steps that will help you perform your own internal talent alchemy and maximise the associated benefits for all.
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In episode 13 Andy Goram is joined by Andrew Deighton from AWD Development Solutions to discuss the practical steps businesses can take to try and rebuild or re-establish teams and cultures that have been affected by the last tumultuous year.
 
In this honest, practical conversation, Andrew shares his own experiences of working in great teams and the lessons he's learnt from working with and watching strong team leaders.  These are the things he now puts into practice as he helps businesses improve their teams and culture.  His book The Exceptional Team blueprint, which he's not plugging in this episode is a great and timely resource for people and businesses looking to build better teamwork and fashion a strong culture going forwards.
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