The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

Reframing Internal Communications

A recent Korn Ferry report suggests that by 2030 there will be a global talent shortage of 85 million people. So if ever focusing on employee engagement and retention was necessary, that time is now.  Excellent internal communications can form part of the cultural glue that holds an organisation together, helps it retain its people and connect them to the bigger mission.  Yet, communication is still given as the number one problem in many businesses. So what needs to change.
Andy Goram talks to Katie Macaulay, Managing Director of AB, the world’s longest-established internal communication agency, founded in 1964, about how internal communications needs reframing and refocusing to help with this challenge.

What Is Enlightened Leadership?

"We've got a perfect storm brewing", says my guest and CEO of 1105 Media, Rajeev Kapur and he says it calls for a new style of leadership.  The generational and gender shifts in the workplace, the huge amount of technology disruption coming from things like AI, and the movement and tensions we're seeing in world power, let alone climate change.  It all needs what Rajeev calls, "Enlightened Leadership" which is what he wrote about in his book "Chase Greatness - Enlightened Leadership for the next generation of disruption", and what he discusses with your host, Andy Goram in this episode.

What is PKM?

In a world where we are exposed to and have access to more information than ever, and where we're working increasingly at a distance from others, but still expected to collaborate, share and learn, Personal Knowledge Management or PKM, is a modern way to synthesise the myriad of information we are exposed to today. It works in a way that is both intuitive and gives us access to a range of insight at our fingertips. Andy Goram talks to Scott Novis, who spent decades as a Video Games Exec and a VP at Disney, who says that PKM was a game-changer for him, making him more productive, happier and less overwhelmed. In this episode Scott tells us all how we can get started with PKM.

Why Traditional Management Training Fails

Traditional management training struggles to cope with the diversity of requirements that an organisations employees need developing, and the cost of building programmes to suit all those needs.  The result can be a range of broad programmes that attempt to cover as many bases as possible, or that just cover the basics.  At an exec level, organisations turn to coaching as the way to help a smaller, more manageable number of people develop and maximise their effectiveness, impact and potential.  What if you could cost effectively take that approach to development with all your people?  Andy Goram talks to Paul Burton, who's found a way to do it.

How To Create & Measure Psychological Safety

Psychological safety often comes down to the quality of interpersonal skills managers possess. But can you develop and measure those skills?  Your host, Andy Goram, speaks to Psychological Expert and volunteer firefighter, Stephan Wiedner to try to find answers to that question. The conversation also focuses in on the new piece of research that Stephan and renowned Harvard Professor of Leadership and Management, and architect of the famous 7 Psychological Safety questions, Amy Edmondson, are embarking on to measure the link between specific interpersonal skills managers possess and use and psychological safety.

Why Are We Losing Female Leaders?

The latest Women in the Workplace article, by McKinsey, said women leaders were switching jobs at the highest rates ever, far more than men. And ambitious, younger women were prepared to do the same.  They called it “The Great Break Up”. The report went on to highlight that this could be disastrous for some companies.  Women are already significantly under-represented in senior leadership roles, and now businesses are losing more of them.  Why is that?  What is happening?  What can and should we be doing about that?
In this episode your host, Andy Goram, talks to Career Coach, Claudia Miller about some of the causes behind this phenomenon and discusses what businesses and women themselves can do to reverse the situation.
 

What Is Humanistic Psychology?

Dr. Stewart Desson discusses the humanistic psychology approach that informed the development of the Lumina Spark personality assessment tool.  The Lumina Learning Mission "To transform organisations by celebrating people, one human at a time", perfectly aligns with the podcast's sentiment and the current focus on putting more humanity in the workplace, making for an energetic episode.

How To Make Employee Ideas A Reality

How many times have you been asked for feedback, to complete a survey or submit new ideas, and then hear nothing back?  Plenty I'm sure.  A surefire way to destroy engagement and lose great people is to ignore people when you've asked them to give you something more than just their time.  If you are going to ask for ideas, you have to have a decent way of directing, collating, responding to and implementing them.  It's easier than it sounds.
 
Andy Goram talks to Will Read from Sideways6 about how best to bring employee ideas to life and what the rules of thumb are when trying to co-create with your employees so that everybody benefits.

How To Listen

Andy Goram talks to the author and award-winning Apple Podcast host, Oscar Trimboli, about what makes a deep listener.  Oscar is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners across the globe, but what is deep listening and how does that differ from being a good listener?
 
In a lively conversation, Andy asks Oscar to unlock the secrets of deep listening and share the benefits of taking your listening skills to another level.

What’s Happened To Employee Engagement?

The Pandemic has had a dramatic effect on the levels of employee engagement in the UK.  But trying to find a consolidated answer to what has actually happened, who has faired better, and why, has been pretty much impossible. Until now.
 
Andy Goram talks to Sarah Pass, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Business School, part of Nottingham Trent University and James Court-Smith, Data Scientist and Director at Stillae, and who are both Engage For Success Board Members, about their new, definitive report into what has happened to employee engagement, pre, during and post the Pandemic.  They pick out the key points that separate the winners from the losers and make clear recommendations as to the way to improve going forwards.